Innholdsfortegnelse for July 2023 i Vogue Australia

This issue revels in the spirit, passion and power of youth and the incredible achievements it gives rise to. In the lead-up to the world championships, we managed to wrangle four of the Matildas – no mean feat, given their focus is on being game-ready right now. The Matildas' training has been intense and their dedication exemplary, and for our collaborative feature with Nike, ‘Fever pitch' (see page 100), we meet incredible athlete and captain Sam Kerr and celebrate her world-class star striker prowess alongside teammates Steph Catley, Kyah Simon and Hayley Raso. It's estimated that 1.5 million seats will be filled across Australia and New Zealand for the special event, and excitement is building. We wish the team the best of luck in the opening game against Ireland. Another…

Jersey girl Rugby stripes and the classic polo emerge as major everyday players. Keep the prep factor in check with undone match-ups like denim and leggings. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue's edit of the best of the trend. Into the fold A pleated tennis skirt has a put-together insouciance that is the current way to make a play for feminine effortlessness. Level field Sneakers that take from the style leanings of soccer boots are the shoes to invest in now, melding technical appeal with an energetic kick of colour. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue's edit of the best of the trend. Track changes The windbreaker translates beyond the realm of athletics when paired with polished separates. Underscore the masculine-feminine tension with demure accessories. Scan the QR…

VOGUE COLLECTOR Shake off notions of classic timepieces being fusty mechanisms under lock and key. The always inventive Cartier knows how to do this, and its hero – or heroine, owing to its feminine curves – the Baignoire, is an exemplar. Yes, it's French for bathtub, which its silhouette mirrors, and yes, it's an investment, but it's all about elegance delivered with a playful exterior. The antithesis of hard-edged, heavycase watches with utilitarian metal, it is all litheness and graceful curvature. The soft glow of gold and its organic, voluptuous case balanced with the slim and supple wrist strap means there's nothing hard or cold about it, but that doesn't make it meek. Cartier's newest iteration is mini in size but boasts a newly plumped bezel. It follows many evolutions…

When Steph Catley was six years old, she tagged along to her brother's football training sessions. She'd run along the sidelines and kick the ball in front of the parents to “show off”. “They said, ‘Oh, she can play. Why doesn't she just play with the boys?'” Catley, 29, recalls. Her mum yielded, she became the sole girl on her big brother's football team, and that's where she stayed. For years. Catley didn't play with other girls until she joined a representative team at 13 – the “big league” for kids. “When my dad told me about the representative team,” she says, “I broke down in tears because I thought the boys didn't want me to play anymore!” Growing up in Melbourne's south-east suburbs, which she says were dominated by…

Grace Brown In 2021, Grace Brown won Vogue's first Future Innovators competition with her humanoid robot, Abi. Now, she's the CEO and co-founder of a robotics and AI startup Andromeda Robotics. I did not expect us to win,” Grace Brown admits. The robotics engineer is disarmingly humble about her success in Vogue's 2021 Future Innovators competition. “When we got into the top five, I remember going to my photo shoot thinking, ‘Oh my god, I wonder if I'm going to get to meet the winner.'” It was while doing a Bachelor of Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at the University of Melbourne that Brown started toying with the idea of creating Abi, a humanoid robot with the capacity for socialisation, although she could never have anticipated where that “passion project”…

IN COLLABORATION It's been called the biggest sporting event to hit our shores since the Sydney 2000 Olympics. The world game, played by 32 of the top women's football teams, all vying for glory. It's the first time a football world championships, male or female, has been held across Australia and New Zealand and leading the charge on July 20 will be the Matildas, proudly donning the green and gold against Ireland. Front and centre in that opening match will be Sam Kerr, captain of the Matildas and its star striker, fresh from a phenomenal UK season at Chelsea where she shot her team to a fourth consecutive Women's Super League title and third successive FA Cup victory. The 29-year-old is our greatest female sporting star on the world stage…

IN COLLABORATION…

To read off the list of Isamaya Ffrench's previous occupations, you might mistake it for a LinkedIn roll call. Prior to her current position – beauty industry ingenue and founder of the fantastical Isamaya label – Ffrench dabbled in it all. Springboard diving, face-painting, ballet, theatre, product design, 3D art, clay sculpture, even a stint as a chef. Winding roads led her faithfully into the beauty industry, where she was installed as beauty editor of i-D and Dazed, all the while creating make-up products for Tom Ford, Burberry and Christian Louboutin. Next came Byredo, Ben Gorham's cultish beauty brand. Under Ffrench's direction sprung a creative cacophony – gleaming curved lipsticks, alienesque mascaras in vivid red and green bending this way and that, and rippling gold palettes. From there, it was…

Shopping: “The markets near Nungwi Beach provide the largest shopping offering, filled with local artwork and knickknacks. We loved picking up beaded accessories in playful colours.” Must-have brunch: “Follow the local fishermen – they're your culinary compass. They catch massive tuna close to shore and rush it straight to the kitchens of nearby restaurants.” Cocktail hour: “For a change of scene, we went to the rooftop tea house at Emerson on Hurumzi in the heart of Stone Town [the oldest part of Zanzibar City]. Relaxed live music and panoramic 360-degree views.” Way to spend an evening: “Dinner on the beach. There are so many places that offer amazing beach barbecues.” Dinner: “Sexy Fish near Nungwi Beach. [Though] a somewhat popular tourist spot, the energy is electrifying, with locals showcasing their…

Cancer 22 June-22 July A close work or love partnership could feel intense under this month's Full Moon. Are you in or out? That's the big cosmic question now. You're outspoken with Mars in your communication zone, and a New Moon in your own sign suggests a fresh start. While love and money may need a rethink with Venus retrograde, destiny sends you more power and control over your career. STYLE ICON: Hoyeon Jung Leo 23 July-23 August Your power to charm is on fire, but with Venus retrograde is that really all you've got to give? Time for a rethink, if so. Destiny could bring fame, just get to know yourself better first. A Full Moon targets your wellbeing and work zone so aim to hit a peak but…

MICHELLE DACILLO Ahead of the FIFA Women's World Cup kicking off this month in Australia and New Zealand, Michelle Dacillo worked alongside photographer James Robjant to capture several Matildas players in ‘Fever pitch', shot recently in London. (See page 100). “I don't think I've worked with athletes before, let alone at this level. They were so laser-focused and their physical and mental dedication left such an impression on me,” says Dacillo, who pared back each look in an effort to convey an authenticity inspired by the team's playful nature on set. “I wanted these women to feel confident, comfortable and very much [themselves] and so we did a version of their own go-to beauty looks.” MAHALIA CHANG “Broome, the town where I grew up, always had a particular and beautiful…

What began as a thought bubble during a honeymoon drive across the United States has become a brand that now claims cult status. Australian couple Renee and Gibson Fox founded Daisy in 2015, and since then, its coquette-meets-risqué corset dresses, filmy boudoir slips and Y2K cut-outs have found fans in Bella Hadid, Charli XCX, Rosalía and Devon Lee Carlson. It follows then, that a collaboration with another gen Z favourite, Heaven by Marc Jacobs, helmed by fellow Australian Ava Nirui, was in the works. Taking cues from the duo's Stateside ventures, Renee describes one cotton dress, worn by Paris Hilton in the accompanying campaign, as “peak 00s It-girl Amricana”, while rap Phenomenon Ice spice models a star-adorned top made from American staple, denim. A visceral road trip memory appears oin…

In 2021, in celebration of the institution's 40th anniversary, the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) acquired the works and will display them for the first time this month. But Goldin originally captured the images never actually intending them to be widely seen. Instead, they were taken for the very community she was documenting; the earliest “exhibits” of The Ballad of Sexual Dependency were staged as a slideshow set to music for her closest friends, many of whom appeared in the photographs. The series was first publicly exhibited in 1985. Today, the candid and casually provocative nature of Goldin's images are widely held to be “photography as influential as any in the last 20 years”, and marked the beginning of the artist's long and varied career, which has included everything from…

On Women (Penguin, $35) by Susan Sontag. For the first time, trailblazing American critic, activist and thinker Susan Sontag's feminist essays have been collected into a single, brilliant tome. This mustread book offers a searing and insightful vision of womanhood, digging into topics including ageing, power and the workforce with Sontag's trademark incisive voice. Though these essays were mostly written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, they are still strikingly relevant for the modern reader. This is a collection to dip in and out of whenever you are in need of wisdom or a guiding hand and a perfect accompaniment to some of the other non-fiction works in Sontag's celebrated canon, from On Photography to Notes On ‘Camp'. Honey, Baby, Mine (Coronet, $32.99) by Laura Dern &…

Robert Wun is reflecting on where he is in his career right now. “I suppose it feels great,” says the 32-year-old. “A lot of people work very hard to be at this spot, so I am very grateful. It's incredible to work with so many people I look up to, watching them walk the carpet or do a concert. To work with them is incredible.” Among those Wun has dressed are artists Cardi B, Doja Cat, Lady Gaga, Burna Boy and Erykah Badu, an impressive list that just keeps snowballing. For his Karl Lagerfeld-inspired cockerelfeathered gown at this year's Met Gala, the designer worked with singer-songwriter Tems and her team including stylist Dunsin Wright, with the custom design researched by Australian Kim Russell, known on social media as The Kimbino.…

Light touch Opt for a waterproof felt-tipped liquid liner to draw meticulous strokes along the lashes when creating a winged flick. “Use the tip of the pen for a fine line then angle it to give a thicker line,” explains make-up artist Isabella Schimid. “This prevents having to go over and over the line to make it heavier.” All a flutter Emphasise the lash line with a double sweep of decadent liner, and highlight the cheekbones. Abstract art Experiment with swatches of pigment including opaque white to create a pattern effect on eyelids with a swinging 60s feel. Finish with lashings of volumising mascara. Parallel definition Try unexpected and playful linear strokes. The trick to make them match? “The best way to embrace creative eyeliner detail around the eye is…

VOGUE AUSTRALIA: Tell us about falling in love with beauty. LUCIA PICA: “My first memories are playing with make-up. There was a neighbour I used to visit often and she had a drawer in a bathroom full of make-up. I used to lock myself in the bathroom and put on all that make-up. Then I would spend a bit of time looking at myself in the mirror, then washing my face off, and then go out and think that no one would've noticed.” VA: Did you have an idea of what you wanted to create with Byredo? LP: “I thought for the make-up of Byredo, I would like to maybe bring it closer to the philosophy of the perfume and try to transform this invisible medium, which is the perfume and…

VOGUE VANGUARD Mary Fowler There are some moments that football fans will remember forever, such as watching the then 18-year-old Mary Fowler shoot the ball into the back of the net, cementing victory over the fearsome Great Britain Lionesses in the quarter finals at the Tokyo Olympics. The goal was not only a sign of the striker's prodigious skill at such a young age (Simone Biles, who also achieved Olympic success as a teenager, happens to be one of her heroes) but also of her potential as the future of Australian football. Born in Cairns, Fowler grew up kicking the ball around on the beach with her four siblings. Hers was a family crazy for football; her older sister Ciara now plays for Adelaide United. At 15, she made her…

MUSIC Is your muffin buttered?” sings Wet Leg's Rhian Teasdale on “Chaise Longue”. “Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?“ Her tone is deadpan and unmistakably English, and if you didn't know any different, you might think she was in fact referring to dressing a sweet pastry. Not so. Here, Teasdale is referencing an iconic scene from the cult 2004 teen comedy Mean Girls, a film she and Wet Leg's lead guitarist Hester Chambers re-watched around the time they wrote the track. Not unlike Mean Girls, “Chaise Longue” is sprinkled with cheeky double entendres, making its lyrics feel like an inside joke between the band and its fans. This sense of humour is core to the Wet Leg charm; so is the band's ability to spin…

VOGUE AUSTRALIA Stand by me Troye Sivan has a hangover. Nowhere is this in any respect evident; the 28-year-old singer, actor and social media star is the picture of fresh-faced and well-rested coherency, perched inside a hotel suite at the Cannes Film Festival. “How are ya?” greets Sivan, his Australian accent lathered on with a spoon. Next to him is Lily-Rose Depp, his co-star in a quiet, under-the-radar little television series called The Idol, the latest tale of debauchery from the team who unleashed Euphoria onto the world. (Depp is all cheekbones and the picture of elegance in a dream of a Chanel little black dress. “I'm a lifelong Chanel girl,” the longtime brand ambassador smiles.) When we speak, The Idol had premiered only the night before to a barrage…

Alycia Debnam-Carey has an idea. We'll go for a walk, she says, her Sydney “best kept secret”: the winding path from Bradleys Head to Chowder Bay, visions of the Harbour Bridge hovering around every corner. When we meet for this interview, the actor will have just landed in her hometown after the 14-hour flight from Los Angeles, her other hometown for the past decade. She'll be jet-lagged! She will want to walk! Except then she looks up the forecast. Bitterly cold rain, and a lot of it. This will not do. It is a long walk, maybe too long, actually, for an interview. (Even though, as I discover, Debnam-Carey has a lot of things to say.) “We would just be walking. For hours,” she laughs. We are not on the…

For more than a decade, This is Water, by the late David Foster Wallace, has been a little book with a cult following because it reminds us to pay attention to the simple yet essential things that are all around us, all the time, but hidden in plain sight. “We have to keep reminding ourselves over and over: ‘This is water,'” he wrote. Our long overlooked and misunderstood lymphatic system is essential for good health yet far from simple. It's part of the immune system and is made up of a network of vessels, nodes and organs that work to keep body fluid levels in balance, defend against infections and remove cellular waste. But lately it's been enjoying more attention in beauty, wellness and seriously scientific circles. Some even claim…