When it comes to your summer vacation, there’s a whole world of options out there. Maybe you plan to cram as much into your allotted two weeks as possible. Maybe you don’t, and doing as little as you can get away with is the goal. Either way, what you take with you is likely to define the shape – and success rate – of your time off. And, unlike the endless possibilities of your annual leave, the items in your luggage are very much dictated by the dimensions of your suitcase. As well as weight restrictions. So, every piece has to count.

Until not long ago, approach shoes had a single job: they existed to bring you from the car park to the rock face. A purely functional handoff between hiking boots and climbing shoes, where the former were too stiff for this walk, the approach, and the latter too delicate. Today, the silhouette sits comfortably at the intersection between utility and sneakerhead’s grails, in a way very few designs do.

The vacation is booked, but the bag isn’t yet packed. With summer holidays on the horizon, we all reckon with an age-old question: how can you look good while all your clothes are squashed into a suitcase? Luckily, there are a couple of fail-safe ways to ensure you’re dressed appropriately without worrying too much about folds or creases. Arguably the hardest thing to pack properly is a suit, but Paul Smith has pioneered suits to travel in, designed to withstand being shoved in a suitcase or worn on a flight. Similarly, Thom Browne makes casual blazers that can be quickly and easily packed into a pouch, taking up even less of your luggage real estate.

When it comes to clothes, white is supposed to be a neutral colour. T-shirts, underwear or socks in white or an adjacent tone can be as elevated as you like, but will still be as basic as you can get. The building blocks of an outfit, in essence. And yet, for a blank canvas, a white item of clothing can exude a lot of main-character energy. Especially when worn in tandem with other white pieces.

When it comes to your summer vacation, there’s a whole world of options out there. Maybe you plan to cram as much into your allotted two weeks as possible. Maybe you don’t, and doing as little as you can get away with is the goal. Either way, what you take with you is likely to define the shape – and success rate – of your time off. And, unlike the endless possibilities of your annual leave, the items in your luggage are very much dictated by the dimensions of your suitcase. As well as weight restrictions. So, every piece has to count.

Until not long ago, approach shoes had a single job: they existed to bring you from the car park to the rock face. A purely functional handoff between hiking boots and climbing shoes, where the former were too stiff for this walk, the approach, and the latter too delicate. Today, the silhouette sits comfortably at the intersection between utility and sneakerhead’s grails, in a way very few designs do.