Indholdsfortegnelse for November 2025 i Vogue Australia

SHOULDER SEASON Slightly undone, the just-slipped-off-the-shoulder look of dresses and tops is the way to do dressed-up déshabillé. It’s all about looking undone but still elegant. Keep the rest covered up with trousers or coats. SHORT CUTS Micro-shorts hold strong claim as the replacement for miniskirts in 2025. The most style mileage comes from a tailored version that can read outdoorsy with a riding boot, off-duty with a loose blouse, or perfectly polished with a matching jacket. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue's edit. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue's edit. FUNNEL VISION Eighties-style oversized jackets with clipped storm-collar necks are the outerwear item of the moment. Graphic in silhouette, they have surprising transformability tempered with feminine skirts – pleated, or long and languid. GAUGE INTEREST The woolly…

To know Atong Atem’s practice is to know art that is visually beautiful but also has a deep personal and cultural significance. The Ethiopian-born South Sudanese artist, who is based in Melbourne, began her artistic career as a photographer, creating portrait-like imagery informed by her heritage and reclaiming photography from its historical use as a colonial tool in Africa. Some of her images are euphoric and others contemplative, but all share the same sublime qualities. Atem was the recipient of the La Prairie Art Award in 2022 and showed at Sydney Contemporary this September. This month, she will take her large-scale works to the Paris Photo 2025, the global art fair dedicated to photography. Like many image-makers (she also creates videos), fashion is vital in Atong’s work and plays a…

A Woolworths run for replacement china, a long night at the studio and a symphony of light and shadow. Such were the elements that produced Teacup Ballet (1935), one of Australian artist Olive Cotton’s most iconic photographs. The gift of a Kodak camera from two beloved aunts first sparked her interest in photography, and a childhood friendship, which later blossomed into love, marriage and divorce, with fellow photographer Max Dupain fanned the artistic flames. By the mid 1930s, the pair were working side by side in Dupain’s Bond Street studio in Sydney, where Teacup Ballet was taken, starring a set of cheap cups purchased with functionality, not creativity, in mind. But, after hours and lit by studio lights, the then-24-year-old noticed the elegant shadows cast by the china, with their…

In the 1970s, Vogue France featured an Australian pearling family, unknown in high fashion circles. Photographed 13,000 kilometres from Paris, it had, at that time, not made or sold a single piece of pearl jewellery. “[It was] my grandmother, granddad and aunty sorting pearls,” says Christine Salter, granddaughter of founder Nicholas Paspalis and now creative director at Paspaley. Today, the family is regularly featured in magazines, creates high jewellery, produced a necklace Christie’s described as “one of the finest natural pearl necklaces ever known” (the triple strand sold for US$2.1 million), and has a customer base that includes the Duchess of Sussex. Back then, however, the family had no boutiques, no earrings, necklaces or rings. Yet, there it was, in the pages of Vogue. “We had already long, long been…

How to mark a 270th birthday? For Vacheron Constantin, it involved a questioning of time and why we find things beautiful. Heritage and style director Christian Selmoni believes this is the essence of its watches. “Vacheron Constantin is a classic brand. Our style is elegant, sophisticated, timeless,” he says. Those qualities are present in a slew of timepieces launched this year to mark the anniversary, including updates to the Overseas model, with two new Perpetual Calendar Ultra-Thin timepieces. The Perpetual Calendar is a nod to Vacheron Constantin’s heritage. It first appeared in its pocket watches in the late 19th century. In these new references, one in pink gold, the other in white gold with a burgundy dial, the movement – just 4.05mm – ensures the date will not need adjusting…

Polly Borland is angry. We talk for an hour and much of the time is filled with her rage and despair at the atrocities happening in the world right now. It adds perspective and makes the discussion around her art even more poignant and intense. The good, the horrific, the silenced. The fear and injustice that touches the soul of her creativity. As we speak, Borland is working on a new series of soft sculptures – an oxymoron since they’re cast from aluminum – for a show called Puffs that will open in Melbourne this month at her gallery Sullivan+Strumpf. Puffs is a light, ephemeral word, especially when compared to global politics. The exhibition’s sculptures are the most lifelike she has created so far. They’re formed around a live person…

SIGNATURE SCENT: “It’s all about the bottle with Chanel No. 5. The perfume is strong and old-fashioned, but it’s everything I like: citrus, jasmine and sandalwood.” BEAUTY HAVEN: “Queen Street Pharmacy in Woollahra is a sweet shop with a front that looks like a 1960s toy store. You can get your basic first aid and Parisian cosmetics all in one cute little space. [Also,] C.O. Bigelow chemists, the legendary old Greenwich Village pharmacy. I love Mason Pearson hair brushes and great hair accessories like a coveted tortoiseshell headband.” NOSTALGIC BEAUTY: “Lee’s Press-on Nails in red. When I was 11, I saved up seven dollars and rode my bike to the drugstore in my neighbourhood [in Los Angeles]. I wore them alone in my house but not to school because the…

Campbell Addy “I didn’t even know I was going to be a photographer yet. I was a model agent, that’s how different the world was,” says BritishGhanaian photographer Campbell Addy of his professional introduction to Adut Akech Bior on the set of a 2018 i-D magazine shoot. Fast forward seven years, and Addy finds himself responsible for capturing the new mother’s ninth cover for Vogue Australia. In town for his Ballarat International Foto Biennale exhibition, I ♥ Campbell, the photographer drew inspiration from his own body of work for the images of the model and her daughter Kiki on location in Sydney. Ibby Njoya “The creative brief was anchored in the concept of surrealism,” says London-based set stylist Ibby Njoya, who was tasked with sourcing the head-turning props featured throughout…

THE ARRIVAL MAISON MARGIELA X GLENN MARTENS This was the grand entrance: Glenn Martens ascending to designer at Maison Margiela hot on the heels of John Galliano’s departure. The Artisanal collection he presented during couture had all the highly strung energy of the house yet was a wonderful leap into the future. Masks, made from fabric and crushed metal plates, obscured models’ faces. A peeling decay in rich textures beautifully draped the body, while upcycled paper, junk jewels and handpainting added to the sense of layered richness. Fluttering lace-trimmed dresses and the fabulously veiled sheer gowns were terrific. This is what it looks like when there is no holding back, no half measures and no tentativeness. The collection demonstrated that Margiela’s complex legacy is in good hands with Martens. We…

In fashion, centimetres can make all the difference. It was 10 of them that did it one baking 34-degree Melbourne day in 1965, when Jean Shrimpton unwittingly brought a tidal wave of change that began in Australia and emanated around the world. The 22-year-old set the fashion world spinning from Flemington Racecourse in a slender bone-white shift, and not much else. “I had no hat or gloves with me, for the very good reason that I owned neither,” said the surprisingly reluctant fashion plate, and perhaps world’s first supermodel – with a capital S, fitting for ‘The Shrimp’. “I went downstairs cheerfully from my hotel room, all regardless of what was to come.” The missing 10 centimetres of her hemline, which left her signature gamine, sun-kissed legs exposed above the…

Nathalie Verdeille, chief artistic officer at Tiffany & Co., has a feeling for flight. It’s something she shares with legendary Tiffany jeweller Jean Schlumberger, whose Bird on a Rock brooch was one of his most famous designs. It debuted in 1965 to the utter beguilement of then-chairman Walter Hoving and a coterie of women of unmatched taste and, since then, the charming little bird has been reimagined by Verdeille in a collection called Bird on a Rock by Tiffany, finding new audiences and blue-sky possibilities. Verdeille, who joined Tiffany in 2021 after a career as creative director for jewellery at Cartier and a prior role at Chaumet, has expanded on Schlumberger’s original motif with a full Bird on a Rock collection of both high and fine jewellery. Within the latter…

Jennifer Lawrence might be one of Hollywood’s least likely stars to take on a project she doesn’t believe in. Having reached gilded heights with her screen work – deftly moving between offbeat comedies like 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook and 2021’s sci-fi Don’t Look Up, as well as box office majors such as The Hunger Games – she commits fully to what she does. It’s why she’s increasingly chalking up producing credits, among them No Hard Feelings (2023) and Die My Love, out this month, in which she also stars alongside Robert Pattinson. “I am incredibly proud of this film,” she says of her most recent work, citing the drama about a woman wrestling with the complex experience of motherhood as a career highlight. She applies that producer’s pragmatism to her…

Do you know how expensive this is? It's Dior!" Adut Akesch Bior lovingly says in mock rebuke of her nine-month-old daughter Kiki. The baby coos and grabs a trailing piece of the white gown her mother pulls out of her grasp. “She has my nose and cheeks but looks like him,” she says, referring to husband Samuel Elkhier, who is by her side on set for this shoot in Sydney. Elkhier and her family in Adelaide have been a stabilising force throughout the breakneck twists and turns of a super trajectory that began age 16 with a Saint Laurent exclusive and sent her into the upper stratosphere of modelling success – walking for every major fashion house and landing global beauty campaigns. It culminated in a power community of loyal…

Scorpio 23 OCTOBER-22 NOVEMBER It’s your time to shine, with a New Moon and Venus in your sign, although Mercury retrograde in situ could bring a reset of who you are, what you value and what you deserve. A Full Moon in your partnership zone hints at completion, and Mars makes you burn to earn. Venus switching signs could grant your wish, with new money streams opening for you. Capricorn 22 DECEMBER-20 JANUARY It’s time to get ahead with friendships and ambitions. Mars motivates you, but be wary of confused thinking when Mercury turns retrograde. A New Moon prompts you to launch big schemes and dreams, and revisiting a past idea or collaborator could make a plan work this time. As your ruler Saturn moves forward, your faith in empathy…

This time last year, Adut Akech Bior appeared on the cover of Vogue Australia’s November 2024 issue. For the shoot, she wore a two-piece Chanel look, styled by fashion director Kaila Matthews to highlight her impending motherhood. Now she returns to the cover for the ninth time, with baby Kiki in her arms. “The last time we worked with Adut, she was seven months pregnant,” says head visuals producer and bookings editor Charlotte Rose. “This time, her daughter joined us on set, which changed the energy completely. We also had [her husband] Sam and Adut’s sister Kimmy with us, making the shoot feel like a family gathering. “One highlight was when Campbell painted on a perspex sheet positioned in front of Adut,” she continues. “It brought an interesting visual element…

The National Indigenous Fashion Awards (NIFA) is as much a celebration of resilience as it is creative excellence. At this year’s ceremony, held in August on Larrakia Country in Darwin, designer Cleonie Quayle was honoured with the Wearable Art award, for a flower pod-adorned dress with significance that extends beyond its ornate embellishment. Quayle, a Maljangapa woman, was removed from her family in the 1960s, the later years of Australia’s Stolen Generations. Creativity became a reprieve during her traumatic childhood, and later in her career as a paralegal, pursuing justice for First Nations communities. Quayle launched her own line of handmade jewellery 12 years ago, incorporating Australian flora like gumnuts and quandongs. She is the mother of ARIA-nominated Australian rapper Barkaa, or Chloe Quayle, whose early years were also marked…

For Esber, eyewear is one of the most sentimental accessories. “I’ve always collected frames when I travel – they set the tone for each trip,” he shares. “Reaching for a pair brings back the memory of where they came from.” The intention behind this collection, Esber says, was to create pieces that would “naturally fold into your daily routine, no matter the occasion”, like these lightweight oval shades with silver accents. Much of his work is a paean to the Australian beachside lifestyle and, as such, Esber’s eyewear incorporates “a palette drawn from nature – smooth browns, olive greens, and subtle greys”. “I want people to feel free to choose the frames they love, not just what they think suits them,” Esber says of the collection, his first with Specsavers.…

HEART THE LOVER (CANONGATE, $32.99) BY LILY KING What role does the past play in our present? Heart the Lover is Lily King’s latest radiant romance, which answers this question by revisiting a past protagonist. A sequel-ish to 2020’s Writers and Lovers, this story picks up with Casey, now a successful writer with a full life, when her first love turns up at her door. MINOR BLACK FIGURES (JONATHAN CAPE, $34.99) BY BRANDON TAYLOR One sweltering summer, an artist falls in love with a priest. So goes the plot of Booker Prize-shortlisted Brandon Taylor’s next novel, which follows two men in New York navigating faith, art and attraction in our strange new world. CHOSEN FAMILY (SUMMIT BOOKS, $34.99) BY MADELEINE GRAY An epic queer love story from one of our…

SOFT POWER In times of upheaval, the certainty of a classic – of shape, style and hue – provides comfort. Crisp and polished, a dress watch on either leather strap or bracelet ensures preparedness for just about anything. BRIGHT SIDE Dials in sorbet hues of pink, pistachio and lavender turned the watch world into a veritable sweet shop. Pops of hot pink, meanwhile, prove timepieces need not be taken so seriously. The watch industry tends to move at a slower pace than the fashion world. It holds tight to heritage. Yet there have been distinct shifts that will continue to evolve. This year has been one of both careful consolidation and creative explosion. Trickier economic times can have this effect, as clients and collectors reconsider ideas of value. Oliver R…

The picturesque Ago Bay, with its rugged coastline, sits on the east coast of the Japanese island of Honshu, within the lush Ise-Shima National Park. In 2025, the area’s relative tranquillity belies its history as a pearling mecca, dating back almost 140 years. In 1888, Kokichi Mikimoto was entranced by the enigmatic Pinctada fucata (Akoya pearl oyster), native to the Japanese coast, among other Asian waters, and acquired his first farm. Within five years, he’d successfully grown the first-ever cultured saltwater pearl. The name Mikimoto quickly became associated with pearls of a faultless spherical appearance, unlike anything else in Asia. Such beauty became the legacy of Mikimoto, Japan’s foremost purveyor of fine pearls, and it continues today. Mikimoto also uses South Sea pearls, known to be the largest in the…

COLOUR CLASH Skin becomes a canvas for creativity when working with concentrated hues. Whether worn around the eyes or boldly across lips, try working two or more tones into any given area for extra impact, as showcased here by Chinese actor, Lan Xiya. ALL THAT GLITTERS As party season approaches, add a little sparkle to every look. Whether subtly swiped across the eye in the form of a finely milled formula or loosely dusted on the face, there are fewer finishes more whimsical than gleaming flecks of glitter. IRIDESCENT BEAUTY For a subtler take on shine, turn to lustrous finishes. Channel mythical creatures or mother-of-pearl with shadows and sheens that softly illuminate. SEE THE RAINBOW Whether you’re a novice or approaching pro levels of application, colour play is the shortcut…

I am sitting in a garage, my left arm draped over a table dressed with a medical pad. The owner of the garage is a friend of a friend, and an artist, who recently bought a tattoo gun. This will be my first tattoo. The gun roars to life, and the scraping sensation of ink entering the skin begins on the inside of my bicep where, over the course of a couple of hours, a rose slowly unfurls. I have never felt more sure of a decision in my life. I have just turned 18 years old. Over the next eight years I will accumulate a patchwork of 26 tattoos across my arms, hands, chest and back. Some are small and dainty, like the little hibiscus blooming on my right…