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The Australian summer: beach days that melt into long hot nights

1/4 From left: DRIES VAN NOTEN X FREDERIC MALLE fragrance; AWAVEAWAKE dress; BANG & OLUFSEN B&O PLAY H7 Headphones.

For me it’s about the best of Australian summer: slow beach days that melt into long hot nights, prawns on the barbecue and the smell of salt and sunscreen on my skin.

Escaping …
To Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, and my grandparent's beach house where all my first memories of summer come from.

Essentials …
Good reading material, earphones, airplane mode engaged and the bare essentials.

Celebrating …
I'll be gifting Mariage Freres Noël Bleu tea and personalised gifts from Sarah O’Neill’s beautiful store Small Spaces in Sydney’s Redfern, such as Keiko Matsui vases, modernist Christmas cards by Bernadette Lewis and ceramics by Stephanie Phillips.

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