Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2025 i Vogue Australia

Crop circle Abbreviated jackets are the play on proportion to try on for size. Keep bottom halves long and lean to balance the new way with outerwear: bombers, bikers and trenches all get the crop. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s edit. En pointe A body-con dynamism underpins a return to all things ballet-inspired. Beyond the obvious nostalgic appeal – wrap tops and satin slippers à la dance practice – the trend has a quiet strength in resolved silhouettes and powder shades. Oxford standard Grounded, practical, down-to-business sharp, Oxford shoes have it all, and designers debuted them in smart shapes with a slick polish. A commanding base to build from. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s edit. Gothic drama A dark mood has taken over dresses in twisted…

I am a very curious being,” says Pip Edwards when quizzed on why she thinks she has remained an industry mainstay when so many others have come and gone. Now the newly appointed head of street and denim label Ksubi, one of Australian fashion’s most recognisable names, Edwards exploded onto the scene at the same time as the brand in early noughties Sydney. It was a moment when music, nightlife, fashion and art intersected to become a dynamic, protean entity driving the culture of the day. Her first fashion job? In Ksubi’s fledgling PR team. “The grounding force in terms of DNA is trusting my gut take on it, as I know I truly understand the energy and spirit of the brand,” she says. Today, another anchoring point is the…

London has long been a place where fashion’s changemakers cut their teeth, and Torishéju Dumi is one of them. The designer, who completed a masters degree at Central Saint Martins in 2021 and presented her first solo runway show in 2023, is a nominee for the revered LVMH Prize this year. “Last year, I was in many different mindsets and consumed a lot of world news that was both devastating and overwhelming,” she says of the lead-up to her spring/summer ’25 collection, which was themed around a historical sinking ship. Majestic silk dresses and skirts with bustles were torn and dishevelled, with glittering tear marks drawn down models’ stoic faces. In spite of these darker undertones, the effect was one of beauty and joy. “Despite all this disaster [in the…

Scott Chaseling Mind-bending glasswork has earned this Southern Highlands-based artist recognition from Loewe. Glass solidifies almost instantly when cooled, so producing it requires painstaking precision and speed. But the genius of Scott Chaseling’s work is in disrupting the perfection associated with glassblowing in favour of a more offbeat quality. His glass objects are peculiar, detailed and, most importantly, very fun to look at. They’ve earned him a nomination for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2025, making him one of two Australians among 30 nominees from around the world. “I’ve gone through making very serious political work, social [and] political commentary,” Chaseling says of his career, which began 40 years ago after he trained in sculpture and before he pivoted to glassblowing. “It was accepted, it was treated well, and I…

Do I smile?” Laura Moore asks as she steps in front of the camera lens. “No,” the photographer answers in jest. The data scientist might be a fashion magazine photo shoot first-timer, but dressed in a tailored suit and pointed-toe pumps, looks remarkably at ease in front of the camera. The only sign of her nerves? The restless twirl of her foot. “Sorry,” she says, laughing, when the photographer mentions it. Luckily he isn’t fazed and the shoot wraps in record time. Grinning from ear to ear, Moore steps out of frame to retrieve her phone. “This is Mochi, and this is Melon,” she says, flipping through a series of photos of her cats, as the photographer goes over the images he has captured. Behind him, Moore’s Commonwealth Bank colleagues…

You’re looking sharp, little man!” said the photographer as I sat down. I remember smiling bright and wide and holding on to my mother. “My mama picked it out!” I said of the suit and bow tie. The air in the room shifted. Everyone in the JCPenney photo studio looked at my mother, who was 21 and beaming, even though she was taking this family portrait alone. The nervous, pitying glances faded away. Looking “sharp” was a way to communicate to people that I was taken care of. When I was asked to consider how I came to be a dandy – the type of man who flaunts his elevated wares much to the awe and fright of many around him – I called my mother, the person who has…

Hair: Gor Duryan Make-up: Ruben Masoliver Model: Leonie Steffen Production: Agence Saint Germain…

Signature scent: “Maison Louis Marie. I love a perfume oil that only needs such a small amount but is never overpowering. This scent has been my go-to for a long time.” Wellness ritual: “I take daily sanity walks. Even if they’re only 10 minutes, they’re a way for me to decompress from everything that’s happened that day and to come back to myself.” Inspirational figure: “Cindy Crawford. I was a huge fan of her fitness DVDs and loved how different they were at that time. When I was starting out, I really wanted fitness to look, sound and feel different, so she was a huge inspiration for me.” Beauty go-to: “Nars Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturiser. It was the first product that made me like make-up because I was a major…

RUBY HILL Scouted for the third time at the Sydney Royal Easter Show two years ago, Ruby Hill’s decision to finally pursue runway modelling has paid off. With shows for Dior, Miu Miu and Chloé already under her belt, the Sydney-based talent shows no signs of slowing down. “I did high school work experience at Vogue, which was super interesting and fun, but I have never [modelled] for Vogue before,” Hill reveals, as she stars in her first fashion shoot for the magazine (see page 126). Asked about plans for the future, she says, “I’m currently studying psychology and neuroscience, which I have deferred for a year to properly pursue modelling, but I hope to go back part-time.” KIRSTY GODSO In this issue, New Zealand-born, Los Angeles-based celebrity trainer Kirsty…

Chanel: sweet bird of youth Chanel’s rather epic set, constructed within Paris’s Grand Palais, was inspired by infinite movement, like the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum in New York. The two interlocking double Cs that made up the set, stood for Coco Chanel, but could just as easily have meant Clever Concept. This idea of super fluidity was explored throughout the collection, with a light youthfulness and extra-light energy. Models sauntered past in featherweight tweed in the sweetest candy pastels trimmed with tulle. Embroidery, too, seemed to float. The colours and the silhouettes took us in sublime transition from day to night: sunshine yellow, the cornflower blue of an opera cape worn over a glittering mini-dress, and then to midnight. This was a Chanel collection full of joy. After all,…

Lee Mathews “We had considered doing something independently, but ultimately, returning to Australian fashion week felt right,” says Lee Mathews of her show this month, which coincides with the 25th anniversary of her label. “I showed in one of the very first years,” she recalls. Mathews’s constancy is a feat in an industry that is difficult to survive, let alone thrive, in. Her resort show is a way to stitch together the many threads of her label. “It’s about distilling what we do best – the dresses, the prints, the colours that have always defined us,” she says. That includes palettes grounded in hues found in the natural environment, with the occasional inclusion of joyous brights. Fabrics, including cotton from Spain and Japan, along with pure silk, complement her shapes…

The nights when Marcus and I cuddled on the couch and giggled over Tinder profiles together brought affection and buoyancy back into our marriage. Laughter was our medicine, a sense of shared discovery our soothing balm. Reality set in when I began racking up dates and Marcus began striking out. Before long, I was the only one with any dubious Tinder matches to show or cringeworthy opening lines to chuckle at. Tension would fill the house as I dressed up for dates, as though Marcus was steeling himself. I would head out after bedtime, leaving him home alone to discover what new motherhood had taught me: that it was entirely possible to be lonely in a marriage. I was having all the fun. Marcus was having none of it. Marcus…

Natalie Portman is in Paris, but she’d rather be in Sydney. “Honestly, I think it’s the best place in the world,” she begins. The actor spent a year in Australia making the superhero film Thor: Love and Thunder and she loves the beaches, the parks and the gardens. And the restaurants, art galleries and theatres. “And the people are so nice!” Portman adds, smiling widely. “It’s just such a dreamy place.” If only it was a little closer to her family. “That’s literally the only thing that would stand between me and living there.” The life of an actor is necessarily a nomadic one, but Portman has moved around so much – born in Jerusalem in 1981 before moving to the US as a child – she’s never felt a…

What does it mean to be the principal actor on one of HBO’s most-watched debut series ever at just 21 years old? I’m about to find out when I go to meet Bella Ramsey during their first visit to Australia. After being escorted through a Sydney hotel, down a rabbit-warren of hallways, I enter a room and there they sit, wearing a striped T-shirt, jean shorts and sneakers. Their face is open as they rise in greeting, saying instantly how much they like Australia and that they finally understand why everyone wants to be here. The actor is in Sydney for the season two premiere of The Last of Us, the post-apocalyptic video game-turned-television show that amassed 40 million viewers within its first two months of airing in 2023. Ramsey…

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A trip to Paris fashion week inevitably stirs envious questions upon returning home. Friends and colleagues are eager to know who you saw and which shows topped your list of favourites. This season, Sarah Burton’s new Givenchy, Alaïa and Tom Ford were my standouts. Yet, the most intriguing person I encountered was neither designer nor model – it was engineer James Dyson. From the top floor above his boutique store, just across from the Paris Opera, Dyson captivated an audience with tales of innovation. He spoke passionately about the decade-long journey to create the world’s smallest heater, a groundbreaking invention that revolutionised the hairdryer industry. This innovation led to the creation of the Supersonic, a tool now indispensable to professional hairdressers, including those tirelessly working backstage at every fashion week…

Several years ago, on one of my regular walks with my good friend Charlotte, I was going on about my latest self-improvement goal and I noticed she was being very quiet. Charlotte had heard a lot of this from me over the years, but this time she wasn’t giving me the usual encouragement. Instead, she paused on the footpath we were on and said, gently, “Melinda, you’ve squeezed every bit of juice out of the turnip.” It was time, she told me, to stop cramming so much onto my plate – so many goals, so many tasks, so much anxiety. Instead of darting across the clearing to the next thing, I needed to pause and just be. My younger self likely would have dismissed her advice. But maybe because I’d…

Tlisa Trantino doesn’t have an off switch. “I can push so many ideas out, and often too many, so heritage can be really grounding in a luxury house,” the Melbourne-born designer says. Now based in Paris, Trantino is head of design jewellery and creative projects at Loewe, creating the surrealist and sublime finishing touches that appear on runways for the Spanish house. She got the job after consulting for Bottega Veneta, Wales Bonner and Repossi and is one of the most prominent young Australians working in global fashion right now. “Some of the houses I have worked for are over 150 years old, and it’s a real balance to respect the heritage but also work with creative directors who will completely reinvent the story,” she says, citing Jonathan Anderson, whose…

In the rarified world of jewellery, it takes many decades to enter the design canon. But Van Cleef & Arpels’s Perlée collection, which debuted in 2008, had a head start. Jewellery sleuths know the collection’s rounded metal beads can be traced to the French house’s Art Deco creations of the early 20th century. Tiny precious spheres, the size of gleaming pearls of caviar, emerged again in the 1940s on the aptly named Couscous and Bagatelle collections – sinuous strands covered in minute perlée, or beading. They went on to form the geometric story of 1963’s Twist collection: ropes of delicate balls composed of 18-karat gold, pearls, turquoise and coral, appearing like dipped strands encrusted in metal and semiprecious hundreds and thousands. The keen observer might also draw a connection to…

Perhaps the most famous watch advertisement tagline of all is from Patek Philippe, which declared: “You never actually own a Patek Philippe, you merely look after it for the next generation.” It’s a potent and weighty message. But what if future generations don’t like your taste? Or, as I ponder a rather serious watch purchase for a rather serious birthday this month, what if I don’t like my own? Finding a future heirloom is a daunting task. It’s hardly possible to know what might be a classic anyway. Tastes change. Look at how smaller watches are back in again, or how, when Hublot paired yellow gold with a utilitarian rubber strap in the 1980s, it was considered a faux pas. Now rubber straps are being combined with precious materials at…

There was once a time when a decent cleanser, toner and moisturiser would constitute a robust skincare routine, but now there are multi-step peels, encapsulated ingredients and, honestly, more acids than we know what to do with. Rather than get lost in the weeds of viral trends, we asked the experts how to properly look after your skin. Laddering A method championed by Daniel Isaacs, Medik8’s chief product officer and founding partner, laddering refers to starting an active ingredient at a lower potency and working your way up to a higher strength over time. “Laddering – going from rung to rung – allows the skin to adjust to potent ingredients, such as vitamins A and C, gradually,” he explains. “In sensitive skin, it reduces the risk of irritation or dryness.…

Taurus 21 April-21 May An unexpected issue linked to friends could arise now, as quirky planet Uranus in your sign meets the Moon’s north node of destiny. Retrograde Pluto prompts a career detox and a mid-month Full Moon may bring a celebration or closure to a partnership. As asteroid Ceres nurtures you emotionally, stern Saturn keeps you focused, enabling a New Moon to reboot your finances. STYLE ICON: Ana de Armas Gemini 22 May-21 June Your intuition could be spot on when Uranus and the Moon’s north node meet to push you towards your destiny. A New Moon plus your ruler Mercury and lucky Jupiter in your sign give you star quality, but a hint of humility is more winning than outright bravado now. To get ambitions and allies up…