Indholdsfortegnelse for August 2019 i Vogue Australia

When Elle Macpherson featured on the cover of Vogue Australia’s 30th anniversary issue, Time magazine had just labelled the then 25-year-old ‘The Body’. It was 1989 and the crew, headed by photographer Graham Shearer, travelled to Western Australia to shoot on Broome’s Cable Beach and amid the surrounding bushland. The ensuing images were classic Elle: sun-kissed skin, windswept tresses and those long, long limbs. Fast-forward 30 years (yes, really) and it’s astounding just how little Elle has changed. She may be older and wiser but still has that body, and effortlessly owns the laidback tousled beach look like no other. The biggest difference today, of course, if that she’s now mum to two grown sons – Flynn, 21, and Cy, 16 – who are just as genetically blessed as their…

AROUND THE TIME I began writing Three Women – about the desire and love lives of three ordinary women across the United States – my friends and I were single and dating in New York, though dating is a strong word for what happens in New York, indeed in all large cities across the world. It was unravelling when men did not write back and then after a week texted the various iterations of: “u up?” Only slightly more than it was unravelling was how it intrigued me. Desire – our own and that of others – is at once all we think about and talk about, and also something we hold close and bury deep. I wanted to explore the nuance of that intersection. I began writing my book…

WHAT WAS ONCE passé will inevitably become popular again. Such is a truism in fashion that holds particular meaning in the legacy of hosiery. The undergarment, born of conservative necessity and thermal requirements, has gained a second wind, coming into its own this season as a legitimate fashion item. “After a season of showing skin, autumn/winter ’19/’20 is all about covering up. Modest statement pieces like maxi-skirts, pleated wide-leg trousers and colourful opaque tights take centre stage, to let bare legs hibernate for winter,” says Sasha Skoda, head of women’s category at luxury consignment store The RealReal, where pre-loved Gucci, Moschino and Valentino versions regularly sell out. In contrast to the gendered oppression in which hosiery is historically rooted, designers this season swung to the opposite extreme. Marine Serre, Sally…

If you’re tired of those fine lines around your eyes or on your forehead, you’re not alone. A recent study shows that more than 73 per cent of consumers surveyed expect to spend money on a physician-administered aesthetic treatment in the next 12 months. This rise in popularity of aesthetic treatments signals a change in the way people perceive treatments, lifting its taboo, to the extent that 82 per cent of consumers surveyed worldwide believe injectable treatments are socially acceptable. But before you book your cosmetic treatment, it’s important to first do your research. Take time to assess what you want to achieve (the actual look/ result) and find an aesthetic practitioner who is suitably registered, qualified and experienced to take you on your treatment journey. Once you’ve found a…

1. “I won’t leave the house without La Mer Moisturizing Soft Cream and Ultraceuticals Ultra UV Protective Daily Moisturiser – if there’s anything I’ve learnt working in beauty it’s that sunscreen is non-negotiable. Of an evening, I tend to rotate between Estée Lauder Advanced Night Repair and La Prairie Platinum Rare Cellular Night Elixir, depending on what my skin needs.” 2. “Mascara is so personal, and when you find your go-to you tend to stick to it. My absolute favourite mascara is Diorshow Iconic Overcurl – it delivers long lashes in one quick swipe.” 3. “Guerlain recently launched L’Essentiel foundation, which has fast become my new favourite for its velvet finish.” 4. “I tend to wear lipstick in the evening when I’m going out. I’ll reach for Chanel Rouge Coco…

WE’RE ALL GUILTY of it. Before you’ve even started your daily step count, you’ve probably checked and responded to your emails, scanned your news feed for the latest updates, mentally documented your to-do list and perused other people’s #Europeanholiday on a perpetual loop of Instagram stories. In 2019, being busy is a badge of honour. But our go, go, go attitude could actually be making us less productive. Experts are praising the benefits of taking time out to be idle – that is, a licence to be lazy – which not only recharges our mental batteries, but can also actually boost our productivity. “I feel like we’ve grown up in this culture where you’re supposed to have something to show for your time,” says Jenny Odell, artist and author of…

LEO 23 JULY – 23 AUGUST A new dawn, a new day and a new life sees you feeling good this month. A mind and body makeover could bring love your way or change the ground rules of a current relationship. Being on the same page with finances means discussing the practicalities of a big investment or emotional commitment is vital before making things official. STYLE ICON: Cara Delevingne SCORPIO 24 OCTOBER – 22 NOVEMBER Motivate your career mojo this month. Loving your job more could bring others into your orbit who also admire your work. It could even be time for a career change or to break out on your own, or potentially to connect with a crew that shares your values. As an added incentive, a work-related romance…

AKO KONDO While Australian Ballet principal artist Ako Kondo is no stranger to strength and beauty, she says she felt like Wonder Woman on the set of her first shoot for Vogue Australia (see page 144). “The experience with the team was incredible,” says Kondo of the feature inspired by her leading role in Sylvia . “It’s a special feeling to know [ Vogue has] an interest in the arts industry and what we do here at the Ballet.” As for her favourite part of the day, Kondo says it would have to be the moments that followed the application of clay to her body. “Once the clay was on, everyone’s energy on set escalated and we all were so excited.” FUYAO Beijing-based model Fuyao was scouted by Vogue Australia’s…

LAYER UP As winter persists, the leather shirtdress beckons. Whether layered over contrasting long sleeves or paired with a waist-cinching belt (the 80s throwback was the accessory du jour on the autumn/winter runways), the shirtdress presents diversity of styling in spades. SKIRT THE ISSUE Louis Vuitton returned the lesser-known skirt-suit to front of mind in butter-soft leather, pointing to its versatility and instant cool. This just-cropped-enough bomber and coordinating mini can be paired together or worn alone, allowing for easy layering that gives shape and sharp tailoring in one go. LEAN IN Streamlined silhouettes are reigning, with Bottega Veneta no exception. Usher in new elegance with the minimal leather dress. The unsung sartorial hero is most stylish when counterbalanced with statement pumps, which reimagine shape and bring nuance to maximise…

IN THE FASHION realm, taking up the mantle of creative director at an established name can seem an onerous task. Add to that the launching of the label’s clothing line, in which it has little to no track record, and you have a potentially daunting proposition. Sophie Holt, however, is imperturbable. As the newly appointed helmswoman (in the role for under a year) renewing the formerly flailing Oroton label, she is fittingly upfront in a position where stakes are high but creativity needs to flow. “With Oroton, they’d been in administration,” she offers quick off the mark, referring to the widely known period in which the company necessarily had to take the step in 2017 to combat falling sales. “We’ve really all taken a giant leap and we had to…

BY INTERNALISING TOO much, you lose perspective on the fashion world and ecosystem,” illuminates Raphaël Brisson, the 24-year-old senior designer and production director of shoe workshop Arpent Studio. Brisson founded the company – originally a sneaker label of the same name – with husband and art director Thomas Massias in Paris in 2016, but third-party requests for the pair’s design services gave rise to a new business idea: producing accessories and shoes for luxury brands to outsource. While in the past luxury brands would hire design studios to quietly and anonymously produce accessories for them in-house, the recent embracing of outsourced design foreshadowed Arpent Studio’s decisive evolution into freelance footwear design. The studio started with Palomo Spain’s spring/summer ’18 show and has also been commissioned by Area, GmbH and now…

1. “I absolutely loved the Oscar-winning film Roma (2018). The art direction in this film is incredible, as is the eye for detail. But the dog poo on the driveway drove me nuts, which no doubt was director Alfonso Cuarón’s intention!” 2. “I was in Marrakech last year and had the absolute privilege of visiting perfumer Serge Lutens’s home. It’s breathtaking and so incredibly inspiring, a maze of the most incredible spaces, and to stay there for just one night would be pure magic. I love that about Marrakech, that behind a nondescript wall in a medina can be an absolute paradise.” 3. “I always have a few books on the go at the same time, and recently I’ve been reading biographies by journalists. I have just finished Tina Brown’s…

YOU COULDN’T SAY that Monica Saunders-Weinberg had a typical childhood. As the youngest daughter of John Saunders, who co-founded Westfield with Frank Lowy in 1958, and his second wife Klara, her upbringing was more business matters than Barbies. “He was 56 when he had me, so we weren’t going to the park and playing on the swings,” she says with a smile. “Saturdays were spent going through shopping centres and checking the bathrooms.” But Saunders-Weinberg wasn’t what you’d call a typical heiress with a lack of substance, either. As she tells Vogue , her father arrived in Australia as a survivor of Nazi concentration camps – he had $20 in his pocket and a Hungarian/English dictionary with the word ‘impossible’ scribbled out. Together with Lowy (who also survived World War…

THERE ARE VERY few things in modern history that represent luxury more evocatively than a glass of champagne. It’s a signifier of celebration, glamour and, let’s face it, money. It represents a sensual journey that begins with the pop of a cork, the sparkling effervesce of the pour, the chink of glasses and that first sip – chilled, fresh fruitiness with just a kick of bitterness. Of course, there’s good champagne and bad champagne, but I’m talking about the best: Moët & Chandon, the centuries-old house that hails from the town of Épernay, in the heart of France’s Champagne region. This year is a significant year for Moët & Chandon, which rings in the 150th anniversary of its wildly popular brut champagne, Moët Impérial (the brand was actually founded more…

AS A CATCH-ALL TERM, clean beauty sounds simple enough, but dig a little deeper and the beauty industry’s latest phenomenon can be as complicated as it is intriguing. From the often contradictory terminology to the myriad ingredients flooding the clean beauty market, it’s little wonder we’re left scratching our heads. At a glance, the trend that started on our plates with the organic food movement has now flowed into our beauty cabinets via trimmed-down ingredients lists, sustainable packaging and innovative formulations that often claim to deliver the same beauty benefits as their synthetic counterparts. Like the food we stock in our fridge, what we choose to slather on our skin ultimately boils down to personal preference; it’s important to note that clean doesn’t necessarily equally efficient. But where to start…

PERFUME IS A WORLD of molecules and metaphors, magic and mavericks. Its success is owed as much to a command of language as to science. A brief to one of perfume’s ‘noses’ might read like this: “A perfume that smells like fresh cherry wood licked by a green-hot oxygen fire in a Balinese temple” (from Tom Ford); “A blossoming daffodil floating on an ocean of smoky Siberian snows” (Marc Jacobs); or: “A smell like the silks that have two colours in them, depending on the light” (Escada). Others might be much more generic: “Something extraordinary” (Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle’s Portrait of a Lady); or even: “If Coco Chanel were alive today, this is the perfume she would wear” (Chanel’s Coco Mademoiselle). When former L’Artisan Parfumeur creative director Pamela Roberts…

LEANDRA MEDINE WALKS into Spring Studios in New York dressed in a grey Henley top and a pair of loose, white trousers accessorised with conversation-starting jewellery. Like other fashion identities, seen mostly on Instagram feeds, she is minute in real life; an exotic blend of strong, angular features atop caramelly, sinewy limbs. Medine, who is best known for her blog Man Repeller, which she started in 2010 (but is more mega publishing platform these days), is a passionate powerhouse. It’s easy to be intimidated by the clear brilliance of her mind; the way sentences spark behind bright, intense eyes, before sliding fully formed and punctuated out into the world. But the 30-year-old is not here today to talk about her brand – she’s here to discuss carrying the BRCA1 gene…

NESTLED AGAINST THE foothills of the mountains that insulate Kyoto’s ancient valley from the outside world is a lush moss-festooned garden so soft on the eye it is like looking at green mist. If it weren’t for the painstakingly raked sand, the maples fanning out around the perimeter and the uncountable coins like a glittering carpet of sequins on the bottom of the pond, it could well be a film set. Instead it is one of a handful of places Swiss watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre is taking guests, including VIP clients, to celebrate its latest launches, and part of a concept spotlighting the maison’s know-how, which has been dubbed the Art of Precision. The parallels between seemingly disparate geographical locations – the pristine Vallée de Joux in the Swiss Jura Mountains, where…

Bag a winner A head-turning handbag is one of the most important fashion accessories you can invest in, so why not treat yourself to one of Marimekko’s premium bags? Sturdy and classically designed, these elegant pieces were created to last the test of time, which is a good thing, because styles like these are sure to be perennially in fashion. The range is available at www.marimekko.com. Watch this space The Breitling Navitimer has been one of the world’s most highly-regarded pilot’s watches for over 65 years, a reputation that keeps ticking along with the new Navitimer 1 Automatic 41, which combines the watch’s iconic design with refined contemporary features such as a clean three-hand dial and beaded bidirectional bezel, all housed in a stainless-steel case. Visit www.breitling.com. Dine in style…

AS VOGUE AUSTRALIA prepares to kick off its 60th anniversary celebrations with an archival exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in Canberra, we remember one of the our most iconic images. This portrait of Elle Macpherson, which will be on proud display as part of the highly anticipated NPG showcase, was shot in New York City by LA-based fashion photographer Andrew Macpherson for our March 1995 issue, and encapsulates the multi-hyphenate’s transcendent beauty. “Elle is so easy and professional to work with … any day with her is always a breeze,” recalls the photographer of the shoot. In the years since this portrait was taken, Macpherson has gone on to cement her place in the fashion industry. Now, as one of a series of home-grown names who have forged…

OF ALL THE conveniences afforded by the world we live in, there is one that has us particularly vexed. TED Talker and marketing professor Baba Shiv illustrated the issue with two groups of students in a famous study: one was given a plethora of tea flavours to choose from, the other a meagre few, before each group was tasked with solving puzzles. The group given fewer choices of tea were proficient puzzle-solvers, unencumbered by any doubt they had just made the wrong selection, while those faced with multiple sorts solved far fewer puzzles. Oh, options. We are all in a mire of fashion choices in 2019, standing in front of a tower of clothes, and the impulse is to turn away. With the abundance in front of us – Frills!…

Sophie Holt elects her personal top three from the debut collection. 1. CAMEL TRENCH “A cornerstone in everyone’s wardrobe, ours is made from beautiful Italian fabric with self-covered gold snaps that give it a modern edge.” 2. BURGUNDY STRIPE SHIRTDRESS “The stripe is sourced from a vintage fabric archive in London. The dress is light and floaty for over swim or can be worn with a black belt and sandals in the city.” 3. SILK CAMP SHIRT “I love the vintage feel of this easy camp shirt.”…

WHEN CLAIRE VAN der Boom’s agent called her to discuss an upcoming audition for a new film, the first thing the actor asked was: “Do they know I’m not a musician?” Reading the script from her home in Los Angeles, van der Boom realised she would be required to perform six songs on a guitar. “I called all of my musician friends and got them to help me as best they could,” she recalls. “I threw everything down and I was one of the last to be cast – but I got the gig.” The part was for the new drama-comedy Palm Beach, directed by Australian actress and director Rachel Ward and produced by her husband Bryan Brown and Deborah Balderstone. Van der Boom was determined to kill the audition…

THERE’S A LOT of easy laughter among Sarah Blasko, Sally Seltmann and Holly Throsby. The three members of indie/folk band Seeker Lover Keeper have met to discuss their new album and clearly enjoy a connection that runs deeper than musical simpatico. “We’re all at a similar points in our lives, so the record became something about the things we shared,” says Throsby of Wild Seeds, which comes eight years after their debut self-titled debut album hit number three on the Aria album chart. Seeker Lover Keeper formed back in 2007 during a late-night pub session when the artists – all fans of each other’s music and successful and respected solo performers in their own right – forged an intuitive kinship. “It always had to be a fun thing,” Throsby surmises…

IT SHOULD COME as no surprise that Presagen, an innovative artificial intelligence-based business, was born in Adelaide, like its co-founder Dr Michelle Perugini. South Australia’s history is filled with firsts. Notably, it was the first place in Australia to grant some women the right to vote in 1895, a full seven years before the right was extended federally. More recently, a government focus on sustainability and innovation has created more opportunity in the technology sphere. The state’s chief entrepreneur, Jim Whalley, is overseeing the creation of Lot 14, a new innovation hub in central Adelaide, and the brand-new Australian Space Agency is based in Adelaide, also home to several space-related start-ups. “We have a thriving innovation ecosystem here in South Australia,” says Perugini. “That includes an amazing talent pool in…

The compound: Bakuchiol The lowdown: When retinol burst onto the beauty scene as a mainstream ingredient last decade, it was considered the holy grail of skincare products. Who wouldn’t love an ingredient that addresses fine lines and wrinkles, overall skin texture and breakouts? Of course, it wouldn’t be long before formulators uncovered a natural equivalent. Enter bakuchiol. The antioxidant salve is extracted from the leaves of an Indian plant and has been lauded for its skin-brightening benefits. “Despite having no structural resemblance to retinoids, this botanical ingredient has been shown to act on the same genes in the skin to stimulate collagen production. It therefore functions as a potent anti-ageing compound,” says dermatologist Dr Cara McDonald, from Complete Skin Specialists. But don’t swap out your favourite retinol-spiked serum just yet.…

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We’ll have what she’s having, please. Elle Macpherson, in a swimsuit and low-slung Off-White track pants, is perched on the kitchen workbench extolling the virtues of a plant-based diet. “Greens, greens, greens,” she says with a grin, hamming it up for the cameras. But make no mistake: Macpherson takes these very seriously. Whether it’s her latest obsession, micro sprouts (she swears by her Miami sprout dealer), the raw vegetables she’s feeding into the juicer right now or the hero ingredients in her cult WelleCo Super Elixir, greens, she believes, are the secret to her vitality. Along with the hair, cheekbones and legs-for-days, she’s always had a rare incandescence. Thirty-seven years after she started modelling it’s undimmed. And just who, at age 55, has the waist she had at 18? It…

For the 150-year anniversary of Moët & Chandon’s brut drop Moët Impérial, 100-plus guests were invited to a spectacular candle-lit dinner in the vineyards below the recently renovated Château de Saran, the 19th-century country residence of Jean-Remy Moët, the grandson of the house’s founder. Among the guests were the likes of grand slam legend and brand ambassador Roger Federer, actors Natalie Portman and Uma Thurman, and models Kate Moss (looking a knock-out in a liquid-silk champagne-coloured jumpsuit) and Australia’s own Jessica Gomes. The sumptuous four-course meal was created by Michelin-starred chefs Yannick Alléno and Dominique Crenn and paired with an array of champagnes, including vintage drops and Impérial. Despite all the glamorous women in the room, LVMH bigwig Bernard Arnault seemed most star-struck by Federer, pronouncing him “elegance and perfection”…