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Perking up your accessories will brighten your day, not just your handbag | Jess Cartner-Morley on fashion


Choose vivid colours for your small accessories – so they’re easy to pick out and, more importantly, joyful

It is the wardrobe equivalent of that junk drawer full of flyers for window cleaning services and half-used blister packs of Nurofen. Real luxury is having pleasing versions of the things you touch and use all the time “Business on the outside, party on the inside” is the mantra of Luc Goidadin, creative director of Smythson, which is the high church of inside-your-bag small leather delights. I am also a big fan of wrist straps, which make your phone easier to find in your bag and save it getting knocked out of your hand when you walk and type, which I know we’re not supposed to do but also know we all do.

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