NEXT-LEVEL BEACH BAGS

Is your beach bag glam enough? It’s a question that Christian Louboutin wants you to ask yourself, as he has worked with Lisbon-based artisans on his luxe new Portugaba embellished baskets, which showcase the best of the city’s crafting traditions. Elsewhere, Loro Piana’s roomy Cube beach totes steal stripes from the briefcases that the fabric merchant’s sales representatives used to carry their samples in back in the 1970s, but look totally modern in luxury linen. And the new designer name to drop? It’s Mizele, which favours an easy-to-pack, soft crochet, over a traditional hard basket weave. See you by the pool…

From £505, loropiana.com