Daniel P Dykes

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Kate Bosworth for Topshop collection

Fans of Kate Bosworth’s personal style can get a piece of it via Topshop, the actress and high street brand having collaborated on a festival-themed collection titled The Road to Coachella. No key festival piece is left out, from backpacks to bralets to boots.

It’s a Dior garden party

“I’m just going to place my Dior handbag over here in the mud,” said nobody ever. Except, perhaps, on the set of Dior’s next fashion film outing. Secret Garden 2 — Versailles is a follow up to a campaign of the same name that the fashion house released for autumn 2012.

Katy Perry crowned at the MET Gala

It wasn’t hard to adore every inch of Dolce & Gabbana’s autumn 2013 collection when it took to its Milanese catwalk. And it was just as easy to adore it at the MET Gala as the gilt mosaic collection crowned Katy Perry.

Cara Delevingne is your studded vamp

Cara Delevingne’s look from the MET Gala‘s Punk: Chaos to Couture opening could be described as something of a Morticia Addams one were it not for the padlocked, mesh clutch bag she had in hand. All plunge and studs, the model took to the Gala’s red carpet decked out in Burberry.

Sienna Miller is Burberry’s punk at the MET Gala

Safety pins, piercings and studs. This year’s MET Gala was a punk laden affair, all in the name of the The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring 2013 exibition, Punk: Chaos to Couture. And from that formula of iconic punk elements, Sienna Miller opted for studs and a pierced-up ear wrap. Appearing on the Gala’s red carpet with partner Tom Sturridge, Burberry…

Naked but not

“Oh, it’s meant to be over the top,” we reassure our friends when they look upon a catwalk with bewilderment. So much of the fashion that hits catwalks is described as ‘wearable art’, made only to fill the wardrobes of the likes of Anna Dello Russo. But what happens when a piece really is wearable art? What happens when the echo of Helmut Newton’s voyeuristic…
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A dark spot for Winona Ryder

With The Iceman, the cinematic adaptation of the life of contract killer Richard Kuklinski, hitting the silver screen, the steady comeback of co-star Winona Ryder continues. And with that, naturally, comes some magazine exposure for the actress.

Upon a vintage beach

As far as photo shoots go, vintage swimwear can do no wrong. On the beaches I’ve frequented so far this summer, however, it’s a look that’s in short supply. XOXO might hopefully redress that balance with model Linnea Hellbom’s and photographer Marco Trunz’s collaboration for the title.

See, do, read, check out: whimsy and weight

From cats in your coffee to the colour of models on your catwalk, we’re closing the week with issues of whimsy and weight. In between those two polar opposites is your chance to see the not-so-1920s fashion of Prada’s work for The Great Gatsby along with scientific proof that I am now more masculine. Read on for a fashionisers’ guide to the weekend ahead.

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