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"  Photo: Michael Polish Back in April, we had the pleasure of meeting with the lovely Kate Bosworth at her hotel room during the Coachella Music and Arts Festival 2013. It was there that we learned of her role in Topshop&amp;#039;s super-hush-hush festival campaign, which we can finally share with you as it launches today. It&amp;#039;s pretty awesome: Firstly, Bosworth stars in a campaign and shoppable video, The Road to Coachella. It was directed by her handsome fianc\u00E9, Michael Polish, and it features the actress and style muse wearing some of the 16 pieces she handpicked from Topshop which are, essentially, her concert must-haves. All of the music featured in the film will be available on iTunes, and\u2014wait for it\u2014Topshop is hosting secret pop-up gigs all over the world. Those who want to attend can do so by receiving randomly distributed invites to customers shopping on tablets, mobiles, and in global boutiques. There&amp;#039;s also the option to win tickets by following a series of online competitions and clues. While we don&amp;#039;t know who is performing yet, we&amp;#039;ll be sure to let you know when we do! But back to Bosworth and her sartorial picks, which have arrived just in time for The Governors Ball, Lollapalooza, and Glastonbury. Said Kate Phelan, Topshop&amp;#039;s creative director: &amp;quot;Kate [Bosworth] and I were discussing the summer trends and how she had been one of our inspirations, she was here working with us on our Christmas project. The next day, Kate came in with all these incredible images and references and shared what her ultimate festival outfits looked like. It is an organic extension of Kate&amp;#039;s fashion sense aligned with the Topshop brand.&amp;quot; We also chatted exclusively with Bosworth about what we can expect from her Topshop festival picks and how the partnership came to be. How did the partnership come to be? It one of those organic conversations. We first decided to partner on the Winter Wonderland Christmas film, which Michael directed. I worked with the design team on that dress in a really short amount of time (two weeks!), and we were so pleased with the way it all turned out. It was just an enjoyable, effortless relationship. When I was there, we were talking about what the next chapter would be. I said, &amp;quot;Well, at least in California it does feel like Coachella is the event that really kicks off the spring/summer feel on the West Coast\u2026And [we talked about] what that girl looks like and what she&amp;#039;d want to wear and feel.&amp;quot; I just started putting together a mood board of all the things I would want to wear at the festival, and what I hadn&amp;#039;t really seen out there that I would want to buy. And that&amp;#039;s how we started conversing. It was me, Kate Phelan, and a great design team executing it. What influenced your selection? There were a lot of suede influences in the collection. Well, I love anything cowboy really. I&amp;#039;m a true western girl at heart. There is this one dress that is a little bit &amp;#039;60s but also truly western in terms of the material. It&amp;#039;s kind of a burnt orange suede &amp;#039;60s cut, and we found a piece of Victorian lace at Portobello Market that we wanted to mirror. There is also a vest with a bit of a Tibetan influence. It was inspired by a vest I saw at Portobello Market. We thought it would be an unexpected yet chic festival piece that people will hopefully enjoy. What other pieces are standouts? We have the perfect distressed denim shorts, which I obviously love. I like wearing denim, so that&amp;#039;s a big part of the collection as well. There&amp;#039;s the perfect [acid wash] denim jacket and a denim dress with a lace-up back. When it comes to the shirts and the jackets, I like things a bit oversized, so there&amp;#039;s sort of the boyfriend feel. I also like a &amp;#039;90s feel. Are the pieces meant to be retro or modern? We were interested in playing with length, and sort of what felt modern at the moment. I love anything that is a midi cut, so we did do long and midi, but the shorts are obviously shorter. There&amp;#039;s this Victorian dress, which I love sort of grunge-ing up a bit. It&amp;#039;s very pretty on its own, but there is something I love about tying a plaid shirt around the waist and wearing substantial boots. Do you have a favorite pick? That&amp;#039;s a hard one. I love the suede, and I do love the vest only because I don&amp;#039;t see that out there at the moment. So I was excited about that discovery.  Why do the pieces you selected work for a festival? I love that they are very comfortable and quite effortless, which was very much a part of what I was thinking of when we were coming up with the collection. You want it to just feel like you can put it on, go out, and feel great about what you are in. That was very much how we made the collection.  Would you ever design your own collection? Yes I would. Obviously I&amp;#039;ve been incredibly fortunate to work with this team, and I&amp;#039;ve been learning a tremendous amount from them. Any project I am a part of I am very much aware of the fact that it is important to understand your craft and have a talented, bright team around you. How would you go about designing it? It&amp;#039;s an instinctual process really. This project with Topshop was just about thinking about the things that I would want to wear, so I think it would start there. I would pick a season and figure out what the main views are of the collection, and I would probably start quite small.  Photo: Michael Polish  Photo: Michael Polish "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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