July 2023

Vogue Australia

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CHRISTINE CENTENERA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Executive Editor JESSICA MONTAGUE Executive Producer and Talent Director RIKKI KEENE Visual Director ALISON VENESS Editor at Large KATRINA ISRAEL ART ART@VOGUE.COM.AU Creative Director MANDY ALEX Deputy Art Directo
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Editor's Letter
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-rea
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Contributors
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 do
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Code Red
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League Above
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. A pleated tennis skirt has a put-togethe
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Double Take
During this issue's exceptional cover shoot, fronted by The Idol co-stars and close friends Troye Sivan and Lily-Rose Depp, a palpable energy coursed through the studio as photographer Daniel Jackson captured the pair unlike they've ever been shot be
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Renee and Gibson Fox
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, f
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Living Colour
When Ikuntji, or Haasts Bluff, in Central Australia, is punched into a map from some of Australia's capital cities, the curvature of the earth can be seen across the route. Almost 3,500 kilometres from Perth and almost 3,000 kilometres from Sydney an
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Face Value
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 bathtu
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We Can Be Heroes
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
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She's Like A Rainbow
For the Australian fashion week debut of her three-year-old label Alémais, Lesleigh Jermanus turned to Catherine Baba, the Paris-based but Sydney-raised stylist and costume designer who has consulted for Chanel and Givenchy. Known for its rainbow of
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A Different Ball Game
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 th
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Candid Camera
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
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Playing By Ear
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 f
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Sky's The Limit
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 engine
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True Story
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 visio
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Stars Align
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?” g
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The Wun And Only
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, wa
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Fever Pitch
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
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Lost And Found
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
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The Eyes Have It
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 pre
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Show Your Colours
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The Scent Of A Memory
In the back of my vanity lives a perfume I'll never wear. Which is a strange predicament for someone who lives within the world of beauty, who writes about products and brands, and whose perfume collection is wide and (mostly) functional. I have swee
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Ffrench Press
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. Springboa
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Making Magic
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
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Taking Flight
A quarter century in business is the kind of anniversary that can sneak up, but Andrew Nugent, of Adelaide's Bird in Hand winery, wasn't going to let it pass without an occasion. “I feel a sense of celebration of history, as well as embracing the new
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Calmer Waters
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
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Zanzibar
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 culina
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Horoscope
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. Wh
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Softly Go
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