Tricots St Raphael

He buys one good sweater a year and wears it straight through to spring - real texture, not another flat pullover. Texture is the point. Tricots St Raphael sweaters turn up constantly on vintage forums and resale threads, and new-with-tags pieces land on racks like this one - diamond-pattern V-neck pullovers and shawl-collar pullovers among them, plus a patchwork colorblock pullover for a bolder mood. Is Tricots St Raphael a good brand? Designer Cecile Platovsky, raised in Belgium, started Tricots St Raphael in New York City in 1974, and the construction still proves the point: textured knits, shawl collars, and colorblocked patterns on pullover sweaters built to outlast a single season. Plaid and tattersall button-down shirts round out the rack for the days a sweater is one layer too many, and Club Room sits nearby for another classic menswear name cut from the same cloth.