Follow our video guide and ring the changes by wearing white jeans, rather than blue or black denim.

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Sometimes style is about stepping outside your comfort zone. And when it comes to denim, this means going beyond the easy, workaday colours of indigo and black, especially in summer when those dark shades begin to feel a little bit dull and heavy. For this purpose, white jeans come highly recommended, and not just by MR PORTER. Worn with the right accompaniments, white jeans can conjure up some of the easy insouciance exhibited by most stylish residents of the Mediterranean – you’ll see a lot of people wearing them at Cannes, for example, or at the twice-yearly Pitti Uomo show in Florence. But that’s not the end of the story. Have a quick whisk through Google images and you’ll find white jeans being worn by those as diverse as Mr Kanye West (who seems to have had an “all-white” period circa 2012) and punk pioneers Mr Paul Simonon and Mr Mick Jones of The Clash. Find out how you can do it too with our video guide, above.