THE JOURNAL
Let us transport you to far-off lands with Bohemian Spirit. This latest chapter in MR PORTER’s Summer Stories campaign sees us leave the sun-drenched Italian coast behind in search of adventures. Whereas our two previous chapters, Sun, Sea and Sky and Al Fresco!, focused on holiday essentials and Italian luxury brands respectively, here we present an altogether looser and more playful vision of summer style.
Featuring some of the latest creations from cult, craft-centric menswear brands such as BODE, Story Mfg. and Karu Research, along with a few new-season pieces from fashion heavy-hitters LOEWE, Marni and SAINT LAURENT, Bohemian Spirit serves up a selection of laid-back outfits and accessories that promises to take you confidently from beach festivals and city breaks to whatever other high-summer adventures you might have planned.
“Laid-back really is the word – if there’s a key to this look, it’s the breezily relaxed fit”
And laid-back really is the word: if there’s a key to this look, it’s the breezily relaxed fit. This shouldn’t be a challenge. Avoiding anything restrictive or figure-hugging is the natural thing to do when the mercury pushes north at the height of summer. But the take-home message here is that you should feel empowered to push things a little further in the other direction, embracing pleated trousers, drawstring shorts, and billowing shirts in gauzy linen and silk.
“The mood: a carefree, blue-sky state of mind unclouded by deadlines, to-do lists and cluttered inboxes”
More than a certain silhouette or style, though, it’s a mood that we’re really trying to capture with Bohemian Spirit: a carefree, blue-sky state of mind unclouded by deadlines, to-do lists, cluttered inboxes and all the other stresses of everyday life. It’s a little dose of escapism, in other words, and isn’t that exactly what summer is all about?
