Are you breaking the rules in Paris? Or taking on the high-low approach in New York? A Cotswolds creative or a Wicklow native where fashion meets function? Find out below … 

Fashion Meets Function

Sheena throws on her trusty Dubarry Willow jacket and wellies and shepherds her guests out of the boot room and into the misty morning. Since opening her bijou hotel in Rathnew in Wicklow, early morning dog walks around the estate have proven the most popular activity, closely followed by foraging trips, after which Sheena drives guests in the Defender to a lakeside picnic.

Channelling her style muse, entrepreneur Jade Holland Cooper, Sheena has taken a creative rather than a corporate approach to her wardrobe. Less Four Seasons, more four seasons in one day. Impeccably cut blazers with tapered trousers is her default uniform with a Triona Clodagh blazer or Jack Murphy Nicole jacket.

For meetings with brides to be, Sheena wears a Roxanne pussy-bow blouse from The Irish Linen Company with a tailored suit by House of North in Belfast, crafted from Molloy & Sons tweed. It’s all change (again) when Sheena hosts pre-dinner drinks in the drawing room. A favourite Erdem dress never fails to elicit compliments. One day she hopes to add a boutique to the hotel, setting up her own collaborations with Irish designers. @jadehollandcooper

A CREATIVE, CLEVER FORMULA

 As partner at Knight & Gale estate agents, Saffy knows every property and HNWI in the Cotswolds. Her dining out story? Selling Ellen (DeGeneres) her home and having Beyoncé on her books.

Poised and polished at all times, Saffy matches her wardrobe to the profiles of potential buyers, an approach that never fails to clinch deals. For meeting arty media types looking to relocate, she channels stylist Sarah Corbett- Winder’s exuberance, mixing Kipper suits, Plumo kilts and Sézane Chelsea jackets with bright Brora, Boden or Bamford vests, and funky Jacques Marie Mage spectacles.

For the Sloaney set (invariably downsizing and requesting gate lodges) she brings out old money labels – Cordings for coats, Alan Paine twinsets, and Penelope Chilvers boots. Statement coats are something of a style signifier, providing much needed warmth when walking around properties with surveyors. She particularly loves her Byan Concept Phillip coat, a purchase from the label’s recent Covent Garden pop-up.

Spring is the busiest season socially, when Saffy is invited to the rugby internationals, the Boat Race and, of course, Cheltenham where she entertains clients and plots her outfits for the three days. Having picked up some key accessories – a silk Hermès Twilly scarf and a new Hicks & Brown fedora – she’s looking forward to debuting a bespoke trouser suit from her friend Daisy Knatchbull in a Donegal tweed, accessorising it with a Lalage Beaumont bag, and a spritz of Penhaligon’s Blenheim Bouquet. She’s never without her family binoculars to study the form and spy on the royal box. @sarah.corbettwinder

Breaking The Rules

Boarding school breaks loom large on the De Monfort family wall planner, necessitating dashes from Copenhagen to Paris so Véronique can visit her daughter, Estelle, a student at L’Ermitage. These weekends include pow-wows with the teachers followed by a stay in a chic hotel, also known as research. Since being featured in French Vogue as one of the “starchitects” of her generation, Véronique feels the pressure to always look chic. She travels in her Zimmermann Donegal tweed double-breasted coat. She wears this with a Bompard cashmere sweater, Mother jeans, Loeffler Randall loafers and Ateliers Auguste tote.

Per her muses, Caroline de Maigret and Charlotte Rampling, Véronique’s style is less traditional BCBG (bon chic, bon genre), more pared-back with a hint of rock ’n‘ roll. When wearing checks and tweeds she swears by “le rappel” – the trick of finding a colour in a pattern or tweed and matching other items to it. When buying jackets and coats, she will often size up, for an oversized look. It’s off to Abbaye des Vaux-de-Cernay with Estelle for some pre-IB exam treats, starting with a much-needed Hugo Spritz at the bar … @carolinedemaigret

THE HIGH-LOW APPROACH

Since Brooke submitted the first draft of her memoir, Talking Shop, documenting her life as a fashion buyer for Barneys New York, her publisher has been hounding her to complete the revisions. It’s a bore and a chore to find peace and quiet, but Brooke has discovered an in-the-know writer’s retreat in the Catskills that will help enormously. Not so much a cabin in the woods, more a spa-like sanctuary with excellent coffee shops and boutiques close by, should she need a break.

When packing, Brooke reverses her tried-and-tested daywear formula for more black, less white. In country settings, she wears white via barrel-leg jeans and Gap turtlenecks with her Ralph Lauren Purple label Preston II tweed blazer and Moncler boots. As heavy snow is predicted, she adds colour via preppy Hilfiger staples, so her Instagram photos will pop. She has packed her Apparis faux fur hat.

Leaving nothing to chance, she’s also planning photos of her desk with its view of the pines. For this close-up she has bought lots of stubby “Cigarette” pencils from Yoseka Stationery in Greenpoint and a Diptyque Ambre mini candle. Naturally her monogrammed LL Bean book tote will be in the background, nodding to her Ivy League aspirations, if not degree.

Brooke’s writing attire aces contemporary comfort. Think baggy WNU Rampling herringbone trousers with a James Perse T-shirt and a caramel Club Monaco cable knit sweater. Diane, her publisher, is coming for dinner one night, so she’s packed a Tory Burch bouclé mini dress and flats. Brooke is already visualising the book launch at The Monkey Bar. “Let’s get this thing done” is her new mantra! @aerin

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