Indholdsfortegnelse for October 2024 i Vogue Australia

CURATED BY Some prodigious music talents are drawn to the act of performance, but for Gracie Abrams, it's a different story. "What I fell in love with really young and knew I wanted to do forever was writing," says the 25-year-old, whose lifelong love of poetry led to a career as a singer-songwriter. "I always ended up feeling closer to myself after writing - I honoured that feeling and just never wanted it to go anywhere." The feeling has remained the same, but Abrams's rapid ascent has been one for the books. An array of singles and two EP releases since 2019 established Abrams as a well-kept secret, but her 2023 album Good Riddance was a mainstream breakthrough and drew millions of fans to her pop anthems, which blend raw…

A former American Vogue editor, Plum Sykes is the queen of champagne bubble books about champagne bubble problems. (You may have read her previous good-time novels, Bergdorf Blondes, The Debutante Divorcée and Party Girls Die In Pearls.) Wives Like Us, her latest, revels in the dramas – marital nonsense, crumbling mansions and butler tomfoolery – of the glittering Cotswold set. The story is mille-feuille-light but Sykes, courtesy of her fashion writer past, has a way of capturing an aesthetic and mood that makes for such fun reading. How much you’re going to enjoy Intermezzo, Sally Rooney’s fourth novel, about two grieving brothers, depends on which of her previous books you love the most. Intermezzo blends the complicated power dynamics of Conversations With Friends with the form-bending ambition of Beautiful World,…

Cap it The season’s boldest headwear towered high and commanded attention. On Prada’s sturdy statement hats, extra headspace meant room for texture and decoration, in this case unforgettable feathers. Room to move The slouchy crescent bag, long known for its versatility, was updated to match fashion’s new bohemian spirit. Consider Chloé’s soft-leather totes or Loewe’s tactile denim Squeeze bag as accomplices for a fast-paced life. Heirloom apparent Miu Miu’s antique-style earrings and brooches showed the unique power of heirloom embellishments and one-off accoutrements as a way of adding a sentimental touch to an everyday wardrobe. Fine footing Enduring footwear styles were reinvented in printed patterns for a stroke of personality. See Loewe's floral-print beaded boots or Dior and Marni's textured animal print pumps for a wild touch. Get the boot…

Is it any coincidence the buzziest brand in the world, by almost any metric, this year debuted a literary club and book pop-ups globally, sparking around-the-block queues? Or that a French fashion house, with a talk series centred on women authors, has defied a global luxury slowdown, posting double-digit growth all while hosting authors and poets at its travelling pre-collections? Italian label Miu Miu and global powerhouse Chanel, respectively, are powerful bellwethers of a growing presence in fashion that, until now, held a peripheral role: the literary book. In 1925, Virginia Woolf wrote in Mrs. Dalloway, “Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm.” For autumn/winter ’24/’25 that includes a shared vernacular with one of the least visual forms with…

I’m slick as an otter. I’m greased up like a Christmas turkey. I have just left a face-shaped spot on my gingham linen pillowcase. My husband is asking me not to hug him for fear I’ll do the same to his shirt. How did I find myself here, a human Slip ’N Slide, coated in more lotions, primers and face oils than I knew existed? In my time writing for Vogue, I’ve tried a lot of beauty moves, both trendy and classic. But never have I taken on an assignment with such academic focus as this one: attempting to understand the growing obsession with dewy, gleaming skin. Over the past few years, the Gen Z passion for skin that glows, glistens and glitters has gone by many names: glazeddoughnut skin…

Fertile ground Sydney PR maven Maz Coote was 32 when a routine test at the doctor’s office found she had a very low egg count and may have trouble conceiving in the future. The results prompted her to dig into the accessibility and awareness of basic fertility testing. “I was proactive about my health,” says Coote, who now has a twoyear-old daughter. “I did my breast checks, had my dental checks, my skin checks, but I wasn’t taught to be proactive about my fertility.” This experience propelled Coote to launch WHEN, Australia’s first at-home egg count checker ($249), which – via a simple fingerprick – measures the body’s anti-müllerian hormone and gives an indication of the tester’s ovarian reserve. “When you access this knowledge proactively,” she says, “you’re better able…

SOIRÉE Pop-up space 65 York St in Sydney’s CBD was abuzz with excitement when a host of beauty enthusiasts dressed in cocktail-glam gathered for the Armani Prisma Glass evening launch. Already a favourite among those in the know, the high-shine, lightweight and ultra-moisturising oil-in-gloss lip glaze is available in seven shades, all of which were available to try on the night at a lit-up make-up bar. Champagne and roaming canapés kept the crowd sated, while DJ Yemi Sul brought the high-energy tunes. Vogue’s Nina Miyashita was on location to shoot a ‘What’s in my bag?’ video, mingling with guests including Elle Ferguson, Jesinta Franklin and Erin Holland. A dedicated media wall and glambot captured attendees striking their best poses – and best Prisma Glass pouts – while a florist created…

ANNEMARIEKE VAN DRIMMELEN Though she currently splits her time between LA and her home city of Amsterdam, photographer Annemarieke van Drimmelen was born in Sydney and spent the first three years of her life in Australia, returning again for a few years as a teen. Meeting Kate Winslet for the first time, and capturing her in the English countryside for the cover shoot, turned out to be a special experience for van Drimmelen. “I really love Kate’s honesty, vulnerability and strength,” she says. “The way she showed up and was present during that day taught me something very important: when you’re completely yourself, like she is, you don’t have to hold back or protect yourself. Life becomes fun and creativity can just flow freely … And it’s contagious! The energy…

COLLECTOR Pinctada maxima is the scientific name for an oyster found in the cobalt waters off Western Australia's northern coast, known for producing the world's largest and most brilliant pearls. The rare mollusc entranced Nicholas Paspaley, the Greece- born jeweller who relocated to Australia with his family more than a century ago. So much so that after arriving in the Kimberley he bought a pearling lugger, eventually exploring the region's coastline in search of the most faultless gems. In times before technological advancements, pearling journeys were often treacherous, and Paspaley braved Australia's deep waters and sparse terrain to cultivate enigmatic South Sea pearls within Pinctada maxima. What propelled him was the demand for pearls, and pearl strand necklaces considered a statussymbol in many ancient cultures, and one of the earliest…

TRUTH BE TOLD Kate Winslet is teaching me how to speak Australian. Which is ironic, given she's an English rose and I'm a proud Australian citizen (though British-born and back in the UK). "Look. It's in my throat like that. It's really right there," says this queen of accents, pointing to her larynx and sounding like a true blue Aussie. "Whereas," her voice shifts, "if I'm doing New Zealand, it's chewier, more nasal. See, the whole voice comes up into my face." Kate is not showing off. Instead, she is giving me a masterclass that is long overdue. I moved to Sydney to edit Vogue way back in 1997, yet could never, despite best efforts, pass for Australian-born. Kate, who I already knew, sounded like a local when she turned…

CHRISTINE CENTENERA: “I think you and I have known each other for about 20 years. I know your family and your parents, and your dad’s a writer and a super interesting man. I want to know, did your dad influence your writing? Is that where your love of it came from?” ZOË FOSTER BLAKE: “No. In fact, he told me point-blank, ‘Don’t ever be a writer.’ And he said, ‘If you do, there’s no time limit on it, you can do it in your 60s. When you’re young and you’ve got energy, do everything else and you can always come back to writing books.’ But you saw me in my 20s – we all had so much energy. I got bored easily and so I started a blog. Then I…

You guys are like a happier version of the UK, but it’s sunnier and you have the beach – it’s great!” Griff exclaims. The British singer-songwriter has just wrapped shooting for Vogue Australia in Sydney, flitting back and forth from set in an array of vintage-inflected Chanel looks from the label’s autumn/winter ’24/’25 collection. Two nights earlier, she began her first-ever world tour in Brisbane, a month after the release of her debut album Vertigo, which cemented Griff (2.8 million Spotify listeners at the time of writing) as an emerging pop star to watch. “It’s very surreal that I can come on tour, that I can travel for 24 hours and still be able to sell tickets,” she says, pointing to one of the more unreal aspects of burgeoning global…

I was four when I cut my first fringe. Wielding a pair of plastic craft scissors, I fashioned choppy, asymmetric micro bangs into my waist-length hair. The left side was so short (think pixie before pixie was cool) that it took more than three months to grow long enough to be pinned back. Still, despite the style’s poorly executed inception, I sported a longer, brow-dusting version until high school when I eventually grew bored of the style, as well as the regular (hairdresser administered) upkeep. Now, it seems, bangs are back. Fashioning fringes anew or working with the models’ existing chop, hair stylists during the autumn/winter ’24/’25 season served up bangs in every length, style and texture. At Marc Jacobs and Jil Sander this season, a parade of ultra-short micro-fringes…

Libra 23 September-23 October Expect the unexpected with a New Moon eclipse in your sign. Mercury and the Sun unite to help you decide what’s most important to you in life, while a Full Moon shines a revealing light on close partnerships. As your ruler Venus opens up options for commitment with room for freedom, Pluto encourages you to not suppress your feelings for the sake of people-pleasing. STYLE ICON: Dakota Johnson Capricorn 22 December-20 January This month’s New Moon comes with an issue-revealing eclipse that could be a game-changer for your career. The pressure’s off with your work and wellbeing while Jupiter’s retrograde, so love might be on your mind thanks to Venus. Pluto out of reverse could transform your finances, but the big news now involves Mercury, friendships,…

Middle ground Belts are still having a major moment, but now move from the hips to the waist. Play it structured and cinched for the power silhouette of now. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s edit of the trend. Acid test Shake up the style score with searing brights - neon lime, turquoise blue, fiery reel - that make pastels feel passé. Chutes and scores Ballooning, swashbuckling trousers are the unlikely new entry to this season’s silhouette but one that rewards the wearer with comfort and a way to make an impact. Consider the parachute back. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue's edit of the trend. Turning tied Bows maintain their hold in fashion, but for this season they emerged with a couture drama pumping up the volume…

Edward Cuming Many designers who studied a Master of Arts at London's Central Saint Martins, a famously gruelling course, skirt around what it's like to face intense critiques at one of the best fashion schools in the world. Not designer Edward Cuming who reflects on his time there with characteristic Australian candour. "At times CSM was true torture," he states bluntly. "But my classmates were very inspiring." It was all worth it. Now Madrid-based, Cuming's eponymous label is five years old and stocked globally, including at Dover Street Market in Paris and New York as well as Ssense. And on his recent world tour Usher chose Cuming's pieces for his stage wardrobe. Aside from the value of hard work, Cuming, who began in menswear but has since added womenswear to…

ART Christien Meindertsma lives in a tiny village in the Netherlands countryside, half an hour outside Rotterdam. “A strange rural patch with really bad phone reception,” she sums up with a laugh. If the designer needed to drive into the city, which she often does, she would do so under the arch of the Van Brienenoord Bridge, which is sandwiched between two wedges of lush parkland. The city of Rotterdam has an elegant solution to maintaining this greenery, along with all the other verdant patches woven through the city: a flock of sheep. The oldest tool in the book. If you spot some sheep on the dyke that abuts the Van Brienenoord Bridge, “that’s them!” exclaims Meindertsma. Between 2,000 and 2,500 are charged with keeping Rotterdam’s pastures in shape, and…

Globe trotting is in Mel Jarnson s DNA. Her Thai father, a diplomat, and her Australian mother s work as a foreign correspondent, saw the family toggle between Bangkok (where she was born), Mumbai and Brussels before the actor and model landed in Sydney at just 17 to pursue roles. “I thought I’d go to Sydney for two years, but then I booked work and suddenly two years turned into eight,” says the 25-year-old, who has since starred in the 2021 Mortal Kombat reboot and the thriller Blacklight, alongside Liam Neeson. Most recently, her first lead role in the upcoming horror film, Witchboard – a remake of the 80s classic – lured her to Montreal for filming, the city’s French influence a comfort considering she attended French international primary schools…

BEAUTY Marie-Hélène Lair is seated in the charming courtyard of Le Royal Monceau Raffles Paris wearing Chanel flats and drinking a glass of Badoit sparkling water. With her cropped Amelie-esque hair gleaming in the afternoon sunshine, she is the epitome of French chic and je ne sais quoi. But Lair is not interested in fluff or clichés. She is the scientific communications director at Clarins and she’s here to talk research and cold, hard facts. “Longevity to me is a false story,” she starts straight off the bat, swatting away a recent beauty buzzword. “I prefer facts. I prefer published things, real things. And I prefer this idea that you can change the speed of your ageing because you are going to select only the good things for you. That’s…

The possibilities of a digital-first era were explored when Vogue Australia and CommBank hosted the riveting Vogue Codes Con hosted at Billy Blue College of Design at Torrens University. Four panels took place across the evening, as students and young professionals were offered a glimpse into the way women are shaping some of technology’s diverse fields. Discussions were eye-opening and broad, exploring fashion, beauty, technology and more. Speakers including Holly Cardew, founder and CEO of Carted, Bronte Pendergast, senior staff data scientist at CommBank, Jeanette Cheah, founder and CEO of Hex, Sasha Kutabah Sarago, founder of Ascension, Australia’s first digital lifestyle platform for women of colour, Bryony Cole, founder of Sextech School, Michelle Lim, CEO of Ending Loneliness Together, Lizzie O’Shea, principal lawyer at Maurice Blackburn, and Conserving Beauty founder…