. . . afternoons are still wonderfully bright, but evenings are beginning to arrive earlier, and with them, a surprising briskness to unaccustomed summer skin, and already this past weekend, faux fur stoles and soft cashmere scarves and the longing for luxuriously warm textures, velvet and tweed and satin-trimmed coverlets — and even warmer hues and tones, featherstone and champagne and deliriously lovely shades of dusky taupe . . .

{images: 1 – photography by nastasha; 2 – elle decor via mochatini; 3 – lonny magazine; 4 – simply seductive; 5 – country style magazine (australian) via daily imprint; 6 – a glamorous little side project}