Model Babacar N’doye gives weary global spirits a welcome jolt of dopamine dressing, posing in ‘This Must Be the Place’ for Port Magazine issue 30. Stylist Mitchell Belk chooses sophisticated hot weather clothes from Boss, Canali, Dior, Fendi, Giorgio Armani, Gucci, Hermes, Margaret Howell, Polo Ralph Lauren, Prada, Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello, Tod’s and Zegna in blindingly beautiful colors.

Having just bought a modern yellow sofa, I so appreciate another jolt to my visual senses, captured by photographer Lars Bronseth [IG] in Fuerteventura, the second largest of Spain’s Canary Islands, off the north coast of Africa.

I am deadly serious about surrounding myself with color in blooms, furniture, art — everything that matters to me. Even Babacar sends a message on his IG: No fighting!

As our lives are turned inside out on so many levels, I cannot go through life as a black widow, mourning the threatened state of our world and the loss of every personal right we’ve gained in America in the last 50 years.

Republicans want us to trust that only abortion rights are on the line. But we know better. It’s contraception, LGBTQ2+, racial justice, freedom from the government monitoring our every action. I’m such an optimistic person, but between the US Supreme Court Alito draft decision and Putin in Ukraine, I’m shaken to my core.

So thanks Port Magazine and all the designers for a bit of fashion joy so beautifully executed. Call it fashion escapism, but for me it’s a huge vitamin pill for which I am grateful. ~ Anne