Will the hooded dress be the "warmdrobe look" for winter 2022?

You could call it the "hoodie top". Or suddenly, fashion's answer to the energy crisis. Either way, in the latest crossover between runway glamor and high street practicality, the hooded dress has been dubbed the winter 2022 "warmdrobe look."

No two hooded dresses are the same, of course, and at the top end of things, they're sheer and tight. On a chilly night in New York last week, model Kate Moss presented an award wearing a sheer olive green silk jersey dress whose only warmth came from a built-in hood. Earlier in the month, Beyonce wore one from Saint Laurent in eggplant, which she paired with sunglasses. Completing the triumvirate, British actress Michaela Coel opted for a Ferragamo maxi dress with matching hood, in sheer chocolate fabric studded with crystals, at the Los Angeles premiere of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

In the main street, the trend is more casual; at River Island, they come in mid-length jersey, resembling a long hoodie, while at Karen Millen, Liz Truss' go-to boutique, they're made from recycled knit. polyester. At Raey, hooded cashmere dresses are so long they pile up on the floor.

The best place to start, according to American hood designer Shahini Fakhourie, is to treat it as an accessory by keeping the hood separate: "That makes it much more versatile." Fakhourie has been making separate black and taupe hoodies from recycled nylon for two years, but thinks the rise of luxury hoodies is just another convergence between streetwear and high fashion. "[Hoodies] have represented so much throughout the history of streetwear," she says.

From modesty to the visual rhetoric of the problematic "hug" campaign a hoodie" by David Cameron, few accessories carry such vast symbolism. But for an object often designed to make its wearer invisible, it can paradoxically have the opposite effect. In September, actress Katie Holmes tried to make a low-key entrance to a show wearing a black Tom Ford hooded dress, which later went viral. It was precisely this blend of "dramatic flair" and "ease" that attracted the paparazzi, says Heather Gramston, womenswear buying manager at Browns, which stocks the dress for £2,550.

< p class="dcr-18sg7f2" > Hoods on dresses are modern, but nothing new. Recalling the "hood" of Yves Saint Laurent, the white hooded jumpsuit of Kylie Minogue in I Just Can't Get You Out Of My Head (designed by Mrs Jones, it sits in a Melbourne museum) and the different hoods of Grace Jones worn in the James Bond film A View to A Kill, Gramston prefers to call the trend "gothic glam".