Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2024 i Vogue Australia

Julia Baldini Sydney cobbler Julia Baldini’s shoes won’t play second fiddle to any outfit. Instead, she wants them to have a presence: stomping, fierce, theatrical. Take her newest pieces – knee-high, trimmed with a ballooning leather ruff, or shaggy blood-red Mongolian lambswool. They’re daring, a bit punk and slightly dangerous. “I found myself captivated by the dual nature of poisonous and medicinal flowers,” she explains of the inspiration behind pieces like the faux fur-lined Dandelion boots, which, seen from above, look like the mouths of carnivorous flowers. The powerful, perilous pull of nature is the most recent in a feverishly creative mix of influences, previously taking in fairytales to pagan iconography and the visual language of Dario Argento and Tim Burton. But underneath her imaginative meanderings is a studied discipline,…

Take a layered approach; mix metals and contrasting shapes with a daring quality to match the uniqueness of these watches.…

WATCHES & JEWELLERY Some 16,000 kilometres from her home in Denmark, a fresh-out-of-school Sofia Lynggaard Normann could have felt like a fish out of water in Australia. “But what I honestly found was that it didn’t feel like it was far away,” she says in her mellifluous voice, words falling from her in a distinct Danish accent. Speaking from Copenhagen, tucking away errant strands of flaxen hair, she tells of how she moved to Sydney to live with a family by the ocean. Things were “very Scandinavian, in both lifestyle and humour”, she says of her time in Australia pre-university. Lynggaard Normann quickly fell in step with the local lifestyle, swimming in the morning at Bondi, Coogee “and all the little beaches in between”. The easy access to water reminded…

Grace Forrest is still wearing the friendship bracelets from the Taylor Swift concert she attended the week of her photo shoot with Vogue Australia. In person, the activist, humanitarian and founder of antislavery organisation Walk Free – who was recently named the first female Australian recipient of the prestigious Roosevelt Four Freedoms Award – is focused and eloquent, while also prone to the occasional bout of goofily endearing sass. Of course, she has something profound to say about one of the most talked about women in the world. “You would struggle to find 85,000 people to agree on anything nowadays.” Forrest begins, “and so being in a room with 85,000 people who are there to celebrate each other, celebrate joy, be together and watch a young woman in her prime…

If you were to pinpoint the exact moment comfort turns into discomfort, you’d discover the mindset Simone Rocha operates from. “For me, it’s always been very stimulating, that tipping point,” Rocha says. “It’s what I’ve really been,” she pauses, “not even drawn to, but feels very natural. It feels like a comfortable place for me to be,” she adds with a laugh. Granted, the Irish designer’s latest endeavour would be daunting to many. Instead of her studio in east London – the headquarters of her 14-year-old label – Rocha is calling from a sunlit room at Jean Paul Gaultier’s atelier, on Rue Saint-Martin in Paris. The designer sits in front of a pinboard affixed with sketches of her spring/summer ’24 haute couture collection for the brand; Rocha is the latest…

Marikit Santiago shuffles through the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) in an off-the-shoulder Beare Park burgundy gown and a pair of hotel slippers. “I feel like one of those gospel singers in Hercules,” the Filipino-Australian artist laughs, kicking up the hem of her dress. Behind her is a gaggle of crew – photographer, stylist, assistants, publicists – plus her husband Shawn Pearl and their three children: daughters Maella, 9, and Sari, 5, and 7-year-old son Santi Mateo, rattling a toy snake in his hand. When the family takes its position in the Grand Courts, standing contrapposto among the 19th-century sculptures, they look like myths themselves: mother and brood in the spotlight, casting shadows along the floor. This isn’t how Santiago usually spends her Thursday mornings. A week later,…

The first compliment I received at Vogue came thanks to a chemist impulse purchase. It was 10 years ago, during my first days as a beauty assistant in New York at our labyrinthine old 4 Times Square offices. As I made my way down a corridor known for star sightings (Julianne Moore once smiled at me there), I ran into a colleague, Chioma Nnadi, whom I’d heard editors describe as the most stylish person on the planet. “You always have the perfect lip colour,” she said, and asked me what it was. Flattered, I told her about the chubby MoodMatcher pencil I picked up next to the register at a downtown chemist. On contact, its colour changed from a light blue to pink, after which I’d blot everything away, leaving…

Excitement ran high at the AACTA Awards held in the Gold Coast in February. Staged at Home of the Arts (HOTA) and hosted by Rebel Wilson, the annual award ceremony honoured the achievements of the country’s outstanding creatives in cinema and television both eminent and emerging. Trailblazer Award recipient Margot Robbie joined other industry luminaries on the red carpet, among them Cate Blanchett and Simon Baker as well as Joel Edgerton with Vogue Australia’s editor-in-chief Christine Centenera, who later welcomed guests to the glittering Vogue afterparty hosted in partnership with Rabanne. Flight Facilities and Owl Eyes headlined the live music, bringing some of the most iconic Australian sounds to the star-studded soirée, and the nation’s beloved film and TV icons let down their hair for one of the biggest parties…

Aries 21 March-20 April It’s a big month with Mercury retrograde, love planet Venus and a New Moon eclipse all in your sign. Avoid big decisions while life is so unsettled but look for money luck mid-month when Jupiter meets spontaneous Uranus. A Full Moon offers completion on a commitment, and as Mercury moves forward and your ruler Mars hits your sign, you’re winning at life and loving it. STYLE ICON: Danielle Marsh Cancer 22 June-22 July Your career gets the Mercury retrograde treatment this month. Venus helps you charm your way through any glitches, and a New Moon eclipse brings a fresh start at work plus a few surprises, with Mars also revving up your career mojo. As Jupiter and Uranus dish out a helping of luck to friendships,…

JUERGEN TELLER When esteemed German art and fashion photographer Juergen Teller suggested capturing Australian-born model Angelina Kendall within one of Paris’s numerous embassies for the cover of this issue, editor-inchief Christine Centenera knew that only the Australian embassy in the city’s 15th arrondissement would do. He was impressed. “I was stunned by the architecture of the building designed by Harry Seidler, the excellent view of the Eiffel Tower, and the warm welcome of the Madame Ambassador and her team,” says Teller. Having met 18-year-old Kendall in Milan shortly before the shoot, the creative shares that it was her palpable excitement that sparked the same energy in him. DOVILE DRIZYTE “Juergen [Teller] asked me to work with him over six years ago, and what started as a business partnership expanded into…

Gold, aside from its obvious seductive physical attributes, has another unique and very special quality: it can be recycled ad infinitum. Believed to be flesh of the gods by the ancient Egyptians, indestructible by the ancient Greeks who wrote that “neither moth nor rust devoureth it”, it is little wonder it has become symbolic of the eternal and the adaptable. It is a quality Robert Grynkofki of Australian fine jeweller Sarah & Sebastian particularly admires. As one of a legion of jewellers pursuing a more sustainable way to source precious metals, he’s attuned to its ability to be recycled, “without losing quality”, and knows that unlike individual stones like diamonds, gold can be melted and blended to suit any design. But similar to precious stones, gold’s extraction comes with potential…

It can be a bewildering thing to stand in the middle of a crowded photo shoot alone, every set of eyes on you. But Tanzyn Crawford is cool and calm. Collected? Absolutely. Except for the odd cheeky twirl. The actor can’t help but occasionally sway to Sault’s soulful R&B track “Wildfires” pumping softly from the speakers. An hour later, Crawford is sitting on a bar stool at a nearby cafe in inner Sydney. A coffee and a huge almond croissant later – the size of it makes her laugh – Crawford recounts the process of reading for Swift Street, her gritty, super-cool new SBS series. The show marks the first local role for the 23-year-old, who studied at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) before making her name starring…

Some movies are about grit and determination. About love, pain and confronting your worst, most colossal failures on a very public stage. Those movies are also about tennis. Because the best sports movies aren’t really about sport at all. They’re actually about the different forms of devotion (Bend It Like Beckham), or the bonds of sisterhood (A League of Their Own), or fighting for self-respect (the brilliant Girlfight), or the profound intimacy of someone knowing you better than you know yourself (Love & Basketball). Sport is both the window-dressing and the window, a means of conveying everything from ambition to jealousy, disdain to lust. Or all of those things, as is the case in this month’s Challengers, starring Zendaya as Tashi, a tennis prodigy whose dreams are pierced by injury…

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Primary advantage The 2024 iteration of the red lip is all about layering. For precision, stencil the outer edge in your favourite lip liner before applying a pigmented lipstick straight from the bullet. The finishing touch? A liberal application of mirror-effect gloss. Colour chameleon For the ultimate hair update, rework strands in a red-adjacent tint that complements your natural skin tone. Seeing red? Dab lips and eyes in a raspberry hue. Rouge rite A fresh take on classic red? Etch dramatic lines of fire across eyelids or take the literal red-eye with the lashes laced in a cherry hue.…

Miu Miu’s modern bowler performs as well in the functionality stakes as it does style. The carryall, with room for every kind of daily detritus, means hardworking types need leave nothing behind. A chosen accompaniment for modern life should lift spirits as much as it does an outfit. Gucci’s crystal-enmeshed Jackie is for the woman who lives high-octane and carefree around the clock. The ultimate shopper, Saint Laurent’s market tote matches the pace of those who can be found wandering market stalls on a Saturday morning – and who now have the perfect vessel in which to sequester fresh flowers.…

VOGUE COLLECTOR When one thinks of Fendi, it’s difficult to overlook the significance of the Peekaboo bag, with its slouching front face that flips down into an open pocket – invented by Silvia Venturini Fendi, the family scion who also designs Fendi’s accessories and menswear. And yet the tote, which debuted in 2008, is only a relatively recent instalment in the 99-year history of the storied Roman label. In fact, by the time it debuted, Fendi had already seen one of its bags become a global phenomenon preceding the social media age. The Baguette, launched in 1998, was groundbreaking with its clean shape, affirming Fendi as one of the world’s most coveted brands. Unlike the Baguette, the Peekaboo was taller and more formal, replete with the enduring mid-century elegance typical…

Angelina Kendell has a space problem. On her family’s request she must haul home, all the way from Paris, magazines that the Australian-born model appears in. Of late, the 18-year-old has been clocking up some excess baggage. “I bought a fat stack of so many magazines that I was in and that I was on the cover of and then I was like, ‘I’m not going to keep doing this. It’s taking up too much room.’” Where some models begin their careers on an exclusive, booked to walk one show for a top-tier designer, or build slowly over several years, Kendall exploded. Only a year after her debut season in February 2023, she’s clocking in the uppermost numbers of shows per model per season – it is physically difficult to…

Contrary to what people may think, the best collectors with the most jaw-dropping fashion finds are not show ponies or materialistic braggarts. Instead, as stylist and consultant Alexandra Carl found out in putting together her new book Collecting Fashion: Nostalgia, Passion, Obsession, the pulse-racing thrill can be entirely for their own pleasure. Oftentimes, the collection is not even intended to be seen. Like Azzedine Alaïa’s. “He collected 22,000-plus couture pieces. He’s probably the biggest private collector, existing,” she says, with pieces from his archive included in the book, out this month. But it’s hard to know – especially when people like Alaïa don’t always advertise their treasures, many unaware of the extent of his accumulation of pieces from Balenciaga, Dior, Jacques Fath and Grès, until after Alaïa passed away in…

BEAUTY If Sir James Dyson is angry, he’s certainly not showing it. The impeccably polite 76-year-old inventor, philanthropist, and founder and chairman of Dyson is sitting in his lightfilled corner office at the company’s UK campus, handling a teeny tiny heater (“the smallest in the world!” he says) developed by his team to squeeze into the handle of one of the brand’s to-be-released hair dryers. Still, when quizzed on the driving force behind such innovation, he’s characteristically honest. “I always say it’s anger. Engineers are never satisfied. And they always want to make something better. But it’s a great thing to be dissatisfied.” Indeed Dyson, and the 6,000-strong team of engineers and scientists who work for the company globally, must have been really fed up with hair dryers. In 2016,…