Indholdsfortegnelse for March 2022 i Vogue Australia

Although closed borders have kept me away from Paris and fashion shows, one of the gifts of this disruptive period has been the regular global editors’ meetings on Zoom. These get-togethers were once seasonal during the Paris shows twice per year, and are now usually monthly, albeit often at 1am for me, thanks to time zones. I love these meetings because they spawn the creative ideas that unite Vogue globally around a common theme or purpose, which I have found go on to become our most successful issues. Regular readers will remember our hope-themed September issue in 2020 which, for Vogue Australia, resulted in the publication of Betty Muffler’s powerful artwork Ngangkaṟi Ngura ( Healing Country ) on our cover. This March, we celebrate every body. Rules and restrictions are…

I was diagnosed in August of 2017. I was having a shower and felt a massive ball under my left armpit. I was getting ready to go to the movies but it just kept playing on my mind. That night, I got home at midnight and texted a friend who’s a doctor. She knew straight away what it was but didn’t want to say, so told me: “Go to your GP in the morning.” We did a scan biopsy and it was an eight-by-five-centimetre cancer that went across the chest and under the arm. I got referred straight to the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse where my scans and results went across to another doctor. She diagnosed me with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, aggressive stage four. So a hardcore cancer. She told me we’d…

WHAT A WAIST Buying from a dedicated corset label committed to proper construction means finding one that is less likely to dig, chafe or confine. Look for stretch fabrics, flexible modern versions of boning and generous lacing, leaving room to move. 1. UMORE. Georgia Chambers, founder of London-based Umore, set out to make versatile corsets that work for every day and evening. Her velvet, satin and bouclé crafted pieces can also be custom-ordered. 2. ALL IS A GENTLE SPRING. Melbourne-based Isabelle Hellyer makes small runs of her corsets in found and upcycled fabrics for her seasonless label. 3. ALICE PONS. Italian corsetmaker Alice Pons creates in a rainbow of satins and decadent brocades, laced-up for easy sizing.…

FINAL CUT If cut-outs seem intimidating, design details like subtle slashes, showing one shoulder, or done down a covered arm are about just a hint of skin. Seduction comes in myriad ways. ALL CLEAR Whisper-thin, gauzy fabrics can be as risqué or modest as you wish. From fibres like fine-gauge muslin, or layered organza that coyly hints at what lies beneath to overblown netted macramé that leaves little to the imagination, dial up and down the sultry at will. EDITOR’S TIP “When choosing the right under garments, steer away from anything too sporty that can take away from the simple elegance of a sheer top.” – Harriet Crawford, junior fashion and market editor. Shop Vogue’s edit. Scan the QR code to access the best of the trend, as selected by…

Mirror, mirror A most hypnotic reflection: Chanel’s minaudière is a trophy piece to treasure forever. Shining moment Being laden in bejewelled Cartier precious metals needn’t be reserved for night, as Bailey Donegal proves. “I don’t normally wear a lot of jewellery, but when I do, it’s a statement piece – something that brings the outfit together,” says the Sydney-based model. The 27-year-old is set to shine herself as a rising star signed to the mould-breaking modelling agency Stonestreet, which champions equal representation and street casting – Donegal was scouted by the agency on Instagram. Go gold or go home Trip the light fantastic in Balenciaga’s knee-high boots that, though dance floor-approved, lend a brave brand of gloss to a daytime wardrobe.…

Who: Michael Halpern, the New York-born fashion designer of label Halpern. Where: A converted brewery space in Clerkenwell, London. What: A modern apartment decorated with sentimental furniture and artwork. EVERY MAKER OF beautiful things needs a quiet space to gather their energy, and for Michael Halpern – a designer whose evening-skewed pieces encapsulate boldness and eccentricity – his sun-lit apartment in a converted central London brewery fits the brief. “I lived in Tribeca in NYC [before London], so being surrounded by old factory buildings that have been ‘rehabbed’ back to life makes me feel very comfortable,” the 33-year-old creative says. Halpern has filled the space with pieces that highlight both his eclectic eye and frequent pre-pandemic travels. A vintage Scandinavian sideboard anchors the living room and above hang Russian Orthodox…

Bees are very significant in the world of Bridgerton. In the second season of this sexy, swoony, succulent Netflix series – so wildly popular more than 82 million people churned through it the minute it was first released on, you gotta hand it to them, Christmas Day 2020 – a bee is the first thing that you see, buzzing along the blossom-lined streets of Regency-era London. Bees are embroidered onto shirt collars; a bee sting is the means by which the family patriarch prematurely shuffled off this mortal coil. Or so believes eldest son Anthony (Jonathan Bailey), a soprano-wooing rake in season one and, now, levelling up to bona fide leading man status in Bridgerton’s sophomore offering. There are also bees in a pearl-clutching moment in the second Bridgerton book…

AUSTRALIAN-BORN AND Los Angeles-based beauty entrepreneur Neada Deters turns to her reading list whenever she wants to think critically about bodies and beauty. Here, she shares seven of her favourite titles, both fiction and non-fiction, to inspire us all to think more about the skin we’re in. 1. TRICK MIRROR: REFLECTIONS ON SELF-DELUSION BY JIA TOLENTINO “An acute examination of our perceptions – and distortions – of self, beauty and reality. A collection of essays for the modern age.” 2. THE BODY KEEPS THE SCORE BY BESSEL VAN DER KOLK “We contain multitudes and store trauma. That is the compassionate and pragmatic take that trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk provides in this book on how to understand trauma and then move beyond it.” 3. THICK: AND OTHER ESSAYS BY…

In A Great Hope, three women mourn the death of John Clare, fictional titan of the Labor party and trade union leader. Grace, immaculate but spiky, has lost her husband. Sophie, a loudmouthed blogger on the nascent internet, has lost her father. And Tessa – bright, beautiful, alone – has lost her lover. “Sophie was the most fun to write, and Tessa is probably the most like me, and Grace is probably the one that I loved the most,” shares author Jessica Stanley, on the phone from London where she has lived for the past decade, a period of time during which she worked, on and off, on her debut novel. “Grace was flawed and imperfect but in the end I felt a real love for her.” Each of these…

Second act A touch of shimmer need not steal the show. Accessorise with delicate, reflective trimmings that dance in the light. Along the dotted line Your part line is real estate for some well-placed accoutrements. Keep it understated with matt skin and brushed up (or bleached) brows. Starry nights The gateway to glitter is metallic. Coat the lids in your favourite iridescent hue, and for bonus points, trace some celestial motifs. Connect the dots There’s no playbook here. To keep pearl embellishments in place, dot them with eyelash glue and affix to the lids wherever you fancy. Eyes on the prize Opposing textures – fluffy brows, matt eyeshadow, and 3D flourishes – surprise and delight in the best way possible. Softly, softly While OTT sparkle shouts glam, low-sheen pigments paired…

SLOW BURN It may be one of the simplest aspects of our workout routine, but adequate recovery after a sweat session is still often hurried or overlooked altogether. The purpose of winding down is simple: sufficient time between workouts that ‘stress’ the body allows our muscles time to repair, and in turn, improves performance. Immediate recovery tools like stretching (extra points for foam rolling) and ice baths post-workout help in the short term, while building in rest days and clocking enough sleep each night replenishes your energy reserves. HOME ADVANTAGE If you thought spin phenomenon Peloton was bougie, Dior x Technogym’s limited edition fitness collab has raised the bar when it comes to home-gym offerings. Exclusive to select Dior stores globally (and available by order from Australia), the French house…

The Spa at One&Only Mandarina RIVIERA NAYARIT, MEXICO Among the impressive nods to low-impact architecture at One&Only’s Pacific Coast location is the layout of its 2,510-square-metre spa, which was designed around a large white fig tree. Like the rest of the property’s 105 freestanding villas that have been built into the bluffs or sit above the tree canopy on stilts, the spa, which is situated in a volcanic rock garden, follows the natural landscape utilising local clay, cumaru wood and stone extracted from the site itself. Much of its menu has been designed in homage to the healing traditions of the area’s indigenous Cora and Huichol cultures, including its main attraction: a traditional temazcal. The Mayan sweat lodge combines medicinal herbs, heat, steam and copal incense to stimulate detoxification, heal…

The body is back. That’s the news from the spring/summer 2022 runways – all that skin hidden away by lockdown tracksuits has been re-exposed, with legs stretching out beneath minis at Dior, navels winking above low-slung waistbands at Miu Miu and miles of midriff revealed by bras, crop tops and peekaboo cut-outs spotted everywhere from Loewe to Michael Kors. Transparency is a theme; so too fabrics that cling to every curve, and tailored ensembles enunciating a robust hourglass silhouette. Designed at a moment when it seemed society might be putting Covid in the rear-view mirror, these collections feel optimistic: go out and play, they say. Show yourself. In some ways, this is a standard fashion move. The last time catwalks united in proposing what are often referred to as ‘bodycon’…

Strewn with dusty-pink roses, the set of Lancôme’s virtual Golden Suite experience – held in celebration of its Absolue skincare range – provided a glamorous welcome for guests who tuned in from home. The event, live streamed over six nights, invited beauty fans to indulge in some much-deserved self-care as they emerged into the wider world. Hosts, beauty writer Gemma Watts, food writer and MasterChef Australia judge Melissa Leong, Vogue’s senior beauty and health editor Remy Rippon, and Lancôme’s director of artistry Lara Srokowski, led the event, which included a guided facial, live music and Q&A. An Absolue Golden Luxury Set was also sent to participants so they could enact what they had learned in their own time.…

PISCES 19 February-20 March That extra buzz you may feel this month is the New Moon in your sign, jump-starting your enthusiasm for life. With Venus and Mars connecting in a rare cosmic embrace, it may be possible to make the impossible happen now when it comes to love. The Sun and Mercury also offer opportunities to be upfront about what you want. STYLE ICON: Lupita Nyong’o ARIES 21 March-20 April Trust your intuition now as a New Moon sets the scene for the unexpected. A friendship could become something more when your ruler Mars connects to Venus, and use this month to take extra care of health. Plans you’ve been contemplating can be unleashed now with Mercury making you extra eloquent, entertaining and informative. STYLE ICON: Rooney Mara TAURUS…

It is rare for a person to become a myth in their own lifetime, and yet it seems to me that André Leon Talley’s magic emerged near fully formed at the dawn of his life, and is certain to remain undimmed long after the sad news of his passing reached us in late January. It would be hard to overstate what the power and presence of the esteemed Vogue editor meant to so many. A boy brought up in North Carolina, he rose from the heartland of Black America in the 1950s to become an editor and keystone at American Vogue for some 30 years, as well as sage style consul to some of the most important designers of the 20th and 21st centuries. To me, he will forever be…

CROSS THE DIVIDE As a transeasonal piece, work it layered under longer coats for cooler days, or with arms and legs on show for lingering bursts of summer weather. EDITOR’S TIP “Much of the trend stems from structured modish version of the short shift dress, but if you feel more comfortable with room around the legs and hips, try an A-line or trapeze silhouette, which flares out and flatters.” – Alice Birrell, fashion features director. Shop Vogue’s edit. Scan the QR code using your phone to access the best of the trend, as selected by the Vogue editors.…

1. “My favourite outdoor garden space in New York is Elizabeth Street Garden; it’s such a special place. I’m sad to hear they’re losing the battle with the city to stay open. During our autumn/ winter ’20/’21 collection, we used grass for the set and replanted it there after the show.” 2. “I’m very into [New York-based artist] Stephanie Temma Hier. Her mixture of sculpture and paintings is so beautiful and feels very now.” 3. “I’m artistically inspired by anything [German artist] Katharina Grosse does. The way she uses colour is a huge inspiration in my work.” 4. “Designer, writer and advocate Céline Semaan deserves way more mainstream attention. The amount of work she puts into the cause is tremendous, and she does her research.” 5. “I have always wanted…

“WHEN I DECIDED to use deadstock leather, I knew I had to find a way to make the most of it,” says the founder of upcycled handbag label Reco, Bea Recoder, who tessellates offcuts in oversized diamond patterns to create her butter-soft bags. Cutting her teeth at labels including Paco Rabanne and Balenciaga, the Paris-based designer would visit European factories where she noticed a surplus of discarded high-quality leather, so she put it to use. The result are pillowy creations in paintbox brights that meld undulating shapes with striking geometry. Launching in 2020 during the pandemic, she has built the label despite the odds. “We don’t go out that much, so we don’t need so many things,” she says pointing to a desire to invest in pieces with purpose. “This…

It’s not so much his height but the way he carries it, gracefully and a little delicately, as if he’s learned to move carefully through space. And it turns out that Kodi Smit-McPhee – who is probably the most exciting young actor to come out of this awards season – actually has. He’s had to. He suffers from a condition called ankylosing spondylitis, an autoimmune disease that irreversibly affects the spine and joints. It means that Smit-McPhee, who is 188 centimetres, slender as a reed, and dressed in a soft mohair Song for the Mute jacket on the morning I meet him, lives with pain, sometimes a lot of it. “It’s something I’ve tried not to talk about,” Smit-McPhee says over cappuccino in Manhattan. “Because I didn’t think it represented…

Jillian Nguyen is the sort of woman you want on your team. Early last year the Melbourne actor read the script for the upcoming ABC TV series Barons , a dramatisation of the 1970s mateshipturned-bitter-rivalry behind the founding of billion-dollar surf brands Billabong and Quicksilver. Key to the series is the lead role of Tracy, wife to Sean Keenan’s ‘Trotter’, a fictional young couple inspired by Billabong founders Gordon and Rena Merchant. Nguyen was immediately drawn to the role of this smart, creative woman. There was just one problem. “I thought Tracy would have to be blonde, like the Elle Macpherson idea of Australia,” says Nguyen. Not only is Nguyen not blonde, she is Vietnamese-Australian of Chinese heritage, and not necessarily what the producers had in mind. Director Shawn Seet…

ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL AND REPUTATION BY SARAH VAUGHAN. “She used to be a political correspondent at the Guardian. A lot of people when talking about politics get it wrong, but she knows her shit.” AMERICAN WIFE BY CURTIS SITTENFELD. “A kind woman marries a charming Republican and their marriage survives him becoming President.” DAMAGE BY JOSEPHINE HART. “An MP ruins his life for obsessive love. Slim, compelling, full of dread.” THE LINE OF BEAUTY BY ALAN HOLLINGHURST. “Beautiful gay aesthete Nick Guest comes of age in a Tory MP’s house during the AIDS crisis of the Thatcher years.” *FIND OUT MORE AT VOGUEVIP.COM.AU. TERMS & CONDITIONS APPLY…

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1. VERSO BODY PEEL, $93. Your skin from the neck down can benefit from gentle weekly exfoliation. This one is as simple as it gets: massage a dollop onto wet arms and legs before rinsing in the shower after three minutes. 2. EMMA LEWISHAM ILLUMINATING BODY OIL, $88. Proof your body deserves the same nourishing ingredients as your face, this ultra-hydrating oil can be applied from top to toe. 3. DIOR CICA SKIN RECOVER BALM FACE & BODY, $85. Loaded with calming chamomile, this intense multi-use balm will curb dryness. Plus it’s suitable for sensitive skin.…

Lorde is apologising. She is a full 60 seconds late to our Zoom call and, as she appears on screen, she fixes a delicate gold knot onto her remaining bare ear. “I’m just putting my earrings in for you,” she says with mock seriousness in her distinct, but not thick, New Zealand accent. Unlike a friend lazily logging on to a video call, the small acts of courtesy are disarming, not least because they are coming from a multi-Grammy award-winning pop star. She’s just returned home to Auckland from North America to “get all the rest and sun that I can”, before her 2022 global tour kicks off in April. Bare-faced, long brown hair raked back, wearing a tobacco-brown spaghetti-strap dress with curb-chain necklace, a summer breeze is rippling a…

The 21st century has already toppled plenty of taboo topics. Women have roared and sought retribution on many fronts. Yet there is still one to be tackled out loud. It’s not periods. Happily, we have swapped red ink for blue and euphemisms like “that time of the month” for menstruation. The M word – menopause – is also finally being spoken about openly not only by women, but entrepreneurs and investors pouring millions into apps, wearables, supplements, beauty products, sexual wellness tools and telehealth startups designed to support our second act. Menopause is being rebranded as natural, healthy and lucrative as 1.1 billion women globally are expected to be postmenopausal by 2025, creating a $600 billion market opportunity, according to data from US-based early stage investing fund Female Founders Fund.…

Fulvia Farolfi “Our aim was to do something that [had not been] done before on Lorde,” shares celebrated make-up artist Fulvia Farolfi of the motivation behind the beauty look she created for the cover of this issue, which was captured at Pier 59 Studios in New York City. “We decided to try a new look for her; [a] sun-kissed face and body. Lorde was thrilled to try it, and she loved the make-up,” remembers the artist, whose last collaboration with Vogue Australia was for our February 2019 cover starring Lily-Rose Depp. “I particularly enjoyed witnessing how beautifully she moved and danced in front of the camera,” she adds of Lorde’s cover shoot. Gary Bigeni After undergoing an onslaught of treatment for an aggressive form of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Australian fashion designer…

JEAN-IUS With a dizzying array of cuts increasingly on offer – even within the same style – finding well-fitting denim calls for style savvy. Seek labels approaching jeans like tailors, making-to-order using your measurements like a bespoke suit. Try Rannia Al-Salihi and Supriya Dixit’s label First Principles who make-to-measure in Japanese denim. Al-Salihi says the key is knowing how to accentuate your best asset. “Everyone has that enviable aspect of their body that’s worth celebrating, and there is no exception when it comes to finding the right pair of jeans,” she says. Her tip for nailing the baggy trend? “Make sure the waist, hips and rise fit perfectly, then focus on the legs.” It’s in line with the approach of Dejour Jeans, which has been making Melbournians custom-made, affordably priced…

FORM FIT No other technique of garment construction communicates freedom more aptly, so select a look to suit your style – be it covering up, or showing off. FOR MODEST DRESSING: Alongside Roksanda and Loewe, Balmain dreamt up pieces with head coverings that melded seamlessly with the outfit. A high-impact head-to-toe take on the trend. TO SHOW-OFF LEGS: Fendi’s liquid gold minidress has a surplus of fabric up top, which provides a point of contrast when working with a short hemline; one is balanced by the other and works to accentuate bare legs. TO FOCUS ON SHOULDERS: Saint Laurent’s expertly draped bodysuit in electric blue draws a visual line up and down, creating height illusion and showing off the collarbones and shoulders. TO ACCENTUATE THE HIPS: Draped fabric that sits…

Toned up Playing with complementary hues has subtle but impactful visual effect. The smart way to layer them is to pick a quarter of the colour wheel and work within it, as in the offbeat charm of blush pink with lipstick red. Hue’s talking The rule for head-to-toe colour? Go loud, banishing watery shades with high-pigment brights, like this banana-yellow mini-dress offset with an accent accessory in a contrasting crayon bright. Bright night It doesn’t matter which part of the spectrum you choose from, opting into high-saturated colour for evening is a mood boost that can’t be achieved in sober black. What says ready-to-dance more than feather-trimmed bubble-gum blue? Opposites attract No need to rehash art theory to know that opposites bring each other to life. Take your cues from…

Daniel Roseberry, sitting in the sunlit atelier of Schiaparelli in Place Vendome, is in the hive of French fashion royalty. As the house’s current creative director, it would be easy for him to be consumed by the epic history that surrounds him, created by the maison’s founder Elsa Schiaparelli, and in particular be overwhelmed by her surrealist collaborations. The trick, however, has been to tread lightly through it all. “Every season is sort of like taking a little piece … A little goes a long way, especially with surrealism from the 1930s. It’s such a unique, identifiable aesthetic and period, so I think we try and wear it lightly,” Roseberry explains. “There’s always one reference from Elsa’s world that comes forward at the beginning of each season and announces itself…

VOGUE AUSTRALIA: Did you always want to be a journalist? How did your career first materialise? MADISON LAWSON: “I’ve always been a consumer of fashion magazines – I would read Cosmopolitan like it was my bible. I remember thinking: ‘I wish so badly that the stories in these pages would be written for women like me.’ Even though I’m a woman and there are a lot of things I relate to, there wasn’t any advice for disabled women … I realised that so much of the way society perceives people with disabilities is written with an able-bodied view, because we’re not really featured in places where we’re normalised. Fashion is saying who you are without having to speak. The way people look at me when I’m dressed up and have…

“THE ALLURE OF a graphic stripe is one that never dates, and recently, designers and artists are going even bolder. Look to this collection of art and design pieces to liven up your space and create a sense of playful optimism.” Band together “Mixing stripes of varying scale, colour and width create a fun tension in the same space. Try working to a one, three, five rule here: one being a statement piece, five for wild impact and three sitting somewhere in between.”…

In 2020, the world fundamentally changed. At the start of the year we experienced catastrophic bushfires that burned an estimated 18.6 million hectares of Australia and killed three billion animals. The global Covid-19 pandemic radically altered the way we live our lives driving lockdowns and border closures across the globe. And we also saw a flood of grief around the world through the Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man killed by police in Minneapolis. Gold Coast-based creative Hannah Brontë, a DJ, doula and video artist, created her work Umma’s Tongue – molten at 6000° (often shortened to Umma) at a time before the year that changed everything. Umma was dreamt up in 2017, a post-apocalyptic music video that takes place in a…

Nicole Jackson is a young professional woman who rents her apartment in the inner-Sydney suburb of Glebe and works at the local Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre, a job she finds stimulating and satisfying. In the past 18 months, however, she has noticed one topic dominating the conversation whenever she catches up with her friends. She calls it ‘food insecurity’. “Money is the number one thing that worries me and that’s the conversation I have with all my female friends. And we still make less than our male counterparts,” the 35-year-old says. “A lot of my friends are talking about the fact they can’t afford to eat as healthily as they would like and are making bad food choices, not because they want to, but because a $5 Domino’s pizza is cheaper.…

OF ANOTHER ERA All hail the 1990s, or so the backstage set seemed to be saying with the of-another-era hair and beauty cues sent down the runways. At Stella McCartney, hairstylists dusted off the hot irons to create the poker-straight strands of decades-past, while at Chanel, models’ tresses were styled either long and straight, or into another 90s throwback: a shoulder-grazing bob. Where make-up was concerned, 90s fever was echoed in Dolce & Gabbana’s elegant smoky eye, Coach’s muted choc-berry lip, and the lashings of lip gloss (and body glitter!) at Blumarine. RETURN OF THE MAXIMALIST For all its theatre and playfulness, there was also a practical reason maximalist beauty was befitting of the moment: the bolder the look, the better it translated through a screen, as many designers dealt…

It’s 4.30am and you’re staring at the ceiling again. Although you’re exhausted, sleep is elusive as your thoughts spiral and scatter. You don’t need to be a neuroscientist to understand the negative effects that pandemic-induced ennui is having on your brain. Poor concentration, disturbed rest and a lack of focus are the cues you likely know all too well. Where science can help, though, is by offering tangible evidence of not only why you’re feeling 100 years old, but how you can make meaningful change to your mood and your mind for the long term. While the mysterious brain might be the last frontier of health and wellbeing, experts are unearthing the essential tools that can remodel your mind, and they’re more accessible than you might expect. Take mindfulness as…

Originally from Berlin, Brooklyn-based Sophie Kietzmann’s optimistic and honest portraiture-style has seen them contribute to Vogue Italia, Glamour and digital project Girl Gaze among others. The central thread in their work is a desire to capture each subject’s true individuality, rather than imposing outward ideas of beauty. Kietzmann’s capture, opposite, of New York-based model Reese at Rockaway Beach reflects this ethos, saying: “[It] reminds me of the intimacy we experience within our own bodies when the noise of our surroundings and society fade away … The times when we allow ourselves to look inward for that feeling of comfort, safety and love rather than seeking it externally.” Through wide-ranging subjects – from Bri Scalesse, who models with a disability, to capturing Jeyźa Gary as the first model with ichthyosis for…

It’s 4am and I’m standing in the frosty air of winter in Manhattan. I have been standing here for two hours. The cold has soaked through my layers of clothes and into my bones. It starts to rain. I am here because I am covering the Ghislaine Maxwell trial – the criminal trial in which Maxwell, the former girlfriend and right-hand woman of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, was found guilty of five out of six charges, including sex trafficking of minor girls. I am here because for some reason that is entirely beyond me, they only allow four reporters in the actual courtroom each day for the Maxwell trial, and the only way to get one of those four spots is to get in line at 2am. There is…

Best boutique: “Citizen Nomade in Byron has the best selection of clothes to layer and mix.” Place to stay: “The Atlantic Byron Bay is always gorgeous; you feel at home the minute you arrive and you’re right in town.” Getting around: “If you’re in [Byron] town, electric bikes are brilliant, on the roads and on the beach.” People-watching: “Bayleaf Cafe in town always has a great mix of people milling around ranging from interesting-looking locals to holiday-makers.” Under-the-radar spot: “Killen Falls, south of Byron towards Tintenbar, is stunning. You often see little long-nosed turtles there.” Best memory: “Seeing dolphins at Tallow Beach and surfing the first time I visited Byron 20 years ago.” Slice of nature: “Broken Head Beach is my favourite spot; you can walk south over the headland…

IT ALL STARTED WHEN ... Louis Vuitton creative director Nicolas Ghesquière debuted the Twist insignia, a futuristic, angular take on the interlinked ‘LV’ logo, in 2014, as part of his forward-looking direction for the label. As a purveyor of the avant-garde, Ghesquière is known for bringing a modern energy to the historic maison, reinterpreting its leatherwear with his trademark eccentricity. So, while this colourful chain bag makes for the ideal accomplice on a night out clutched under the elbow, the emblem burnished in metal ensures its timeless status. The perfect wardrobe building block, with a colourful twist.…