Still got a summer holiday to look forward to? Lucky you.  Let Nicole Richie be your guide in achieving the perfect vacation wardrobe.

The designer - who has undergone several style reincarnations since she first fought her way into our consciousness in a Von Dutch trucker cap and skanky hair extensions alongside Simple Life co-star and BF not F Paris Hilton – has our full attention once again thanks to her perfectly pitched St Tropez style.

In the summer months we are, of course, saturated with sleb holiday albums as curated by the paparazzi, but rarely is the daily stream so captivatingly lookbook-like, and so we’ve been following the family’s Riviera adventures as avidly as we’d turn the pages of the newest Givenchy lookbook.

And speaking of Givenchy, how utterly soignée was her decision to tie a Givenchy Resort dress casually around her waist like that? Decadent disregard at its finest.

The waist tie is just one of Richie’s hallmark holiday looks. The mother of two has been cleverly reductive in her holiday dressing approach, taking three key styling tricks and working them to death during her stay. As well as making packing easier, this has the added benefit of not having to think too hard after last night’s rose-soaked supper. Her sartorial tools of choice? The crop top, the scarf, the waist tie. Simple, but definitely not Simple Life. 

Click through her gallery of fabulosity to learn the lessons of what we can now confirm is a masterclass in vacay-chic.