Category Summer

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 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…

Most plus-size style advice starts from the wrong place. It begins with “what to avoid” and works backward from there, which means you end up with a list of no’s rather than a wardrobe that actually functions. I’ve built this…