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Trend: Crazy for camel

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Feeling Switzerland-neutral in your style these days? You’re in luck. One of fashion’s most famous muted hues — camel — is fall’s hottest color.

We spotted the shy brown tone on the runways earlier this year — notably at Chloe, Michael Kors and Stella McCartney — but now it’s official; retailers and fashion editors are pushing the color like crazy, offering, respectively, camel-themed fashion spreads and racks of merchandise in the classic color.

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Lauded as a universally flattering hue, ‘camel’ first popped up as a color name in fashion in 1916, according to the ISCC-NBS Dictionary of Color Names. We love it because it melds seamlessly into a black-heavy wardrobe and, when coloring classic silhouettes, adds 1960s-’Mad Men’ panache to ensembles.

Here are a few camels we’d love to have on our backs:

Stella McCartney’s wool-blend cape, $1,445 at Net-a-Porter, rolls two of fall’s most charming trends — capes and camel — into one dreamy piece of outerwear.


Jil Sander’s cashmere scarf, $525 at Barneys New York, works beautifully with trenches, winter coats and cool cardigans, and it’s so basic, it will never go out of style.


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J.Crew’s wool-cashmere station coat, $149.99 at J.Crew, is elegant but understated, boasting retro military styling.


This Dior silk-wool dress at Bergdorf Goodman is a pipe dream because of the $3,600 price tag, but we love the way it hearkens back to the slinky, curve-loving ‘Mad Men’ era without looking like a costume.

-- Emili Vesilind

Photos, from top: Stella McCartney cape. Credit: Net-a-Porter. Jil Sander scarf. Credit: Barneys New York. J. Crew coat. Credit: J. Crew. Dior dress. Credit: Bergdorf Goodman

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