Amp up your outerwear with spring’s eye-catching options

We’re approaching the great outdoors with even more energy, so it’s fitting that when we can nestle up with nature again we’ll be doing it in eye-catching outerwear. Make acid tones, ombré finishes and puffed up or transparent fabrics part of your outdoors arsenal – you’ll also be easier to spot when it comes to social distancing.

By Jack Moss

last updated 1 November 2022

in Features

Quilted skin technical jacket, by Craig Green, from mytheresa. Tie-dye zip-up jacket by Moncler — Left, Quilted skin technical jacket, by Craig Green, from mytheresa. Right, Tie-dye zip-up jacket by Moncler, from Browns Fashion. Fashion styled throughout by Marianne Kakko

Deconstructed padded jacket by Asics x Kiko Kostadinov.&nbsp;Packable hooded jacket by Stone Island — Left, Deconstructed padded jacket by Asics x Kiko Kostadinov. Right, Packable hooded jacket by Stone Island, both from Browns Fashion

Multicoloured tulle denim jacket, by Louis Vuitton.&nbsp;Lightweight hooded jacket by Prada, from mytheresa — Left, Multicoloured tulle denim jacket, by Louis Vuitton. Right, Lightweight hooded jacket by Prada, from mytheresa

Jack Moss is the Fashion & Beauty Features Director at Wallpaper*, having joined the team in 2022 as Fashion Features Editor. Previously the digital features editor at AnOther and digital editor at 10 Magazine, he has also contributed to numerous international publications and featured in ‘Dazed: 32 Years Confused: The Covers’, published by Rizzoli. He is particularly interested in the moments when fashion intersects with other creative disciplines – notably art and design – as well as championing a new generation of international talent and reporting from international fashion weeks. Across his career, he has interviewed the fashion industry’s leading figures, including Rick Owens, Pieter Mulier, Jonathan Anderson, Grace Wales Bonner, Christian Lacroix, Kate Moss and Manolo Blahnik.