Fashion & Beauty

The $1,300 Saint Laurent cardigan

Rent, schment.

Fashion calls, and the season’s must-have will truly make you reach for the stars.This cardigan from Saint Laurent will set you back over a grand, but you’ll be in good company. It’s been styled on several celebrities in big glossies, as well as on singer/ex-con Sky Ferreira and other street style fodder. Even Katie Holmes was snapped sporting the baby blue knit. Borrowed from better-dressed Suri?

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The cardi in question is your standard v-neck jumper woven of wool and mohair and “polyamide,” presumably the scientific anonym for unicorn. You can find it at Saks and Barneys, as well as e-tailers Farfetch.com and MyTheresa.com. For $1,290, it’s all yours.

Why so expensive? French designer Hedi Slimane has set about revamping the legendary house of Saint Laurent, guillotining “Yves” and serving up clothes that reflect distinctly youthful preoccupations (while flaunting very grownup price tags). Actresses Zooey Deschanel and Amanda Seyfried were recently photographed in the designer’s cardigans.

Perhaps Slimane seeks only to appropriate the value society puts on youth itself. Fashion writer Tim Blanks called his fall collection a “random mash-ups of sloppy cardigans, plaid shirts, and sparkly dresses accessorized with ironic strings of pearls and black bows, fishnets and biker boots.” Rich Kids of Instagram, rejoice.

Zooey Deschanel and Amanda Seyfried (Tesh/Marie Claire/Carter Smith/Elle)Tesh/Marie Claire/Carter Smith/Elle