Indholdsfortegnelse for March 2025 i Vogue Australia

During Maria Grazia Chiuri’s nine-year tenure at the house of Dior, the Italian designer has engaged with the work of esteemed female artists to help tell the stories imbued in her fashion collections and bring to life the spaces in which they are unveiled. Often, she’s commissioned embroidery from the Chanakya School in Mumbai, India – projects that have allowed the narratives of illustrators and painters like Isabella Ducrot, Mickalene Thomas and Judy Chicago to be writ large in giant handicraft panels, framing the Dior ready-towear or haute couture shows in colour and texture. Despite these interventions, rarely has a living artist taken centre stage in her productions in the way that London-based Neapolitan artist Sofia Ginevra Giannì (known as SAGG Napoli) did last September. Transforming a pavilion in the…

It’s September 2024, and inside the cavernous Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Alaïa is hosting its show on the first day of spring/summer ’25 fashion month. Look 23 – one of the collection’s most ravishing, a cerulean skirt and cape with the label’s signature hood – was modelled by 20-year-old Stella Hanan. Born in Sydney, this was her first appearance on an international runway, but unless you’re versed in the mercurial world of modelling, Hanan’s newness on the scene was hard to pick. Not least, given that walk. Saint Laurent, Versace, Isabel Marant, Sacai, Gucci and Prada were among the slew of shows she booked during her debut season, placing her among Australia’s expanding cohort of internationally regarded – and booked-up – models. There’s Angelina Kendall, the seismically…

When I was a child in the 1990s, it was just my mother and me. She worked as a solicitor in the middle of Sydney, in a glass-walled office with harbour views, whose principal attraction, as far as I was concerned, was the large number of swivel chairs I liked to spin on. She dropped me at school early, and my afternoons were split between grandparents and after-school care. So, for the most part, my weekdays with my mother occupied two key times of the day: mornings watching her get dressed, and evenings when I watched her get changed. My mother’s room was at the front of the small brick semi she bought after my parents split up. Her bed faced a large built-in wardrobe with mirrored sliding doors, and…

Grunge, but refined Such is the influence of grunge that every season, the moody, androgynous subculture inevitably filters through to the runway in varying iterations. For spring/summer ’25 it reverberated through the beauty looks at Gucci and Christian Dior where eyeliner – dark and diffused – was deliberately undone, as if it could have been applied many hours earlier. Elsewhere, backstage at Chanel, what appeared to be broad strokes of midnight eyeliner was, on closer inspection, a row of delicate shrunken sequins artfully conjured by make-up artist Lisa Butler. Also hidden in plain sight? The miniature, tattoo-like eyeliner love hearts etched into the inner corners of model’s eyes at Coach. New romantic An air of romance settled over the spring/summer ’25 runways, with creatives from New York to Paris swept…

VOGUE AUSTRALIA: How does it feel to be the muse of the new Narciso Rodriguez fragrance? ANGELINA KENDALL: “When I got the confirmation, I honestly couldn’t believe it. I was so excited to see what Narciso had planned for the next chapter of the iconic For Her fragrance. Once I was on set, it all sunk in how special this project really was. To be the muse of this fragrance, and to portray this woman who is so empowered by her femininity, really allows me to connect to my inner self.” VA: For Her EDP Intense is a more heightened reimagining of the For Her fragrance. What does intensity mean to you? AK: “Intensity to me is something that comes with transition. It’s usually a short and pivotal moment in…

AKON CHANGKOU While visiting Australia for Christmas, homegrown model Akon Changkou stepped back in front of the camera for a beauty feature directed by senior beauty and health editor, Remy Rippon. “I love make-up but I’m such a minimalist,” says the New York-based talent, whose look for this shoot, captured in collaboration with Chanel, straddles the line between soft and strong. Scouted via Instagram, Changkou was studying psychology before making her runway debut in 2019. “I’ve had many career highlights but a few that stick out include my Chanel N1 serum campaign and my Vogue France and British Vogue covers,” she says. DAN THAWLEY Australian-born, Paris-based journalist and creative director Dan Thawley was at the Christian Dior spring/ summer ’25 show when artist Sofia Ginevra Giannì, aka SAGG Napoli, took…

Layered approach Sheer-on-sheer, delicate camisoles layered under one another: doubling up has emerged as key to a new brand of unstudied style. Whichever piece is piled on, keep the mood effortless. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s edit of the best of the trend. Suits you, madam Traditional pillars of a man’s wardrobe have been reclaimed to express the new brand of powerful femininity. A tie, a pocket square or a classic pinstripe, it’s all fair game. Night follows day Glamour became grounded this season in the pair-up of utilitarian outerwear and floor-sweeping gowns. Dripping in embellishment or worn with a dramatic trailing skirt, the thrown-on parka lends evening casual cool. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s edit of the best of the trend. New romantics Powdered pastel…

Duran Lantink is inspired by the everyday – just not in an everyday way. “We all have jeans, we all have a T-shirt; we have certain things that feel very standard to us,” he says. “I find it very interesting if you interpret that in a different way. It gives me freedom to think that something we take for granted isn’t necessarily how it’s supposed to be.” See his spring/summer ’25 collection at Paris fashion week, where Lantink revolutionised regular garments by experimenting with their proportions, in what’s become his visual signature since he founded his label in 2019. The enlarged waistline of a red-and-white striped dress appeared buoyant on Australian model Angelina Kendall (above right), while hoodies and bras were dialled up to the power of two, draped in…

Karin Upton Baker As managing director of Hermès Australia, Karin Upton Baker is immersed daily in the nonpareil of design and craftsmanship. Having worked at the top in fashion magazines, including Vogue Australia, Upton Baker’s style has a self-assuredness that transcends fashion’s trend churn. “I wear clothes for myself, not for others. It is not about trends, only about how I feel – the nuance of the cut or the feel of the fabric or the way something moves when you walk. These are inner sensations that create an external effect. “I admit, sometimes I will dress for a man. “I like clothes with a certain amount of masculine power, yet they also need to suggest femininity. So that is the paradox -and the quest. “My great-grandmother, grandmother and mother,…

In a steamy studio in Broadbeach, Anna Sawai strikes a pose. It’s the Japanese actor’s last day in Australia. For more than six months, she has lived on the Gold Coast in an apartment at the edge of the ocean, filming the second season of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, a television series that updates the Godzilla myth for modern audiences. (It’s about trauma.) The location is a new one for team Vogue Australia: in the neighbouring space is a mechanic, blasting heavy metal as he toils away on a car; further down lies a showboaty workout studio, from where a gaggle of gym bros waft in and out on a wave of creatine. But on this particular morning in early February, squeezed in among 10 rails of new season fashion,…

It’s a concept, that’s for sure,” grins Geraldine Viswanathan as she shrugs on her third jacket – a Kourh blazer layered over a Bottega Veneta jacket over a P.A.M. hoodie – before carefully stepping into metallic stilettos. The actor gives her layered look a once-over before returning to the studio, heels clicking across the cement floor. Chappell Roan’s ‘Red Wine Supernova’ spills through a speaker as Viswanathan switches from pose to pose, winking and smirking while her mum and younger sister Indira watch on. “This is my first Vogue moment, and I love that it’s Vogue Australia. Such a dream of mine,” Viswanathan later reveals, in a quiet space away from the bustle of the studio next door. “Every time I step onto a shoot, I completely forget how to…

I nearly didn’t become an Olympic swimmer. When I was 15 years old and went from being a Wollongong schoolgirl who was good at swimming to someone who may one day represent Australia at an Olympics, I quit. In fact, I quit and returned several times. Put simply, the pressure was too much. It wasn’t from my parents, former elite swimmers who understood more than anyone the demands of competitive sport, but the unrelenting standard I put upon myself. I was a perfectionist. In my mind, near enough was never good enough. I had to be doing the best times and the best training sessions all the time. This persistence came to a head when I was 18 and I retired after missing out on a place, by just one…

On a balmy late summer evening in Sydney, a glittering crowd gathered at the stunning Tobias Partners-designed Lavender Bay House for the world premiere of Once Upon a Time in Scotland. The new Glenmorangie campaign, directed by Australian actor and filmmaker Joel Edgerton, stars Harrison Ford on a cinematic journey through Scotland’s Highlands in a series of 12 episodic films. Hosted by the film’s creative director Justin O’Shea, Edgerton and Vogue Australia’s Christine Centenera, stylist on the film, the event blended whisky, storytelling and craftsmanship. Notable guests, including Phoebe Tonkin, Sam Corlett, Alycia Debnam-Carey and Anwar Hadid, sipped Glenmorangie Original 12 Years Old and the exclusive Infinita 18 Years Old, paired with Icebergs Dining Room canapés. The intimate screening revealed Ford’s Highland adventure and captured Scotland’s rugged beauty – a…

MARION HUME JOURNALIST, SCREENWRITER AND ETHICAL CONSULTANT “Change can’t wait until the future. The time is now. We all know throwaway fashion must cease and become something we look back on with horror and disbelief. Yet there’s an easy solution to this one. Let’s each commit to falling in love: with the clothes we already own (resell or gift if the love has faded) and only invest – whatever our budget – in what’s deserving of true love. “What would I like to see change today? That gendered drumbeat that somehow fashion doesn’t matter. Of course it matters. In tough times, self-expression, individuality, the confidence clothes give us matters more than ever. There’s something even more pernicious going on when fashion is rendered less than serious: the huge global business…

Ethan Bergersen “Ecdysis, the scientific name for reptiles shedding their skin, is the name I chose for my [honours] collection and represents the core of its inspiration,” Ethan Bergersen says. The recent University of Technology Sydney (UTS) graduate is discussing his new range: on one dress, thousands of volcanic glass beads are embroidered on the skirt and clink with the wearer’s movements, while on another, fine-woven string under sheer plastic film appears as scales on the body. Bergersen’s conceptual pieces earned him the 2024 Australian Fashion Foundation Scholarship, one of the country’s top honours for fashion students, and has made him one of the most talked-about new names in the Australian industry. “The use of fashion to evolve the body and become beyond human has always fascinated me,” he says.…

All Pharrell Williams’s happiest memories of celebrations have one thing in common. “You have to have Champagne on your birthday,” declares the 51-year-old trailblazing musician, producer and menswear creative director at Louis Vuitton, in an exclusive interview with Vogue Australia. “Another lap around the sun is a huge achievement.” His best lap around the sun, Williams shares, was in 2009, when he celebrated his first birthday as a father to his son Rocket. “It’s a feeling and love you’re not prepared for,” he admits. “It was a simple yet profoundly special day. The love and pride I felt were beyond anything I could have ever imagined. It wasn’t about the extravagance but the deep connection and happiness of sharing that moment with our family.” It’s fitting, then, that the creative’s…

Marianne Jean-Baptiste is a hoot. From the moment the 57-year-old London-born actor arrives for her Vogue shoot, she’s an electric presence, perusing the assembled rail of clothes with visible glee. She slips into a Sacai trench. “This is wicked,” she says, exaggeratedly hunching her shoulder and pouting into the mirror. Then she shrugs on a fuzzy white Schiaparelli coat reminiscent of Tilda Swinton’s in The Chronicles of Narnia. “Aslan!” she shouts, arms aloft. Once in the make-up chair, she regales the crew with tales of drinking too much whisky and doing karaoke. She weighs in on the spring/summer 2025 shows (“I love Dries – he’s done lots of florals this season though”) and has a habit of randomly bursting into song. Later, while being photographed, she’s in fits of giggles,…

When Bella Hadid announced the release of her debut fragrance line Ôrebella last year, it came with a proclamation. “The first intentional skin parfum. Hydrating. Alcohol-free. Elevated with essential oils,” she declared to 60 million followers through an Instagram post. Her sensitivity to traditional alcohol-based scents led the model to concoct homemade fragrances from ingredients picked from her garden. It was an artistic and experimental process, she noted on the brand’s site, that would eventually inform a trio of hydrating, dermatologist-tested scents. The niche start-up joins a movement of fragrance houses bridging the gap between scent and skincare. Just as skin and haircare companies strive to curtail ingredient lists with only the essentials, perfumers, too, are experimenting with fresh ways to incorporate skin-loving ingredients into formulations. But working with a…

It may have been the 2025 Australian Open Men’s Final, but the Ralph Lauren hospitality suite at Melbourne Park was a show of all-American style. As the tournament’s Official Outfitter, Ralph Lauren, in partnership with Vogue Australia, hosted a star-studded event ahead of the muchanticipated match between Jannik Sinner and Alexander Zverev at Rod Laver Arena. Guests including Liam Hemsworth, Phoebe Tonkin, Sophie Wilde, Ross Lynch and Sana Minatozaki arrived dressed in the brand’s signature sporty-chic attire, gathering for a three-course dinner ahead of the finale. The suite reflected Ralph Lauren’s classic aesthetic, with navy, white and red accents, framed tennis imagery and branded table settings. Vogue Australia’s editor-in-chief, Christine Centenera, welcomed attendees with a speech that touched on the synergy between sport and fashion. Later, as excitement grew, guests…

Pisces 19 February-20 March The cosmos highlights what’s most important in life for you now. Mercury and Venus turn retrograde through your money zone and your sign to help you work out who you are and what you want. As relationships are hit by a life-correcting Full Moon eclipse, a New Moon eclipse plus your ruler Neptune moving out of your sign urge you to take creative risks in pursuit of your dreams. STYLE ICON: Lily Collins Gemini 22 May-21 June Your ruler Mercury turns retrograde now and, unusually, is joined in reverse by Venus, the love and money planet. Friends, collabs and ambitions get the retrograde treatment and there are rethinks and rejigs with your career now, too. With a New Moon eclipse and Neptune switching signs, an alliance…