Like several hundred-thousand Australians, last winter Mary McGillivray left her puffer jackets behind in Melbourne to spend a northern summer in Europe. But McGillivray had a special project in mind: she planned her Euro-summer like an 18th-century British aristocrat, and went on a grand tour.
McGillivray evaded wolves in the south of France, admired the Rococo menswear of the continent and pondered dalliances with the locals in each destination.