The Alex Edit: I tried the cult luxury coat of the season, here's how to rock it this winter...

The coats to know about this Winter? Just go large.

The most on-trend styles are supersized and sportswear-influenced. Balenciaga, Prada and Calvin Klein called the shots with a mood of protection, underlined by the catwalk’s edgy trend of wearing two coats at a time for double the style. Whether you want to wrap yourself up against the weather or the world, whatever you choose, a quilted puffer style is this season’s saviour.

Ten years ago, Max Mara debuted their Cube coat - a super-light, padded coat that manages to be sporty and boujee at the same time. This season it’s had a little update to celebrate its anniversary. (And why shouldn’t a coat get a birthday party? After all, the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York named the Cube one of their ‘cult objects.’)

While Max Mara’s classic camel wool overcoat is a legend in elegant dressing - it’s on my shopping wishlist for when I grow up… the Italian design house has been working hard on innovation and technology, as well as keeping up with everything design and trend-led. This is where La Superleggera is the leader of the (wool)pack. Padded with premium down feathers, the coat has more in common with a cashmere crew neck than a weighty winter coat. But it still packs a punch when it comes to keeping cosy.

Here’s the science bit: made from ultra-weight, extra-tough, 7 denier nylon, the outer layer is super-fine, flexible and waterproof. Filled with 128grams of feather clusters per square metre, the coat is toasty but still light. The dressing gown wrap-around styling makes it versatile, too. You could wear it up a mountain or on a protest march, as well as making it your daily commuting coat. Each Superleggera comes with the cutest cube-shaped travel box so you can slip it off if you’re on the tube, tuck it into its pouch and not overheat OR take up too much space.