Elena Braghieri//Getty Images Carine Roitfeld sporting the coat during Milan Fashion Week in 2013. As the name suggests, the Max Mara Teddy Icon Coat, which was inspired by an archival ’80s ...

As the temperature drops, the style stakes rise-and nothing says I've mastered winter quite like a sumptuous cashmere coat.

While the notion of borrowed from the boys style seems unremarkable now, when Max Mara took the traditionally masculine camel coat and reforged it as a womenswear piece back in the late ’50s ...