4 Meet the Four-Year-Old Style Stealer

10 HOT STORIES of her son in cute outfits. Then she hit on the idea of ‘style hacking’ the look of male celebrities, using clothes from high-street stores such as H&M and Zara. ‘I didn’t think anyone would even look at it,’ she says. ‘I just did it to do something creative and hang out with my son. But it’s crazy – I get a couple of thousand new followers each day now.’ Ryker is now such an internet hit he gets recognised in their hometown of LA. ‘We’ll be in a restaurant and someone will go, “Look, it’s Mini Style Hacker!” But he’s like, “What are they talking about?”’ Judging by his perfect posing, Ryker seems a natural in front of the camera but Collette, who also has a one-year-old son called Grey, insists the pictures aren’t as effortless as they look. ‘He’s four, so I have to use my imagination and make it fun for him. Recently I needed him to sit on the kerb so I had to pretend we were looking Little Ryker Wixom pops for a rabbit down the drain in our backyard.’ a perfect pose, mirroring Does he know who he’s impersonating? ‘No male models in everything from on-trend gingham – he thinks the celebrities are copying him!’ says to cool shorts and shades. Collette. ‘I show him the blog and he’s like “Why But his pièce de résistance are all these people dressed like me?”’ has to be his celebrity With such a massive following, it’s no surprise style steals – check out Ryker has now been flooded with offers of his ‘Gosling goes for a modelling contracts – but Collette isn’t in a hurry hike’ look (far left) and his ‘Ryan Reynolds on a mini- to cash in on his fame. ‘We haven’t done break with Blake Lively’ anything yet. We’re not opposed to it – but I want (bottom right) this to be more than my kid being a model. I don’t want all the pressure to be on him. I’d like to do some kind of clothing line, or something fun.’ Having a boy, she says, makes it easier to copy star style. ‘There’s no way I could put my kid in something Rihanna was wearing – but I can put Ryker in something James Franco wears and it’s fine.’ But if it was down to him, who would he want to dress up as? ‘Just superheroes,’ laughs Collette. ‘He got his first suit custom-made for him recently. It’s grey so he calls it his Iron Man suit. Every day he has to open the closet just to look at it.’ 4 Meet the four-year-old style stealer... What’s more adorable than Ryan Gosling? Try a four-year-old boy stealing the star’s style and striking an identikit pose. Or how about a mini-me Ryan Reynolds? Well, meet Ryker Wixom, pretty much the cutest thing on the internet right now. He might be only four, but he’s already got 140,000 Instagram followers for his kooky take on celebrity style. Ryker’s mum Collette started the Mini Style Hacker blog back in mid-February, after some friends showed her pictures of fashionable kids on Instagram. ‘They all looked great – but they were in designer brands,’ she told Grazia last week. ‘I wanted to show people that you could do the same thing on a budget.’ At first, Collette, 32, just posted pictures Instagram: @ministylehacker Photos: www.ministylehacker.com, Thorp Clare Words: 31.

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