Indholdsfortegnelse for October 2023 i Vogue Australia

Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s edit of the best in suiting. Taupe tier Unexpected but perennial, tailoring in a tan tint provides a fresh approach to suiting when the weather calls for hues less heavy. Light coverage The dutiful trench coat is presented in lightweight variations for spring. Layer over a casually coded wardrobe to combat weather in flux. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s edit of the best of the trend. To have and hold From Ralph Lauren’s structured proposition to Balenciaga’s oversized tote, top-handle bags are a strapping way to go from here to there. Bold strokes The stiff formality associated with pinstripes gets a more comfortable makeover with languorous oversized cuts that allow for movement. Flat out Prada’s flowerappliqué slingbacks and Nensi Dojaka’s slinky…

Full circles Riffling off the grape’s circular form, designer Amalie Røge Hove’s aim was to give contemporary life to a beloved Georg Jensen classic. It’s why the brooch, with its undulating wave, can be worn anywhere. Says Hove: “A silver brooch can be on the hip or neck, or on your bag.” Or in the hair. Earrings, too, have a versatility; she imagines them adding sparkle to a rainy day. “Jewellery is really for everyday use,” she outlays. Haute collar Interpreting the uniformity and repetition of knitwear’s stitches, Hove reworked the jeweller’s codes to capture her signature ribbing - to graphic effect. “Beads growing slightly bigger in systematic rows very much feels like our knitting language coming to life,” she says. As seen in the necklace, where two rows of…

Stephen Jones is recounting a recent moment of unbridled creation. “A few moments before the haute couture show at Thom Browne …” he explains, the team decided “it would be more interesting if the masks actually floated above the head, rather than on the face. [But] how to achieve that?” The challenge was just another day in the life of the legendary milliner, whose bread and butter is making the impossible come to life. This recent example, at the haute couture debut of the luminous Browne in July, adds another feather to his very wellcrafted cap, or beret, or trilby, depending on the day. Blazing a trail in the pulsating London club scene of the 1980s, he is today the most called-upon milliner to royalty, musicians and racegoers. As headwear…

BALLET When Amber Scott was just four years old she attended her first ballet, a production of Swan Lake in Brisbane performed by London’s Royal Ballet. From the moment the curtain rose she was transfixed. Then a strange thing happened. As the white swans began their graceful entrance, arms elegantly winging up and down, the small child in row F began emulating them, much to the amusement of her fellow audience members. “I was on the edge of my seat, doing swan arms,” recalls Scott with a laugh. “So mum decided to take me to ballet class. Swan Lake was pivotal in me becoming a ballerina.” In fact, Swan Lake, the achingly beautiful, tragic story of evil sorcery and unrequited love, would ultimately play a seminal role throughout Scott’s whole…

It’s one of the warmest days of the year in July during an unforgivable Los Angeles heatwave and Flamingo Estate, the elusive hilltop ranch that looks like a Tarantino film come to life, is buzzing. Everyone is awaiting a special, top-secret visitor. The giveaway is a Rhythm of Love vinyl, conspicuously propped against a mid-century teakwood sideboard, ready for its mistress - the 80-million-records-sold, chart-topping musical legend Kylie Minogue, who now counts a number-one album in five consecutive decades - to sashay through the doors. Holding the exclusive Flamingo Estate for a full day is no mean feat - Margot Robbie was an exception when she popped by to shoot the cover of British Vogue in 2021 - but there’s something extra special about playing host to Our Kylie. “It…

CYNTHIA MACHAVA 19, Johannesburg, South Africa “I thought I was daydreaming when I found out I was chosen as a semifinalist. I felt so blessed and overjoyed. I always wanted and prayed to be a part of something great in the modelling industry, but I never knew I would shoot for Vogue!” MENGYAO WANG 20, Henan, China “I like being on stage and in front of the camera. When I was still in college, I took part in a show with the encouragement of my friends. From then on, I fell in love with the feeling of performing and decided I wanted to be a model.” RANIA BENCHEGRA 28, Marrakech, Morocco “As a Moroccan model, my decision to enter the world of fashion wasn’t just about fulfilling a dream, it…

It is December of 2015, and I am sitting sheepishly in the waiting room of a tattoo parlour somewhere south of Stockholm. A man, who speaks hurriedly in a language I don’t understand, wraps his machine in cling film. He then marks my skin with a stencil, and before he begins, he asks me if I’m happy to start. “Yes,” I say. “I’m happy.” He smiles, and so the ceremony begins. His machine thrums loudly as he dips a tiny, metal spike into a cap of ink only to tuck the drop of colour into the fleshy fabric of my arm, where a Venus symbol – a small but obvious feminist emblem – will live forever. I am barely 21, and this is only my second tattoo. I hold my…

Anna* had been seeing a psychologist regulary for more than five years before she began noticing some important and repeated issues cropping up in her personal relationships. “I take a lot of notes after my therapy sessions because I want to be able to see patterns in my behaviour,” the 34-year-old editor from Melbourne says. And she spotted one pattern in particular. Fearing that being unavailable would lead to her friends abandoning her, Anna would drop anything to tend to their needs, regardless of how off-kilter it made her feel. “What I thought was being a good friend, I realised, was acting like an ambulance. I’d eradicate boundaries with people, then resent them when they took too much from me.” With the support of the therapist she’s been seeing 10…

ALIQUE According to Alique - the celebrated Dutch fashion photographer tasked with capturing Kylie Minogue for the cover - the heatwave sweeping LA on the day of the shoot proved to create a “more intimate and gentle mood” on set. “This was all about Kylie,” she says of the inspiration behind the images taken on the grounds of the “magical” Flamingo Estate. “The image with her leg up and laughing is [my] favourite; it’s a moment I remember having lots of throughout the afternoon,” Alique recalls. “You can feel her inner intention most. She wants to smile and share her beauty and joy [with] the world.” RICHARD CHRISTIANSEN Australian-born, LA-based Flamingo Estate founder Richard Christiansen was thrilled to welcome former colleague and collaborator Kylie Minogue to his sprawling villa for…

Sitting on a good idea is ill-advised in today’s world, but for jeweller Van Cleef & Arpels, it paid dividends. A word in the ear of then artistic director Renée Puissant daughter of the French jeweller’s founders - by the Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson in 1938 (it helps to have friends in high jewellery), stoked a pursuit that lasted more than 10 years, Feats of technical artistry and devotion to innovation, and a sinuously supple necklace mimicking the humble zipper emerged in precious metal glory in 1950 - not something that can be rushed. That a jeweller with utmost dedication to its craft would embrace the idea of a monarchy-defying, Schiaparelli-wearing duchess and rebel, is testament to Van Cleef & Arpels’s spirit of evolution. Unbound by sleepy traditions, its…

Jorja Smith has done a lot in a short time - not just in music terms but in a life in totality. At just 26, the British singer-songwriter has won two Brit awards, was nominated for a Mercury prize and notched up a Grammy nomination. With two full-length albums - her second, Falling or Flying, has just been released after her 2018 debut, with 2021’s EP Be Right Back sitting in between - she has a sizeable following (Instagram alone: 3.7m followers). Add to that work with Drake, FKA Twigs and Burna Boy and it’s obvious why her latest album has been so keenly received. Longing, fragility and discovery and are all framed by her R&B, soulfully attuned to the gamut of joys and sorrows of life. Smith shares what…

For the first time in its history, the trailblazing festival of ideas SXSW will leave its home of Austin, Texas and head Down Under, taking over the thriving cultural hub of Sydney. It comes hot on the heels of a huge year for the Harbour City, from Sydney WorldPride to the FIFA Women’s World Cup. And now, this month, Sydney’s CBD plays host to thought leaders in industries including music, technology, gaming, art and film who will descend on our shores to speak about the creativity in shaping a new vision of the world. To celebrate, we check in with a group of young musicians taking part in the festival’s world-class music program. Elle Shimada When she was 15, two life-changing things happened to the multidisciplinary DJ, producer and curator…

Leaning over a table bearing a gleaming red fish known as an alfonsino, culinary mastermind Josh Niland stares intently down the lens of the Vogue Australia camera, appearing entirely in his element. Once the photo shoot wraps, Niland packs the fish into a styrofoam box delivered directly from his very own seafood store, Sydney’s Fish Butchery, a partner establishment to his award-winning Paddington restaurant Saint Peter. It’s only now he shares that although he looked very much at ease on set, the studio proved an unfamiliar environment for him. But the set up? That was a familiar one for the chef. “What makes me tick is standing in a room by myself, staring at fish and achieving an outcome that I didn’t get last time,” Niland says, a thoughtful expression…

It’s been difficult to feel at peace with the speed at which artificial intelligence is evolving. In just the span of a decade, concepts like robot lovers (android devices designed to form romantic relationships with humans, and vice versa) have veered from humorous to outrageous to unnerving. It’s no surprise, then, when searching for a soothing balm for it all, I recently found myself fiending for a 1990s rom-com. As if by chance, Netflix queued the trailer for You’ve Got Mail. Despite the film debuting 25 years ago, this attempt at escaping the quickly emerging future and all the anxieties that come with it, was futile. There was something strikingly familiar in the anxious conversations happening between Meg Ryan’s Kathleen and her brooding, journalist boyfriend. He was complaining about computers…

Picture this: you’re driving through the French countryside in the height of spring. While the sun beams down, the air is cut through with the soundtrack of an idyllic provincial morning; bees buzzing, church bells chiming and the clip of tyres over cobblestone roads. Then, as your car peels around winding corners, neat hedges abutting, a vision rises before you: a pink monolith, standing in the middle of a field. Domaine de la Rose is the name – a sweet, fitting name – of such a vision. Domaine de la Rose, situated in Grasse in the south of France, is both the metaphorical and the literal home of French beauty giant Lancôme. After being acquired in 2020, the four-hectare estate has been recently given a (very pink) face lift and…

WHO: FELLA X MAGGIE MARILYN WHAT: The need-to-know collaboration. New Zealander Maggie Hewitt of label Maggie Marilyn recognised a shared approach to the beach in Australian label Fella: “There’s a lack of formality, and pretentiousness. Where else in the world can you go for an ocean swim before work?” Founders of 11-year-old label Fella, Rosie Iffla and Christine Tang-Corte, invited Hewitt as the newest of their many collaborators. Evolving Fella’s core styles, Hewitt applied nautical stripes evoking memories of her mum’s swimsuit won in summer “like a second skin”. For Iffla’s part, Fella’s engineered fabric made to sculpt is key to customer loyalty. “You are at your most bare in public, so it makes sense if you feel good in a particular style, to keep buying it.” WHO: BONDI BORN…

As you might guess from her lysergic, frenetically patterned prints, relaxation doesn’t come naturally to Jenny Kee. But it wasn’t until recent months at the age of 76 that she began to contemplate life at a slower pace. “I can’t get too excited [about work], or I’ll get exhausted,” she caveats on a call from Blackheath, the town in New South Wales’s Blue Mountains where she’s lived for almost 50 years. Anyone who knows the breadth and length of her career will know little would stop Kee. Sharing a brand-new piece she considers “a self-portrait” of her creative life, she says it will be the last of her dramatic art-meets-fashion dresses as she enters a reflective phase. “I’m not going to create those pieces again. I’m growing older, it’s very…

INTERVIEW It’s a baking hot summer evening in Connecticut, and Chloë Sevigny is preparing to try on a shoe. She’s spending the week with her parents and her three-year-old son while her husband, gallerist Siniša Mačković, travels to an art fair. “I thought it would be more fun than single-parenting in the city for a week,” Sevigny says with a wink from her brother’s bedroom, where she’s illuminated only by the glow of her iPhone screen over FaceTime. From a powder pink box, with all the ceremony of a white-gloved art handler appraising a masterpiece, Sevigny lifts a pair of brogues in lacquered tobacco leather. The piece is the product of a new collaboration between Miu Miu and British shoe manufacturer Church’s: available as either a lace-up or a monk…

Sophia has her dream job at MoMA and is recently engaged, but her attraction to young artist Cara throws her sense of self into turmoil. A sparkling, wry debut from Melbourne-based author Anna Kate Blair set in New York’s art gallery scene. Our master storyteller is back with his third novel about a mother and daughter on the run against the backdrop of the dark underbelly of Brisbane. Gritty, heartbreaking, funny, and moving - it’s absolutely classic Trent Dalton. Leaving her husband and city life behind, a woman seeks solace in the place she grew up, a small religious community in the outback. A tale of forgiveness and grief, Charlotte Wood’s seventh novel is profoundly moving. In a cherry orchard, a mother tells her three adult daughters about a past…

Simone Zimmermann is imagining a time tunnel. It goes from Sydney, where we are in a sun-drenched office, light bathing an emerald Tom Polo making its electric brushstrokes dance, to Paris. Beside her, sister Nicky Zimmermann nods along, both sets of the siblings’ clear blue eyes flashing. Transcending time and geography is no big leap for the duo behind one of the biggest success stories in Australian fashion. It is in the French capital that a final expansion and relocation of a third headquarters is happening, the other being New York, as they prepare for their third showing at Paris fashion week, in September. It is part of a momentous phase in the brands three-decade-strong history that will be capped, next month, with a second Paris store, opening on the…

Shine a light Add pops of glossy highlighter to the high points of the face to amp up radiance and catch the light. Balance with a similarly shimmering shade, artfully applied across the eyes. Beam me up A well-hydrated base is the secret behind all glowy complexions. Atop (extremely) moisturised skin, an illuminating primer adds luminosity. Bright eyes Perfectly applied concealer not only disguises blemishes and dark spots, but gives dimension to the face after foundation. Target under the eyes and on the T-zone, chin and nose with a finger-tapping motion to blend. Smooth operator No matter what your foundation, the correct application will maximise skin radiance while providing that sought-after seamless finish. Work your chosen product in round motions with an ultra-fluffy brush, buffing into the skin.…

Celebrated hair and fragrance brand Ceremonia finally lands on Australian shores this month, exclusively at Mecca. Rooted in Latinx heritage through founder Babba Rivera, the brand offers hair care for all hair types – curly to coily, straight to frizzy – shining a beauty spotlight on Latin America. Within its much-lauded range of shampoos, conditioners, treatments, brushes and styling gels, Ceremonia calls on organic ingredients sourced from Latin America, including murumuru butter from Brazil, maracujá oil from Ecuador and blue agave extract from Mexico, all harvested ethically. In line with the brand’s philosophy of clean, natural formulations, all the products are free from silicones, parabens, sulphates, phthalates and artificial colourants, as well as skin irritants and harsh ingredients. Its latest release, Perfume de la Tierra (perfume of the earth), champions…

Libra 23 September-23 October Mercury adds logic to all you say and do now, even with your ruler Venus fixating your thoughts on love. A New Moon eclipse in your sign plus Pluto out of reverse hint at building something good out of chaos. As Mars pushes you to be a go-getter now, a Full Moon eclipse urges you to release what you don’t need to make room for something far better to fill the void. STYLE ICON: Doja Cat Capricorn 22 December-20 January Your career could soar now, with a New Moon eclipse adding fresh flair to your work style. Pluto in your sign focuses on the next stage of your evolution, while Venus could bring a trip away for work or health. Friendships and ambitions get a Mars…