Ramies, a small family business based in Shanghai, make these lovely linen dresses to order - you send them your measurements, and what colour you'd like, and they are made for you, bespoke. The top dress can be worn with the buttons at the front or the back (I've ordered it in heather grey), and is just £44. The romantic dropped-waist dress is £51. Pictures: Ramies.
Two denim smock dresses I have my eye on - both have the strong selling point that they would comfortably make way for lunch. The top dress is £129, by Ganni at Plumo; the second is £155, by APC Madras at Urban Outfitters.
Insanely cosy looking jumpers from this delicious, brand-new knitwear company, based on a farm in Pembrokeshire. The top jumper here has two little buttons on the back, and is £190; the second is knitted from undyed Dorset and Welsh Black Mountain wool, and is £180. They will see you through the coldest winter. Pictures: Monkstone Knitwear.
I was just in Fenwick and spotted this new French label, Laurence Dolige, designed by the woman who founded Madame a Paris. It's a cross between APC and Margaret Howell: quite simple clothes in really heavy, lovely quality materials, not as boyish as APC and not as boxy as Margaret Howell. I tried on masses and wanted it all. In fact, there was a check shirt and a pair of cotton trousers I was particularly taken by, and I'm trying to resist heading back there after work for some purchasing. Pictures: Laurence Dolige.
This is a really lovely shirt, that I probably need to own, from Vanessa Bruno Athe at Urban Outfitters. Pictures: Urban Outfitters.
French ethical label Les Racines du Ciel make very simple, very beautiful clothes - t-shirts, dresses and jeans - that are designed to be worn for years and years and not date. All the fabrics are either organic or recycled, and everything is made with a minimum impact. Pictures: Les Racines du Ciel.
Keller, a label designed by Kelly Clark in Brooklyn, joins the list of labels to lust after. Kelly says her clothes are designed to "slip on, love, and wear unbothered." I like that very much. Her only European stockist is The Moon and Mars in Edinburgh, but I think they only sell her shoes. Found via Primoeza. Pictures: Keller.
Three beautiful white dresses for hot days, from Handwritten. You can buy them all at Anna. Pictures: Handwritten by Tanya Sarne. 
I've said it before, but I always love everything Charlotte Le Stum-Meyer designs for her label Le Vestiaire de Cle, and this new summer range, all in grey and white, is no exception. Buy it all here. Pictures: Le Vestiaire de Cle.
French company Le Laboureur make clothes for people for whom Old Town is not authentic enough (so, not for the faint hearted). I love these clothes on men - cord suits and drill painters' jackets and high-waisted trousers: very chic peasantwear, basically. Their Swedish site is transactional, much better than their French one, and features pictures of girls wearing the clothes, too. 
I really like this big-baggy-jumper-over-a-silk-frock look from Belgium's Francoise Pendville.
Sophie Mason's label, Still, has impeccable ethical credentials. Her (lovely) duffle coats, shirts and dresses are all hand-made using traditional skills in small, family-run workshops in India. She also sells are range of rather more glamorous vintage dresses from her shop in Notting Hill. 
I am adding Japanese brand Nonnative to my extremely long list of men's labels I wish would do women's things. And having seen this picture, today, I realise I absolutely must aquire a pair of Dansko clogs. 
Beatrice and I went to the opening of the new Cabbages and Roses shop on Avery Street at lunchtime and it took absolutely every ounce of restraint I had not to buy this brown wool cardigan (on the left), with Liberty-print patches on the elbows, as a present from me to me. But I didn't, because you're not allowed to buy yourself things in December: it's the rule.
