How to shop it: Dopamine stripes for summer’s most cheerful trend

Proving that you can never have too much of a good thing, colourful stripes are the main attraction

Jonathan Anderson‘s Paula’s Ibiza collection for Loewe

This season designers have played with different colours, textures and stripe sizes to create maximum impact, from bold, vertical stripes seen at Emporio Armani and Balmain to the zig-zag patterns sent down the runway by Jil Sander and Chanel.

The highstreet, never far behind, has certainly got in line too, with Mango and Zara each turning out their own holiday-friendly sets.

If you’re worried about styling stripes successfully, as a rule of thumb, vertical or ...