Everything you need for a mini adventure, courtesy of the exclusive Oliver Spencer x MR PORTER capsule collection.

We all know those people who slice up their annual leave in half-day increments, disappear from the office at noon on a Friday and return slightly late and worse for wear on a Monday morning, a tone darker of skin and deeper/huskier of voice. You may have spent your weekend doing the Big Shop, running a taxi service for your kids, or binge-watching Master Of None. How dull. They’ve been living it up somewhere #lit – Miami, Ibiza, Mykonos or a Brazilian island – carousing all night then snoozing all day under a straw hat by the pool.

Mr Oliver Spencer knows someone exactly like this. His name is Mr William Gilchrist and he is Mr Spencer’s longterm collaborator, stylist and close friend. He is also a rakishly debonair man about many towns, and a founding member of MR PORTER’s Style Council. What’s more, he is the inspiration for Oliver Spencer’s latest exclusive capsule collection for MR PORTER which Mr Spencer has playfully called “The Dirty Weekend Bag” – albeit with the following important qualifier. “It should go without saying that this a MR PORTER version of a dirty weekend – which is to say very gentlemanly and refined,” he says. But of course. “This collection would also work equally well for the man who’s been invited to a beach wedding.”

Mr Spencer has designed a holdall and a capsule wardrobe of everything a “gentleman cad” like Mr Gilchrist might need for 48 hours away somewhere warm and rather nice. “This guy has got travelling down to a fine art: the passport is permanently in his inside breast pocket, he only has carry-on luggage, he walks straight off the plane and there’s someone waiting with his name on a placard ready to give him his keys to his BMW 350 and he’s out of there.”

The carry-on bag itself is a capacious midnight-blue suede holdall with a robust pebble grain leather base. Then the first item in the bag is “a navy raincoat, which is what you might need to wear to and from the airport”. (Mr Spencer is based in London.) The suit is a lightweight unstructured cream herringbone cotton number which, if you’re going formal, can be worn with the shirt and tie or with the pocket square. (Probably don’t wear the tie and pocket square together because they directly match.) Alternatively the suit could be worn more casually with the indigo and white cotton jacquard grandad shirt. Then there is a pair of judo trousers (which is to say loose, breezy trousers) in the same fabric, a pair of navy shorts and an ecru and navy striped cotton jersey T-shirt for when you’re at the pool/beach.

“The idea is that you don’t have to think about it too hard, everything goes with everything so you can mix and match, maybe wear the suit jacket separately from the trousers, and it’s all very tasteful,” says Mr Spencer. “That suit looks just as good a bit rumpled out of the bag or off the plane as it does if you’ve just had it pressed at the hotel. The grandad shirt and the judo trousers are quite bohemian and fluid for down by the pool or out to dinner. Basically it’s about nothing else other than having fun and exploring life.”

Sounds great, we’re in. When do we leave?

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