TALKING HEADS

PEGGY SIROTA / TRUNK ARCHIVE, AGB PHOTO LIBRARY / GETTY IMAGES, C/O LAURA JACKSON. C/O ANDRÉ FU STUDIO INTERVIEWS BY LUCIANA BELLINI

LAURA JACKSON

The Entrepreneur

I am looking forward to travelling to Italy with my children. I need some heat on my body and some sand beneath my toes!

What’s making you smile this Our friends and family on what they’ve got planned for sun-soaked days outside summer?

ANDRÉ FU

The Interior Designer

A month-long trip to Europe is in the pipeline and I am looking forward to reconnecting with my friends. I am also excited about the upcoming launch of my new André Fu Living collection: Traces of Nature, with an extensive collection of furniture, lighting and tableware. The trip shall begin with Milan for the Salone del Mobile, then a fortnight in London for the launch of my interior collaborations, including the Claridge’s Spa. I will also make a detour to the South of France to visit The Maybourne Riviera, where I oversaw the wellness floor, which is inspired by the vast ocean-scape. When on-the-go, I love to wear Loro Piana’s ‘André’ linen shirt, a denim jacket from The Row and Muji canvas trainers.

Harris Reed MARCUS WAREING

The Chef

This summer I’m so looking forward to the continuation and development of produce from my kitchen garden, a sixty-five-acre smallholding I’ve been developing in Sussex. It’s been an amazing learning curve for me and the BBC viewers, who are following Tales from My Kitchen Garden. Cooking over fire and sharing the experience with the local community and farmers has been amazing. I can’t wait to see the ingredients and produce that we’ll pick this summer: everything from Jerusalem artichokes and Kentish Pippin apples to wild mushrooms and elephant garlic. And let’s not forget the Longhorn cows, pigs, sheep, ducks and chickens that I’ll be busy tending…

The Fashion Designer I’m just excited to wear really fabulous clothes, go to Claridge’s for cocktails and dance the night away again.

CHARLENE ROXBOROUGH KONSKER

The Stylist

I can’t wait to escape to our farmhouse in Lake Forest. When I’m in LA, I’ll be spending as much time as possible at art galleries. The best are all downtown, but I’m also excited about the McQueen exhibition at LACMA, which is going to be the first exhibition of his work on the West Coast. Erin O’Connor

The Model

MAURO COLAGRECO

The Gourmet

Gardens are at their best during spring and summer, so these are the seasons I look forward to every year. My garden is such a peaceful place and spending time there is the biggest luxury for me; just enjoying the nature around me and eating delicious produce fresh from the trees. In summer, I particularly like the balance between the calmness of nature and the dynamism of the Côte d’Azur, which really comes to life during the season. Riviera Playa in RoquebruneCap-Martin has the perfect mix: it’s surrounded by nature, with the sea, rocks and incredible sunsets. And the ambience is amazing.

My plans will be an ‘every other Friday’ lost in my favourite bar The Fumoir and a surf holiday in the UK with my beautiful sons.

JOSH WOOD

The Hair Colourist

I have really missed being able to explore new places and return to old haunts. Paris is on the horizon, as is a supper club at The Royal Oak Ramsden in Chipping Norton. The team and I have also been working behind-the-scenes on our residence at Claridge’s, which is going to open imminently. I’ve never actually had a salon in Mayfair and I’m really looking forward to working in this incredible location.

LADY KINVARA BALFOUR

The Creative Director

This summer, I’m most excited about the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations. I’ll be in Los Angeles on the day, so I will miss the pomp and ceremony I imagine the UK will enjoy, but I’ll go to town on being as British as can be. I’ll invite friends to my Jubilee party – via HiNote – and I’ll hit Bonjour Fête for regal party supplies. I’ll also stock up on plenty of food from the British Corner Shop website, because what’s a royal celebration without a bag of Wotsits or Monster Munch, a pack of Hobnobs and a nice cup of Earl Grey?

ZOË DE GIVENCHY

The Designer

Oh, the promise of summer! I am beyond excited to return to London and, after a long Covid hiatus, revisit my old favourites. Staying at my home-away-from-home and being utterly spoilt – at The Berkeley, of course – I plan to start the season early at the Chelsea Flower Show (likely wearing a colourful confection by my friend Emilia Wickstead). Take the children to see our friend Harry Haddon-Paton in My Fair Lady, lunch with the old school at Wilton’s, shop at Hamley’s (with the children) and wind up on the roof at the hotel’s Bamford Wellness Spa. What a way to kick-start the summer – bliss!

Whisbe

The Street Artist I’m really looking forward to expanding my creative outlet into the NFTspace, as a catalyst for the next cultural evolution.

ANNIE MORRIS

The Visual Artist

I’m really thrilled to be showing at Château La Coste – an astonishing sculpture park in the middle of a sensational setting in Provence – in July this year. For the show, I will be showing three new Sphere sculptures as well as a new tapestry-and-oil stick work that I hope will hang from the ceiling. I will also be unveiling my largest work: a 5.5-metre stack that will be installed at the entrance of the museum. I am also so pleased that I will be showing alongside my husband Idris, who will be exhibiting his beautiful new paintings and sculptures in the pavilion designed by the late Richard Rogers. M