It’s summer’s last hurrah, so whether you’re heading for the sound systems in Notting Hill or hosting your own bank-holiday bash, celebrate the long weekend with our carnival of style. These are the laidback buys to see out the season in style…

Carnival Parade

As twin maximalists with a shared passion for colour and pattern, it was destined to be love at first sight for Collagerie and interiors brand Colours Of Arley. Now that shared passion has born stylish fruit. Introducing the ultimate in chill-out chic…

Making Rainbows

From Kate Moss in a sheer slip to Courtney Love in vintage babydoll designs, few pieces epitomise ’90s style like the nightie dress, with its mix of minimalist cool and girly sweetness. Now it’s time to bring your nightie back out of the bedroom once more…

Good Nightie

Be it Jane Birkin’s check minidress in *La Piscine* or a young Bardot’s plaid dirndl and headscarf, gingham is the ingénue’s emblem, redolent of classic French charm. Just add a wicker basket and girlish flats for summer style that’s all sweetness and light.

Forever Young

It’s a label that inspires infatuation, so the first Celine collection by Michael Rider has us obsessed. The takeaways: deft tailoring, billowing pants, preppy shirts, slung-on sweaters, monochrome vs brights, and a fabulously French insouciance. Why wait?

C'est Celine

Concise packing is a precise art form, so tip those crumpled buys from your carry-on. Summer’s perfect capsule wardrobe boasts a helium mix of featherlight linens and unfussy finishing touches, so you float though your trip without even creasing your brow…

The Light Fantastic

It’s time to reframe mini-dressing and embrace the idea that high style doesn’t come with a rule book or an age limit. Our new above-the-knee edit runs from sunny beach tunics to elegant LBDs, so wherever you’re going, we’ve found you a clever short-cut.

High Definition

Stressful workdays can bring you out in a sweat. Add sizzling temperatures and your wardrobe may well start to wilt. You’ll find the solution in our edit of hot-weather workwear: a cool blast of sartorial air-con that’ll keep you looking fresh from 9-to-5.

Hot In The City

No longer simply a schoolboy staple, shorts have become a firm fashion favourite, with leggy looks for every occasion. From crisp cotton boxers and baggy jorts to tailored short suits and businesslike skorts, we bring you summer chicest short stories…