Most cardigans are lazy. They’re designed to stay at home. On the couch. Doing as little as possible. But the Planet Earth Cardigan is built a little differently. We’ve taken all the good bits of a cardigan – the softness, the weight, and the comfort – then transformed it into a stripped-down, tailored piece of high performance engineering designed to travel the world.

The entire cardigan is engineered from an extra-fine Merino yarn developed in Italy by Zegna Baruffa – which is considered the Rolls-Royce of Merinos because it combines cashmere-like softness with a silk-like surface and long term structural stability. This is so soft you can wear it next to your skin, but spun so tightly you still get that heavy cardigan feel. The fibres are worsted-spun – which makes them extremely smooth and strong. So this is not a cardigan that’s going to be hanging around your ankles in a year’s time.

Tailored like a jacket, but with the softness of a cardigan, it’s built to work as a high-performance outer layer on its own in warmer weather, or as an insulated midlayer if you’re layering up. It’s windproof, water repellent, breathable, ultrasoft, bacteria killing, elastic, and highly durable.