Mood Board: 9 Back-to-School Essentials

The end of summer once meant swapping lawn chairs for stiff wooden desks, and beach towels for the crisp new pages of a textbook. Likewise, going back to school used to be the perfect time to trade in tired clothes for new duds and cast a fresh outlook on the year ahead. Take a cue from the classroom and bring back a bit of that first-day eagerness with a slick new backpack from Victorinox, a pair of confident khakis from Tommy Hilfiger, and, of course, the perfect notebook from Shinola. The upside? No bumpy school-bus ride home.

Photography by Shana Novak. Styling by Michael Cook.

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