Celebrate Wool Week with some cosy fashion. Lisa Haynes rounds up the nattiest knitwear so you can wrap up warm in style

CHUNKY knits are everywhere right now – in shops, magazine fashion pages and even on TV screens. As fans of hit series The Killing will know, main character Sarah Lund has become just as famous for her iconic jumper as her detective skills.

With the third and final series airing in November, it would be wise to shop for your very own trademark knit now, at the start of UK Wool Week.

This season, big knits are getting another injection of cool with The Campaign For Wool’s “Wool School”. Backed by patron the Prince of Wales, fashion, textiles and design students across the country have designed a wool jumper to be sold in top retailers like Marks & Spencer, Hobbs and Topshop as well as online. Five per cent of the sale of the proceeds of these jumpers go to fashion education programmes.

One of the successful students is Durham designer Hannah Simpson, the only student to have two jumpers in the collection, for Jigsaw and Jigsaw for Men. Her design will be in the stores from Monday.

So join the fashion flock and cosy up in our pick of woolly wonders.

  • UK Wool week is October 15-21