Harper's Bazaar Australia

Trying to find words to describe the start to 2020 we’ve had due to the bush-fires ... well, where could we possibly begin? From the billions of innocent animals believed lost, to the human death toll, to the decimation of livelihoods and homes … man

SOMEWHERE around the middle of this decade, the word ‘badass’ got a makeover. Once a term used to describe delinquent men (a tough, uncompromising or intimidating person, according to dictionary definitions), in recent years it has become shorthand f

She’s been modelling since the age of 16 and now, at 32, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is one of the world’s most in-demand faces. But, as she tells BAZAAR, she’s only now entering the stage of her career that she’s been working steadily towards. “I’ve b

As the twin son of one of Australia’s music icons and a fashion designer with a cult following (Susie is the founder of The Vampire’s Wife), of course Earl Cave can whale on a guitar and rock a hot-pink Gucci suit. It wouldn’t be surprising if he had

It seems like many celebrity deaths ago. Yet the fumes still linger from the social media conflagration that followed the demise in one bad week in February 2019 of Karl Lagerfeld, Lee Radziwill and Marella Agnelli. Those who knew them and those who

The founders of Australian label Acler, Julia Ritorto and Kathryn Forth, have collaborated on a new line of beachy but refined holiday wear called Significant Other. Following a quiet launch in August, the brand’s silky separates and tailoring have s

FASHION has never been about slavishly following trends. It’s more about taking inspiration from what’s around you and making a style statement that’s entirely your own. Some embrace their contradictions: Vera Blue, the singer and performer with an E

AS WOMEN continue their quest for corporate equality, gaining a coveted seat at the board table has become a widespread goal among executives, but one that is also clouded by misconceptions. Progress has been made in the past few years in Australia,

“I don’t really mind not looking like anyone else,” says J.J. Martin, the Los Angeles-born, Milan-based founder of the fashion and lifestyle label La DoubleJ. “I’ve never had that problem. I actually kind of like it.” Known for her exuberantly printe

“SOPHISTICATED WOMEN have always been drawn to men’s clothes,” declares Thakoon Panichgul, the New York wunderkind designer who has just returned from a two-year design hiatus with an unexpected new job title: magazine publisher. Panichgul was bankin

I think about this a lot. In Amy Heckerling’s 1995 cult classic, Clueless, we watch as our chic protagonist, Cher Horowitz, consults her very own virtual wardrobe. Guided through an enviably endless series of ensembles, she sidesteps a few sartorial

I have little recollection of how I came to be in possession of the black silk blouse, only that I didn’t want to purchase it. A distressed phone call, a foreign city, the weaving of the taxi as I sat in the backseat, my windswept hair rising like sm

“I LOVE FASHION SHOOTS. I find them so fun,” Celeste Barber says from the makeup chair as she’s transformed for this BAZAAR portfolio, in which she recreates iconic fashion images including Kate Moss’s Obsession for Men campaign and Jean-Paul Goude’s

ROSIE Huntington-Whiteley is supposed to be answering my questions. Instead, the stiletto is on the other foot, so to speak, as I field her concerns for Australia down the line from London. “Is everything OK? I’ve been watching the news and it’s just

The influence of Gen-Z drama Euphoria is everywhere. And while there were plenty of extreme examples on the runway showing colour at its most theatrical, our favourite versions were more wearable. Take your cue from the work of makeup artist Yuki Hay

Now normal-to-oily skin types can join the DR. BARBARA STURM cult with the new Face Cream Light, $245, which offers the same regenerative ingredients as the original moisturiser in a lighter, nongreasy formula. The satiny texture works to soothe, res

Two Vancouver doctors, Jean and Alastair Carruthers, stumbled upon the wrinkle-smoothing effects of botulinum toxin while treating a patient’s eye spasms in the 1980s. Could they have imagined this? The miracle molecule has changed the way we age, an

9:00AM I don’t like waking up to an alarm, so this is when I naturally wake up. I have a step-by-step beauty routine I never miss. I cleanse with a cotton pad and then apply my serum, Re-Nutiv Ultimate Diamond Transformative Energy Dual Infusion, and

Dermatologists have long urged us to treat our hands, our most age-exaggerating body part, like our face. In addition to extending SPF and retinol or peptide-charged serums to the backs of hands, it’s no surprise that Sydney’s go-to facialist and man

A QUICK SCAN of my heaving beauty bag will demonstrate that I’m no stranger to K-beauty — and, whether you realise it or not, you probably aren’t either. Sheet masks, cushion compacts and CC creams are just a few of the Seoul-born novelties that have

In November 2018, Jack Dorsey, the brains behind Twitter, declared that he had gone on a 10-day silent retreat in Myanmar to practise vipassana, considered the oldest form of Buddhist meditation. Sounding more like the Monk of Silicon Valley than the

It’s barely 11 o’clock in the morning, but on set with Jorja Smith for the BAZAAR photoshoot there’s an atmosphere befitting a glittering late-night party. Poised and purposeful in vertiginous Dolce & Gabbana heels and a bejewelled headpiece, the Bri

While the high-school-set coming-of-age story is hardly new, it’s had a bona fide revival, with a decidedly woke bent. Consider, on the more extreme end of the spectrum, HBO drama Euphoria; but also the hit film Booksmart, which has a gay lead charac

COMPULSIVE HOARDING disorder doesn’t immediately lend itself to humour, but as fans of Benjamin Law will know, dark family comedies are exactly his specialty. For his playwriting debut, the author, presenter, podcast host and screenwriter is taking h

Despite having being touted as ‘the Coco Chanel of jewellery’, Belgian designer Jeanne Toussaint is less well known than the creative icon whom she counted as a friend. But Toussaint made up for it with her tag as an ingenue of her time. Part of a ta

Elisabeth Moss’s face, which is pale, lineless and animated, reveals everything she wants you to know and little else. Even in the ridiculously dim early evening light of the bar at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles, her blue eyes are bright with

When Sydney-based photographer Saskia Wilson set out to shoot waterways in rural Queensland, she was looking for, well, water. Many of the areas she and fellow photographer Kate Disher-Quill wanted to explore are set to be utilised by the Adani Group

We all have that bucket-list retreat. You know the hotels we’re talking about. Those with a rich past and heirloom spin involving guests of note (or notoriety). Striking architecture. And that expectation of perfection that percolates from the moment

Though once a glorious Art Deco apartment block that was, at one point or another, home to the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Frank Sinatra, by the early 2000s Sunset Tower was a hotel that felt tired — more cliché than clout. In 2004,

On a record-high day of 44 degrees Celcius in late June, as we drive away from the medieval town of Tarascon in Provence, in the South of France, we follow a long, winding path framed by olive trees that seems to lead nowhere. Without a house in sigh