February 2022

Vogue Australia

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Vogue Australia
Edwina McCann Editor-in-Chief editor@vogue.com.au Deputy Editor JESSICAMONTAGUE Acting Deputy Editor KATRINAISRAEL Fashion Director CHRISTINECENTENERA Visual Director ALISONVENESS Creative Director MANDYALEX Deputy Art Director ARQUETTECOOKE Senior
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Editor’s Letter
I have been avoiding sitting down to write this letter to acknowledge the tragic loss of Virgil Abloh, aged just 41. Doing justice to his impact and life is difficult. Virgil was very close with our fashion director Christine Centenera. They met work
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Mix Master
Virgil Abloh was a fashion designer who always did things differently. His path to the very top of the fashion industry – as artistic director of menswear for Louis Vuitton – was anything but conventional. And when he reached the apex of the fashion
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Contributors
New York-based photographer Jon Ervin captured up-and-coming Australian actress Odessa Young on location in Brooklyn’s Marine Park for the feature ‘Forever young’, from page 128. “It was a seamless and collaborative experience all around,” he says of
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Tsehay Hawkins On Representation
I was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 2005. My parents couldn’t have children, so they chose to adopt. When they were searching through countries to adopt from, they fell in love with Ethiopia and its culture. So they went over and adopted me when
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No Bounds
The 26-year-old photographer, filmmaker and writer is based between Melbourne, New York and Los Angeles. CAN YOU RECOUNT A SIGNIFICANT MOVE OR STEP IN YOUR CAREER THAT TURNED OUT TO BE A TURNING POINT THAT LED YOU TO WHERE YOU ARE TODAY? “Living in A
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Power To The Youth
This season there was a continuation of fashion’s affinity for voluminous shapes, with brands like Molly Goddard and Halpern updating standout overblown silhouettes from past seasons. However, it was the debut runway show of 25-year-old designer Harr
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Work Wonders
Anyone thinking the suit’s boundary ends in the boardroom is mistaken: in jewelled tones, as here in emerald green, or a high-shine fabric, it’s fair game for after-dark settings. The starched work top gets a shake-up with out-of-the-box patterns an
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Get Low
The right counterpart comes via a second-skin slinky bodysuit to dial up the glam factor. Try on for size the new breed of loose-fit deep-cut tailored pants, which take their shape from traditional men’s tailoring, but, worn with a body-hugging mic
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Gift Of Gab
Dialling in to Gabriel (better known as Gab) Waller in Los Angeles is instantly, strikingly, like talking to a good girlfriend. It might be her Australian accent – she is Rockhampton-born-and-raised – or that she’s honest, not trying to oversell the
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Milou Neelen
1. “I have a workspace on the first floor of our home overlooking a field of banana trees that catches every sunset. The peace and quiet of island life helps me to go back to what inspires me most, whereas before, when living in Amsterdam, I could ge
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Haute Pursuit
Want to shop Gab’s edit? Scan the QR code to see her pick of the top pieces to invest in now for 2022.
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Next Level
ART DIRECTION ARQUETTE COOKESTYLING HARRIET CRAWFORDPHOTOGRAPHS & COLLAGE JAMIE HEATH ALL PRICES APPROXIMATE DETAILS AT VOGUE.COM.AU/WTB ■
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A Twist Of Fate
When Alexandre Arnault moved to New York in January of 2021, it was a very different place from the one he’d grown up visiting. The city, of course, was in the throes of the pandemic’s winter surge – muted streets, shuttered theatres, abandoned parks
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Bella Brutta
“BEAUTY IS IN the eye of the beholder, and for those of us bored with the conventional, a host of designers are experimenting with materiality and pushing the boundaries of form and function. These pieces, blurring the line between utility and art, a
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Go West
WHEN SOPHIE LAWRENCE PARKER and her husband, musician Kevin Parker, moved from Western Australia in 2019 to live Stateside part-time, they didn’t expect that their new house – a Spanish hillside home in LA’s Los Feliz – would feel so much like home.
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Material World
Mid-last year, when Western Sydney-based digital artist Serwah Attafuah’s phone flashed with an Instagram message from Paris Hilton, she naturally assumed it was a joke. Or from a fake account. “I had to google, did Paris Hilton get hacked?” she says
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A Star Is Born
Sometimes, just sometimes, Milena Smit misses being a receptionist. That was her job in a hotel in Murcia, Spain; before that, she was a waitress. She loved those jobs, loved the connection that she could make with a customer or a colleague as she so
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The Tie That Binds
Vogue’s Sydney-based head of digital content and growth Mahalia Chang, 29, on learning to embrace her Indonesian, Australian and Scottish heritage. THE PHRASE ‘I’M not like other girls’ is so overused these days. It’s a line we used as teenagers, de
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Bloom Time
“Life at the top of the global Momofuku restaurant empire ain’t all ramen and fluffy pork buns. Chef David Chang’s memoir is honest about his stumbles and struggles, particularly with his mental health as he grows up, fast, and finds his feet within
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Privacy Settings
I remember the first time I was guilty of what we would now call ‘virtue signalling’. I would describe the action in two words, and if you’re about my age, 25, these words will induce a full body and soul cringe, or you won’t know what I’m talking ab
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Opposites Attract
For a top-to-toe statement, update classic red lips with style cues in the same vivid colour palette. Pencil and liquid liners produce precise lines, but if it is a free-hand application you’re after, forgo the brush and apply gel liner to lids with
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Heavy Heart
I found out later that the morning he died was when my friend Romy had called, while my brother guarded my phone to stem the flow. She had called to tell me she was engaged. Her fiancé, Jez, had proposed on Valentine’s Day because this was the kind o
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Mineral Count
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The Shape Of Things
VOGUE AUSTRALIA: FIRSTLY, CONGRATULATIONS ON PLAYING CATWOMAN. WHAT DREW YOU TO THIS ROLE? ZOË KRAVITZ: “When my agent called me and said they were making a Batman film and they wanted to meet me for this role, it was exciting for almost superficial
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On The Plus Side
Imagine that you just lost your job. You’re in full panic mode. You decide to share this with a friend. You watch them fidget as they pull from the depths of their inner wisdom and say: “At least you have all this time off now! It could be so much wo
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Head Way
WE ALL KNOW stress – and its sidekick cortisol – can lead to skin flare-ups. But a growing area of research known as psychodermatology, recognises the link between our emotional state and our skin, as well as the need to address them concurrently. Th
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La Woman
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Ring Leader
Prince Harry wears one. So do Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, Jennifer Aniston and Miranda Kerr. How does Kim Kardashian West sleep at night? Optimally, according to feedback from her Oura ring: Once, after a restful eight hours, she awoke (at precisely 7:22a
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Hollywood Royalty
Have you ever seen Miss Congeniality?” asks Kristen Stewart. She’s smiling a little, sitting cross-legged in a black sweater and jeans on the floor of her temporary apartment in Vancouver, where she is a week into filming her latest movie, a sexy, sc
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New Order
Hair: Ryan MitchellMake-up: Petros PetrohilosManicure: Charly AvenellModel: Georgia Palmer ■
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Forever Young
When we first meet Odessa Young as Jane Fairchild in the opening seconds of Mothering Sunday, it is her steady gaze and utter stillness in addition to those pillow lips and flawless skin that captivates. The sum of which director Eva Husson calls “he
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Coming Of Age
Gladys Lai: “We’re a generation where our first real step into adulthood coincided with such a defining moment in history, forcing us to take stock of the things that matter. There was this thing looming over us, this idea that the planet is deterior
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French Revolution
Maria Grazia Chiuri, like many of us, is navigating the technical difficulties of inter-continental Zoom and wireless earphones. “I’m not so digital,” she confesses with a laugh as she connects from Dior headquarters in Paris. “My daughter helped me.
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The Future Of Work
Good morning and welcome to your workday. Congratulations on hitting your VR headset workout target this morning. Please log into your workplace avatar, the 3D representation of you that mirrors your movements, expressions and gestures. Reminder: you
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Hot In The City
For Duc Thinh Dong, few things provide more efficacious inspiration than Sydney/Djubuguli’s scenery and cultural gems. Here, the Western Australia-raised filmmaker shares his favourite spots, and celebrates the young local creatives who surround him.
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Vogue Collection
Dial up your skin tan wardrobe ‘cause we’ve upped the anti and created products to benefit you. Bronzed Tiger takes pride in delivering your best summer glow by consciously combining beauty with wellness and allowing you to customise your glow. Grab
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Vogue Horoscope
Who will you be and what will you do next? That voyage of self-discovery starts now. The Full Moon in your partnership zone may reveal who’s a keeper and who’s not, and a rare meet-up of Venus and Mars on Valentine’s Day could bring a clearer picture
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Winning Streaks
IT ALL STARTED WHEN ... Silvia Venturini Fendi, as head of accessories, debuted Fendi’s Peekaboo handbag at the brand’s spring/summer ’09 show, and it quickly became a cornerstone piece for the Roman house. Its unique clasp and front-flap design acte

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