The 2026 GQ Sweater Report: Knits on Our Radar
Sweaters seem simple enough, until you start paying attention. There’s the difference between a sweater you throw on without thinking and one you end up building an entire outfit around. And once you start pulling at that thread, it’s hard to stop. Which might explain why the GQ Recommends team spends a frankly alarming amount of time thinking about them, occasionally to an unraveling degree. All of which brings us to this loose collection of knitwear intel pulled from our desks, and, more importantly, our closets: outfits paying respect to a humble ’90s Abercrombie & Fitch relic, a nerdy breakdown of the fabrics that make sense across different temperatures, a vintage dealer’s ode to a grail-tier knit, and a handy matrix separating the freaky sweaters from the normie-coded staples. If you’re like us and always hunting for your next go-to knit, we’ve got a few leads. 3 small-batch sweater specialists we’re obsessed with Some brands dabble in knitwear. Others treat it like a full-time occupation. These three fall firmly in the latter camp. —Reed Nelson …
