How To Look Good When It's Hot, Hot, Hot

Don’t sweat your style this summer – fashion expert Anna Murphy has found some brilliant pieces to keep you cool

- Tiamara Naidoo 

I struggled with hot-weather dressing for more years than a self-respecting fashion expert should probably admit in public. Now I realise I never took the time – or spent the money – to get my head around who my hot-weather self was, sartorially speaking. I tended to wear the same things year after year, and/or things that didn’t quite feel like me. And at the end of each summer I would – tellingly, I now think – pack them away without a second thought.

I shop completely differently now. I look for clothes that, as much as possible, will work for me almost all-year round. Sure, I still store my beachwear, but – by way of one example – the floaty skirt I wore all of last summer saw me through this winter, too, with the addition of opaque tights, boots, and a chunky knit. Transeasonality. Another of those terrible words the fashion industry likes to throw at us, yet, if you nail the concept in your wardrobe, it’s a real life-changer.