Innehållsförteckning för December 2025 från Vogue Australia

BRIGHT DISPLAY Beading and paillettes – longtime cornerstones of party style – amp up classic tailoring and showpiece accessories, like Fendi’s dazzling patterned Baguette. Maximum detail, maximal impact. WELL RED Of all colours, red commands like no other. Incorporated into sizzling cut-out gowns, bandeau tops and close-fitting skirts, its appeal transcends dress codes. TIES THAT BIND The strappy sandal gets strappier and becomes the hero shoe for summer festivities. Chanel’s gold version, inspired by balmy European climes, is a high point. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue's edit. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue's edit. HANDLE IT The reign of the year’s most coveted bag, a hold-all tote, continues by virtue of adding tall arched handles, extending its allure for busy days through to eventful evenings. OPEN AIR…

France has no shortage of extraordinary structures dating back to the Middle Ages, and the Palais des Papes is one of them. The stone turrets of the 14th-century fortress stand over Avignon, a city known for its significance in Catholicism. Behind its stone walls is an open-air theatre, which plays host to the annual Festival d’Avignon creative fair and, earlier this year, Louis Vuitton’s resort 2026 show. The space has long been significant to the maison’s artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière. “Personally, [the Palais is] tied to a memory that had a major impact on me,” he says. “In the summer of 2000, a series of exhibitions and performances called La Beauté in Fabula was staged in the run-up to the Festival d’Avignon.” Inside, Ghesquière experienced the work of experimental creatives…

THE WINNER: LUCY KOUGH FOUNDER OF TAP THE GAP, AN APP DESIGNED TO HELP WOMEN PLAN THEIR FINANCIAL FUTURE As a schoolteacher and single mother of four, Margaret Smith devoted her life to caring for others. Despite her hard work, she retired without superannuation, which left her facing financial strain. “I understand what financial insecurity feels like,” Smith’s daughter Lucy Kough says of the driving force behind Tap the Gap, an app designed to help women by rounding up the cost of purchases and investing the change into their superannuation. “The tipping point was when I read about the [increasing] homelessness rate for older women. It’s unacceptable,” the Sydneybased creative director turned fintech founder continues. “That sat with me, and I knew we needed something lateral. No one wants to…

In an unremarkable office building, stripped bare during renovations in Paris’s Montparnasse, guests hurried inside. An autumn downpour claimed some of the crowd without umbrellas, but their haste had much more to do with the impending spring/summer ’26 Comme des Garçons show. In contrast to the frenzy, the brand’s staff calmly greeted people individually at the door, among them Adrian Joffe, the label’s president and husband to the woman of the hour Rei Kawakubo, Comme des Garçons’s creative director. As the show commenced, models in Kawakubo’s creations were let loose, floating onto the stage to acapella vocals of Spanish experimental singer Fátima Miranda. The first was like an undulating, cocooning column that opened like a giant clam to a jolting slice of Comme des Garçons red. Then came hessian and…

I am someone who believes olive green can serve as a ‘pop of colour’ and that a full face of make-up takes blush, mascara, brow gel and three minutes. I have not owned a bottle of foundation since I was 22. The idea of having to double cleanse fills me with dread. I have never even streamed the Brat album in full. So when I realise that the club-kid make-up aesthetic I most associate with Paris Hilton circa 2002 (silver dress, smudged black shadow – you know the photo) seems to have captured the divided attention of the TikTok generation, and that brands such as Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen and Christian Siriano have championed the look at recent shows, I almost panic. But then I shrug. How nice, I think.…

Nick Korompilas The year has been one of “growth and evolution” for New York-based videographer Nick Korompilas, who filmed behind the scenes on the Olivia Dean cover story, from page 97. It was like “shooting with a friend”, he says. “Olivia was warm and friendly, and gave each take 100 per cent, while remaining effortless and natural.” This year, Korompilas has crafted videos for Vogue with cover stars Lila Moss, Abbey Lee and Lorde, a personal favourite of the filmmaker. “We went deep in that episode,” he says. “We shot a roll of Super 8 and were in a Brooklyn warehouse studio with a great production team. That was pretty surreal.” Eyalla Tu'ipulotu Scouted in Wellington, Eyalla Tu’ipulotu follows her New Zealand fashion week debut with ‘Speaking volumes’, showcasing archival…

PRESS RESET Where to start? There were 15 designer debuts for spring/summer ’26 alone including, most notably, Gucci, Versace, Bottega Veneta, Chanel, Loewe, Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier and Balenciaga. It was the season that just kept giving. This was fashion’s big change, the long-awaited reset that kept everyone on their toes. Designers released films: Demna at Gucci with the short The Tiger, starring Demi Moore. Or they teased with pre-show looks at the Venice Film Festival even before the season started – thank you Jonathan Anderson at Dior, who followed it up in Paris with a super-layered collection and a sleek set designed by the brilliant Luca Guadagnino. Chanel’s Matthieu Blazy amazed everyone with a beautiful collection that effortlessly raised the bar for all who follow. Presented in the…

The Egyptians wore the Eye of Horus for protection, the ancient Romans carried cimaruta, an amulet in the shape of a sprig of rue, to ward off evil spirits, and knights carried charms inscribed with prayers into battle. More recently, surfers have worn St Christopher medallions to protect them in the ocean. It is hard to guess what French singersongwriter Françoise Hardy would have been hoping to protect herself against in 1973. The It girl, who seemingly had it all, adopted her own talisman in that year, one that has gone on to be one of the most recognisable and beloved: Van Cleef & Arpels’s Alhambra sautoirs. The necklace’s small motifs, inspired by a four-leaf clover, are strung along looped chains. The design was so resolved it has had few…

Tania Austin isn’t one to do things by halves. Earlier this year she stepped away from the chief executive role at Decjuba that made her one of Australia’s most successful fashion retailers. Yes, she’s still owner and chair of the company she built from a handful of stores in 2008 to some 170 in Australia and New Zealand today, but she wanted to turn her considerable, unstoppable energy, and “eternal optimism”, towards other things. Chief among them is philanthropy. The goal with the Decjuba Foundation, which she started in 2021 (Austin also has her own personal giving foundation, TANK), was predictably big. The mission: to positively impact 25 million lives by 2025. In September, Austin and her team celebrated reaching this milestone with around 60 of Decjuba’s charity partners, philanthropists…

FOLK BITCH TRIO Jeanie Pilkington, Heide Peverelle and Gracie Jane Sinclair started making music together the summer after high school in Melbourne “ just for fun”, says Sinclair. A gag name – Folk Bitch Trio – and a handful of gigs soon snowballed into an identity they now carry across the world. The band, its members all aged 23, has recently been touring America. “We have a shorthand way of speaking to each other – a lot of the time we don’t even have to use words,” says Sinclair. “We’re like a family, except one that actually likes each other,” adds Peverelle. This year, Folk Bitch Trio signed with powerhouse indie label Jagjaguwar and dropped its debut album Now Would Be a Good Time. The record was tracked live to…

Bob Mackie remembers when he was first struck, like lightning, by a ‘diva’. “The thing is that my old memories of divas are from going to early movie musicals -when I was maybe four, five, six years old,” the 86-year old designer recalls of accompanying his mother to the cinema in 1940s Los Angeles. The commanding glamour of the era’s silver-screen stars, including actor and pin-up Betty Grable, left a mark on him. “They’d say: ‘Oh, it’ll be fine. He’ll fall asleep. We’ll just watch the movie, and we’ll wake him up when it’s time to go,’” he remembers wistfully. “I never fell asleep.” To say Mackie has shaped the visual glamour associated with the modern diva would be an understatement. So much so, his work is the cornerstone of…

Olivia Dean is in New York on a rare day off. Last night, she played Madison Square Garden (MSG) to almost 20,000 people, supporting Sabrina Carpenter on the first night of her sold-out US tour. “It’s quite surreal to play MSG,” Dean admits. “It’s something I’ve thought about for a while. New York has a special buzz to it. Anytime I’ve ever sung in New York, I’ve been really nervous. I was quite nervous last night.” For many artists, playing the Garden is career defining, because “there’s just something about the energy in the room and the history. Seeing all the names of the people that have played there is quite crazy.” And Dean gets to do it three more times this week. “I think I need to be in…

At Vivienne Westwood’s memorial service in 2023, on a grey February day on the eve of London fashion week, Helena Bonham Carter took to the pulpit in bolts of red tartan and a neck full of pearls. It was all Westwood, of course. For more than four decades, Bonham Carter has seldom worn any other designer. “She has given me my armour to face the world for so many years,” said the actor. Milliner Stephen Jones, once a shy baby punk – “a real hick from the provinces” – too scared to cross the threshold of Westwood’s London boutique Sex, on the King's Road in Chelsea, remembers Bonham Carter’s words well. “She got a round of applause. In a funeral!” Jones says. “Vivienne knew how to cut for a woman,…

I mproving fine lines, adding elasticity, increasing firmness. Reducing hair shedding and aiding growth. Supporting collagen production and the strengthening of skin and nails. Across the categories of topical skincare, haircare and ingestibles, these are among the effects brands have linked to their successes with peptides, with a collective fixation on skin health and longevity. So, what exactly is this ingredient dominating every facet of the beauty industry, and is it as pioneering as promised? Much like the equally popular hyaluronic acid and collagen, peptides are endemic to us, quietly working away within our bodies to address myriad physiological concerns. “Peptides are short chains of amino acids,” explains Sydney dermatologist Dr Victoria Harris. “And when you link together a longer chain of amino acids with peptide bonds, then we call…

Although it’s only a three-and-a-half-hour flight from Australia’s east coast, New Zealand feels like another planet. And despite being so close, the North and South Islands are also strikingly different, each with a wealth of experiences for those who love design. The North Island is the country’s cultural centre, with a guard of great new fashion brands and excellent culinary experiences to explore. The South Island is defined by its open space and extraordinary mountain landscapes. Exploring in a Range Rover Sport, I took in the best of Aoetearoa, in design, nature and local flavour. ROAD TRIP MUST-HAVES Whittaker’s chocolate (when in New Zealand) stowed inside a Yu Mei Teresa bag. On the radio, Addison Rae’s 2025 album Addison. CULTURAL SPOTS Gallery Ne Geurra in Auckland, where I saw the…

Sagittarius 23 NOVEMBER-21 DECEMBER With Venus and Mars in your sign, you’re a love magnet. A New Moon also in your sign ushers in a new you, while a Full Moon suggests a partnership may reach a crossroads. As the cosmos moves the action to your money zone, your extravagant side is up for review. Long-term value rather than instant gratification is your go-to process into the New Year and beyond. Aquarius 21 JANUARY-18 FEBRUARY You’re set to be the life and soul of the party this month. Put similar energy into your hopes and dreams too, as a New Moon prompts you to activate your ambitions. A Full Moon sets the scene for a love-in or a meltdown, but the vibe is more mellow when Mars and Venus meet,…

It was Olivia Dean’s natural confidence and charisma that helped shape the look and feel of her first cover shoot for Vogue Australia. Despite it being stylist Katelyn Gray’s first time collaborating with the British singer-songwriter, she quickly connected with Dean’s spirit. “We wanted to lean into her natural vibe as an ‘old soul’, so embraced a character-driven, classic and iconic direction,” she explains of the creative brief. Shot in a New York studio and captured by regular Vogue photographer Dan Jackson, Dean’s innate magnetism as an artist helped bring the images to life. “Olivia was very assertive, knew herself and brought her performance energy – and epic playlist – to set,” says Gray.…

In fashion, overnight success stories are few. The prodigious ascent of Willy Chavarria over three decades is no exception, and is testimony to his talent and conviction. Born in rural California, of Mexican American heritage, Chavarria became a successful fashion designer, first cutting his teeth at Ralph Lauren before working as senior vice president of design at Calvin Klein. But the advent of his eponymous menswear label in 2015 saw his name become synonymous with a new era of American fashion, one charged with purpose. Now, a decade later, Chavarria has shown at Paris fashion week twice. His pieces are coveted by collectors and appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s 2025 Superfine: Tailoring Black Style exhibition. Chavarria’s work is replete with impactful tailoring, carefully thought-out colours and layered compositions,…

The Venus’s sleek east-west proportions fit after-dark essentials: phone, keys, lipstick. What else is needed for carefree evenings? The Aquadorcet is a carnival of colour made for the dance floor. Not suitable for wallflowers.…

Twice in her working life, Renate Reinsve has experienced the full-body feeling of complete surrender to the moment. The first was on the set of The Worst Person in The World, the 2021 Oscarnominated romantic comedy directed by Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier. It mythologises a character called Julie, played buoyantly by Reinsve, a young woman trundling merrily through life. At the time of the film’s production, Reinsve was a 30-something jobbing thespian in Oslo, one rejection away from packing up her artistic ambitions for good. Worst Person revived her career, won her Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival, and bought her a one-way ticket to Hollywood. In the intervening years, she has starred in the AppleTV miniseries Presumed Innocent with Jake Gyllenhaal and A Different Man with Sebastian Stan.…

Fashion cannot exist without change, but some changes reach beyond the season. When it was announced last year that Chanel was without a creative director, people across the industry looked to the house in nervous expectation. For nearly 40 years, Chanel had articulated the vision of one man: Karl Lagerfeld. After he died in 2019, his longtime deputy Virginie Viard had carried on his style. Viard’s departure last year opened one of the highest seats in fashion but also raised the possibility that Chanel’s taste could take a startling turn. Matthieu Blazy, a comparatively young designer who had distinguished himself doing surprising things with leather at Bottega Veneta, was not considered an obvious choice, and when he was announced as artistic director a year ago, he had the task not…

COLOUR FADE “The UV in Australia is among the harshest in the world, so unfortunately colour fade is ever-present, especially in the summer months,” says Anthony Nader, creative director of Sydney salon Raw Anthony Nader. It’s an issue Diane Gorgievski, founder of Koda Cutters, names as “one of the biggest frustrations we see in the salon”, adding that in addition to UV exposure, “salt water and frequent washing [means] colour pigments lose vibrancy and tone far sooner than expected, leaving hair looking brassy, dull or uneven”. TREATMENT: Nader recommends a product that “offers protection from thermal damage (to temperatures of 230°C) and shields against UV rays” as one key tip when it comes to colour fading. For Gorgievski, the answer is consistency. “We always advise clients to tone and care…

Lev Glazman remembers the south of France. “It was nine o’clock at night, and my family and I were walking to a sanctuary to listen to opera singers,” he says. “As we passed one of the houses, I smelled honeysuckle. It was so intoxicating. I picked a small stem and took it with me. When the music began, the scent became even stronger, rising with the voices. I’ll never forget that moment.” That recollection is a prime reason Glazman integrated scent into the development of his boutique hotel The Maker, located in New York’s Hudson Valley. The first fragrance was called Fire, inspired by the property’s lounge, “and the scent of a candle burning with notes of tobacco, frankincense and leather”. From there, Glazman created eight more bottled aromas, used…

ANDY MOLLER Moller’s Studio Boum is behind some of fashion’s best parties, from post-runway allnighters to invitation-only intimate dinners. A NIGHT TO REMEMBER We just wrapped a party with Acne Studios and Robyn in LA. She’s an icon and a total party starter. It reminded me of a wild night we created with Robyn and Neneh Cherry about 10 years ago in London. The energy was electric, the music was perfect and half the crowd ended up dancing on the furniture. Those are the moments we think about, where atmosphere, rhythm and detail combine. CHECKLIST FOR A SUCCESSFUL SOIRÉE Low lighting, a well-stocked bar and an open mind if the evening decides to take a different turn. The best nights usually do. FAIL-SAFE FARE Simple food made well. I’m not…