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Bimba & Lola’s spring 2012 collection includes a smorgasbord of brightly coloured accessories in retro, structured styles. But what we really can’t take our eyes off is just how perfectly the short bangs suit Kinga Razjak – especially with her porcelain skin and shiny, raven black hair.

Beautifully shot in black and white, Alasdair McLellan’s campaign for Emporio Armani spring 2012 gives every strand of hair, every freckle, every texture of fabric the attention it deserves. But the true romance comes from the locale, Hong Kong, with the fashion house themselves even giving a nod that, yes, the city “with its harmonic and energetic mix of past and future, is the movie’s …

If you’re familiar with Wheels & Dollbaby, and with the photography of Ellen Von Unwerth, then you wouldn’t even need to see the results of a collaboration between the two to know the match would be heaven-made. In fact it’s an all-round alignment of stars: the collection, of which the “Jolie Bow” silk picnic dress and its matching headscarf are a definite highlight; the beauty …

It’s an age-old cliche: women gets back at man by publicly shunning him while looking insanely hot. Unoriginal it may be, but this fragrance campaign for Roberto Cavalli is like a guilty indulgence. Even when you know the cliche ending is nigh, it’s somehow pleasurable to watch. I blame the beauty of Elisa Sednaoui.

If you watched Vanessa Bruno’s last film campaign, you’ll recall that Kate Bosworth starred; the inhabitant of a world slightly dark and surreally twisted. This time Bosworth returns, but the feeling is much more optimistic. Once again the music, the filming, and the styling are all beautiful – even if the meaning behind it is open to intepretation.

The concrete bowl of a skate park gives a visual clue as to the L.A-feel of Stylestalker’s latest collection. From an oversized tank emblazoned with a peace sign – something the ’90s might well have felt at home in originally – to dreamy pleated white skirts that somehow marry Marilyn with skater-grunge, it’s all fare that fits the brand’s effortless-meets-sexy trademark image. Look out for …

Ordinarily she’s the queen of sexy-scruffy bed hair and peek-a-boo fringes. Not for Lara Bohinc’s spring 2012 campaign though, in which a transformed Daisy Lowe rocks a cloud of ’70s spiral curls, animal print scarves, and exotic head wraps.

Bellechasse are something of an Australian answer to the UK’s Agent Provocateur or Lascivious. They’re all the kind of brands where fashion and fetish and lingerie and luxury all tangle together into one intoxicating blend; where underwear begs to become outerwear, too good to remain covered. Peter Coulson shot this campaign for Bellechasse which plays to that desire to liberate your lingerie out into the …

Derek Henderson’s raw, rockstar snapshots of Stolen Girlfriends Club’s sheer lace pieces makes me want them so much more than the collection’s look book ever did. Georgia Fowler could be two different people, the contrast between messy waved hair and a sleek up-do being subtle yet strong. With the latter style the otherwise grunged-up pieces show their versatility to be delicately elegant; as do fur …

If you consider the way Gestuz can make the most casual of pieces effortlessly, inordinately sexy, it will come as no surprise that they hail from Denmark. There’s an essence of Scandinavian minimalism to some of spring 2012′s pieces: that black jersey dress, a black maxi skirt broken by a thigh baring slit, simple cotton tees, the kind of leather jackets that you can throw …