Indholdsfortegnelse for February 2021 i Vogue Australia

HOME WORK Hermès’s value proposition is unmatched here in a cocoon coat that encapsulates the comfort habituated at home, in the softest of cashmere, but with clean lines for fronting up to the office. CLOCK ON Investment pieces go beyond clothing, and an assertive timepiece in classic gold straddles work and home spheres with ease. Omega’s molten De Ville Trésor is the ticket, and when you no longer need to watch the clock, it is elegant enough to stay on wrists 24/7. WORK LIFE BALANCE Denim? Not de rigueur for professional environs, that is until Chanel says so. In artfully daubed jeans, paired with a timeless tweed jacket, it’s all the permission we need, while doing double duty come weekends. TALK SHOP A shopping tote that fits a laptop, a…

WIDE PLAY What do we hold dear in an outfit in 2021? Liveability, room to move – that feels like a given – but we’ll need some smart attire as we get on with things. Enter the loose suit: blown up, but thought out. SKIRTS SO GOOD Clothing with a feminine strength can be cleaved to in uncertain times – think of it as feel-good armour. The skirt suit with a nipped waist here, a cropped jacket there, means business with beauty. SWATCH THIS Chromatics came out in force this season starting with subdued neutrals, charting all the way to jewel tones and pepped-up pigment guaranteed to supercharge the inner optimist. Designers know we need it. SPUN OUT It’s no stretch to say clothing can step in for support and…

GIVING BACK SHOULD be perennially in fashion, something creative Virgil Abloh knows. As men’s artistic director at Louis Vuitton, he designed the house’s current unisex Silver Lockit bracelet, from which a portion of sales money goes directly to UNICEF to support the most vulnerable children around the world, reimagining the five-year-old initiative in his own signature style. A year on from its unveiling, there has never been a more imperative time to invest in fashion that gives back – children already facing hardships like conflict and persecution pre-pandemic are continuing to face the threat of Covid-19. The padlock symbol, as dreamt up by Georges Vuitton in 1890, is one of promise, bringing new meaning to wearing your heart on your sleeve. ROUND AGAIN Cult Danish designer Cecilie Bahnsen, unrivalled in…

TIMELINES TEND TO go askew for Rachel Zegler. “I remember sending an email to the head of admissions at Montclair State University saying: ‘I know this sounds like a lie, but this is what happened, and this is why I can’t attend.’” “What happened” was that the 19-year-old singer and actor, then a musical theatre-obsessed high school student, was cast as Maria in Steven Spielberg’s revision of West Side Story . A year earlier, in January 2018, Zegler’s friend Makena Reynolds had shared a casting-call tweet along with a “thank me when you’re famous” quip. That night, Zegler submitted a homemade video of I Feel Pretty – or, as Zegler expressed it, Me Siento Bonita . Within weeks she was auditioning. Study has been put on hold, and so too…

IF SOMEONE WERE to ask you how old you are, without telling them how old you are and using only beauty references, what would be your answer? Did you come of age in the optimistic noughties? With Lancôme Juicy Tubes, Tommy Hilfiger Tommy Girl, glitter gel, Biore pore strips, coloured hair mascara and T.N Dickinson Witch Hazel Toner? Or are you a Gen-Xer with fond memories of Revlon Charlie, Coppertone tanner, Sun In, L’Oréal Studio hair gel (with the Mondrian packaging), Bonne Bell Ten-O-Six toner and The Body Shop’s fuzzy peach range? Perhaps your answer would feature Ponds Cold Cream, Maybelline’s frosted eyeshadows and Max Factor blush? Like fashion, beauty is a marker of time; we can tell a lot about what is going on in the world through beauty…

1. ”Since becoming a mum, it’s not necessarily the beauty products that have changed, it’s more the efficiency of my routine. I’ll take a shower at night and use John Frieda Dream Curls Curl Defining Crème on my hair – which I’ve been using it since I was 15 – and let my hair air dry. When I come out of the shower I use St. Tropez Self Tan Express Bronzing Mousse. A little tip I actually learnt when I was shooting the commercial is to use St. Tropez Self Tan Purity Bronzing Water Face Mist on your hands, your back and also your face, because it’s the perfect thing to use for places that feel awkward to get to with the mitt; it’s a game-changer. An hour later, I…

There has never been a new year quite like 2021. But then, there has never been a year like 2020. It was, to coin a phrase, practically biblical. Fires, plague and protests all culminated into a feeling of exhausted dread; as if by the end of 2020 we were slouching, not toward Bethlehem, but Hades. And just when we thought we could step, gingerly into 2021 with cautious optimism, along came the Covid clusters. A group in Sydney, another lot in Victoria, a handful in Queensland and Western Australia. And with them, the restrictions, border closures and threats of yet another lockdown. If we look around, it can feel like hope – both collectively and personally – has become elusive, like so much air throbbing its way out of a…

AQUARIUS 21 JANUARY–18 FEBRUARY You’re full of energy this month, and recent uncertainties are a thing of the past as you plot your course of action. You’re a magnet for love now, too. Money may be the only issue, so get your financial house in order and by March you’ll find that the theory of ‘enough is plenty’ will see you through the toughest of times. STYLE ICON: Shakira TAURUS 21 APRIL–21 MAY This month you’re an innovative mover and shaker at work, putting a fresh twist on bold ideas that didn’t make the cut first time around. Romance may be on hold, although if a work flirtation flares up be aware of boundaries. You could seem overenthusiastic now so push for what you want in life but be cool…

JADE HSU Sydney-based model Jade Hsu embodies the new season mood in a series of well-tailored styles from the likes of Celine, Chanel, Dior, Gucci and Prada for ‘Mixed business’, from page 30. “When I received the call, I was mildly in shock,” she says of the moment she found out she would be shooting with Vogue Australia for the very first time. Sharing just how much she enjoyed playing dress-ups on location in Sydney’s Centennial Parklands, Hsu adds: “It’s one of the coolest shoots I’ve ever done; I was super-thrilled to be a part of it.” HOLLY GIBSON “This experience was particularly special to me, as I have never had the opportunity to shoot for print, let alone for Vogue Australia – which has been a lifelong dream,” says…

‘DRESS FOR THE job you want, not the one you have’ – well, 2020 obliterated that maxim. What job does anyone want? Sadly, for some, with devastating widespread job loss a reality, any. For those lucky enough to have weathered the financial downturn, the way people work, and where they do it, has been drastically altered. We face a reconfiguration of roles previously well-defined, our understanding of the shape of modern work being negotiated in workplaces the world over. Now, do we work between two workplaces, home and office, do we have hybrid days – half home, then out for an afternoon meeting? Or, no desk at all; a recalibrated work-from-anywhere job? How on earth, then, to dress? It’s no flippant question. What women will wear for work in 2021…

1. “I love the young American artist Emma Kohlmann’s work. We recently bought one of her artworks. As for Danish talent, watch out for rising visual artist Esben Weile Kjær.” 2. “As the pandemic hit, we made the decision to downscale our collections by 50 per cent, which forced us to make a tighter edit. In the end I feel like we have a much stronger story to tell; more to the point.” 3. “Apart from always being dressed head-to-toe in Ganni, I am always wearing my jewellery from good friend and designer Sophie Bille Brahe. She creates the most magical and time-transcendent pieces.” 4. “Like everyone, I was blown away by Luca Guadagnino’s film Call Me by Your Name (2017). So it feels like Christmas came early with his…

“WORKOUTS ARE TYPICALLY one hour of your day – if that – and there’s another 23 hours where stuff can go AWOL. Mindfulness and finding balance so we can appreciate and navigate all the moments in life, not just the burpees, is one of the most important parts of training. Here are some apps that help keep me focused.” PODCASTS “I’m addicted to podcasts. I’ll listen to them on flights, runs, in the gym, on a walk, or a work commute. There are so many that sometimes it can feel overwhelming but I always try and choose different genres of information, educators and people of inspiration so I’m challenging myself to learn and think in all directions. Some of my absolute favourite podcasts to tune into are: Trained from Nike,…

CONSIDERING THE LACK of representation of different ethnicities and races on the books of Australian modelling agencies, it’s easy to assume there is just no talent to sign. Yet our country has produced some of the world’s biggest and most unique non-European models including Adut Akech, Fernanda Ly, Duckie Thot and Shanina Shaik. There are also other international successes who barely get a mention in Australian media, among them Filipino-Australian Miss Universe 2018, Catriona Gray, and Rosé from K-pop girl band Blackpink, who grew up in Melbourne and has more followers than Sia, Kylie Minogue and Iggy Azalea combined. What’s evident is that an ominous pattern remains at play with all of Australia’s talent of colour: every single person on that list had been denied access, acceptance and spaces to…

MAKEOVER YOUR MOOD Following a challenging 2020, it’s little wonder that we’re more tapped into our mood and temperament with technology than ever before. In 2021, the next iteration of wearable devices measuring key indicators of emotional shifts use biometrics such as voice, heart rate and temperature. Apple leads the focus on wellbeing with built-in sleep monitoring, heart-rate tracker, and the Breathe app embedded into its Apple Watch, while a host of other devices are also attempting to decode our feelings. Last year, Amazon announced it’s working on a fitness band called Halo fitted with a mini microphone that listens (à la Alexa) to the tone, intensity, rhythm and pitch of your voice throughout the day and classifies your emotional state at various ‘notable moments’ (descriptors include bored, apologetic, happy,…

During lockdown, I danced alone a lot,” recalls Camille Miceli, accessories creative director at Louis Vuitton, of the months she spent outside of social exchange. “I love to have friends with me, and not being free to do what I want gets on my nerves very easily.” If she wasn’t dancing with herself, then she was crouching in the one good wifi spot in a rented house in Cap Ferret, the chic beach town on the west coast of France, where, along with her husband Jérôme, she cobbled together group games of belote (a form of bridge) and Scrabble over Zoom. “My husband and I were playing with two other people. Scrabble was a mess.” Each player had their own IRL board and tiles, to create a consistent game across…

GROWING UP IT was instilled in us that no matter what happens in life – good bad or indifferent – your family is always there for you and in return, you’re always there for your sisters. As a young girl I loved having that bond and close relationship with my family. My parents put trust in us to be ourselves and to be unique to our own personalities, setting the foundation from a young age that this is the way the Barty girls are. The best way to describe our childhood in Queensland was fun. It was a life spent playing outside. We had a nice age difference, too. Sara is five years older than me and Ali is three years, so we were always going through different phases: Sara…

1920: Berlin. Women did men’s jobs in wartime, demanding practical attire. 1952: active sports ensemble designed by Claire McCardell. 1987: suit by Donna Karan, who simplified getting dressed for work. 1990: Margaret Thatcher. Women at the top ensured the reign of the power suit. 2012: Phoebe Philo at Céline ushered in working minimalism. 2020: split-screen dressing for Zoom calls made us rethink dressing for professional life.…

A STRANGE THING happened the day Lorraine Tarabay was announced as the new chairman of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Sydney last July. She received congratulatory phone calls, emails and text messages from people all over Australia, but that wasn’t the unusual part. In some cases, the callers were in tears. “I had an incredible reaction on that day and in the days following, from people of different and diverse backgrounds telling me how inspirational they found my story, that finally a person of non-English speaking background had been accepted as chair of one of our leading cultural institutions,” she says. “They’re not used to seeing that and it gave them hope and inspiration with respect to themselves and their children. I think it represents a change in…

LUSTER (PAN MACMILLAN, $32.99) BY RAVEN LEILANI Stuck in an uninspiring job in publishing, Edie is a young black woman living in New York making poor choices in love. When she becomes involved with a middle-aged white man who is in an open marriage and is father to an adopted black daughter, things get complicated. OPEN WATER (PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE, $29.99) BY CALEB AZUMAH NELSON This debut novel from British-Ghanaian writer Caleb Azumah Nelson explores the relationship between two young black artists who fall in love after meeting in a South London pub. Not only a love story, Open Water examines the struggle they face living in a city that both celebrates them and discriminates against them. HOME BODY (SIMON & SCHUSTER, $24.99) BY…

CELL TURNOVER IS a big deal in beauty. The idea? When our skin is churning through skin cells efficiently – like it did when we were babies – our collagen stores increase, our skin tone is more uniform and overall, our skin feels pretty springy. These cells and how they function are also the reason Swiss skincare brand La Prairie has built its entire skincare philosophy and research on the lifework of Dr Paul Niehans, a pioneer in the area of cellular therapy. The latest formulation in the brand’s quest to supercharge cellular activity is Platinum Rare Haute-Rejuvenation Protocol. The game-changing formula softens the skin barrier so the active ingredients can boost the function of our skin cells via a host of intricate patent-pending processes. In short: it kickstarts the…

As celebrities, influencers and holidaymakers flocked to the New South Wales haven in Byron Bay to ride out the pandemic late last year, functional health coach Jason Gilbert found himself completely booked out. The 50-year-old, who has been described as a “human performance optimiser”, was inundated with wellness seekers wanting to press pause on ageing. Turning to science to look younger is nothing new. But the latest wave of anti-ageing therapies at the forefront of this movement go way past skin deep. Gilbert runs an exclusive clinic in Lennox Head, and also holds retreats in the hinterlands of Byron Bay that are designed to help people live younger for longer. Instead of massages and facials, these retreats can include infrared saunas, ice baths, fasting, oxygen therapy and breathwork. Back home,…