Four seasons, four different sets of rules. LaPerl treats spring, summer, autumn, and winter as equal: each one gets its own logic for fabric, layering, and proportion. Start with the season you are dressing for, then drill into the guides that match your week.
There’s a particular kind of scroll fatigue that hits in early June: everything starts to look the same. The same maxi dress, the same matching set, the same capsule wardrobe post rearranged seventeen different ways. What cuts through that noise…
The casual summer outfit is harder to get right than it looks. I worked this out during a buying trip in London a few summers ago, when I kept passing people who wore technically comfortable clothes but still looked like…
When I moved from Barcelona to London for my buying internship, indie summer dressing looked different in each city. In Barcelona it was warmer, more color-saturated, instinctive. In London it pulled toward texture and layering. What’s circulating on Pinterest right…
The way I think about european summer outfits changed after my third trip from London to Barcelona in the same summer. I had overpacked every time. The combinations that actually worked were built around one clear proportional rule: one statement…
I packed for a long weekend in the South of France three summers ago, standing in front of my wardrobe at six in the morning trying to figure out what to bring for five days of warm weather with no…
Italian summer outfits look effortless from the outside, but I have learned they are usually the result of strict editing. The best looks are rarely loud. They feel calm, practical, and precise in proportion. When I travel in Italy, I…
The first time I took a long-haul flight to a hot country in July and decided, for once, not to pack shorts, I realized something that changed the way I think about warm-weather dressing entirely. I had a lightweight linen…
I found my first real vintage piece at a weekend market in late October, three years ago. It was a camel wool coat, double-breasted, with buttons that felt almost too heavy for the fabric. I paid more than I intended,…
I first really noticed Y2K fashion coming back at a rooftop birthday in the summer of 2023. A friend showed up in a white tube top, low-rise cargo pants, and the chunkiest platform sneakers I’d seen outside of a yearbook…
Summer casual should not be this hard. There is less fabric, fewer decisions, fewer layers to overthink. And yet the margin between “intentional” and “gave up” is narrower than in any other season, because there is less clothing to hide…