From beach blankets to backgammon sets, sunglasses, surfboards and Gertrude Stein-esque scarves, here’s what the AnOther team are taking – or would like to take – on holiday this summer
Alexander Fury, fashion features director
I love Prada’s Days of Summer collections, which are light-hearted distillations of Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons’ signatures into something you could crumple up and roll in the sand wearing. I oddly love this odd polka-dot silk marocain scarf rubbed in lace. Because, apparently, I want to look like Gertrude Stein when I’m on holiday.
Rebecca Perlmutar, senior fashion editor
In my wildest dreams, an Hermès beach blanket.
Susannah Frankel, editor-in-chief
Phoebe Philo Men’s Shirt: from bored room to beach.
George Pistachio, digital features and content editor
It will come as no surprise that I travel with at least five hats. This multi-brim bucket hat from Loewe looks like several hats stacked on top of each other, and it’s a bit silly, therefore essential.
Sophie Bew, editor
The beach is the place for me to be my most basic. Baywatch-red swimsuit, baseball cap, sports shorts – I long for it all year round. So I also need a plastic beach bag, complete with seashells. This Large Bucket Bag from Chanel is at once the least and most basic imaginable. And I need it badly.
Precious Greham, fashion coordinator
A chic hat from Miu Miu to protect my face from the sun.
Bryanna Kelly, producer
Me in these Tom Ford sunglasses, sipping a virgin pina colada in a mu’umu’u on the beach, please.
Hannah Lack, deputy and literary editor
I’m planning to take some overnight trains this summer so this backgammon set from Metier would be excellent for passing the time on the move …
Rose Dodd, editorial assistant
Well, in a hypothetical future, I’d pack one of Pharrell’s Louis Vuitton Surf Boards, shown on the runway for SS27, but it would be less than practical since I can neither wear nor use one. Could a Balenciaga Le City Bag double up as a beach bag?
Emily Dinsdale, contributing editor
I’ve never once packed a suitcase with the sense and economy I aspire to, so why start now in this fantasy scenario. I’d love to take these towering brown Franciane Platform Sandals by Saint Laurent on holiday with me. They are utterly impractical, but they conjure up a sun-kissed fantasy of summer in 1970s Los Angeles.