Vogue Australia

I am by nature an optimist and I’ve always looked to the future, which probably comes with the territory when you work in fashion, but lately my resolve has been tested. I returned to work in mid-January to find traumatised staff. At Vogue our hearts

TOPPING THE LIST of trending search terms for summer was the phrase ‘fires near me’. I am not surprised. Like so many others, I downloaded a popular app to get the latest information as I prepared to drive through fire-affected areas on my recent hol

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I WAS NINE when my mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, but it’s only recently that I felt ready to talk about her death publicly. Being open and vulnerable about something so personal and so devastating has taken time. Nine is very young to hav

Minimalism has again gotten under the skin of designers who are invoking the simplicity of the 90s mainstay. Try the freedom of an uncomplicated palette cleanser on for size, like a soft ecru head to toe. Enclosed in a blaze of carmine wool, rapper

FOR SYDNEY CREATIVE Milan Ring, last year was a milestone: she went a whole year without buying anything new, and that’s to say little of her musical triumphs as a singer, songwriter, producer, rapper and multi-instrumentalist. “I wanted to minimise

“Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when needs be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud” – Rosa Luxemburg COMMUNITY, COLLABORATION AND human gestures all lie at the heart of the new s

JORDAN DALAH THINKS about clothing in a way that an artist thinks about painting. “You start off with an undercoat of paint [in art], which is like an underwear layer,” he says. “You lock everything in, and slowly adorn a canvas with all these rich c

IT IS NO more than five degrees in wintry Milan on a January day, but at least in Paul Andrew’s mind, the sun is always shining. “I love to be outside in the heat, with the sun and the blue sky,” he says. “I find that so uplifting and inspiring.” Giv

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1. “I’m in love with 070 Shake’s voice. She’s becoming big now and I’m so happy for her. She walked for a Koché show and did a concert for our after-party two years ago, and it was spectacular!” 2 “I was lucky enough to spend time this summer in an

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IT’S FORTUNATE THAT Milly Alcock isn’t one to shy away from profanity, because the opening scene of Upright, the Australian drama she starred in last December alongside actor and comedian Tim Minchin, required her to unleash the swearing. “I remember

HER NAME MIGHT not be instantly familiar, but Melina Matsoukas’s show-reel tells a different story. The 39-year-old director behind such music videos as Beyoncé’s Formation , Rihanna’s We Found Love and Lady Gaga’s Just Dance has bagged two Grammys f

FOMO FESTIVAL, PARRAMATTA, New South Wales; January 2020. The Vogue team is on the ground to catch local rap sensation Chillinit and, really, to people-watch. At the gates, we’re met by sniffer dogs and a dozen police – a norm at any festival these d

MOST PEOPLE WOULD baulk at the thought of transforming their personal hardships into catchy anthems for others to connect with. Not Thelma Plum. For the 25-year-old Gamilaraay woman, making music is a form of healing. “There’s something so beautiful

IN CELEBRATION OF International Women’s Day, a special event titled Blak Matriarchies will pay tribute to the powerful intergenerational bonds within Indigenous communities. The panel, which is part of the annual All About Women Festival, will featur

TAYLA VLAEMINCK IS one of Australia’s most talented young cricketers, despite only taking up the sport when she was 14. As a child she was a keen soccer player, but experience with the bat and ball only extended as far as playing with her brother in

Teamed with a poker-straight fringe and pulled into a slick ponytail, a textbook plait takes on an architectural edge. Worn as sky-high pigtails or understated and sleek, the versatility of plaits mean they’re as imperfect as you make them. Punchy

IT’S TELLING THAT among the first things you’ll notice about a Henry Rose fragrance is either the sleek, minimalist design (in transparent recyclable glass) or the intoxicating blend of botanicals. Less transparent is the fact the five-piece collecti

Maximalists rejoice: the new approach calls for all manner of conversation-starting hues for eyes, lips, cheeks and beyond. They may whisper their arrival, but a dewy complexion, balmy lips and second-skin tints speak volumes on application. ALL PRI

PIERRE-ALEXIS DUMAS , Hermès artistic director and sixth-generation family member, is feeling nostalgic. He’s handling an almost century-old pocket-sized mirror, which the brand’s namesake founder Thierry Hermès, designed and gave to his wife to assi

AS WE STAGGER blinking and numb into this new decade, there may be no more appropriate summation of where we’re at as a species than the latest Silicon Valley trend: dopamine fasting. If you haven’t heard the term, the ethos is this: the reason why s

Zendaya, my queen!” Two precocious 20-year-olds are slurping down a shared bowl of dumplings in downtown LA, lost in deep discussion about the show every college student with access to an HBO account is raving about. Despite explicit parental advisor

Sun-worshipping Sydneysiders are known for a devotion to the outdoors: channel their embrace of all things skin. Christopher Kane’s sky-print, thigh-high mod mini is the ultimate nod. Sydney when she sparkles is the subject of much adoration, and wh

Clare Press: “What does activism mean to you? Moreblessing, you’re the only one among us who uses the word in your Instagram bio.” Moreblessing Maturure: “I remember when the phrase ‘alt right activist’ started being used to describe neo-Nazis, and

Bhenji Ra is poised on the tips of her Giuseppe Zanottis, effortlessly easing out of a duck walk, when we first meet on the set of her Vogue photo shoot. For the uninitiated, the duck walk is a universal dance move in the voguing lingua franca , a st

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“Never.” Pierpaolo Piccioli is weighing in on whether an haute couture idea is ever abandoned for being too difficult. “It is never too much. Here, it was the idea of embroidering, not on the dress but so it was floating around the dress so it’s like

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It was the second week of 2020 and a large portion of the Australian eastern seaboard was burning. Catastrophic fires covering more than 10 million hectares had devastated entire ecosystems and townships. Meanwhile, trapped families were huddling tog

LONG BEFORE THE fire risk had receded across the eastern states this summer, a number of grassroots movements had sprung up to help bushfire-affected communities. The most high-profile of these is the Empty Esky concept, which encourages travellers t

In celebration of Sydney Airport’s centenary, esteemed guests were invited to a lavish black-tie gala at what was teased to be a top-secret location. Upon arrival, they were transported to a custom marquee positioned on the tarmac next to a vintage D

Just when you thought the reincarnations of the Hermès Birkin couldn’t get much loftier, along comes the Birkin Sellier 35, exquisitely assembled in multi colours by the maison’s artisans, made to mimic the changing colours of the sky. ALL PRICES AP