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On the cover
Hanan Ibrahim wears a Louis Vuitton dress with
hood, and top. Tiffany & Co. earrings and bracelets.
Make-up by Estée Lauder starting with Double Wear
Stay-In-Place Makeup SPF 10 in 6W2 Nutmeg; on
cheeks, Estée Lauder Bronze Goddess Powder Bronzer
in Medium Deep; on cheeks, Estée Lauder Bronze
Goddess Highlighting Powder Gelée in Heatwave; on
eyes, Estée Lauder Sumptuous Rebel Length
+ Lift Mascara; on lips, Estée Lauder Pure Color
Revitalizing Crystal Balm in Hope Crystal.
Stylist: Miguel Urbina Tan.
Photographer: Bananas Clarke.
Hair: Nisha Van Berkel.
Make-up: Isabella Schmid.
23Editor’s letter
26Contributors
30A place in the sun
Summer style returns in blazing form.
36 Major league
The current wave of sportif
influences has fashion displaying
a heightened fanaticism.
38 Gaining traction
Matthew Williams’s bubblegum
summer wedges for Givenchy.
40 Bright side
Designer and creative Lucy Hinckfuss
is striking out on her own with
a vibrant, summer-ready label.
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January 2023
43 Two’s company
Australian writer Bre Graham reflects
on the magic of a table for two.
44 Open house
This New Zealand beach cottage
provides fantasy living all year round.
49 Copenhagen
Neada Deters offers her tips for
the Scandinavian style hotspot.
50 State of mind
Coach and psychologist Dr Jodie
Lowinger shares her method for
reaching your personal peak.
53
Living large
A new book on the homes of the late
Yves Saint Laurent is a window into the
fantasy world of an extraordinary life.
54 Unlock the rules
Tiffany & Co.’s new Lock collection
underscores a modern way to shine:
gold and gems first, gender last.
56 Self portrait
How I See It: Blak Art and Film
is a new exhibition at Melbourne’s
ACMI celebrating First Nations
creatives working in fields of
performance and image-making.
Three young artists featured
in the show share their vision in
their own words.
58 Ilana Moses
We ask fashion insiders to curate their
LACHLAN BAILEY
world through style. The founder of
clothing store Grace Melbourne and
its new location in Brighton, shares
summer favourites from near and far.
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60 Centre stage
Since playing Princess Margaret on
The Crown, Vanessa Kirby has gone
from strength to strength. Now, she’s
ready for her next big project.
62 Light fantastic
From designers to directors including
Steven Spielberg, Sam Mendes and
Damien Chazelle, the worlds of
fashion and film are all celebrating
the magic of the movies right now.
64 True demand
Sunglasses made from plants, a local
label doing away with waste, and
the latest in ethical fashion.
67 Bella vita
Milan-based architect and designer
Luca Bombassei takes high-summer
style cues from the Italian riviera.
73 Fashion faithful
Somali-Australian model Hanan
Ibrahim is used to challenging fashion
and religious stereotypes. Now,
sharing her decision to wear a hijab on
her own terms, she writes of her desire
to embrace both sides of her identity.
86 All in the bag
A bag that speaks to the power of
fashion and an Italian empire, the
136 Fendi Baguette stars in an anniversary
collection that brought together a cast
of cultural icons under the visionary
direction of Kim Jones.
92 Lost and found
During a tumultuous childhood in
Russia, Natalia Vodianova and her
youngest sister, Jenna, were separated
by adoption. Two decades later,
DNA testing brought about
a grateful, unexpected reunion.
96 Game changer
Ajla Tomljanović comes into the
Australian Open after her most
successful year, having made two
Grand Slam quarterfinals in 2022
and defeating Serena Williams.
112 Here, she speaks to Jelena Dokic
about what inspired her killer form.
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108 Country strong
When First Nations women met
at a forum unlike any other, they
weren’t only creating a shared vision
of the future but safeguarding it via
a new generation of self-empowered
custodians destined to make change.
112 Treasure island
As Dolce & Gabbana marks 10 years
of Alta Moda, the Italian house takes
over Sicily for a baroque-inspired
celebration of heavenly couture.
116 Swept away
Take a wanderer’s route in fashion
that speaks of unending days away
in haphazard layers, free-spirited
dresses and romantic details to
transport a mood.
126 Heat rising
Nice try, summer. Humidity and heat
normally nix our plans for perfect-
looking hair, skin and make-up, but
we’ve got a survival strategy in place.
132 True star
Authenticity is central to everything
Trinny Woodall does, and at 58 years
young, the make-up and now skincare
maven shares her truth, tips and tricks
for looking your best at any age, and
especially during midlife.
134 Clear advantage
Keep lips supple with a slick of any
one of these luxurious moisturisers
for balmy days and nights ahead.
136 Endless summer
As days heat up, hemlines rise and
HENRIK PURIENNE, EMMA SUMMERTON, ELLEN VIRGONA
glorious glowing skin is on full display.
We reveal how to get the most out of
your seasonal complexion.
138 Soiree
140 Back in fashion
Sydney and Melbourne were out in
force to celebrate fashion’s big night.
143 Horoscope
144 Final note
Vogue January 2023
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L U X E L E AT H E R T R AV E L G O O D S F O R T H E E V E R Y D AY WA N D E R E R W A N D E R E R S T R AV E L C O . C O M
 Editor’s letter
Heralding a new year provides the opportunity to renew and refresh; to leave a year behind
and embrace new possibilities with a sense of optimism.
With that in mind, we’d like to introduce you to Hanan Ibrahim, the Somali-Australian
model who graces our cover this month in what can only be described as a paradigm-
shifting story. Hanan has been building her career as a model in recent years, both within
these pages and on the runways of Australian fashion week, proudly wearing her hijab and
challenging stereotypes while highlighting the importance of visibility for Muslim women
in the fashion industry.
In recent months she has made the empowering decision to become a fluid hijabi, meaning
she now only wears her head covering part-time. In honour of her decision, and the conversation
it encourages about self-expression, freedom of choice, identity and interpretations of modern
womanhood, we asked her to participate in a shoot that captures her both with and without
her hijab. By all accounts, it was a powerful and emotional day on set, with Hanan opening
herself up like never before and the crew feeling they had been part of something special.
The fact that Hanan stands up for a woman’s choice to wear a hijab on her own terms
is particularly poignant given that – even in 2023 – many women around the world are
still facing oppression at the hands of others or watching their freedoms come under threat.
This is most evident in Iran where so many brave women continue to risk their lives to
stand up for the right to self-expression.
“Unfortunately for many globally, a woman’s dress sense is a matter controlled by
external forces, whether by communities whose views derive from rigid interpretations of
religious texts, or from opposing radical and secular societies that fail to respect the agency
of women altogether,” Hanan writes in a personal essay on page 73. “Choosing to wear
a hijab or not is a matter of individual choice. It is not a decision to be made by others.”
It is a privilege to have Hanan share her story about fashion and faith this January.
May you find yourself being inspired by the strength, conviction and innate elegance of
a woman who truly knows herself as you begin your own new year.

EDWINA MC CANN Editor-in-chief

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EDWARD BOWLEG
Ahead of the Australian
Open this year, our top-
ranked female tennis player
Ajla Tomljanović flew
from her base in Florida to
New York to be captured
exclusively by Vogue. “I was
certainly more conscious of
the fact that we were shooting
an athlete, in regards to what
I selected,” says Edward
Bowleg of his styling in
‘Game changer’, from page
96. “In knowing that she was
open to experimenting, I took
things to propose to her that
may not be pieces she would
wear in her ordinary life,” he
recalls. An inspiring sense of
raw strength pervades each
look, as Tomljanović changes
from a Ralph Lauren shirt
into a well-tailored Gucci
suit. “We wanted to keep
Ajla in fashion but give a
nod to her athleticism,” he
continues. “Honestly, her
willingness and openness in
allowing us to transform her
was very refreshing. She was
so relaxed and had a great
energy the entire day – and
managed to do so in a four-
inch heel the entire time.”
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Contributors
MARLEY MORGAN
In the May 2022 issue,
photographer Marley Morgan
was part of the Indigenous
shadow program that
followed Vogue Australia’s
creative team as they worked
on the special all-Indigenous
fashion cover. This month,
she swaps from mentee to
mentor as she attends the
annual Strong Women for
Healthy Country forum
with model and budding
photographer Cindy Rostron.
“It was my first time visiting
Ross River, but it didn’t take
long to fall in love with the
incredibly stunning country
up that way,” Morgan says of
her experience capturing the
event for ‘Country strong’,
from page 108. “Equally as
beautiful were the women
I was privileged to listen
to and learn from, such
powerful matriarchs with
immense knowledge of their
respective Country.” Joined
by writer Nina Fitzgerald,
the three creatives were
moved by the group’s shared
vision of Healthy Country.
“Hearing the inspirational
stories of cultural and
environmental conservation
was an affirmation of our
responsibility as a people to
care for Country. The wider
Australian audience has a lot
to learn from Indigenous
women,” says Morgan.
MIGUEL URBINA TAN
“This cover feels like we are
on a precipice of cultural
progression in Australia,
particularly in fashion,” says
Vogue’s acting fashion and
market editor Miguel Urbina
Tan of shooting Melbourne-
based model Hanan Ibrahim
for the first time without
wearing her hijab. Tan
recognises how momentous
the moment was for Ibrahim,
who has recently made the
decision to wear her hijab
part-time. “When Hanan
looked at herself on the
monitor in the Saint Laurent
dress and said to me, ‘This is
the first time I have seen my
arms in a picture,’ I asked
how she felt and she said
‘amazing’. That moment really
stuck with me,” Tan recalls.
The stylist also remembers
a moment with Ibrahim that
left him in awe. “When she
started to move in front of
the camera, I felt like I was
witnessing a woman express
herself through modelling,”
he says. “It was pure magic.”
JELENA DOKIC
To mark the 2023 Australian
Open, former world number
four and now commentator
Jelena Dokic interviewed
29-year-old tennis star Ajla
Tomljanović. Calling on her
own extensive knowledge of
the sport, Dokic bonded with
Tomljanović over their shared
passion for tennis. “It felt like
two friends just chatting …
It was great to talk about the
big year she had [in 2022],”
says Dokic, who is currently
working on a second book,
as well as a documentary
based on her 2018 memoir,
Unbreakable. “We covered
her highs and lows and Ajla
was very honest with her
fears and mistakes, which is
very refreshing to hear.”
PHOTOGRAPHS: JOE BRENNAN, ANTONI CIUFO
WORDS: ANGELICA XIDIAS.
Vogue January 2023
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Viewpoint
Major league
Sport and style have long been good bedfellows, but the current wave of sportif
influences has fashion displaying a heightened fanaticism. By ALICE BIRRELL.
C
asting around outside the
shows of late, you’d be
forgiven for thinking
you’d crossed paths with
football fans on their way
home from a match. Or motorsports
die-hards, revved up for a day trackside.
And are those tennis enthusiasts head-
to-toe in blinding Wimbledon whites?
In Paris? In September? A second glance
reveals these supporters are pairing
rugby stripes with sky-high Balenciaga
boots, hoodies with sleek white maxis,
1980s shell jackets with shoes from The
Row, and that tracksuit? Vintage Gucci.
Fashion’s total re-embrace of sports
influences is not just a natural go-round
of the trend cycle – long has the athletic
been a rich vein of design inspiration –
but a confluence of many forces.
Instead of philosophising on complex
social mores, Felicity Brand, head of
branding and merchandising at local
luxury multi-brand store Mode Sportif,
attributes the trend’s home run to the
uncurtailed return of in-person
sporting events – this month’s Australian
Open for one – noting an increased
appetite for what we missed in lockdown
and the rise of female sporting codes.
“Women’s sport is finally receiving
much attention. Australia’s Matildas
are getting paid the same as the
Socceroos, and in England the historic
win for women’s football in the Euro
final was watched by a record number
of people,” she says. Brand also cites the
launch of HermèsFit, an interactive
gym experience from the typically
understated French brand late last year
and the wildly successful sport-fashion
hook-up of Adidas with, among others,
Balenciaga, Gucci and Wales Bonner.
The latter reworked the sell-out $120
Samba sneaker to great success.
Originally created as a futsal shoe in
1949, it has ridden waves of popularity,
including in 1990s English football
culture, but never so much as today; now
a fashion grail and sometimes resold for
upwards of $1,000, fuelled by its status
as go-to for super-influencers Bella
Hadid, Rihanna and Hailey Bieber.
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But it’s not just soccer scoring goals.
Aerodynamic cycling glasses, motorcycle
jackets in racing brights, riding boots
ready for showjumping at Dior and
grand-prix inspired jumpsuits at
Chanel, alongside high-performance
flight jackets, are all in the race.
While we got cosy with tracksuits in
the pandemic, this time the look comes
with a glamorous patina. “People have
moved out of their covid-comfort
lounge sets and are ready to play in
the real world again, so we’re seeing
more of an elevated athletic street
style,” says Laura May Gibbs, founder
of Byron Bay label Nagnata, which
blends fashion and activewear.
“I’ve seen micro mini-skirts,
reinterpreted college sweats and cable
knits styled with suiting and denim,”
Gibbs continues. She highlights the
concurrent rise of sporting-adjacent
style, the kind pioneered by doyen of
prep Ralph Lauren. That same feel,
extending to American collegiate style,
is infiltrating fashion once more with
letterman jackets and tennis skirts led
by Miu Miu’s blockbuster abbreviated
white box-pleat rendition (if you need
proof, the hashtag #tennisskirts has
153 million views on TikTok).
“Renewed interest in the royal family
– [look at] Instagram accounts such
as @ladydirevengelooks chronicling
Princess Diana’s preppy style – have
started to circulate in the media,”
notices Brand, who says 90s
minimalism and all-American prep
are sharing a moment, traded on
by emerging brands such as S.S.
Daley and Connor Ives. “Carolyn
Bessette-Kennedy is the poster child
of 90s Ralph Lauren and Calvin
Klein minimalism.”
Which brings us to the newest spin:
sports couture. Dubbed athluxury by
US Vogue, it’s positioning sport against
a backdrop of polished glamour – think
stilettos with Versace basketball shorts
and sharp blazer for night, or sneakers
with an oversized Nagnata track-and-
field jumper and heart-shaped heels,
taking it to a new level of sophistication.
The latter is what fashion influencer
and content creator Irina Kro Eicke
wore to a summer gallery opening.
“When I attended the Private Policy
show [at New York Fashion Week],
I wore a white sporty hoodie paired
with a midi denim skirt from American
Vintage and off-white blue denim over-
the-knee boots from Naked Wolfe,”
she remembers of another go-to outfit.
“If I’m not dressed in a head-to-toe
look, I’m styling my Nagnata knits
back with suiting and denim, sneakers
and sandals – and heels by night,”
shares Gibbs, while Brand says ballet
flats count as part of the trend, being in
step with the growing spotlight on
traditionally female athletic pursuits.
“Obviously Miu Miu,” she says of which
labels to buy into, “but I also love the
more minimal takes from Aeyde and
Margiela’s Tabi flats.”
If you’ve never dabbled, the time’s
now to give it a sporting chance.
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Flex your sportif style muscle as
Ralph Lauren returns for its third
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NAGNATA
bodysuit, $345.

A look from
the Adidas
x Balenciaga
collaboration
for resort ’23.

A tennis-
inspired look
from Marine
Serre who held
her resort ’23
Irina Kro Eicke collection on
in Nagnata. a sports field.

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 Gaining traction
High-glamour holiday gets a futuristic edge in Matthew
Williams’s summer wedges for GIVENCHY. In an array
of bubblegum colours, expect these to stick around.
A piece of you since 1972.
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 Bright side
After years of a public creative and
personal partnership, designer LUCY
HINCKFUSS is striking out solo with a
summer-ready label. By ALICE BIRRELL.

W
hen Lucy Hinckfuss began tie-dyeing pieces
by hand in her Sydney studio for new label
Luuda, a stylist friend asked if she writes
down exactly what she puts into each coloured
concoction. “I said, ‘No, I just remember it.’
And she said, ‘What?’” she recounts with a laugh. “It’s a little
bit like the way I cook; I don’t really follow recipes.”
Hinckfuss’s life incidentally has had a strong food link; until
late 2021, she was married to restaurateur Maurice Terzini,
helmsman of Bondi’s Icebergs among other venues, with whom
she shares two children, and is co-founder of clothing label
Ten Pieces. While Hinckfuss was collaborating on its
monochromatic unisex streetwear, she began exploring tie-
dyed dresses with a modern slant. “There was, however, perhaps
a feeling they confused the Ten Pieces brand,” she reflects.
Demand grew among friends and, “it was clear that it was its
own little collection”, she says. Luuda launched mid-2021.
Hinckfuss doesn’t often stop to parse her own creative output
but says she’s enjoying newfound freedom. “And being able to
really do things in my own way. It’s good because I do like
making things quite instinctively and I can just really get into
all that in my own mind and not have to deliberate with others.”
So, what does Lucy Hinckfuss’s solo output look like now?
“I’ve been a little bit more imaginative, and more playful,”
she says confidently. In a real sense, that means summer-
Lucy Hinckfuss. inflected pieces in clean shapes from relaxed shorts with
drawstring waists and bowling shirts, to sundresses with the
occasional flourish: a sweeping ruffle or balloon sleeve.
“I look feminine, but I’m not. I don’t want to be too pretty
or girly,” she explains of her penchant for blending opposites
– hard and soft, dressed-up and grounded, tie-dyed and block
colour. “I like things to have a certain amount of classic, but
then it also needs to be a bit fresh and a bit realistic. I think
I always dressed very appropriately for where we live and our
lifestyle. I think it has that high-low feel about it, which is
part of living in Bondi.”
So is colour, like the aquatic blues that mirror crystalline
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rockpools and juicy ice-block shades from pastels to bold

sun-kissed brights. “Everyone loves a bit of colour,” she says.
Every tie-dye piece is hand-done by Hinckfuss herself. That’s
a lot of work. “It is,” she laughs. “I do sometimes go into
Terminator mode and get quite a bit done, but I will be needing
to start to get help because it’s getting bigger and bigger.”
Orders from Harvey Nichols have seen to that, plus she’s
pondering a runway show and bricks and mortar store, while
DARREN L, DUNCAN KILLICK

working on one-off reworks with vintage fabrics. Through this,

she’s working at her own pace. “I probably am doing it more
from a personal perspective – something that suits me. I’m
producing things which are very, sort of, about me, rather than
things that are about selling and what other people like,” she
considers. “But then, it’s seeming to work well in that way too.”

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Two’s company
When Australian writer BRE GRAHAM moved to London, the thing she missed
the most was intimate meals with her closest loved ones. Now, on the eve of the
release of her debut book, she reflects on the magic of a table for two.
he start of a new year always
T
makes me sentimental. I like
to spend time looking back
on the 12 months passed and
every year the memories that
mean the most to me are always the
ones centred around sitting at a table
with someone I love. If given a choice
to relive moments of my life over again,
it’s not the seemingly big ones that I’d
want to step back into or experience
once more. I would want to be able
to sit back down at a small
Parisian cafe with my mum
on the first trip that was just
the two of us, when we
marked each sunset with
a glass of champagne, or be
19 again for just one evening
so I could share a tub of dark
chocolate ice-cream with
my best friend when we
were celebrating her first
role on the West End.
Year after year, so many
moments in my life that
I want to keep close are
spent with someone special
at a table for two.
There are times for tables
of 10, solo self-love meals,
and dinner parties that
end on a dance floor, but
a table for two is something
special. The intimacy and
immediacy of sitting with
someone and enjoying
a meal made with love can make the
noise of the outside world calm and
quiet. Maybe it’s the introvert in me,
but I would choose a night of cooking
for someone I care about over a party
in a room full of strangers.
Originally from Sydney, I’ve lived
ILLUSTRATION: JOEY GUIDONE
in London for the past 10 years.
Sometimes I think it’s the distance
that has determined why I feel the way
I do about tables for two and cooking
for the people I love the most. For so
long living here, life was lonely. A lot
of homesickness and a lot of heartache.
Essay
All I wanted, and what I missed
the most, were moments like a quick
weekday lunch with my mum. Always
a thickly sliced tomato sprinkled with
flaky salt on hot buttered toast with
a mug of tea nearby. Those sorts of meals
that seem so insignificant and didn’t
involve elaborate planning and airline
tickets were what I thought about
every time I sat solo on my sofa for the
third night in a row. Being able to live
and importantly eat in the same time
zone as the people I love the most is
something I don’t take for granted each
year when I’m back home in Australia.
So, every year when I’d come home
for Christmas, what I wanted to do
was cook for those I’d missed. On one
lazy afternoon in the days between
Christmas and New Year’s Day, I
carried home armfuls of Australian
seafood from the fish market, like
Balmain bugs, pale slips of squid and
prawns, to cook something spectacular
for my best friend. It had been 18
months since we’d last seen each other
and as I sautéed onions in butter and
roughly chopped garlic we drank wine
and talked about all the big things
that feel too important to say over the
phone. By the time the first bottle of
wine was long gone and the seafood
had simmered in its sauce of tomatoes,
fennel and chilli, we packed a bag
and went to the beach. We laid out
like lizards on the rocks of the ladies’
baths in Coogee where I used to swim
as a child and when the waves reached
our rocks with the rising
tide, we walked home to
eat mangoes while still in
our swimsuits.
Making an effort to plan
something special to cook
and eat for just one other
person has been at the core
of so many of my friendships
throughout my life. While
most people’s first thoughts
about making an elaborate
meal for two or wanting to
light a candle and set a table
goes to romantic love, the
food I’ve cooked and shared
with the women in my life
has always felt imbued with
the most romance to me.
Sure, cooking is one of
the “languages of love”, but
it’s also a way of showing
someone that you really see
them. When words don’t
quite work, when you want
to make someone feel like everything
will be okay, when you want to show
someone that their joy is your joy, you
can cook. The time that we spend at the
table throughout our lives celebrating,
crying, laughing and kissing is what
keeps us going.
Life is short, make those traditions,
take risks, cook for people you care for
and keep the people who are important
close this year.
Bre Graham is the author of Table for
Two (Dorling Kindersley, $49.99), on
sale February 28.
Vogue January 2023 43
 Open house
For creative couple OPHELIA and RYDER JONES, a beach shack-style
cottage on the coastline of New Zealand’s North Island provides fantasy
living all year round. By JONAH WATERHOUSE.
 Who:
Artist and
photographer
OPHELIA JONES,
artist and designer
RYDER JONES and
their son, EMANUEL.

Where:
Tairua, on the
east coast of the
Coromandel
Peninsula, North
Island, New Zealand.

What:
A former sculptor’s
studio converted into
a cottage for the
family of three.

“We particularly love cooking,

and this is a little meal I made
for us …” says Ophelia.

The reading corner used for winding down features a

A
n hour east of Auckland lies some of the
world’s most pristine coastal farmland, where
rolling green hills meet the Pacific Ocean’s
boundless expanse. Despite the popularity
special cushion. “This chest, my mum gave to us for
our wedding present and is full of sentimental
things,” says Ophelia. “Ryder was born in Hawaii,
and the papaya vase (top shelf) was bought by his
mum in Kauai while she was really pregnant.”

of the Coromandel Peninsula as a holiday

destination, it’s rare to hear an Australian accent in the
small town of Tairua, according to artist Ophelia Jones,
who lives there with her husband, Ryder Jones, and their
one-year-old son. Looking at the sweeping landscapes that
surround their quaint cottage, a former shed at the base of
emerald foothills a 10-minute drive from the beach, it is
difficult to imagine any part of the outside world intruding
on this visual dreamscape.
“It was a private sale, so the photos were really bad,”
Ophelia says of finding the home two years ago on Trade Me,
New Zealand’s equivalent of ecommerce website Gumtree.
“My parents went to visit, and they called us after two hours
and said, ‘I think we found it.’ We moved in about two and
a half weeks later.”
Once in, Ophelia and Ryder went to work reinvigorating
the three acres of land, from planting a vegetable garden
(“the possums like to eat my spinach!” Ophelia says with
a laugh) to mowing a lawn that stretches down to a nearby
creek. Doors to the outside are always ajar, but between →

Vogue January 2023 45

Style space A doorway opens out to the expansive garden.
“On that beautiful lacework curtain right in the
middle, there’s a family tree,” Ryder explains.
“I think I got that for you on Valentine’s Day
while I was pregnant. I loved the idea [of it] …
a stitched tree of life,” Ophelia quips.

the green-painted timber walls lies more magic in the form

of the small family’s idiosyncratic belongings.
Ophelia’s visual eye is a respected one; she shot good friend
Lorde for the cover of the singer’s 2021 album Solar Power,
which saw the musician skipping over the camera in the
shadow of the New Zealand sun. Similar elation is palpable
in the affirmative messages placed around the house, from
romantic letters penned by Ryder to artwork that says, Sun is
shining, the weather is sweet.
“We’re highly sentimental,” Ophelia says, later adding
that “a lot of our stuff is [a mix of] something nice, and then “The man who makes these glasses for his
something from the side of the road.” By the indoor kitchen company Grinter Glass lives an hour’s drive
from us. We always buy them for people.”
is a dining area with a tiled table built by Ryder, and next to
it, an ornate lamp Ophelia’s parents “had in their bedroom
all of my childhood”. The couple’s explanations of each item Ophelia’s “extremely overgrown and wild vegetable patch”.
“Ryder has mowed this beautiful patch of lawn – we’re on three
provide all kinds of insight, but few more than the “special acres of land, and we’re very lucky to have all this native bush
pillow” in the small reading nook, which is a gift from Ella that borders the back of the property,” she says.
Yelich-O’Connor – Lorde’s real name, for the uninitiated.
“Ella said to me, ‘Give us three words you want to represent
the baby,’” Ophelia says of the piece, a custom-embroidered
cushion by New York brand Bode. “We said marigolds,
because we gave away marigold seeds at our baby shower
that we collected from our garden. On the other side there’s a
dolphin, and also seashells and angels, and [Emanuel’s] name
on a shell.” It’s a home in harmony with both its inhabitants
and the natural beauty of the world that surrounds it. ■

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 The new family go to the beach “as
much as possible, all the time, rain,
hail or shine”. “Since we work
from home, it’s like, supermarket
or beach outing?” Ryder says.

The long patio also doubles as a skateboarding spot for

one-year-old Emanuel. Wildf lowers are also starting to bloom
at the corners, adding further charm. “Right in the foreground
you can see that little purple bush has seeded out of the white
gravel … I’m stoked they’re starting to pop out,” says Ryder.
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Brunch: “Atelier
September. They make
the perfect soft-boiled
egg and rye bread
with spiralled
Malene Birger dress. Comté cheese”.

Hotel Sanders.

Ordrupgaard
Museum.

Perfect Saturday Favourite place to

morning: “Cycle to stay: “Hotel Sanders,
Lille Bakery for coffee a boutique hotel
and a pastry before which is the perfect
strolling to La Banchina balance of elegance
to swim and sauna.” and hygge. The
location is central,
the service excellent,
and rooms are
comfortable.”

I Love Beauty.

Copenhagen
NEADA DETERS, Australian founder of sustainable skincare brand LESSE, recently
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travelled to the Danish style capital and shares her tips for the Scandinavian hotspot.
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Coffee: “Prolog, which has a relaxed
outdoor area – a perfect spot to start
the day with a flat white and croissant.”
Shopping: “I Love Beauty, a small
boutique dedicated to the best of
natural beauty and skincare, and where
you can find Lesse in Copenhagen. The
staff greet every visitor one-on-one for
a more personal shopping experience.”
Artistic spot: “The Finn Juhl House,
part of the Ordrupgaard Museum.
Juhl was a pioneer of mid-century
architecture and furniture design and,
in this exploration of his home, you see
how he lived by the design philosophies
that defined his work.”
Bar: “Natural wine bar Pompette,
where you can share a bottle from the
wine cellar with friends or enjoy a solo
glass at the bar. Or Apollo Bar, for
an afternoon or late-night drink in
the historic courtyard of what was once
a palace and is now an art gallery.”
Dinner: “Iluka, which is a sublime and
sensory experience not to be missed.
The chef, Beau Clugston, is Australian-
born and incredibly talented. After
working at Gordon Ramsay and Noma,
he opened Iluka – a celebration of local
Scandinavian seafood – a few years ago.”
Cocktails: “The cocktails at the Hotel
Sanders bar are excellent.”
People-watching: “Værnedamsvej, a
Parisian-style street lined by cafes. Stop
here for an apéritif in the early evening
and watch cyclists and pedestrians
hurry to after-work drinks or dinner.”
Must-do: “Cycle! There is no better
way to explore.”

Vogue January 2023 49

Wellbeing

State
of
mind
What’s the secret to
a high-performance
mindset? Will looking
inwards result in a more
fulfilled life? Coach and
psychologist DR JODIE
LOWINGER shares
her method for reaching
your personal peak.
By VICTORIA BAKER.

W
e can’t all be Ash
Barty. Or Emma
McKeon. Or Beyoncé,
more’s the pity. But we
are all equipped with
our own version of the very same engine
powering their incredible achievements:
the human brain. “Whether you’re
a corporate CEO or any human being
on this planet, we are equipped with
the same neuroscience,” says Sydney-
based author and psychologist Dr Jodie
Lowinger, founder of The Anxiety
Clinic. So if we all have the same
hardware, does that mean we all have
the potential to program our own
software – in other words, coach our
own minds – to allow us to become
high performers in our own lives?  can flourish and thrive.  response when faced with any kind of
Well, yes, according to Lowinger, who
has worked as a mindset coach for leaders
within organisations including Atlassian,
Google and Amazon, coached high-
achieving CEOs and shared her method
with founders including Laura Henshaw
of Australian health and fitness app
Keep It Cleaner. But it might take some
work. And let’s be clear: this is not
another irritating pep talk about having
the same number of hours a day as
Beyoncé, or just needing to “get up
and work” (thanks, Kim Kardashian).
Exhortations to work harder or longer,
parent more perfectly, exercise more
frequently and #girlboss our way to the
top are part of the problem. The worry
that follows from comparing ourselves
to others and driving ourselves to be
“perfect” will certainly stop us from
living what Lowinger describes as a
“confident, fulfilled life” in which we
The constancy of curated and perfected
images on social media is just one source
of stress; Lowinger also points to climate
anxiety, global political instability and,
of course, the pandemic as common
external sources of worry. “We are
biological beings living in a chaotic,
technology-driven, fast-paced world
with an overwhelm of uncertainty,” she
explains. It’s that uncertainty, and more THURSDAYSCHILD X TRUNK ARCHIVE / WENDY SAMA / SNAPPER IMAGES
particularly our innate discomfort with
it, that leads us to behave in ways that are
inconsistent with achieving our personal
or professional goals, to put it nicely. 
Avoidance. Procrastination. People-
pleasing. Anger. Defensiveness. Blame.
Self-destructive drinking. Perfectionism.
Just a few of the enemies of high
performance, and the behaviours we
often unconsciously default to when
faced with our own internal worries.
Our brain triggers our fight-or-flight
fear, whether real or imagined. But
Lowinger is at pains to point out how
important it is to be kind to ourselves,
and to understand that these feelings are

50
due to the instincts that are part of our
humanity. Our fight-or-flight response
developed for the ultimate reason – on
one view, we are all descended from the
most neurotic chimps, who worried
enough to survive – but those same
prehistoric survival instincts may not
serve us well on a day-to-day basis in
2023. Getting to know your own
particular set of worries is helpful:
Lowinger suggests giving them names,
like books: the I’m Not Good Enough
story; the I Will Fail story; the I’m an
Imposter story. These worries are
common, but they hold us back.  you a sense of meaning makes it easier
Lowinger’s Mind Strength Method
– also the title of her book – involves
looking inwards to understand our
primitive fight-or-flight response and
acknowledge the way it shapes our own
behaviours, then developing a tolerance
to the discomfort that worry or stress
engenders in order to avoid those
instinctive negative behaviours and,
instead, create a space to choose
a response which is aligned with our
values. It sounds simple and logical, but
it involves being honest with ourselves
and developing what Lowinger
calls “the magnificence of mindful
self-awareness”.  effects of stress and worry on our
Lowinger has experienced the
challenges of anxiety herself, growing up
with a mother who was highly anxious
for her whole life, after being born into
the trauma and terror of World War II,
and separated from her parents at the
age of three while escaping from a Nazi
labour camp. It wasn’t until her father
died when she was in her mid-30s that
Lowinger decided to leave behind her
corporate career and focus on fulfilling
her life’s purpose. Aligning with what
gave her a sense of meaning led her to
further study and to founding a practice
with a mission of helping people to
leave behind anxiety and find success.  you can control.  to yourself and others is a nice way to
Understanding high performance
includes realising that anxiety is
sometimes its twin. A high performer
may be driven to work so hard by the
fear of not being “good enough”, or the
fear of making a mistake, or the fear of
being “found out” as an imposter.
Lowinger points out that this is not
sustainable high performance, and that
while this kind of self-flagellation
might drive you, it can also lead to
burnout. In order to achieve true high
performance, you must “master your
mindset”. “Any elite performer has
a value of continual improvement. If they
make a mistake they think ‘How can I
learn from this?’ rather than ‘I have to be
perfect to be good enough,’” she explains.  I take myself out of fight or flight? How
After identifying your own worries
and the resulting behaviours, Lowinger
counsels thinking deeply about your
life values, and about the alternative
actions that might better align with
those values. The trick is being driven
towards something positive, rather
than pulling away from something
negative. “Clarity on the alternative
pathway is empowering to us,” says
Lowinger. “Understanding what gives
to stand up to the fight-or-flight instinct
and realign your response. High
performance is built around clarity
on your values, clarity on your mission,
“Any elite
performer has a
value of continual
improvement. If they
make a mistake they
think ‘How can I learn
from this?’ rather than
‘I have to be perfect
to be good enough’”
your purpose, your strategic goals, and
focusing on effort around those,
and alignment to those,” she says. Once
you have this level of self-awareness, it’s
about moving consciously out of
struggle, your worry state, and into
problem-solving mode for the things
If you’re a sportsperson, that might
mean forgetting about a losing match
and competing in your next race
or match in alignment with your
values, which might be, for example,
determination and grit. In a corporate
setting, it might be realising you are
saying no to an opportunity (public
speaking, anyone?) because of fear you
won’t be good enough and deciding to
say yes, to align with your value of
seeking new opportunities and
experiences. This kind of resilience can
be built, with practice. And with
practice, it will become habitual.
Lowinger herself still moves through
the same thought process. “How do
do I stop being driven by the ‘I should be
more’ and ‘I should do more’ and bring
myself back to the heart-driven pull
and live with kindness and compassion?
Also, it’s human to experience this, and
so how can I make sure I practice
acknowledging the emotions, too?” 
Elizabeth Trotman, CEO of
StudioCanal in Australia and New
Zealand, worked with Lowinger along
with her senior team. “I think over the
past few years there has been a significant
awakening to the issues around staff
wellbeing and the impact of stress and
anxiety,” she says. “Whilst we’ve heard
a hundred times before that we have to
live in the moment, Dr Jodie worked
with our senior team to identify anxiety
as ‘worrying into the future’ and
become more conscious observers of
our thoughts. Self-awareness is key to
change, and identifying habitual
unconstructive thought patterns was
a key step in recognising the futility
of worry and developing healthier
thinking patterns.” Trotman was struck
by a new understanding of the physical
bodies. “Once we recognise worry and
anxiety as the causes, we can take
healthy steps forward in our daily lives
to minimise the impact,” she says.
Training your brain to overcome its
own instincts using mindfulness is at
the heart of Lowinger’s method. So
should your New Year’s resolutions
include meditation? Yoga? If you enjoy
those practices and find them rewarding,
then probably. But Lowinger is realistic.
“Sometimes New Year’s resolutions feel
like you’re whipping yourself with your
‘not good enough’ thoughts. I think
intentions of kindness and compassion
start a new year. Maybe setting that
intention in itself will boost your mood,”
she says. “What does kindness mean to
you? Maybe it means treating your body
more kindly. Maybe it means connecting
with your friends more. Maybe it means
moving out of a toxic work environment
and thinking about doing something
that gives you more satisfaction in life.
To find your voice and move into
empowered action to give you more joy
and fulfillment in your life is your right.
What does that look like?” Or as
Beyoncé might put it: “Okay ladies,
now let’s get in formation …”
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 Books
Château Gabriel,
Deauville,
France. The decor
was interior
designer Jacques
Grange and Yves
Saint Laurent’s
homage to
Luchino Visconti.

Living large
A new book on the homes of the late YVES SAINT LAURENT is a window into
a fantasy world conjured over an extraordinary lifetime. By ALICE BIRRELL.

I
f a wardrobe is how we wish to
present ourselves to the world,
then our private homes reflect our
innermost predilections, a fact on
abundant display in the new book
Yves Saint Laurent at Home (Assouline,
$170, assouline.com). The tome travels
from the designer’s Art Deco rue de
MARIANNE HAAS
dreamed up with interior designer
Jacques Grange and described by Vogue
in 1983 as “a fantasy made real”.
Onto all these canvases the French
designer lavished his endlessly roaming
aesthete’s eye that swung from clean
lines to horror vacui ornamentation. The
book reveals an ability to meld clashing
while Visconti-inspired flamboyances
including Louis XV chandeliers and
silver belonging to Tsar Nicholas II
inhabit grand living spaces.
With memories from Betty Catroux
to art dealer Alain Tarica, who helped
build his comprehensive art collection,
it is a sumptuous transportive portal,

Babylone apartment in Paris, to eras and influences that informed the with indispensable decorating advice.
Marrakech’s Villa Majorelle and revolutionary designer’s vision: le goût “What is taste in a home?” Saint
Deauville France to Château Gabriel, a Rothschild bedrooms at Deauville Laurent once said. “It is knowing when
home with a specially dug lake as were named after Proust characters to stop, and when to start again.”

Vogue January 2023 53

Jewellery
Unlock the rules
TIFFANY & CO.’s new Lock collection
underscores a modern way to shine: gold and
gems first, gender last. By LYNN YAEGER.
S
ome revolutions shatter
boundaries with a crash
and a bang; others arrive on
tiptoe and, with a whisper,
change the rules forever. Up
until a very few years ago, a guy with
a diamond Art Deco brooch winking
from his black-tie ensemble would at
least raise an eyebrow – and the fellow
you went to high school with who
has now paired his white T-shirt with
a single strand of pearls would elicit –
well, if not a guffaw, at least a titter.
But no longer.
Women have for decades helped
themselves to male-identified jewellery
– the signet ring, those massive
wristwatches. No one blinks an eye
when we string an antique pocket
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TIFFANY & CO.
Lock Bangles.
From left:
yellow and white
gold bangle set
with diamonds,
$18,800, rose gold
bangle, $9,850;
rose and white
gold bangle set
with diamonds,
$18,800.
watch around our necks or have
a chunky ID bracelet cut down so that
it fits our wrist. The clean lines of men’s
jewellery, along with the charm and
edge of androgyny, have long seduced
women, but lately men have begun
crossing the aisle as well. Which is why
Tiffany & Co., for the first time in its
nearly 200-year history, is launching
Tiffany Lock, a bracelet the company
describes as “all-gender” with an ethos
of “No rules. All welcome.”
“It’s all about unity, belonging,
the universal bonds that tie us
together forever – and the open-
minded spirit of today’s generation,”
says Alexandre Arnault, Tiffany’s
executive vice president of product and
communication. Arnault, who himself
is just 30, brought Beyoncé and Jay-Z
into the Tiffany fold, a spectacular
example of the brand’s commitment to
a fresh perspective.
What today’s generation wants,
according to Arnault, is an elegant,
streamlined, elongated bangle available
in yellow, white, or rose gold, sometimes
enhanced with diamonds. And of
course, like all bangles, the Tiffany
Lock simply cries out for company
– why would any arm, regardless of
gender, be satisfied sporting a single
rose gold example when it could be
joined with, say, a diamond-studded
yellow gold sibling?
The Tiffany Lock bracelet’s padlock
motif has a long history with the house.
First employed as a working latch in
the late 19th century – to protect the
secrets in your strongbox, perhaps – it
reappeared in the 1950s, and from then
on, its form and shape have informed
brooches, necklaces, money clips, and
those iconic key rings. The mechanism
that opens the lock, meanwhile, is
a bit of an engineering feat: the clasp
features an innovative swivel that
echoes the functionality of a padlock.
Asked whether he thinks all jewellery
in the future will be gender-neutral,
Arnault demurs. Certain collections,
like Tiffany’s HardWear, were originally
intended for women, “but you see a lot of
men wearing it now”, he says – and he
is sure there are men out there flaunting
Elsa Peretti’s Bone cuff; after all, he
has already seen them sporting that
designer’s Diamonds by the Yard chains.
That said, Arnault believes that some
categories may prove more challenging.
Traditional diamond and engagement
rings remain overwhelmingly the
province of women. As Arnault – who
married Géraldine Guyot, co-founder
of accessories brand Destree, last year
– explains: “I don’t expect our high
jewellery clients to be men anytime
soon – it is still very feminine, and
at the moment, 100 per cent of those
clients are women,” he tells me.
However, when it comes to gender-
specific jewellery, the best-laid plans
can be delightfully disrupted. “Last
summer we launched a range of
engagement rings for men – diamond
rings that were meant to be more
masculine, more suitable for a man’s
finger,” Arnault remembers. But no
sooner had those rings appeared than
a woman in his office at Tiffany snatched
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it on her hand every single day.”
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 Self portrait
How I See It: Blak Art and Film is a new exhibition at
Melbourne’s ACMI celebrating First Nations creatives working
in fields of performance and image-making. These three young
artists featured in the show share their vision in their own words.
Amrita Hepi, choreographer, artist and Bundjalung/Ngāpuhi woman living
between Wurundjeri Country (Melbourne) and Gadigal Country (Sydney).
VOGUE AUSTRALIA: When 1 – Dolphin House is a two-channel video my own personal histories or interests
did you realise you wanted to be installation and visual essay. On a micro interact with universal themes. That
a choreographer? level, I am interested in the interplay of aperture forms how I see, interpret and
AMRITA HEPI: “From a young desire and language, on a macro level it transmit through to art.”
age, but committedly from about age takes the 1965 NASA-funded dolphin VA: What do you hope people take
ANNA HAY (JAZZ MONEY), COURTESY OF ACMI

21. Dance is the love of my life and
the cornerstone of my practice. Really,
I got into this because I like bringing
people together, I like being a little
on the knife’s edge of exposition; it
fills my time, it helps me navigate the
map of myself.”
VA: Describe the work you have
created for How I See It.
AH: “Scripture for a smoke screen: Episode
house experiment as an allegory. To
describe it visually – but with words,
ha! – it’s moving, sprawling, absurd,
neon-lit and somewhat sentimental.”
VA: The title of this exhibition is
How I See It. So how do you see the
world and interpret it through art?
AH: “I’m interested in how hybridity
forms through social relations,
mundane magic, language and how
away from your work and from the
exhibition?
AH: “That desire and language is tricky
and beautiful, that it’s nice to sit in
a dark room and give your attention to
something, that there’s so much humour
and wit in these works and artists’ oeuvre,
and that there is, as always, a multitude
of expressions within the experience of
Indigenous practice and art.”

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 Jazz Money,
poet, filmmaker and performance
artist, and Wiradjuri woman
based on Gadigal Country.
VOGUE AUSTRALIA: How do
you see the world and interpret it
through art?
JAZZ MONEY: “I think art is one
of the best ways to communicate the
beauty and complexities of this world.
For me, it creates an expansive space
to have deep conversations informed
by politics, theory, feelings, passion,
history and the very humanness of
trying to figure this all out, together.
At its best, art connects me with people
and things in ways I couldn’t have
otherwise, and it is a great joy to be able
to participate in dialogues that help
tell us how we got here and where
we might be going.”
VA: Describe the work you have
created for How I See It.
JM: “I’ve created a large-scale work on
fabric comprising of an academic and
visual essay called Rodeo Baby! The
work is about trying to understand
how film and film archives inform the More Than Just A Game (2022) by Jarra Karalinar Steel.
myth-making of Australia and how that
affects the lived reality of First Nations Jarra Karalinar Steel, multidisciplinary artist and
people. The basis of the work is archival Boonwurrung, Wemba Wemba, Trawlwoolway woman, based
stills of Indigenous rodeo and Blakfellas in Melbourne’s St Kilda on Boonwurrung Country.
on horseback interwoven with text.”
VA: What is special about the VOGUE AUSTRALIA: When did inner suburbs of Melbourne. For me art
exhibition? you realise art was your vocation? has always been an escape, a healing,
JM: “It’s a deadly, radical group of JARRA KARALINAR STEEL: an outlet for expression and reclaiming
artists and thinkers considering the “Art has always been something that has space for my culture and people.”
how and why of image-making. called to me from a very young age. Our VA: Describe the work you have
I love that the gaze is inverted, moving family friend and artist, the late Aunty created for How I See It.
Blakfellas to the centre of the dialogue. Ellen José, was a big influence on my JKS: “This new work explores themes of
This is our land and our story, everyone love for the arts, as well as my mother place, culture, memory and nostalgia. It
else is a guest here, so we’re gonna tell who often took us to art exhibition features a playable arcade game situated
it our way.” openings all over Melbourne. However, inside an installation inspired by
VA: How would you sum up the my parents encouraged other creative a 90s video-game arcade. The playable
energy of your work in a few words? pursuits in fashion and costume as they game element is a collaboration with
JM: “Big legacy, big presence.” saw those as creative careers that were artist Charlotte Allingham aka Coffin
more sustainable. After years of study Birth. We wanted to create an arcade-
and travel, I finally had the courage style game that had representation and
a few years ago to go for my dream was from our point of view for Mob;
of pursuing visual arts. Luckily, it’s a story of a young Koori kid being
worked out okay.” on a journey through Kulin Country in
VA: What role does art play in your an alternative/future Melbourne CBD.”
life? VA: What do you hope people
JKS: “I create work that draws from take away from your new work and
my lived experience of growing up in the exhibition?
culture learning from my Elders and JKS: “What I would hope people take
community in an urban Melbourne away from my new work is a little fun,
environment. I was fortunate to nostalgia, and a new perspective. As for
have grown up surrounded by the exhibition, I hope they take away
my community, grassroots Koori a fresh perspective and feel inspired.”
and Torres Strait artists, activists and How I See It: Blak Art and Film runs at
leaders of the late 1980s and 90s in the ACMI until February 19.

Vogue January 2023 57

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 Centre stage
Since playing Princess Margaret on The Crown, VANESSA KIRBY
has gone from strength to strength. Now, she tells
HANNAH-ROSE YEE, she’s ready for her next big project.
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 I
t is Vanessa Kirby’s lot in life to be surrounded by
Australians. Her aunt lives in Australia, she says, and
one of her best friends has just relocated Down Under.
Elizabeth Debicki is a close pal in London – “She’s
like a sister to me,” – and Cate Blanchett was the jury
president at the Venice Film Festival the year that Kirby was
awarded Best Actress for Pieces of a Woman, the gaping open
wound of a film in which Kirby commanded the screen in
a 26-minute single-take birth scene. And next month, in The
Son, she stars opposite Australians Hugh Jackman and Zen
McGrath, a father-son duo with a fractured relationship that
takes a sharp turn into tragedy. Kirby plays Beth, second wife
of Jackman’s Peter, the pair of them living in the lap of New
York luxury when McGrath’s Nicholas comes to stay.
“I said to them, ‘Guys I’m so sorry. I’m really embarrassed,
but I’m going to have to stay in accent because I find it really
difficult to go in and out,’” Kirby recalls, with a self-deprecating
roll of her enormous blue eyes. “Hugh humoured me for a bit
… but then Zen and him would often go into Aussie together.
I was like, ‘Guys, guys, guys! I’m going to start going Aussie!’”
Kirby smiles. “It was really beautiful, actually. It was kind
of perfect for the father and son to have that in common. I was
a little envious of their Aussie-ness.”
Kirby is friendly, forthcoming and a bit
cheeky – it’s no wonder she gets on famously
with Australians. She is the picture of elegance
“I believe there
in a hotel suite in Venice in the middle of the
film festival, in a pair of sharply tailored black
isn’t a role
trousers and a ruched blouse. “All my own
stuff,” she brightly declares. Her stylist Ryan
Vanessa can’t
Hastings is yet to arrive for the festival. He is
bringing with him the sequinned Valentino
play. Her range
gown and the cache of Cartier jewels that
Kirby will wear at The Son’s press conference
is massive”
and world premiere. (In truth, Kirby doesn’t Hugh Jackman
think of herself as stylish at all: “I’m quite
sort of scruffy, honestly.”) This is the first
time that Kirby has returned to the Italian city since 2020,
to premiere Pieces of a Woman, the film that would lead to
her first Oscar nomination. She still remembers the period
as “the most surreal week of my life”. “It meant everything to
me, that film,” Kirby explains. “I was so honoured.”
The Oscar nomination came just weeks before Kirby’s 33rd
birthday, a crowning achievement after more than a decade of
acclaimed performances on the English stage. Over time, she
transformed into an action star, joined two major franchises
(Mission Impossible, Fast & Furious) and continued to work
in independent cinema, but to many, Kirby is still most
recognisable as The Crown’s first Princess Margaret. With
her blonde hair tucked under brunette wigs, forthright and
formidable with impeccable diction and a furious temper, she
made Margaret the best thing about the show.
Kirby still keeps up with the series – “Of course!” – as a fan,
arm in arm with 73 million households who treat the Netflix
show as appointment viewing. “We didn’t even know if anyone
would watch it,” Kirby admits. “So it was amazing when
people did, and people liked it, and it wasn’t just my granny
and my mum that watched it.” Alongside her performance in
Pieces of a Woman, The Crown is the work she is most proud of
today. “That really stretched me, because it was so scary to play
a real person, and someone I cared about, and someone that
PAWEL PYS
had been misrepresented,” Kirby explains. “I was proud
that we all did it together as a family.”
The daughter of a magazine editor and a surgeon, Kirby
grew up in London in a tight-knit family and at university
she cultivated a network of close girlfriends that includes the
author Dolly Alderton. (They share a therapist, the same one
Alderton wrote about in Everything I Know About Love and
who is, coincidentally, Australian.) Kirby – talkative, generous,
full of life – thrives in company. You can see why she gravitates
to theatre, or why she was devastated to learn that, because of
covid restrictions, she wasn’t going to be able to hang around
on the set of The Son after her brief two-and-a-half week shoot.
“I love to be in it with everybody,” she says. The closed set
meant she barely got to interact with Laura Dern, who plays
Nicholas’s mother, but – swings and roundabouts – it did mean
she spent quite a lot of time with Jackman. “I believe there isn’t
a role Vanessa can’t play. Her range is massive – as we’ve all
seen,” raves Jackman, via email. “In Beth, hers is a performance
with such an amazing restraint and elegance.” The feeling is
mutual. “Everyone knows it, but he’s just truly the kindest,
most generous, gentlest man,” Kirby enthuses. And not just as
a person, but as an actor. “He really wanted to go so deep with
this, and did and has, and I’m so astonished by what he did.”
Kirby is referring to the darkness at the heart of The Son,
a film from the director of the Anthony
Hopkins drama The Father – no relation,
although Hopkins does make a brief, and
devastating, cameo in The Son. The story is
an unflinching look at what it means to be
a parent: Peter and Kate to Nicholas, Beth
to her new baby. There’s a sense of dread
throughout, as the film creeps slowly towards
its wrenching conclusion. “I tend to lean
into characters who take up a lot of space,
whether it was in The Crown or even in Pieces
of a Woman … and with [Beth], I knew it
was much more about all the things that
she’s not able to say,” Kirby reflects. “The
subtlety of what I thought she needed to
be was a real challenge for me … because I find it easier to be
externally visceral. I find it much harder to pull back.”
There are passing moments of levity in The Son, though.
In one scene, Beth regales Nicholas with the story of how
she first met Peter, spotting him across the dance floor at
a wedding. Jackman leaps up and begins to perform what
is allegedly, according to the film, a suite of embarrassing
moves. “I was like, ‘I think we need to change these lines,’”
Kirby laughs. “He’s not a bad dancer! I was like, ‘There’s
nothing you can do, Hugh, to make your rhythm bad.’
Unlike me … I’m really not a good dancer. But he put
a silly song on and you just have to lean into it.”
Kirby likes a challenge. Whether it’s a film such as The
Son, about male mental health, or the birth scene in Pieces of
a Woman – “I haven’t given birth myself … and it was really
terrifying to take that on because I just didn’t want to get it
wrong for women,” – or upcoming projects, including playing
Empress Josephine to Joaquin Phoenix’s Napoleon in an epic
from director Ridley Scott. (“Very complex relationship in
history, fascinating dynamic. And we just had a really great
time really going there.”) If the character doesn’t terrify her,
if it doesn’t feel like there’s a chance she won’t be able to
do it, Kirby doesn’t sign on. “I’m always looking for that in
everything,” she says. “And really, now I only do things that
have that quality to them.”
The Son opens in cinemas on February 9.
Vogue January 2023 61
Film
Light fantastic
From designers to directors including STEVEN SPIELBERG, SAM MENDES and
DAMIEN CHAZELLE, the worlds of fashion and film are all celebrating the magic of
the movies right now. HANNAH-ROSE YEE looks to the big screen for inspiration.
I
n the hushed sanctity of the
projection booth at a cinema
on the south coast of England,
a man begins to unload a reel of
film. His hands reverentially feed
the tape into the projector, each tiny
movement made with consideration
and care. There is only one guest in
the theatre, but when that guest is
Olivia Colman, it doesn’t really matter.
Her face is alive with delight as the
projectionist begins his slow two-step
between the reels. As Frank O’Hara put
it, in his poem An Image of Leda: “Oh,
what is this light that holds us fast!”
This vignette from Empire of Light, the
new film from director Sam Mendes,
is shot by legendary cinematographer
Roger Deakins like a love scene. The
lighting is soft, the camera zeroed in
on motion and movement, everything
delicate and sensual. The film, in which
Colman plays Hilary, the manager of a
regional cinema who, for a while, finds
a salve for loneliness amid the popcorn
and the ticket stubs with Stephen,
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a fellow employee, is lit from within by
the magic of the movies. Set in 1981,
every film reference feels like a spark
of recognition: The Blues Brothers, All
That Jazz, Chariots of Fire. The tickets
cost only a handful of pounds, the
concession stand is full of retro packets
of Maltesers and Galaxy bars. “You
should go and sit in the middle with
a bunch of people who don’t know
you – who can’t even see you,” Stephen
(Micheal Ward) advises Hilary at one
point in the film. “That little beam of
light. It’s an escape.”
If you escape to the movies this
month, you might find your immediate
surroundings reflected right back at
you. On the big screen right now,
or very soon, is a trio of star-studded
films by Oscar-winning filmmakers all
examining the power of the cinematic
experience. Alongside Empire of Light
there’s Damien Chazelle’s Babylon,
recreating Hollywood’s halcyon heyday
with an all-star cast led by Margot
Robbie as a young actor clinging
Margot Robbie held
aloft in Babylon.
desperately to her dreams, and Steven
Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, a very
personal tale loosely based on his own
journey as a young boy to filmmaking,
in which Michelle Williams plays the
director’s inimitable mother. It’s not
just the filmmakers who are turning
self-reflective; Virginie Viard’s recent
spring/summer ’23 collection for Chanel
was inspired by costumes Coco Chanel
once fashioned for the 1961 film
Last Year in Marienbad. The runway
show was set against the backdrop of
a sprawling cinema screen beaming a
short film starring house ambassador
Kristen Stewart, who sat in the front
row watching herself in a moment of
cinematic reflection. “Of the people
around me, [Stewart] is the closest to
Gabrielle Chanel – at least, to my idea
of her,” Viard mused in the show notes.
“She understands Chanel, its clothes.”
Filmmakers have always been
moved to hold a mirror up to their
own industry. There’s nothing more
intriguing to a filmmaker than film
Actors Toby Jones and Micheal
Ward, far right, in the projection
booth in Empire of Light.
Michelle Williams stars
in The Fabelmans.
itself: think of Federico Fellini’s 8½,
Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time
in Hollywood or even 1952’s Singin’ in
the Rain. But these three new movies,
conceived during the quiet of covid
lockdowns and made during them,
too, are all that and more, the work of
artists going once more unto the breach
for an artform under serious threat. In
the darkest days of the pandemic, when
cinemas were boarded up and streaming
was taking hold over our imaginations,
pundits wondered if anyone would ever
pay to put on hard clothes and leave
their house for something as trivial as
a movie ever again.
Not if Spielberg, Mendes and
Chazelle have anything to do with it.
(Or Tom Cruise. Credit must be given
to the man who brought the blockbuster
cinematic experience back from the
brink with his own bare hands in Top
Gun: Maverick.) These three directors
are the recipients of six Oscars between
them for movies as varied as La La
Land, American Beauty, Schindler’s List
and Saving Private Ryan. They are
filmmakers whose work has taken us to
Jurassic Park and the Temple of Doom,
danced atop Griffith Observatory or
cycled with an extraterrestrial friend
above the treetops, drank shaken
Chanel’s spring/summer ’23 show
featured a vintage-inspired film
starring Kristen Stewart.
The cinematic backdrop at
Chanel spring/summer ’23.
martinis and drove very fast cars,
made war epics, killer-shark thrillers,
romantic comedies, historic dramas,
musicals and more. Their suite of new
films channel all of that stardust into
something akin to a battle cry. How
could you forsake the movies, Empire
of Light asks, when it affords you the
How could you
forsake the movies
when it affords you
the possibility of
connection, even if
only for a few hours?
possibility of connection, even if only
for a few hours? Movies are boasting
and lustful and bananas and brilliant,
posits Babylon. Don’t forget about
them. Movies are magic, argues The
Fabelmans. (And thereby, Spielberg
a magician.)
I admit, I have a horse in this
particular race. I have spent the past
few months at film festivals both local
and abroad: Melbourne, London,
Venice. Seeing movies is my favourite
thing in the world. There is nothing
like sitting in the middle – although
in truth, I prefer the aisle somewhere
near the back – in complete silence with
strangers who don’t know you, who
can’t even see that you’re there.
In a cinema, you can be anonymous
before a screen and, for a brief moment,
find yourself reborn. Cinemas can
also be the worst, too: they attract
the texters and the talkers as much
as they do the quiet acolytes seeking
oblivion. The popcorn can be overly
salty, or cold. The seats uncomfortable.
The sound quality poor. The tickets
expensive. (Parking, snacks, maybe
even a babysitter, too!) And perhaps
the film won’t be any good. These are
the risks. You know them well. They
are, in my opinion, worth it, every
single one. The price of admission for
escape in a darkened room for an hour
or so, a big screen, an endless story,
a blanket of noise and a cacophony of
light. See you at the movies.
The Fabelmans is in cinemas now.
Babylon is in cinemas on January 19.
Empire of Light is in cinemas on
February 2.
Vogue January 2023 63
Vogue for good
JILLIAN
BOUSTRED
dress (far left),
$450, and
(left) $510. ESSE
STUDIOS
resort ’23
featuring
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SUPPLY’S
designs.

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Green Vision
The term plant-based has become a
buzzword cropping up on menus of late,
but for Australian sunglasses brand
Local Supply, it’s become a concept
central to the label that was founded
nearly a decade ago. Made from
a PET-free resin, from plant-derived
sources, the sunglasses also generate
zero-waste during the manufacturing
process, and are recyclable to boot.
Having collaborated with a slew of local
designers and creatives, more of its
sell-out 2022 collaboration with Lara
Worthington, some of which featured on
the Esse Studios runway at Australian
fashion week, will be restocked this
month. Guilt-free shades.

True demand HELEN

KAMINSKI
hat, $595.

Sunglasses made from plants, a local

label doing away with the industry’s
waste problem, and the latest in ethical
fashion. By ALICE BIRRELL.

I
t’s no secret fashion has a waste problem, but perhaps the
most shocking fact is a huge amount of wastage happens
before shoppers buy anything. Around 30 per cent of
clothes produced every season are never sold, often
ending up in landfill or burnt, a fact a slew of designers
is seeking to tackle. Sydney’s Jillian Boustred is one, and by Hats off
making very minimal quantities by smaller manufacturers, Australian milliner Helen Kaminski has debuted
she’s able to better match demand with supply. “Working with her conscious collection of hats that utilise
boutique local factories means we can cap our unit quantities responsibly sourced, single-origin wool from
and recut best-selling styles when demand is there.” This way an independent Victorian Merino woolgrower.
she can get a feel for which of her classic silhouettes anchored Hand-blocked in Spain, the elegant fedoras and
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in natural fabrications will be popular. She also only makes boaters trimmed in taffeta (also eco-certified),
her bridal offering on-demand, explaining, “It really makes are a refined and ethical way to seek shade.
the customer consider their purchase as they know it’s a special Something to dip your hat to.
style, specifically made for them.”

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There’s nothing like

Diary beautiful lingerie to make

you feel special, especially
when it’s from luxury French
Explore what’s in store and brand Simone Perele.
worth having this month. Renowned for its expert
craftsmanship and couture
detailing, the brand offers
100 per cent fit guarantee
with sizes from A to H cups,
helping you feel your most
confident and comfortable
every day. Pictured here,
pieces from the Singuliere
collection. Shop online at
simone-perele.com.au.

CRÈME DE LA CRÈME
Embark on a journey from sea to skin with the La Mer’s ultra-luxe
moisturiser Crème de la Mer. Renowned for its healing energies,
the sea is at the heart of the brand’s powerful formulations.
Infused with Miracle Broth™, a cell-renewing elixir made from
giant sea kelp that delivers moisture and helps boost natural
repair, skin appears firmer, smoother and more hydrated.
Go to cremedelamer.com.au.

SOUND WAVES
Combining cutting-edge industrial design with
sleek aesthetics, Rode’s NTH-100 headphones
look as impressive as they sound. Suitable for
a broad range of content creation from audio
editing to podcasting, expect remarkably
accurate frequency response and ultra-low
distortion. Ergonomic earcups and premium
Alcantara® cushions deliver on comfort, while
cable colour options include vibrant pink, green,
blue or orange. Go to digidirect.com.au.

SHINE ON
Lacklustre locks be gone! Joico’s YouthLock™ haircare range
focuses on maintaining hair’s youthful bounce, shine, resilience
and softness. Formulated with strengthening marine collagen
as well as nourishing buriti fruit oil, each of the four products in
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 Interior life

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We ask interior design talents to guest-edit style cues for home. Milan-based architect
and designer LUCA BOMBASSEI takes style cues from Italian summers.
“We’re living in strange times in Europe, suspended between a ceramics and coloured fabrics. Also, large carpets and
hard two-year time of pandemic when interpersonal relations cushions laying on the ground will make you feel a touch of
were discouraged or even forbidden, and a need of going back exoticism, even if you’re in the city centre.
to a long-lost sociality. A dinner on your home terrace offers an “Italian movies like La Terrazza (1980) by Ettore Scola and
amazing middle ground, where you can meet your friends and Le Fate Ignoranti (2001) by Ferzan Özpetek are especially
loved ones without renouncing your domestic intimacy … inspiring to me.”
the mood should be cosy but glamorous at the same time. Want to see more of Luca Bombassei’s style? Pick up the latest
“Setting the table with care and love is essential, [as is] issue of Vogue Living, on sale now, and go to vogue.com.au/
choosing supplies that enchant your guests: decorated vogue-living.

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 Tailoring
the dream

Clockwise from far left:
Joanne Fiorio fitting
singer-songwriter KLP
with her bespoke suit;
KLP performing on
stage; KLP and Fiorio
at VAEFNO; and at
the final fitting.
I
t’s not every day that dreams come
true. But for one Sydney-based small
business, Argys Tailoring, their
dream came true in a way they could
never have imagined. It all started when
third-generation business owner, Joanne
Fiorio, entered the American Express
Dream Backers initiative – an inspiring
pursuit that gave one lucky American
Express-accepting small business the
chance to turn their boldest business
dream into reality.
“The pandemic put a hold on suits and
occasion wear, with people having
nowhere to dress to impress. Our business
dreams were put on hold too, although
we never gave up on them,” says Fiorio.
Fiorio’s dream was to see an Australian
celebrity wear a new Argys Tailoring
women’s made-to-measure suit on
a national stage. To their absolute
delight, American Express pulled out all
the stops to create a once-in-a-lifetime
moment at one of the biggest events
on the Australian fashion calendar –
Vogue American Express Fashion’s
Night Out (VAEFNO).
Australian singer-songwriter KLP
opened the runway performing and
strutting her stuff on the catwalk,
suited and booted in a custom-designed
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Argys Tailoring made-to-measure suit.
Making sure as many eyes were on
Argys Tailoring as possible, even for
those that couldn’t make the event,
American Express took out large-scale
advertisements across the Sydney CBD,
as well as online.
“It felt surreal seeing so many eyes on
our designs. Come to think of it, the
whole experience has been surreal. I
could never have imagined that I would
be seeing myself and our family business
on adverts across the city and have KLP
in one of our suits,” says Fiorio.
KLP’s made-to-measure suit was
curated in partnership with the
singer-songwriter, and the finished
design represents her character and music
style. Dream Backers is the latest in
a series of initiatives by American Express
to support small businesses in Australia.
“This experience has been amazing for
our business,” Fiorio says. “I’m still in
shock about the added exposure my small
business has received, all thanks to being
an American Express merchant.”
Find out how American Express can back
your business and the many benefits of
being an American Express merchant
at go.amex/merchant.
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With its commitment

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craftsmanship and service,
Bond Street Jewellers is
Explore what’s in store and where to find pieces to
worth having this month. cherish forever. Case in point,
this dazzling diamond ring
from the Triolgy collection.
Opulent and unique, the
three-stone ring features
an emerald-cut centre
diamond framed by two
trapeze-cut diamonds. Visit
bondstreetjewellers.com.au.

HOLIDAY VIBES
The Casamicciola Crossbody is one of the favourites among
Wanderers Travel Co.’s vacation collection. Its saddle shape
yet petite frame accents any holiday outfit beautifully, while the
fold-over close, external pockets and internal compartments
keep you organised and chic. Removable crossbody strap, top
handle, and wristlet included. The perfect vacay – or any day –
accessory. Check it out at wandererstravelco.com.

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long-lasting results and excellent coverage.
With Solfine Crema Color, you can expect salon-
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REEL TIME
The wait is finally over. Award-winning director Damien
Chazelle’s highly anticipated original epic Babylon is out this
month. Set in 1920s Los Angeles and starring Brad Pitt, Margot
Robbie and Diego Calva, the film weaves a tale of oversized
ambition and outrageous excess during an era of unbridled
decadence in early Hollywood. Exclusive to cinemas from
January 19. Go to babylonmovie.com.au.
BANANAS CLARKE

Lensed both with and without a head covering,

Muslim Australian model on the rise Hanan Ibrahim,
celebrates the many facets of being a modern woman.
 FASHION
FAITHFUL
As a Somali-Australian
model, Hanan Ibrahim
is used to challenging
fashion and religious
stereotypes. Now,
sharing her decision
to wear a hijab on her
own terms, she writes
about her desire to
embrace both sides of
her identity and carve
out space for women
wanting to do the same.
Styled by Miguel Urbina Tan.
Photographed by Bananas Clarke.
Vogue January 2023 75
Gucci jacket, $ 4,450,
and hat, $1,840.
Van Cleef & Arpels
earrings, $43,800.
 ight months ago, I made the decision to start wearing my hijab
part-time. In making this choice, I have found myself between
a rock and a hard place. The rock being the lifelong comfort of
wearing hijab, of it identifying me as a member of the Muslim
community, and the pride I felt as being Australia’s first hijabi
model. The hard place being fear of how people would interpret
this act, using it to either view me as a woman who has lost her
way or as one conforming to Western beauty standards.
Growing up in a multi-ethnic Muslim community in
Melbourne, I saw many women practising hijab intermittently,
wearing it to work and the mosque but then taking it off for certain social events.
This fluidity fascinated me as it suggested another way to exist as a Muslim woman.
I was always taught you’re either a woman who wears a hijab or you’re not. Yet here
these women were, defying the standards of perfection set out for them around what
it means to be a “good” Muslim woman. They were heavily scrutinised and labelled
as “hypocrites”for wearing it whenever they deemed fit, as though deciding to wear
a hijab comes with a “death do us part” promise.
Unfortunately, for many globally a woman’s dress sense is a matter controlled by
external forces, whether by communities whose views derive from rigid interpretations
of religious texts, or from opposingly radical and secular societies that fail to respect
the agency of women altogether. Both systems fail to capture Muslim women as
agents of their own lives. Choosing to wear a hijab or not is a matter of individual
choice. It is not a decision to be made by others.
One question I’m asked often is whether I was forced into wearing hijab or whether
I felt oppressed with it on. This always seemed absurd to me because it’s a choice I
made freely and with the blessing of my family. I must reiterate that wearing hijab
has never made me feel oppressed nor was I ever forced into wearing it. I accepted it
as a second skin and something Muslim women did when they reached a certain age.
I was proud to have worn it through school, university, and in both of my careers.
The hijab made me feel empowered, content and it was a testament to my spirituality.
It will always hold a significance in my life.
Conversely, not wearing the hijab recently has opened my eyes to another aspect of
my womanhood. For a long time, I never imagined my body and hair as constituting
part of my identity. Instead, my personality and my intellect, in isolation of my
physical self were what made me who I was and not a combination of the three. In
many ways, I had denied that part of myself, clinging to the hope that by wearing
a hijab I was liberating myself from sexual objectification and that in itself was all
I needed to be free.
Choices are so often made for women that do not allow them to speak for themselves.
“As this country
To deny a woman’s choice goes against a core principle of Islam – that there is no becomes more
compulsion in religion. Muslim women should be free to make their own choice
whether it’s to honour the belief that covering the hair and body is always necessary, open-minded
or if it is a decision that allows them more flexibility around how they dress. To
assume that there can only be one form of practising the hijab denies women of their in deeming who
right to autonomy, agency and ultimately their freedom to practise religion.
I’m currently at an intersection in my life where I want to live authentically, which and what is
for me, means being free to veil, unveil or to do both simultaneously without fear of
reprimand. This decision does not change my love of faith and culture, nor does it Australian, I also
alter my devotion to it. It is simply about embracing both sides of my identity, that of
a visibly practising Muslim woman who wears hijab and that of an equally practising want to explore
Muslim woman who does not. As this country becomes more open-minded in
deeming who and what is Australian, I also want to explore the other parts of my
the other parts of
womanhood – a Muslim woman, a black Somali woman, and an Australian woman
all at once. This decision isn’t about validation or fulfilling a desire to “fit in”, it’s
my womanhood –
centred on flexibility and personal choice. Some may even call me misguided or brave,
but there is nothing braver than wearing a hijab in an Islamophobic world. My hope
a Muslim woman,
is that space is carved out for women who are part-timers, transitioning to wearing
hijab full time, and for those who have worn it all their lives and then choose not to
a black Somali
without fearing what this will do to their relationships, communities and careers. woman, and an
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My commitment to faith is not defined by when and how often I wear hijab. It is
instead about being authentic and true to my own life journey. I will always be Australian woman
a Muslim and feel part of my community. But I also recognise that there is not one
singular way to live my faith. ■ all at once”
78
 Kim Jones (left)
and Marc Jacobs,
photographed in New
York City. Jacobs carries
a Fendi Baguette bag.

SUDO PHOTOGRAPHED AT THE ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK

All in the bag

PORTRAITS: STYLED BY TONNE GOODMAN GROOMING: KIYONORI

A bag that’s much more than an accessory, speaking to the power of fashion and an
Italian empire, the Fendi Baguette takes centre stage for an anniversary collection
that brought together an extraordinary cast of cultural icons under the visionary
direction of Kim Jones. Interview by Edwina McCann. Styled by Miguel
Urbina Tan. Photographed by Bananas Clarke. Portraits by Annie Leibovitz.
86

hen Silvia Venturini Fendi
speaks about her most famous
creation, the Fendi Baguette
bag, she knows it embodies
something so elusive in fashion
she doesn’t think she’ll see it
again. “Creating an icon,
not just something that’s
considered an It bag, is like
doing alchemy and is something
that only happens once in a lifetime,” she says of the perfect
collision of timing, social temperature and exceptional design
that birthed the envelope-style bag in 1997.
Not trying to recreate that impossible collision of forces,
instead honouring them, is the special Fendi collection
for resort ’23, imagined as the Baguette’s 25th anniversary
celebration and held in New York, rather than the brand’s
usual European backdrop for shows.
Reflected there, more than kismet, was the hard work of
current creative director Kim Jones, who is adding his own
BANANAS CLARKE, ANNIE LEIBOVITZ,
chapter to the other icon that is the Roman house of Fendi.
Since his appointment in 2020, he’s quickly making a mark
as master collaborator. For this special occasion, he convinced
two New York stalwarts Marc Jacobs, who he worked
alongside at Louis Vuitton as a young designer, and heritage
American jewellery brand Tiffany & Co. to work on their
own interpretations of the bag – Jacobs through a suite of
ready-to-wear looks that closed out the show, Tiffany
Jacobs – Jones calls him
the King of American
Fashion – sketches out
his vision for Fendi.
through bags carrying precious hardware, both showcased
alongside Jones’s utility-meets-sport-and-street designs. “At
the beginning, I just wanted to do a capsule collection with
accessories for the anniversary of the Baguette, but then Kim
convinced me that we should do a big show,” comments
Venturini Fendi who had a hand in getting supermodel, and
a name forever associated with the 90s, Linda Evangelista to
return to the runway for the collection.
A bag that evolved with the shrinking size of mobile
phones, made to clutch under the arm (hence Baguette),
captures a spirit of carefree and optimistic 90s New York City,
an association cemented by its star turn on Sex and The City
(and which informed the show location). Edwina McCann
sat down with Jones there to discuss a meeting of icons.
VOGUE: We’re here in New York for very exciting reasons.
Can you tell us why?
KIM JONES: “Basically, when we started looking at the way
we were going to do a capsule collection for the Baguette’s 25th
anniversary, I was saying it’s such a key Fendi item, I think we
should make it bigger. The Baguette became really famous in
Sex in the City, which is in New York, so that’s the reason we’re
here. 1997 is the reference point for the collection. It’s the idea
of celebrating something – it’s not the form of when we’re
doing the collections normally, the Fendi collections in Milan
or Paris, where there’s a flow that goes through them. This is
out of that sync, but it’s a special occasion. The other obsession
I have with New York is the Uptown/Downtown mix. I was
thinking about Downtown mostly, because that’s the bit →
Vogue January 2023 89
 I was really drawn to when I was young. Marc Jacobs is
obviously the king of Downtown, and Marc was the person
that hired me at Vuitton, and I was looking at what he was
doing around 1997. I’ve loved his collections, too, so I sent
him a text and was like, ‘Marc, design a Fendi collection for
the Baguette – we’re going to do it in New York!’ And that’s
how that came around and he’s designed the collection. I’m
not involved. It’s not collaboration, the clothes are all his.”
V: No wonder, it’s so Marc!
KJ: “So he’s got a collection, we’ve got a collection. And then
there’s the third part of it, which is Tiffany. Tiffany Baguette,
[and] baguette is a diamond cut. I was in the Fendi store
Uptown and I was looking across at the big Tiffany building
and was just thinking, I want to hear both of them. So I called
[Tiffany & Co. executive VP of product and communication]
Alexandre Arnault, and I was like, I’d love to do some bags
that are the price points of jewellery
for the show. Then you’re telling the
Bella Hadid
story of New York as a whole because walks in the
you think about Tiffany, you think Fendi resort
of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, particularly ’23 show.
Truman Capote … there are those
different eras. It’s fun to work with
other people to see how different
companies work and especially
when it’s high jewellery. We’re
making bags out of sterling silver,
all hand-done. So, it’s really special.
They’re made-to-order one-off, but
then there are some that are limited
that have the buckles, which are in
white gold to look like the silver,
but with actual baguette diamonds.”
V: Can you tell us about Linda
Evangelista and her involvement
in the anniversary?
KJ: “I read an article about all the
horrible things that have happened
to her and how it really made her
feel terrible, but I looked at
the pictures of her and thought,
‘You are still beautiful.’ So, I wrote her a letter.
I said, ‘You know, I’d love to work with you.’ And then we
started talking. Then Steven Meisel did the photos and
obviously they have a great relationship. It was really
emotional on the set. Watching her face move is just incredible
– this slight gesture changing the whole image. So, I assembled
a team of people around to make her feel comfortable and I was
really thrilled by the results. It’s like a teenage dream. Some
things I do purely for myself, [to say] ‘I’ve worked with that
person, that’s amazing, I can’t believe I’ve done that.’”
V: You’ve said the Baguette is such an icon of the 90s.
Today, everyone, especially people who are a lot younger, is
obsessed with the 90s. Can you tell us about that?
KJ: “Well, if I look at Lila [Moss] or Bella [Hadid], or all the
girls I know, they’re all hunting down vintage Fendi, or vintage
Dior from those times, because they probably were too young
to remember that. There’s a certain nostalgia to that time,
which seems like it was free because it probably was because
people didn’t have a phone or a camera on them the whole
time. People would go out and dance and enjoy themselves
rather than worry about how people thought they looked. I’m
90
looking more at maximal 90s than the minimal thing that
is happening in fashion for the show, just because I think
that’s something that really is nice and super-celebratory.”
V: And it was also very New York, with Sex and the City,
which adds another layer to the Baguette’s history.
KJ: “Yes, exactly. You just think about Carrie Bradshaw’s closet.
Kids are watching that now. I’m always eagerly asking all my
friends’ children, and some of the younger models, ‘What do
you watch?’. But I look at Studio 54 and think, ‘Oh my god,
that must have been incredible,’ so it’s kind of the same.”
V: The Baguette became almost a character in that TV
series. Would you say no other bag has superseded it?
KJ: “They become pop-culture icons and I think that’s what’s
interesting. For me, Marc Jacobs is a pop culture icon, too, so
maybe a Birkin is on that sort of level, but it is its own character.”
V: Everyone knows how busy you are because you have the
show in Milan coming up. How do
you manage to do all this?
KJ: “I have downtime. Sometimes
I’ll work for three weeks, without
a day off, and then when I go home,
I’ll just be on my own for a few days.”
V: And is that why you like to go to
places like Indonesia and Kenya?
KJ: “Exactly, with a few friends and
loved ones and have a nice time.”
V: And is that because you had an
interesting childhood travelling
around the world?
KJ: “I love nature, I love wildlife,
I love going to places I’ve never been
and seeing things I’ve never seen.
And in Kenya, we saw black leopards
– so beautiful, and that’s something
I never thought I’d see in the wild.”
V: You really have become
someone known for innovative
collaborations that are also very
fun and unexpected. Nobody
expected the Versace one.
KJ: “Well, I took Silvia [Venturini
Fendi] to meet Donatella [Versace] when we did our first
show, so we went to dinner after. They’ve had very similar
upbringings and lives – [they’re both] born into a fashion
family. They really got along and it was like, ‘Let’s do
something together,’ and it was just fun. You learn so much
working with people. Watching Marc Jacobs’s fittings, you’re
learning. It’s interesting, for me.”
V: And how different was it between Donatella and Marc,
because they’re very different.
KJ: “[Laughs] Donatella was a huge amount of laughter, and
Marc is really … the instinct. And the thought process is
fascinating. I love Marc, we haven’t had time to look to each
other, to see what each other’s doing and it’s a bit like being
in college in a funny way.”
V: And is it a bit of a dream come true, seeing him working?
Where were you both in the 90s?
KJ: “College. So, I was kind of thinking it’s like working
with Linda, working with Marc, all these people I looked up
to – it’s a bit of a dream wish list. Some of these things are
done very selfishly, but people don’t know that. Just because
it’s an opportunity to enjoy.” ■
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 Lost and found
During a tumultuous childhood in Russia, Natalia Vodianova and
her youngest sister, Jenna, were separated by adoption. Two decades
later, DNA testing brought about a grateful, unexpected reunion.
By Hamish Bowles. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz.

Half-sisters, model
Natalia Vodianova (near
left) and her youngest
sibling, Jennifer Burns.

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 atalia Vodianova began her
modelling career in Nizhniy at 16,
soon after a boyfriend introduced
her to a local modelling academy.
Scouts told her she could go to Paris
but would need to learn English
in three months. Revealing the
steely drive that would steer her
through life, Natalia did exactly
that. Anything would be better
than toiling away at her mother’s fruit and vegetable stand.
“I had nothing to lose,” she told Vogue’s Sarah Mower in
2003. “Only something better could happen to me.”
In Paris, she was borne by her Cinderella story and the
celestial beauty that would see her cast as Lewis Carroll’s
Alice in Annie Leibovitz’s legendary December 2003 Vogue
portfolio. Her preternatural elegance and composure veiled
any thought of a complicated history.
Motherhood and a first marriage to the artist Justin
Portman, scion of the aristocratic British dynasty, was
to follow. At 19, Natalia was pregnant with Lucas (now
21), and the following year, 2002,
Portman and Natalia wed. Soon after –
her modelling star in ascendancy – Natalia
(whose family with Portman would come “I felt Jenna has
to include daughter Neva, now 16, and
second son Viktor, 15) signed a contract always been
with Calvin Klein, providing a new level
of financial security that allowed her to part of my life,”
arrange nursing care and housing for her
severely autistic younger sister, Oksana, says Natalia,
and her mother, Larisa. “She’s my baby,”
said Natalia of her mother, then only 39. “even if I didn’t
“I want to spoil her now, make sure she’s
happy. She’s had such a hardcore life.”
know her”
“Natalia Vodianova’s story is so
romantic,” wrote Vogue in 2003, “she’s
already a girl on the brink of legend … the heroine of
a magical Russian rags-to-riches fairytale.” Natalia had
revealed just enough of her hardscrabble life to fuel the myth:
At the age of 11, she recalled, “I used to carry tens and tens
of [fruit] boxes, each of which weighed 30 kilos, without even
thinking it was heavy!”
In 2004, Natalia applied her influence and determination
towards the launch of a charity, the Naked Heart
Foundation, a response to her country’s entrenched attitudes
towards people, like her sister Oksana, with disabilities. The
organisation supports families that choose to look after their
disabled children at home, and builds playgrounds across
Russia and former Soviet countries, in areas that need them.
Portman and Natalia divorced in 2011, and in 2020 Natalia
married businessman Antoine Arnault, the elegantly willowy
son of Bernard Arnault with whom she has sons Maxim, 8,
and Roman, 6. On a balmy day in the parkland of the pretty
village outside Paris where Natalia and her family decamp for
weekends, Natalia shared the complicated history that led to
the adoption of her half-sister Jenna, whom she remembers
only as baby Masha.
“My mom had quite a series of very unhappy relationships,
starting with my father,” she explained. They married
when Natalia’s mother Larisa was 19. Army service was
mandatory at the time, and so Natalia’s father was called up
when she was a baby – and the marriage didn’t last. Nor did
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a second romantic entanglement – with a man who would be
the love of Larisa’s life, according to Natalia – that produced
a second daughter, Oksana, born with severe developmental
issues. Soon Larisa and daughters found themselves, as
Natalia recalls, “in a little 20-metre room with nothing”.
As Natalia grew up there were further tumultuous
relationships for Larisa – including briefly, a return of
Oksana’s father, still Larisa’s true love, which produced
Natalia’s sister Kristina. Natalia was 14. “Love is a crazy,
crazy thing,” she says of this period. And so it proved when,
a few years later, “Prince Charming comes along and he
sweeps her off her feet,” Natalia says. “He’s a gentleman. He
seems so serious. He’s so kind to us, and after six months
they’re together. My mom is shining,” she remembers. Larisa,
then 36, was soon expecting her fourth child.
It would, however, prove to be another unhappy love affair,
and a financially ruinous one for Larisa. The relationship left
her with a debt that forced her to turn to the local mafia to
borrow money at extortionate terms. “By the time she’s eight
months pregnant, we have to have this tough conversation,”
says Natalia, then a 16-year-old having to grow up fast. “I told
her, ‘You absolutely cannot bring another
child into this situation.’” And so the
decision was made to put the baby – who
would be called Masha – up for adoption.
“I have always taken responsibility for
that decision, maybe even more than
I have admitted to myself,” Natalia explains
quietly. However, “by the time Masha was
born, there was no question that it was the
right decision”, she adds, recalling that
the mafia’s tactics were becoming ever
more intimidating. “I remember saying to
my mom, ‘There is a queue of parents who
want this child. She’s going to be loved,
she’s going to have a much better life than
with us.’” Natalia went to see her infant
sister for the first, and as she thought, the last time. “I said to
her, ‘I promise we’ll see each other again.’”
Natalia arrived in Paris in November of 1999 as Jenna’s
adoption was under way. “As soon as I was even a little
successful and felt safe,” Natalia recalls, “I came back to look
for her, but she was gone. I even hired a private detective to
try to crack the system. Nobody was giving us information.”
For Natalia the years that followed were haunted by
a “nightmare of thinking, what if Masha is with the wrong
family? What if she’s unloved? When you have your children,
you understand how precious it is.”
It was in 2016 that Natalia first took a DNA test. “I had
very little hope of finding anything. For a while, I looked at
the monthly emails thinking, who knows? But then it just
became too painful.” And so she stopped looking altogether
– and fatefully missed the emails, in 2019, from Jenna.
It was half-sister Kristina who made the connection.
Kristina too had registered with the DNA site, and in 2021
had been notified of a half-sister match. Natalia and Kristina
immediately sent a flurry of emails to Jenna. “I’ve been
looking for you forever,” read Natalia’s.
Jenna thinks back to that day in the Walmart parking lot.
“I was happy, obviously, and I was also in shock,” she recalls.
A correspondence began, tentatively, at first, on Jenna’s side.
But with time, her confidence grew and eventually Jenna felt
ready for a video call with Natalia. “I was quite nervous …
 I don’t know what I had expected her to be. I think maybe
the stereotypical ‘supermodel’, but she was quite natural, and
easy to talk to,” Jenna remembers. They spoke for almost
three hours, Natalia asking lots of questions about Jenna’s
childhood, and sharing some details of the complicated
circumstances leading up to Jenna’s adoption.
Eventually, Natalia suggested that Jenna visit her in Paris,
with her brother Ethan. “We hugged for a long time in the
airport,” Jenna remembers. “It was a lot,” she goes on, recalling
her immersion into Natalia’s family life, including meeting
Kristina, who was there for the visit. Jenna found she had a
special connection with Kristina, only two years older. “She’s
a doctor of paintings,” says Natalia proudly of Kristina.
“They’re the two nerds, and I’ve never been to university.”
The second week of the Paris trip, Jenna met her mother
for the first time. Larisa speaks no English, and Jenna didn’t
speak any Russian (she is learning the language now). “I was
quite an anxious mess,” says Jenna, “but it went about as
well as it could go. It was a very intimate moment, the first
time we met. Natalia and Kristina were translating between
the two of us. Everyone was kind of in shock. She just was
looking at me and holding me.”
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
“I had never seen Mom more peaceful,” says Natalia. Larisa
had ended up marrying the father of Oksana and Kristina,
even though it would prove “a very turbulent relationship”,
Natalia says. He died in 2021, and Larisa lost her Ukrainian-
born mother that same year. “But finding Jenna brought her
so much peace,” Natalia says.
Exactly a year after Jenna received those first emails from
Natalia and Kristina, she is joining them in Connecticut,
where Antoine and Natalia and their extended families spend
the summer, and Annie Leibovitz has come to capture the
moment. “Natalia’s just in such a different phase of life than
I am,” Jenna tells me. “I just graduated university. I’m starting
my first job. And she’s been working, and a mother of five
children. But I think our personalities go very well together.
It’s nice that we finally have made our connection and we’ve
closed that chapter of uncertainty, and we know we’re both
okay. It’s going to be exciting to move forward with it.”
“For me,” says Natalia, “I felt she has always been part of
my life, even if I didn’t know her. But it was in a quite painful
way, always wondering if she was okay. I just feel that we are
catching up very quickly. There’s something beautiful about
genetics and our genes. Love comes very naturally.”
I admire Jenna’s remarkable grape-coloured eyes. “I grew
them myself,” she says with a laugh, and then, suddenly
curious, turns to Natalia. “Were his eyes green?” she asks,
meaning her father. “They were,” Natalia tells her.
Soon after the shoot, Natalia planned to head to North
Carolina to meet Jenna’s parents. Jenna promises to show her
lots of family videos. “You’re going to cry,” she tells her sister.
“I’m ready,” says Natalia. “Happy tears.” ■
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 GAME
CHANGER
Ajla Tomljanović comes
into the Australian Open
off the back of her most
successful year, having
made two Grand Slam
quarterfinals in 2022 and
defeating Serena Williams.
Here, our top-ranked
female player speaks to
Jelena Dokic about the
mental switch up that has
inspired her killer form.
Styled by Edward Bowleg.
Photographed by
Emma Summerton.
 elena Dokic: “Firstly, I just want to thank you
for this opportunity because it’s something
different for me, to be like a contributing editor,
and to interview you is fantastic. I’ve covered
all your matches, all the previews, so I’m really
honoured to be able to do this with you.”
Ajla Tomljanović: “Oh, well, likewise. Thank
you, I really appreciate it.”
JD: “You were born in Croatia so I’d like to
start by talking about your childhood. Tell me
what that was like.”
AT: “I was born in Zagreb, Croatia, and early on I spent four
years in Switzerland because my dad was playing handball
there. I don’t remember much, but from home videos
I know that was where I started seeing tennis a lot because
my parents would play together.
“Then we moved back to Croatia just before I started school.
It’s weird because when I look now, I mean I’m 29 and I’ve
spent the past 15 years in America, but so much of my life
I really remember was in Croatia. It was so influential. I had
a really old coach and he taught me my technique and how
I see the game. It was the place where I
figured out I wanted to be a professional
and that this was my passion.”
JD: “How old were you when you started “I was happy
playing tennis?”
AT: “I was about six or seven.” to get the
JD: “Same with me. So how did it come
about for you to play for Australia? I know opportunity to
that it was a few years back and you had to
wait for your citizenship for quite a while.” play Serena,
AT: “I know, it’s really strange for a lot of
people and hard for me to explain it well. but there was a
I have so many emotions from when I was
a kid – I remember watching the Australian
little bit of fear”
Open or my dad would tell me stories of
playing in the Olympic Games in Sydney
[as part of the Croatian handball team] and I was so intrigued
by the whole country. And I had success in junior doubles,
winning that title [at the Australian Open in 2009], and
actually during that tournament I watched you play Dinara
Safina live [in the quarterfinal] …”
JD: “Oh, did you?”
AT: “Yeah, I remember it like it was today. I had amazing
tickets just above your box. It was the first time I could watch
up close and I get goosebumps thinking about it because it
was the first time I thought, ‘Wow, truly this is my dream to
be in this position at some point.’ So when the opportunity
came to represent Australia, it was a no-brainer. I never
expected it, but then having family on the Gold Coast, it felt
natural. But I knew it would be strange to others, and there
was a long road of convincing people and telling my story.”
JD: “I want to go through the highlights of the past year: two
Grand Slam quarterfinals in Wimbledon and the US Open.
Since me, you’re actually the first Australian woman in 22 years
to make the two consecutive, so that was really phenomenal,
but it’s also been your consistency. What’s behind it?”
AT: “First of all, if you had told me in March I’d have this
year behind me, I wouldn’t have believed you. In 2021, I made
the quarterfinals [of Wimbledon], but I still felt like I had
to convince myself I did that because I really was that good.
Mentally I wasn’t dealing well with the obstacles and I felt like
I was falling deeper and deeper into a hole. By the time late
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March rolled around, I really feared playing in Wimbledon
because what if I couldn’t prove I could do it again? So I had
to really look at myself and be honest with the people around
me that I was struggling and needed guidance. From there we
made a plan to take every day as it comes. And I’m very proud
of [managing] that because people maybe don’t know this, but
tennis at this stage in my life means so much to me.
“And when Wimbledon came, I just did so well
with managing my life and the mental side of things …
I responded instinctively, like I’ve been wanting to for a long
time. So when people say, what changed? It’s a lot of day-to-
day work of just living life and playing tennis and trying to
improve myself in these moments and dealing with it better
than I have in the past.”
JD: “Let’s discuss the US Open and your win over Serena
on the eve of her retirement. I’ve watched you play a lot and
I think it’s the best match you’ve ever played. It was incredible
tennis, you were so calm and composed. You had 25,000
people cheering for Serena and as much as that’s a great
atmosphere, you had to deal with that as well.”
AT: “I found out I was playing Serena seconds after I’d won
my second-round match, and I felt strange.
I was happy to get the opportunity to play
her because I’ve never faced her and she’s
the greatest of all time, but there was a
little bit of fear, like, I can do this, but
can I do it because of the occasion and the
circumstances?
“The pep talks [helped], but literally a few
minutes before going on, the tournament
supervisor came up to me and was like,
‘Ajla, you’re going out first. Please take the
chair right from the umpire and then we’re
going to do a two-minute video and then
Serena’s going to walk out.’ I’m like, ‘What
do you mean a video? What am I going to do
there for two minutes?’ So there was a little
bit of anger, good anger in a way. I understand the occasion,
but come on. And that helped me be more of a, excuse my
language, but more of a bitch. Like, okay, I’m here, I also want
to win this. From there it was pretty much instinct.”
JD: “It’s interesting you mention the video because we were
following the whole tournament and that video was being
played before every match for Serena. It might not sound like
a lot, but for players to wait and watch that, it’s not easy. Your
post-match interview was one of the classiest things I’ve ever
seen – you really gave the stage to her in that moment.”
AT: “Yeah, it felt strange because the whole match I really
wanted to win and the whole occasion went out the window
for me. I just became a competitor for three hours and when
I won that last point, it kind of was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I did
it, but what just happened?’ Instinctively, no celebration came
and it just felt natural to not do anything. I wish I had more of
a chance to talk to Serena and say a few words to her directly,
but I also can imagine what a moment it was for her. I don’t
think she expected to lose. I think she believed till the last
moment that she would win, not just this match, maybe the
whole thing. But it was her night. Whether she won or lost and
I just wanted that to be known.”
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JD: “You always look so competitive when you play, you’re
such a fighter, not just on the court, but in your whole career.
You had a shoulder surgery that took a while to get over.
What do you think your strengths are?” →
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coat, $11,560.
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 AT: “I’d say I’m extremely competitive. I’m also incredibly
stubborn, which I think has been my greatest strength and
a bit of a downfall; a good example is the shoulder surgery. The
stubbornness to come back is what kept me going.”
JD: “In one of your previous interviews you said that you
wished there was more room for emotion in tennis. What did
you mean by that?”
AT: “I remember saying I felt like there are moments when
I really want to break a racket or really just go off, but I suppress
it because of the fines. I totally understand being an example
to kids who watch us, but sometimes I just feel like you got to
do it and I come off the court and I’m like, ‘Oh gosh …’
“I sometimes hate this sport for having to be so classy because
there’s so much rage in me sometimes that I want to get it out
and I think it would help me perform. And then my dad [who
has previously been Ajla’s coach] is like, ‘Well, do it if you feel
like it’ll help you.’ But when I did it and my fine was like,
I don’t know, $2,000, he was like, ‘What were you thinking?’
(laughs). So I don’t know if I stand by that comment.”
JD: “What are you hoping to achieve at the Australian
Open? Do you feel pressure to perform
well at the event, especially after Ash Barty
winning last year?”
AT: “I always felt pressure playing in “My biggest
Australia, even when Ash was still there.
It was a lot of pressure coming from struggles in life
myself and being an Aussie and knowing
the country’s following you. They’re so have always
supportive that you also want to do it for
them. But I’ve had so many moments turned out to
where things went south and I was still
alive the next day. I know life goes on. be my greatest
So I can’t control what my result will be,
but I want to come out without any regrets. blessings”
Regret is the worst feeling for me and
I’ve had quite a few in Australia where in
tight moments I didn’t do the right thing – I got tight or
I got scared and I don’t want that to happen [again].”
JD: “Your profile this year has skyrocketed, but with that
comes expectation. How do you handle that? I know at the
US Open you said you switched off your social media …”
AT: “Back in March I realised social media has been a huge
problem and I went on a three- or four-month sabbatical
where I completely deleted it. My cousin was helping me
with it because I wanted to find someone I really trust and
knows me well, so I was still putting my life out there, but
I was not in contact with it. And it was amazing. I wanted to
get to a point where I would learn how to manage it, but it’s
very hard and it sucks you back in.
“Now I’ve found a way where I’m pretty good at realising
when I’m going overboard and when it’s affecting me. Even if
I switch it off for two weeks, it still helps me recharge and get
into the right mindset. After the Serena match, I downloaded
it and then deleted it within an hour because I started getting
all these messages [about] now I can win the tournament.
It started giving me extra pressure that I really didn’t need.”
JD: “What about your private life – is it important to keep
that private? Have some of those setbacks or maybe break-ups
been difficult to handle because you are in the public eye?”
AT: “Yeah, but I don’t know why. I’ve had two relationships
and I feel like everyone knows about them for some reason.
I don’t know why my love life has been interesting to people.
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Everyone on tour has them and [they] haven’t been so talked
about. Okay, maybe because of the people I’ve been with, but
if I’m happy sometimes, maybe in the moment, I give a little
bit. But generally, I like to keep it private and I don’t like my
business out there. But then again, if I’m happy and in love,
I don’t want to hide it. I would rather not be asked about it in
a press conference when I’m talking about my match.”
JD: “How are you feeling about being featured in Vogue for
the first time?”
AT: “It’s surreal. I’m always a little bit scared of showing
who I am outside of me, the tennis player. Just because of the
backlash on social media. Are people going to be like, ‘Oh
stick to tennis.’ But it’s just amazing because I’m a huge fan
of fashion. I grew up with a mum who has her own sense of
style, and I would always watch her get ready for the day and
dressing up was always something that made me feel good.”
JD: “Outside of tennis, how often do you get the opportunity
to experiment and have fun with fashion?”
AT: “Well, I’ve become a little bit more brave. I’ve
really gotten into overdressing – I don’t care anymore if
I’m just going for a laid-back dinner,
I still like to dress for whatever my mood
is in the moment. Lately, that’s been really
dressed up. I’ve also found it comforting,
[using] shopping as a way of therapy …”
JD: “Retail therapy!”
AT: “Yeah, retail therapy. If I do well,
I have a certain budget I like to reward
myself with. That keeps a good balance so
I don’t overboard.”
JD: “Beyond the Australian Open, what
does the rest of 2023 look like for you?
What are your plans and goals?”
AT: “I feel like some of my best tennis is still
in front of me, so I’m excited to capitalise
on that in 2023 and make it happen. But
I’ve learned how to balance my life a lot better now and
I also hope that I get to do something completely different to
tennis. Maybe slowly build some things on the side that can
also take away my mind from hitting tennis balls.”
JD: “I could really see a new confidence and belief in you this
past year. I think as tennis players, we can sense and feel and
see these things. There’s this great image of you from the US
Open with your hand on that plaque from Billie Jean King
and her quote: ‘Pressure is a privilege.’ I love that image. But it
sounds to me like it’s been all about happiness, joy, wellbeing
and mental health. Has that been the biggest takeaway?”
AT: “Looking back, my biggest struggles and heartbreaks and
things that have happened in my life have always turned out to
be my greatest blessings. And that’s the biggest takeaway. It’s
not easy to [face your struggles]. I was hating tennis for a long
time – a year for me is a very long time – and I didn’t know
why, and I had to go deep with what was happening in my life.
“I’ve embraced that part of feeling truly good and not
faking it anymore. So yeah, the communication part has been
the biggest thing this year for me. And it’s crazy because I’m
so close to my people and even with them, I wasn’t always
a hundred per cent honest and I could fool them. Now, I’m
EMMA SUMMERTON
an open book. As clichéd as it is, I do believe everything
happens for a reason and moving forward in my life, I think
everything will come in its time and day. That makes me
excited for the future.” ■
 The Strong Women for
Healthy Country forum
was held within the
towering presence of the
East MacDonnell Ranges
amid the magical muted
pastel and silvery tones of
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 Country strong
When First Nations women met at a forum unlike any other, they
weren’t only creating a shared vision of the future but safeguarding it
via a new generation of self-empowered custodians destined to make
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 The Akeyulerre Healing Centre
held bush medicine workshops
using ingredients that have
been sourced to heal and
nurture for thousands of years.
The Strong Women for Healthy
Country vision statement.
Over the next four years, the Strong Women for Healthy
Country (SWHC) network has grown to include more than
250 women from over 30 ranger groups, remote communities,
and towns right across the Northern Territory. These are
dedicated rangers, healers, Elders, and community workers
who maintain family, career and community roles.
Coming together, the women share knowledge and important
cultural information through various yarning circles, covering
topics from Indigenous land and sea management, leadership,
communication and mentorship, to healing self and Country,
with traditional bush-healing workshops and medicinal plants
for everything from the common cold to insomnia, brought
from homelands far and wide and shared among the network.
Conversations have enabled the women to develop
solidarity in building solutions to common problems in their
roles as cultural custodians, including the lack of dedicated
spaces, support, training and resources they need to feel safe
at work, and the underrepresentation of women in caring
for Country leadership and governance roles. In addressing
these concerns, the women empower one another to face the
pressing issues of poverty, trauma and social issues afflicting
many of their families.  with confidence, honesty and the spirit of self-determination.
A dedicated art space brings together the central spirit of
interconnectedness and empowerment of the women, with
a collaborative art piece uniting the diverse cultures and
songlines from right across the Northern Territory.
Led by Aboriginal women, for Aboriginal women, the
network bridges the gaps of geographical isolation and is
a space for healing and growing, where women find as
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much sanctuary as they do strength. It is for all women to
work together and walk side by side.
The third conference on Eastern Arrernte Country, was
hosted by Traditional Owner Therese Ryder and her family.
They welcomed and watched over all attendees, sharing
their wisdom and wealth of their Country. Standing here
is indescribable. The stunning vista belies the power of the
ancient whispering stories and the people who have protected
them for centuries, and is the perfect meeting place to nurture
the strong spirit and pride of the SWHC network.
This forum focused on the governance and leadership of
the network. The strong foundation from which the network
can achieve its three-, five- and 10-year goals, which were
also set out during the sessions of the week. One key aim
is to provide the support for young women to value their
own immense knowledge, experiences and contributions to
Country and culture. The older women are adamant about
the need to foster the confidence of their younger daughters
and granddaughters to step into leadership roles.
Bolstered by Miller’s closing address, the last formal session
ended with a large circle of all women, facing each other,
 
Women then stepped forward putting their hands up
for the different roles of governance identified to guide
the network, resulting in concentric circles of knowledge,
MARLEY MORGAN
generation to generation. If not a leader this time round,
the next generations stand tall, ready to step forward
when the strength of the network and the wisdom of time
propels them forward.
 Josephine from Banatjarl
Strongbala Wimun Grup.
Cindy Rostron (centre) and her mother
Jay Jurrupula Rostron (right) enveloped
in smoke from the Welcome to East
Arrernte Country by Traditional Owner
Therese Ryder and her family.
Granddaughter of Annette Miller, Cindy Rostron, a Vogue
cover model, TikTok icon, aspiring ranger and Kune Dalabon
Rembarrnga woman, also attended the event. Among the
youngest of attendees, Rostron, who was surrounded by
family from across West Arnhem Land, observed and listened.
“It was great. I loved it. Everyone was communicating about
really important things, like how to be strong women, how to
look after ourselves and our Country. I realised this network,
the way women are connected to one another, is powerful.
Being together is amazing.
“I felt supported and safe standing with all those women,
young and old, talking with each other, communicating about
how we have different culture, different knowledge and skills.
“I heard women say they are struggling in their communities.
It is important to listen to our voice. We all share the same
problems across our communities, but together we have one
strong voice and a chance to make a difference.
“I am a young girl learning how to be a woman and I want
to speak for my people and our rights. This was my first time
sitting with that many powerful daluk daluk (many women).
This is the first time Indigenous women are coming together
like this to rewrite our story. It is really exciting.
“There are strong women here in the Northern Territory,
but they need support. With this network we are supporting
each other. I feel proud of what’s happening. It was good to
hear all those other young women’s voices, too, and the old
ladies had very good advice and knowledge. They were really
acknowledging us, encouraging us to be strong. They are
teaching us how to look after ourselves and our land. They
were asking us to share our voices because we are the new
generation to speak up for the future of our people.” ■
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 Treasure island
As Dolce & Gabbana marks 10 years of Alta Moda, the Italian house takes over
Sicily for a baroque-inspired celebration of heavenly couture. By Dana Thomas.
Styled by Julia Sarr-Jamois. Photographed by Angelo Pennetta.
Eighty 3D flowers
festoon this
breathtaking skirt.
They denote the
brand’s mastery in
Italian chiaroscuro.
Dolce & Gabbana
haute couture tulle
and lace corset,
embroidered faille
skirt, lingerie,
jewellery, gloves
and stockings.

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A look from Dolce &
Gabbana Alta Moda.
icily has always been at the heart of Dolce
& Gabbana. Domenico Dolce hails from
Polizzi Generosa, a medieval town near
Palermo, and the duo’s opulent, maximalist
approach to design and style embraces
and builds upon the Mediterranean isle’s
rich baroque history. And so, how perfect
that they chose Syracuse, a 2,700-year-
old city on Sicily’s Ionian coast, for their
10th anniversary Alta Moda event in July.
For four days and nights – mainly nights –
Dolce & Gabbana threw lavish shows and crazy-fun fetes to
celebrate the beauty and charm of the region, honour Italy’s
artisans and ring up millions in sales (clients are said to drop
an average of $152,000. No small affair was this: 20 hotels,
900 workers and 50 caterers all contributed to make the
magic happen. And what magic it was.
On the first night, Alta Moda’s more than 700 guests,
including Helen Mirren and her husband, the director Taylor
Hackford, Kris Jenner and the brand’s top clients, drifted
through the cathedral-like Grotta Dei Cordari, or
Ropemakers Caves, in the Neapolis Archaeological Park,
ogling at vitrines displaying Dolce & Gabbana’s Alta
Gioielleria collection of Hellenic-inspired statement jewels
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and watching toga-garbed actors and musicians
perform in classical tableaux. “Mmm, delicious,”
Sharon Stone gushed to the mozzarella maker as
she bit into his freshly made cheese at the jaunty
market-like afterparty, which closed with opera
and a piano recital in the Teatro Greco, a fifth-
century BC amphitheatre that is now a Unesco
World Heritage Site.
The following afternoon, guests napped by
hotel pools, toured the city’s historic sites,
dropped into the Dolce & Gabbana pop-up at
the Grand Hotel Ortigia – where some serious
shopping was done – and attended jewellery
appointments, where even more serious buys
were made. “We’ve already ordered the ear cuffs
and a cross, and we’re negotiating for a 100-carat
diamond,” one American client told me, referring
to the Sicilia necklace, with a 100.1-carat pear-
shaped yellow diamond.
At dusk, it was off to the women’s couture
show, Alta Moda, on the Piazza Duomo, where
guests, including Mariah Carey and Drew
Barrymore, outfitted in tiaras and shiny gowns,
watched from cafe tables as the hour-long show
– a procession inspired by Pietro Mascagni’s
opera Cavalleria Rusticana – unfurled before
the looming cathedral. “It’s not just the
clothes, the two metres of pearl, of pleats…
It’s about the sacro [sacraments], about the fede
[faith], about the family, about Sicily and – so
important – it’s about black,” Domenico Dolce
said. “It’s a style of life.”
Later that evening, everyone was ferried to
a pasta-heavy beach supper, where everything
– the tables, the chairs, the waiters, the cabana-
boy dancers and a good many clients – was
dressed in Dolce & Gabbana’s dazzling blue-
and-white majolica print. On Sunday night
was Alta Sartoria, the high-fashion menswear line, in the
ancient fishing village of Marzamemi. Locals lined the
streets, waving and snapping pictures as guests – many
wearing new jewellery and fashion purchases – glided down
the cobblestones to their seats along the quay. More than
a hundred Byzantine-inspired handcrafted looks, including
bejewelled tunics and breastplates, long silk skirts and lean
lamé suits, passed before their eyes as the sun set across the bay.
Like everything at Alta Moda, all was ‘made in Italy’. “Two-
thirds will be sold before this is over,” the guest to my left
whispered as we watched. Indeed, more than three-quarters
of the couture had been purchased by the end of the event.
COURTESY DOLCE & GABBANA, ANGELO PENNETTA
“Clients text pictures of what they want during the show.”
The festive marathon closed on Monday night with a party
at the 13th-century Castello Maniace, with vats of spaghetti
pomodoro, lots of Dolce & Gabbana animal prints and
Ciara, in a black gown and an enormous black picture hat,
singing 1,2 Step, as Dolce danced the night away. For some,
the night ended at dawn. That much was clear at breakfast
on Tuesday morning, when guests readied to head to Catania
Airport. “What an exhausting weekend,” one client, garbed
in Dolce & Gabbana silk pyjamas, a Dolce & Gabbana thick
gold chain with a large, gem-encrusted cross and Dolce
& Gabbana sunglasses, said. “I can’t wait for next year.” ■
Dolce & Gabbana tulle and lace
corset, lace skirt, lingerie, veil,
jewellery, gloves and stockings.
Hair: Jordan Robertson
Make-up: Jenna Kuchera
Production: Sicily Productions
Digital artwork: Output London
Model: Grace Elizabeth

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 SWEPT AWAY
Take a wanderer’s route in fashion that speaks of unending days
away in haphazard layers, free-spirited dresses and romantic details to
transport a mood. Styled by Poppy Kain. Photographed by Lachlan Bailey.

Throw caution to the

wind and embrace
overt romanticism
in Christian Dior’s
craft-laden approach.
Christian Dior jacket,
$45,000, dress and
blouse, worn underneath,
both P.O.A. Goossens
earrings, $220, and
ring, on left hand, $235.
Melanie Georgacopoulos
ring, on right hand, $220.
Isabel Marant belt, $175.
Barbour x Chloé boots,
P.O.A. Headscarf,
stylist’s own.

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Dramatic scenery
calls for high-drama
maxi-skirts à la Saint
Laurent. Pair with a
hardworking mac to
imbue with an
outdoors spirit.
Saint Laurent jacket
and dress, both P.O.A.
Barbour x Chloé boots,
P.O.A. Almasika
earrings, P.O.A.,
necklace, $14,470,
and bracelet, $6,700.
Goossens ring,
$235. Scarf and
bag, stylist’s own.
 McQueen’s signature
embellishment
reaches new levels
of elegance when
golden-hour light
dances across it.
Alexander McQueen
top and skirt, both
P.O.A. Melanie
Georgacopoulos
necklace, P.O.A. Almasika
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ring, on index finger,

$2,220. Ellis Mhairi
Cameron ring, on
middle finger, P.O.A.
Grandpa jumpers and granny
slips are comfort personified.
Choose styles with stories
stitched into the seams,
as seen at Louis Vuitton.
Louis Vuitton sweater, P.O.A.
Brora slip dress, $220. Melanie
Georgacopoulos ring, on right
hand, $220. Goossens ring, on
left hand, $235. Scarf
and bag, stylist’s own.
LACHLAN BAILEY
 Anchor Gucci’s
time-travelling
references in the
now with modern
heirlooms, such as
pretty pearls.
Gucci dress,
$139,000. Goossens
earrings, $220.
Tiffany & Co.
necklace, $1,500.
 When Chanel
does garden parties,
you can be certain
they’ll go on long
past dusk.
Joesph coat, $1,705,
Chanel dress, $7,000,
from the Chanel
boutiques. Almasika
necklace (top),
$14,470. Tiffany
& Co. necklace,
$2,000. Gigi Burris
hat, $640. Brora
socks, $89. Penelope
Chilvers clogs, $355.
Hair: Ryan Mitchell
Make-up: Niamh Quinn
Production:
LACHLAN BAILEY

LS Productions
Digital artwork:
Wildhack Retouching
Model: Ida Heiner
Beauty

Fake it to make it
There’s no excuse for
sun damage. Bondi Sands
1 Hour Express Self
Tanning Foam, $22.95,
is the Australian brand’s
best-selling product
for good reason.

Heat rising
Nice try, summer. Humidity and heat normally nix our
plans for perfect-looking hair, skin and make-up, but we’ve
got a survival strategy in place, says EUGENIE KELLY.
PHOTOGRAPHS
HENRIK PURIENNE.

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eauty journalism has evolved
massively over the past 70 years –
a google and comb through online
archives is proof of how perspectives
change. Case in point: US Vogue,
February 1962’s report on ‘How to use a boat as
a beauty treatment’. No one’s denying the power
of the briny scent of salt in the air when it comes to
enlivening the senses … It’s just that now we know
a stint at sea leaves one with straw-like stressed
strands, a mottled complexion, lizard limbs and
perhaps even promoting the dreaded skin cancer.
Boats and beauty don’t go together. End of story.
That said, the reality of Australian life is
that the beach is our backyard. And with the
fingerprint of climate change revealing itself
through more intense heatwaves and volatile
weather patterns, we’re experiencing summers
on steroids. Our products now not only have to
be built in a certain way to withstand seasonal
changes (meaning eau de parfums with formulas
that mean they don’t dissolve in the heat and
make-up that doesn’t melt), but they also have to
protect and repair like never before.
To determine the best hair and skin saviours
to get us through summer 2022-23, Vogue
consulted the pros, and then spent a week
road-testing our ultimate edit in what’s perhaps
Australia’s prettiest but most unforgiving
environment: Ningaloo Marine Park Reef on
Australia’s north-west coast where we sailed
260 kilometres of fringing reef on a catamaran.
Here’s what stood up to the elements.

Face forward
The blinding white sands and azure waters
of Western Australia’s Turquoise Bay see it
frequently ranked as one of the world’s most
beautiful beaches, but a few hours here is on par with
being popped in an air fryer. Often measuring a UV index
reading of 12 (read: extreme), the UVA and UVB rays in
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this location exacerbate pigmentation, age spots, freckles and

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even angiogenesis (translation – excessive blood vessels) in

record time, but it’s also worth noting that heat (think high
30-degree temperatures during warmer months) in the form
of infrared radiation also feeds pigmentation, along with
melasma and rosacea.
According to Dr Natasha Cook, founder of Darlinghurst
Dermatology, DrNC skincare and The Face Bar laser clinic, it
takes mere minutes for the Pac-Man-like enzymes activated
by UV rays to destroy and digest your skin’s collagen and
elastin levels, which leads to saggy, wrinkled and sallow skin.
“Summer sun is the single biggest culprit when it comes to Seeking For a For a daily ESTÉE LAUDER
a lighter powerhouse protector, try the Re-Nutriv
damaging our skin cells’ DNA and metaplasia. I liken UVA moisturiser? Try vitamin C hydrating DRNC Ultimate
and UVB as fertiliser for the development of skin cancer. You SISLEY Hydra serum, look to Concentrated Diamond
Global Intense DR. DENNIS CC+ Cream SPF Transformative
must make SPF and antioxidants your daily skin religion.” Anti-Aging GROSS 15% 30, $77, which Brilliance
Hopefully, most of us already have rigorous daily SPF Hydration, Vitamin C has physical Serum, $357, uses
application habits in play. But on the antioxidant side, experts $315, for its Firm & Bright UVA and UVB black diamond
featherweight Serum, $128. blockers, vitamin truffle to help
agree summer is the time to add niacinamide B3 (daily) and cream-gel B3 to repair and firm the skin.
vitamin C (at night, advises Cook, as it degrades in → texture. a hint of tint.

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the sun) into your regimen, and if you’re wearing heavy

sunscreens, double cleaning is a must. “I’m not a foaming
cleanser fan,” states Cook. “It’s one of the single biggest
culprits in creating skin diseases, so I recommend gentle
cleansers, but going twice.”
Not as life-threatening, but annoying nevertheless, is
humidity. On Australia’s west coast where the air is drier,
moving into summer may result in seeking out a more
hydrating, richer moisturiser, especially around the lips.
While, if you reside in east coast hubs such as Sydney or
Brisbane where humidity is an issue, paring back to a lighter
lotion may feel more appealing. You might assume humidity
exacerbates skin’s oiliness, but technically that’s not true,
though it does have an occlusive effect. “And that contributes
to breakouts if you’re an acne sufferer,” says Cook. “Salicylic
acid will help minimise that.”
Adding an AHA or BHA serum to your regimen can
also help prevent congestion and blocked follicles, as well
as help even out skin tone. However, if you’re serious about
pigmentation prevention, add in a weekly AHA/BHA peel
and ensure you’re also applying niacinamide and vitamin
C daily. “Using more than one antioxidant daily is better
than one alone,” says Cook. “B3 prevents DNA damage, Hair help
protects the skin’s immune system from the sun, strengthens The number-one tip experts share when it comes to protecting
the barrier and assists with pigmentation prevention. Both your hair in summer: wear a hat. But according
vitamin B and vitamin C act as excellent antioxidants to trichologist Anabel Kingsley, brand president of Philip
together. Adding a prescriptive vitamin A to your regimen Kingsley, the brand’s Swimcap [$46.95], a water-resistant hair
a few nights a week will also help maintain even skin tone mask, will do the same thing. “Hair burns like skin, but because
throughout summer.” it isn’t a living tissue, you don’t feel it. UV, sweat, seawater,
chlorine – it all causes colour fade and change. Styling your
hair with a UV protectant like our Daily Damage Defence
Leave-in Conditioning Spray [$55] will definitely help.”
It’s hair colour rather than a strand’s diameter – aka
its thickness – that determines how susceptible you are to
sun damage. “The darker the shade, the more melanin it
contains,” says Kingsley. “When your hair absorbs UVB
radiation, free radicals are produced, which can lead to
protein loss from the shaft weakening it. However, melanin
can partially immobilise free radicals, and therefore help to
protect against protein loss. Melanin can also absorb and
filter UV radiation.” That’s why you see lighter hair more
common in colder parts of the world like Scandinavia, and
darker hair in hotter regions like Africa.
Sydney colourist Damien Rayner, whose ‘bronde’ and
blonde work is of legendary status, advises that as soon as
you exit the water, rinse the residue and apply a leave-in
conditioner to dilute any leftover minerals, salt or chlorine.
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And mask, mask, mask whenever you can. “Treat masks like
a course of antibiotics,” says Rayner. “Use one every time you
wash your hair for a minimum of at least the first five washes.
This will help build up condition far quicker than that old
myth of ‘once a week’.”
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Rayner says the most effective masks when it comes to

hydrating thirsty strands are cream water-based formulas
mixed with nourishing oils. The water’s smaller molecules
help the oils’ larger molecules penetrate the hair shaft, and
while oils provide nourishment, they still lock in moisture.
“Look for seed oils (olive, grape, jojoba) and butters (cocoa
and shea) in the mid area of the ingredients list. Blonde
tones also need to avoid masks with colour in them or appear
darker orange as that just dulls blonde hair.” →
Beauty

Body blast
Need an all-rounder for
fragile zones prone to
environmental damage?
Perricone MD Cold Plasma
Plus+ Fragile Skin Therapy,
$74, has peptides to
correct tone and texture,
hyaluronic acid to combat
crepiness, and retinol to
exfoliate any age spots.
 Rayner is also a big fan of pre-shampoo
treatments but adds they’re in the business of
rebuilding the bonds in hair rather than making
them feel soft. If you’re at a stage where you’re
contemplating snipping off split ends, try one
first. “They contain a much higher level of
actives as they’re meant to be shampooed off
(thus they don’t weigh hair down) and won’t
leave it as frizzy as it would be otherwise.”
“Look for formulas that contain humectants,”
agrees Kingsley. The function of a humectant is
to retain water and prevent moisture loss such as
glycerine and glycol.”
The trick to dealing with humidity is to get the
outermost layer of the hair – the cuticle – to lay
flat. You’d assume styling with anti-humidity
products (which contain silicone) is the answer,
but if you’re into volume, these can deflate
oomph. “Don’t be afraid to mix things up,” says
Rayner. “One product won’t give you everything
you need. I adore Color Wow’s Dream Coat, but
it doesn’t work as well on fine hair, so I use it with
other products – an oil on the ends, the Dream
Coat anti-humidity product from roots to end,
and then a light spray of a heat shield over the
top to dilute it, so I can end up getting bounce.”

Make-up magic
When the mercury hits 30-plus and it’s horrifically
humid, you’ve probably got a heatwave-proof
make-up plan already in place. You know the
drill. Skip powder blushes for gel-cream blushes
that don’t budge; steer clear of lipsticks and glosses
and instead opt for lip oils or stains; and invest
in a make-up-setting spray that fixes everything
in place and can be pulled out to reset and refresh
as necessary. But what’s most important – and 4.
what covid had a hand in changing – is that no
one wants a full face of foundation, especially this time of year.
It’s now about lighter base layers – buildable skin tints – that
still manage to pack a pigmented punch, but also offer extras
like respectable SPFs, antioxidants or shine control. Try these:
1. NARS Pure Radiant Tinted Moisturizer, $69. 2. HERMÈS Plein Air
Complexion Balm SPF 30, $130. 3. ULTRA VIOLETTE Daydream Screen 1.
Tinted Veil SPF 50, $55. 4. CHANEL Ultra Le Teint Ultrawear Flawless
Finish Foundation, $95.

Body brilliance
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Snorkelling for hours through Ningaloo’s under-sea canyons

and colourful sponge gardens is meditative for the mind,
but the saltwater leaves skin almost scale-like. “After
swimming, shower with oil-based non-soap hydrating body
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products followed by moisturiser,” prescribes Cook. “Also

remember that heavy water-resistant sunscreen use requires
double cleansing.”
Sweating can also cause ‘bacne’ or folliculitis (breakouts
that commonly occur on the buttocks, arms and legs). “Three
times a week, mixing a benzoyl wash with a gentle body
wash (benzoyl alone can be irritating) and leaving it on for
a minute before showering off should prevent ‘bacne’ related
to sweating,” says Cook. ■

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Beauty
True
star
Authenticity is central
to everything TRINNY
WOODALL does, and at
58 years young, the make-
up and now skincare
maven shares her truth,
tips and tricks for looking
your best at any age, and
especially during midlife.
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B
eing real. It’s something
Trinny Woodall learned
the importance of in the
early 2000s co-hosting the
British makeover TV show
obsession, What Not to Wear. It’s also
an ethos she has since upheld across
social media with her no-holds-barred
approach that’s catnip to her millions of
fans, and through her inclusive make-up
and skincare empire Trinny London. “It
is the most important thing,” the British
fashion and beauty icon reinforces
sitting in her Sydney hotel suite on
a whistle-stop tour to open pop-ups
in Sydney and Melbourne. “Because
there’s so much fakery around, from
the marketing of ingredients that are
actually in products, to how people talk
about what they’ve had done to their
face. Let’s be honest,” she enthuses.
And she is. Over her decades in the
public eye, Woodall has talked openly
about her road to sobriety, enduring
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16 rounds of IVF, the struggles of
single parenting after the death of
her daughter Lyla’s father in 2014,
the minefield of menopause, and her
regular use of Botox from the age of 35.
So when it came to promoting her own
brand, launched from her kitchen table
in 2017 and now valued at around $300
million, forget airbrushed supermodel
faces – on TrinnyLondon.com you’ll
instead see Woodall at 58, alongside
other real women aged 40 to 80 – the
brand’s hyper-engaged demographic.
These days Trinny London sells a
stackable pot of its cult Miracle Blur
primer every 60 seconds, while its
Match2Me online store interface,
which took two years to mastermind,
delivers some 3,600 individual skin
prescriptions and revolutionised the
online make-up space in the process.
Now Woodall has turned her hand
to skincare. “Why is my skin good?”
she asks, mid DIY facial in her hotel
bathroom. “Because for 20 years, I’ve
religiously had a skincare routine. I have
friends who do Botox and things that
are quite well-known in the public eye,
but they haven’t had a skincare routine.
I look at the texture of their skin, the
vibrancy of the skin, the bounce of the
skin, and it’s not there. So as much as
you do ‘tweakments’, daily nourishing
of your skin, putting ingredients on it,
getting it into this rhythm, nurturing it
with your goddamn fingers, is the most
important thing to do consistently.”
As for her own skincare journey,
Woodall says it began in her teens
starting with Clinique’s 3 Step program,
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before moving through beauty trends
from the spa brands of the 80s to the
WORDS: KATRINA ISRAEL
doctor brands of the 90s, followed by
the single-ingredient boom of the
20-teens. “When you have bad skin from
a young age you become obsessive,” she
says, “and from 13, I had acne until I was
30, so I tried everything!” Read on …
VOGUE AUSTRALIA: As time
goes by, is your beauty routine getting
simpler or more complex?
TRINNY WOODALL: “It’s getting
refined because I know exactly what
to do with my skin now, whereas
over the years, I experimented and
went too extreme or did too little.
So, like my clothing style, which I
kind of think I’ve pinpointed [think
mood-enhancing colour, shimmer
and texture], the same applies to my
skincare routine I know that every day
I will have points in my skincare
routine that I will hit, and I know what
I’ll also do twice a week to reinforce
and amplify my skin.”
VA: What’s the most surprising
change that you’ve noticed in your
skin in recent years?
TW: “The bad: if you’ve ever suffered
from acne, as you go into menopause,
your skin does separate a little bit –
I notice my scarring a bit more. Good, is
since I’ve started using peptides on my
skin, I feel I’ve got some life back that
I lost when I hit menopause.”
VA: Morning must-dos?
TW: “I clean my skin with a Trinny
London Be Your Best Enzyme Balm
Cleanser and I will always do a little
bit of lymphatic drainage on my face.
I think drainage is a key component
of skincare. I always do a PHA acid
in the morning – I use Tiptoe In from
Trinny London. My latest craze is to
use peptides on my skin, and I use them
combined with hyaluronic acid from our
Plump Up by Trinny London. This is
probably the most innovative serum I’ve
ever developed, and ever tried, and it
adds this incredible layer to my skin that
gives it plumpness and bounce. I follow
with a vitamin C, moisturiser and SPF.”
VA: And the evening?
TW: “My night-time routine is to
double cleanse; I’ve done that for 35
years. Once to take off my make-up
and once to really clean the skin and
polish it up ready for the next layer,
using our AHA/PHA Gel Cleanser.
Then I use an AHA. I’ll probably use
that three times a week because my
skin is quite used to it, but we must be
very careful with AHAs because they
can be strong and people sometimes
overuse them. After that, I do a spritz
of a mist – I love Sisley’s Florale Mist.
And then I use a retinoid – retinal in
my case because it only converts once
to get inside the skin and to work and
become retinoic acid. Then, if I need it,
I’ll use a little moisturiser – I use our
peptide moisturiser, Bounce Back.”
VA: Your instant skin pick-me-ups?
TW: “A LED mask for sure. I even
travel with it. I think LED for post-
jet-lag skin, or for skin that’s suffering
hormonal breakouts or feels tired,
is amazing. I will put an acid on
before, then go under for 40 minutes.
I notice the regeneration that LED
done properly will provide the skin.
I also microneedle twice a week. I think
aggravation to the skin stimulates the
creation of new collagen, which gets
harder as we go down the path of life.
I have Botox twice a year, and I do
fractional radio frequency on my skin
because I think it’s softer than laser
but helps to even out acne scarring
and gently resurfaces the skin. But it is
stronger than microneedling.”
VA: What beauty rules do you live by?
TW: “In 35 years, I have never gone
to bed with my make-up on. I think
when you suffer from acne when you
are younger, you realise anything can
clog the pores. I’ve worn SPF 50 on
my face for about 15 years, and I put
our face acids on my body. It’s a real
luxury and it’s probably only because
I own the brand that I do that, but the
result is incredible – my body skin has
changed profoundly.”
VA: What is your approach to fitness?
TW: “I see fitness as 50 per cent mental
wellness and 50 per cent agility for my
life. What I mean by that is as you hit
menopause, you want your body to
feel it works for you. So I do strength
training, which is the most important
kind of exercise any woman can do at
this stage in her life because you need to
support the bones with strong muscle.
For me, if I feel physically strong,
I have mental strength. So I do strength
training three times a week. I also do
yoga twice a week because when my
brain is running at a thousand miles an
hour and I can’t switch off, the exertion
and the breathing of yoga makes me
focus just on one thing.”
VA: Healthy eating tips that help you?
TW: “Sugar is the devil, it really is.
As you get older, inflammation is
the biggest concern, and this is the
beginning of bad inflammation. I feel
if your body is inflamed, it can lead
to illness. If I keep my body without
any triggers for inflammation, I’ve got
a better chance of being healthier.”
VA: What tips can you share for
balancing fluctuating hormones?
TW: “Find the right person to treat you.
Many people take a very classic approach
and issue off-the-shelf HRT, sometimes
without even taking hormone levels. In
a worst-case scenario, which still happens,
they give women antidepressants when
women come into the surgery talking
about feeling alone – it’s probably because
those women are hormone imbalanced.
“I think one of the most important
things for women is to respect and treat
their hormone situation. Whether that’s
understanding early the things you can
take to support yourself – it could be
mood-lifters like Magnolia Rhodiola, it
could be things to help you sleep better
like Cherry Night Powder, and it could
be going to see professional hormone
endocrinologists and specialists who can
treat you properly with a combination
of hormones and also tweak them.
It’s really important when you start to
have hormone changes that you don’t
just get a prescription and use it for
a year and then get it refilled, because
over a number of years your hormone
fluctuation changes tremendously and
you might need more support. I believe
that I will not be the person who says,
‘I’ll stop taking them now I’ve gone
through menopause’, because I think
hormone treatment can help the body
defend itself against illnesses and
diseases that affect women in later life.
There is a lot of research being done right
now around the importance hormones
can play and hormone replacement can
play in this – so I will be taking them
until they nail down my coffin.”
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is hydrated more than usual. Skin

naturally sweats more in summer, so it’s
vital that we replenish this water loss to
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“Gently exfoliate at home. Depending
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DIANDRA POLITANO: “Skin at
its optimum health, from targeted care
taken all year round. Good summer
skin is not necessarily perfect and clear;
however, it is naturally glowing and
hydrated from a well-balanced diet and
a sophisticated skincare regimen. It’s
glowing, calm, at its full potential of
health, hydrated and balanced.”
VA: What is your best advice for
boosting glow and radiance?
DP: “The skin concerns I see in summer
are always impacted by an increase in oil
production and increase in sun exposure
resulting in dehydration, so keep up
regular facials, including peels and LED
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actives, brightening the skin, and
regenerating the collagen and elastin in
the skin that can be affected with the
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spectrum SPF 50+ every day.”
VA: What about a hero product?
DP: “A multivitamin serum, something
that is deeply hydrating and can
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lose when exposed to the sun. This is
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it in 22 different micronutrients. The
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VA: If you were trapped on a deserted
island, what three things would you
take with you?
DP: “SPF, an unlimited supply of
drinking water, and my husband (for
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THE LOW-DOWN:
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Pat a sweet pink or peach into
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remainder over the top of the eyelid
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Inspired by the opulent curving
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long-time Vogue Australia
contributor Sophie Roberts’s new
Potts Point salon pays homage to
“the lineage of craftsmen that
came before me”. A former
barber shop transformed by
Roberts and builder Spencer
Blake, the new space will make
clients feel at home during
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Ann Thongprasom and

Naphat Siangsomboon. Gabriella Brooks. Teresa Palmer.

Decorative lighting
on the waterfront. Rüfüs Du Sol.

Must see
Sydney Harbour put on a dazzling
display for the launch of Louis
Vuitton’s travelling exhibition, See LV,
with the lawn outside the Museum of
Contemporary Art welcoming more
than 650 guests to the spring event. The
fifth stop on a tour that’s so far visited
Wuhan, Hangzhou, Dubai and Tokyo,
the exhibition explores the maison’s Troye Sivan.
heritage from the early-20th century in
Georgia Fowler. five immersive curatorial universes (the
third chapter is set inside a full-size
skate ramp) and showcases an incredible
collection of early 20th-century trunks,
artistic collaborations and iconic leather
creations. Celebrities in attendance,
from Troye Sivan to Teresa Palmer, were
treated to a live performance by Rüfüs

Keiynan Lonsdale.
DUALISM, HUSTLE MEDIA, LIZ SUNSHINE

Aisha Dee.

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Field day
This year’s Melbourne Cup Carnival
was charged with even more excitement
than usual, with the week-long
schedule of racing, entertainment,
and fashion returning to Flemington Anna
Heinrich.
at full capacity for the first time
since covid. The Victoria Racing Club
calendar highlight also coincided with
the 60th anniversary of Myer’s Fashions
on the Field, which, for the first time
ever, centred on diversity and inclusion,

Delta Goodrem.

Rozalia Suzy
Russian. Eskander.

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Clover Moore

KLP getting ready Rey Vakili.

at QT Sydney.

Vogue Australia’s Dress For Success masterclass

Mahalia Chang. with Kathryn Eisman (left) and
Vogue Australia’s Jessica Montague.

Delicious snacks from

Vibe Wholefood.

The Vogue 360 camera.

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Melbourne Fashion Week. and Vogue’s
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Melbourne’s Lord Mayor Sally Capp

(far right) welcomes the crowd.

Capricorn
22 December-20 January
You’re feeling valued under the influence
of Venus. Decisive again with Mercury
out of retrograde in your sign, your
health and work routines also make
progress thanks to Mars turning
direct now, too. A Full Moon sees you
ditching the “same old, same old” moves
when rebellious planet Uranus revs up
romance, but empathy is your BFF when
Venus restyles the way you connect.
STYLE ICON: Adut Akech Bior
Aquarius
21 January-18 February
This month you have Venus, the Sun
and a New Moon bringing a sparkle to
your eye, so what’s fresh, new, rebellious
or outrageous has got your name on
it. Romance relights after a drab spell
in reverse and you’re organised and
determined with Mercury in forward
motion. Home is quirky under the
influence of your ruler, Uranus, and
Venus casts a rosy glow over finances.
STYLE ICON: Shakira
Pisces
19 February-20 March
Emotions and ideas are waiting to be
unleashed but for now meditate on what
you want to manifest. Passion for home
life is focused with Mars on the move
again, and friendships and dreams get
reset with Mercury post-retrograde.
As Venus enters your sign you’ll attract
good things your way without effort
but, even so, a rethink of what pleasure
means to you is due.
STYLE ICON: Emily Blunt
Aries
21 March-20 April
Friendships blossom now as Venus
adds harmony to collaborations. What
works for the team makes you look
good, too, with lucky Jupiter in the mix.
A stalled career scenario gets back on
ASTROLOGER: STELLA NOVA
track with Mercury out of retrograde.
After a phase with your ruler Mars in
feisty mode, expect peace, love and
understanding and a secret romance
that could light up your imagination.
STYLE ICON: Jessica Chastain
Horoscope
Taurus
21 April-21 May
Your ruler Venus shifts into your career
zone now where your unique input
is valued. Financial rewards, a work
romance or a new role could arise under
the New Moon’s influence. Wayward
spending gets realigned with Mercury
out of retrograde and as you embrace
the new you with quirky planet Uranus
in your sign, prepare for harmony with
your hopes, dreams and go-to crew.
STYLE ICON: Gugu Mbatha-Raw
Gemini
22 May-21 June
New experiences feel electric now with
Venus and a New Moon opening doors
to travel, media, study and spirituality
or to a potential soulmate. Harnessing
your passion is likely, too, with dynamic
Mars out of retrograde in your sign.
Your ruler Mercury flips forward to
give you a handle on commitments, and
Venus makes loving your job the way
to end the month on a high.
STYLE ICON: Abbey Lee
Cancer
22 June-22 July
There’s more to you than others think
there is. The “old” you is over now
thanks to a Full Moon in your sign,
and Venus plus a New Moon hint at
unusual encounters, with passion and
money on top of the agenda. After
a muddled Mercury and Mars retrograde
phase, you’ll know what you want and
how to get it. As the month ends, Venus
opens up a world of adventure for you.
STYLE ICON: Margot Robbie
Leo
23 July-23 August
Love surrounds you now thanks to
Venus. Lovers, co-workers, even rivals
are warmer with the New Moon offering
fresh starts all round. A Full Moon
clears your mind of past hurts and Mars
rejuvenates friendships and passion
projects. Mercury out of retrograde
refuels your body and anything seems
possible when Venus moves into your
zone of mergers and commitments.
STYLE ICON: Jennifer Lopez
Virgo
24 August-22 September
Love yourself more and you’ll let others
get closer to you now, too. Venus is
getting you relationship-ready, as the
planet of love and money glides into
your partnership zone at the month’s
end. Your ruler Mercury does a U-turn
out of retrograde to aid communication
and Mars also moves forward now to
see you powering through previously
frustrating work commitments.
STYLE ICON: Billie Piper
Libra
23 September-23 October
It’s an OMG month with so much
cosmic action in your zone of romance
and creativity. Your ruler Venus lights
up love and a New Moon boosts new
beginnings. Home issues get easier to
discuss with Mercury post-retrograde
and big plans also have less aggro and
more urgency with Mars back on form.
Under the care of Venus, pamper rather
than push your way to wellbeing.
STYLE ICON: Bella Hadid
Scorpio
24 October-22 November
Venus plus a New Moon suggest a
home makeover, a house move or even
a rejig of your habits. Now is your
opportunity to gel with where you live
or who you live with. You’ll get a tighter
grip on money with your co-ruler Mars
back on track, and you’ll be seen and
heard now that Mercury’s also out of
retrograde. As the month ends, Venus
boosts romance and artistic aims.
STYLE ICON: Anne Hathaway
Sagittarius
23 November-21 December
You’re often persuasive but, with Venus
in your communication zone, now you
can charm anyone into anything and
get your own way. You might make
a random high-ticket purchase, but also
aim to invest in yourself. While fun is
a priority with your ruler Jupiter in the
mix and passion is more focused now
Mercury’s out of retrograde, it’s home
and family that rule your heart.
STYLE ICON: Taylor Swift
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