Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2019 i Harper's Bazaar Australia

IT MAKES SENSE that the most exciting talent in acting and music should also be the most adventurous when it comes to personal style. This month, we bring you not one but two Australian cover stars, both having a serious impact on the entertainment and fashion scenes. Canberra-raised actor Samara Weaving’s performance in the upcoming comedy-horror flick Ready or Not proves she’s a scene-stealer despite the seriously heavyweight names she is increasingly cast opposite — a quality that has seen designer Nicolas Ghesquière tap her to appear in Louis Vuitton campaigns for several seasons now, alongside the likes of Michelle Williams, Alicia Vikander and Chloë Grace Moretz. Last month, the BAZAAR team flew to LA to shoot the now West Hollywood-based 27-year-old, the results of which can be seen on…

It was love at first sight for Louis Vuitton’s artistic director, Nicolas Ghesquière, when he spotted Australian actor Samara Weaving on a broadcast of the 2018 Golden Globes. Since then, she’s starred in LV campaigns and perched front row for shows, gushing to BAZAAR that she loves the label because it’s “classic style that’s ageless. It’s a little daring, a little risky, but I believe I could look back in 10 years and still love it.” When she’s shopping for herself, Weaving says she loves Australian brands such as Zimmermann and Aje. She’s also a woman aware of her proportions, which translates to a sense of style that is purposeful yet seems effortless. “I wear a lot of high-waisted pants and flares to elongate my legs,” she says. “I [usually]…

ON SOCIAL MEDIA: “There’s a lot of pressure to put more of yourself out there on social media, [but] you need to like the image or content you post. If you like it, you’re already ahead and it doesn’t actually matter how many others like it.” “Most things in social media (such as video) are new, so sometimes you won’t know how you feel about it until you give it a go. It can be a bit of trial and error to work out how to strike the right balance between keeping up and having it sit well with you.” AT WORK: “Self-reflection can help at work. If you like how you present yourself and believe you’re doing a good job, you’re going to be less worried about how others…

PLAY IT COOL Daisy Hoppen and Amanda Borberg are the duo behind the street-style set’s surprising accessory du jour: the fan. Pernille Teisbaek and Camille Charrière employed Fern’s antique-inspired creations to semaphore summer poise and beat the heat. THE LOCAL Bondi Born’s clean-lined designs are set to be the most coveted costumes of the summer. Under a new creative director (BAZAAR’s fashion editor-at-large, Karla Clarke), the brand brings a neat sensibility to figure-sculpting swimsuits and classic-cut bikinis. Our favourites? The rust-hued two-pieces and ultramodern Sloane silhouette. SEEING PINK This month marks the release of the latest of H&M’s cultish designer collaborations, with GiambattistaValli joining the likes of Alexander Wang, Balmain and Isabel Marant. Kendall Jenner is the face of the GV x H&M collaboration, which will launch globally on November…

You’d be correct in assuming that if a brand has been around for more than 140 years, it must be pretty good. Great, even. Legendary, perhaps. Lancel is one such brand. From humble beginnings in 1876, the French label is now famous for its leather goods, including handbags, suitcases, wallets, purses and other accessories. With an inhouse atelier in the heart of Paris and a new flagship store in Melbourne’s famed Emporium, it combines the best of both worlds: European luxury that can be bought locally. The brand, which prides itself on quality craftsmanship and the utmost quality, is loved by fashion insiders as well as anyone who loves adding vibrant colours to make their Instagram feeds and their outfits pop. There’s sure to be a style to complement any…

1. PARIS GEORGIA When Georgia Cherrie and Paris Mitchell returned to their native Auckland after stints in Barcelona and New York, respectively, the duo had a creative itch. On top of their online vintage store, The Mercantile, they launched this brand of luxury basics. Their slip dresses became a hit, and the range has expanded to include linen suits, apron dresses and silky blouses with matching skirts. This year, they launched a bridal line. “Being geographically far away gives us a sense of drive and makes us want to connect,” Mitchell says. Echoes Cherrie, “We don’t come from a culture of celebrities and red carpet events, so we dream up designs that are aspirational but also rooted in what we’d wear every day.” 2 MEADOWLARK Meadowlark has been around for…

SPF Sun protection factor. “This is the unit commonly used to measure the protection strength of different sunscreens and how well the cream protects the skin,” says Dr Victoria Mar, an associate professor and dermatologist from Melanoma & Skin Cancer Trials. UVA/UVB UVA rays go deeper into the skin and are responsible for photoageing, while UVB rays affect the skin surface and can cause burning and skin cancer. SPF relates only to protection against UVB burn: for a product offering both, look for “broad spectrum” on the label. CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL FILTERS “Both are present in sunscreens,” Dr Mar says. “Chemical filters absorb UV radiation and physical filters are microfine particles which sit on the surface of the skin and act as a physical barrier.”…

MAKEUP & BODY “I’m all about simplicity, so I use minimal products.” DAILY ROUTINE: “My everyday look is very simple — I use a tinted moisturiser, a BareMinerals concealer and some Kosås blush, then I curl my lashes and add mascara.” EYE OPENER: “When I’ve got more time, I love Pat McGrath’s Bronze Temptation palette and the Anastasia Beverly Hills eyebrow gel.” NAILS: “I see the incredible Jocelyn Petroni in Sydney, who does the best mani-pedi using all Chanel products.” TOP TREATMENTS: “Mosman Spa & Cosmedical Clinic in Perth does amazing body contouring and deep relaxation massages.” SKIN “My skin is dry, so I’m all about hydration and fragrance-free products. I created my Equal Beauty range to help women and men feel good about themselves without having to try.” SKIN…

IN A WORLD IN WHICH we’re rarely without an internet connection or a device within arm’s reach, it can feel as though there are myriad things vying for our time and attention at any given moment. Whether it’s an Instagram post, an article on Facebook, that op-ed you’ve been meaning to read or the texts and emails you know you should be replying to, the demands on our attention aren’t exclusively online, but increasingly our phones, our computers and the constant curation of our digital presence make up a kind of black hole into which our gaze and our time so easily goes. These various touchpoints trigger a kind of fractured attention whereby we rarely feel fully connected to any one thing. And we’re not imagining it: earlier this year,…

SWIM FAN ‘Timeless’ is the new summer swim and resortwear collection by Jets. Tropical florals, classic stripes and vintage scarf prints are finished with elevated hardware including oversized resin buckles to deliver a collection of signature Jets silhouettes reimagined for now. Liberate Plunge one-piece swimsuit, $190, jets.com.au. HOT PICK Winter’s done: time to nail down your go-to facial sun protection. Our tip? Hunter Lab’s SPF 50+ Facial Sunscreen is lightweight, water resistant for two hours and made of 90 per cent naturally derived ingredients, including zinc oxide for broad spectrum protection, and soothing aloe vera and vitamin E. $48, from hunterlab. com.au and adorebeauty.com.au. WITH LOVE Mimco’s partnership with the Ethical Fashion Initiative continues with the Lovers Knot collection. Each item was handcrafted by 148 Kenyan artisans, 84 per cent of…

“Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.”– ALEXA CHUNG, model, presenter, designer and Scorpio SCORPIO (October 24–November 22) If you don’t know which way to turn, consider retracing your steps. Mercury is retrograde in your sign now, meaning a U-turn, restyle or attitude adjustment could be just what you need. A new set of values arrives with the new moon, offering you a chance to make the most of what you already have, with the freedom to take the odd risk. With Mars, your co-ruler, moving into your sign, and Venus shifting into your communication zone, charm and conviction will ensure you are seen, heard and taken seriously. SAGITTARIUS (November 23–December 22) Playing host to your ruler, Jupiter, all year has provided opportunities galore to…

MAKING WAVES Commas’ languid tailoring and modern, masculine cuts afford beach-bound staples (think swim shorts, linen trousers and camp-collar shirts in technical, softly shaded fabrics) a refined edge. For his S/S 2020 collection — dropping in December on matchesfashion.com — creative director Richard Jarman cites 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley among his inspirations. instagram.com/commas CRAFT WORK H&M Design Award winner for 2019 Priya Ahluwalia uses innovative fabrics (collage-style gatherings of deadstock and vintage clothes) to move familiar silhouettes in a new direction. Her sustainable label,Ahluwalia Studio, is a vibrant celebration of her Indian-Nigerian heritage and London roots, and is one of this year’s street-style breakout stars; no wonder retailers LN-CC and Ssense were quick to place orders. instagram.com/ahluwalia_studio SOLE PURPOSE Mr Porter-stocked California footwear brand Malibu makes sneaker-sandal hybrids…

BENSON SAULO Saulo is head of partnerships at Australian Unity, a role that engages with and invests in Indigenous business. An expansive thinker, he has a sweeping vision for a more harmonious society. “While we look at soft and hard infrastructure such as schools, supermarkets and hospitals, what I really care about is social cohesion, which comes from people being connected and having immersive experiences,” he says. “When we think about what sort of nation we want to develop and build, what services do we want so people feel connected to one another and the world around them?” After a successful early career in finance (“I was the youngest assistant manager and, to my knowledge, the only Aboriginal in business banking in Martin Place in 2008,” he says), Saulo was…

Tim Ashton The Brisbane-born photographer began his career overseas, first in Miami and then New York City, before moving to Sydney, which he now calls home. He photographed the Visionary Man portfolio (BAZAAR Man, page 33): seven men who are breaking boundaries within their respective fields, whether they are engaging with Indigenous businesses, addressing mental health awareness among men or building off-the-grid cabins in the Aussie wilderness. When I’m not on photoshoots, I can be found … “cooking! I love being in the kitchen and making food for my family and friends.” On my wish list is … “a KitchenAid, a new van and a getaway to a shack somewhere on the coast”. Right now I am most excited about … “the arrival of my third baby girl”. Mira Chai…

STYLE My style: YOUNG, ACTIVE MOTHER! But also MINIMAL, with a SUBTLE FEMININITY and always a touch of ECCENTRICITY. Favourite designers include Holiday Boileau, Re/Done for the perfect vintage Levi’s denim and Husbands Paris for custom-made suits. For the rest, I mostly wear VINTAGE. I like Loewe for their perfect natural tan leather BUCKET BAGS; and vintage Hermès from resee.com. I am obsessed with BIRKENSTOCKS — the classic taupe suede Arizona or Boston. Winter, like summer. Or a pair of delicate Moroccan sandals by Louis Barthélemy. I always covet REPOSSI jewellery because Gaia is a friend and I love her work. Otherwise a vintage Cartier Crash watch because it reminds me of Dalí’s painting The Persistence of Memory. Sinum is a young, poetic jewellery brand by my friend Robert Luke…

HERE’S a strong sensory memory of our mother: T the combined smells of Chanel No.5, cigarette smoke and Nescafé Blend 43. She was really emotionally intelligent, with a very gentle nature. She was wise and nonreactive, and her special power was always knowing exactly what to say to diffuse a situation, like applying balm to an inflamed area. Maybe it was her piercing blue eyes or her calming presence, but she had this way about her that made people want to disclose everything to her. As our mother, she was endlessly tolerant of our attempts at lounge-room stardom, where she’d watch countless songs, dances and plays — all while doing a very convincing job of looking entertained. She would make things like Christmas really magical. She’d throw rocks onto the…

“I buy vintage everywhere,” Kate Moss says. “I always keep my eyes open when I’m travelling.” It’s no surprise, then, that on a trip to South America the 45-year-old supermodel found a kindred spirit in Jorge Yarur Bascuñán, director of the world-class Museo de la Moda in Santiago, Chile. Rizzoli has just published Museo de la Moda: Musings on Fashion & Style, an irreverent scrapbook of sorts that Moss edited and which places the fashion museum’s encyclopedic holdings — where John Lennon’s Sgt. Pepper’s jacket and 1930s tea dresses rub up against the finest couture — in conversation with her wardrobe. Here, she shares her shopping tips and styling tricks for six key vintage styles from the museum’s collection with BAZAAR. – Alison s. Cohn FLUID I chose this dress…

INSTANT CLASSIC Vintage meets modernity in the Clic bag. Inspiration comes straight from the Lancel archives, getting an update along the way. Timelessly chic. Clic Crossbody Bag Small $535. NEXT GEN The Romane is the cool younger sister of your handbag collection. Worn over the shoulder or cross-body, the satchel bag features metal hardware and a detachable L charm. Romane Satchel Bag Small $830. BRIGHT LIGHTS The new Ninon style takes the brand’s signatures and adds a stylish and conceptual twist. Make it a statement piece or go all-out with head-to-toe brights. Ninon Flap Bag Small $910.…

AGAINST an uncharacteristically grey June Parisian sky, veined with fine clouds like marble, Pierpaolo Piccioli, the 52-year-old creative director of Valentino, crouches contemplatively, brow furrowed, chin resting on fist. He’s mimicking that famous Auguste Rodin sculpture The Thinker. A bronze cast is poised over his right shoulder in the gardens of Rodin’s former home on the outskirts of the city. It’s the day after Piccioli’s S/S 2020 menswear show and less than two weeks until his A/W 2019 haute couture show. Piccioli has plenty to think about. That said, the pose is somewhat paradoxical. Not to say that Piccioli isn’t a thinker; his work is embedded with intellect, often referencing works of art and literature. The latter reflects his studies at Sapienza University of Rome in the 1980s, before he…

1 LINKING FASHION WITH FRAGRANCE It’s impossible to imagine strolling through a department store without being slipped freshly scented strips of the latest designer fragrances. The olfactory extension of a fashion house has become as synonymous with it as, say, its handbags — and usually at a more egalitarian price point. Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was the first bold-name designer to commission a fragrance, and, with it, an entirely new genre was born. The year is 1921 and, the legend goes, Coco’s then lover, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, introduced her to Ernest Beaux, a former perfumer to the Russian court. She challenged Beaux to create a fragrance that reflected her personality, something “abstract”, like nothing she’d ever smelt. We’ll come back to this story (the details are important), but it ends…

EARLIER THIS YEAR, Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter, tweeted that he doesn’t eat for 22 hours of the day, and sometimes not at all. He wrote that he had been “playing with fasting for some time”, consuming all of his daily calories between 6.30pm and 8.30pm. Some days, he subsists only on water. “The first time I did it, like, day three, I felt like I was hallucinating,” he later told an interviewer. “It was a weird state to be in. But as I did it the next two times, it just became so apparent to me how much of our days are centred around meals and — the experience I had was when I was fasting for much longer — how time really slowed down.” Naturally, the…

Lauded Canadian author Rachel Cusk, who writes ardently on the female experience, is back with a new compilation of essays, Coventry, which blurs memoir with cultural and literary criticism (Faber, $33). Another literary powerhouse, Zadie Smith, releases her first short story collection, Grand Union, containing 10 yet-unpublished stories, plus beloved essays written for The New Yorker and The Paris Review, among others (Hamish Hamilton, $33). In Girl, Edna O’Brien imagines the life of one of the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram, tackling expectedly heavy themes in the process (Faber, $30). If in need of a reprieve, the latest anthology from Gloria Steinem, The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off!, is rife with the wisdom and wit she’s loved for (November 5, Murdoch Books, $25).…

“We should have a museum specifically built for retrospectives,” Brett Whiteley once said. “It would be 10 feet wide and a mile long … You could walk down someone’s life chronologically.”The new seven-volume, 21-kilogram compendium Brett Whiteley: Catalogue Raisonné: 1955–1992 is almost the embodiment of the artist’s dream; an in-depth exploration of Whiteley’s oeuvre, including metres-long concertinas and hundreds of previously unpublished works. Art historian Kathie Sutherland spent seven years compiling more than 4600 of Whiteley’s prints, paintings, ceramics and sculptures for the 2400-page box set. Limited to 1000 editions, each cloth-bound set is an art object in itself. – Alexandra English $1500 (Schwartz City), pre-order for December 9: blackincbooks.com.au.…

WHITE ZOMBIE (1932) In Hollywood’s first feature-length zombie film, Bela Lugosi (the go-to horror actor of the time, who played Dracula just one year earlier) plays a witch doctor named Murder who attempts to zombify a young woman. NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) Arguably the most important zombie film made, yet the word ‘zombie’ is never mentioned. This is the film that established the rules for all future zombie movies: they are reanimated corpses that feed on the flesh of the living and can only be killed by destroying the brain. SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004) A precursor to Zombieland, this was the first film to prove zombies could be funny as well as terrifying. It’s a commentary on modern Western society that manages to be hilarious without breaking…

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BURGEONING STYLE ICON Luka Sabbat has squeezed a lot in between 1997 and now. Before his 20th birthday he was tapped by Virgil Abloh to front Yeezy Season 1 and 2 (a natural career move for the son of a designer and a fashion production assistant). His star has been steadily on the rise since, with Sabbat nabbing small acting roles and finding himself at the nexus of a coterie of cooler-than-thou fashion identities (think Chloë, Kendall, Kanye). Sabbat’s style reveals a sartorial maturity beyond his years: streetwear staples pared back with classic denim and sneakers. He makes jeans and a white tee look like the coolest combination on earth. But it looks even better with a pair of snakeskin cowboy boots — at least it does if you’re Luka…

ARM CANDY Can’t commit to a full wardrobe update? We’ve got your checklist for bags, bracelets and everything in between. BATHING BEAUTIES Take our advice on the swimwear brands, silhouettes and shades that are universally flattering and forever on-trend. SUMMER SKIN Prep your complexion for long days at the beach with the best moisturisers, sunscreens, fake tans, exfoliants and more. MEN WE LOVE As menswear reaches new heights, we hero the gents elevating their dress sense. Introducing our male style muses. SPRING FLING With warm weather incoming, we round up the best ways to dress for the new season, trackside or poolside. ’TIS THE SEASON Minimise the pain of last-minute Christmas gift-sourcing with our tailored luxury shopping guides. ARE YOU FOLLOWING US ON INSTAGRAM? Gain insider access to the fashion…

SINCE ENTERING the workforce in large numbers in the 1970s, women have been offered two choices: be a successful bitch or a well-liked failure. We’ve all seen — and perhaps are guilty ourselves of indulging in — the biases and double standards women face at work. A woman who emulates the traits of a decisive and effective leader is deemed bossy and harsh, with the insinuation she’s pulled herself up the career ladder by her claws. A woman who shows more emotion is assumed to be too weak for a position of power, with the implication she’s a pushover and her talents would be put to better use organising the office Christmas party. This is the double bind in which women find themselves entangled. Hillary Clinton summed it up perfectly…

TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE people have always existed, but in the past five to 10 years, the trans community has become more prominent. Maybe you’ve watched politicians arguing about gender-neutral bathrooms or the rights of trans women to compete in women’s sport, or read in the Murdoch media fears about trans issues being taught in the classroom (aka the Safe Schools Coalition Australia program), or have heard about the reform just passed in Victoria allowing trans people to change the sex listed on their birth certificate without undergoing surgery. Or maybe you’ve seen dating profiles or Twitter bios nominating the pronoun with which a person identifies or have started hearing the descriptor ‘nonbinary’ when talking about gender. Changes are also afoot in the modelling world. Australian Andreja Pejic came out…

A regular on the fashion circuit for the past decade, 31-year-old model Giedre Dukauskaite creates looks that rival even the most established street-style star. Rather than indulge the well-known off-duty-model aesthetic of leather jacket, oversized designer tee, skinny jeans and stompy boots, Dukauskaite takes a more eclectic approach. Prim and proper one day, nonchalant and cool the next, she has an innate understanding of how to elevate everyday ensembles by playing with silhouette and colour. As she likes to say, “There are no bad pieces, it just comes down to how they make you feel.”…

WHILE ONCE swimwear shopping was a ‘one-piece or bikini?’ kind of conundrum, now the process is as complicated (and elusive) as finding the perfect pair of jeans. Search ‘swim’ on any of the major e-tailers’ sites and you’ll be faced with seemingly endless results. As it stands, there are hundreds of new-season swim collections by hundreds of brands, covering every corner of the globe and every style proclivity. And with the emergence of hot new labels almost every month, the offering doesn’t let up. So, how to find the signal amid the noise? There’s the millennial — or should we say Gen Z — route, as paved by teens Frankie Belle Stark and Kono Lulu Smith. The duo, who have fashion pedigree (Stark’s father, Richard, founded Chrome Hearts), launched their…

In a vast downstairs ballroom in the Shangri-La Hotel in Paris, I can hear Kristen Stewart before I see her, changing behind a patterned screen in a far corner. Her voice is distinctive — that easy, low-rolling California accent, where all the words run together, and she sounds like nothing could surprise her. When she finally emerges to go to have her picture taken on a balcony with the Eiffel Tower rising up behind her, she is in perfect contrast to her delicate, gilded surroundings. Her hair is a black-blonde swipe across her forehead and she’s wearing floor-length black velvet, a black bow at her throat, as befits her status as a Chanel ambassador. She walks past, a bold, swaggering walk, and smiles. “Yeah,” she says, seeing my face. “It’s…

Spare a thought for your neck and every twist it endures by enlisting a potent treatment to target the oft-neglected area. LA MER THE NECK AND DÉCOLLETÉ CONCENTRATE, $385, contains the brand’s signature Miracle Broth infusion but at ultra-concentrated levels to keep the neck and décolletage supple and elastic. A serum infused with pure gold particles is bound to give good glow, but don’t be fooled by the luxe concept — PAYOT’S L’AUTHENTIQUE REGENERATING GOLD CARE, $270, is more than just aesthetics. The innovative formula co-opts the cellular process of plants to create this regenerative powerhouse, which helps to accelerate skin cell turnover and restore radiance. CHANTECAILLE RETINOL BODY TREATMENT, $149, takes beauty’s favourite ingredient below the neck. Along with an arsenal of oils and butters, the infusion of pure…

EARLIER this year, attention-grabbing headlines beamed around the world: “A World-First Study Found Botox Can Help Treat Endometriosis”; “Endo the Line: Hope for Millions with Endometriosis as Botox is Found to Ease Agony”; and the clickbait-y “I Got Botox Injected into My Vagina”. Along with the headlines came some radical claims about a study that has shown “the first time Botox has been used to treat endometriosis”, and references to it being a “novel treatment”. Could the same muscle-freezing compound we use to deny ageing really treat such a painful disease? Endometriosis is a condition in which lesions or clusters of cells similar to the lining cells of the uterus (endometrium) grow in other parts of the body. “When your body recognises the cells shouldn’t be there, it sets up…

ART “The interaction between Rain and June was delightful to witness; their body language was magnetic. It [shows] the parallels between birds and humans.” – LEILA JEFFREYS BOOKS … Tap into some fresh writing talent? Three rising Australian writers with serious buzz VICTORIA HANNAN After Hannan’s debut novel, Kokomo, took out the Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Prize earlier this year, the rights were swiftly snapped up and it’s now set to be one of next year’s major releases. JOEY BUI The young Vietnamese-Australian author published her anthology, Lucky Ticket, based on interviews with refugees, last month, and is already being compared to Sour Heart author Jenny Zhang. LAUREN AIMEE CURTIS Previously shortlisted for the Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, Curtis’s debut novel, Dolores, was published earlier this year to acclaim.…

“For me, there was no reason to choreographRomeo & Juliet unless I had a unique take on it.” – BENJAMIN MILLEPIED Your mother was a ballerina and you began training at age eight. What initially made you fall in love with ballet? I first fell in love with music. Music inspired me to dance. Ballet became my passion the day I first saw [Mikhail] Baryshnikov dance. My passion today is driven by my need to create. You have a long working relationship with Van Cleef & Arpels. The collaboration between a jewellery brand and a choreographer seems an unlikely one — how did it start? Choreography, like jewel making, is a sophisticated craft. Collaborating with the brand by creating ballets [that coincide with its collection launches] made perfect sense to…

BEST TIP FOR ADVENTURE “Climb Mount Warning in the dark to make it for sunrise. It’s the first place in Australia to see the sun.” FAVOURITE VIEW “Coolamon Scenic Drive, which stretches from outside Byron up to Mullumbimby; borrowing a surfboard from the hotel, paddling out just beyond the Cape and looking back toward Wategos Beach; or looking up to see the lighthouse making its 360 directly above me in the night sky.” CULINARY HIGHLIGHT “Raes Dining Room.” raes.com.au/diningroom BEST FOR BRUNCH “The Roadhouse, on Bangalow Road.” roadhousebyronbay.com HOW TO RELAX “A sunrise walk to the lighthouse, a Santa Maria Novella facial at Raes, a massage at Comma (commabyron.com), an infrared sauna at Nimbus Co (nimbusco.com.au), followed by a home-cooked meal. Fin.” WHAT TO PACK “Matteau one-piece and towel, chambray…

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On a sunny weekend in late September, thousands of beauty obsessives descended on Sydney’s Carriageworks for the inaugural Beauty BAZAAR, a two-day festival celebrating all things beauty, health and wellness. The event included pop-ups by cult national salons including Amy Jean Brow Agency and Edwards and Co. alongside smoothie stations from Vida Glow and on-tap gut tonics by Kombu Kombucha. Star-studded guest panels featured celebrity trainer Kayla Itsines, model turned beauty maven Jessica Gomes, actor turned supplements entrepreneur Teresa Palmer, celebrity facialist Melanie Grant and a glowingly pregnant Jesinta Franklin — the latter speaking candidly about her struggles with fertility. On the Saturday, some of BAZAAR’s VIP friends, including Carissa Walford, Brooke Testoni, Tash Sefton and Kate Fowler, met for an intimate brunch at the buzzy new Prince of York…

A layer of pearly grey cloud casts a dull light over Los Angeles and it’s starting to spit rain when Troye Sivan walks into Milk Studios, running his fingers through his damp quiff of curls in an attempt to restore order. Alone and clutching a takeaway flat white, he’s dressed in what he terms “standard uniform”: loose-fitting black Acne Studios jeans, a white T-shirt and a navy and yellow striped jumper slung over one shoulder. Although it’s 9.05am on a Saturday, todays another run-of-the-mill workday for the Perth-raised, LA-based 24-year-old, who is definitely in the dream phase of his career to date. He’s come a long way from his YouTube days, when he’d sit in his bedroom recording covers of Ed Sheeran’s “Kiss Me”. There’s the CV crammed with impressive…

1 With ARMANI CODE ABSOLU EAU DE PARFUM, $145 (60ml), perfumer Antoine Maisondieu has mastered a sparkling scent with a warm-bodied base. Its top notes are dressed with tinges of apple and green mandarin, but as the fragrance settles, there comes a heady cloud of nutmeg, intoxicating rum and the sweetness of vanilla. 2 MAISON FRANCIS KURKDJIAN AMYRIS HOMME EXTRAIT DE PARFUM, $411 (70ml), is a fragrance that dances between traditional feminine and masculine scents, with olfactory inspiration derived from around the globe. Cinnamon oil from Sri Lanka, mandarin oil from Sicily, amyris oil from the Caribbean and tonka beans absolute from Brazil make for a dreamy concoction that delights the senses. 3 Founded in the 1700s, Creed was once the preserve of monarchs and presidents, with the public only…