Innholdsfortegnelse for February 2025 i Vogue Australia

As an actor, Alycia Debnam-Carey made her name in Hollywood on seven seasons of the blockbuster series Fear The Walking Dead. Recently, however, the 31-year-old has felt the pull of home shores, returning to Australia for a starring role in the AACTA award-winning miniseries The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, and as Milla, a wellness influencer dealing with a cancer diagnosis in Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar, streaming from February 6. “There’s something about Australian film and television that’s hard to put my finger on, but there’s a signature style,” she muses. “There’s grit, heart, humour and nuance. It’s big yet intimate, so it’s been very special to work here.” Filming for Lost Flowers took the Sydney native around the country to locations including Ormiston Gorge and Simpsons Gap in the…

There was a time when almost all our clothing was made in Australia. In 1964, clothing and textile manufacturing was this country’s second-largest industry. But, with imports, the advent of mass production and the allure of reduced costs offshore, our local designers were left with fewer options. An abundance of resources, creativity and ingenuity, and an appreciation of quality, means our fashion industry is well-poised. Against the odds, these local designers are committed to Australian made, considered craft and ethical creation – and they’re staying the path with will and passion. The master tailor: E Nolan Emily Nolan is a tailor who produces made-to-measure suiting that supports local makers and pattern makers, as well as a considered collection of ready-to-wear designs. “There is no groundhog day in made-to-measure. Every day…

It is no coincidence that in a season where there was a rallying cry for the rejection of algorithm-driven fashion trends, a call for people to stop googling ‘how to create a personal style’ and look within, designers leaned into so-called ‘menswear’ codes. When women first began ‘borrowing from the boys’, it was driven by a desire for freedom and independence. Now, given the rise of conservative movements around the world that have made women’s bodies their battleground - to paraphrase Barbara Kruger - it feels less like a capricious trend and more a response to the moment. In the late 17th century, women began wearing men’s riding coats, cravats and tricorne hats when travelling by horse or carriage. Two centuries later it was the desire to easily get around…

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Aquarius 21 January-18 February You are upfront about expressing yourself now, with Venus adding charm to all you say and do. You could be lucky in love as Jupiter moves out of retrograde, although asteroid Pallas in your sign makes you more logical than lovey-dovey when it comes to romance. A New Moon in your zone of values suggests there may be potential for a financial or relationship merger by September. STYLE ICON: Shanina Shaik Taurus 21 April-21 May Love is on your mind now thanks to your ruler Venus. With a Full Moon closing a flamboyant home phase, your ambitions get a cosmic kickstart from the New Moon and Mercury, meaning mergers and creative collaborations could flourish. Money flows in fast with Jupiter back on track, but it may…

LAIA GARCIA-FURTADO For this issue, Vogue Runway senior fashion news editor Laia Garcia-Furtado unpacked women’s increasing embrace of menswear motifs. “I was excited to be able to talk about it from a real-life point of view,” says Garcia-Furtado of her feature from page 88 “It was also important to be able to talk about the topic from a queer perspective. I had such a great conversation with Daniella Kallmeyer that honestly could have gone on for hours.” In addition to Kallmeyer’s influence in this space, Garcia-Furtado enjoys the hybrid tailoring of labels and designers such as Commission and Willy Chavarria. “I also think it’s on the customer,” she adds. “I think if there’s anything to take away from this movement, it is to wear whatever you want regardless of whether…

Skirts so good Uncomplicated lines with roots traceable to 1960s mod masters provide the framework for the latest skirt suits. The sharpness of clipped minis balances femininity and forthright style. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s edit of the best of the trend. Long odds A refreshing pivot from the roomy tote has put the east-west bag’s polished style back on the agenda. Its unexpected shape – streamlined, refined – makes a statement in itself. Male order Menswear codes are overt in tailoring this season. Swaggeringly wide cuts of suits, of the 80s trading floor variety, were reclaimed with a vital brand of female power. It’s all in the details: pops of colour, a show of skin, a piece of jewellery. Woman up. Scan the QR code to shop…

Martin Grant is very funny and ripples with laughter when he talks. His good humour is informed by many decades working in the fashion industry with its mad creativity and the energy of showtime in Paris. Grant is one of those designers who quietly produces the most expertly tailored clothes that probably inspired The Row, and in turn might have been inspired by Jean Muir. If you know, you know. Next month, a comprehensive retrospective of Grant’s work to date will open at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia (NGV), the result of what he calls one giant covid clean-out. “Covid was actually a fantastic catalyst for change for me,” he reflects. “When everything closed down in Paris, all our staff scattered across France. It was a chance to take…

When Joanna Strumpf was in her early 20s, working at an auction house in a job she was steadily falling out of love with, sometimes, just to raise her spirits, she would pick up her desk phone and call her best friend Ursula Sullivan. “Sullivan and Strumpf Fine Art, Joanna speaking,” she would trill down the line. It was easy to say those words but harder to realise them. When the two first met at the age of 22 – “babies, really, just out of uni,” Sullivan says – they had both recently arrived in Sydney from their native Brisbane to take up jobs with an art dealer. They shared tastes and values, and would often talk about one day starting their own gallery, but it would take almost another…

I went away with my wolf pack – my small tribe of 40-something women – the other weekend. In-between our pretty standard conversations about work pressures, toddler pressures, ageing parent pressures and looming menopause pressures, I showed them the teaser for the new series I’ve created called Apple Cider Vinegar, about Belle Gibson and the wellness influencer movement. A girlfriend recalled the time in her mid-30s, when in the horrors of a break-up, she decided apple cider vinegar was the answer. She would use it to rid the toxins of this man and this grief until she was out the other side. Whole again. We laughed a lot, remembering how she drank it before breakfast, lunch and dinner. How she washed her hair and her skin in it. How she…

Hit parade A procession of Miuccia Prada’s greatest shoe moments came down the runway this season, leaving fashion followers breathlessly spotting references. This pair (nodding to spring/summer ’12) is both a talking point and collector’s piece. Bowled over An undisputed leader in crafting exquisite vessels for lugging our personal effects, Louis Vuitton debuted a soft, slouched duffle that read instant classic. In an array of sumptuous leathers, the LV Rider’s readiness to go is all in its name. Pocket listing Leaning into its impeccable pedigree in function and form, Hermès went to work creating the ultimate utility bag designed to look inside out, pockets on display. Ennobled by the hand of its craftspeople, this Birkin is all supreme elevation and summer ease. Haute foot The winds of change are blowing…

The good light For a lit-from-within glow, mix a liquid highlighter into foundation or moisturiser. To achieve a second-skin finish, forgo the make-up brush and apply formula with warm fingertips. Headturner A directional pixie cut spells summertime beauty, as does a shoulder-baring, oversized silhouette. Shoulder season Hydrate your body from head to toe using a rich moisturiser on damp, post-shower skin. And don’t forget to exfoliate at least twice a week. Active involvement Consider your décolletage an extension of your complexion and step up your skincare with an arsenal of actives. Vitamin C, ceramides and niacinamide are essential ingredients, whatever the season.…

I wrote a LinkedIn post about my partner Craig ‘Moose’ Moore, and it went viral. What would Moose say, I wonder? He loved being talked about, so I think he would be proud. Whenever I returned home after a night out with the girls, he’d boldly ask, with a cheeky laugh: “Did everyone ask about me?” That was our life. Our happy life. Always laughing. “If you’re not having fun then what’s the point?” he’d say. Before our lives changed forever, there were always things to do: family gatherings, exhibitions, music, books, theatre, dinners with friends and ocean swims. In the most humdrum, everyday moments – like when Moose would brew my morning cup of tea – life felt rich and full of colour. I was loved. As someone who…

Kind and generous. Always smiling, laughing and sharing words of wisdom, Maggie Tabberer became much admired in her time. Tall, elegant with a presence of mind, her style was show-stopping, put-together and chic. She was also very, very funny. The model and television personality wore her success selflessly and inspired others with her courage. Though she liked to look towards the future, for Vogue Australia’s 60th birthday in 2019, she cast her mind back to her first cover for the masthead. Here, she reflects on being captured by Helmut Newton for the autumn 1961 issue of Vogue Australia – the first time a local model had graced the cover. “It was a very tight-fit, close-up head shot and the make-up artist did quite exaggerated make-up. He took the colour of…

Warning: This story features the name of a deceased Aboriginal person. In our ‘now’ era, where globalisation can sometimes feel like a homogenising force, cultural exchanges that centre women, tradition, artistry, stories, songs, dance, culture, respect, love, family and Country offer an age-old narrative. It is one of preservation, innovation and friendship. Such is the story of the historic collaboration between Bábbarra Women’s Centre, located in Maningrida, and Tharangini Woodblock Studio in Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore), who joined forces to present an exhibition called Karri-djarrk-durrkmirri (we work together) showing textiles they produced together. In September last year, senior women artists Abigail Gurawiliwili and Raylene Bonson and model, artist and ranger Cindy Rostron, as well as Bábbarra managers Ziian Carey and Jessica Stalenberg, flew from their small hometown of Maningrida on Kunibídji…

Chloe Leong, dancer and choreographer When Chloe Leong’s parents enrolled her in dance classes as an eight-year-old, they couldn’t have predicted the lifelong passion it would ignite. “I guess that decision set the course for me for the next two and a half decades of my life,” says the now 32-year-old contemporary dancer and choreographer. After honing her craft at London’s prestigious Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, Leong returned to Australia and, in 2015, joined Sydney Dance Company. She has since composed contemporary works for The Australian Ballet and Powerhouse Museum, as well as for luxury houses including Valentino. “Dance has really become an intrinsic part of who I am,” she explains. “It’s still hard for me to put into words what dance is for me, but it’s…

A new installation at the Sydney Opera House, powered by Fondation Cartier, links two vastly different First Nations artists in a moving show of country and culture. By Jonah Waterhouse. Warning: This story features the name of a deceased Aboriginal person. In November, on a cloudless pink evening at Bennelong Point, something was brewing beneath the famous tiled sails of the Sydney Opera House. In the Utzon Room – known for its view that frames Sydney Harbour like a picture – artists Marilyn Russell, Steven Russell and Joseca Mokahesi Yanomami assembled before a crowd of family, friends, admirers and art world milieu. The former pair are the children of Esme Timbery, the late Bidjigal artist and Elder from La Perouse known for her evocations of Australian ephemera and landmarks using…

On stage at November’s ARIA Awards, Troye Sivan was in a state he rarely finds himself: speechless. The singer, songwriter, actor, fashion bellwether, fragrance entrepreneur and internet pin-up wore a svelte black Prada look and clutched his Album of the Year award for the 2023 smash-hit record Something to Give Each Other. It was his third win of the night – he also took home statuettes for Best Solo Artist and Best Pop Release – and he’d exhausted every thank you he had to give in his previous speeches (that can happen when you’re one of the ARIA’s most decorated stars this decade). In that moment, a memory about the inspiration for the album dropped into his head. “I was going through a break-up, really, really depressed, and I meet…

Albus Lumen The first hint there was an apocalyptic quality to Albus Lumen’s resort 2025 show, which occupied the opening slot at last year’s Australian fashion week, was in the set design. Inside a cavernous warehouse space at Sydney’s Carriageworks, an unruly cast of models, each wearing undone, worn clothes that put a rebellious twist on the label’s well-loved resortwear, entered one by one through bare scaffolding. “Everyone was struggling, so I didn’t want to do another [similar] collection – I wanted to do something different,” says designer Marina Afonina. Like many independent Australian brands, Afonina’s nineyear-old label was affected by the lingering economic impact of the pandemic. That made her want to set a new tone with Albus Lumen’s return, embracing a carpe diem mentality to create her most…

Looks like you’re close to menopause,” my doctor told me when I was 36 and wondering why I was having so much trouble getting pregnant. I almost fell off the examination table. “What do you mean?” I said, gasping for air. “Close to menopause? That’s for grandmothers! I’m not even a mother yet! And, by the way, that’s what I’m here for, to become a mother! Take it back!” I was trying to joke, but really I was begging him to make it not be true. I was so scared that this would be the end of my dream to bear children. As I sat there stunned and full of self-recrimination, I remembered my mother had once mentioned she’d hit menopause at 45 – but 45 still felt very far…

Signature scent: “Vayu by Aman. It’s inspired by Thailand’s tropical shores, featuring citrusy notes with coconut, and it’s very light and fresh. It always brings back memories of the special days I spent at Amanpuri.” Beauty hotspot: “Violet Grey in Los Angeles. You can always trust their curation. Cassandra [Grey], the founder, knows what’s best out there.” Influential figure: “I started my modelling career with Ralph Lauren and got to work with the maestro himself. I always found his story and vision so inspiring – from a very humble background ascending to the king of American fashion.” Go-to beauty product: “A red lipstick. The first time I truly felt like a femme fatale was when I found my perfect shade of red. My mum, to this day, wears red lipstick…

In December, Sydney’s heritage-listed White Bay Power Station opened its doors to some of our most inspiring and accomplished men and women for the annual GQ Men of the Year Awards, presented in association with Defender and supported by Belvedere Vodka, Jean Paul Gaultier, W Sydney, Michael Hill and Capi Sparkling. The red carpet was a flurry of local and international talent, including actors, designers, models and musicians, plus royalty in the form of Count Nikolai of Monpezat. Inside, it was a night to remember, with hosts Tim McDonald and Melanie Bracewell keeping the mood upbeat and the laughs coming. Icy Belvedere martinis were the evening’s tipple of choice. Winners on the night included designer of the year Jeremy Hershan, actor of the year Felix Mallard, and sportsperson of the…

There aren’t many occasions to truly dress up, but Dior’s black-tie Ball of Dreams offered a chance for Sydney’s glitterati to don their finest. Held before Christmas in Swifts Manor, the French fashion house delivered a night of luxury, transforming the Victorian-era mansion into a scene straight out of the Château de Versailles. Guests included Sam Corlett, Felix Mallard and Emma McKeon – fresh from their GQ Men of the Year awards wins – alongside Alycia Debnam-Carey, Cody Simpson, Lincoln Younes and Victoria Lee, all embracing the glamorous theme. Dior’s attention to detail shone throughout the evening, with gilded plinths, elaborate floral arrangements of roses and peonies and a bespoke art installation by Jean-Michel Othoniel for J’adore. The Miss Dior Couture Trunk by Eva Jospin, flown in from France, was…