New Season, New Start

When lazy days roll into March, we can’tshake that end-of-summer feeling. But what if we channelled the spirit of starting again into all areas of our lives? Laura Craik reports on the cathartic power of the do-over

- Laura Craik

HOW LONG SINCE I LEFT SCHOOL?

Honey, you don’t even want to know. And yet, however many aeons pass, the school year’s distinctive rhythm never leaves me. Maybe I don’t want it to – after all, there’s a comfort in ritual and adhering to the flow of the year. The excitement of the Christmas holidays; that fun mid-year break. Most memorable of all, surely, is the delicious anticipation of the season switch – and never more so than when you’re a fashion lover. That the leaves turn russet is all very well, but the real changing of the seasons is as much marked out in finery as foliage. As well as the shops being full of tempting autumn clothes, it’s show season, that breathless four-week maelstrom when the latest collections are revealed. For anyone who loves clothes, it’s like a new school term and, for that, you need a new uniform.