For months now, buzzy labels like Monse and Pyer Moss have been hard at work assembling Merino wool-based capsule collections, hoping they'll follow in the line of previous precocious designers like Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld – that is to say, that they'll take home the prestigious International Woolmark Prize. With a panel of judges like André Leon Talley, Maxwell Osborne, and Jason Wu (plus, W's Stefano Tonchi) making the final call, research has been taken especially seriously…
