When I chatted with Adrien Brody last Friday, I asked the actor what the character of Adrien Brody might wear in an Adrien Brody biopic. His answer? One specific J. Crew sweater that he’s recently found and loved.
“I do have this new favorite—I did a shoot with J. Crew and I just love this blue sweater,” he said. “I keep telling everybody about it, but it’s true. I wear this mock-neck blue sweater pretty much most days, unless I’m throwing on, you know, a hoodie. But it’s really great. It’s quite simple and elegant.”
Friends, I tracked down the very J. Crew sweater Brody cites as being his favorite for you. It’s the Heritage Cotton Mock-Neck Sweater, and it’s less than 100 bucks.
J.Crew Heritage Cotton Mock-Neck Sweater
Adrien Brody wears the Heritage Cotton Mock-Neck Sweater for J.Crew.
Not only am I, an Esquire fashion editor who writes about menswear for a living, vouching for this sweater, but Adrien Brody, a recent BAFTA-winning actor with a long-standing penchant for design and fashion, is also vouching for this sweater. That means it’s a really damn great sweater.
As Brody said, it’s simple and elegant. In his J. Crew campaign, the actor wears it styled with pleated pants, but this is the kind of sweater that you can definitely wear with your most casual jeans for a comfy, dressed-down-but-still-chic look. The style is low-maintenance with a high reward. It’ll elevate your look, and since it’s crafted from 100 percent cotton, it’s breathable, great to layer with, and easy to throw in your washer and wear over and over again.
Inspired by J. Crew’s iconic vintage catalogs, the sweater has a sort of timeless appeal to it, too. It’s the kind of thing a rich guy might wear to his lake house or the kind of thing your most stylish friend might pair with Adidas Sambas and a baseball cap to wear to happy hour. It’s the kind of thing the youngest Best Actor Oscar winner of all time might wear “pretty much most days,” as he tells it.
J.Crew Heritage Cotton Mock-Neck Sweater
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