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Erica Packer wears a Christian Dior haute couture evening dress, necklace and belt, and her own ring. Make-up from Tom Ford, starting with Traceless Foundation SPF15 in Fawn and Illuminating Powder Translucent; on cheeks, Shade and Illuminate in Intensity One and Cheek Color in Love Lust; on eyes, Brow Sculptor in Taupe, Eye Color Quad in Cognac Sable, Eye Defining Pencil in Onyx and Extreme Mascara in Raven; on lips, Lip Color in Casablanca.

Hair: Philippe Tholimet Make-up: Pat McGrath Fashion editor: Christine Centenera Photographer: Steven Chee

36 EDITOR’S LETTER 38 READERS’ LETTERS 40 THIS MONTH ON VOGUE.COM.AU 44 CONTRIBUTORS 53 IN VOGUE 58 LIBERTÉ, FRATERNITÉ, SUPÉRIORITÉ The flood of French how-to books continues unabated.

67 It girl Hanne Gaby Odiele; on location; bucket list; get shorty; style file: Sophia Webster; out of the blue. 70 NEW WAVE Designers are having a sea change, creating fashion-forward swimwear in high-tech fabrics. 78 HOW TO SPEAK FASHION Don’t get caught out in fashion circles. Learn your vocab with our crib sheet for the season. 84 WARDROBE TREASURES Fashion’s movers and shakers share their most precious possessions. 92 WHERE ON EARTH Members of the fashion jet set tell us about their best-ever travel experiences. 100 THE CASE FOR COLOUR Roksanda Ilincic’s designs are a hit with women around the world. 111 THE RACING EDIT Pip them at the post with the new breed of racing attire and matching accoutrements. 24 – NOVEMBER 2013

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172 AMAZING GRACE Erica Packer’s dignity, fortitude and grounded nature shine bright. 186 FRENCH DRESSING Bon chic, bon genre: Parisians really do dress with a certain elegant insouciance. 214 LET’S GET RADICAL The secret to mastering print this season? There are no rules. Expressive and personal, outré prints make their mark.

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125 SMART SMILES The pressure to get that grade-A grin is increasing. 128 MRS FIX-IT You’re never too old for perfect teeth. At 43, Plum Sykes tests her mettle and faces braces. 130 Bright pops; beauty bytes; destination: happiness; flight plan; health retreat. 138 SAYING YES Cate Blanchett lends her star power to the launch of a new fragrance from Giorgio Armani. 150 C’MON, GET HAPPY Your hormones can be built-in mood boosters if you handle them with care.

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ALMOST FAMOUS PAGE 198 30 – NOVEMBER 2013

155 20 THINGS THAT MAKE YOU SMILE Our pick of the most cheerful cultural choices this month. 162 RAISED IN STYLE Growing up as a protégé of a creative and fashionable mother. 164 SINGLE FILE A journalist’s singledom didn’t rate as a major deficiency until she moved to New York. 168 WOMEN OF THE HOUSE The women behind the Sydney Opera House.

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198 ALMOST FAMOUS From Australian soap opera darling to Hollywood lead, the divine Margot Robbie has cracked the big time. 208 GAME OF THRONES On the eve of Crown Princess Mary’s Opera House visit, we celebrate her modern approach to regal dressing. 212 OH RICKY, YOU’RE SO FINE Ricky Martin has left the wild partying behind for a whole new way of life. 224 CHARMED LIFE Collette Dinnigan invites Vogue to her coastal bolthole. 234 TAKEN 15 months of hell at the hands of Somali kidnappers. 238 TRAVEL NEWS 241 HOROSCOPES

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editor’sLETTER Erica Packer with her children Jackson, Indigo and baby Emmanuelle, shot by Steven Chee for the story starting on page 172.

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t Vogue we feature women on our covers whom we either admire or are fascinated by, and I have admired Erica Packer for years. For more on our cover star and her beautiful children, see page 172. Collette Dinnigan is another woman I admire and she too features in Vogue this month, on page 224, as she launches a beautiful cofee table book that tells the story of her life in her words and in stunning pictures. Dinnigan was kind enough to invite us to her country hideaway in the green hills of the New South Wales South Coast. We are fascinated by fresh-faced actress Margot Robbie, who will star opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the upcoming flm Te Wolf of Wall Street, directed by Martin Scorsese. She plays the wife Jordan Belfort (DiCaprio), a trader who lived a heady life in pre-GFC New York before being convicted of crimes related to stock market manipulation, for which he was sent to prison. Ye flm gives us a behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters who crippled the world’s fnance systems, and Robbie plays her role fabulously. She proves how well she gets into character in our shoot, styled by expat Stevie Dance, on page 198. Yis month we also look at prints – and encourage you to wear them boldly – and we have the best line-up of wearable looks from the labels we love shot in an energetic early 90s style on the streets of Paris. Enjoy.

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STEVEN CHEE

Steven Chee was 10 years old when he won the school photographic prize. Since then he’s travelled the world for his work, citing a high point as “flying through the Swiss Alps in a helicopter looking for locations”. In this issue, Chee’s stunning portraits of Erica Packer (see page 172) take centre stage. “The energy between Erica and her children worked in our favour, bringing an ease to such a regal location.”

ALLISON BOYLE

Hair and make-up artist Allison Boyle nominates being serenaded by Chris Isaak as a career highlight, even if she was with a photography crew trying to get “the shot”. She also loved visiting the country for this issue’s story on Collette Dinnigan (see page 224). “I loved all the animals … horses and dogs galore!” she says.

JULIE ADAMS

For photographer Julie Adams, shooting for Vogue counts as one of her favourite experiences, and it seems her delight shows in the image of artist Rachel Castle she captured on page 155. A true “happy snap”, Adams describes her subject as being “ just as warm, welcoming and colourful as her beautifully vibrant work”. For Adams, “a good cheeky story” always makes her smile.

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HADLEY FREEMAN

Researching her article “Single file” on page 164, Hadley Freeman discovered that she wasn’t the only one to feel the stigma of singledom. “The more women I spoke to, the more they told me how frustrating they found social expectations,” she says. As a writer for the UK’s Guardian newspaper, what’s been her favourite assignment? “Going to LA to interview Aerosmith. It’s hard to think of a job more fun than that!”

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PAT MCGRATH

“She has the most amazing eyes and her confidence, poise and unique style enhance her natural assets. We had so much fun working together!” says leading British make-up artist Pat McGrath of her close friend and Vogue’s cover girl Erica Packer. Taking time out from her schedule as one of the world’s most in-demand artists, McGrath lent her wizardry to our story on page 172, shot on the outskirts of Paris.

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STEVIE DANCE

Expat fashion consultant and stylist Stevie Dance hit the streets of her adopted home in New York for Vogue’s profile of rising star Margot Robbie, on page 198. “It was 40 degrees and we were shooting autumn clothing, but somehow we still found some fun,” she says. Shaking up the fashion world with her innate sense of style both locally and in the US, Dance fast-tracked her way to the top. She says being made fashion director at Pop magazine ranks as one of her top achievements. Pretty good for a gal who got started in the industry “by chance”.

ALISON VENESSMCGOURTY

A life in fashion was kismet for Alison Veness-McGourty, as her story “Raised in style”, on page 162, reveals. Reflecting on her passion for fashion, Veness-McGourty admits she realised how much money she’d spent on clothes, “but I still felt good!” Having launched 10 and 10 Men magazines, there’s no doubt she’ll be indulging in her sartorial desires for a while yet.

AMANDA LINDHOUT

In 2008, journalist Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped by Islamic insurgents in Somalia. Having published her memoir, written with journalist Sara Corbett, she shares her story on page 234. “Telling my story with real honesty has been at times scary, but ultimately it’s helped me process and make sense of what happened to me,” she says.

CLAIRE BRAYFORD

You’d think it would be hard for writer Claire Brayford not to feel a little jealous writing her travel story on page 92, in which some of the world’s most glamorous women discuss their favourite places. But the writer was inspired. “Talking to everyone about these incredible destinations felt like I almost escaped with them,” she says. “It made me excited to see them for myself.” 46 – NOVEMBER 2013

MICHELE MCQUILLAN

Hot-shot hairstylist Michele McQuillan gained her fashion cred working with Guido in the late 90s. “I watched him work his magic on all the supermodels … I just kept my head down and followed orders!” she says. See how she worked her own magic creating the edgy looks starting page 214.

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The florid, the highly decorative and the very, very colourful: Kelly Wearstler has become synonymous with a certain technicolour flair. The lissome interior designer has expanded her aesthetic offerings with a fashion label and several books. Bookmark her name for a dose of instant inspiration.

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The cover of the February 2012 issue of UK Vogue, photographed by Patrick Demarchelier.

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PANSY Te perennially pretty pansy was chosen by Prabal Gurung to tumble pleasantly oﬀ models’ sweaters and necklines and onto skirts and dresses.

ORCHID Te orchid, a symbol of royalty and beauty, featured in Christian Dior’s resort collection quite ﬁttingly – the collection was held in Monaco where Princess Grace, a long-time fan of the label, lived.

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VIOLET Oscar de la Renta knows how to execute a ﬂoral: his violets-in-relief, set against chartreuse duchess satin, were sweetly charming.

florals We DECODE the fashionable FLORA from the resort ’14 collections.

DUTCH AMARYLLIS Tis dramatic bloom with colour-streaked petals sprung up loud and proud on Jonathan Saunders’s graphic jumpsuits, skirts and tops.

IKEBANA Te Japanese art of ﬂower arrangement, which emphasises shape and form, inspired Peter Pilotto’s enticing modern take on print.

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LOTUS Not the ﬁrst time the ﬂower has appeared on a Givenchy piece, the lotus, a symbol of good fortune, seems to be creating just that for the French house.

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ROSE Mary Katrantzou channelled a typical English garden with powder-pink roses that climbed up printed lattices. Te ultimate in ladylike motifs.

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Married to Crown Prince Felipe of Spain.

Princess of Greece and Denmark, married to Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark.

American model who has walked for the likes of Chanel and Givenchy and has appeared in a Prada campaign and on the cover of Vogue China.

Former South African Olympic swimmer.

Founder of Marie-Chantal range of children’s clothing and accessories.

Studies fashion at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok.

Television reporter.

Currently studying to become a counsellor.

Model off-duty. Her uniform is skinny black jeans, boots and a sleek black blazer.

Understated glamour. Loves simple silhouettes like the Christian Dior pre-fall ’13 dress she wore to the Dior resort presentation in Monaco.

Modern regal. The Princess knows how to choose clothes that flatter and favours princess-like confections and colours. She is a fan of Oscar de la Renta.

Feisty. Chooses dramatic draped cocktail dresses from Lanvin, Christian Dior and Balmain, and Thai costumes. A regular at Paris fashion week.

Sleek glamour – she made Vanity Fair’s best-dressed list. Favours high heels, Felipe Varela, Chanel MaxMara and Armani.

A style icon. Often spotted in Armani, J. Mendel and diaphanous Carolina Herrera creations.

She recently Instagrammed a picture of herself travelling with Valentino on a private jet.

She has represented her country in badminton at the South East Asian Games.

As a journalist she broadcast live from Ground Zero after 9/11 and previously worked for CNN.

Before becoming a princess she worked as an event planner for Diane von Furstenberg.

She held a postHer Serene Highness wedding bash at the (yes, that’s her American Museum official title) wore on of Natural History in her wedding day New York attended a custom Armani by Naomi Campbell, Privé that took Leonardo DiCaprio approximately 2,500 and Edward Norton. hours to make.

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than an immaculate, enigmatic facade that the Frenchwoman grooms and wields; she is the caretaker of a sensuous intelligence, a creaturely knack for how to live that purrs from the pages of Colette and Françoise Sagan and pouts from the screen (and no-one can pout like a French actress, whose moody lips cry out for a trombone). French ﬁlm and novels may no longer ﬁre the ardour that they did in the 50s and 60s, but over the past decade nonﬁction publishing has taken up the slack and then some. ee “French Women Know Best” genre has become quite the publishing racket, if I may speak baldly, a spate of titles addressing every aspect of the ﬁne arts of bourgeois upkeep and ﬂirty intrigue. Whether it be subtle panache (Lessons from Madame Chic: 20 Stylish Secrets I Learned While Living in Paris, by Jennifer L Scott), intimate indulgence ( Joie de Vivre: Secrets of Wining, Dining, and Romancing Like the French, by Harriet Welty Rochefort, Two Lipsticks and a Lover, by Helena Frith Powell), nononsense, non-hovering parenting (Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother

Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting, by Pamela Druckerman, French Twist: An American Mom’s Experiment in Parisian Parenting, by Catherine Crawford), or growing older gracefully (Chic & Slim Toujours: Aging Beautifully Like Uose Chic French Women, by Anne Barone), the Frenchwoman seems to have it all sewn up. “No French woman willingly works,” Helena Frith Powell writes in Two Lipsticks and a Lover. “French women have better things to do with their time, like waxing their legs and seducing other people’s husbands.” Unlike her neurotic American sisters, a French bachelorette would never be caught dead moping on the sofa, digging into a tub of Häagen-Daz because some doofus didn’t call, and she never goes out looking as if she just crawled out of a laundry hamper. And unlike some of her slaggy British cousins, she doesn’t get bombed on alcohol and vomit on the pavement as the capper to an evening’s entertainment. She remains mistress of her domain, avoiding the terrible modern fact of both sexes: becoming a sad sack. French Women Don’t Get Fat, as Mireille

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h, French women: so soignée, so Cest si bon, so clicky as they walk by. Everything about them – their poise, their reﬁnement, their cool dispatch, their trim, tidy ﬁgures, their yachty scarves, their precision manners, their purposeful glances, their insinuating silences, their hair, their skin, their scent, the invisible caress of their lingerie, their avoidance of circus tattoos and purple henna – inspires marvel and envy. Although world-class cities from Rome to Barcelona, Buenos Aires to Singapore, New York to Dubai, can pride themselves on being lustrous strongholds of exalted femininity, it is the Frenchwoman – in particular the Parisian woman – to whom homage is paid and of whom study is made. In the historical imagination the Frenchwoman has held a monopoly on mystique à la mode ever since Louis XIV made Paris the fashion and coiﬀure capital of creation in the 17th century. She exempliﬁes an ethos of personal expression that advertises itself as an aspirational ideal, an exacting calling. Yet it is more

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French women don’t get fat, as the 2004 bestseller with that title informed the WORLD – and the FLOOD of Gallic how-to books hasn’t stopped. Les Françaises, they claim, do ABSOLUTELY everything better: parenting, AGEING, SEX, even celibacy, according to a new entry. Notso vite, says James Wolcott.

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Guiliano detailed in her 2004 bestseller, and, according to Jamie Cat Callan, French Women Don’t Sleep Alone. But hey, not so vite. Here comes Sophie Fontanel to instruct the reader in Te Art of Sleeping Alone, a confessional reverie that shot up the sales charts when it was published in France. Leave it to a Frenchwoman to convert even giving up sex into an elegant gesture that reeks of worldliness and sends up a smoky wreath. “For a long while, and I don’t really wish to say when it was or how many years it lasted,” Fontanel writes, “I chose to live in what was perhaps the worst insubordination of our times: I had no sex life.” In an interview with the UK’s Telegraph, Fontanel, an editor at French Elle and an author of other books, dispensed the veil of secrecy, specifying that her period of celibacy had lasted 12 years – an awfully long layoﬀ. ee ﬁrst step on the road less travelled is taken at a ski resort, where the prospect of going to bed with a man named Jonas for a scenic tryst “sent [her] body into lockdown”. As her body closes up shop as an act of resistance to another borderline compulsory round of huﬃng and puﬃng, her spirit is uncaged. Standing at the window, the vista of pure white snow providing the perfect movie/novel setting for a personal epiphany, Fontanel vows to give up the bedroom grind and be reborn as virgin wool. “My life would be soft and ﬂuﬀy. I was through with being had.” Celibacy proves to be as rejuvenating as a spa visit. A white candle seems to illuminate her from within. After only a few weeks of non-coitus, her face un-scrunches, her skin radiates, her spine straightens. She submerges in lavender milk baths, “my breasts upthrust like buoys signalling a human presence along a seacoast”, hugs her pillow at night as if spooning with a man, and burbles like a schoolgirl over Robert Redford, a platonic crush that crowds out any need for a real man or passable facsimile. Which, needless to say, gets on the nerves of those around her, those friends and couples who remain intensely invested in the French game of 60 – NOVEMBER 2013

amour that has kept Yves Montand and Catherine Deneuve employed over these many decades. In a sex-saturated culture, adult chastity is the ultimate nonconformity. Fonantel sighs: “Sabine and William, doleful swingers, who absolutely had to stay together to have someone to swap – even they found me peculiar.” eis has the makings of a ﬁne boulevard comedy (a libertine circle

LEAVE IT TO A FRENCHWOMAN TO CONVERT GIVING UP SEX INTO AN ELEGANT GESTURE OF WORLDLINESS confounded to ﬁnd a reborn virgin in their midst, an aﬀront to every lizardy value they hold dear), but before long the memoir becomes too Gallic for its own good, wandering through the meadows of reverie and picking pensées. It isn’t the author’s fault that for many of us the primary text on celibacy is the episode of Seinfeld – let the French lean on their philosophers; we have Seinfeld reruns to light the way – where George Costanza involuntarily gives up fornication and turns into a genius savant, speaking Portuguese, teaching the physics of hitting to Yankees sluggers, and so forth. As Jerry explains, previously George was extracting what he could from a leafy scrap of his brain, the rest of it obsessed with sex; now he had access to the entire lettuce head. ee reverse happens to Elaine, who boycotts sex and becomes a duh-faced idiot, the trash build-up in her head making it hard for her to think. Fontanel gets a little fuzzy herself as the book goes along, as if experiencing a spiritual form of jet lag, but that’s the French for you. Although Fontanel’s ode to celibacy would appear to run counter-clockwise to the erotic gamesmanship of the typical

Frenchwoman guide, where the stratagems of seduction require a mandolin ﬁnesse, and the mingled aroma of adultery (perfume, cologne and animal odour) wafts from every set of crumpled bedsheets, it’s rooted in a similar spirit of renunciation. It’s about drawing clean lines of demarcation. “[ee Frenchwoman’s] culture exalts the iconoclast, the nonconformist, the artist and original thinker – all of which makes it more natural for her to say ‘No’ to prevailing pressures,” writes Debra Ollivier in Entre Nous: A Woman’s Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl. “eis ability to say ‘No’ – graciously, thoughtfully – reinforces her natural discretion: what she eventually does let into her life is more a reﬂection of herself – and by default more authentic.” Outside France, a sloppy “Yes” prevails over a curt “No”, and discretion has gone the way of the dinosaurs, which is where these books satisfy a craving. Although the “French Women Know Best” genre abounds in useful tips, morale uplifters, and ﬁnger-wagging dos and don’ts, the usual self-help panoply of makeover advice, I suspect that the source of its continuing appeal lies in its being a species of dream literature. It invites the reader to holiday in a holodeck of romantic possibility and try on a new you, much as Downton Abbey and Jane Austen revivals promote time travel to a dressier, less buffeted, more orderly theatre of operations. It’s a trip to Paris in which you never have to leave your head. ee poignant thing is that while female readers are pursuing a French course in self-improvement, just try ﬁnding a book aimed at male readers keen on learning the cool, sophisticated ploys of French men, who have plenty of foxy tricks of their own that the rest of us lugs might proﬁtably learn from. It’s a completely lopsided market. een again, most men probably couldn’t even cough up the name of a familiar Frenchman except for maybe Gérard Depardieu, and him you wouldn’t dare to emulate. ■

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This street style favourite starts the trends as well as modelling them. Now she’s striking a POSE for Ellery.

Hanne Gaby Odiele in New York wearing a Comme des Garçons top and shorts and an Ale et Ange cap.

Some models are more like rock stars than mannequins. Hanne Gaby Odiele is one of them. Te 26-year-old Belgian hit the runway for Ellery at this year’s MercedesBenz Fashion Week Australia and the result was electrifying. “Tere was an audible gasp,” says her friend Susanna Lau of Style Bubble fame, who was in town for the show. “Hanne is ﬁerce, she’s so great.”

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Odiele didn’t look ﬁerce when she made her UK Vogue debut in a high school year. She has a fragile, childlike quality in the picture, though, in fact, she was 18 at the time, and had already walked for Marc Jacobs and Rodarte. fe Belgian stylist Tom Van Dorpe, who once assisted Carine Roitfeld, scouted Odiele at a rock festival. “I’m from a tiny farming village with no shops, no billboards, no magazines. I had no idea that fashion would be in my future,” says Odiele. “Since I didn’t know what my plans were after school I thought: ‘Why not?’ Two weeks later I went to NYC.” She went on to shoot campaigns for the likes of Balenciaga, Jil Sander and Saint Laurent. She walks for pretty much everyone, but she is as famous for her proﬁle outside the shows. “Honestly, I don’t remember the ﬁrst time a street-style photo was snapped of me,” she says, “but the internet has made everything available for everyone to see. It’s great, especially for people like me who are interested in how others dress and why they dress that way.” Ask Odiele how she describes her style, and she simply says: “I really don’t.” She lets her clothes, which she admits ﬁll her apartment, do the talking. In a scrum outside the couture shows in January, Odiele is in a Proenza Schouler skirt and top, carrying a wooden walking stick and a paper Christian Dior carrier. “Show the Dior bag!” calls one photographer (maybe he doesn’t realise it’s just packaging). Odiele hooks the bag onto the walking stick and strikes a pose. In New York nine months later, she is hamming it up for Tommy Ton’s lens. She’s got her sculptural Balenciaga shorts on with neon pink lipstick and an oversized basketball jacket pulled oﬀ the shoulder; she throws her head back and sneers. fe secret to the cult of Hanne Gaby Odiele lies in that wicked personality. IMG’s Jaz Daly calls her “wild and fun”. Kym Ellery, who cast her in Ellery’s latest campaign, appreciates her “individuality”. Everyone agrees Odiele has great energy – the result, in part, of making each day count after surviving a terrible car accident six years ago. Following recovery, she was thrilled to be back “shooting Italian Vogue and W magazine last year with 78 stitches in my leg. I’m just grateful. [Modelling] has been the most amazing adventure.” ■

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New wave

Designers are having a SEA CHANGE, creating fashion-forward swimwear in lush TEXTURES and high-tech fabrics, perfect for beach or bar.

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eﬀortless – surely the most deﬁnitive compliment of personal style today – a little bit luxury, a little bit surf, a touch surprising, and, most deﬁnitely, in fashion. While Australia’s geographic distance and upside-down hemisphere conundrum has lent it an air of isolation in the fashion world, this is perhaps the one trend we can ﬁnally lay claim to. It was a vacation to Australia and time spent on Bondi Beach that inspired one of Michael Kors’s most memorable resort collections, which was bursting with fuchsia and neon neoprene pieces. “Australia’s the ultimate urban ▲

n the street and far from the beach, all those clever, stylish girls are doing it; they’re wearing swimsuits just as nonchalantly as they would wear a pair of jeans or a T-shirt. From one-piece swimsuits as bustiers with wide-legged pants or bikini tops with high-waisted, full skirts, swimwear as ready-to-wear fashion has come to the fore. Consider it multitasking at its ﬁnest (and most stylish); literally going from poolside to cocktails in one fell swoop. In the mix of fashion trends that is the 21st century, it reads as

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I feel like there’s something new to say in swimwear.” Banning, perhaps, could look to Lisa Marie Fernandez for career inspiration. ge former stylist launched her label in 2009 to cult success; niche fashion-only retailers, such as London’s Dover Street Market, which didn’t carry swimwear as a category, were immediately interested. Many high-fashion stockists, such as Barneys, Net-A-Porter and Lane Crawford, were also quick to recognise that Lisa Marie Fernandez was not just a swimwear label but a fashion lifestyle brand with a sporty aesthetic. “It wasn’t just the fashion element that attracted them, but also the ﬁt and the details,” she says. “We have taken many ready-to-wear design details and have incorporated these for our ﬁt and construction. What the customer is ultimately getting is a ready-to-wear swimsuit.” She has also seen design features from her swimwear line appearing in the world of ready-towear. “It’s been surprising. We’ve noticed our own collections referenced in ready-towear, like our scuba details – the heavyduty zippers and colour blocking.” Australian designer Karla Špetić, who recently delved into swimwear on the back of her successful ready-to-wear line, has also noticed the rise of swimwear design details, such as neoprene. “It’s having a moment as the fabrication of choice for some designers, just like zipper and stud accessories,” she says. Just a few years ago, seeing a bikini peeking out from under a cocktail dress would have appeared more dishevelled than dishevelled chic (yes, there is a diﬀerence). Jets by Jessika Allen has gone one step further with her White Label collection, which is designed to not be worn in the water. ge blurring of lines between clothing and swimwear is as much about the sponge-like characteristics of fashion as it is about dress codes becoming more relaxed. Whether the emerging trend to wearing swimwear away from the beach is a fad or a fashion game changer, there’s deﬁnitely something in the water. ■

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Actress and surfer Noot Seear in Pret-à-Surf for J.Crew rashguard and bikini bottoms.

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f the recent wave of books, photograph exhibits and beach getaways focused on surﬁng hasn’t been enough to convince you of the sport’s swelling popularity, consider this: J.Crew – whose interest in the water was previously limited mostly to docks and canoes – is now selling rashguards. Not just any rashguards, of course: the brand has collaborated with swim label Pret-à-Surf on a cheerful collection that also includes stylish bikinis and board shorts in colourful and playful patterns. “We’re always looking for fashionable and functional,” says J.Crew’s head of women’s design, Tom Mora, who worked closely with Pret-à-Surf founders Karen Mulligan and Jillian Demling (whose day jobs, respectively, are studio manager for Annie Leibovitz and entertainment editor for US Vogue). “gere’s a cleanliness to what they do – it’s super all-American, and the mix is nice.” ge fabrics and shapes on oﬀer form a kind of greatest hits from the label’s three-year history. Aside from a tank in a red-and-pink butterﬂy print, there’s a retro-tinged halter bikini in candy-cane stripes and crisp white boards shorts with teeny black dots. In the eclectic spirit that rides through both J.Crew and Pret-à-Surf aesthetic, everything is designed to be mixed together – or worn with beloved basics more accustomed to land than to sea. As Demling says: “ge rashguard looks so cute with skinny white jeans.” Yeah, dude.

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beach destination, so I love that the women are a little bit sporty,” says Kors. “Tey can be out surﬁng all day and then just throw on an evening gown for night – and they look fabulous.” And, that beach inﬂuence is still strong with his autumn/winter ’13/’14 collection featuring ballgowns with black rashguard-esque long-sleeved bodices and dramatic billowing skirts. Kors isn’t alone in his high-fashion fascination with swimwear. Alber Elbaz, long considered a master at creating the desirable from the unexpected, has previously shown swimwear-style bodysuits teamed with dramatic silk skirts, Miuccia Prada has consistently promoted the crop top as a legitimate clothing item, and Dolce & Gabbana regularly shows retrostyle bralets worn with matching shorts and mini-skirts. Many luxury brands, such as Chanel, Hermès and Gucci, have also slipped swimwear seamlessly into their regular fashion collections, and younger designers are also trying their hand at swimwear. “I thought there was an almost slightly ironic element for me to look at swimwear,” says Dion Lee after his New York Fashion Week debut, yet for him swimwear has been “an extension of our ready-to-wear rather than a separate swimwear line”. It’s a canny move for up-and-coming Australian designer Nicole Banning to make her mark in fashion not through the usual route of ready-to-wear clothing but with swimwear, especially considering her background working at Saint Laurent. Her Paris-based label Ephemera features rich brocades that would seem more suited to evening dresses than swimsuits. But despite the lush textures, the fabrics are ideal for the water, thanks to the addition of elastane and polyamide. “Swimwear can really be brought up to where ready-to-wear is,” explains Banning, who currently resides in Paris. “With ready-to-wear there’s so much out there already and an over-saturation of product. As a young designer, I thought it would be better to be more specialised.

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Stocked in Opening Ceremony and shot for US Vogue, Africanbased brand Bantu’s swim star is rising. Made in Africa, using only materials produced by local artisans and inspired by African surf culture, these bikinis in vibrant prints epitomise summer.

American-based designer Karla Colletto uses high quality Italian fabric made to endure salt, sand and sun. Her classically cut costumes always have a twist – from o mesh es inserts se ts to op aartt patterns and patent panelling. Perfect poolside or beachside.

French lingerie label Eres has gained fashion notoriety through its precisely crafted lingerie, so it’s no surprise they can also cut a swimsuit. The brand boasts clean lines and a classic colour palette and they make the best LBS (little black swimsuit) in the business.

Created by former model Dawn Peterson and her surfer husband, Made by Dawn is laidback Cali-cool in swim form. Soft, lived-in textured fabrics, micro ruffles and washed out colours make it look like you’ve spent the summer between beach and pool.

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Well-cut separates and sculptural one-pieces are sure to become the signature of this brand’s Parisbased Australian creator Nicole Banning. Refined lines, a minimalist colour palette and subtle detailing make for an impressive offering from a brand founded just last year.

The Australian label’s sophomore swim range features Egyptian hieroglyph motifs and building block colours that complement the subtle 90s shapes of the collection. Cut-out and tie-side briefs, crop tops and triangle bikinis are made to be mixed and matched.

US label Marysia delivers classics with a dose of cool. The range is constructed with shapes such as scallop-edged tops and peplum maillots. Leopard inserts and ribbed fabric add edge to the classic palette that is just as at home in the city as the Hamptons.

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BALENCIAGA “I thought Alex Wang’s Balenciaga debut was a very sensitive handling of the house codes. Did I mention I’m redecorating my bathroom in Carrara marble?”

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CHRISTOPHER KANE “Frankly I’ll take anything by Christopher Kane this season, just so long as it’s camo.”

KENZO “It’s all about the third-eye sweatshirt. An And the typographical typograp logo one.”

PROENZA SCHOULER “Yes, my dégradé black-and-white It sweater may look like ombré, but actually, Jack and Lazaro painstakingly pulled each colourcontrasted thread out from behind to create the eﬀect. It took days to make. Weeks, probably.” SACAII ul “Yes, I realise Chiltose Abe’s masterful sartorial mash-up of classic-trench-at-the-back, claret-red-velvet-dress-with-tclementine-eyelash-lace-petticoatfrom-the-front sounds complicated, butt I assure you it’s throw-on cool.””

CÉLINE “Actually, I’ve always found laundry bags très chic.”

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DARTE RODARTE “I’m still waiting to hear if the Mulleavy sisters’ barbed-wire headbands are going into production – those girls are so good at a hair accoutrement and this one doubles as a choker – but for sure I’ll be investing in one of their tie-dye-print pieces. Tey’re classics.”

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Roberta Benteler’s Chanel bag.

“I would choose my Hermès beach basket, as it’s a collector’s item. It was created with the leftover material from the Hermès wicker Kelly bag, so there are only a few in the world. I was lucky enough to ﬁnd one, and each time I see it, it happily reminds me of my travels.”

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“I love everything about this Tomas Tait jacket: the colour, the shape, the minimalism, the sheen, and the fact that, ﬁnally, I’ve found a way to wear the oversized trend without looking like Charlie Chaplin.”

“Tis bag has great emotional value forr me. After university I went travelling for six months and halfway through my trip I saw this. As a result I ended up travelling the world with a green Chanel bag.”

Thomas Tait jacket.

Nicky Zimmermann on her wedding day.

Genevieve Smart’s Sonia Rykiel coat.

GENEVIEVE SMART Director, Ginger & Smart “I have a vintage rose pink feather coat by Sonia Rykiel that always makes me smile. It’s so decadent and very delicate. I only wear it occasionally but always to the most memorable parties. It reminds me of fun times with good friends.”

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Lucy Folk in her Burberry Prorsum hat.

LUCY FOLK Jewellery designer “I love hats, particularly this one by Burberry Prorsum. Funnily enough, whenever I wear it everyone seems to take notice. I wore it when we made my Bento ﬁlm in London so it reminds me of one of the most exciting days of my career so far. I take it on every overseas trip.”

NICKY ZIMMERMANN Designer and director, Zimmermann “My wedding dress and shawl make me smile every time I see them. I got married in Santorini, Greece, and it poured with rain. Te locals said it hadn’t rained at that time of year in 20 years! Before I knew it, everyone had moved on from the beach reception – including my new husband – and I was left at the taverna with one of my best friends to ﬁnd our way back to the wedding party. So I took my shoes oﬀ and we ran laughing through the town, dress dragging in the mud from the downpour. It was such a good memory that I decided not to get my dress cleaned. I love the mud. And the memories.”

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SARAH HARRIS Fashion features director, UK Vogue “I love my Chanel ski suit. I’m not really a print person and this is an all-in-one zip-up that’s covered top-to-toe in black and white squares, so it’s pretty out there for me, but it’s imbued with ski-trip memories.”

KYM ELLERY Designer, Ellery “It would have to be these wood and perspex Balenciaga shoes I found in a store in West Hollywood. I was with one of my dear friends, a Brazilian designer, who only said: ‘Kyyyyyym, you must have’ in his thick accent. We agreed that they were like investing in a piece of art. Tey remind me of my friend and make me smile every time I see them in my wardrobe.”

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Lara Mullen’s Céline Trapeze bag. Yeojin Bae’s vintage scarf.

Caroline Issa

Issa’s jade pendant.

CAROLINE ISSA Fashion director, editor, Because magazine “I have some of my grandmother’s beautiful jade pendants, which I love. Tey make me think of her and the colour is so vivid. I like to think the green changed from her wearing it against her skin over the years.” Zanita Morgan’s Nick Campbell sunglasses.

ZANITA MORGAN Blogger, photographer, model “I’ve never managed to hold on to a pair of sunglasses for more than 12 months. But I’ve taken these Nick Campbell shades on four overseas trips and they are still going strong. I adore the unusual design, but mostly I love how they are still in my possession.”

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YEOJIN BAE Designer “Tis 1920s vintage scarf that I bought in LA many years ago always sings to my heart. I love the colours, the faded ﬂoral design and its slight wear. I still recall my absolute happiness in discovering it. Te funny thing is I’ve hardly worn it; I prefer it to be draped over a piece of furniture or hanging in my studio to admire.”

“My Céline shearling Trapeze bag was the ﬁrst designer handbag I ever owned and was a gift from Céline after walking the show in Paris. It is particularly sentimental to me as it reminds me of my very ﬁrst show season and the excitement I felt, having previously never even walked in a pair of heels. It also helps that it’s practical – I can ﬁt my whole life into it; and it feels like a teddy bear.”

Rachel Gilbert’s Chanel espadrilles.

RACHEL GILBERT Designer “My Chanel espadrilles are casual, classic and chic. Te pairs I have always make me think of relaxing and being on holiday, even if I’m in the oﬃce.”

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Get shorty

Pandora ring, $349.

As the weather gets WARMER, slip on some Bermuda shorts to UPDATE your summer look. Wear in a laidback tomboyish manner or step out in confidence in the new season’s tropical prints. Bianca Spender jacket, $650. Illesteva sunglasses, $186, from www. mychameleon.com.au. Victoria Beckham clutch, $770. Haryono Setiadi shorts, $725.

Josh Goot shorts, $495.

Stella McCartney shoes, $635.

VS TROPICAL

Isson sunglasses, $350.

The brief? Mad, eclectic and quirky with a clever cacophony of prints and a flurry of colours. In this case, more really is more.

Shourouk necklace, $1,005.

Antonio Berardi shirt, $1,100.

Marni shorts, P.O.A.

JONATHAN SAUNDERS RESORT ’14

Boss bag, $749.

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Alexander Wang shoes, $845.

Miu Miu top, $825, from www. mytheresa.com.

Ostwald Helgason shorts, $490, from www. matchesfashion.com.

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Carl Kapp top, $899.

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TOMBOY Double up on boxy silhouettes and anchor the look with printed loafers. Up the chic ante with fine gold jewellery and a brightly coloured clutch.

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“I learnt a great deal from Nicholas [Kirkwood]. If you look at his collection now and compare it to his work four years ago, the style of the shoes are different, but his unique language is still present.” Nicholas Kirkwood

“Every day there are new challenges that I didn’t see coming, but resolving them gives me a great sense of achievement.”

Kenzo sweater, $312, from www. Net-A-Porter. com.

Sophia Webster designs accessories to make you smile. Or snap. Combing electric colour, loud prints and vivid imagination, the ﬂedging British designer’s new collection would easily capture the attention of street-style photographers. Webster graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2010, going on to work as a design assistant for cool cobbler Nicholas Kirkwood. Two years later he helped her set up her own label. Webster’s accessories line debuted in spring/summer ’13 with a collection entitled Welcome to the Dollhouse. “Accessories are a great way to express your personality without shouting too much,” she explains. “You can wear a very understated outﬁt with a killer pair of heels and can make a real statement about yourself.” It’s an approach that’s working. Webster is the only shoe designer to be bestowed with a British Fashion Council NewGen award. Add to cart.

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“Many of the shoes have been inspired by the work of Japanese photographer Mika Ninagawa. I love her use of vivid colours.” “I love how Nasiba Adilova, the editor of Buro24/7, wears my accessories. During fashion week she wore the spring/summer ’13 Riri shoes with the matching rucksack and looked so chic. I designed them as a group but hadn’t envisioned them being worn together, but she made me think differently about co-ordinating shoes and bags.”

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“I own more than 200 pairs of shoes. I have a shoe room at home where all my shoes live on shelves.”

“I’m pretty relaxed about my clothes. I love colour and prints and at the moment I’m really into MSGM and Kenzo.”

“The only thing I read regularly at the moment are my emails! Other than that I go on Instagram. It’s a creative’s idea of heaven.”

“I go to Brazil two or three times a year. The bright colours of the country inspire me.”

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Sophia Webster clutch, $665, from www.Net-A-Porter.com.

“I treat myself every couple of months to a new Tom Binns necklace. I’m obsessed with his jewellery.”

Tom Binns necklace, $1,045.

Kenzo tote, $635, from www.Net-A-Porter.com.

Sophia Webster shoes, $635, from www. Net-A-Porter.com.

“I use certain colours and leathers to ground my shoes, whether it’s pairing neons with a muted grey or pretty prints with a strong black patent: this keeps them feminine and elegant.”

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“Sophia Webster shoes tend to appeal to spirited, independently minded women who have fun with fashion and enjoy wearing a playful pair of shoes.”

Sophia Webster in her London studio.

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Where on earth

Relaxing on a deck on the Big Sur.

Planning a once-in-alifetime ADVENTURE? Members of the fashion jet set tell us about their bestever travel experiences. WORDS: CLAIRE BRAYFORD Lake on the Californian coastline.

Lisa Marie Fernandez dress, $550, from www. matchesfashion.com. Anthony Peto hat, $190. K. Jacques sandals, $290.

CANDICE LAKE Serious shopping, spectacular scenery and sunshine summed up our contributing style editor’s California road trip. “Overwhelmed is the only way to describe how it feels to be surrounded by the Titan-like trees in the majestic Sequoia National Park. My husband and I had arrived at dusk after driving for six hours through the desert to be engulfed by the largest and oldest trees on earth. “We stayed at a little cabin deep in the forest. We walked for ages, hoping to meet a bear and absorbing the energy that only a place with this much living history can have. On the road again, we headed for the Big Sur, and it feels like the mountains are hugging you as the road winds along huge clifs overlooking beautiful coastline. After a very bumpy ride up a three-kilometre dirt track, we arrived at our very own glass house that seemed to touch the sky, with not another soul for miles and views over the valley out to the ocean. We watched the sunrise from bed and the sunset on the deck until the last Sicker of light had disappeared and the sky was alive with stars. We spent our days reading under huge trees and in the hot tub, and our nights in front of the fre drinking red wine and telling stories.”

MIROSLAVA DUMA Fashion consultant and founder of buro247.ru was the ultimate in castaway chic while reading and relaxing in the Maldives.

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Dressed in a vibrant caftan.

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bicycles to get around. My favourite spot was a secluded hammock where I could read for hours. We took a cruise around the atolls in search of dolphins and while diving we met reef fsh, manta rays and a turtle. Te talc-like sand and turquoise sea made me feel like Robinson Crusoe – only I had my iPhone to record it all.”

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“Earlier this year my family and I few to the Maldives, a necklace of 1,192 coral islands scattered in the Indian Ocean. For eight months of the year, this Muscovite is bundled up in a coat, so to be able to breeze around barefoot in caftans was bliss. “After landing at the main airport, we hopped on a seaplane to our resort, One&Only Reethi Rah, in the North Malé Atoll. What I loved most was the lush gardens, the tall trees, exotic orchids and coconut palms. Everyone walked barefoot, and there was even a basin of water at the door to our villa for traditional Maldivian foot-bathing. When it came to the food I felt like an eco-tourist; fresh fruit and vegetables grow around the resort and are served in the hotel restaurant. Our thatched roof villa literally rose out of the water and we used

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Hart heading out to an island off the coast. 0039 Italy top, $ $260. Rag & Bone shorts, $167. short

Prism sunglasses, $405. A school of dolphins swim by.

From lush paddy fields tovolcanic mountains, sophisticated luxury to spiritual serenity, Bali offered the fashion director of Net-A-Porter a captivating study in contrasts. “Driving from the airport to Seminyak I experienced my frst south-east Asian traUc jam, with cars and scooters scattered across the road. Yet the chaos was short-lived. We soon arrived at our luxury open-air villas with beautiful swimming pools, the very epitome of tranquillity. A group of us had travelled from around the world to Bali to celebrate my friend’s birthday, and with my non-stop schedule I was keen to enjoy the relaxed pace and spend as much time by the sea as I could. We opted for beaches at Seminyak, Jimbaran and Karma, set among the clifs with beautiful stretches of sand, palm trees and warm blue water. Te country has a contemplative and calming spirituality, never more so than while watching the sun set over the cliftop Uluwatu temple. For a taste of luxury, Seminyak is where you can Ynd the island’s shopping. I loved the indigenous artisanal crafts like the local tin decorations that I used as Christmas 94 – NOVEMBER 2013

“After a long fight, a 12-hour layover, a missed connection and a hectic night in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, I fnally arrive on lush green and tropical Nosy Be (“Big Island”) for a European swimwear campaign. It’s beautiful – and sw very basic. With few bikes, and even fewer ve cars, most people walk on what looks like ca a never-ending road, women and children carrying baskets on their heads past tiny ca wooden houses and fruit stands. Te shoot wo is farther still, and I have to take a boat to another island. Ten minutes into the ride an and I can barely believe what I’m seeing: an the bluest water, the whitest sand and th a sumptuous virgin forest on a little island ahead. Suddenly, it doesn’t matter that it’s taken me three days to get here, that I haven’t slept or eaten, or that there isn’t a bathroom, because although by most standards there’s little here, this place is so rich in life, it’s no wonder everyone looks so happy. Tey live in paradise.”

Sunset drinks.

Rogers with friends.

ornaments, and I spent ages choosing bracelets for gifts at Jewel Rocks, recommended by a fashion editor friend. “To round of our trip, we headed inland to Ubud. Te serenity of the rice felds was unforgettable, and we took photos of the graceful women carrying fruit piled on their heads. Te American chef Anthony Bourdain recommends suckling pig at a restaurant called Ibu Oka in the forest. We had to hike to get there but it was worth it. Bali’s diversity is its strength. Even if you don’t want the beach all day, there is so much to keep you engaged.”

Tara Matthews bikini, $240, Sensi Studio tote, $220 and Miguelina caftan, $647, all from www. Net-A-Porter.com.

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The model ventured off the beaten track, travelling to the tropical haven of Madagascar.

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At the farm.

There is more to the Hamptons of Long Island than waspy high society, as US Vogue’s market editor reveals.

short distance away, and my husband and I love to walk the ponies along the sand at sunset. Tis weekend, though, we took our paddleboards across Mecox Bay with a picnic to a secluded part of the beach to enjoy the tranquillity before driving back to the blistering sidewalks of Manhattan.”

Nicaragua’s colonial charm and Caribbean flavour enticed the fashion director of My-wardrobe.com back to this unspoilt slice of Central America.

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Lemlem top, $244. J Brand shorts, $277.

CARMEN BORGONOVO

Borgonovo taking a boat ride to visit nearby islands.

Twins For Peace shoes, $610, from www. my-wardrobe.com.

Sailer with her daughter Delphine.

“Few people know that Nicaragua is cattle country and has the best beef in the world, so my honeymoon began with the most incredible melt-in-your-mouth steak at Los Ranchos in the sprawling capital of Managua. We were celebrating in this beautiful country with 25 of our friends, and hired a four-wheel-drive to head south through spectacular countryside to the colonial town of Granada. Along the way we stopped in Masaya at the Mercado Viejo arts market,

Sailer at her polo pony farm.

a century-old Moorish-style castle brimming with Nicaraguan crafts. In Granada, the country’s glorious former capital, we found beautifully preserved colonial churches and unspoiled colourwashed mansions set against the backdrop of the immense Lake Nicaragua. Our days were spent soaking up the history and architecture, as well as taking boat rides out to the colourful archipelago of nearby islands. At night, we strolled through the central plaza enjoying the music and energy as young people danced with such joie de vivre. For our fnal days, we drove to the Pacifc coast and the untouched expanses of white sand at San Juan del Sur, where huge waves create a surfer’s dream. And for our fnal 24 hours, we soaked up the sun on a friend’s private beach – the perfect end to an unforgettable honeymoon.”

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“F. Scott Fitzgerald called it ‘that slender riotous island’, and with each trip to the Hamptons comes a new adventure. My latest was to a sweet, low-key beach community near the tip of Long Island called Amagansett, for a photo shoot with philanthropist Jackie Sackler and her sons Leo and Lucian. Teir traditional Hamptons beach house, complete with fower-cutting room, surrounded by rambling English gardens, was breathtaking. After an organic lunch picked straight from the garden, Jackie taught me how to make a delicious summer cocktail, which I sipped on the spectacular porch overlooking the pool. Rather than returning to the city, I headed to my house in Bridgehampton – the “horsey Hamptons” – where we have a 12-hectare polo pony farm. After lunch at the elegant Silver’s in Southampton and a quick stop at Nili Lotan in East Hampton to pick up a summer knit, I headed to the Bridgehampton Polo Club for an exhilarating game. “For me, a weekend highlight is a trip to the beach. Long Island’s are an amazing respite from New York City life, surrounded by huge dunes and packed with families and surfers by day, bonfres and clam bakes by night. Our farm is a

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Chanel bag, $34,590.

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Ahead of her FIRST trip to Australia, Vogue catches up with Roksanda Ilincic, whose DESIGNS in striking colour combinations are a HIT with women around the world. WORDS: GEORGIE ABAY

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a mother who creates beautiful dresses in heavenly hues would be the ultimate dream for a three-year-old (Ilincic also launched a childrenswear line, Blossom, a year ago; which for its debut was modelled by Eﬁmia). Equally, having a mother whose collection of vintage Yves Saint Laurent spans more than 500 pieces – many of them inherited from Ilincic’s mother – would be just as glorious. Ilincic’s love of fashion started in her childhood. “I always wanted to destroy my dolls’ outﬁts and also my own,” she says. Troughout school, her desire to customise her clothes continued. She once took the

buttons oﬀ her school uniform and replaced them with bright red ones. “I always thought it was so boring that everybody had the same uniform,” she recalls. Te daughter of an economist and a pharmacist, Ilincic grew up in Belgrade, Serbia, where a career as a fashion designer wasn’t really viewed as a profession you could make a living from. “Tere are not many fashion houses in Serbia. Everything came in mainly from abroad … fashion wasn’t something that you could dedicate yourself to in order to have a decent life. I was always in two minds about fashion – should I do it, or do

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Roksanda Ilincic, right, is known for her use of bold, beautiful colours.

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ashion critics are forever breaking down exactly what it is that makes a designer successful. Ultimately, what it comes down to is being able to pinpoint precisely what women will want to wear next. Neoprene? Digital prints? Birkenstocks? Phoebe Philo and Stella McCartney can do it. So can 36-year-old Serbian-born designer Roksanda Ilincic, whose architectural, elegant approach to design and vivid colour combinations have made her one of London’s brightest stars. Her clothes are worn by women ranging from Michelle Obama to Björk, because, as Natalie Kingham, head of fashion at retailer Matchesfashion.com, puts it: “Roksanda just always gets it right. She absolutely knows what women want.” When I speak to the designer, it’s early in London and she’s at home with her daughter, Eﬁmia. Ilincic likes to spend an hour or so each morning with her before going to work. “Tis time is something that’s very important to me,” she says. Ilincic might be time-poor, juggling running a fashion label with motherhood, but she’s also incredibly decisive. “Once you’re a mother, you have to become very quick in making decisions, because there’s simply no time otherwise.” I ask Ilincic how old her baby is, which Eﬁmia, who turns out to be three years old, doesn’t approve of at all. “She’s saying she’s not a baby, she’s a very big girl,” she says, laughing. You’d imagine that having

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a contrasting apple green waist panel – keeps her collections fresh. “I like to challenge our perception of what we think goes together. People often tell me they’d never think about wearing certain colours together, until they see my dresses. I’m very proud of that, because the role of fashion is to push things forward and to discover a new language of dress.” Another secret to her success is wearability. Says Kingham: “Her incredible pieces work for every occasion – whether it’s a top that’s great with jeans, a coat that you can wear over everything or a do-it-all failsafe dress. She also has a very good eye for colour combinations and has a knack of always getting the proportions just right.” For resort ’14, colour combinations range from sea-foam green and cobalt blue to turquoise and navy to lilac and beige. eere’s also a dramatic element of surprise in laser-cut neoprene ﬂorals. “Resort was about combining all the things I’m known for: colour-blocking dresses, oversized sleeves, comfortable shapes,” says Ilincic, also citing the Brazilian artist Lygia

Clark ’s colourful aesthetic as an inspiration. “Art is a very important part of my inspiration; it brings certain emotions and certain feelings.” Writing for Vogue, fashion journalist Sarah Mower notes another factor behind Ilincic’s success: “ee way Ilincic’s clothes translate across nations or, at least, for many of the diplomatic classes (international ﬁrst ladies included) who search for a their-generation solution to the uptight nightmare of ﬁnding proper, yet unfrumpy, dressing.” Indeed, Ilincic’s reach is global. From America (Michelle Obama) to Britain (Kate Middleton) to Australia, where Cate Blanchett recently stepped out, not once, but twice, in Roksanda Ilincic designs. ee ﬁrst, a soft apricot gown that fell to the f loor and perfectly complemented Blanchett’s complexion at the Blue Jasmine ﬁlm premiere in Sydney; and the second a prim, plum-coloured number with a pastelpink collar. “Cate Blanchett is one of my favourite actors and it’s incredible when you have somebody that’s so inspirational to your work and that you look up to so much embracing your clothes,” she says. Moda Operandi, the luxury e-tailer co-founded by glamorous American socialite and businesswoman Lauren Santo Domingo, describes Ilincic as “a designer for every woman – though certainly not the everywoman”. “I have a very feminine focus,” conﬁrms Ilincic. “Particularly coming from a woman’s perspective, my designs have a very modern and contemporary feel to them. eey’re not based on the past, but more about looking into the future.” Like Santo Domingo, Ilincic looks perfectly poised in every image I see of her. “I dress up, but that doesn’t mean I spend hours and hours doing my hair and putting my make-up on, it’s a question of living and breathing what I’m doing. Fashion is not just about having a dress, it’s about how we express ourselves. I like to be an example to the people I’m working with. I get joy out of wearing a beautiful dress or wearing a trendy pair of trousers with a coloured top and an oversized men’s jacket. I dress for myself.” ■

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something that’s creative, such as architecture, but in a slightly diﬀerent way?” She decided on the latter, enrolling in an architecture course. “I never completely dedicated myself to architecture,” she reﬂects. She read about London’s Central Saint Martins in a magazine and moved to Britain in 1999 and began her fashion studies. In 2005, she made her debut in London as part of Topshop’s New Generation initiative. It was a small collection – 13 dresses in total – in brilliant, jewelled hues. Almost a decade later, she’s one of the fashion industry’s most promising designers, with her contemporary cuts and easy elegance appealing to women of all ages. eere’s also her signature eye-catching colour palettes, which make you want to convert to wearing bold colour, even if you’re the type of woman who usually dresses in black. “[Colour] is something I feel so strongly about,” she says, attributing it to her childhood in Serbia. “ee colours in Serbia are so vivid and the seasons are so severe. We feel happier when the sun is shining, and I want my designs to make women feel joyful and uplifted.” While her aesthetic hasn’t changed, her skill for dishing out the unexpected – a pink wool and mohair pencil skirt with a contrasting bright green patent waistband and a burgundy creased faux patent leather panel, or a navy wool and crepe dress with

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“THE COLOURS IN SERBIA ARE SO VIVID … IWANT MY DESIGNS TO MAKE WOMEN FEEL JOYFUL”

Roland Mouret jumpsuit, $2,295, from Land’s End, call (02) 9331 2656. Witchery hat, $69.95. Roberto Cavalli bracelet, $950, and Saint Laurent sandals, $960, both from Cosmopolitan Shoes, call (02) 9362 0510. Bed Bath N’ Table bag, $24.95. Cotton Love towel, $85. Cotswold Furniture sunlounger, $1,595. Rose Street Trading wide-stripe cushion, $199.95. My Island Home narrowstripe cushion, $100, and sun mat, $295.

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Tommy Hilﬁger tote, $299, call (03) 8416 8600. Céline sunglasses, $500, from Saﬁlo Australia, call (02) 9540 0500.

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Tommy Hilﬁger dress, $299, call (03) 8416 8600.

Country Road blanket, $199.

Make hay while the sun shines and combine a sweet sundress, statement sandals and chic Chandon for an al fresco picnic to remember. Enjoy the ocean view and a glass of Chandon at the Stokehouse Cafe in St Kilda.

RAISING THE BAR

Sheridan beach towel, $59.95.

LIFE’S A BEACH What better way to herald the start of balmy weather than popping a bottle of Chandon in the fresh sea air? The premium sparkling wine has just released a gorgeous limited edition ‘Red, Bright and Blue’ bottle. It’s nautical, fresh and on-trend for summer picnic celebrations. St. Tropez Self Tan, $39.95, call 1800 358 999.

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The sun’s shining and the weather’s warm - make the most of it at some of the country’s best outdoor watering holes. Here are the hippest places to see, be seen and enjoy an afternoon sipping the ever-sparkling Chandon.

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MELBOURNE Stokehouse Cafe (30 Jacka Boulevard, St Kilda) holds prime position on the St Kilda promenade, making it the perfect place to people-watch with a glass of sparkling in hand. SYDNEY The Glenmore (96 Cumberland Street, The Rocks) is spread over three levels, each with its own unique character. The highlight, of course, is the newly refurbished rooftop bar, which has spectacular views of the Opera House. The Beresford (354 Bourke Street, Surry Hills) is renowned for its casual courtyard that feels sophisticated and homely all at once. Settle into the outdoor lounge and order the calamari – it’s a perfect match for a glass of Chandon. ADELAIDE The Collins Bar at the Hilton Adelaide hotel (233 Victoria Square, Adelaide) captures the opulence of the 1920s in all its Gatsby-esque grandeur. The mood lighting and art-deco influence truly takes you to another era.

Leroy Grannis: Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s (Taschen), $22.99, from Oscar & Friends.

Win a trip to the ultimate Chandon party

To celebrate the launch of the stylish Chandon Summer bottle, Chandon and Vogue Australia are hosting a special Summer Party. You and three friends can join in the fun with flights to Sydney, accommodation and VIP tickets to the party. Ten runners-up will each receive two tickets to attend the Chandon Summer Party in Sydney or Melbourne. See www.vogue.com.au for details, and visit www.chandon.com.au or www.facebook.com/chandonaus for more on Chandon. Competition terms & conditions: Open to Australian residents only. Competition opens 16/09/13, 00.01 AEST and closes 07/10/13, 23.59 AEDT. Total prize pool value is up to $10,340.00 (including GST). Winners judged 08/10/13 at 14:00 AEDT. This is a game of skill and chance plays no part in determining the winners. Promoter: NewsLifeMedia Pty Ltd, 180 Bourke Road, Alexandria, NSW 2015. ABN: 57 088 923 906. For full terms and conditions, visit www.vogue.com.au/club+vogue/competitions/.

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The ultimate icon wearing the ultimate tan. “St.Tropez does it so well that you look natural: you don’t have that issue, which I always did, of going streaky and not being able to fix it – nightmare.There is no reason to go around with that pasty pallor anymore, which is so exciting.” – Kate Moss, face and body of St.Tropez. It has been Kate’s favourite tanning product since she went to Ibiza in her teens. Now you can recreate her look with the exclusive St.Tropez Kit. Comprising the internationally acclaimed St.Tropez Self Tan Bronzing Mousse, Applicator Mitt, One Night Only Instant Glow Body Lotion and Gold Skin Illuminator, the kit has everything you need for a natural-looking bronze glow.

St.Tropez Self Tan Bronzing Mousse Mini (50ml); One Night Only Instant Glow Body Lotion (150ml); Applicator Mitt; and Skin Illuminator (50ml); total value $103.80.

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VOSN wishlist

We’re excited to announce the November 13 return of Vogue Online Shopping Night. Start making your picks now – these exclusive deals are for one night only.

Shopping saints

Apply the VOGUE code at the checkout to receive 25 per cent off a unique range of handpicked products from www.stmonansemporium.com (sale items excluded). St Monan’s Emporium’s exclusive collection of gifts and accessories caters to men and women of all ages, and includes a selection of elegant Swarovski crystal jewellery set in sterling silver.

Pearl of wisdom

Wise women – and men – who shop at www.paspaley.com during VOSN will not only acquire some gorgeous jewellery and score a complimentary tote but will also go in the draw to win a necklace featuring a coveted Australian South Sea pearl.

Divine inspiration

As well as free shipping and two complimentary samples of your choice with every purchase, Estée Lauder is offering a six-piece gift pack worth more than $65 to customers who spend $70 or more on the night. Visit www.esteelauder.com.au and enter the code VOGUE13 at the checkout to redeem the offer while stocks last.

Shine on Beauty in the bag

Get in early to bag your favourite essentials from clinique.com.au – the first 200 shoppers to spend $60 or more during VOSN will receive a gift comprising two travel-size eye products in a cosmetics bag. Other perks include free shipping and two complimentary samples of your choice.

White caviar

With La Prairie’s iconic Skin Caviar Luxe Cream available in a smaller, 30ml tub for a limited time, VOSN presents the perfect opportunity to treat yourself to a taste of the luxuriously indulgent and nourishing formula. For more information, visit www.laprairie.com.au.

Luxury lifestyle brand Georg Jensen is offering a 10 per cent saving on all full-priced watches and jewellery and 20 per cent off all homeware items. Visit www.georgjensen.com.au to view the Danish design team’s current collections.

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Exclusively for VOSN, 20 premier Etsy shops are offering 20 per cent off their entire ranges. Visit www.etsy.com/vosn to preview the selection and enter the code VOGUE at the checkout to redeem the offer on the night.

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HOPELESS LOVE

Inspired by everything from architecture and modern art to B-grade horror movies, the unique collection from Melbourne label Hopeless features beautifully handmade lingerie and sleepwear. To start picking out your favourite pieces, visit www.hopeless.etsy.com.

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NATURAL BEAUTY

Combining a diverse range of textures, including African trade beads, mixed metals and natural materials like clay and raffia, Le Petit Paillette is a goldmine for distinctive jewellery that is both beautiful and wearable. Visit www.lepetitpaillette.etsy.com.

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The ultimate online destination for one-off vintage finds, Cara Mia Vintage features an expertly curated selection from designer labels including Givenchy, Moschino and Chanel. Visit www.shopcaramiavintage.etsy.com.

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FLOCK TOGETHER

Early birds will snap up the best picks from the gorgeous array of feathered adornments at Noémiah. Montreal designer Noémie Vaillancourt hand-cuts, dyes and arranges feathers in unexpected ways to create her beautiful and artfully unique statement pieces. Visit www.noemiah.etsy.com.

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FIFTIES FLAIR

Specialising in classic 1950s silhouettes with a contemporary cut, Moscow label Mrs. Pomeranz is a mecca for lovers of fun and feminine skirts and dresses. Visit www.mrspomeranz.etsy.com.

OUT OF THE WOODS

We predict plenty of savvy shoppers coming out of the woodwork to take advantage of the discount on Tesler Mendelovitch’s range of accessories. The design team’s latest trick is transforming wood into a new textile. Visit www.teslermendelovitch.etsy.com.

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The racing EDIT Pip them at the post with the NEW breed of racing attire and MATCHING accoutrements.

Christian Dior shoes, $1,050.

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1. Zimmermann dress, $1,400. 2. Just Cavalli dress, $515, from www.stylebop.com. 3. Christopher Kane dress, $5,085. 4. Ralph Lauren Blue Label dress, $799. 5. 0039 Italy dress, $259. 6. Mary Katrantzou dress, $2,070, from Green With Envy. 7. Emporio Armani dress, $955. 8. Escada dress, $2,900.

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Hermès bangles, from $695.

Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses, $650.

Christian Louboutin shoes, $710.

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Sophie Hulme clutch, $780.

Longines La Grande Classique watch, $2,125.

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Hermès twillys, $300 each.

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Lover dress, $995.

Zimmermann jumpsuit, $595.

Keep good time with an elegant timepiece and never miss a race. Longines Conquest Classic watch, $6,975.

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Dolce & Gabbana dress, $3,350.

Carla Zampatti jacket, $799, and skirt, $499. Bassike top, $280.

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Georgina Weir, owner ofMelbourne fashion boutique Le Louvre, holds court in South Yarra these days, following a move from the Collins Street location. While the address has changed, the shop still stocks luxury labels and keepsake items for the fashion cognoscenti, andevery racing season supplies a curated collection of couture headpieces selected by Weir and millinery legend Stephen Jones. A true one-stop racing shop.

HATS FOR THE NON-HAT PERSON

Stella McCartney hat, $309.

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Paul Smith hat, $130.

Chanel hat, $1,790, from the Chanel boutiques.

Chanel hat, $4,130, from the Chanel boutiques.

Hermès hat, $1,560.

R.M. Williams hat, $130.

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Sydneysiders need not feel they’re missing out on Melbourne Cup buzz come November 5. The Australian Turf Club has relaunched Royal Randwick racecourse in time for the height of racing season. The decadently designed, luxuriously refurbished grandstand will play host to a swathe of celebrations for cup-goers across five levels of restaurants, bars and suites.

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More than 100 years of business is no mean feat for a local brand, but Australian ﬁne jeweller Hardy Brothers is celebrating its 160th anniversary this year. Me brand has engaged racing darling Kate Waterhouse as oﬃcial ambassador for 2013, and will be on hand to showcase the most precious oﬀerings for race season (and as oﬃcial creator of the Emirates Melbourne Cup, they know a thing or two about top-tier racing gems).

Zimmermann jacket, $950, and pants, $595.

Gucci jacket, $2,375, and pants, $1,345.

Bright sparks

Topshop jacket, $220, and pants, $80.

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Karen Henriksen headpieces, from $400, from Scanlan & Theodore.

CULT COLLARS: THE TRIFECTA

Emporio Armani jacket, $1,150, and pants, $680.

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Asos collar, $27.

Louis Vuitton collar, $2,100.

Alexander McQueen collar, $1,195.

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Scanlan & Th Theodore are once again stocking pieces by milliner Karen Henriksen. Working out of her London studio, Henriksen handcrafts these sculptural creations using natural fibres. Choose from pretty pieces in primary colours for a distinctly modern touch.

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The clutch holds its own with graphic pattern and eccentric embellishments. Zara Wong in the Royal Ascot grandstand.

Bulgari clutch, $3,220.

Longines La Grande Classique, $ 7,450.

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Chanel wedges, $1,790, from the Chanel boutiques.

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here are few events nts that command such a sense of ritual as Royal Ascot. Yes, they do things diﬀerently in England – the racecourse is notably devoid of fascinators (a headpiece needs to be at least 10 centimetres in diameter to be safely categorised as not a fascinator) and men are noticeably more dapper in top hats and tails. “Te style guidelines deﬁne the fashion at Royal Ascot,” says British stylist Martha Ward, who reports from the races for UK Vogue. “Tese rules ensure everyone remains well dressed and looks the part – as they indeed should in the presence of the Queen and other royalty.” Formal supervisors guard the entrances and are quick to subtly step in and gently let it be known if an attendee is not dressed correctly. For women, dresses require straps and must be of modest length – a standard which would leave many Australian race-goers out in the cold, literally. As a guest of Longines, the oﬃcial timekeepers at Royal Ascot, there is understandably pressure to keep up to form, especially for me as a non-regular

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Dolce & Gabbana clutch, $3,200.

Bottega Veneta clutch, $5,150.

Ralph Lauren clutch, $2,995.

EXTRA: RETHINK THE WEDGE race-attendee. Tere’s a true sense of ritual and reﬁned elegance at the races. Aishwarya Rai, a face of Longines, wore a monochromatic homage to Audrey Hepburn’s iconic racewear outﬁt from My Fair Lady, completing the look with a Philip Treacy hat. Te notoriously strict ict rules of Royal Ascot have attracted praise se and derision, though mostly the former. er. I look to Duchess of Cambridge, Catherine ine Middleton (who else is beﬁtting as an example of modern proprietary?) for her choices of hats, noting that clean lines es worn at an angle work better and add a more youthful edge to hat wearing. Ward ard advises to choose the dress ﬁrst and the hat ha second, favouring dresses with a longer sleeve to combat the unpredictable (and very British) weather. “And be creative,” she reminds. “You can be at Royal Ascot. Be adventurous with feathered or accessorised creations. Mix colours to make it fun rather than matching, but tonal works, too. Tink outside the box.” ■

Charlotte Olympia clutch, $1,015.

WeÕre with the band For the uninitiated, or fans of the avant garde, headbands are gaining sway.

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Gucci wedges, $695.

Marni wedges, $1,405.

Charlotte Olympia wedges.

Chloé wedges.

Suzy O’Rourke headband, $690.

Louis Vuitton headband, $1,290. Suzy O’Rourke headband, $390. Hatmaker x Sarah & Sebastian crown headband, $490.

Dolce & Gabbana headband, $2,900.

A-Esque headbands, $90 each.

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Chanel clutch, $13,400, from the Chanel boutiques.

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With PRESSURE to get that grade-A GRIN increasing, we break down what’s out there when it comes to the PURSUIT of perfect teeth. WORDS: ALICE BIRRELL

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ver heard of pulchronomics? It’s a phrase recently added to the Cambridge English Dictionary that refers to the study of the economics of physical attractiveness, and it’s becoming increasingly relevant to our teeth. A study by dental company Oral-B involving 2,000 participants found that most people perceive those with whiter teeth as more successful, attractive and employable. Straight teeth also play their part in the image we project. A survey by braces brand Invisalign of more than 1,000 people aged between 18 and 39 unsurprisingly found that 54 per cent believed straight teeth afect a person’s overall attractiveness and refect how much pride a person takes in their personal appearance. Tese dialogues continue in the rooms of those who polish, whiten and neaten our teeth. Aesthetic dentist Dr Yvonne King, owner of the Melbourne Aesthetic Dental Centre, believes a good smile can make us feel that we have more social and professional gravitas. “When a person is not confdent about their teeth, their whole demeanour changes: they cover their mouth, they smile with their lips stuck together and they give an impression of a person lacking confdence and not as well presented as they could be,” she says. Te good news is that there are treatments out there for almost anyone, with this new slew of increasingly custommade procedures taking up less of our time and meeting more of our needs. For the time-poor, which is most of us, speedier whitening treatments mean you can go shades lighter in a lunch break. Power or laser-whitening treatments, like Philips Zoom, mean that instead of multiple trips to the dentists, mouthguardlike apparatus and product applications for weeks, a LED light is used on teeth in one session, accelerating the reaction time of bleaching agents. Teeth straightening has also come along in leaps and bounds and is no longer a onesize-fts-all afair. Dr King encourages her patients to opt for teeth shapes and colours that are personalised but not necessarily perfect. “I don’t like to use the word ‘perfect’, because it may mean something diferent to each person,” she says. “Everyone’s face is diferent, and as much as we can look for the same efect, if we created exactly the same teeth for each person it would look like someone else’s teeth in their mouth.”

Dr David Dunn, medical director of the Macquarie Street Centre in Sydney, agrees. “Te best smile isn’t perfect. Nature isn’t perfect,” he says. Dunn has worked with prominent Brazilian aesthetic dentist Dr Christian Coachman to introduce a more bespoke approach to smile improvement, one that doesn’t utilise “sausage-factory cosmetics”, as he puts it. Instead, he works with the patient’s own input and creates a variety of mock-ups, videos and imagery of the potential results. Te patient then shows the options to their family and friends and selects a smile that suits them, so they don’t end up with a carbon-copy Hollywood grin. It’s approaches like Coachman’s that are gently leading us away from fat-toothed, blindingly bleached smiles. “People are losing their perception of natural beauty,” Dr Coachman says. “When patients bring in photos and ask to look like celebrities, they want to look like Photoshop in real life. What they don’t realise is that a smile is only beautiful if it’s natural and has a lot of nuances and variations.” Te good news? Tese new roster of treatments is beginning to celebrate these nuances and quirks that make us individuals. And that’s perfectly imperfect. ■

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Much like choosing the right clothing colours for your complexion, selecting the right shade for your teeth can make all the diference. When dressing up your smile apply simple colourwheel principles: opposite shades balance each other. Te key is to choose lipstick with blue undertones to neutralise the yellow in teeth. Try these: Chanel Rouge Allure Velvet in Pirate, $50. Giorgio Armani Rouge Ecstasy in 401, $52. Elizabeth Arden lipstick in Red Door Red, $35. M.A.C lipstick in RiRi Woo, $36. Dior Rouge Dior in 5th Avenue, $50. Lancôme L’Absolu Rouge in Caprice, $49.

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CLEAN AND GREEN It was only a matter of time before the current swing towards holistic health extended to our teeth. Tere are growing options out there if you want to avoid chemicals and preservatives to improve your smile. Dr Priya Lal, of High Dental in Melbourne, is leading the charge locally and points to an overall approach that centres on a preventative diet, eating as naturally as possible. “You can brush your teeth twice a day, you can foss and you could be taking good care of them, but if your diet is out – you snack on bad food and have soft drinks – then you’re going to get decay.”

HOW TO GO AU NATURALE CHEW ORGANIC GUM. “Chewing gum stimulates your saliva, which has a buffering effect on your teeth,” she says. Organic gums don’t contain artificial sweeteners, and Dr Lal recommends biodegradable varieties. MAKE YOUR OWN TOOTHPASTE. “In order to be stocked on a supermarket shelf, toothpastes must contain preservatives, otherwise they go hard,” she says. Dr Lal makes her own toothpaste for patients using natural ingredients like Himalayan salt and coconut oil.

EAT FOODS THAT CLEAN YOUR TEETH. Strawberries have a naturally occurring whitening agent in them called malic acid, while hard fruits and vegetables like apples and celery contain fibre, “so they remove anything soft on your teeth – like a brush between meals”. AVOID PRODUCTS WITH FLUORIDE. Dr Lal believes we get enough exposure to fluoride without introducing more. “There’s fluoride in water, there’s naturally occurring fluoride in tea and coffee, so I don’t see the need to use anything more.”

VOGUE’S FAVOURITE: KISSING ELIXIRS 100% NATURAL FRESH BREATH MINT, $14. A twist on overly strong, outdated breath fresheners, this vanilla mint spritz also comes sweetly packaged in powder green and gold.

THE WHITE WAY

Don’t have the means or time to drop money on in-chair procedures? Te latest at-home innovations are proving their worth in the white and bright stakes.

THE AT-HOME LIGHT SYSTEM:

RAPID WHITE BLUE LIGHT TOOTH WHITENING SYSTEM, $60. Building on the light systems used in the dentist’s chair, this at-home kit is simple to use and gives results in two weeks. Ticks for quick treatment time, too: four minutes per session.

THE ON-THE-GO STRIPS:

CLEVERWHITE DISSOLVING WHITENING STRIPS, $30. Peel off, slick on, let dissolve: these strips, containing six per cent hydrogen peroxide (the strongest percentage allowed over the counter) are that easy.

THE PAINT-ON GEL:

PEARL DROPS HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS, $30. No tricky mouth trays or guards, this paint-on formula dries in just 20 seconds and makes a difference in as little as a week.

THE NEW WHITENING PASTES:

ORALeB PROeHEALTH, $6, AND COLGATE OPTIC WHITE, $8. The current breed of toothpastes contain more powerful ingredients than their predecessors. Oral-B’s Pro-Health has a more effective form of fluoride, while Colgate Optic White contains hydrogen peroxide, the whitening agent used by dentists.

THE ULTIMATE CLEANER:

ORALeB BLACK 7000, $300. Capable of 48,800 movements per minute, and with five different brushing modes (daily care, deep clean, gum care, sensitive, whitening, tongue clean), this is the Bentley of brushes.

THE 60-SECOND FLOSS: PHILIPS SONICARE AIRFLOSS, $170. What we all want: the no-effort floss. This wonder gadget shoots air and water through the gaps in your teeth to remove plaque with the touch of a button.

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never thought I would to me. It would have been too compare myself to a horse in grim to contemplate. I thought Vogue, but there is a moment middle-aged women were the for everything in fashion. most boring and unglamorous A year ago I ftted my hunter Fred people I had ever met. And now with a Cheltenham gag, a severe I was one of them! Alas, alas, bit enabling me to stop the alas.) When Dr Hunter had enormous beast at the fick of knished, I got up from the chair a wrist. tis past January, when and looked in the mirror. I had kxed braces installed on Ughhhh! I screamed silently to my own teeth – the ones with myself. A woman resembling Jaws brackets on every single tooth, from Moonraker was refected and twisted wires from back back at me. My bottom teeth were molar to back molar, top and covered with solid metal brackets. bottom – I experienced the My God! Dr Hunter had agonising sensation of constant forgotten to use the clear ones! pressure in my mouth as poor “You’ll hardly see them,” he Fred must have done when getting said, rather optimistically. used to his new tack. Maybe these were the clear First, a brief history of my brackets, and they just weren’t as complicated teeth: in the early clear as I had expected. I was too 1980s, aged 13, I had “train mortiked to ask. tracks” to correct my goofy teeth. An American friend conkrmed By 17, they were on the move, later than no, I did not have the veering towards an aesthetic I can clear brackets on. At my next only describe as British Wonky. visit, I begged Dr Hunter to put I was sad, as I had looked rather the clear ones on my top teeth, pretty for a good couple of years and he replied, “Yes, as we and smiled a lot more than before. agreed.” He told me that as clear But this being England, crooked brackets are slightly weaker than teeth were not considered a metal ones, he rarely puts clear tragedy worth worrying about. ones on the bottom. Oh. I hid them when I smiled, got on A few weeks later, as I bit with life – but occasionally gingerly on a piece of langoustine dabbled with the idea of having at a smart dinner party (chewing another go at straightening them. is tricky with braces), one of the Worried I would seem vain, guests exclaimed, “Plum! You’re so YouÕre NEVER too old for PERFECT brave to have braces.” I felt jattered I never did. But then Dr Nee, my dentist, until she added, “at your age”. teeth. At 43, Plum Sykes tests her told me that my maxillary central People love to comment on my mettle and faces BRACES. incisors – the two top teeth closest braces and, inadvertently or not, to the centre of the lips – were so crooked able to see them,” he insisted. When he one’s advancing years. Another lady said to that I would “probably lose them”. If I did, told me more than half his patients were me, mystiked: “I can’t believe you’ve done I would not be able to have implants, as adults, I felt reassured. this now. Why do you care how your teeth implants work best when inserted straight. A few weeks later, I tried to relax in look now? You’ve got the husband, the Facing a future of false teeth – quelle horreur Dr Hunter’s chair while he cemented children … ” I explained the potential – I decided to revisit my teenage vanity. brackets to my bottom teeth. (He would do false-teeth future; she forgave me. A trip to Dr Hunter, a straight-toothed each row of teeth at separate appointments.) My teeth have already straightened up orthodontist who was himself wearing te procedure was painless but awkward. signikcantly. I’m hoping that by the end of Invisalign (the plastic removable braces As I lay there, a note on my X-ray caught next year I will again be enjoying those now used for less complicated my eye. It read: dig ybc y. uvuyo s : perfect teeth I had for a couple of years as a circumstances than mine), conkrmed that Jgv xepr. te reality hit me that, at the teenager. Which brings me back to my I was a “very dihcult case”. Fixed braces age of 43, I would be in braces for a horse Fred. He is 17 years old, which in top and bottom were the only solution. He minimum of 18 months. I would be nearly horse years makes him an old man. His told me this while gleefully wobbling that 45 by the time they came ol. (When mouth is now as soft as a baby’s when I ride loose top front tooth with a probe. He said I started writing for Vogue in 1997, aged 27, him. If his mouth can be corrected late in he’d use clear brackets. “You’ll barely be the idea of being 45 one day never occurred life, so can mine. Forty-three – yippee! ■

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Bumble and bumble Surf Spray, $39, contains salt to encourage beach babe waves; O&M Rootalicious Root Lift, $32, gives hair a kick-start at the roots for natural-looking volume, without weighing it down.

Use David Mallett Mask No. 1 L’Hydration, $89, or Terax Crema Original Reparative Daily Conditioner, $30, as a substitute for your usual post-shampoo routine when your hair needs extra help.

Shu Uemura Art of Hair Essence Absolue Nourishing Protective Oil, $66, soothes and smooths, while Aveda Damage Remedy, $49, protects hair from heat during styling.

Davines No. 10 Universal Polishing Coat, $34, is easy to use; Keune Brush Out Laquer doesn’t go crunchy; Kevin Murphy Powder Puff volumising powder, $36, gives gorgeous volume.

“Make sure you are using the right equipment! Te Ghd Air and a Ghd brush [right, $29] will give you amazing blow-dry results. Using average tools will only give you an average result.” We also love the high-powered Parlux 385 Power Light Ionic and Ceramic Hair Dryer, $220. Known for its quick-drying, long-lasting, low-ayaway results, it’s a favourite with industry insiders.

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CATE BLANCHETT lends her star power to the LAUNCH of a new fragrance from Giorgio Armani. WORDS: SIGOURNEY CANTELO

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he irony of the fact that I am fying to Milan to interview Cate Blanchett, when we both live in Sydney, is not lost on me. But this is no run-of-the-mill interview. As part of Blanchett’s fragrance contract with Giorgio Armani (rumoured to be worth $10 million), the actress is playing a starring role in the international press launch for its newest fragrance, Si. Being a project particularly close to Mr Armani’s heart, it is also set to be the frst beauty launch the 79-year-old is attending in 10 years. Naturally, there is a spectacular PR machine in motion. aree hundred journalists from all over the world are being fown into Milan to attend the launch, held at the ultra-chic Armani hotel. Blanchett will be granting only a few

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media interviews, and Vogue Australia has been given the exclusive for her hometown. A cofee at the local is clearly not an option. ae frst thing you notice when you step into the Armani hotel is the smell: the spicy, smoky scent of pine trees and pepper mingling with a curl of church incense. It’s Bois d’Encens, from the Armani Privé fragrance collection, and it’s Mr Armani’s signature scent (he carries it with him and sprays it on the models before shows). ae perfume is used in the hotel’s full-sized Armani Privé toiletries and misted subtly through the air conditioning into rooms. Inside, everything gleams with a kind of polished perfection. Checking in, I watch as a black-clad man emerges and mops my footprints of the high-gloss black foor. ae rooms are beige on beige with soft

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textured walls, fattering lighting and Armani Casa furnishings. A plate of chocolates waits on the desk with a handwritten note from management and an invitation to the party. So far, so stylish. Mr Armani’s attention to detail is well known. He casts his exacting eye over even the tiniest minutia in his empire, from the hotel shower caps (which are black and close-ftting to the head, like little cloche hats) to the paper G-strings in the spa (which are laser cut with lace designs). His hotels – there is one in Milan and one in Dubai – are pantheons to perfection. “It’s complete. It’s like every little thing Mr Armani does is so complete,” says Blanchett, the next day when I meet her in the Armani Signature Suite, a serene cream space with a sweeping staircase. “You look at this room and you think this has probably been redesigned about fve times until it was exactly how he wanted it. aat’s why he has created the empire from chocolates to fragrances via couture, and you know he has signed of on every detail.” Blanchett’s ivory shirt, slate wide-leg pants and grey leather blazer (all Armani and custom-made for her, of course) perfectly complement the plush cushions she is poised against. Her skin is luminous yet looks free of make-up. Her hair: creamy Hitchcock blonde and parted in the centre, just so. I get a sense that Mr Armani art-directed this moment exactly. “One of his staf said that working for him is like trying to please a parent,” I tell Blanchett, recounting what one of his PR girls told me yesterday at the press briefng. “What he creates, and we all felt this when we were doing the campaign, is you want to live up to his expectations,” says Blanchett, her deep voice so distinctive, her diction so exact. “But he’s incredibly generous. He’s such a graceful, gracious man,” she adds quickly, hastening to paint him in a warmer light. Blanchett has long been an advocate of the brand, frequently wearing the label to events (who could forget the siren-red sequined Privé gown she wore to the AACTA Awards earlier this year?), and the feeling is mutual, as Mr Armani told Vogue Australia earlier this year: “Cate Blanchett epitomises the woman for whom I design. Her graceful fgure shows of my clothes as they are meant to be seen and worn. With her growing maturity, she has come to embody the ideal Armani woman: serene, confdent, elegant, and at ease with herself and with the world.”

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When Blanchett became artistic director of the Sydney eeatre Company, Armani signed on as a patron. In 2007 he few to Sydney to visit the STC, and he went on to design the costumes for the play Blanchett directed, Te Year of Magical Tinking. At the time of our interview Blanchett is in rehearsals for Te Maids. It’s been a hectic year for the actress. She gave a riveting performance as an unhinged socialite in Woody Allen’s new blm Blue Jasmine, and starred alongside Christian Bale in Terrence Malick’s latest, Knight of Cups. And then there is the performance she gave for Armani. I ask Blanchett what it was like to work with celebrated French director Anne Fontaine (of Coco Avant Chanel fame) and cinematographer Darius Khondji (Midnight in Paris, Evita) on the TV commercial. “It was serendipitous. Darius is a cinematographer I’d wanted to work with and Anne and I have been speaking about making a blm together and so to have the three of us thrust in that space … we just bred oc each other,” she says enthusiastically. Blanchett shot the ad in Sydney in April. In an emotional joyride of a commercial, she is shown intimately, experiencing a staggering array of emotions and saying “si” to them all: “Si to dreams, si to freedom, si to emotion, si to seduction …” eey blmed a whopping 17 dicerent scenes in two days, then siphoned it all into a one-minute spot. “I was daunted by it, as in, could we achieve it? But I think we were fuelled by Mr Armani’s incredible work ethic and we got it done,” she says. Not many actresses could have nailed it like Blanchett. How does she bring herself to tears in one scene and madly tear her dress oc in another? “I suppose the responsibility was that it’s trying to represent all dicerent facets of women. You know, often you think about beauty, and particularly in the world of fashion, where we can feel quite intimidated by [it]. eis fragrance celebrates that women are so many things. Some days we feel incredibly sexy and some days we feel really playful.” It was this duality of strength and emotion, masculinity and femininity, that was rendered in every facet of Si. From the facon, which features Armani design motifs such as the “stone” bakelite cap and the blush pink of the juice, right down to the notes. Mr Armani worked closely with perfumer Christine Nagel to express these polar opposites in the perfume. To represent strength, he selected a strong

chypre (pronounced “sheep-ra”, this is perfume-speak for a scent with a citrus top note and mossy/musky base note). For the feminine softness, he chose rose de Mai and cassis (a blackcurrant nectar), which gives the scent a delicious sweetness. ee result is sophisticated yet enticing, intriguing yet warm, and something that Blanchett is clearly very comfortable wearing and talking about. “I’m so thrilled with it. Because it’s very fattering when [Mr Armani] says that he Cate Blanchett, Giorgio Armani and director Anne Fontaine.

“SCENT IS PART OF OUTWARDLY EXPRESSING THAT INNER ALLURE THAT WOMEN HAVE” was inspired by me to create it, but I feel like there is something of me in there, because it’s always those woody chypre notes that I’m drawn to. I love the way it lingers on your skin. eere’s a beautiful sweetness to it, which I think, not being a nose myself, must be the cassis. It’s not sickly sweet; it’s a beautiful subtle mysterious sweetness,” she says. Her responses are considered and intelligent and delivered with the suspenseful timing of a performer. As we talk, I get the sense that Blanchett is inhabiting another role, that of brand ambassador, the exemplary perfume poster girl. “I love spraying it on my clothes as well,” she continues animatedly, “… because I remember the perfume on my mother’s clothes. Like you open her wardrobe and you would …” She stops now and closes those eyes, breathing in languorously, as if remembering the scent of her mother. “I’m probably not the brst person to have ever thought this, but [scent] contains memory. And the scent of my grandmother, you know, that sort of powdered violets or the smell of cooking, really reminds me of my childhood. I was trying to explain to

someone yesterday the smell of a bushbre coming. You know that tense sort of excited danger that you feel when you smell wood burning … and the smell of eucalyptus. I remember Andrew and I had been away in England for almost a decade and we’d been returning to Australia and we came back in summer, and I wept because it was that smell of eucalyptus and sunshine, and you suddenly felt home …” She pauses for ecect, letting her memories wash over us. ee room is as silent as a theatre. “eere’s a lot of emotion bound up in scent, and I think when women harness that emotional power then they fully express their femininity. Scent is part of outwardly expressing that inner allure that women have, and it’s very sensual and it’s very private.” And with that pithy, perfectly measured response, my time is up. Blanchett repositions herself on the couch and I’m led back out into the dimly lit corridors. eat evening, the launch for Si is held underneath the Armani hotel in the trendy Nobu Lounge. ee chic beige space is dressed in blush and black, with giant Armani logos embossed on the walls. ee room is buzzing with beautiful young things, Italian models and TV hosts sparkling in Armani couture. Handsome tuxedoed Milanese boys hold trays of blush pink Ruinart rosé champagne and delicate bite-sized canapés (no threat of mess on your couture). Suddenly a hush descends and all eyes fall on the door as Mr Armani and Blanchett enter, amid camera fashes and a sea of iPhones held up by guests. Mr Armani fashes a set of blinding white teeth and gently guides Blanchett, who, in a white tuxedo, foats serenely through the melee. eey are quickly led to a banquette in the middle shielded by a glut of gatekeepers: bucered from social-media hounds and quote-hungry journalists. But after just a few minutes, I’m ushered through to meet Mr Armani and greet Blanchett. Mr Armani kisses me on both cheeks, and says something in Italian I don’t understand. We pose for a photo and they sit back down, talking softly to each other. ee legendary designer and the superstar actress: both inhabiting their roles perfectly. In the air between us, I can detect a mingling of two perfumes: a deep, smoky incense emanating from him, and a sweeter scent of cassis wafting delicately from her. ■ VOGUE.COM.AU –

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Destination: happiness What better place to FIND that SHINY, HAPPY feeling than at a LUXE spa in theland of SMILES? WORDS: ALEXANDRA SPRING

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Boost your wellbeing with a trip to the spa.

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I FEEL SILLY SHAKING AND TAPPING MY BODY, BUT I WALK AWAY FEELING FRESH through tapping or holding acupressure points. He ofers morning Emergizes classes at the spa, and although I feel rather silly shaking and tapping my body, I walk away feeling fresh and ready for anything. While I’d never question the venerable Dr Happy, I’d probably add looking and feeling your age to his list of happiness blockers. Fortunately Chiva-Som recently opened a medi-spa, complete with 3D diagnostic imaging and a team of internationally accredited dermatologists and plastic surgeons. Guests can try the latest micro-invasive aesthetic treatments

and chalk up the benefts to lemongrass tea and morning tai-chi classes. Tere’s a dizzying array of options available, including Fraxel, Botox, fllers, Bodytite face and body contouring, and ultrasonic lipolysis to budge fat. I’m signed up for skin rejuvenation courtesy of Bioplasma, Jetpeel and Revlite treatments. Bioplasma is a radio-frequency treatment that reduces surface bacteria, while Jetpeel involves a sterile saline solution being sprayed onto the skin to exfoliate and remove the uppermost layer. Used in quick succession, the two treatments are great for those with acne and blocked pores and it’s almost relaxing as the warm, frm wand sweeps across my skin. On the other hand, the Revlite laser prickles, even with the cool air blowing on my skin. Te laser works just beneath the skin’s surface to help stimulate the growth of collagen, reduce pore size, fne lines, wrinkles and pigmentation. Fortunately, it’s over quickly, and my face isn’t too red when I check back at the pavilion. Only a few days later, my skin appears smoother and fner. And whether it’s the deep breathing, the shaking or that laser, that’s enough to make anyone happier. ■ For more information on visiting ChivaSom, go to Travel the World, www. traveltheworld.com.au.

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f you ask Dr Happy, aka Dr Tim Sharp, of Te Happiness Institute in Sydney, your health is crucial to your happiness. “It’s hard to be happy if you’re literally sick and tired,” he says. While there’s no fast track to good health, a great way to start is time out with healthy food, exercise and plenty of sleep. In other words, a trip to the spa. Chiva-Som, in the pretty seaside village of Hua Hin, south of Bangkok, Tailand, is happiness-inducing in itself. Its Tai pavilions are gracious, the spa cuisine sublime and the weather usually balmy. But what makes Chiva-Som special is that it reportedly ofers the largest range of treatments in the world, everything from abhyanga (ayurvedic massage) and craniomyofascial release (physio) to gyrokinesis (breathing and stretching exercises) and mien acupressure (facial treatment using pressure points). If there were ever a place to fnd happiness wrapped in a towelling robe, it would be here. Dedicated as I am to my cause, I’ll try anything once, including pranayama. One of the central tenets of yoga, pranayama is the practice of holding one’s breath for an extended amount of time, breathing through alternate nostrils and deep “fre breathing”. It’s confronting stuf but I feel washed clean at the end of the class. On the other end of the scale is the TRX circuit class, which features suspension hoists so you use your own weight to improve strength, balance, Xexibility and core stability all at the same time. My muscles are trembling at the end of the 30-minute workout, but it’s a good tremble. Regular Chiva-Som guest therapist Paul Emery developed QEPR (Quantum Emotional and Physical Release), an energy-based technique that aims to neutralise emotions and physical problems

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3. PACK CASHMERE AND SUNNIES “I always like to travel with a cashmere robe or cashmere cardigan [the one she wore in Sydney was] from Suss, or I like French brand Zadig & Voltaire – great for comfy, yet cute, cashmere sweaters and blankets and wraps. And sunglasses – [in Sydney I wore] Oliver Peoples.”

4. HAVE HEELS, WILL TRAVEL “I like wearing heels. I don’t know why, I just feel better in them. For travelling, I’ll try and ﬁnd a bootie or a wedge.”

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Frequent flyer Rosie Huntington-Whiteley knows how to STEP OFF A PLANE in style. Here, she SHARES SEVEN secrets to making a model arrival.

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hen Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley landed at Sydney Airport during her mid-year visit for ModelCo (she is an ambassador for the beauty brand), the paps were ready. Te British model and actress is prime tabloid fodder – not for partying but for clever packing and arriving looking perfectly polished. Within seconds her jet-setter ensemble was beamed over fashion blogs. Te next day she’s on Hayman Island for ModelCo, and at our interview she is perfection: all pillowy lips, tousled hair and honeyed limbs with not a hint of jet lag in those cornﬂower-blue eyes. Here, she reveals her secrets to looking gorgeous on the go. 142 – NOVEMBER 2013

1. SLEEP, HYDRATE, REPEAT “When you have the opportunity to sleep, grab it. I drink water while I ﬂy to keep everything ﬂowing and fresh and my skin dewy. A hydrating mist spray is always nice to take oﬀ any make-up, and [I apply] tons of moisturiser.”

2. SKIP THE PLANE FOOD “I try not to eat on the plane. I think it’s really good to give your body that fasting time. Plane food is not the best and it can mess up your system. But I’m human and I’m hungry sometimes. If I’m particularly organised, I’ll pack some almonds or make sure I eat before I get on the plane and as soon as I’m oﬀ.”

6. DON’T FORGET THE SPF “Now that I live in LA, I wear sunscreen every single day and this [ModelCo Daily Face] is so fantastic for throwing in your bag. It’s got the lip balm on top and it’s kind of this tan colour. A lot of sunscreen is white and you have to really work to rub it in, and you’re kind of paler than you want to be. Tis gives you that bronzy glow as well, which is fantastic. And it smells like a holiday.”

7. BE (FAKE) TANNED ON TOUCHDOWN “I’m a big fan of tanning. Having been in lingerie and swimsuits for so much of my career, it’s important to have healthy looking skin. ModelCo Tan Airbrush in a Can is great for travelling – you put it on at night before you get into bed. I have a bath or shower and give my body a good scrub and just put a towel on the bathroom ﬂoor and spritz the tan on. I start from my feet all the way up to my face.” ■

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“I try not to wear a lot of make-up on the plane. I’m a fan of on-the-go beauty products, which is what attracted me to working with ModelCo. I love the BB cream because it just does so many things all in one. And then I add a bit of a cheek. I love the ModelCo blush – it’s so fantastic. And you just chuck your sunglasses on and you’re away.”

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he arrival of the warmer weather heralds the start of the party season – a time when the calendar is consumed with more events and holiday festivities than the rest of the year combined. For many, it’s also a time to shake oﬀ the winter blues and other dark hues, embrace a fresh look from top to toe, and revamp hair with rich tones and the latest styling techniques. Whether you’re headed for a holiday by the beach or a trip to the fashionable ﬁelds of race day, the season calls for a sense of style. Start at the top, arm yourself with key hair products from Keune, and get set for the best party season yet.

RACES RUNDOWN Cup Day, Stakes Day, Derby Day – every Australian racing event is essentially ladies’ day, and to look the part, Keune’s Creative Director Sam Rizzo oﬀers his tips to ladylike locks … When it comes to upstyles, Keune Blend Fibre Gum provides ﬂexible texture, glossy shine and a medium hold. It’s perfect for keeping untameable layers and ﬂy-aways in place, and is one of the easiest products to use; rub together a small amount to activate the formula before applying to hair. When it comes to letting your hair down, create deﬁned curls and smooth straight tresses with Keune Design Sculpting Lotion. For natural curls, work it through damp hair before blow-drying. To straighten wayward locks, rub into damp or dry hair before blow-drying or using a straightening iron. Along with providing extra shine, the product protects hair against UV rays, free radicals and heat styling via its Double Layer Protection system.

DESIGN SCULPTING LOTION, 250ml, $17.99 Keune’s Design Sculpting Lotion is a versatile product that helps mould hair into any style during the blow-drying process. Providing long-lasting body, shine and manageability, the lotion helps smooth and straighten hair, define curls or create diffused volume. The clever non-stick formula ensures the product remains supple and doesn’t leave a film on the hair, while the Double Layer Protection system protects tresses against external inf luences.

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A non-aerosol hairspray, this little gem is the perfect travel companion. Keune’s Design Graphic Hairspray accentuates the hair’s texture while providing superior hold. The specially developed formula is alcohol-based, making it a convenient alternative to aerosol hairsprays, and also offers a shorter drying time. Enriched with provitamin B5, the formula conditions hair while acting as an effective styling product.

With dual functionality, Keune’s Blend Volume Instant Refreshing works as a dry shampoo and as a styling product. Instantly refreshing and cleansing hair without the need for water, the product leaves behind nothing but a fresh and fruity fragrance. The revolutionary lightweight, matt formula includes a unique multivitamin complex to condition and add volume to hair after just one application. Perfect for travel and restyling while on the run.

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Whether you’ve booked an extravagant summer getaway to the Maldives or are planning to throw a tent and some towels in the back of the car and head to the coast for a road trip, Keune’s styling range helps ensure your hair will survive the entire summer season. Every traveller’s must-have companion, Keune’s non-aerosol Design Graphic Hairspray will help hold hair in place despite those blustery beach breezes. Simply spray on to dry hair during the styling phase for maximum hold, and for protection against summer’s harsh UV rays, scorching temperatures and drying winds. Banish bad hair nights after a few lazy days by the pool with Keune’s Blend Volume Instant Refreshing. Ue dry shampoo adds volume and texture while cleansing without water. Spray on to damp or dry hair and massage into the scalp to help hide the smell of the sea or the pool.

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Try a COOL workout, boost your WELLBEING every day and find your happy place.

It’s been dubbed the nose-to-toes workout for good reason. Stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) is rapidly increasing in popularity, with more women now taking a stand. Tipped to be a demonstration sport at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, SUP is brilliant at engaging the core muscles, is easy on your joints and can burn as many kilojoules as a run but without the impact. Nick King of Sunny King Paddle Boards says SUP yoga delivers extra beneﬁts, because balancing on the board engages more muscles than a regular yoga class. All you need is a board, a paddle and at least 20 centimetres of water. For more information, go to www.supwarehouse.com.au.

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Looking to increase your happiness quotient? Your HORMONES can be built-in mood boosters if you handle them with CARE.

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such a book. Tere are also drugs, diets, workshops and laughter retreats. In true 21st-century style, there are smartphone apps to keep your happiness goals on track and aﬃrmations aplenty for your Pinterest page, such as “Today I choose to be happy”. But, perhaps, the key to true happiness really does lie within – or with your hormones, to be precise. Pese clever chemical messengers are responsible for much more than most of us realise, from sleeping to metabolism, digestion, immunity, body temperature, stamina and,

most of all, our moods. Our hormones basically decide whether we are feeling happy, sad, social or seductive. In a nutshell, they are the drivers of all we think, feel and do. Like it or not, while we may think we are modern women living modern lives in our busy modern world, the way our hormones operate is still pure and primal. Case in point. It’s not the most romantic notion, but, according to an article by psychologist John Schafer published on www.psychologytoday.com, mucous

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appiness is the holy grail of emotions. It can be hard won or chanced upon, ﬂeeting, elusive and even contagious. Sometimes it’s only appreciated in retrospect. Often it’s linked to a goal or acquisition that’s forgotten soon after it’s scored. Ten it’s on to the next thing. Holidays, handbags, shoes, homes and other humans all fuel our hopes for everlasting levity. Countless books promise life-long elation in easy-to-follow steps. In fact, it’s rare to ﬁnd a modern bookshelf without

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transition years leading up to menopause) and menopause. Helping women read their cycles is what motivates Kringoudis to run her sell-out national workshops titled “Debunking Ovulation – decoding what your body is truly telling you” at which she argues that fertility is not just about making babies. “It’s about having a healthy, ﬂourishing reproductive system free from illness, just as toxins are the eﬀects of pollutants in our lifestyle, diet and environment.” Her workshops, which will be available online this month at www. debunkingovulation.com, are striking a chord with a generation of young women who want to understand how their hormones and menstrual cycles function and, more importantly, how these things aﬀect their lives. It’s a far cry from the way young women have been largely ignoring the ebbs and ﬂows of their monthly cycle for the past four decades since the contraceptive Pill became aﬀordable and readily available in 1972 (when then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam removed the luxury tax on all contraceptives and put the Pill on the National Health Scheme list). The ﬂoodgates opened and the sexual revolution began. But while the Pill allowed young women to take charge of their fertility and their lives, Kringoudis argues that it also numbed our awareness of how our bodies actually work. “What I teach is not rocket science but the response I get from women is incredible,” says Kringoudis. “Women absolutely do not know this stuﬀ and they absolutely need to know this stuﬀ. bey are unaware of what their body is communicating to them. be Pill is largely responsible because it has turned oﬀ all the signals that our bodies may have sent us about the symptoms and reasons why a symptom might have been there. be Pill ﬂatlines everything.” Controversially, Kringoudis says when some women stop taking the Pill they may no longer ﬁnd their partners attractive, because it alters our attraction to the opposite sex. “Research tells us that we have receptors called ‘couplins’ that help us attract a suitable partner,” she says. “When a woman is on the Pill, this special, little in-built honing device is actually switched

oﬀ, because her hormones are being altered, meaning she may be pairing with somebody that she ordinarily wouldn’t otherwise be attracted to.” She says the same study also found women on the Pill see the world more platonically. “bey were shown images of naked women and men. bose on the Pill reported a much more neutral view, as opposed to those who didn’t take the Pill, who were easily able to imagine sexual scenes from viewing the pictures. It was also noted that those who were on the Pill were far less charmed at seeing pictures of babies – hinting at the Pill’s inf luence on reproductive interest.” Her workshops focus on gaining a better understanding of the female hormones oest rogen a nd progesterone, how to read their messages and giving them what they need to function more harmoniously. Basically, oestrogen thickens the lining of the uterus and controls vital functions, including metabolism, moods, growth and sexual development. In The Female Brain, Dr Brizendine says oestrogen “acts as a fertiliser on cells – exciting her brain as well as making a girl more socially relaxed during the ﬁrst two weeks” of her menstrual cycle. “bere’s a 25 per cent growth of connections in the hippocampus (the memory part of the brain) during weeks one and two (the oestrogen phase), and that makes the brain a little bit sharper. It functions a little better. You’re clearer and you remember more.” Meanwhile, progesterone mellows the eﬀects of oestrogen along with supporting the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Progesterone is also a mood stabiliser, libido booster and ﬂuid regulator and a blood pressure and blood sugar stabiliser and a thyroid-support hormone. Dr Brizendine says at ovulation, about day 14 of a woman’s cycle, progesterone starts reversing the actions of oestrogen “acting like weedkiller on those new connections in the hippocampus”. “During the last two weeks of the cycle, progesterone causes the brain to become ﬁrst more sedated and gradually more irritable, less focussed and a little slower,” she writes. “bis may be one of the pivotal reasons for the change in stress sensitivity during the second half of the menstrual cycle … In

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membranes inside the mouth are permeable to hormones such as testosterone. Schafer writes that: “brough open-mouth kissing, men introduced testosterone into a woman’s mouth. Testosterone is absorbed through the mucous membranes in the woman’s mouth and increases arousal and the likelihood that she will engage in reproductive behaviour.” Combine this with a good dose of progesterone around ovulation and the chances of reproduction occurring increase. “Around the time of ovulation we should feel amazing,” says Natalie Kringoudis, a doctor of Chinese medicine, acupuncturist and natural fertility educator who established be Pagoda Tree, a women’s health and natural fertility centre in Melbourne. She’s also the author of Fertilise Yourself – Fueled and Fighting Fertility Fit. “You look in the mirror and think: ‘I look amazing today.’ If you are fertile, you want to go out and meet someone and make babies.” Of course, the ﬂipside is that when oestrogen is dominant and progesterone levels are low, you could get very diﬀerent feedback from the same mirror – no matter what you’re wearing. In her bestseller Te Female Brain, neuropsychiatrist Dr Louann Brizendine argues that the female brain changes a little every day and some parts of the brain change up to 25 per cent a month. “bings get rocky at times, but for most women, the changes are manageable,” Dr Brizendine writes. “Some of my patients, though, came to me feeling so jerked around by their hormones on some days that they couldn’t work or speak to anyone because they’d either burst into tears or bite someone’s head oﬀ. Most weeks of the month they were engaged, intelligent, productive and optimistic, but a mere shift in the hormonal ﬂood to their brains on certain days left them feeling that the future looked bleak, and they hated themselves and their lives … bis extreme form of PMS, which is present in only a few per cent of women, introduced me to how a female brain’s reality can turn on a dime.” Dr Brizendine founded the Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic (now the Female Brain Clinic) at the University of California’s department of psychiatry when she realised a woman’s neurological reality changed not just weekly but constantly throughout the different hormonal stages of her life – girlhood, the adolescent years, the dating years, motherhood, perimenopause (the

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the last few days of the menstrual cycle, when progesterone collapses, this calming eﬀect is abruptly withdrawn, leaving the brain momentarily upset, stressed and irritable.” aere are other hormones that come into play, too, including the feelgood hormones – oxytocin and dopamine, serotonin and norepinephrine – that work closely with oestrogen. aen there is the bad guy, cortisol. ae stress hormone upsets the delicate dance between oestrogen and progesterone that is essential for stable moods and a smoothly functioning reproductive system. Stress also aﬀects our testosterone levels, with the result that our libido drops. Dr Karen Coates is the resident medical advisor at Gwinganna Lifestyle Retreat, in Queensland, where she hosts regular fournight Happy Healthy Hormones retreats to help women get their lives and hormones back in balance. Dr Coates says in tribal times cortisol was released in occasional spurts to raise adrenaline levels and respond to threats such as war, famine or an approaching predator. Now, she says, women are multi-tasking, wearing too many hats and sitting stressed out at their desks all day with cortisol streaming constantly. Its presence suppresses progesterone, which is bad news for anyone wanting to fall pregnant (as well, low progesterone levels are a common cause of early miscarriage). Kringoudis says excess sugar also plays havoc with our sex hormones. When insulin spikes and then drops, our adrenals release both cortisol and adrenaline to replenish blood sugar. Again, more cortisol means less progesterone. Without progesterone, we become oestrogen dominant – hello irritability, sore breasts, ﬂuid retention and heavy, painful periods. And, left unchecked, oestrogen dominance may also lead to uterine ﬁbroids, joint and muscle pain, ovarian cysts, decreased libido, infertility, endometriosis and even breast cancer. It also makes it harder to shift those last few unwanted kilos around your lower body. “When oestrogen and progesterone are dancing at the right balance every month, a woman has a period bleed for ﬁve days and that is all that should happen,” says

Dr Coates. But she says many women are not only suﬀering from other symptoms unnecessarily but they actually don’t realise that there’s anything abnormal about them. “aey compare themselves with other women who are experiencing these things, too,” she says. “So they think it’s normal. Just because something is average doesn’t mean it is normal.” To help women return to, or, indeed, become acquainted with, normal, happy, balanced hormones, Dr Coates prescribes lifestyle changes that include better time management, setting boundaries at work and learning to say no when you start to feel over-committed. Dr Coates says it’s also important to train your mind to deal with stress better. “A lot of stress hormones are produced as a result of psychological stress when we start to feel overwhelmed,” she says. “You stop talking to the prefrontal part of the brain – the part that enables you to rationalise. But if you train yourself not to react and use the prefrontal area then the stress hormones don’t surge. ae people who do that well are ambulance oﬃcers, as they have been trained to deal with trauma on a daily basis. aey don’t go into ﬁghtor-ﬂight. You need to analyse rather than react. You have to train for it. You have to know what strategies you have before you are in that situation, otherwise it goes straight to your primitive brain.” Other hormone helpers include massage, acupuncture, yoga, getting enough sleep, moderate rather than excessive exercise and avoiding too much sugar and environmental toxins. She also recommends nourishing your body with healthy wholefoods, plus getting enough iron, zinc and good fats from such foods as coconut, eggs, salmon, avocado and butter. Dr Coates says herbs that may help include chaste tree, to boost progesterone, and liquorice tea, to support your adrenals (although liquorice also raises blood pressure, so avoid it if you suﬀer from hypertension). In other words, old-fashioned lifestyle solutions to ﬁx a 21st-century problem. Karina Stewart is a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and co-founder of Kamalaya Wellness Sanctuary and Holistic Spa Resort (www.kamalaya.com). She says

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when Kamalaya ﬁrst opened in aailand eight years ago, they noticed many guests suﬀering from hormonal imbalances, and so created a series of Stress & Burnout management programs. “We are seeing younger guests experiencing and complaining of these imbalances,” says Stewart. “It used to be the guests who would arrive with adrenal or thyroid issues were in their mid- to late-40s but, now, it’s not unusual for us to see guests in their 30s complaining of adrenal exhaustion.” She recommends getting nine to 10 hours of sleep every night when trying to rebalance hormones and then making sure you get a minimum of eight hours a night once the body is strengthened. She believes it’s also important to go to bed between 9pm and 9.30pm to avoid the stress response that is triggered when we are still awake at 10pm. “ais helps to restore the adrenal glands to a healthier balance, which aﬀects other hormones in the body as well,” claims Stewart. But Stewart says the good news is that imbalances can be corrected. “In many cases, once the problem has been identiﬁed through testing and diagnosis, people can start to feel better fairly quickly,” she says. “Once you begin to address the imbalance with the appropriate lifestyle changes, tailored therapies, the right types of exercises and breathing practices, selected nutritional supplements and herbal remedies and suﬃcient high-quality rest, the body begins to adjust and the changes are noticeable fairly soon thereafter. With a correct diagnosis, people usually start to feel better within a week and can regain their balance step by step over the next three to six months.” But, she says, prevention is always better than cure. “I think it is very important for women to recognise the critical importance of keeping their hormones in balance right from the beginning, right from when we are adolescents,” says Stewart. “When our hormones go out of balance, the impact to our overall sense of wellbeing – physically, mentally, and emotionally – can be devastating in so many diﬀerent ways,” says Stewart. “Also, the impact hormonal imbalances may have in our ability to have children is immense, so not taking care and supporting our hormones can have huge repercussions. It is important that people learn how to nourish themselves, and how to engage in a lifestyle that will ensure happy hormones for many years ahead.” ■

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Global domination From Sydney to New York, London to Japan, FBI students are making their marks on the international fashion stage via the college’s workplace training program. Having been in operation for the past 19 years, the careers department of prominent Australian fashion college FBI has placed 1,185 students into paid positions within the local fashion industry. Of these students, a staggering 38 per cent went on to gain paid roles at the completion of the workplace training they undertook while at FBI. With such a signiﬁcant number of students obtaining jobs that began as internships, FBI made the decision to introduce an international workplace training program. Workplace training and internships are a fundamental part of a student’s time at FBI. Tey provide an excellent opportunity for students to gain experience in diﬀerent areas of the fashion industry, determine the path that they want to follow, further their knowledge and create industry connections. Trough the international workplace program, FBI has established solid connections with fashion companies in New York, London and Japan. FBI students who have been placed in these international centres of style have been able to further their fashion knowledge on a global scale, boosting their résumés and skill sets. Domestically, the FBI workplace training program sends an average of 150 students out into the fashion industry each and every week. Te highly reputable Australian companies and brands participating in the program include Vogue, Prada, Sass & Bide, Camilla, the Nine Network, Josh Goot and David Jones. Te varied nature of these businesses oﬀers FBI students the chance to

gain experience in all facets of the fashion industry. Tis includes assisting designers, stylists, public relations executives and model managers, as well as fashion journalists and fashion event organisers. All of these opportunities are organised through the FBI workplace training program, which screens applicants prior to interviewing for internships to ensure that the match between the company and student is mutually suitable. According to Kimberley Lear, an FBI Diploma of Business student and styling intern at the Nine Network, the process is just one of the college’s strengths. She says: “FBI provides students with excellent opportunities to gain vital industry connections. Te FBI staﬀ are dedicated to giving students the best possible workplace training. I consider my time at FBI to be one of the most exciting periods of my life.” With its recent global development, the future of FBI’s workplace training program is as bright and exciting as ever.

Supporters of the FBI workplace training program include, from left, Josh Goot, Camilla Franks, and Sarah-Jane Clarke and Heidi Middleton of Sass & Bide – all of whom were presenters at FBI’s 2012 graduation parade. Left: FBI students assist at the David Jones A/W ’13 launch.

Alexander Wang is a New York-based company that participates in the FBI international workplace training program.

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20 things to make you SMILE Listening, DANCING, reading, marvelling – Vogue’s pick of the MOST CHEERFUL cultural choices this month.

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1. HAPPY HOUSES

Rachel Castle in her studio, wearing a Christopher Kane top and pants, from Belinda. Hermès bangles. Dries Van Noten shoes, from Belinda.

Rachel Castle has been described as “pure sunshine” and is arguably the country’s happiest artist, making her the perfect person to kick of Vogue’s grin-inducing arts this month. Pictured here in her colourful Sydney studio, Castle’s cheeky felt embroideries and prints quoting pop song lyrics and other clever quips have a cult-like following. So do her cheerful fuoro-spotted bed linens. Her more painterly side shone at her recent sell-out show, Flora. But these too were a riot of colour. “If it is not about having fun it just doesn’t appeal to me,” says Castle. “He older I get the more serious everything becomes, and it is my way of rebelling and saying I just want to have fun!” Shop online at www.castleandthings.com.au. VOGUE.COM.AU –

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4. Disappearing into a book Barracuda, by Christos Tsiolkas (Allen & Unwin, $32.99)

Te Slap author gives us another study on the human condition, this time with young people and sports at the heart of it.

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2. FOLLOWING YOUR PASSION Few documentaries deliver on their promise to access all areas. But former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld doesn’t disappoint. Mademoiselle C is your chance to see Roitfeld doing the splits while taking ballet classes in her Paris apartment and the cavalier Karl Lagerfeld pushing her granddaughter’s pram. After 10 years at the helm of Paris Vogue, Roitfeld pursued a dream of creating her own magazine, with no rules. The film charts the creation of her risqué venture from the first

Happy Eva After, by Chris Harrison (Allen & Unwin, $29.99) Te title says it all and delivers on its promise. A married couple and all their regular woes makes this hilarious.

Walking on Trampolines, by Frances Whiting (Pan Macmillan, $29.99)

Roitfeld with Sarah Jessica Parker and Karl Lagerfeld.

meetings to CR Fashion Book’s launch party in New York. She also takes you front row at fashion week and behind the scenes on set with some of the world’s greatest photographers, models and stylists. An absolute must-see. In cinemas this month.

A delightful debut novel of youthful friendship by award-winning journalist Whiting.

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GET READY TO SING … CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, WE LOVE YOU. THE QUEENSLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE PRESENTS ONE OF THE MOST LOVED MUSICALS. AT THE LYRIC THEATRE, BRISBANE, FROM NOVEMBER 19.

7. OH LAND’S SIMPLE PLEASURES

Helmets/Pieces of Sky (2001) by Yoko Ono. One of the works coming to the MCA.

6. Marvelling at creations

Avant-garde artist, musician, activist and legend Yoko Ono is coming to Australia. War is Over! (If You Want It): Yoko Ono is about the desire for world peace and comes from a text work by Ono and her late husband John Lennon that first appeared on public billboards in 12 cities across the world in 1969. For the first time, Australians will be able to witness eight participatory works created by Ono over five decades. Take part by writing a note for the wishing tree of Sydney. At the Museum of Contemporary Art from November 15.

What are your joys in life? “Holding hands and eating pancakes. Hearing my dog sneeze and coming up with a melody.” What makes you smile? “ When people forget what they’re saying in the middle of a sentence. When you accidentally eat the sticker on an apple. When my husband unknowingly drinks my contact lenses when I put them in a glass of water. Words that don’t make sense and in troubled situations asking yourself: ‘What would an animal do?’” What makes you laugh out loud? “Tings that don’t make sense or surprise me. Te unexpected. Being on stage and suddenly getting carried away and losing control. When shy people dance and turn out to be amazing.”

What makes you feel relaxed and happy? “Kisses. Playing the piano. Coming home after a long tour. Hearing birds for the frst time after the winter. Studying an atlas. Watching Peter Sellers in Te Party.” Oh Land’s third album, Wish Bone (Warner Music), is out November 1.

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After a stellar season in Melbourne, the quintessentially romantic ballet La Sylphide comes to Sydney. Tis ballet, which in 1836 revolutionised dance by putting ballerinas en pointe for the Srst time, is paired with Marius Petipa’s 1847 party piece Paquita. At the Sydney Opera House from November 7.

10. Take your movie viewing outdoors with Ben & Jerry’s Openair Cinemas, starting October 20 in Brisbane followed by Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Perth. Head to www. openaircinemas.com.au.

9.A SMILING BAG FOR YOUR CULTURAL JAUNTS. Vintage Moschino Smiley Face bag, P.O.A, from Claire Inc,.

11. THE WORLD’S HAPPIEST NATION Learn to be like the smiling Danish in the part reportage, part travelogue How to be Danish, by Patrick Kingsley (Allen & Unwin, $19.99). VOGUE.COM.AU –

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12. FILMS FOR STOMACHCLUTCHING LAUGHS

From the team that brought you Te Intouchables, comes a laugh-a-minute French romantic comedy that takes the divine Diane Kruger and Dany Boon across the globe to cure a family marriage curse.

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13. CELEBRATING GREATNESS While this month’s birthday gem, the Sydney Opera House, is arguably the jewel in the crown, there are many other Sydney buildings worth celebrating. Take in a tour, talk or event to learn more about them at Sydney Architecture Festival, November 1-10. Visit www.sydneyarchitecturefestival.org. One of Australia’s most celebrated architects is chronicled in A Singular Vision: Harry Seidler, by Helen O’Neill (HarperCollins, $50).

14. Fashionable exhibitions

Olympic diver Katherine Rawls in 1931, photographed by Edward Steichen.

On his 21st birthday Tim Lake learns he can travel back in time, giving him the option to do each day all over again should he choose. A not-too-heavy yet thought-provoking story by writer/ director Richard Curtis and starring Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Domhnall Gleeson and Margot Robbie.

LE WEEK-END What better way to rekindle a marriage than a weekend in Paris? Directed by Roger Michell (Notting Hill), this flm is a poignant observation of a true, lifelong love that’s not always easy, but is certainly fun. Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan and Jef Goldblum give great performances. 158 – OCTOBER 2013

Jewellery worn by American soprano Grace Angelau.

Edward Steichen & Art Deco Fashion will feature more than 200 original vintage photographs from Vogue and Vanity Fair by one of Condé Nast’s most prestigious photographers, Edward Steichen. Ofcially opened by Vogue’s editor-in-chief Edwina McCann on October 17 at the National Gallery of Victoria. Visit www.ngv.vic.gov.au. Experience a display that chronicles the best work by iconic Australian fashion designer Aurelio Costarella. Aurelio Costarella: a 30 Year Retrospective opens at Western Australian Museum on November 2. Opening the same night is Frock Stars: Inside Australian Fashion Week, a celebration of the success of our local fashion industry. For more information, visit www.museum.wa.gov.au. All Tat Glitters! opens up the 510,000-items strong costume department of the Arts Centre Melbourne. See costumes by Cecil Beaton for My Fair Lady and those created by John Galliano for Kylie Minogue and more. From November 16. Visit www.artscentremelbourne.com.au.

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Like diamonds in the sky Follow the bright light of the North Star to an exclusive Georg Jensen launch hosted by Vogue and Wish. Vogue Australia editor-in-chief Edwina McCann and Wish editor-in-chief David Meagher invite you to an exclusive Georg rg Jensen event at Quay to launch new-season collections, including North Star by creative director David Chu. Enjoy a three-course dinner, designed specially for the occasion by chef Peter er Gilmore, while taking in the stunning harbour from the private green room. Pere will also be an exclusive performance by Danish singer-songwriter Oh Land, who is in Australia to perform for HRH Crown Prince Frederik and HRH Crown Princess Mary at the Opera House as part of its 40th birthday celebrations in October. Chu says the North Star collection, which features a stunning selection of elegant diamond and yellow and white gold pieces, was inspired by “clear evening skies sparkling with diamond-like stars”.

INVITATION Time: 6:30pm for 7pm start Date: Friday, November 1, 2013 Pieces from David Chu’s North Star collection for Georg Jensen.

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Melbourne Music Week runs November 15-24, with 10 days of parties and pop-up gigs celebrating the local music scene plus a few international guests.

17. New tunes Gossling, the girl behind the “I love you” Woolworths campaign tune, has released Harvest of Gold (Dew Process/ Universal Music).

15. CELEBRATING THE CLASSICS

To mark the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, best-selling authors have been commissioned to create modern adaptations of six of Austen’s complete works for Te Austen Project. be frst is a fresh reinvention of Sense & Sensibility by Joanna Trollope OBE (HarperCollins, $29.99). For another Austen moment, Keri Russell stars as a Jane Austen afcionado obsessed with fnding her own Mr Darcy in comedy Austenland. In cinemas November 20.

18. Young guns

Nothing makes the art world smile more than young people kicking creative goals. GENEVIEVE FRICKER, comedian, writer, musician, slashie. She studied double bass at the Conservatorium High School, was accepted into NIDA, has a regular spot on ABC2’s Te Roast and has toured the country with her own solo comedy show. With a swag of awards under her belt and all before she’s 24, we’re naming this girl one to watch.

NATALIE TRAN, online video producer.

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After fnishing her digital media degree at the University of New South Wales, Tran started posting quirky video blogs on YouTube. Seven years later, the 27-year-old has had almost half a billion hits on her YouTube channel (community channel), travels the world speaking at conferences and has made her flm debut with a cameo role in Goddess, a movie about a housewife turned international YouTube phenomenon. What will she do next?

Get ready to get back on the dance foor with Cut Copy’s frst album since 2011, Free Your Mind (Modular People). Hailing from Malaysia, Yuna has crossed over from regional to international star with her second album Nocturnal (Universal Music).

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Raised in style y mother, who loves to dress up, inspired my interest in clothes. She is a great and accomplished cook, and a seamstress. We were raised in the kind of house that was built in the early 1960s around a lasso-shaped green. She was shaped by post-war resurgent Britain and her eye was somewhere between Tom Ford’s A Single Man and Miuccia Prada. We had a tessellated petrol-blue and bird’s-eye-yellow vinyl ﬂoor in our kitchen. Green enamelled cabinets and a yellow

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dining table. Our armchairs were covered in oﬀ Pantones with triangular and circular cushions. She was and still is, all about detail. She had an amazing wardrobe of swishy dresses, many of which she made herself – and then, as boutiques moved into the outer suburbs, we went shopping. It was an event: we would sit on little couches and smell the newness of it all as she went through the rails and picked out the gowns to try. And they were gowns; they were special, made exquisitely from wools, from

gabardines, from organza, from silks, and in summer, from cotton organdie. Te fabric names were like tiny little jewels in my mind. Te ﬁtting rooms were pale grey with heavy velvet and muslin curtains and everyone called her Mrs Veness. It was special and another world. My mum wore gloves and made hats. We had numerous pale wooden hat blocks at home and a heavy steamer. Tere were bags of shocking pink gauze, felts and light woven straws. We would visit the local haberdashery store and spend a good half

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an hour gazing at the Butterick and, as I grew up, Vogue patterns. Every summer term at my girl’s school we could wear a simple plain dress in any colour. I always had three or four. I would deliberate over colours and details and she would sew for my sister and myself. She made some amazing dresses throughout my childhood and I wonder where they are now. As a teenager I became insatiable for newness, driven on by pictures in magazines. I drove her mad. he more she sewed the more I wanted. She learned to tailor because I loved riding, and of course, needed a jacket. She made me the ﬁnest hacking jacket in blue tweed with curving lapels all lined and padded so expertly. It took weeks to make it, and it was my prized possession. I wonder where that is now, too. She was also a knitter and made me fabulous mohair jumpers and cardigans in blocks of soft colours, and she knitted for my father – so I stole his jumpers and cardigans. I used to creep into his wardrobe and try on anything that was oversized and swaggery. I loved mannish and still do. Even now I check out his wardrobe when I go home and try on his wedding jacket. My mother’s cooking and making would come together in a fervent pièce de résistance when she invited friends over for dinner. he house would be turned upside down and made immaculate with great ﬂatware and crystal glasses, a sideboard stuﬀed full of numerous combinations. he anemones were always low on the table. She would bake, bast and roast, choux and ice and pipe and put anything into aspic: she was from the Cordon Bleu school of cooking. She was a Supercook. We discussed what we would wear for these events, long or short, that was the debate. I wore ﬂares and skinny jumpers; at heart I was a tomboy. I would wait, peeping out from behind the curtain and as our guests arrived and set foot on the garden path, I would yell out “short” or “long”. She liked long best, I think. And then she would emerge Elizabeth Taylor-like seconds later, dazzling us all and our guests. I got a thrill out of this. It was very exciting, the last-minute change. here were fashion favourites: I loved a brown maxi-coat she wore with knee-high chocolate boots. I loved her handbags, she always had so many – another one in another colour. She helped me constantly fulﬁll my dreams and didn’t even know it.

Our house was a catwalk, my mum was on it and I was front row. One of my ﬁrst boyfriends introduced me to vintage clothes. He bought me endless pieces that were quite fantastical and ridiculously reﬁned. I had cloqué 1940s dresses, beautiful silky aprons, electric purple slubbed silk 60s dress suits, and many 30s dresses and some long Victorian white underskirts, which I loved to wear with Victorian ﬂat brown boots and chenille cardigans. I was destined for fashion college, or acting. When I went for my interview at the London College of Fashion I wore a 1920s dress. My portfolio was a scrapbook containing a study of Tutankhamun’s tomb and all the jewels and a shoot photographed by me with my school friend Louise dressed up in my ever-growing collection of vintage clothes. I knew somehow in someway where I wanted to be … somewhere out through the wardrobe into the world that is sometimes referred to as work, stuﬀed with clothes and dresses; to all the time feel that infatuation for fashion, that magic. It made me smile all right, when I opened that envelope from London College of Fashion with its oﬀer. My ﬁrst fashion show was in London way back when Sarah Stockbridge walked for Vivienne Westwood. Her mini-crinis were pre-Marie-Antoinette meringues; her shocking red and tiny orbs and laced shoes were simply exciting. We had to blagg our way in. We were students. A rite of passage. And without even knowing it, we were creeping closer to our careers. We were Katharine Hamnett disciples. Jasper Conran was just starting out, and so too were a bunch of boys from Antwerp with names like Van Noten and Van Beirendonck. And then there was a girl from Streatham called Naomi Campbell. And then there was a group and they became supermodels and I somehow got swept along at the same time very far away but in their wake. hey wore a simple uniform of white shirts and knickers. hey were windswept and easy. It was the new wave of simple, minimum fuss, freedom. Much like it is again now with designers here, eﬀortless and quietly great. Every collection I see is more than a bunch of

sketches, there is so much sensitivity, provocation and exclamation. I have so many stories from shows that were thrilling. My ﬁrst Australian show was Peter Morrissey, set in a black glinting box; and then a Collette Dinnigan show all magical at the Dome. Josh Goot amazed us with his show in the original Qantas building, his eye so fresh, and then Dion Lee all angles and incisive cutting and set in a car park in Kings Cross – all of them memorable and modern. And so on it rolls, fashion is ﬁne; an endless deﬁnition of modern, extreme, hectic, classic, emotional … and it makes me happy. I never regret a purchase – it makes me feel sick sometimes, the price can be hefty, but sick with happiness. The most expensive pieces have lasted the test of time, like a Comme des Garçons skirt that I bought in Paris with Luella Bartley and still wear today. Friends always lead you astray. I have a favourite pair of Azzedine Alaïa sandals that I bought with Christine Centenera in Corso Como in Milan. And I have a fabulous leopard-print coat that’s been everywhere with me; it was hanging on a fence in an Upper West Side ﬂea market with its original tags when I bought it. I have pieces from Prada that are so distinctive from so many collections, but I love wearing seasons past as much as the next season. he thought of what’s coming never exhausts me. I don’t know many women who get exhausted by fashion, there’s nothing quite like the thrill of a crunchy piece of tissue paper wrapped around a Bassike T-shirt or a soft oversized V-neck sweater from Jac+Jack. Or the lambskin softness of a Chanel 2.55. Or the easy ﬂuidity of a Giorgio Armani jacket. Or the bamboo handle of a Gucci bag. And there is something quietly reassuring about the snap of an Hermès bracelet and the rightness of the Constance bag. I do like bags. Today it’s a sleek, no-logo Calvin Klein Collection clutch. Fashion is fun. Laugh out loud a lot. YOLO. Crazy, silly, stupid, gotta love it. Pass it on and share it around. And yes, all this makes me smile, but it was my mother who ﬁrst made fashion smile on me. ■ Alison Veness-McGourty is editor of 10 magazine.

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Single FILE

With her fulfilling CAREER and social life, being single didn’t rate asa major deficiency for Hadley Freeman, until she moved to New York.

Perhaps I should have expected the hyper-awareness among New Yorkers about a thirtysomething woman’s relationship status; it is, after all, the town of Sex and the City. “If you’re a single woman and over 30, you might as well just fall oﬀ the island,” a female friend from Manhattan warned me before I arrived. I dismissed it as hyperbole. But I was amazed at how conservative attitudes towards women, and marriage in general, were in New York (let alone the rest of America). Te New York Times’s weekly “Vows” section, with its marriage announcements, replete with the bride and groom’s ages and their fathers’ professions, read like modern-day Austen. Te dating system felt like learning Chinese to anyone used to a more casual approach. Seemingly normal men I met at parties would talk quite openly about dating only women who were under 26. Tis didn’t make me selfconscious about my age, but it did make me wonder why New York seems to have a surfeit of weird men. ▲

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it did not seem to me that the best way to achieve that was to sit around and pine for a hypothetical man. I didn’t think too much about how, as I embarked on my fourth decade, my lack of a man deﬁned me in the eyes of other people. Ten I did notice, and it astonished me. A reaction that was followed by, in increasingly rapid order, irritation, frustration, anger and then, at last, insecurity. It’s hard to say what, at that point, surprised me more: that my single state was so fascinating in the eyes of others, or that I was beginning to feel as anxious about it as they clearly felt I should. In retrospect, it’s obvious that my single slump was largely sparked by my situation. I was born in New York and lived there until I was 11 (when I moved with my family to London), so I’d expected the city to feel familiar to me when I moved back. But, instead, it seemed utterly foreign. When people meet you for the ﬁrst time they inevitably try to categorise you, often in ways you’d never categorise yourself.

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ad with money. Always on time. Chatty. Weird accent. Has a name that sounds like Morgan Stanley. Many descriptions have been applied to me over the years, some positive, some less so, most fair. Yet, two years ago – somewhere around my thirty-second birthday, and coinciding with my move from London to New York to work as the American features writer for the Guardian – I noticed another description being used to introduce me, one that began to take precedence over all the others. “Tis is Hadley – she’s single, can you believe it?” “You have to meet Hadley, another great single gal to add to the list.” And my favourite: “Here’s Hadley, she’s 32 and single, so we have to ﬁnd her a boyfriend!” (Invariably announced at a party by a host I barely knew to a group of people I didn’t know at all. Nothing like starting an evening by being oﬀered up for auction like an antique painting, or cattle.) Like the other descriptions of me, this one was true: I was deﬁnitely single. Of the 32 years I’d been alive, I’d been single for about 29 of them for the simple reason that having a boyfriend was never that important to me, or at least not so important that I was willing – or even able – to go out with someone I was less than crazy about. And I was not crazy about that many people. As Alicia Silverstone says in Clueless (a ﬁlm I believe contains pretty much all the world’s wisdom): “You’ve seen how picky I am about shoes, and they only go on my feet.” Many other things mattered to me at least as much as my relationship status: doing well in my job. Spending time with my friends. Most of all, being happy. And

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Nonetheless, I gave it a go and went on some dates, because that’s what you do in New York. But after my fourth, with a man who made that old crack about a woman over 30 in New York having more chance of being in a terrorist attack than “getting a man”, I gave up and, instead of “getting a man”, I got a dog. Once you start to feel self-conscious about something you notice all the things that validate your fears – and believe me, I found plenty of validation. Sometimes the anxiety comes in the form of loneliness, sometimes panic about the future. While in my brain it was all nonsense, I found myself slowly taking them to heart. It’s now 2013, the bicentennial of the ultimate marriage-plot novel, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. It’s the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s landmark feminist work Te Feminine Mystique, too, and Sylvia Plath’s Te Bell Jar, the story of a young woman driven to mental breaking point by society’s stiﬂing expectations of women in her era. Practical progress has been made since Friedan’s study of the professional and emotional frustrations of American housewives, but how far have we really come? Most ﬁlms and books, especially those aimed at women, are almost completely relationship-driven. It perhaps explains why some of the most successful ﬁlms and books in the past 20 years have been inspired by, or modelled directly on, Austen, including Bridget Jones’s Diary and – yes – my beloved Clueless. de sine qua non single woman’s song, Beyoncé’s Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It), sends a message that, second only to a man “putting a ring on it”, the best a gal can hope for is that her ex-boyfriend regrets not marrying her. Even more modern romantic comedies that have claimed to change the formula, such as Bridesmaids or Pitch Perfect, still end with the girl getting her man. I know how hard it is to overturn the clichés. A few years ago, fed up with my inability to ﬁnd a funny novel with a female protagonist who didn’t end up with a man, I decided to write one myself. I drew up a proposal for a story about a young woman who ﬁnds validation from being attached, only to realise she has become so obsessed with having a man around that she dates people who aren’t even that nice to her. So she dumps her boyfriend, gets a great job and ﬁnds some self-conﬁdence. de end. 166 – NOVEMBER 2013

de agent looked at my proposal sceptically: “I’m not sure if getting a good job is really a happy ending, Hadley. Couldn’t there be a male friend in the background she gets together with at the end?” I ditched the novel. So, too, does the media love to patronise any woman who dares not to marry. No matter how successful, a woman who hasn’t married and had children is considered tragic. A whole genre of journalism now exists to warn us of the dangers of the single state. Like the ghosts of female future, women are counselled to take what they can get; that any old thing is better than nothing, and that the only thing that really counts is to be in a relationship. When I was living in New York, the publication of articles in the Atlantic such as “Marry him”, by Lori

A WOMAN WHO HASN’T MARRIED AND HAD CHILDREN IS CONSIDERED TRAGIC Gottlieb, and “All the single ladies”, by Kate Bolick, made national headlines; few things get the media more excited than articles suggesting feminism has failed. I found Gottlieb’s and Bolick’s points of view – one ordering women to settle for Mr Good Enough and one advocating solitary life in, I kid you not, an all-female community – equally frustrating. In both cases, women were still urged to deﬁne themselves by their relationships, or lack of, and both arguments suggested an unmarried life must be an unsatisfying one. Not only is this clearly nonsense, it doesn’t even reﬂect the realities of most people’s lives as the number of people living alone globally continues to rise. But maybe such conventionalism is simply a backlash against the changing times. I grew up in a liberal family in which it was taken as a given that I could do whatever I wanted in life. My parents are still very much in love after nearly 40 years of marriage, which perhaps explains why I could never stomach the idea of “settling”. My education consisted of a series of competitive girls’ schools followed by a formerly women’s college at Oxford that encouraged its female students to aim high

in their chosen careers. de college is known for producing women whose successes promised a world of possibility that was just waiting for me on graduation. To a degree, they were right. I was lucky enough to ﬁnd a job I loved as a journalist at the Guardian, where I have been ever since. My education readied me for society’s view of women and their role in the world. Being a single woman in your 30s is a lot of fun: you have money to enjoy yourself and the independence to do so. Holidays in beautiful places, spontaneous nights out, shoes that cost as much as your rent: they’re all clichés and they’re all true. But it can be lonely, and loneliness can feel both shameful and a betrayal of your feminist principles, neither of which is true. It’s a loneliness often exacerbated by friends’ marriages and their disappearance down the black tunnel of coupledom and babies. You get used to them cancelling plans at the last minute, or apologising for not inviting you to dinner parties because you’ll make an odd number at the table. Even when you do see your married and babied-up friends, it can feel as if there is a chasm between you, simply because your lives, once so similar, are now so diﬀerent. But you know what else isn’t so ﬂipping perfect? Being married with kids. Most of my contemporaries are now in long-term relationships and most have at least one child. While I can, of course, see how happy they are, I can also see how hard it is and that, no matter how well-intentioned the husbands, the women still do the lion’s share of childcare and housework, even if they have a job. It’s not only single women who might feel that progress hasn’t come quite as far as they’d hoped. A few months after I fell into my single slump, I moved back to London and within weeks I felt like me again: the real me, the happy me. Inevitably it was then, when I stopped worrying, that I got together with someone I was (and am) crazy about. But that is not the happy ending to this story, because it is only ever part of the story. Being in a relationship is not, contrary to what the world might tell you, the only achievement that counts for a woman. In fact, just learning how to be content in a world that tells you you shouldn’t be is, I think, the greatest accomplishment of all. ■ Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies, by Hadley Freeman, is published by Fourth Estate.

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Women of the House

As the SYDNEY Opera House turns 40, we CELEBRATE the women behind it who are a powerhouse of their own. WORDS: ALEXANDRA BROWN PHOTOGRAPH: HUGH STEWART

Claire Spencer, chief operating officer

Nicolette Fraillon, music director and chief conductor

Louise Herron, chief executive officer

Ann Mossop, head of talks and ideas

Jennifer Muldoon, head of security

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he women behind the Sydney Opera House are in a celebratory mood. ieir beloved House is celebrating its 40th birthday. It’s hard to believe what began as a supposedly unbuildable sketch by little-known Danish architect Jørn Utzon is now a World Heritage-listed building, declared by UNESCO a “masterpiece of human creative genius”. Few people also realise that helping this formidable arts centre host more events per year than any arts centre in the world is a team that includes a number of women in senior positions. To help mark the anniversary of this magniﬁcent Danish-Australian creation, Australian native Crown Princess Mary and her husband Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark will visit the House. “We felt they would be the best possible patrons,” says Sydney Opera House CEO Louise Herron. “iey have been wonderful to deal with and very generous with their time.” A full schedule of activities has been planned for the birthday week which the Danish Crown Prince couple will attend. (See Vogue Almanac in this issue for more information.) Excitement aside, for the women who work at the Opera House it’s business as usual. Here’s how a typical day at the House pans out for them.

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To host more than 2,400 events in one year, operations at the Sydney Opera House run a tight schedule, with inspections and cleaning starting early.

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Jenny Muldoon, head of security, checks overnight incident and show reports. ie “normal” workday doesn’t really exist for the ex-head of security at Qantas and former detective senior constable in the Australian Police Force. Muldoon has a team of 38 security oﬃcers and eight ﬁremen working around the clock to keep the complex building and its performers and patrons safe. Responsibilities include counter-terrorism, fire and emergency, planning and protection of high-proﬁle guests. “I am your ‘worst case scenario’ girl; I think about all sorts of situations and how we would manage them,” explains Muldoon. While you might expect someone in her role to have a tough exterior, the mother of one becomes almost teary when speaking about the House. “It’s in my blood, I can’t leave,” she says.

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Herron is at her desk checking emails and preparing for her day ahead.

Like her colleagues, she’s incredibly passionate about her job. In reference to her work she quotes the Opera House’s chief operating oﬃcer Claire Spencer: “We’re not making widgets, we’re making art, and changing people’s lives through experiences.” Herron’s background in the corporate world not only prepared her for the demands of her role but has also given her perspective. “iis [job] is only for good, whereas in business it is so often a little bit bad as well.”

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ie Sydney Opera House executive team meets around the “kitchen table” in Herron’s oﬃce. Spencer, who has worked here for more than 10 years, is in attendance. Her role includes ﬁnance, people and culture and information systems, but this doesn’t prevent her being involved in “big picture” discussions. “At the executive table we leave our functional hats at the door and talk about the strategic challenges that the Opera House is facing. I can end up being an expert on all number of things that you wouldn’t expect because everyone has a part to play,” says Spencer. “One thing that unites all of us is the passion that we have for the place and what we do, and I think that’s rare.”

12pm Nicolette Fraillon leads a four-anda-half hour orchestral rehearsal for the Australian Ballet, one of eight proliﬁc Australian arts organisations to call the Opera House home. Fraillon, the ﬁrst female music director and chief conductor of the Australian Ballet, has worked for the company for more than 10 years, dividing her time between Sydney and Melbourne. She almost exclusively conducts the 200 performances staged by the ballet company each year and invests an average of 96 hours a week in her job. Having worked in opera houses all over Europe, Fraillon is proud to work in this iconic Australian building. “iere are very few opera houses that have such an impact,” she says. “Every day coming to work here, you walk up the Quay and think: ‘It is totally extraordinary. What a vision. What a concept.’” 12.30pm Children take their turn on the stage in the Playhouse for Creative Play, an educational program for children to learn and develop their creativity.

1pm

Opera Australia presents Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Paciﬁc in the Joan Sutherland ieatre.

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Ann Mossop is in her oﬃce preparing her speech for the opening of the Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI). In her role as head of talks and ideas, she is responsible for the agenda of public programs at the House, including FODI, an event aimed at young people who historically haven’t been regular patrons of the House. “It’s about turning the Opera House into somewhere that people associate with everything that is vibrant in culture,” she says. “It is not only opera or ballet, or those kinds of classical art forms, it is a place where the best, most exciting and innovative things happen.”

6.45pm After a day of meetings, Herron takes dinner in the Green Room. Many of the executives have their meals here among the dancers and musicians preparing to take the stage. iere are few workplaces where you can rub shoulders with some of the world’s most proliﬁc artists, authors and speakers while standing in line at the staﬀ cafeteria.

7pm Award-winning journalist Shereen El Feki delivers a stirring talk in the Drama ieatre titled Sex and the Citadel, an account of the intimate lives of Arab men and women and an example of the broad-minded and modern events currently held at the House.

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Sydney ieatre Company takes a bow after a performance of its adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. Staﬀ members, from executives to tour guides, are encouraged to see performances. “iere is nothing more rejuvenating than sitting in an auditorium and seeing how people are aﬀected by what we do,” says Spencer.

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On nights where there are largescale events, such as New Year’s Eve, Muldoon will work around the clock. “It’s not normal practice but if I am here all night come 3am I will jump in a dressing room, grab a couple of hour’s sleep and then get going again,” she says. Late nights aside, it’s obvious these women love their workplace and look forward to the House’s next decade. “I think the Opera House is experiencing such a pivotal time,” says Herron, referring to the extensive renovation plans underway. “It’s a moment for reﬂection so that when we get to the 50th birthday ideally we’ll have renewed everything that we have and will have a totally refreshed Opera House. iat’s an incredible opportunity.” ■ VOGUE.COM.AU –

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Vogue diary

What’s in store and worth having this month.

STYLE REBOOT

DROP-DEAD GORGEOUS Ole Lynggaard Copenhagen transforms the classic notion of wearing your heart on your sleeve into a stylish display of romance on your wrist. The rose quartz and 18 carat gold Dew Drops on handcrafted calfskin leather are a beautiful addition to even the most refined jewellery box. The leather bracelet is priced from $335, and the Dew Drops range from $1,395 to $2,295. For more information, visit www.olelynggaard.com.

HEAVEN SCENT The decadent and opulent scent of BCBGMAXAZRIA Bon Chic celebrates style and joie de vivre. With bold accents, it’s perfect for the woman who likes to make an entrance. Priced from $70 (EDP, 50ml), Bon Chic is available at Myer and David Jones.

BUTTERFLY EFFECT As pretty as it is whimsical, Wedgwood’s Butterfly Bloom teaware is steeped in 19th-century tradition. Updated for the modern, discerning lifestyle, the range draws inspiration from the English Butterfly and Floral Motif designs, selected from Wedgwood’s pattern archive. Priced from $99.95 each; visit www.wedgwood.com.au.

Beautifully crafted to offer a luxuriously streamlined blend of form and function, Kira is Toshiba’s most technologically advanced Ultrabook yet. The quality Japanese design is evident in the ultra-slim profile and lightweight yet sturdy construction. For more, visit www.toshiba.com.au.

FULL VOLUME Revive limp locks without sacrificing your hair’s natural movement with Blend Volume Powder from Keune. Ideal as a gentler alternative to harsh backcombing, the light matt hold is perfect for creating long-lasting dynamic texture and voluminous body. For stockists, visit www.keune.com.au.

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STEVEN CHEE

Up close with Erica Packer on motherhood and NEW beginnings; French dressing; Margot Robbie’s debut; and daring PRINTS.

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Amazing grace

Surrounded by her BEAUTIFUL children, singer, model and mum Erica Packer appears radiant in therole of lady of the manor. Yet it’s her dignity, fortitude and grounded nature that shines BRIGHTEST of all,writes Edwina McCann. Styled by Christine Centenera. Photographed by Steven Chee.

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but her work is making a very big diderence to the students who are now being schooled in one of two primary schools she has completed, as it will be for the students who will later attend one of the 12 pre-schools she has planned for one of the poorest districts in Laos. “Education is vital if these children and families are going to stand a chance at breaking the cycle of poverty,” she says. As a result, 2,000 children will now have that chance. By coincidence, I discovered at the trip briecng that I knew the Unicef project manager. He told me privately that the children Erica was helping were among the most deprived he had worked with, and he’s worked in some awful situations. He was impressed by Erica’s intimate knowledge of every aspect of the project, her passion for it, her intelligent, focused questions and her ability to quote cgures and statistics relating to the work they were doing and the living conditions of the people in the area. At that lunch we discussed telling Vogue readers about the project, in the hope that they might be encouraged to support Unicef ’s work with children in more than 190 countries. But that is not all Erica has been up to. She has also invested in a technology start-up called Booodl, an online social network that sits in a space between Pinterest and Pose. To keep it simple, if Facebook is all about people and Pinterest is about inspiration, Booodl is all about things. Imagine it as a Pinterest board that allows you to shop, and if you are still not sure what that means all you need to know is that it is smart to be investing in social-media-curated e-commerce. Despite once being dux of her school, however, Erica downplays her business acumen. “When they approached me about investing I had just had my third baby, so it wasn’t like I was actively looking for another job!” But she’s actively involved in the business as a board director, and Booodl recently partnered with IMG and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival. “Social media is the new visual merchant,” says Elle Turner, IMG’s director of fashion. “Designers can convey who they are and what they are about. gat experience turns into cash sales and invites customers to purchase.” And yet here we are, many months later, and all anybody wants to talk about is the end of her marriage. Erica is the queen of discretion and won’t be drawn on speciccs, but if I had to guess what went wrong, she was busy with babies (three in four years) and James was busy with business and, put simply, they grew apart. “I feel incredibly grateful for the past nearly 11 years with James and for my three children,” she says without a hint of malice. “I really am incredibly blessed.” And yet there must have been moments recently when she felt anything but blessed. Two years ago her mother Sheelah Baxter lost her battle with breast cancer. Erica and James took Sheelah and her entire family to spend time together in Fiji just before she died. “As mum died unexpectedly on that trip, we nursed her (including my brother-in-law, who is a doctor). We cared for her until she died four days later. It was such a confronting and emotional time, but looking back, I would not have it any other way.” Erica fell pregnant with Emmanuelle soon afterwards and “not a day goes by when I don’t miss Mum and wish she were here. My mother and I were always close. She was a nurse and a midwife and so amazing with the babies. I think losing my mum has been one of the saddest and hardest things for me. She was always

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erhaps the most poignant thing Erica Packer said to me came right at the end of one of our conversations. “You know I love the Jack Welch quote: ‘Face reality as it is, not as it was, or as you wish it to be.’ And I mean we are where we are.” It very much sums up her attitude, and I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that Erica would quote a businessman who was responsible for increasing General Electric’s net worth by 4,000 per cent while he was its CEO. In the world in which she has lived for the past 11 years, as partner then wife of one of Australia’s wealthiest men, business is entwined with life. But James Packer isn’t just that. He is also the son of the late Kerry Packer, who was the son of Sir Frank Packer. ge family has an almost mystical, legendary status in Australia, helped along recently by their immortalisation in three television series. ge Packers are part of our folklore and, much like the Kennedys, their stories are told and retold again. ge national outpouring of emotion and reverence when James’s father died in 2005 was unprecedented. It seems as a nation we are fascinated by all things Packer. Although she will hate me bringing it up, for the record, Erica is remaining Erica Packer for now. Within 48 hours of the announcement of her separation the media were referring to her by her maiden name, Erica Baxter. James has said he wants her to keep the name. She is the mother of his children, his family. But if I hadn’t brought up the topic of her last name she wouldn’t have, either: “I don’t want it to be all about a name. In the greater scheme of everything it doesn’t really matter.” You get the sense that sometimes what people are saying is so far from Erica’s reality that it is hard for her to take any of it seriously, but since the day in 2007 helicopters hovered over her wedding ceremony while vows were exchanged, intrusion into her life has run deep. And yet she seems to follow her late father-in-law’s adage: never complain; never explain. She is quick with self-deprecating humour and remains nonjudgmental of those who might intrude. “I just never thought it was a big deal. I was in love with a man and that is part of the package.” Erica has always been one to face the world as it is, and she has always been more than just Mrs Packer. gis shoot came about over lunch last year. Erica had left her new baby daughter Emmanuelle asleep at home with her nanny. Our lunch was timed to be quick and in between Emmanuelle’s feeds. I’ve known Erica for years as a successful model, well before she married. She has always been beautiful, with piercing blue eyes and cheekbones to die for, and she has always been polite. She came to lunch in a T-shirt and jeans with freshly washed hair, and apologised for her appearance. She need not have, because she looked divine and her lack of pretension made her even more so. A little over two years ago I discovered that she was quietly funding a project with Unicef to build schools in Laos. I convinced her that we should accompany her on a celd trip to check up on progress. I sent a photographer with a journalist, and a TV crew came along too, as she made the precarious journey in a tiny boat up the Mekong River. gere, in a remote village, they met children seeing their crst coloured pencils and uniforms, and being schooled and fed in brand-new buildings. “I am just trying to make a little diderence,” she says in a very matter-of-fact manner,

Christian Dior dress, $19,500, necklace, $1,450, and shoes, $1,050.

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“WHERE I AM RIGHT NOW IS THE START OF A WHOLE NEW CHAPTER”

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there, and being a mum now I appreciate even more so what an incredible mother she was. And going through all of this recently without her has been really hard.” Erica grew up in Gunnedah, New South Wales, where her father Michael still lives. She is tight with her older siblings Joanna and Bill. “gey have been such an incredible support to me.” As Erica has been to them, too. In a cruel twist of fate, while their mother was ill Joanna was also diagnosed with breast cancer. While Jo was in hospital undergoing a double mastectomy, Erica stepped in to help with her four children and the domestic chores. “I was hopeless with the homework.” Her niece had a cooking assignment. “I must be the worst cook in the world,” she says, laughing, “and my crst school drop-ods were a disaster!” But she did it, day in, day out, ferrying children across Sydney while her sister recovered. Not that she would ever tell you about it. I only know because I sat next to Jo at a breast-cancer research fundraiser and we discussed how important family is, and how humbled we are by their support, especially when you most need it. It’s worth noting that Erica also funds a research program for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. James’s sister Gretel and mother Ros remain equally supportive of, and close to, Erica. “Gretel and Ros are amazing women. I really admire and appreciate my in-laws. gey are strong, they are there for me, and we are all in regular contact. We are – and remain – a family.” An enduring sense of being a family with the father of her children is why it is so important to her that she and James remain not just on good terms but that they remain friends. gey speak regularly. “ge actions we take now, the way we behave, will adect three little innocent people for the rest of their lives,” she says. “Obviously some days are easier than others at the moment.” When I proposed at lunch that she sit for this cover her response was simply: “Are you kidding?” As months passed we discussed plans for the shoot (Could she be in Paris? Would she like to attend couture shows with us so we could shoot her afterwards? Would she like to work with one fashion house in particular?), she became more and more excited. Her friend Pat McGrath said she would make herself available to do her make-up, which gives you a sense of the loyalty and love those who know Erica feel towards her. McGrath is the most in-demand make-up artist in the world and had just directed the Christian Dior couture show. “We met through a mutual friend in London,” says Erica. “She is the most fabulous and talented person. And she is hilarious.” I ran into Erica at a children’s party with our kids. gere I was able to observe her as a mother. She is devoted. She arrived without the baby, who was again at home sleeping, but she had asked the nanny to bring her to the party as soon as she woke up. Erica sent the nanny home and did not put Emmanuelle down for the rest of the day. At Vogue we want to capture the essence of anyone we shoot, because that is what great portraiture does. I felt that just showing Erica dressed up with jewels could never capture the spirit of the woman I had seen laughing with her children. I asked her if she would let them appear in some pictures and I showed her some of the imagery Vogue has captured over the years of famous women and their children. She agreed. You need only look at the video of the shoot on Vogue.com.au to see the love between Erica and her children, and the image in which Jackson and Indigo hide under her Dior dress is my favourite. It shows the country girl who has lived an

extraordinary life, and has strived to remain ordinary within it. “Indie runs the show, she’s strong and knows what she wants,” she says of her cve-year-old daughter. “Jackson [three] adores her, they are great friends. He is such a sweet kid and he does whatever she wants!” She says Emmanuelle is the perfect baby, with a smiley, happy demeanour, which I think she inherited from her mum. When the crew returned from Paris, Erica was quick to send thanks, complimenting the creative team for making a “dream come true”. Always one to keep it real, she said the following day she decided to “drag my kids around the Sacré-Coeur” on a hot day. “As I wiped bits of broccoli from my eyebrows, wearing mushed rusk down my front from Emmanuelle in the baby pouch … I kept thinking: you know what: I shot for Vogue yesterday!” She later tells me she and James were separated at the time, which was tough, and that the shoot meant the world to her. Nobody knows what goes on inside a marriage except those who are in it, but when it breaks down nobody wins, and only a fool would think money can alleviate the pain. But she is not dwelling on the negative. Erica has moved to Los Angeles with the children for now. “I’ve lived here before and spent a lot of time here,” she explains. “My best girlfriend is here and she has two little kids.” How long will she stay? Will she ever come home? “I don’t know. So much has happened; I don’t want to put any pressure on us. gis is good and I am lucky to stay here for now.” ge kids are coping well. gey are accustomed to James’s travel schedule. “And they know that they are loved by both their parents and their whole family.” Of course, Australians are obsessed with real estate and James and Erica have just completed a very large home in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, which remains empty. “We are both spending time outside Australia for a while,” she explains. Which brings us to: what’s next? gis is a cover that celebrates new beginnings. “Where I am right now is the start of a whole new chapter,” she says. So let’s clear something up: the new chapter is not with Russell Crowe, close friends though they are. ge week of our interview, images of Crowe and Erica in the street together were published in Woman’s Day, ironically a magazine her late father-in-law owned. ge suggestion is that they have rekindled an old love adair. It is a claim that I know not to be true, but I suppose a photo of a newly single Erica stepping out with any man will result in suggestions. “gat is just ridiculous,” she says with a laugh when I tell her about the story. “gose photos were taken months ago and Russell is a close friend of mine and James’s (Crown Ltd sponsors Crowe’s South Sydney rugby league club). I am not sure where she cnds the strength to endure the gossip. “I don’t know if I feel strong. My mum battled cancer for 13 years, undergoing chemo after chemo and treatment after treatment. She just got on with it. gat is brave, that is strong.” So could new beginnings include a jump-start of her music career? “It has been comforting to start playing piano again and get back in touch with my creative side, but I have no plans for anyone else to hear it!” I remind her of the lyrics she wrote for her album Trough My Eyes, released in 2007: “I never knew I’d be this strong …” “Yes, I thought I knew things back then!” and she laughs again, her warm self-deprecating laugh. She may not realise it, but Erica Packer is strong. Just like her mother did, she is getting on with it. In an intelligent, kind-hearted and considered manner, Erica Packer is bravely facing a new reality. ■

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“I ADMIRE AND APPRECIATE MY IN-LAWS. THEY ARE THERE FOR ME. WE ARE – AND REMAIN – AFAMILY”

Christian Dior dress, $13,000, skirt, P.O.A., bra, $1,300, and shoes, $970.

STEVEN CHEE

Christian Dior top, $5,800, and pants-suit, $4,200. Fragrance: Estée Lauder Modern Muse EDP.

Christian Dior dress, $13,500. Bulgari earrings, P.O.A. Hair: Philippe Tholimet Make-up: Pat McGrath

This page: Chanel dress, $10,640, top, $2,430, hat, P.O.A., short necklace, $2,370, long necklace, $1,450, quilted bag, $2,840, small bag, $4,630, large bag, $4,060, and shoes, $830, from the Chanel boutiques. Wolford stockings. Opposite: Chloé dress, $9,670. All prices approximate; fashion details last pages.

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French Bon chic, bon genre: Parisians really do dress with a certain elegant INSOUCIANCE. Styled byCapucine Safyurtlu. Photographed by DavidBellemere.

DAVID BELLEMERE

Miu Miu jacket, $8,690, skirt, $1,640, neck scarf, $290, bag, $1,990, tights, $230, and boots, $1,300.

Christian Dior jacket, $3,200, top, $1,900, pants, $1,150, bag, $3,000, bangles, $430 each, and shoes, $1,250.

Ralph Lauren Collection top, $1,599, pants, $1,999, and cap, P.O.A.

DAVID BELLEMERE

Emporio Armani tops, $620 each, pants, P.O.A., and shoes, P.O.A.

DAVID BELLEMERE

Paul Smith coat, $2,040, top, $725, trousers, $635, and clutch, $850. Fragrance: BCBGMAXAZRIA Bon Chic EDP.

Gucci blouse, $1,005, pants, $910, sunglasses, $470, earrings, $2,675, necklace, $9,560, bracelet, $7,300, gloves, $690, clutch, $1,500, bag, $3,190, and loafers, $760.

DAVID BELLEMERE

Bottega Veneta jacket, $2,210, and skirt, $630.

Prada jacket, $850, top, $2,580, skirt, $1,160, bag, $2,120, and shoes, $1,280.

DAVID BELLEMERE

Burberry Prorsum top, $2,095, skirt, $4,695, and sunglasses, $500.

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Almost famous

From Australian SOAP OPERA darling to Hollywood LEAD, the divine Margot Robbie has cracked the big time. By Alexandra Brown. Styled byStevie Dance. Photographed by Matthew Brookes. Marc Jacobs top, $395. All prices approximate; fashion details last pages.

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or 23-year-old actress Margot Robbie, who grew up on the Gold Coast, life is about to get wild. As well as earning a supporting role in Richard Curtis’s latest ﬁlm, About Time, in cinemas now, she also stars in Martin Scorsese’s muchanticipated ﬁlm, Wolf of Wall Street, due for summer release. Cast in a leading role for the Scorsese ﬁlm, Robbie plays the wife of Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, the notorious Jordan Belfort. fe actress’s growing proﬁle was also noted by Vanity Fair magazine, which recently featured her on its page of up-and-coming stars. It seems we’re not the only ones who are predicting big things for this young Australian talent. In Australia we know you as the character Donna from Neighbours, how was this perceived when you arrived in Hollywood? “People don’t really know about Neighbours in America, and if they have heard of it, it’s only in the context of ‘Oh sure, that’s what Guy Pearce was on’, or Kylie Minogue. It was actually nice to get a fresh, clean slate when I came to America.” What encouraged you to leave the comfort and success that you had there? “I was so happy, I had a routine and I had a family there. I really loved it but I did that for almost three years and it was time to challenge myself in diﬀerent ways.” Your ﬁrst role after leaving Australia was a spot on US television series Pan Am, which was cancelled after one season. Was that disappointing for you? “It wasn’t really; it’s funny. It’s so common over here so for us to make it through the whole ﬁrst season was an achievement. I loved it but if it had gone ahead for season two I wouldn’t have been available for Wolf of Wall Street or About Time, two amazing opportunities, so it actually worked out well for me.” Have you been strategic in selecting projects in Hollywood? “fe game plan has always been to work with great directors. I would rather do two scenes in a movie with a director I love than do an entire ﬁlm where I’m not excited about, say, the character or the script.” You have a part in the comedy About Time, starring Rachel McAdams and directed by Richard Curtis. What was it like to work with the man behind Love Actually, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’s Diary? “It was amazing. Richard Curtis ﬁlms are the type I can watch a thousand times over and I quote them endlessly, so to even read a Richard Curtis script was an honour, and I loved it immediately. It was a beautiful script and it turned out to be a beautiful movie. I emailed him after I saw the ﬁrst screening of it in LA and said: ‘I am so proud to be in this ﬁlm, because I think it’s a movie that puts things in perspective and it sends such a wonderful message.’” Ten you landed your role on Wolf of Wall Street. Was it a drawnout process before you were ﬁnally oﬀered the role? “It all happened extremely quickly. When I read the script I didn’t think I was right for the character, but my managers said: ‘It’s a Scorsese ﬁlm and none of us are expecting this to go further than an audition, but just do it to impress Ellen Lewis, the casting agent.’ So I did a self-take and I got a call saying Ellen Lewis loved your self-take, and I was like: ‘Oh my god, she watched it?’ fey said: ‘fat’s not even the good part: she handed it straight on to Marty’, and I was like: ‘Wait … when you say Marty you don’t mean Martin Scorsese? Martin Scorsese is watching my audition tape, right now? fis can’t be happening, this is insane!’ For a

while it looked like I wasn’t going to be able to do the ﬁlm at all, because I was contracted to Pan Am. We had to explain that we never expected Scorsese would want to meet me! fen I got a call saying: ‘Pan Am had cleared you – you have to get to New York. You are going to be in a room with Marty and Leo tomorrow.’” Were you terriﬁed? “Honestly, it was all so quick I didn’t even have time to get nervous. It wasn’t until I walked in the room and they were standing there that I was thinking: ‘fis is insane, this is ludicrous’, and then I sat down and we talked about the weather for 10 minutes. I thought: ‘Margot, think of something, you are in the room with two gods of the industry and you are telling them what the weather is like on the Gold Coast, what are you doing?’” How was the set of this ﬁlm? “It was the most insane experience of my life and I don’t know if I’ll ever do a ﬁlm like that again. It was like a zoo, like the craziest party you’ve ever been to, but for six months … but I was never going to get sick of it; I could have done that ﬁlm for three years. I didn’t like the character when I ﬁrst read the script, but I adored her once I started working. She was the most fun character I could ever imagine playing and the content was outrageous. It was extremely challenging, but also the most exhilarating experience.” How was it working with Leonardo DiCaprio? “fere are a handful of actors who are known in the industry as being extremely lovely down-to-earth people despite their huge proﬁles, and Leo’s one of them. He exceeded my expectations. He was so professional and wonderful to work with. I’m so happy that I can honestly say that, because he really is. We had a great working relationship, we could improvise endlessly and I could go as far as I could possibly go with a scene and know that he was going to take it a step further, there was no limit, there were no boundaries whatsoever. I think we got some really great material, because we were just so comfortable.” Is there any truth to the reports that you and Leo got along especially well outside of the ﬁlm as well? “No.” [laughs] “We’re friends, of course, but those rumours were inevitable – there’s no truth to them. Everyone on the set became good friends, we’d all hang out on weekends.” And what was the reaction from home to the rumours? “I didn’t even see the article, I just woke up to 45 missed calls on my phone and all my girlfriends saying: ‘I can’t believe you didn’t tell me!’ I’d call them back and say: ‘Are you kidding me? Do you not think you would be the ﬁrst people I would tell if this was happening?’ I also had to call my grandparents and assure them that there was absolutely no truth to the rumours, and that took a little more convincing.” Do you ﬁnd yourself reading the articles? “fere are things in life that don’t come to me naturally, and social media and the internet and all those things are some of them, somewhere between taxes and cooking! So I inadvertently missed a lot of things that were written, and I think that’s a good thing.” Who would you like to work with next? “My list is endless. Directors: I would love to do a Tarantino ﬁlm and I would like to work with Wes Anderson, Terrence Malick … anyone who has a really stylised signature to their ﬁlms, they are the ﬁlms I enjoy the most. Actor-wise, I would love to work with Philip Seymour Hoﬀman and Cate Blanchett.” Wolf of Wall Street is in cinemas December 12. ■

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MATTHEW BROOKES

“MARTIN SCORSESE IS WATCHING MY AUDITION TAPE, RIGHT NOW? THIS CAN’T BE HAPPENING!”

Chanel coat, $9,520, from the Chanel boutiques. Mark Cross bag, $1,950. Salvatore Ferragamo shoes, $530.

Bottega Veneta dress, $3,590, and belt, $700. Zac Posen for Illesteva sunglasses, $295.

MATTHEW BROOKES

Jil Sander Navy top, $515. Gucci skirt, $1,860.

Salvatore Ferragamo bodysuit, P.O.A., and shoes, $530. Proenza Schouler skirt, $14,200.

MATTHEW BROOKES

Emporio Armani top. Jil Sander Navy skirt, $800.

MATTHEW BROOKES

Ralph Lauren Blue Label top, $499. Hugo Boss skirt. Salvatore Ferragamo shoes, $530. Valentino cape. Bally bag, $795. Oliver Peoples sunglasses. Beauty note: Kérastase Couture Mousse Bouffante Volumizing Hair Mousse, Styling Spray à Porter Tousled Effect Spray, Gloss Appeal Instant Shine and Topcoat Spray and Laque Couture Micro-Mist Fixing Spray.

MaxMara coat, $2,610. Bally bag, $795. Salvatore Ferragamo shoes, $530. Hair: Renato Campora Make-up: Kim Bower Manicure: Dida

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Palace, Amelienborg. fat she was wearing sequined Louis Vuitton and the precious earrings the prince had given her for a wedding present sealed the deal: we were smitten. Looking at those pictures, it’s hard to imagine the princess confessing that before her marriage, she “never really thought that much about fashion”. She’d spent much of her time as a singleton in sneakers. “Now obviously the situation has changed,” she said. “It is important that I look smart and elegant and appropriately dressed for every occasion.” Take your eye oﬀ this, even ﬂeetingly, and you might ﬁnd yourself hatless at a royal wedding causing bigwigs to tut-tut, as the wife of the British Prime Minister Samantha Cameron did when Prince William made Catherine Middleton the Duchess of Cambridge in 2011. At the other end of the spectrum is Princess Beatrice of York’s “hatgate” scandal at the same event. I happen to adore Bea’s squiggle hat – it was Philip Treacy – but it was a shameless upstager. You want your hat to whisper not yell, as Mary’s did in Amsterdam: that ethereal grey-blue veiling above Lynggaard’s gown struck just the right note of quiet whimsy. It also managed to be ever so slightly amusing, which I took to be a show of support for Fred, who presumably for reasons of protocol unbeknownst to us, must wear that cocked hat that makes him look like Napoleon. Crown Princess Mary’s millinery said: “Oh, never mind, we don’t take ourselves too seriously!” fat hat was a masterstroke. So how does a modern princess navigate that tricky territory between serious and light-hearted? Between appropriate and fashionable? As Crown Princess Mary told Vogue, royal dressing is a mineﬁeld: “What do you wear to a lunch, at a hunt, when it’s minus three? Or what do you pack for a royal tour of Greenland?” fe evolution of her style is a lesson in that. Mary Donaldson might’ve stepped out in any old thing; but the future Queen of Denmark is a public ﬁgure. She must live her life as if the world were watching. “It is very important when you walk out the door that everything is as it should be.” So Crown Princess Mary is a stickler for grooming. She might simply be strolling with her children but she always looks polished – that vest is Moncler, the blouse is Isabel Marant. fe rather stuﬀy Windsor-worthy hats of her early royal days are gone, as are the sloaney pashminas. Nine years after she married ▲

new monarch is always a marvellous excuse to get one’s glad rags on, and when, in April, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands handed down power to her son Willem-Alexander, Amsterdam witnessed some noteworthy fashion. Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway was a standout in Valentino’s Delft-inspired autumn/winter ’13/’14 gown. Princess Mabel of Orange-Nassau wore monochrome Viktor & Rolf, and Princess Letizia of Asturias got people talking about Spanish designer Felipe Varela. But it was Crown Princess Mary of Denmark on whom our eyes were glued. For the ﬁrst state dinner, Crown Princess Mary chose blush silk with a gold sequined bodice that seemed to ﬂoat oﬀ her shoulders like a second skin. For the closing night celebrations, it was clouds of tiered strawberry chiﬀon. And to the inauguration ceremony, she wore a balloon-sleeved white silk dress, hand-appliquéd with coloured foliage by Danish designer Charlotte Lynggaard, with a little grey hat. fis outﬁt wouldn’t work on a blonde, or anyone who wasn’t pin thin, indeed anyone else, period. I had hoped to get through this without saying there’s something about Mary, but, you know, there just is. She is the princess in the Prada pumps carrying Bottega Veneta’s satin clutch, the one who looks as if she has stepped not from the annals of history but from the pages of this very magazine – as in fact she did back in December 2004. Months after her wedding to Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, whom she famously met by chance in a Sydney pub during the Olympics, Crown Princess Mary graced our cover in purple satin Hugo Boss and the family jewels (in the form of a storied ruby and diamond brooch, but more on that later). I was Vogue’s features director at the time, and remember the huge thrill we all felt in the oﬃce when our then editor-in-chief Kirstie Clements set out for Copenhagen. We’d all had our fairytale fantasies growing up; show me a woman who hasn’t. fe idea of a real-life handsome prince falling for this relatable girlnext-door was intoxicating. Next thing we knew, Vogue’s photographer Regan Cameron was snapping away at the Crown Princess slow-dancing with her new husband, the heir apparent to the Danish throne, against the gilded splendour of Christian VII

Crown Princess Mary at the birthday celebration for Queen Margrethe II in April 2010.

ADDITIONAL REPORTING: ALICE BIRRELL PHOTOGRAPHS: GETTY IMAGES

In June this year, the Crown Princess wore Collette Dinnigan to a wedding.

The Duchess of Cambridge is not the only royal brunette with pretty ankles and a muchdiscussed wardrobe. CROWN PRINCESS MARY of Denmark is her equal in the style stakes. On the eve of Crown Princess Mary’s OPERA HOUSE visit, Vogue celebrates an expat Australian icon’s modern approach to regal dressing. By Clare Press.

COLOUR BY NUMBERS We tallied up the shades the Crown Princess wears to work out her favourites.

WHITE

22%

PINK

ORANGE

10%

8%

PURPLE

RED

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ONCE UPON A TIMELINE …

Born February 5, 1972, in Hobart, Tasmania.

Graduated from the University of Tasmania in 1994 with a Bachelor of Commerce and Laws.

2000: met Crown Prince Frederik at a pub in Sydney while he was visiting for the Sydney Olympics.

February 2002: the royal palace confirms Crown Prince Frederik and Mary are dating. Mary begins Danish language lessons.

2002: Mary moves to France and works in Paris.

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up, Crown Princess Mary is becoming more playful with her Of course, there are the conservative little white dresses, and clothes: case in point, the paisley jumpsuit by Danish label neutral blouses with pencil skirts, but the Crown Princess has Style Butler that she teamed with Mulberry’s hot-pink been playing with print of late, and some of these patterns Bayswater bag last year – Crown Princess Mary was are almost kooky, like the swallow print peplum dress by pyjama dressing before Marc Jacobs! Project D she sported at a family christening last year; she But over and above all this, like the Duchess of dressed her daughter Isabella in blue to match. To a garden Cambridge, to whom she is often compared, Crown party at Fredensborg palace Crown Princess Mary donned Princess Mary has become a master of correct form. Both knee-length printed Fendi, while in Brazil there was an art women share a liking for sleeves and demure necklines, know nouveau-ish botanical by Alberta Ferretti. how to pull oﬀ a knee-grazing hem and rely on nipped waists I think it is these choices that have endeared her to the style set to show oﬀ their ﬁgures. gey have been known to choose – quirky, while still in good taste. In 2010, Crown Princess similar garments, even, in the case of Malene Birger’s Mary made fourth spot on Vanity Fair’s international bestbeaded forest wool coatdress, the exact same ones dressed list. And although she had disappeared from the (interesting fact: Crown Princess Mary wore it ﬁrst). list this year, a UK poll that sought votes online for best“In general Princess Mary’s style is understated,” says dressed royal awarded her top spot. Jesper Høvring, the Copenhagen-based designer of that Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark, Countess of fabulous strawberry dress from Amsterdam. “You might Monpezat can cut a startlingly grand ﬁgure in full regalia. see her in Prada but it’s not all about that. She is always Like her full title, her jewellery arsenal is beyond. On her dressed for the occasion, she never does a wrong step.” marriage, Crown Prince Frederik’s mother, Queen It helps to work with the right people. After Margrethe II gave Mary the diamond and her engagement, Crown Princess Mary hired ruby parure ﬁrst owned by Queen Desideria stylist Anja Camilla Alajdi, who advised on of Sweden in Napoleon’s time and known as that white satin Uﬀe Frank wedding gown “Ingrid’s rubies”. Don’t let the cosy nickname Along with the crown jewels, cut like a calla lily. It was Alajdi who made fool you: only jewellery of this seriousness which are owned by the state the Crown Princess’s ﬁrst appointment with could possibly handle it. but at the disposal of the Queen, Høvring’s atelier last year. “Anja and the ge ruby tiara came to Denmark with the Danish royal family has princess work very closely together,” he says. Queen Louise in 1876, who was a Swedish a collection of private jewellery. From Høvring the princess ordered a customprincess before marriage, but it was Ingrid, ge stunning ruby tiara Crown made orange taﬀeta gown, which she wore to Frederik’s grandmother who wore it most Princess Mary has worn several the last New Year’s Court event; the red often, along with its matching collar, times once belonged to the late showstopper followed along with a onechandelier earrings, bracelet, brooch and Queen Ingrid, Crown Prince shouldered day dress in an abstract ﬂoral for ring. Ingrid was given the set as a wedding Frederik’s grandmother. Brazil. She teamed the latter with a Marc gift, so technically these jewels are not crown Jacobs clutch and Gianvito Rossi python jewels, but family heirlooms, which is why heels – quite high, quite pointy. Crown Princess Mary was allowed to wear ge Crown Princess, says Høvring, has developed ﬁrm fashion them when she was newly engaged. And goodness didn’t she look opinions of her own. “She knew what she wanted. She bought the fabulous? gat wreath-shaped diadem is so extravagant it could red dress straight oﬀ the runway. It’s actually two pieces, there’s almost be a crown. Add her scoop-necked scarlet satin column a separate shirt that you tuck into the corset.” dress and the pale blue sash that belongs to Denmark’s highest Certainly, she knows that vibrant jewel tones suit her Snow aristocratic order and Crown Princess Mary looked born to the White colouring perfectly. She looked fabulous in amethyst crepe job. She could have been a member of the Romanov dynasty in the Alexander McQueen, and there’s a purple Prada number she has 1850s, or Audrey Hepburn in the closing scenes of A Roman Holiday. worn several times, most recently to an oﬃcial engagement On the surface, this grandeur seems at particular odds with the in August. She plumped for tangerine Marc Jacobs for an event at Australian ideal of classlessness and a fair go for all, but doesn’t it the Danish Museum of Art and Design recently, and in June she rather depend on how you look at it? If the level playing ﬁeld is stepped out in ﬂoor-length scarlet lace Collette Dinnigan with part of our national story, who better to exemplify it than a dramatic co-ordinating cape. a thoroughly normal Tasmanian girl made good?

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October 8, 2003: Queen Margrethe II publicly announces the engagement between Crown Prince Frederik and Mary.

May 14, 2004: marries Crown Prince Frederik in Copenhagen.

December 2004: February 2005: appears on the cover of first official Vogue Australia; the visit to shoot takes place at Australia by Fredensborg Palace. the royals.

JØRGEN CHEMNITZ GETTY IMAGES

Jewel intentions

October 15, 2005: Crown Princess Mary gives birth to a son, Prince Christian Valdemar Henri John.

Royalty is a peculiar concept in the 21st century. ce whole idea of a hereditary crown seems archaic, and indeed only 10 such kingdoms remain in Europe. ceir monarchies are constitutional and their powers symbolic; it is elected politicians who rule. And yet in 2013 many of these royal clans are more popular than ever. When we in Australia were given the chance to vote Queen Elizabeth II oﬀ the show, we politely declined. Apparently most of us we weren’t Republicans after all. Nor are the Brits – I was in London in July while all those ladders were parked outside the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital awaiting news of the arrival of the royal baby; commemorative spoons aren’t going the way of the dodo any time soon. Regal brocades and aristocratic embellishments were back on the runways for autumn/winter ’13/’14 – Dolce & Gabbana went so far as to oﬀer golden crown headpieces. Whether you wish to thank (or blame) the billion viewers globally glued to the wedding of Kate and Wills, or the popularity of Philippa Gregory’s White Queen series, royalty is back à la mode. So aren’t we lucky that we can lay reasonable claim to Crown Princess Mary being our very own fashion princess? ■

The wedding day deconstructed When: May 14, 2004. Dress: Danish designer Uﬀe Frank. Tiara: a gift from Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik of Denmark. Veil: an heirloom, ﬁrst worn by Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden in 1905. Bouquet: a combination of Australian snow gum eucalyptus with ﬂowers from the palace gardens. Time and place: the wedding was held at Copenhagen Cathedral, with the reception at Fredensborg Palace. Celebrations: in the lead-up to the wedding there was a week of events, including a rock concert, boat race and dinners, with one hosted by the then GovernorGeneral Michael Jeﬀery where Australian fare – such as salmon from Tasmania and lamb from Victoria – was prepared by Sydney chef Luke Mangan.

2007: establishes the Mary Foundation, to help improve the lives of those on the fringe of society.

April 21, 2007: Mary gives birth to a daughter, Princess Isabella Henrietta Ingrid Margrethe.

MUM VS. PRINCESS Crown Princess Mary works both ends of the spectrum, in off-duty separates and red-carpet glamour gowns.

HOME RULE ce Crown Princess is a patron of the Danish fashion industry, including Designers’ Nest in Denmark and the Copenhagen International Fashion Fair. From left: Crown Princess Mary steps out in CCDK; Birgit Hallstein; and Signe Bøgelund-Jensen.

2010: appears on Vanity Fair’s international best-dressed list.

January 8, 2011: gives birth to twins, Vincent Frederik Minik Alexander and Josephine Sophia Ivalo Mathilda.

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He’s the hip-swivelling, singing SUPERSTAR who had us at “hola” back inthe 90s. His white-hot charm is still evident, but Ricky Martin has left the wild partying behind for a whole NEW way of life, discovers Tiffany Bakker.

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t’s an obscenely hot summer’s day in New York, and there’s something of a commotion brewing in Brooklyn that has nothing to do with the heat. Ricky Martin, the man who brought Livin’ La Vida Loca into the mainstream vernacular, is in the neighbourhood for a photo shoot and twentysomething hipster girls giggle and point, while tourists take photos on their phones. After close to 30 years in the business (yes, 30!), Martin’s star power has not dimmed. At 41, he’s grown into his looks. Gone is the clean-cut appearance of yore, replaced by a certain rugged handsomeness. His age, it’s clear, suits him (he puts this down to daily yoga and meditation, plus a recent conversion to vegetarianism). Over the years, he says his style has also slowly evolved. “Have you seen some of the stuﬀ I used to wear?” he asks. “de leather pants? Awful.” dese days, he veers toward a casual look (“I live by the beach”), but he’s not averse to a sharp suit. Refreshingly, for one who has lived almost his entire life in the public eye (he started performing at the age of 12 in Puerto Rican boy band Menudo), he seems surprisingly sane. In fact, he’s so wildly enthusiastic about absolutely everything (he attributes this to the inﬂuence of his ﬁve-year-old twin boys, Matteo and Valentino), you begin to wonder if he ever has an oﬀ day. He assures Vogue he does. “Oh, of course. Sometimes, my sons will be doing something that drives me absolutely crazy and I can very quickly lose patience. I’m incredibly impatient.” As we talk, Martin makes apologies for his English. Recently, after 15 years in Miami, he moved back to Puerto Rico (so his sons grow up close to family) and he says that he’s not using the language as much. Australian audiences have become used to Martin’s English. Indeed, over the past year, he has become something of a revelation to us since appearing as a judge alongside Joel Madden, Delta Goodrem and Seal on season two of Te Voice. de level of hysteria that he garnered down under was almost unprecedented.

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STYLIST: BRIAN COATS PHOTOGRAPH: MIGUEL REVERIEGO HAIR: JOEL OLIVERO MAKE-UP: SERGE HODONOU MANICURE: MAR Y SOUL

Oh Ricky, you’re so ﬁne

Even he was overwhelmed by the reaction. “Just the love I felt was amazing,” he says. “It was a gift to me.” Initially, Martin wasn’t sure he wanted to do a talent show, but he wanted to give back. Seeing kids pursue their musical dreams reminded him of his own childhood. “It felt very important to me to give them good advice.” His Aussie popularity was so immense that promoters were lining up to get him on stage, even though he had no plans to tour. den he realised that by doing an Australian concert tour this October, he could show his new generation of fans here that he’s not “just some guy sitting in a chair”. Certainly, Martin has never been that. A superstar in the Latin/ Hispanic community, he announced himself to US mainstream audiences when he stole the show at the 1999 Grammy awards, catapulting into the public consciousness with a now iconic hippopping performance of Te Cup of Life. At the time, the New York Times said his performance “put a match to the tinder of the popmusic world” and instantly established him as “the symbol of Latin culture’s new mainstream status in the United States”. Gloria Estefan had crossed over, but not with the same impact and hysteria, which followed Martin (it’s the hips). Superstars were lining up to work with him. (He recorded a duet with Madonna, who was said to have taken quite a shine to him.) At the height of his fame he embraced the party lifestyle in Miami. But there were problems. From a young age, he knew he’d had an attraction to the same sex, but he would compartmentalise any relationships, as if they never existed. As he became more famous, he tried to deny his sexuality not only because he was “so ashamed”, but because people would tell him it would “ruin” his career. “I had such low self-esteem,” says Martin. His anger, he says, was vented on those closest to him. “It’s that thing where you feel as if you can treat people who are close to you badly,” he says, quietly. In March 2010, something changed. He was a father (Matteo and Valentino were born in 2008 via a surrogate) and he knew that he could no longer publicly lie. “I didn’t want my sons growing up thinking that there was something wrong with being gay.” He expected a backlash. Instead, he was shocked by the support. “All I could think of, was why didn’t I do it sooner?” dese days, he’s passionate about speaking out on the bullying of gay kids, and he wants his own sons to know that their family is “cool”. “I say to them, in this house, you have two daddies and that’s okay.” He says Matteo and Valentino always shrugged their shoulders, but Martin says he’s noticed a change since they entered school. “dat’s where other people’s bigotries come in, and I don’t want them to be aﬀected by that.” Coming out may have given him a sense of peace, but he says his ﬁve-year relationship with businessman Carlos González Abella has given him a solid grounding, and not just emotionally. “He’s my best friend, and I admire him, and I respect him,” says Martin, with a smile, “and he loves my kids.” Indeed, Abella came into Martin’s life when he was already well down the track of becoming a father. “He wasn’t looking for a family, but he found one. But, you know, he’s a strong personality.” Martin says he and Abella are open to getting married, but it’s not on the cards right now. For now, though, he says they’re looking forward to a short break in New York (Matteo and Valentino are staying at home with his mum in Puerto Rico). dere are a few shows he wants to check out, and he admits that he’s keen to ﬂex his acting muscles further (he recently played Che in a Broadway production of Evita). In the meantime, his Australian experience has so invigorated him, he’s itching to record new music and embark on a larger global tour. “I like a challenge,” he says. “I’ll never again let someone tell me what I can and can’t do. I’m in control.” ■

Ricky Martin wears a Hugo Boss shirt. J Brand pants. Me&Ro necklace. Breitling watch.

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Let’s get radical The secret to mastering PRINT this season? There are NO RULES. Expressive and personal, outré prints make their mark. Styled by Jillian Davison. Photographed byBenny Horne.

Opposite: Céline sweater, $2,330. Ryan Storer ear cuffs, from $180, worn throughout. This page: Burberry Prorsum trench coat, P.O.A, shirt, $925, and briefs, $750. Miu Miu socks, $230, and boots, $1,300. All prices approximate; fashion details last pages. VOGUE.COM.AU –

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EYES ON THE PRIZE Asymmetrical lines: the shape of things to come.

Kenzo jacket, $1,160, skirt, $1,160, and shoes, $510. Wolford sweater, $395. Miu Miu socks, $230.

BENNY HORNE

DOT MATRIX In case you missed the point, Miuccia Prada has decreed the polka dot the pattern of the season. Miu Miu dress, $4,060, scarf, $290, and belt, $230.

FASHION FATIGUE Camouflage is given a feminine spin with curved shoulders and a pleated skirt. Christopher Kane dress, $4,530. Miu Miu dress, $2,600, worn underneath, and socks, $230.

BELL DE JOUR The flared shape may be daring, but the wary can top it off with a tailored blazer.

BENNY HORNE

Ellery jacket, $990, and pants, $590. Wolford bodysuit, $395. Miu Miu scarf, $290. Alexander McQueen shoes, P.O.A.

PRINT TO THE MAX An all-over print has a surprisingly slimming effect, especially when anchored with sturdy heeled boots. Altuzarra bolero jacket, P.O.A. Hermès dress, $6,045. Wolford bodysuit, $395. Prada boots, $1,600.

FLORAL BROCADE

BENNY HORNE

A flurry of blooms is enlivened with clever juxtaposition. Dries Van Noten coat, $2,735, dress, $1,340, and pants, $1,570. Wolford bodysuit, $395. Alexander McQueen shoes, P.O.A.

WILD CHILD This isn’t your ordinary leopard print. The classic pattern is jolted into today’s world with abstract manipulation. Josh Goot vest, $1,245, corset, $895, and skirt, $595. Wolford bodysuit, $395. Fragrance: Dolce & Gabbana Intense EDP.

FROND MEMORIES

BENNY HORNE

The inspiration? Classic 70s Gucci. This gilt jacket and pants set is not one for the shy. Gucci jacket, $2,685, and pants, $2,170. Wolford bodysuit, $396. Kenzo shoes, $510. Hair: Michele McQuillan Make-up: Kellie Stratton Manicure: Fiona Hay for Orly Model: Ashleigh Good

Collette Dinnigan with daughter Estella, husband Bradley Cocks, son Hunter and brother Seamus Dinnigan. Lanvin top, $875, from Belinda. Collette Dinnigan skirt, $1,250. Bulgari bangles. Hermès bangles. All prices approximate; fashion details last pages.

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I CELEBRATION off h In her gorgeous new b book, k C Collette ll Dinnigan invites Vogue to her family BOLTHOLE on the coast. The designer-turned-author tells Clare Press about her creative life. Styled by Victoria Collison. Photographed by Hugh Stewart. VOGUE.COM.AU –

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or such a high achiever, Collette Dinnigan does a very convincing impression of being footloose and fancy-free. Everywhere you look in her new book, Obsessive Creative, published by Penguin’s Lantern imprint, she is barefoot. When she is shod, she has her shoelaces undone. Nothing so uptight as a sock gets a look in. So here she is aged eight perched on the family yacht, wearing pink shorts and a foral tee, no shoes. And here at 13, galloping bareback through a geld on a bay horse, just hanging on to her fip-fops with her toes. Later, as a grown-up, there is a nonchalant aspect to those elegantly polished ensembles for which she is now famed: an early newspaper photograph captures her in a short lace dress skipping across a Sydney street, neither foot touching the ground. Relaxing in a Palm Beach holiday house, cruising the Amalg coast, there’s not a sandal to be seen. In one of the newer family portraits, she throws her baby son Hunter in the air, her tanned feet shoved into blue canvas boat shoes, laces conspicuous by their absence. “You know what? I hadn’t noticed but it is kind of a theme. Look at that sandal strap!” She points to a favourite shot from the book, which shows the designer posing in a woolshed, the glamorous perfection of her gown in stark contrast to her surroundings (yes, that is a shearer in the background), but look closer: her sandal straps are loose. “I suppose it’s the gypsy in me. I do love a bit of chaos, as long as it’s organised chaos.” She might well be describing the kaleidoscopic colours and mad beading of her resort ’14 collection, which surrounds us when we meet for this interview in her Sydney head oeces. We are a week out from her latest Vogue shoot, which will see her oh-duty in the rambling property on the New South Wales south coast that she shares with Hunter, her daughter Estella and husband, travel enthusiast Bradley Cocks, who co-founded luxury sites Kiwi Collection and the Visa Luxury Hotel Collection, and has just launched a new project, Hotel Insider. In addition to the upcoming Vogue shoot, Dinnigan is also barely a month out from her spring/summer ’14 show at Paris fashion week. “I’m a bit behind,” she shrugs. “It will work out.” She has at least hired her creative team, headed up by New York-based stylist Beth Fenton for the grst time. Oh, and tomorrow, she will sneak in a trip to Hamilton Island, Queensland to present resort ’14; she wouldn’t miss it, she says: it’s her eighth time as the big fashion drawcard of Audi Race Week up there. But with just weeks till Paris! And a book to launch! And Hunter still only 10 months old! How does she do it? It can’t be all beer and skittles. “Of course, some days I’m stressed out,” she says. “Do you mind if I eat this?” Lunch is takeaway kai, at 3pm. “kat’s why it’s so important to be in touch with the land and the sea, the environment, family, that’s what keeps you sane. But the thing is, it’s not just work. I am totally immersed in this business, how could I not be? You need tenacity, a hard work ethic, passion. If you want to be in a creative industry, you’ve got to be always on.” She hasn’t drawn breath; she can talk our Collette. And you know she still hasn’t taken a bite of those noodles. In the book, she admits that one of the only times in recent memory when she switched oh completely was on holiday in the Maldives, when she was laid low with mo rning sickness. Dinnigan and Cocks, a hotelier she met at a party in 2007, wed quietly two years ago. key included only Estella, nine, Dinnigan’s daughter

from a previous relationship, and two family friends in the ceremony in Positano, Italy. Afterwards, Dinnigan swapped her embroidered white dress and tiara from a Paris fea market for swimmers, and the party spent an idyllic afternoon sailing to Capri. ke following year the designer made headlines for being pregnant with Hunter at the age of 46 and in November last year she gave birth to their healthy son, and was back at work in a jihy. Lantern’s publishing director Julie Gibbs praises Dinnigan’s “drive and attention to detail. I love how she is never afraid of what seems hard – she gets on with it. Collette is not about spin,” she adds, “she is authentic and speaks from her heart.” Old friend Sarah Murdoch points out the designer’s grace and femininity, which comes out in her clothes. Dinnigan made Murdoch’s wedding gown 14 years ago (in fact, she was her matchmaker: introducing Murdoch to her husband Lachlan on a fashion shoot). Her designs, says Murdoch, “make the wearer feel ehortlessly elegant, unrestricted, always fun, a little playful, not contrived”. It keeps coming back to that. kis delicious idea that it is possible to obsess over exquisite, often elaborately embellished clothes and keep your (bare) feet on the ground. It’s all there in the book, a cohee table tome beautifully illustrated throughout, which Dinnigan says is not a memoir but a collection of creative inspirations that shows the reader how and why she makes her particular brand of fashion magic. “It’s not an autobiography,” she says. “But there are so many things in my life that fashion touches on. My business, like my childhood, is about a sense of adventure.” Dinnigan was born near Durban, South Africa, the grst of two children (her brother Seamus is 14 months younger). keir upbringing was bohemian. In the book, she recalls moving to “a small town in the middle of Zululand”, where their mother Sheila would take them to spend nights in the local villages. It was, she says, “a wonderful nomadic kind of childhood” glled with colour, parties, travel, new experiences. Her father, Des, built a yacht in their back garden, but this wasn’t some hokey DIY project. It had teak decks and antique gxtures. Dinnigan remembers her father sailing to Rio de Janeiro, I’m not sure where from, to fetch back crates of cohee beans. “When other kids thought canned food was exciting, we were eating fresh peppercorns,” she smiles. ke point is they were adventurers; they didn’t like to sit still. When Dinnigan was eight, the whole family jumped on board Skyliner, and left South Africa for good. Eventually, they ended up in New Zealand. Dinnigan’s friend of 20 years, chef Neil Perry, who has often created food for her events, points to the fact that “like all creative people, she rarely seems satisged; she always feels she can do better”. “It’s not in my nature to stay put for too long,” says Dinnigan. kis, she says, is why she was drawn to fashion. “It suits my impatience!” And in the end it was fashion, with its constant changes, that grounded her. Of course, there is plenty more to come, but how does she feel looking back on all this? “Because I’m not a nostalgic person, it’s been quite amazing for me, this retrospective thing, very personal. ke saddest thing was sifting through all this and thinking about my mother. It made me realise how young I was when she died and how much she’s missed out on. She was there at the beginning but she hasn’t taken my journey with me. Who knows, as people say, she’s probably watching. Mulling over it, I realise she’d be very proud of me. So in a way this book is to my children.” ■

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HUGH STEWART

“I SUPPOSE IT'S THE GYPSY IN ME. I DO LOVE ABIT OF CHAOS, AS LONG AS IT’S ORGANISED CHAOS”

Burberry Prorsum sweater, $1,150. Acne skirt, $450, from Robby Ingham. Dinnigan’s own boots.

HUGH STEWART

Dinnigan’s own vintage coat and gumboots.

Burberry Prorsum coat, $2,895. Balenciaga sweater, $669, from Muse Boutique. Roland Mouret skirt, $785, from Land’s End. Hunter gumboots. Estella rides Abbey the horse.

HUGH STEWART

“IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO BE IN TOUCH WITH THE LAND AND THE SEA, THE ENVIRONMENT … FAMILY”

Opposite and below: Dries Van Noten cardigan, $995, from Belinda. Collette Dinnigan dress, $1,890. Hermès blanket, $1,615. Above: Acne sweater, $450. Roland Mouret skirt, $785, from Land’s End.

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Céline shirt, from Muse Boutique. Collette Dinnigan skirt. Dinnigan’s own belt.

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Taken What was meant to be anintrepid career move putAmanda Lindhout through 15 months of hell atthe hands of Somali KIDNAPPERS. Four years later, she is ready to tell her story. By Rebecca Johnson.

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Every life is made up of a series of decisions: good ones, bad ones, opportunities of a lifetime and those, in retrospect, that look extraordinarily ill-considered. Five years ago, Amanda Lindhout, a struggling 27-year-old Canadian journalist hoping to make a name for herself, decided to visit Mogadishu, Somalia, a gorgeous wreck of a city perched on the Indian Ocean along Africa’s east coast. Once a sparkling jewel of the continent, Somalia had descended into lawlessness, with constant fghting by factions of Islamist militants and a fedgling government powerless to stem the violence. Even seasoned journalists hesitated to go there. Lindhout was not a seasoned journalist. She grew up in a poor rural area of Canada and, after graduating from high school, went to work as a cocktail waitress in Calgary. Whenever she amassed enough money, she would quit her job to travel, inspired by the old copies of National Geographic she’d pored over as a kid. She started in the western hemisphere – Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua. When the money ran out, she’d return to waitressing until she had saved enough to travel again. As her confdence grew, she became more adventurous. Latin America gave way to Tailand, then Bangladesh, followed by India and Pakistan. Roaming the world, Lindhout found a joy and expansiveness in her life she had not previously known. Travelling was, she says, like a “narcotic”. As she began meeting journalists who made their living on the road, she grew restless with waitressing and yearned to make more of an impact. Journalism seemed just the ticket. Like other ambitious young reporters, Lindhout made her way to such post-9/11 hot spots as Iraq and Afghanistan. To prepare, she read the equivalent of TV Reporting for Dummies over and over. 234 – NOVEMBER 2013

Amanda Lindhout (right) with her co-author Sara Corbett.

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ien one day, a journalist came to visit from Portland, Maine. Sara Corbett was a 42-year-old mother of three and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine who was well respected for her thoughtful and empathetic reporting on subjects ranging from the Lost Boys of Sudan to child-traccking in Cambodia. When a friend of Corbett’s suggested she meet with Lindhout, she initially dismissed the idea. “I’ve never been interested in those genre books that get churned out whenever somebody has been in captivity,” Corbett says. Nevertheless, she Googled Lindhout’s name to end out more. A YouTube video – “Amanda Lindhout in Happier Times” – changed her mind. “It was a compilation of videos posted by a friend of hers that showed this young, healthy woman jumping across streams in

“PUTTING MY EXPERIENCE ON THE PAGE WAS CATHARTIC. BUT IS IT OUT OF ME? NO” Pakistan’s Hunza Valley, walking through the slums of Calcutta, on top of a bus in Afghanistan. She was the epitome of what it means to be young, female and free. It made me ask: ‘Who was this woman, and what led her to where she ended up?’” When Corbett made her pitch, Lindhout knew immediately that she had found the right person. To understand her mix of independence, bravery and folly, you had to know about the nights she spent watching her mother eght with her hard-drinking boyfriend, the afternoons spent rummaging around in rubbish skips with her brother, and the tantalising allure of those yellow-bound National Geographic magazines hinting at a wider, better world. “As a reader,” Lindhout says, “that was a book I would want to read.” A House in the Sky, the result of their extraordinary collaboration, took more than three years and 1,200 pages of notes to complete. It involved thousands of emails and texts, as well as weeks spent in faraway places like the Bahamas, where they would hole up for days at a time to relive some of the most horrifying abuse. “We wanted this book to have meaning,” says Corbett, “not to simply recount the sensationalism. Bearing witness to a tragedy is such a human impulse – we process things by

making art.” ie result is a poetic, profound and thrilling exploration of one woman’s misadventure set against the backdrop of global terrorism. It is better than a hurricane in Galveston because it captures so vividly the way that, no matter the depths of its sufering, the human spirit will always swim back to the surface. As lucky as Lindhout was to end such a talented and devoted writer, Corbett was equally lucky to end a subject who could recall her experiences with such clear-eyed precision. ie resulting prose is both elegant and evocative, as when describing those early dumpsters: “ie interior, even on the crispest days of October, was soft and damp like an old leaf pile, smelling like sour milk. ie two of us slid between mounded bags, their skins greased by leaked liquids and loose trash.” ie travelling years are a joyous riot of golden empanadas, swishing palm trees, the purpling light of a Caribbean dusk, and the growing conedence of a young woman starting to see herself as a citizen of the world. ie contrast between those happy years and the mixture of the dullness and terror of her captivity is devastating: “As the weeks passed, I wished for things that were large and abstract – freedom, comfort, safety. Beyond that, my most speciec longings involved food – plates of medium-rare steak, bags of candy, a cold beer in a frosted mug … More than anything, I craved … the chance to fall into the arms of someone, anyone, who cared about me.” It was Lindhout’s innate pluck that got her out of Red Deer, Canada; that same pluck fuels her eforts to survive, from a daring escape attempt to everyday coping strategies, including the inspired decision to earn her captors’ sympathy by converting to Islam: “I used my captors’ names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.” ie conversion also meant she had something to read. As the months dragged on, her captors grew angry with the delays over the ransom and took everything but the Koran away from her. She spent hours reading the text, looking for a passage that might augur better treatment (“A believing slave is given more lenience than an unbelieving slave”). Lindhout had kept extensive journals throughout her life but was initially shy about sharing them, self-consciously reading selected passages to Corbett over

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Her employers were dodgy at times – she was an on-air reporter for the Iranian state-sponsored news service; she was briedy on assignment for Combat and Survival magazine – but she also sold a few pieces to more legitimate places like cable news channel France 24. In Baghdad, however, she found herself frozen out by the more conventional members of the press corps, many of whom seemed inexplicably cold to her. One night, a friend told her why. Early in her brief tenure with the Iranian news channel, she had criticised the press corps for staying inside the safe zone of Baghdad to report. Someone had posted the commentary on YouTube. Lindhout was mortieed. No wonder the other reporters were aloof. She realised she needed to get away from Baghdad and start afresh. Her role model was Dan Rather, once a nobody reporter at a second-rate television station who deeed all warnings one day and stayed in Galveston, Texas, to report on a dangerous hurricane. It made his career. Lindhout needed her own Galveston, a story so stunning nobody would be able to turn her down. She decided on Somalia, the reporters’ no-man’s-land. What happened next is like something out of Te Monkey’s Paw, the children’s cautionary tale that warns us to be careful what we wish for. Within 72 hours of landing in Mogadishu, Lindhout and Nigel Brennan, an Australian photographer and former boyfriend she had persuaded to make the trip with her, were kidnapped by a group of Islamic militants and held for ransom. Over the next 15 months, she was beaten, starved, tortured and raped. After months of negotiations and failed bargaining, Lindhout’s and Brennan’s families were enally able to raise more than $1 million to secure their release. She had found her Galveston. But it had nearly killed her. Almost from the moment Lindhout was out of the hospital and back home in Canada, she was inundated with ofers from publishers to tell her story. As she slowly worked to recover her mental and physical health – despite how malnourished she was, for almost a year afterwards she could barely eat anything but potatoes – she spoke with a series of potential ghost writers. Again and again, she heard the same pitch – what did it feel like to sufer hell on earth? Lindhout, who could barely bring herself to think about what she’d been through, let alone contemplate reliving it, declined all ofers.

the phone. As the trust between the women grew, she began to share more and more. By the end, the urgency of needing someone to understand took over, and she would call her collaborator, urging her to imagine the prison of her days. “Try lying on the foor,” she once told Corbett, “have a tall man stand over you and talk down at you.” Another time, she gave her specifc instructions on how to tie up her legs so she could experience what it feels like to walk in chains. And so the dross of human sufering becomes the gold of art. “I lay in nothingness,” the narrative recounts, “drifting deeper into a state of half-being, the stale darkness eating away all boundaries. I saw skeins of blue thread, little plume-like spinnakers that foated in front of me, whether my eyes were open or shut. Sometimes I wondered if I’d gone blind. Other times I wondered if I was alive at all. Was this hell? It was not an unreasonable thought.” When, fnally, she and Brennan are freed by a group of strange men, it is the smell of smoke on a man’s skin that tells her freedom is near: “A realisation bubbled from the recesses of my rational mind: a fundamentalist wouldn’t smoke.” It is the kind of telling detail that makes a scene pop – and that can’t be taught. “Amanda just had that kind of mind,” says Corbett. “It was such a gift.” Almost four years after her ordeal, Lindhout looks the picture of health, with long glossy hair, super-white teeth and carefully plucked eyebrows, a vanity that irked her fundamentalist Muslim captors. Her shoes are fat, and her skirt hits just above the knee. She exudes confidence, but there’s also an understandable wariness to her as she gets ready to take her story out into the world. It was one thing to talk with Corbett, a woman who became more like a sister than a collaborator, about the multiple rapes she endured, but when she tentatively stepped out into the world a few months ago to talk about her experience at a violence-against-women event, she was devastated by the headline the Hufngton

Post used to describe her speech: “Chained starved raped”. “Maintaining my dignity is so important for me,” she said, her voice thick with outrage. “Tat headline was like being revictimised. I would never, ever present myself that way.” Her sense of personal dignity is so important she has a hard time even admitting that going to Somalia was a mistake. “Would I do it again? Yes,

which can get tangled up in bureaucracy. While she was in Kenya, arranging transportation and customs declarations, it became obvious that she would need to be on the trucks crossing the border herself. “It was an emotional day,” she says. “I faced a deep fear, but mostly I was proud of my organisation. We served more than two million meals in that crisis. Turning all that negative energy into something positive was so important for me.” Lindhout returned to Part of what kept Somalia in August 2011 Lindhout sane all those as the founder of a famine-relief food program. months in captivity was her awareness that the ragtag group of young men working as her jailers were themselves victims of circumstance. “You could see these scars on their bodies from the violence and all these horrible experiences,” she says. “I don’t know if I had sympathy for them, but I had an understanding of how they were shaped by the violence around them and the sadness of having no I probably would, actually,” she says. education or opportunity to dream.” Even “Somalia is an important story in the the title of the book harbours their reality world, and it needed to be told. Was I the as well as hers – the house in the sky is the best person to tell it? Was it the best time place she built in her dreams to escape her to go? Maybe not. But I tried.” brutal surroundings, but it also evokes Lindhout has got on with her life in the Muslim belief in the transcendence many admirable ways. When she was at of the afterlife. her darkest time, lying on a mattress, her In a perfect world, Lindhout would be as legs shackled, in a room without light, healed on the inside as she is on the barely fed, and forced to lie on her side so outside. Unfortunately, life doesn’t work that she wouldn’t develop the strength to like that. Some days are better than others, attempt another escape, she made a vow but the kidnapping is always with her. to herself: if she ever got free, she would go “Putting my experience on the page was back to school, help people and fnd love. cathartic,” she says, “but is it out of me? Within a year of her release she had made No. I live with it every day in a multitude signifcant headway on two of the three of ways. In some ways, it has got easier, but by enrolling in classes at a local university in some ways it is harder, because I had this and establishing the Global Enrichment hope that I would do all this work, and Foundation, an organisation that runs I would get through it and move on. But education and food-relief programs aimed now I am in this place where I have to at women in Somalia. Her donors include accept that this experience lives in the cells Chobani Yogurt’s Shepherd’s Gift of my body and I will have this condition foundation, which has given $1 million. for the rest of my life. Tat is hard.” As for Nearly two years after her release, her goal of fnding love and possibly Lindhout returned to Somalia for the frst starting a family, it’s still there, but distant. time to deliver food during the famine of “Maybe,” she says. “Someday.” ■ 2011. Operating a small, nimble outft, she A House in the Sky, by Amanda Lindhout saw that she could move food more quickly and Sara Corbett (Viking, $29.99), is than some of the larger organisations, out now. VOGUE.COM.AU –

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vogue FIRSTCLASS vogueFIRST CLASS Looking out to Sydney Harbour from the Museum of Contemporary Art.

WHERE DO YOU SHOP FOR CLOTHES IN SYDNEY? “I discovered Bloodorange in Elizabeth Bay, following the edgy advice of the always stylish Jacqui Lewis – my friend and style guru!” Fashion store Bloodorange.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO ON AN IDEAL DAY IN SYDNEY?

WHAT IS THE BEST PLACE TO FIND ANTIQUES? “I loved rummaging at Mitchell Road Antiques & Design Gallery; it’s the best place to unearth antiques at a fair price.”

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WHAT ARE YOUR TOP PLACES TO STAY IN SYDNEY? “Guest Residences by The Country Trader Residence for a timeless, quiet stay; QT Sydney for a vibrant, stylish stay; and the Park Hyatt Sydney for a state-ofthe-art stay!”

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The Louis Vuitton City Guide: Sydney.

The writer of Louis Vuitton’s Sydney guide shares her tips on the HUB’S must-dos.

To celebrate 15 years of its city guides, Louis Vuitton is welcoming Sydney to the fold with a stylish compendium of what to do, where to shop, what to eat and where to go in the sunny city. To research and write the guide, the French fashion company enlisted international journalist Marie Le Fort, who has reﬁned the art of travel writing in her roles for publications like Architectural Digest and Paris Vogue. Te well-travelled Le Fort (she spends nearly 300 days a year traversing the world) has a keen eye for out-of-the-ordinary experiences and memorable locales. Here, she briefs Vogue on the best hideouts, hangouts and hot spots discovered during her Sydney sojourns.

WHAT DO LOCALS LOVE MOST ABOUT THEIR CITY? “The diversity of its neighbourhoods: in one day, you can be at the beach, walking through arty, leafy Paddington, viewing trendsetting contemporary art by the harbour or at Carriageworks, and sampling a great coffee in Newtown.”

WHAT WOULD YOU PACK FOR A TRIP TO SYDNEY? “A chic Eres swimsuit, a fierce SPF50 sunscreen, sleeveless shirts by Equipment, light dresses from Anthropologie and airy, printed scarves by Ventilo. A few stylish pairs of heels from Rupert Sanderson and short overalls in dark blue satin by Acne. Plus, my yellow printed Yayoi Kusama Louis Vuitton bag. I also always have an Aēsop hand wash and hand balm handy!”

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“I’d go for a great cup of coffee at Single Origin Roasters or Gnome Espresso and Winebar [both Surry Hills], head to the Art Gallery of New South Wales followed by a stroll through the Botanic Gardens to the Museum of Contemporary Art and lunch at the museum’s restaurant. I’d then head to Woollahra and Paddington to shop, have an afternoon bite at Paddington Alimentari delicatessen, then head to Bondi’s Icebergs Dining Room and Bar for sunset cocktails.”

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What’s in store and worth having this month.

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BLACK CANVAS

Give your imagination free rein: this soft wool dress from Wolford is extremely versatile and can also be worn as a skirt or a top, depending on the occasion. Visit www.wolford.com.

OFF THE CUFF Georg Jensen’s sterling silver Smithy cuffs follow the exact shape of the wrist for a beautiful profile. From top, the narrow bangle, logo bangle and hammered cuff are all handcrafted with a slightly curved interior for extra wearing comfort. Priced from $525, visit www.georgjensen.com.au or call 1800 441 765.

GOOD AS GOLD

These earrings and necklet, part of the Hardy Brothers Golden Age Of Glamour collection, are set in 18 carat rose gold and feature the demure soft colour of the cylinder-cut moonstone. Call 1300 231 393.

INFINITY AND BEYOND

The braided, loop-knotted infinity symbol embedded in the Vera Wang Wedgwood Infinity silver toasting flutes functions as a constant reminder of love’s endurance. Priced from $99.95 for a pair: call 1300 852 022 or visit www.wedgwood.com.au for further details.

HOROSCOPE

SCORPIO

CAPRICORN

23 NOVEMBER – 21 DECEMBER

22 DECEMBER – 20 JANUARY

Something has to change. A change of mind or a change of heart as retrograde Mercury moves in midmonth. Keep it local if you want love, as Cupid’s arrows can’t hit a distant or moving target. For best results, creative or romantic, follow intuition, as an artistic project or someone special retunes to your wavelength. STYLE ICON: Emma Stone

It’s a month of mind games with Mercury in reverse, and of inspiration, with an eclipse giving you uncanny insight. Your ruler Jupiter also backtracks now, so if you have a sense of déjà vu over a passion or ﬁnancial intrigue, now you’ll know why. As for home life, however, the only way is fabulously forwards. STYLE ICON: Kim Basinger

Transparency, or the lack thereof, may come to light now, care of a revelatory eclipse and Mercury moving out of reverse, both linking to the friends or groups you hang with. Venus in your sign makes you designated peacemaker, and while friends and lovers may want the truth from you, just make sure that they can handle it. STYLE ICON: Zooey Deschanel

AQUARIUS

PISCES

ARIES

21 JANUARY – 19 FEBRUARY

20 FEBRUARY – 20 MARCH

21 MARCH – 20 APRIL

Reasons to be cheerful: mind-boggling Mercury gets out of reverse around the same time as an empowering eclipse hits your career zone, and money matters that have been treading water recently start ﬂowing freely once more. You’re only in danger this month of overdoing things, so setting aside some “me time” is essential. STYLE ICON: Sheryl Crow

You might feel a little more switched on now with the retrograde Neptune back on track, although planets reversing in other water signs may feel like a buzz-kill. It’s only temporary, designed to help you reconsider your wider aims and romantic alliances if things have been getting too big too soon, or too far too fast. STYLE ICON: Rachel Weisz

Getting the job done is what this month is all about for you, what with your ruler Mars making you supereﬃcient and health-conscious. Home can take a hike for the time being, as a serious opportunity presents itself for you to raise your career proﬁle and revamp both your ﬁnancial aﬀairs and aﬀairs of the heart. STYLE ICON: Rooney Mara

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

21 APRIL – 21 MAY

22 MAY – 21 JUNE

22 JUNE – 23 JULY

If your relationships aren’t everything you had hoped for, they could be mirroring what’s going on inside you. A Taurus full moon says enough is quite enough. Tweak one thing in your world and see everything else change for the better, including friendships and romance. An eclipse in your love zone will make sure of that. STYLE ICON: Megan Fox

An urge to purge your surroundings could overwhelm you this month. De-cluttering your life is ﬁne, but with your ruler Mercury temporarily in reverse be sure you’re not ditching the things (or people) you might want later. Saving rather than splurging means more to you now, aided by smoother progress at work. STYLE ICON: Nicole Kidman

Jupiter’s been giving you an easy ride since July. Tis month the planet of luck does a U-turn, but you now have Venus making your closest relationships more loved-up, and an eclipse bringing an inspirational twist to romance and all things artistic. Proof that a lucky charm is an accessory, not a necessity. STYLE ICON: Eva Green

LEO

ASTROLOGER: STELLA GREY

SAGITTARIUS

24 OCTOBER – 22 NOVEMBER

VIRGO

LIBRA

24 JULY – 23 AUGUST

24 AUGUST – 23 SEPTEMBER

24 AUGUST – 23 SEPTEMBER

A rethink of a home or very personal issue may be needed right now, and this month’s eclipse helps you to resolve it in a way you weren’t expecting so you can move on to more pleasurable concerns. Financially, push for what you want, then let things happen at their own speed. STYLE ICON: Sandra Bullock

Saying what you think is not always the best move, even if you know you’re right. Tis month’s eclipse oﬀers you insights into your communication style that lets you get results without proving the truth hurts. If friends seem temporarily distant, focus instead on your “about to get serious” love life. STYLE ICON: Michelle Williams

Apply your Venus-inspired creative touch to where you love and live this month. Making a commitment to a stable home life is easier now, and while work and ﬁnances may be a sticking point, an eclipse gives you clearer vision of what you need to do to get what you want. STYLE ICON: Naomi Watts

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Opera House moon (2004), acrylic on canvas, by Ken Done.

“IT IS A HOUSE OF DREAMS”

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1956 The competition to design the Sydney Opera House is announced.

“We have people still working here who were here when the building opened and they have stories about how the Opera House is in their hearts. I don’t think there are many workplaces that could evoke that level of emotion.” – Claire Spencer, COO, Sydney Opera House

1957 As the winner of the international competition to design Sydney Opera House, relatively unknown architect Jørn Utzon was awarded 5,000 pounds in prize money. 1959 Construction began on the seemingly unbuildable Sydney Opera House.

“I painted the Opera House all kinds of different ways, straight, coloured, upside down inside out – it is an absolute constant source of inspiration.” Ken Done

Last say Happy 40th birthday to the Sydney Opera House.

2,400 PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS OVER 363 DAYS A YEAR – MORE THAN ANY OTHER PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE IN THE WORLD.

1,056,006

tiles on the spectacular curved roof.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS OCTOBER 20 Sydney Opera House’s birthday celebrations begin like any other birthday, with a cake and song. The public is invited to attend the party, which starts at 10am at the forecourt, and join in singing Happy Birthday.

OCTOBER 27 Beethoven’s Ode to Joy was played at the opening in 1973 and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra will perform this work at the 40th anniversary concert, which will feature a stunning line-up of Australian artists.

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OCTOBER 25 TO NOVEMBER 11 The Crown Prince Couple will open a special exhibition, Danish Design at the House. The Western Foyer of Sydney Opera House will be transformed into an installation inspired by Danish design.

OCTOBER 28 The celebrations culminate with the Crown Prince Couple’s Awards, which recognise talented artists and innovative social projects. This will be the first time the awards have been held outside Denmark.

1964 Some of the world’s best construction engineers began to erect the pre-cast “ribs” that formed the house. 1965 A new government was elected and the Minister of Works questioned Utzon’s designs and eventually stopped payments. Utzon resigned as chief architect. 1966 After fierce protests, led by Australian architect Harry Seidler, had little result, Utzon left Australia, never to return and see the Sydney Opera House in person. 1973 Sydney Opera House was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on October 20. Utzon was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of Architects Australia, but didn’t attend the opening ceremony. 1999 Utzon and the Opera House were reunited and Utzon was engaged to develop a set of design principles to be used as a reference for all future changes to the building. 2002 Utzon’s design principles published. 2003 Utzon was awarded the Pritzker Prize for Architecture. 2004 The newly refurbished Reception Hall was opened by then Premier Bob Carr and renamed the Utzon Room. 2007 Declared a World Heritage-listed building. 2008 Jørn Utzon dies, aged 90. 2013 The Sydney Opera House celebrates its 40th with Crown Princess Mary and Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark visiting to mark the occasion.

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