When Hemingway dubbed the City of Love a moveable feast he wasn’t exactly talking about literal plates piled high with lobsters, clamshells and french fries (though – if you hit up google – you can find the recipe to his most beloved burger, a literary-slash-culinary legend I’m determined to try some day.) Still, it’s Paris’ openness to ceaseless festivity and indulgence that allows a shoot…

Each model at the Burberry show yesterday carried a customised scarf imprinted with their initials. Cara Delevingne was carrying hers – marked “CJD” – after the show, paired with cool masculine tailored pants, boots, and a stomach-baring crop top.

When traces of snow scatter the pavement and the temperature refuses to creep above zero, the thought of stepping outside in the ongoing crop top trend doesn’t exactly appeal. But just to prove it can be done (especially practical when you’re running between shows and not choosing to loiter in the cold air) leave it to an off-duty model in New York to provide this…

Once the domain of only the most daring, the bandeau has evolved to encapsulate a new sense of effortless cool. Of course, it all comes down to how you style it: you don't want to look like you've just wandered out of the house in your bra. After the break, you'll find three simple rules for rocking the bandeau in spring 2014, along with ideas and inspiration on how to make the bandeau a statement that works for you in the coming summer season.

An inevitable and welcome evolution of the crop top trend, the cropped shirt has a classic, sophisticated vibe that lends itself to both feminine and masculine interpretations. Merging the old with the utterly fresh and new, there are plenty of ways to style the cropped shirt and make it a statement this spring.

While it’s true that we all share a certain connection with the past and we have the good old days to thank for some of our all-time favourite fashion trends, think ultra-short mod dresses, Letterman jackets, peter pan collars and cat eye sunglasses, fashion as we know it today would have been a totally different story had any of the following fashion statements emerged into…

Coachella: is there any other place in the world where bared midriffs and exposed stomachs become the norm, congregating under the sunny skies for days at a time in a wave of neo-bohemian festival fashion? Photographer Josie Withers (josiewithersphotography.com) headed to California to find out. From the merest peep to the most daring of bralets, she snapped these street style outfits of crop-top wearing festival…

Who was the song Umbrella originally intended for? What happens when you retouch classical paintings to meet modern standards of beauty? Would you pay someone to kidnap you for fun? In case you happened to be wondering about any of the above questions, or even if you weren’t, the internet is here to answer them. Plus, places to go and things to see this weekend.…

Do we see a trend emerging here for January 2013’s magazine covers? Perhaps in Spain, at least: first Carmen Kass for Harper’s Bazaar Spain wearing a fur coat with nothing underneath, now Vogue Spain brings us Edita Vilkeviciute with her military jacket worn open to reveal nothing but a bare décolletage and a toned stomach.

Doutzen Kroes gets photoshopped by Victoria’s Secret. This we all knew. So what’s the significance in the unretouched shots of a Victoria’s Secret swim campaign that surfaced on the internet today? While we don’t have final shots to compare side-by-side, it’s not hard to compare these with the final products of other Victoria’s Secret campaigns. And while we’ve noted recently that Victoria’s Secret have toned…