Every year, I greet sweater weather like a long-lost friend. I start romanticizing the season sometime around the midpoint of summer, but the real excitement comes with the first chill in the morning air that warrants an extra layer, spotting someone in a cozy zip-up on my morning dog walk, and the prospect of spending an entire Sunday indoors wearing cashmere (though, as the mother of a one-year-old, there's a good chance it'll have a few sticky fingerprints on it by noon).

By November, the romance has worn off a little, and the dry cleaning has started piling up. I'm usually back to wearing the same three sweaters with my default black trousers and flats , and what was supposed to be the most exciting season for getting dressed has become an uninspired exercise in staying warm.

This year, I'm getting ahead of the inevitable sweater fatigue by taking cues from three women I consider authorities on the subject: Zoë Kravitz , Gigi Hadid , and Jennifer Lawrence .…