It’s been a week of the seeing juvenile made mature, time travelling rappers, long lost footage of the original bombshell and the acceptance of a new one. Oh and there’s that thing called Gatsby. Here’s everything you need to pass your Friday afternoon and need to know for the weekend ahead.

Candice Swanepoel gets cast in the role time and time again and it’s not hard to see why: that role being the modern day blonde bombshell. With something of a 1960s inspired hairstyle and sexy styling by Julia Von Boehm that involves some nudity, some lingerie-like pieces, and plenty of jewellery, her latest spread for Interview Germany will no doubt inspire a few people to…

Finding the balance between fashion and sex isn’t always the mission of Treats! Magazine (sometimes, let’s face it, the former overpowers the latter – not to say it’s for the worse). Kesler Tran’s latest contribution of Australian model Lauren Brown does hit upon the balance though, with plenty of bare skin and long legs in thigh high boots providing one distraction while glam-punk accessories like…

Some things warrant deep analysis and interpretation, and some things are just plain sexy. Pierre Dal Corso is one of those photographers that can do either fantastically but especially the latter – you need only look at his latest work for French magazine OOB. Model Eliza Sys stars in the accessories-focused shoot, in which clothing rarely clutters the scene. Instead it’s just Sys’ stunning body,…

Just a short way off on the horizon, like a little boat sailing into view, is the fourteenth issue of Bambi Magazine. And while we wait to see what photographic gems the new issue will bring, here’s one you might have missed from issue XIII: Marsida by Pino Leone. This is one of those shoots that doesn’t try and draw you through with a narrative.…

A quick search for the work of David Bellemere and you’ll know that soft and erotic is his forte. But what happens when he turns his hand to shooting actress Jessica Alba for the new issue of Net-A-Porter magazine? What happens is a neatly struck balance that’s neither the sensual nudes you might expect from Bellemere, nor the high-gloss, high-fashion editorial you might expect from…

When GQ Spain enlisted Alvaro de la Herrán to direct a video based on Fifty Shades of Grey, surely not even they could have anticipated something so brazenly erotic and yet so softly filmed. “It’s clear to me,” says Herrán, “that in a contemporary sexual relationship a kiss hides more than a tongue.” Alexander Tikhomirov shoots beautiful bodies where tribal jewellery and tattoos are the…

Science fiction as a genre isn’t just about entertainment, it’s about envisaging something that doesn’t yet exist but might well become a reality. In crafting stories about the future and the things that might exist in it, authors and filmmakers can create self-fulfilling prophesies: ideas for inventions that the world then seeks to bring to fruition. To put it another way, science fiction is surprisingly…

Cara Delevingne does a striptease for i-D Magazine, Jamie Bochert enteres an ethereal and emotive world “fuelled by the poetry of dreams”, and Candice Swanepoel inspires some sexy summer styling (because that’s what Candice Swanepoel does best). Plus, the story of a 91 year old shoemaker, and yet another visually stunning film from Wolf Magazine. After the break: 5 fashion films to watch this weekend.

Interview talks to Cara Delevingne (in case the sexy photoshoot wasn’t enough), research confirms that the internet has made us all narcissistic (we knew it but were just too busy taking #selfies to care), and one well-known author confesses he became more addicted to buying Gucci than most shoe-loving women. That’s all in our reading round-up, while we’ve also got some other cool blogs, articles,…