Sun-drenched farewells.

 

Lover

These fashion weeks are making me fretful.Watching the heavily booted, rugged up hordes descend chap-lipped and red-cheeked onto the streets of New York and London gives me a sense of seasonal dread. While the Northern Hemisphere folk can see the light at the end of a particularly icy runway, us Antipodeans are coming to the tail end of our warmest season, and it's not a very fond farewell.

 

Lover

Susien Chong and Nic Briand, the designers behind dreamy label Lover, obviously share the inclination to cling tightly to the best of the season. With sweltering February almost behind us, the remnants of an Australian Summer are sun-bleached and beautifully balmy, without the sting of post-beach sunburn to hamper our enjoyment. The teaser video for new Lover collection The Harvest is lazy, low-key and drenched in sunlight. The clothes? Easy-cool cottons, linens and laces in softly romantic shapes that ask politely to be taken on a picnic.

And that is exactly the laid-back vibe that I want to soak up as these balmy days peter to a close- spending late afternoons lying in the grass with a good book, listening to some breezy lo-fi tunes and soaking up the last rays of buttery sunlight before Autumn takes hold. London Fashion Week it ain't.