Innholdsfortegnelse for December 2017 i Vogue Australia

There was a sense of nostalgia on the runways at the most recent collections. Perhaps in these scary and confusing times, designers are keen to remind us of when life was more simple. It’s a feeling echoed in New York-based photographer Lachlan Bailey’s shoot with Margot Robbie in the yard of a home in Long Island, which deliberately looks like it could be the Australian backyard of his Melbourne upbringing. The cover image somehow reminds me of the coastal holiday we Australians all long for at this time of the year, no matter where in the world we find ourselves. Margot exemplifies values we cherish in our national psyche: she is straightforward, down to earth, light-hearted, self-deprecating, honest and optimistic. Her unbreakable bond with her friends and business partners (as…

A tractor, a water tower, prize bulls and a stunning model riding a polo horse – this December 1995 Vogue Australia cover shoot was a quintessentially Australian summer holiday fantasy, with picturesque countryside playing backdrop to the pink and red hues of the festive season. Styled by Victoria Collison and assisted by now editor-in-chief Edwina McCann, the shoot by Richard Bailey took place in the historic Belltrees homestead in Scone, New South Wales. Hinze, an avid equestrian rider, was captured in a pink ballgown riding barefoot in one shot, and, in another, hamming it up holiday-style with Maxwell. True blue kindred spirits, indeed.…

Evening time slots during fashion week are the industry’s equivalent of the headline music act taking to the stage. Reserved for top-billing names, the operation is sleek: the luxury cars line up and deposit their VIP occupants, the street-style photographers capture the well-shod attendees, the lights go up and the collection is paraded down a glossy runway complete with its own guardians to prevent a dreaded stray shoe from marking it before the models have their moment. On the evening of the Burberry show in Clerkenwell at London fashion week, things aren’t rolling in this usually grand direction. There’s no row of black cars or street-style photographers as showgoers stagger their entrance past a crowd of protestors from an animal welfare group. Inside Old Sessions House, a former courthouse, editors,…

To call Cate Blanchett multifaceted would be a massive understatement. She's an award-winning film and stage actor, theatre director, philanthropist and elite style icon. But above all else, Cate is a fascinating woman leading a determined life free of restraint, and there couldn’t be a more perfect embodiment of the Giorgio Armani Sì collection. Sì was created in honour and appreciation of modern femininity. Blending blackcurrant nectar, modern chypre and blond wood musk with subtle traces of freesia and May rose, Sì is intimate and complex, powerful yet composed. Similarly to Cate, but in their own way, women are detaching from long-expired notions of who they should be and what it is that defines them, instead choosing to say ‘sì’. S ì to a life void of limits, with the…

Stroke of genius Shiseido’s exciting new Inkstroke Eyeliner series is inspired by the Japanese art of calligraphy. Made with a unique gel-based formula, it’s the epitome of eyeliner perfection. Effortless and elegant, the glide-on, silky ink applies immediate colour impact and definition to your eyes with just one swift stroke. There are six shades to choose from. Go to www.shiseido.com.au. Contain yourself Understated elegance emanates from the soft contours of the Cafu collection designed by Danish duo HolmbäckNordentoft. Hand-crafted for Georg Jensen in a beautiful deep blue heavy glass and in a range of sizes, the Cafu is highly coveted for its timeless minimalism – a modern classic to appreciate today and cherish forever. For details, visit www.georgjensen.com/en-au. A fresh start L’Occitane has specially updated its cult Verbena range for…

Find a link other than scent “Feelings behind scents are personal – it remains a relatively subjective choice,” says Francis Kurkdjian, the nose behind many blockbuster fragrances and, now, his own namesake line. Given the intrinsically personal nature of fragrance, Kurkdjian bypasses smell altogether and instead recommends finding a connection to the wearer – be it the name, flacon or origin of ingredients. “I always suggest people choose a fragrance that makes a link with the person from an element of the fragrance mix,” he says. “For example, a perfume can evoke a place of meeting, a time of the day, a favourite raw material, a lifetime moment.” Do your homework Some shrewd detective work now will save time come Christmas Eve, so sniff out the fragrances the wearer currently…

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LACHLAN BAILEY Australian-born photographer Lachlan Bailey, a contributor to some of the most prestigious titles in the world, including Vogue Australia, shot actress Margot Robbie for this month’s cover. On his approach to the shoot Lachlan explains: “I saw Margot once from a distance at Chateau Marmont in LA. She was in simple clothes with natural hair and make-up, and I thought: ‘How beautiful she looks. Why have I not seen her like that in pictures?’” See how Lachlan captured the actress’s raw beauty in ‘Mad for Margot’, starting on page 162. GABRIELLA COSLOVICH Author and journalist Gabriella Coslovich provides a fascinating insight into Australia’s biggest alleged art fraud case, involving works by artist Brett Whiteley, from page 103. Coslovich first wrote about the allegedly forged paintings for the Age…

SHIMMY SHIMMY YA The clued-in move is to focus on one element of pure frivolity. A swishing tasselled sleeve in midnight black keys into a 70s mien without playing costumes. TRUMPET CALL Graphic shapes, like the angles of a trumpet sleeve, have cut through when simplified and then echoed in accessories; go simple, go large and get noticed. ONE- SIDED LESSON The unexpected drama of a sleeve completely lopped off is a surprise angle to hew to now. Balance the scales with a single statement earring on the opposing side. BALLOON ART Excess fabric is for nights of excess. The cocktail hour ingredient lies in a healthy reveal of skin, like a daringly slashed skirt for the brave. SHEER DELIGHT When eveningwear entered the 21st century, it announced itself via…

HANG ABOUT Farewell demure party jewels and instead start experimenting. Laden ear lobes with a double dressing using Bulgari’s dripping-in-diamonds earrings as the decadent building block. THE DROP Subtle? Forget you know the word when it comes to dressing up. Channel a Christmas spirit by hooking on a chandelier earring, as pretty as hanging tinsel. PUTTING ON THE GLITZ When the countdown closes out on New Year’s Eve, make magic with earrings that match the glitter of winking party dresses and necklaces.…

I had caught wind of a particular Cartier bracelet made of multiple miniature scales, each encrusted with brilliant-cut diamonds on one side and potent blue lapis lazuli on the other. It sounded like a jewellery design from mythology – the scales could be flipped this way or that, alternating the colour of the bracelet. A diamond or a lapis lazuli day – take your pick! Where could it be viewed? “Sold,” came the response from a Cartier representative in the Fifth Avenue, New York, store, and never to be re-made. The combination of inventive design and the rarity of the stones ensured that exclusivity and uniqueness can indeed be bought. “Since the beginning of jewellery, women have needed different ways to wear it. Because the pieces are a representation of…

Chances are you’ve seen Rupi Kaur’s poetry, either from Kaur herself or a fan’s regram of her work. Of course, even without fans reposting her work to their own feeds, Kaur’s reach is considerable on its own. The writer, who self-published her first poetry book, Milk and Honey, in 2014, has more than 1.7 million followers on Instagram and thousands more on Facebook and Twitter. And her work, which is characterised by short, punctuation-less phrases and sparse drawings, inspires comments from the second she posts a new poem. Now she has a new book out, The Sun and Her Flowers, which features five new chapters of poems on loss, love, loneliness and identity. Here, we talk to the writer and profile some of the poems from her latest book. Where…

WELLNESS WARRIOR INSPIRED BY: JODHI MEARES “GIVING SOMEONE A GIFT IS ALWAYS ABOUT MAKING A PERSON FEEL SPECIAL, APPRECIATED AND LOVED, WHETHER IT IS SPOILING THEM FOR THE DAY WITH A FACIAL AND HAVING A BEAUTIFUL LUNCH OR BUYING THEM SOMETHING FUNNY THAT ONLY THE TWO OF YOU UNDERSTAND. I ALSO THINK IT’S IMPORTANT TO SUPPORT CHARITIES AT THIS TIME OF YEAR. MY CHARITY OF CHOICE IS THE RSPCA, TO ENCOURAGE RESPONSIBLE PET OWNERSHIP.” @instagram.com/jodhimeares @instagram.com/theupside EXTROVERTED ELEGANCE INSPIRED BY: GIOVANNA BATTAGLIA “I LOVE TO GIVE AND RECEIVE BOOKS – THERE’S A WORLD INSIDE OF THEM. AND I LOVE TO COLLECT BEAUTIFUL BOOKS. I ALSO LOVE TO RECEIVE SHOES – THEY ARE ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA, BECAUSE YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY. THERE ARE SO MANY FESTIVE ACCESSORIES DURING…

HEAVY METAL Hung Vanngo bypassed his brush set for finger-painted swatches of metallic shadow that feel anything but contrived. GLOW IN THE DARK Shine on after sundown with light beams on every pulse point – shoulders, nose, cupid’s bow and cheeks – teamed with sci-fi nails. LINE DRAWINGS With a steady hand and a dose of creativity, your face is your canvas. BLUSH RUSH Forget laborious blending, this season is all about seeing actual pigment, from mid-cheeks all the way up to the temples. ACROSS THE AZURE Winged shadow is old news, but in an electric blue hue and paired with clumped-up lashes, it’s the stuff of beauty dreams.…

Sleep. It may be one of the most hyped subjects of the wellness movement. From Gwyneth Paltrow, who spruiks ‘clean sleeping’ and stocks indelicately named supplements like Why Am I So Effing Tired? on her wellness site Goop, to Arianna Huffington, who penned the best-selling book The Sleep Revolution, which claims to ‘transform your life, one night at a time’, it seems everyone is sanctimonious about sleep. Like adopting a floral wardrobe for spring, the notion that sleep is beneficial is neither surprising nor groundbreaking. In fact, the beauty industry has been championing the cause long before Paltrow jumped on board. Take Estée Lauder’s trailblazing Advanced Night Repair serum. Launched in 1982, it was the first formulation to recognise that skin repair and sleep are happy bedfellows. Now, phrases such…

It’s wrong to have preconceptions about the insides of other people’s homes. But this airy Regency house on a crescent overlooking Brighton Pier, with its Mary Poppins-ish facade and wellies neatly lined up in the hallway, is not at all what I’d expected. Where are the lamps covered in fringed shawls? Or the gothy purple walls? This, after all, is the residence of Susie and Nick Cave, a.k.a the “prince of darkness”. Still, a sense of the dramatic pervades. Squawking seagulls outside compete with a Beethoven piano sonata playing in the background. A giant candle burns in the hallway. Underneath the staircase are two large dog baskets neatly lined with vintage fox-fur coats. Then, of course, there is Susie herself, 51, a shy, softly spoken presence and every bit as…

I wanted to do a kind of a modernist show,” Miuccia Prada tells us backstage after the Prada resort ’18 collection, staged on the sixth floor high above the Prada store in the architecturally epic Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II building – soaring skies, all epic steel structures. The juxtaposition of the “lightness and the industrial was very inspiring, and I wanted to work on the contemporary but somehow sporty, a kind of metamorphosis into an elegance – an elegance of sport, or vice versa”. And so the collection named ‘Suspended Ensemble’ was a lightness of being, high up in the clouds so close to the antiquity of the famous Galleria, with its curling iron and glass dating back to the 19th century. A feat of engineering, a daring modernism; something…

Sagittarius 23 NOVEMBER – 21 DECEMBER Life returns to a kind of normality, lighter in spirit, if heavier in experience. You’ve been through an emotional wringer and had your reckless streak tamed, but now you’re a rebel with a cause. This month you can afford to be liberal with your affections, so long as you’re canny with your cash. STYLE ICON: Rita Ora Pisces 19 FEBRUARY – 20 MARCH Happy days are here again with your career, as new doors open for you. Look for hidden options, rather than what’s obvious. Home life may be too much to handle, so pour energy into improving your status and reputation. Getting serious about ambitions will help you make your mark on the world. STYLE ICON: Emily Blunt Gemini 21 MAY – 21…

STARGAZING A fashion buyer on what you should be wearing this Christmas Day and all summer long. STEP UP Vogue’s etiquette guide to giving gifts, politely declining a party invitation and everything in between. PARTY FAVOURS Festive accessories to wish list this Christmas. JINGLE BELLE Copy these beauty notes to shine brightly at every event this holiday season.…

Buzz in fashion does not just happen. It can’t be planned or manufactured, and it will often take you by surprise. Johanna Ortiz’s eponymous label may seem like it has been an overnight success – a constant sell-out, worn by celebrities to socialites (i.e. the kind of women who buy their own dresses) – but the label has been more than 15 years in the making. It took a chance encounter: Lauren Santo Domingo, co-founder of Moda Operandi, had spotted a guest wearing Ortiz’s label at a wedding. And, as they say, the rest is fashion history. Ortiz presented the rest of her collection to Santo Domingo, who promptly sent her to New York. “It was all so fast, it was incredible – that was a big turning point,” Ortiz…

“People have a certain style and they stick to that. I’m not that person. I like a variety of different clothes. I love vintage … and then at the same time I love sneakers and wearing heels” “The moment the sun goes down, I can stay up till the late hours just writing or reading or editing” I had done yoga the night before and was just stretching on set and we said: ‘Yes! Let’s do that!’” the very petite Sarah Ellen is saying over juice in Sydney’s Paddington during a freak rainy spell of her Vogue shoot. “The clothes were all ready and we were messing around with the set and it was ‘Yoga with Sarah Ellen’,” she says after she slipped into a standing tree pose in…

Anyone given the task of profiling musician, burgeoning filmmaker (with an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray in the works), artist and now guitar designer Annie Clark, a.k.a St. Vincent, has quite the job on her hands. The 35-year-old Los Angeles and New York resident has mastered the art of keeping her layers close to the bone, preferring instead to let her highly nuanced music and visuals speak for her. Each album has explored some kind of twisted female archetype, which she painfully dissects, edits and obsesses over. After ‘housewives on pills’ (Strange Mercy) and ‘near-future cult leader’ (St. Vincent), her most recent release, Massseduction, sees Clark channel “a dominatrix in a mental hospital”, with lashings of mania, hyper-sexualisation and anxiety. Stylistically, she pairs this with punches of leather,…

From the second you lay eyes on the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer, you know you’re looking at the result of serious design innovation. And from the moment you feel its beautifully balanced weight (the motor is in the handle, not the head), the sense you’re holding a unique luxury styling tool is decidedly tangible. Accordingly, Dyson’s ingenious digital V9 motor and Air Multiplier technology help you to dry fast. Air of confidence The Dyson Supersonic hair dryer’s substance takes shape with dynamic functionality, including precise heat settings to prevent extreme heat damage and give you the confidence to safely dry and style. With three speeds and three magnetic attachments, the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer also delivers specific air-flow options tailored to suit your individual needs. Included is a concentrator for…

It’s high summer in Amsterdam and the canal-lined city is enjoying a brief heatwave. Tourists flock to canal cruises, shedding their clothes as they go; locals throw open the doors of their street-front houses, ushering in the sweet scented breeze and the curious gaze of passers-by; while locals and tourists alike stay out well past any hour resembling bedtime, indulging in the bright twilight that seems to stretch on endlessly. Yet what appears to be just another European city decadently kicking up its heels is actually much more. It is there in the single peony I am given on arrival at the Sofitel Legend The Grand, rich with layered pink tones, while an accompanying note detailing the inspiration flowers gave artists of the Dutch Golden Age invites me to seek…

“Start by listening to what they want, but don’t get them the obvious thing they drop hints for” There are two types of people who are interested in gift-giving etiquette. There are the ones who are well schooled in the art form, who have compiled a list of recipients and crosschecked against previous gifts. Notes have been taken. And a second type who depends on late-night shopping sessions, looking up last-minute shipping options in the stealth of the evening. The unexpected is always sure to delight, but there needs to be a touch of the personal and the thoughtful, something that celebrates the relationship more than the material. “Start by listening to what they want, but don’t get them the obvious thing they drop hints for,” says James Hirschfeld, CEO…

Misty Copeland, who makes a guest appearance in Sydney with the Australian Ballet this month, has a way of making things look easy. Arriving at her shoot with a sunny energy and a wide, beaming smile, she instantly makes everyone feel as if she is just one of us. Then the second she steps in front of the camera, boom, you realise who you’re in the room with. Here is a prodigy who started dance at the advanced age of 13, then became the first African American principal dancer at the American Ballet Theatre (one of the top companies in the world) – a woman who was a muse to and collaborator with Prince and is an author, a diversity advocate and an idol to young dancers everywhere. She’s petite…

“It’s nice to have that opportunity. It is enormously satisfying to build something and to be part of something and to take control of my career” Margot Robbie opens the door to an enormous hacienda-style mansion in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a door lined with Halloween pumpkins of varying sizes and hilarity. “Hi, I’m Margot!” she offers with a huge grin. Suddenly a scruffy little black rescue dog the size of a feather duster leaps out, spinning in circles, and Robbie’s smile turns to a frown of panic: “Oh, be careful, he might pee on you!” The pooch, named Boo Radley, jumps up and begins standing on two legs with such panache that you forget he is actually a four-legged animal. It is a comical moment akin to a scene…

VALENTINO’S SACRED SANCTUM Pierpaolo Piccioli’s embroidered robes resembled liturgical cassocks, sending up a hallowed hallelujah to an age-old art, a comment on the near-religious levels of devotion needed to create a 640-hour gown. CHANEL’S C H A R M E D CIRCLE The obsession with French insouciance endures, helped along by Karl Lagerfeld’s conjuring of an impossibly chic coterie clad in impeccable tweed and party dresses trimmed with feather sprays. Every other girl wants in. A R M A N I PRIVÉ’S N O I R HEROINES Giorgio Armani’s figures in midnight black emerged with high drama: over-frothed sleeves dripping in embellishment allow the wearer to dissolve into the night in a cloud of mystery. GIAMBATTISTA VALLI’S FANTASY FLOCK Is there a more couture-apt inspiration point than spring? And does…

Ordinary is just code for what you’re used to. In 1986, the year I was born, a New York Times review of Margaret Atwood’s famous dystopian thriller The Handmaid’s Tale made reference to a ‘post-feminist’ world. Equality, according to the reviewer, was done and dusted by the mid-1980s. Her implication was that the fight for women’s rights had been won. She argued that Atwood’s cautionary tale of a United States government being overthrown and replaced with a misogynistic, totalitarian regime was less powerful than comparable novels like 1984. Why? The imagined world of Gilead just seemed so … implausible. Fast-forward three decades and The Handmaid’s Tale is once again on the lips and pens – and now keyboards – of cultural influencers. The television version, starring Mad Men’s Elizabeth Moss…

Explore what’s in store and worth having this month. Big bag theory Forget lugging two bags to work – this elegant, oversized Evangelista tote by Dylan Kain will hold everything you need. Think tablet, cosmetics, magazines and a pair of flats – with room to spare. Beautifully unlined and lightweight, it also has a detachable leather pouch with a gold chain. The Evangelista is sure to become your everyday staple. Visit www.dylankain.com. The dark side Nothing says glamorous like a pair of oversized shades. Gigi Hadid and Reese Witherspoon are just two of the stars who have made the big jump this season. Make a style statement too this summer with Donnie Darko sunglasses by Trelise Cooper. These squoval-shaped frames are big, black and bold, and the reflective gold arms…

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