July signals a summer in full swing; we're taking the opportunity to alter our usual schedules, making way for some city hopping, dressing for parties and settling in the garden with a great book by day and cosying up with a great new series by night.

We're visiting...

What makes a modelling legend? New to the V&A Museum, NAOMI: In Fashion, which documents Naomi Campbell’s forty years in the fashion industry, explores just that. Borrowing from the model’s illustrious wardrobe, the exhibition features over 100 of Campbell’s ready-to-wear and couture looks, chronicling the South Londoner’s journey from teen ingénue to self-mythologising ‘super’. Catch NAOMI: In Fashion until April 6 2025. Get tickets at www.vam.ac.uk.

We're coveting...

Rubies are July's birthstone and no better way to wear one than this bezel set necklace. Simple and striking, the ruby is hand set in luxurious 18ct yellow gold; dancing along the chain, it's vibrant dash of colour is confident and chic.

We're watching...

Following on from the Karl Lagerfeld theme at last year’s Met Gala, a new TV series explores the German fashion designer’s meteoric rise in the fashion industry. Becoming Karl Lagerfeld is set in 1970s and 1980s Paris where Lagerfeld is clambering to match the success of his peers Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Bergé. Keep your eyes peeled for It girl Jeanne Damas, founder of French fashion label Rouge, who moonlights playing the role of Paloma Picasso, the jewellery designer and daughter of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. And, for further reading, we’d recommend The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris by Alicia Drake. Stream Becoming Karl Lagerfeld on Disney+.

We're reading...

You might be obsessed with Ina Garten’s East Hampton home or perhaps The Summer I Turned Pretty was your guilty pleasure watch, if so direct your reading choices towards Elin Hilderbrand’s latest release Swan Song. The queen of the summer novel, Hilderbrand has penned no less than 27 stories set on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. Swan Song ticks all the boxes you could want in a beach read: friendship, forbidden loves and, even, a murder mystery. (Plus: rosé, lobster rolls and blue hydrangeas: obsessed!) Peak coastal grandma. Out now, published by Hodder & Stoughton.