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Hannah Murray “The last time I worked with Abbey Lee was on a shoot with Dan [ Jackson] and hairstylist Esther [Langham] for Vogue China,” recalls UK-born, US-based make-up artist Hannah Murray, who was excited to reunite with a team she trusted for this month’s cover shoot. “She’s such a natural beauty and my instinct is to not do too much. But here, it was fun to give her a character and see her in a different way,” Murray says of the model and actor’s 60s- and 70s-inspired makeover. “Esther and I definitely went there, but we didn’t want it to be too retro. It’s more of a nod to that era, but with a lighter hand.” Tasnim Ahmed In ‘More than a woman’ (on page 68), Bangladeshi-American writer Tasnim…

Photographed by fashion photographer Dan Jackson for Vogue Australia’s September cover in what New York-based stylist Katelyn Gray calls “a time capsule on Long Island”, Abbey Lee reaffirms her status as one of Australia’s most successful modelling exports. “We loved the kooky 70s interiors – full of ‘can you believe it?!’ moments and each room wilder than the last,” says Gray, who worked alongside Brooklyn-based director of photography Nick Korompilas to bring the shoot to life with an on-location video you can watch online at Vogue.com.au. “So often, Abbey is shot as ‘cool girl’ Abbey,” Gray tells Vogue about the creative brief behind Lee’s transformational look. “We wanted to capture her in a different light and lean into a character. We loved her being a 70s bombshell – easy, sexy.…

SHOULDER TO SHOULDER Anthony Vaccarello used the shoulders and line of the collarbone to create an imposing shape. His Saint Laurent has become a lodestar for assertive female energy – echoed in the sharp triangular shapes at Stella McCartney, Chloé and Dries Van Noten – one we crave in a world encroaching on our rights. Maximalist with 80s bravura, for the strong women of today. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s edit. HOLDING SPACE For the pragmatists: a reassuring realism informed the functionality of the one bag to buy now. The slightly slouchy (read: it moves with real life) top-handle has room to fit it all, but a touch of polish to either front up to work or finish a weekend look. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s…

COLLEEN ALLEN Colleen Allen sees fashion from the inside out. “There’s something intimate and reverent about making the inside beautiful for the wearer alone,” the 29-yeardesigner explains. “It’s also where so much of the emotion of craft lives.” Since founding her brand in 2023 after a stint at The Row, Allen has become one of the most buzzed-about new designers to emerge from New York. Charli XCX, Gracie Abrams and Mikey Madison are devotees of her elegant, female-focused designs, which take cues from historical women’s garb and are stocked on Moda Operandi and Ssense. Female intuition is a touchpoint in her collections, especially autumn/winter ’25/’26. “With the current political climate in the US, I found myself looking to elders, to artists and cultural figures who have lived through moments of…

For her seventh solo studio album, out later this month, the enigmatic art-pop singer Cate Le Bon admits she was disoriented. “I got a little more lost that usual, but it was very necessary,” she says. Le Bon wrote as she walked through the pain of a break-up and used it “to look heartache in the eye and exorcise it, since I’d been unable to outrun it. It was a bit of a tussle,” she says. “The album became a way to experience something painful, examine it and let it go.” Making music since her teens and later earning critical acclaim, the prolific singer-songwriter and producer (she’s lent her skills to Wilco, Horsegirl and Devendra Banhart) is comfortable in the wilds of both her emotions and in the desert landscape…

Early this spring, I turned 35. As someone who had sailed through milestone birthdays without much concern, the panic I was gripped with took me by surprise. If you are a woman, it is likely you have been met with the notion that 35 is cause for grave concern. This is the age alarm bells of the biological clock sound, the age at which fertility allegedly freefalls off a cliff – a myth that is wholly untrue. Suddenly I was overcome by thoughts of whatever beauty I possessed waning; my femininity too atypical, not rooted in any “type”, but something more fluid – taking on masculine codes one day and that of a nutty librarian the next. Strangest of all was the thought the woman I had become did not…

What makes a design enduring? For Pierre Rainero, the longtime image, style and heritage director at Cartier, it’s a lot to do with a shape that can take on new iterations, without ever losing anything essential. “Shapes are versatile, that’s a good thing about them. Especially the ones we choose at Cartier, because of that capacity to evolve and their versatility. So they evolve according to our own desire at a certain time, a certain moment,” he said at this year’s Watches and Wonders fair in Geneva. “It’s for the sake of each creation and the beauty of each creation that we work, rework and then never stop working on those shapes.” Cartier is known for the instantly recognisable geometry of its watches. There are the clean rectangular lines of…

JARROD REID New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based designer Jarrod Reid has an origin story that reads more like that of the rebel spirits of the 70s and 80s: born of the wild hot bed of club culture, a designer funnelling after-dark experiences into avant-garde clothing. For Reid, who began his career making clothing for friends’ drag performances on Melbourne’s Smith Street, it is a path that connects him directly to his heroes. “I’ve always loved Leigh Bowery, Vivienne Westwood and the Blitz Kids. I think they shine through as really obvious influences on my work,” he says of his punk tartans, 18th-century-inspired crinolines and sweeping, romantic gowns with frayed hems. He is, however, adding his own twist in a recurring theme – exploring established societal constructs by disregarding them. “I have always…

It could be said that the cocktail watch – small, unique and open to interpretation – is the true personal taste watch of 2025. Also, that it’s never felt more relevant. Small watches continue to resonate, as much beloved by Paul Mescal as they are by Lana Del Rey. Both wear a Cartier Baignoire, which you could argue is definitely a cocktail watch. Especially this year’s version on a gold bangle with polka dot diamonds. Really, though, the rules are out the window. Cocktail watches, once ittybitty diamond-speckled pieces for evening affairs only, can and should be worn any time at all. Alexandre Ghotbi, deputy chairman and head of Europe and Middle East for auction house Phillips Watches, says there has been a marked increase of interest in these watches.…