Innehållsförteckning för December 2021 från Vogue Australia

We made it. After a particularly long year, the festive season is officially upon us and overdue gatherings have made a welcome comeback into our calendars. Here at Vogue, we want to help you celebrate with inspiration for the rebirth of your style. Dressing up is back, as illustrated by newlywed Lily Collins on our cover this month. The photo shoot took place just days after she returned home from her month-long Scandinavian honeymoon with her husband, filmmaker Charlie McDowell. The second season of television show Emily in Paris, which propelled Lily into super stardom, starts streaming this month, and is sure to make us pine for Paris and provide more fashion to fall in love with. In her interview with Hannah-Rose Yee (see page 137), Lily reveals her new-found…

She has blue hair and 3D Bugs Bunny, Dumbo and miniature milkshake appliqués the size of wine gums atop her fingernails. She’s as likely to mix Marni with an unknown fashion graduate’s debut collection, or archival Miu Miu with an upcycled crochet tank by a genderless New York micro label. No, she’s not a megawatt Italian influencer, or Danish It-girl, but rather creative consultant and fashion writer Kristen Bateman, who has just over 12k followers on her Instagram account where you’d never catch a #paidpartnership or single #sponcon post. With such unique personal style, Bateman could have easily gone with the flow and used her following to entice brands to pay her to wear their clothes. So why not? “I’m not an influencer,” she says plainly. “I’m a writer and…

1. “Marc Chagall is my favourite artist. I’m shaken to my core by his world, by the dreams. His approach to colour is incredible. There are quite a few concepts in his work that I explore in my own, like the piano and the experimentation with the same colour palette. I find his work so touching.” 2. “I love the work of [photographer Tim Walker] … his references and how he approaches them, especially with paintings, how he contrasts the strange and surreal is mind-blowing. I hope one day I get to work with him.” 3. “In Paris, everyone should visit the Musée Picasso. There is a mood and energy there that is intoxicating. It’s a small place, very charming and intimate.” 4. “The printed dress from Rochas spring/ summer…

“THERE’S SOMETHING SO comforting about pieces that have stood the test of time. The enduring allure of honest materials, craftsmanship and the uniquely handmade is what will separate a passing trend from an heirloom. Designs with strong connections to the past, whether by technique or aesthetic, are as relevant today as they were yesterday, with good reason.”…

Bark Ladies: Eleven Artists from Yirrkala, Victoria The diverse works from Northeast Arnhem Land’s Buku Larrngay Mulka Centre (Buku) are the subject of the NGV’s latest survey of First Nations art. Since 2000, Buku’s group of female Yolngu artists has been painting on bark and larrakitj (hollow poles), honing the craft in works that celebrate Yolngu Law – the belief that the land and water are one in a single cycle of life. At the National Gallery of Victoria from December 22, 2021 to May 1, 2022. Tarnanthi, SA Red earth, blue water and soaring corellas – such familiarities of our Australian landscape are admired through a contemporary lens at Tarnanthi, a survey of First Nations art held annually since 2015 at Adelaide’s AGSA. This year, the exhibition celebrates the…

Richard Christiansen FOUNDER OF FLAMINGO ESTATE AND AUTHOR OF FLAMINGO ESTATE: FRIDAYS FROM THE GARDEN, LOS ANGELES “I’ve always said that the garden is the most important room of the house, and the most important room at a party. Under the cloak of darkness, you can create so much drama and anticipation as you move through the garden, into the house and outside again. It allows your guests to go down the rabbit hole, just like Alice. We’ve all been to parties where people stand in one room and don’t talk to each other. The responsibility of a host is to let people move through spaces, to create serendipitous meetings and conversations. We’re fortunate enough to have a bar at Flamingo, but I always set up at least two or…

Pearly whites Placed close to the lash line and paired with brushed-up brows, pearl accoutrements effortless and imaginative. In the red Summer’s best accessory may be cherry lips, but the 2.0 version calls for a deeper, moodier rendition. Dot art For a spot of creativity, press the tip of a pencil eyeliner wherever you please. How to add a touch of glamour? Metallic gold shadow will do it. A cut above There are few hairstyles more enduring than the bob, and nothing says understated elegance quite like an iconic style charting choppy new territory. Walk the line Shirk the dance-floor versions of aqua eyeliner in favour of pencil-thin ribbons of pigment that follow the crease line. Blink and you’ll miss them. Black and gold Cleopatra-inspired eyeliner and gold accessories make…

Glossy. Gorgeous. Lush. Candid. Sexy. A perpetual party where everyone looks good, smells good and is happy. And maybe sometimes high. This is Tom Ford 002 , which at first flick is a feel-good reflection of fashion life before the pandemic: the humming sensuality and outright glamour, where anything was possible. Remember that? But then, this book is also a confessional. Tom Ford 002 covers the turbulent years since the polymath left Gucci Group and Yves Saint Laurent in 2004 – where not only was he creative director and designer of both brands, producing 16 collections a year, but vice chairman of Gucci Group and a key player in acquisitions such as Alexander McQueen, Balenciaga and Bottega Veneta. The book charts everything since, from the launch of his namesake brand…

The algorithm doesn’t lie. Slowly but surely, the Explore grid on Eva Chen’s Instagram feed morphed from shoes, bags and beauty serums into ceramics, mirrors and house tours. Meanwhile, words like patina and names like Paul McCobb began to pepper her conversations and thoughts. All signs pointed to her latest project: the renovation of a Connecticut country home for her young family. For Chen, a born-and-raised New Yorker and style maven who now works as Instagram’s director of fashion and shopping partnerships, these new-found fixations marked an even larger shift. “I grew up a first-generation American in Greenwich Village and didn’t know a landscape beyond Manhattan,” she reflects. “To me, nature was Washington Square Park.” A weekend at Troutbeck hotel with her husband, Thomas Bannister, an advertising creative director, introduced…

“THE WATER LOOKS LIKE GLASS.” I look down past my feet and then turn my eyes forward to see what Ash was talking about. The fairy floss skies of the Brisbane morning reflects into the water, glazed and untouched, shortly before the barge that we’re standing on shatters the glass to take us across to Stradbroke Island. I should say straight off: I’ve suffered from Complex PTSD for a long time, which means that I’m always in a fight with fear. Though for some reason I feel safe with Ash, who I’m riding with for the first time today. It feels like we are walking and talking on the same side of that glass wall. Motorcycle riders seem to forge friendships quickly—maybe because riding one instantly aligns you under the…

Natalie Reilly “Kind, empathetic and whip-smart” are the words Sydney-based journalist Natalie Reilly would use to best describe celebrated Australian actor Rebel Wilson, who she had the pleasure of interviewing for the feature ‘Rebel with a cause’, from page 120. “I felt like I was talking to one of my friends,” she says. On the motivation behind their conversation, Reilly explains that “so often, when women are in the public eye, their body becomes everyone’s business. I wanted to find out what Rebel thinks and feels about her journey, not just in terms of physical health, but her emotional journey – from shy little girl to famous actor – as well.” Ned Rogers Australian photographer Ned Rogers captured British-American actor Lily Collins in an old Hollywood studio for the cover…

By now, plenty has been said about the collective yearning to dress with joy after almost two years in sartorial limbo. Be it a fear of having taken the ‘B.C.’ (‘Before Covid-19’) years for granted – and reflecting on missed opportunities for joyful dressing in times before lockdowns and mask mandates – recent collections have called for rebellion against conservative, safe style. But among the output from today’s fashion shows, which will surely be studied one day as a way of assessing humanity’s bounce back from a once-in-a-lifetime event, the overarching theme seems as simple as just wanting to have a good time. Herein lies the resurgence of the mini-length party dress: a standout trend from recent collections, which can be chalked up to an inherently human yearning for fun.…

WITH THE RETURN of bricks-and-mortar shopping, it’s worth thinking about who our dollars support. The Edit Collection, an initiative from the Australian Fashion Council, Vicinity Centres and Afterpay, is a pop-up store open this month at Sydney’s Chatswood Chase supercharging the retail experience while championing Australian fashion. “Fashion doesn’t get as spotlighted as often because it really is a ‘nice to have’ and can be deemed as a little bit indulgent,” says Charlotte Hicks, founder of ethically made Sydney label Esse Studios. She is one of four consciously creative emerging labels including Bondi Born and First Nations Fashion + Design Collective in the store deploying smart mirrors that use augmented reality to allow users to try on variations in colour and size and a digital assistant to help with outfit…

Where would one even begin sourcing costumes for a movie about Gucci, the century-old brand that’s transcended fashion industry fame to become a pop culture behemoth? That question was posed to legendary director Sir Ridley Scott and costume designer Janty Yates when the two began working together on the upcoming film, House of Gucci. Yates and Scott’s professional relationship began with 2000’s Gladiator, which earned Yates an Academy Award for Costume Design, and their resulting portfolio of blockbuster collaborations speaks to an enduring creative partnership. Films such as Robin Hood and The Martian showed Yates’s ability to channel various different time periods, but embodying the excess of 1980s Italian fashion for House of Gucci presented a new, unprecedented challenge for the designer – especially when the film was unexpectedly green-lit…

Outside factor Alfresco aficionados will gravitate towards practical picnic accessories plus things to call on in meditative moments bright sunny colours a must. At your leisure ’Tis the season for frivolity. Maximise your off-duty hours with accoutrements that bring plenty of joy and merriment. Champagne included. Want to shop Vogue’s edit? Scan the QR code using your phone to get instant access to the ultimate Christmas gift guide as selected by the Vogue editors. Work it The career-focused will relish added extras that augment their work life, right down to the last detail, and provide a polished armour to their office endeavours. Home run We all know one: the kind whose home is their ultimate domain. Help them trick it out from practical objects to accessories in fresh hues lifted…

Anna Lahey is fastidious about what goes on beneath the surface of our skin. Affable and whip-smart, the brains behind Australian beauty brand Vida Glow is just as comfortable talking hydrolysed marine collagen synthesis as she is the work of Australian photographer Kara Rosenlund, a print of which hangs in the company’s new, stylishly appointed North Sydney HQ. “Our goal is to be world leaders in ingestible beauty powder,” says Lahey, who is firmly on her way with Vida Glow’s Marine Collagen anointed the most popular marine collagen ingestible globally, selling one every four seconds. “But I’m taking into account that even the most avid ingestible user like myself, or like many of our customers, still always uses a topical.” Seven years on, it would seem the perfect time for…

Yasmin Poole, Youth advocate PORTRAIT BY HUGH STEWART It’s hard to believe that Yasmin Poole has only just finished her university degree. The public speaker, writer and youth advocate sits on the boards of Oz Harvest and YWCA Australia, is the National Ambassador for Plan International and, earlier this year, was named the 2021 Youth Influencer of the Year by The Martin Luther King Jr. Center. Poole is passionate about amplifying the voices of young Australians in the national conversation, and in particular improving the representation of young women and people of colour in politics. “If you want to create systems that support Australians better, we need to include young people in the conversation. What I’m trying to push for is to give young people a platform that allows us…

W henever we talk about movies, and in particular the really good ones, what we’re really talking about is cinematography. This is the art of the camera: the way light is used to illuminate or obscure, the tones and the colours, the textural graininess of film or the sharpness of digital, how close or how far the lens sits from an actor’s face, the how and the why we see what we see on-screen. And capturing it all is the cinematographer, or director of photography. “The cinematographer helps to translate the director’s vision into photographic imagery,” says Rachel Morrison of her craft. “My favourite thing about my work is that no two days are the same, no two shots are the same, and no two stories are the same,” she…

Christmas mornings with three small children – as anyone will know who has three small children – are at once heartwarming and exhausting. Upon far too early an awakening, my late wife Kate and I would have to stop the kids from going after their gifts like velociraptors attacking their prey. After all the hubbub and the thrill of gift giving had ended and some adult relative who had come to stay was assembling a toy that I refused to assemble because I can’t bear to read instructions, it was always our intention to loll around for a while in our pyjamas, sip coffee, and watch the children short-circuit as they bounced from one toy to another. Every year we imagined that these rare moments of repose were a possibility,…

“An LBD update that ups the ante: Givenchy’s slinky number with trailing pleated hem gives good Paris after-dark vibes with a twist. The movement in the skirt catches the eye and holds it.” – KAILA MATTHEWS, FASHION AND MARKET EDITOR “There’s something visually satisfying about the symmetry of well executed, figure hugging ruching. Bottega Veneta’s canary yellow version in decadent velvet would light up any dance floor. A flash of the collarbone via the off-shoulder style only helps.” – ALICE BIRRELL, FASHION FEATURES DIRECTOR “Ruched fabric has the power to bring volume, texture and a welcome point of difference to any garment. Though scrunched fabric might conjure unfavourable memories of the 1980s for some, it’s an au courant way of updating any understated party dress; just ask designers Atlein and…

It is hard to cause a ripple among the fashion flock, but something turned up this month, turning heads and feeling confusingly fresh. There it was at Copenhagen Fashion Week, peeking out from under a velvet blazer, or under an unbuttoned man-style shirt. Then again, outside shows in New York where it was a straight substitute for a top: bikinis and swimwear as stand-ins for clothing. It wasn’t so much the show of skin – because there was that on stylist Jenny Walton in New York with an itty-bitty navy bralette paired with a navel-baring, low-slung Prada skirt and kitten heels – but rather the out-of-context jolt; a familiar piece staking its claim in new wardrobe territory. Illustrator and fashion director at her husband Scott Schuman’s platform The Sartorialist, Walton…

Who: Anna Spiro, interior designer and owner of Spiro Store. Where: The Stradbroke Island home she shares with her partner. What: A small but perfectly formed two-bedroom home recently renovated to reflect the couple’s eclectic yet timeless taste. DESIGNER ANNA SPIRO’S tiny house on Queensland’s charming Stradbroke Island is picturesque in every sense. But it wasn’t always so. “Nobody really wanted this house,” says Spiro, pointing out the hard-to-decorate dimensions, which include two joined hexagonal pavilions, a laminate kitchen and an off-kilter floor plan. But the interior designer, who now splits her time between Stradbroke and Melbourne, is not one to shy away from a challenge, gutting and reinventing the small space in a matter of weeks. The result is an eclectic mix of Spiro’s print-heavy style and subtle coastal…

By the time you read this, Kaitlyn Dever will be in Australia. The Gold Coast, to be exact, where the film stars go. She is in town to make a romantic comedy aptly titled Ticket To Paradise in which she appears alongside – drum roll, please, if we can’t get a drum roll for this, when can we? – Julia Roberts and George Clooney. The premise is some delightful, peak rom-com nonsense: long-separated exes must overcome their enmity if they have any hope of stopping the ill-advised wedding of their cherished daughter. Dever will play that daughter, a role that is set to anoint her as the radiant, next-gen American sweetheart. And as a rom-com superfan, who spent most of lockdown bingeing the genre’s classics, Dever couldn’t be more excited.…

Emily Ratajkowski has a control issue. And a significant one at that. It’s four weeks out from the release of her debut book My Body – a collection of intimately rendered essays – and editors at a UK newspaper have leaked passages from the chapter detailing her 2013 experience on the set of the controversial music video Blurred Lines in which she claims singer Robin Thicke groped her breast. A clickbait frenzy has ensued with ‘Sexual Assault!’ headlines dominating home pages worldwide. It’s not the kind of pre-publicity she had envisioned. “It’s definitely frustrating and made me wonder if I’m doing the right thing by publishing the book,” the 30-year-old model, designer, activist and now author laments over Zoom, late one evening from her New York apartment. “I felt a…

GRACE BROWN 2021 Future Innovators Award winner and engineering student leading a team creating Abi, an autonomous companion robot. “My dream is to push the state of the art of robotics in Australia,” says Grace Brown, an undergraduate mechatronics engineering student at the University of Melbourne. That dream is Abi, an autonomous bipedal humanoid robot which will be able to carry out simple tasks in a hospital setting but also act as a companion that can respond to conversation and give hugs. Inspired by Baymax, the healthcare companion robot from Disney’s Big Hero 6, Brown first pitched the idea to the Melbourne Space Program, a select group of talented university students working on complex projects. Since her idea was accepted, she has recruited a team of 19 undergrad and post-grad…

CURRENTLY READING: “I’ve just started Untamed [by Glennon Doyle].” TIP FOR APPLYING THE PERFECT RED LIPSTICK: “I like to do a V on the cupid’s bow that goes a little bit beyond the lips and then I join the outside corner to the tip of the cupid’s bow. Red lipstick has a tendency to shrink so I also draw a bit beyond the lip line on the bottom. I also smudge the edge to make it a bit less harsh.” BEST COFFEE SHOP IN NEW YORK: “I don’t drink coffee but the best place for matcha is Sunday in Brooklyn.” FAVOURITE BEAUTY STORE: “The Guerlain store on the Champs-Élysées in Paris is by far the most beautiful store in the world.” SUMMER BEAUTY ESSENTIAL: “My brand’s Boum-Boum Milk, which is…

VOGUE AUSTRALIA: Congratulations on your new book Bella the Brave. REBEL WILSON: “I’m so excited! A lot of the illustrations, by Annabel Tempest, are based on real photos from my childhood, so the characters all kind of look like my friends and family, which is awesome.” VA: So the book is based on your childhood? RW: “Yes, my sister, Liberty – ‘Stella’ in the book was always very extroverted and I was always very introverted. The story – of my mum dragging me to a performance class – really happened. She somehow knew, even though I was super shy, that I would love it and that it would give me confidence. The sad part is I wasn’t little like the character in the book, I was actually 13! I was…

God only knows when it began, but I can tell you this: it is never going to end. I don’t mean the pandemic, the origins of which are more or less clear, and I don’t mean our great hunkering-down, which hadn’t even started back on the Groundhog Day it now so resembles. I mean a minor, unexpected and vexing by-product of them both: the feel-good chain email, some version of which you have almost certainly received while you’ve been stuck at home. Friends! I know these are trying times, so, in the interest of bringing a little joy into all of our lives, I’m inviting you to join in sharing a beloved poem/recipe/inspiring quote/home workout/ elephant joke/photo of yourself in your favourite Renaissance Fair outfit/drawing of a cat in a…

SAGITTARIUS 23 November–21 December Whether it’s subtle or show-stopping, change is imminent with a New Moon eclipse in your sign. Venus raises your spending power though buyer’s regret is likely when Venus turns retrograde. The Full Moon may make a relationship feel complete or ready to delete. Either way, your ruler Jupiter brings more luck, love and adventure to home life. STYLE ICON: Adelaide Clemens CAPRICORN 22 December–20 January If your empathy and ability to communicate, learn or remember have felt adrift lately, things should become clearer this month, especially with Jupiter boosting the way you connect and create. A New Moon eclipse could bring an attitude adjustment, and reconsidering your look, love-life and finances are also big themes. STYLE ICON: Odessa Young AQUARIUS 21 January–18 February As joy-bringer Jupiter…

IT ALL STARTED WHEN ... Mario Prada opened a leather goods house with brother Martino in Milan in 1913. Before Mario’s granddaughter Miuccia joined in 1975, they made pieces exceptional enough to earn the right to use the ruling royal Italian House of Savoy’s coat of arms. When ready-to-wear launched in 1988, Miuccia quickly immortalised herself as fashion’s arbiter of considered, refined design with her stripped-back aesthetic, leaving nowhere to hide. Interrogating silhouettes, the relationship of clothes to the body and women’s lives, the PhD graduate of political science left no doubt as to fashion’s connection with the wider world. To prove this point, in 1993 she opened the cultural institution Fondazione Prada fuelled by an appreciation of envelope-pushing ideas. And now, in an unprecedented collaboration, Raf Simons has joined…