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The LBD’s care-free cousin, the little white dress is and always has been summer’s sartorial hero.
Other trends may come and go, but when Spring/Summer Fashion Weeks arrive, you can be sure to spy at least one iteration in designers’ collections of summer dresses. Due to the style’s versatility and easy dawn-to-dusk adaptability, it’s revisited year after year.
While they might be subtly tweaked to adopt either a more structured or relaxed silhouette, the result is the same: a clean, crisp style that keeps you cool even in the peak of summer’s heat and acts as a blank canvas to your pick of bright accessories or dainty jewellery. In other words, any white dresses you invest in now will continue to feel fresh and contemporary for years to come.
Read on to discover our edit of six key white dresses that are effortless building blocks to your summer wardrobe.
Other trends may come and go, but when Spring/Summer Fashion Weeks arrive, you can be sure to spy at least one iteration in designers’ collections of summer dresses. Due to the style’s versatility and easy dawn-to-dusk adaptability, it’s revisited year after year.
While they might be subtly tweaked to adopt either a more structured or relaxed silhouette, the result is the same: a clean, crisp style that keeps you cool even in the peak of summer’s heat and acts as a blank canvas to your pick of bright accessories or dainty jewelry. In other words, any white dresses you invest in now will continue to feel fresh and contemporary for years to come.
Read on to discover our edit of six key white dresses that are effortless building blocks to your summer wardrobe.
Cotton Jacquard Swing Dress + Belt
Adding subtle dimension to a soft cotton dobby fabric, a burn-out jacquard motif plays over our Cotton Jacquard Swing Dress + Belt.
This adds a sense of formality to the style, shoring up your workwear-appropriate dresses and weekend favourites ready for summer’s rising temperatures in one step.
Easily adaptable and universally flattering, it’s topped with a zipped neckline and features a removable belt that transforms the shape from swing to fitted. When you also consider the dipped hem that creates the illusion of a longer leg and functional side pockets, you won’t be surprised when this piece doesn’t stray far from the front of your wardrobe.
Adding subtle dimension to a soft cotton dobby fabric, a burn-out jacquard motif plays over our Cotton Jacquard Swing Dress + Belt.
This adds a sense of formality to the style, shoring up your workwear-appropriate dresses and weekend favorites ready for summer’s rising temperatures in one step.
Easily adaptable and universally flattering, it’s topped with a zipped neckline and features a removable belt that transforms the shape from swing to fitted. When you also consider the dipped hem that creates the illusion of a longer leg and functional side pockets, you won’t be surprised when this piece doesn’t stray far from the front of your closet.
Broderie Mix Short Swing Dress
With feminine finesse accompanied by a subtle nod to the Prairie trend, our Broderie Mix Short Swing Dress is crafted from pure cotton scattered with a floral cut-out design that creates a lighter, airier aesthetic.
Your perfect partner to park picnics at home and long alfresco lunches abroad, it’s cut with a ruffle-trimmed neckline framed by unlined short pouf sleeves and falls to a flattering dipped hem that helps to create the illusion of a longer leg. With intelligent design details such as a buttoned chest placket to alter the neckline and practical pockets positioned in front of the side seams so as to not add bulk to your hips, it proves that style and substance aren’t mutually exclusive.
Embroidered Cotton Midi Dress + Belt
A subtle bohemian-inspired inflection places our Embroidered Cotton Midi Dress + Belt in beachside holiday settings just as easily as in at-home ones
A subtle bohemian-inspired inflection places our Embroidered Cotton Midi Dress + Belt in beachside holiday settings just as easily as in at-home ones - from a restaurant’s awning-topped outdoor terrace to your own dining-room table for a family Sunday lunch. Adding a subtle, three-dimensional element to the pure-cotton fabric are intricate floral-embroidered details broken up by opaque stripes, and frill trims around the shoulders, cuffs, and neckline. Add the removable belt into the mix for a fit-and-flare look that speaks to city settings as well as days on holiday exploring markets and sipping coffees in pavement-side cafes.
A subtle bohemian-inspired inflection places our Embroidered Cotton Midi Dress + Belt in beachside vacation settings just as easily as in at-home ones
A subtle bohemian-inspired inflection places our Embroidered Cotton Midi Dress + Belt in beachside vacation settings just as easily as in at-home ones - from a restaurant’s awning-topped outdoor terrace to your own dining-room table for a family Sunday lunch. Adding a subtle, three-dimensional element to the pure-cotton fabric are intricate floral-embroidered details broken up by opaque stripes, and frill trims around the shoulders, cuffs, and neckline. Add the removable belt into the mix for a fit-and-flare look that speaks to city settings as well as days on holiday exploring markets and sipping coffees in pavement-side cafes.
Cheesecloth Maxi Shirt Dress + Belt
The best of structured shirting and decorative blouses come together on our Cheesecloth Maxi Shirt Dress + Belt: a neat collar atop a v neckline and playful frill-trimmed cuffs.
A sartorial chameleon suited to all that summer may present to you, this ankle-grazing style is equally at home in office settings as it is on sandy shores, sported over your pick of bright swimwear. Crafted from naturally textured cotton cheesecloth that lets your skin breathe in the heat and has been double-layered to avoid transparency, it features a removable belt to add dimension and is fitted with functional pockets for small essentials.
Cheesecloth Flared Sleeve Maxi Dress
Summer’s fail-safe all-rounder shaped to a flattering maxi silhouette, our Cheesecloth Flared Sleeve Maxi Dress is crafted from pure-cotton cheesecloth that is naturally textured and therefore never needs to be ironed
Summer’s fail-safe all-rounder shaped to a flattering maxi silhouette, our Cheesecloth Flared Sleeve Maxi Dress is crafted from pure-cotton cheesecloth that is naturally textured and therefore never needs to be ironed (read: the perfect partner to holiday packing). Outlined with lace inserts to break up the lightweight fabric and ensure it stands out apart from other white maxi dresses, it’s just as suited to styling as a cover-up on the beach as it is to accompanying light-wash denim jackets for sun-soaked city minibreaks, paired with sandals or low-top trainers below the flattering dipped hem.
Positioned further forwards than traditional side pockets, ours are designed to avoid adding extra fabric or bulk to your hips and find a home on this short-sleeved style to ensure there’s always a place for small essentials when you’re on the move exploring new cities or making the most of a blue-sky day closer to home.
Summer’s fail-safe all-rounder shaped to a flattering maxi silhouette, our Cheesecloth Flared Sleeve Maxi Dress is crafted from pure-cotton cheesecloth that is naturally textured and therefore never needs to be ironed
Summer’s fail-safe all-rounder shaped to a flattering maxi silhouette, our Cheesecloth Flared Sleeve Maxi Dress is crafted from pure-cotton cheesecloth that is naturally textured and therefore never needs to be ironed (read: the perfect partner to vacation packing). Outlined with lace inserts to break up the lightweight fabric and ensure it stands out apart from other white maxi dresses, it’s just as suited to styling as a cover-up on the beach as it is to accompanying light-wash denim jackets for sun-soaked city minibreaks, paired with sandals or low-top sneakers below the flattering dipped hem.
Positioned further forwards than traditional side pockets, ours are designed to avoid adding extra fabric or bulk to your hips and find a home on this short-sleeved style to ensure there’s always a place for small essentials when you’re on the move exploring new cities or making the most of a blue-sky day closer to home.
Gathered Cotton Midi Dress
Finding a place in both formal and casual white dresses round-ups...
Our Gathered Cotton Midi Dress is crafted from its namesake breathable fabric and stitched with gathered detailing around the body and skirt as well as at the shoulders to add a softness to the short-sleeved silhouette. Intelligently designed, it features a lining that ends just before the dipped hem to retain the style’s fluid drape while eliminating any transparency and is home to side pockets that introduce a practical element.