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JUERGEN TELLER When esteemed German art and fashion photographer Juergen Teller suggested capturing Australian-born model Angelina Kendall within one of Paris’s numerous embassies for the cover of this issue, editor-inchief Christine Centenera knew that only the Australian embassy in the city’s 15th arrondissement would do. He was impressed. “I was stunned by the architecture of the building designed by Harry Seidler, the excellent view of the Eiffel Tower, and the warm welcome of the Madame Ambassador and her team,” says Teller. Having met 18-year-old Kendall in Milan shortly before the shoot, the creative shares that it was her palpable excitement that sparked the same energy in him. DOVILE DRIZYTE “Juergen [Teller] asked me to work with him over six years ago, and what started as a business partnership expanded into a creative one.…

It’s only been two years since Australian-born model Angelina Kendall was scouted via Instagram at 16. Since then, the now 18-year-old beauty has walked for the likes of Chanel, Dior, Gucci and Saint Laurent. She’s starred in campaigns for everyone from Burberry to Tom Ford, and has fronted covers for Vogue. Now, she takes over the Australian Embassy in Paris for her very first cover of Vogue Australia. Photographed by the indomitable Juergen Teller, Kendall cuts fierce shapes for the pages of the April issue in new-season haute couture styled by editor-in-chief Christine Centenera. Fashion and market editor Harriet Crawford flew from Sydney to assist on the set of what she cites as the quickest cover shoot she’s ever worked on. “Very Juergen,” is how she best describes the creative brief, adding…

Stars of stripes Stripes are not new, but their flavour this season came reinvigorated via collegiate hues with a youthful sporting edge. Go graphic, go boldly coloured, or go home. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s stripes edit. Over and over Layer upon layer was the quite literal style directive from a swathe of designers unafraid to double up on the same item or put unlikely unmatched pieces together: skirt over dress, dress upon oversized jumper. The key is giving a feeling of thrown-together ease. Air force If you only buy one dress, opt for a style that taps the yen for lightness and movement, with cut-outs, fluid fabrics, gauzy cotton or diaphanous volume. In other words, let the air in. Work for it There’s a forthrightness about the jacket of the season in all its no-nonsense…

The short film that heralded John Galliano’s viral haute couture show for Maison Margiela in January this year opened with the whispered words: “Would you like to take a walk with me, offline?” For the legendary designer, it was a call for his audience to be present in the moment, but looking back, it wasn’t without irony. In the months after the breathtaking presentation – which had taken 12 months to create – the algorithms of social media overflowed with imagery from the show: the otherworldly corseted gowns and tailoring, the laminated doll-like faces, and the mesmerising marionette choreography, scored by Adele’s goose-bump-inducing cover of “Fastlove”. Over the past 10 years, the impacts of the digital age have been a constant theme for Galliano, who marks his decennial at Maison…

Miu Miu’s modern bowler performs as well in the functionality stakes as it does style. The carryall, with room for every kind of daily detritus, means hardworking types need leave nothing behind. A chosen accompaniment for modern life should lift spirits as much as it does an outfit. Gucci’s crystal-enmeshed Jackie is for the woman who lives high-octane and carefree around the clock. The ultimate shopper, Saint Laurent’s market tote matches the pace of those who can be found wandering market stalls on a Saturday morning – and who now have the perfect vessel in which to sequester fresh flowers. WORDS: ALICE BIRRELL STYLING: ISABELLA MAMAS ART DIRECTION: ARQUETTE COOKE ALL PRICES APPROXIMATE DETAILS AT VOGUE.COM.AU/WTB. ALL PRICES APPROXIMATE DETAILS AT VOGUE.COM.AU/WTB…

Julia Baldini Sydney cobbler Julia Baldini’s shoes won’t play second fiddle to any outfit. Instead, she wants them to have a presence: stomping, fierce, theatrical. Take her newest pieces – knee-high, trimmed with a ballooning leather ruff, or shaggy blood-red Mongolian lambswool. They’re daring, a bit punk and slightly dangerous. “I found myself captivated by the dual nature of poisonous and medicinal flowers,” she explains of the inspiration behind pieces like the faux fur-lined Dandelion boots, which, seen from above, look like the mouths of carnivorous flowers. The powerful, perilous pull of nature is the most recent in a feverishly creative mix of influences, previously taking in fairytales to pagan iconography and the visual language of Dario Argento and Tim Burton. But underneath her imaginative meanderings is a studied discipline, something she’s…

There’s a noticeable sense of calm that Stuart Vevers radiates, even over Zoom. The British designer – who’s served as creative director of American leather brand Coach for 10 years after stints at Loewe and Bottega Veneta – is conducting this interview from a lamp-lit space at his New York home a few months after presenting the Coach spring/summer ’24 collection last September. The frenetic process of staging a show has subsided, and he speaks candidly about the design process, which he approached differently this time around. “I was using my memories as a starting point – in a way, it [made] things looser,” Vevers says softly in his Yorkshire accent. “To not have so many images on a mood board was quite liberating, because some of these memories are probably…

When one thinks of Fendi, it’s difficult to overlook the significance of the Peekaboo bag, with its slouching front face that flips down into an open pocket – invented by Silvia Venturini Fendi, the family scion who also designs Fendi’s accessories and menswear. And yet the tote, which debuted in 2008, is only a relatively recent instalment in the 99-year history of the storied Roman label. In fact, by the time it debuted, Fendi had already seen one of its bags become a global phenomenon preceding the social media age. The Baguette, launched in 1998, was groundbreaking with its clean shape, affirming Fendi as one of the world’s most coveted brands. Unlike the Baguette, the Peekaboo was taller and more formal, replete with the enduring mid-century elegance typical of Fendi under…

Take a layered approach; mix metals and contrasting shapes with a daring quality to match the uniqueness of these watches. WORDS: JONAH WATERHOUSE HAIR: LAURA MAZIKANA MAKE-UP: NISHA VAN BERKEL MODEL: CAMERON STEPHENS ALL PRICES APPROXIMATE DETAILS AT VOGUE.COM.AU/WTB…