How to look good when it’s HOT, HOT, HOT

I struggled with hot-weather dressing for more years than a self-respecting fashion expert should probably admit in public. Now I realise I never took the time – or spent the money – to get my head around who my hot-weather self was, sartorially speaking. I tended to wear the same things year after year, and/or things that didn’t quite feel like me. And at the end of each summer I would – tellingly, I now think – pack them away without a second thought.

I shop completely differently now. I look for clothes that, as much as possible,