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Jamie Heath Prior to arriving on set, photographer Jamie Heath spent the evening reading Pamela Anderson’s memoir, Love, Pamela. “I ended up finishing the entire book. By the time I met her the next morning, it felt almost surreal – as though I had stepped into the world I had been reading about just hours earlier,” Heath recalls. “She was radiant, exuberant and deeply engaged with everything around her.” The photographer’s final impression served to reinforce his first. “She brought an incredible generosity and commitment to the shoot, constantly experimenting, moving and contributing ideas. Pamela was everything I had hoped she would be and more.” Phoebe Wolfe “I heard her scream before I saw her,” says videographer Phoebe Wolfe, of Pamela Anderson. “The stills shoot was well underway and she…

While in Sydney recently, Pamela Anderson appeared in conversation with Vogue’s senior beauty and health editor, Remy Rippon, at an exclusive event hosted by Wanderlust, before visiting a light-filled studio for her cover shoot. There, acting fashion director Harriet Crawford styled her in a series of new-season looks that reimagined the pared-back aesthetic she has recently made her signature. “Harriet curated a great selection of looks to shoot Pamela in a way we hadn’t seen her before,” recalls junior fashion and market editor Isabella Mamas, fashion assistant on the day. The actor’s approach to make-up followed suit, she adds. “She wanted to move away from the minimal clean-girl look and go for a full-glam moment.” Photographer Jamie Heath set the mood with a playlist Anderson loved during the “fun and…

PLUSH HOUR Rich texture returns, serving as much as a visual punctuation point - whether in feathers, faux-fur trims or fuzzy shearling - as a pleasure to wear. The mood is confident and slightly opulent. CHECK ON IT The humble check in heritage fabrics has been spliced, remixed and re-spun into a new breed that brings an unexpected, offbeat energy. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s edit of the trend. PRIMARY REASON Swathes of chromatic brights made their presence felt on the runways, so look to rich marigolds, blazing reds and oceanic blues to inject a colour high while the mercury stays low. ALEXANDER COOKE ALL PRICES APPROXIMATE LATE NIGHT FEELING Fashion celebrates the 60th year of Saint Laurent’s paradigm-shifting Le Smoking suit. Borrow the hallmarks of the classic…

Earlier this year, millions around the world were riveted as the spaceship Artemis II circumnavigated the moon. From a distance of 400,000 kilometres, its crew of four broadcast an image of Earth: a fragile green and blue oasis framed by cold, inhospitable black. In an era of global volatility, it was a reminder that our only home is a sanctuary, with a significance that dwarfs us all. More than half of Australia saw footage of the launch, while the term ‘moon joy’ – describing the elation of seeing our planet’s beauty from a distance – went viral. A month earlier at Paris Fashion Week, Miuccia Prada, one of fashion’s deepest thinkers, had considered a similar idea. Miu Miu’s autumn/winter ’26/’27 show centred on the smallness of humans in the natural…

Alexa Chung’s arm bangle, Gwyneth Paltrow’s long diamond strand and Meghan Markle’s spiral pendant – all are the handiwork of fine jeweller Jessica McCormack. Her eye has guided her through nearly two decades in business as a disrupter in jewellery’s highly competitive upper echelon, a world traditionally dominated by centuries-old houses. She honed that sensibility from a young age, growing up in New Zealand in a world richly backdropped by antiquities and art amassed by her father, an auctioneer. Moving to London in her mid-20s, she tumbled down an Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole at Sotheby’s, into a world of coveted treasures. Reviving traditional techniques, she approaches these methods with refreshing whimsy. McCormack’s signature Georgian goldsmithing techniques, including blackened corollas and cut-down or serti dressé settings, give her pieces a…

LUCY SIMPSON Hanging like plastrons, sweeping necklaces that cover the chest, Lucy Simpson’s wearable art pieces bear a resemblance to those worn by ancient Egyptians. But describing them thus is anachronistic; the heritage of these pieces, from Australia’s First Nations peoples, who make up the oldest continuous living cultures on earth, predates ancient Egyptian civilisation by tens of thousands of years. With a broad practice that takes in sculpture, botanically dyed fabrics and hand-blown glass, Simpson communes with stories of Country past and present for her studio-based practice, Gaawaa Miyay, which she founded on Gadigal/ Wangal Country (Sydney) in 2009. The ideas she engages with range from the dynamism of mass migration patterns in tune with the land, to interconnectedness or transference of dhuwi (energy) from one thing to another.…

What is more beautiful, the shimmering waves of the Mediterranean, or the gleam of a Cartier ring set with a six-carat Madagascar sapphire? John Legend crooning ‘Green Light’ on a picture-perfect evening on the Côte d’Azur, or the glow of a Colombian emerald tiara? Luckily, you will not have to choose a favourite, although these delightful conundrums may already have captured your imagination on a flying visit to Saint-Tropez to view Cartier’s latest high jewellery creations. The maison has named this collection Le Chœur des Pierres, a charming play on words. While ‘chœur’ translates to ‘chorus’, dropping the ‘h’ reveals ‘cœur’, the French word for ‘heart’ – both with the same pronunciation. Don’t you wish you had paid more attention in French class? And it is not at all surprising…

In music, familial collaboration has often sparked ingenuity. See Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell; Haim’s Alana, Danielle and Este Haim; Angus and Julia Stone. Put the secret sauce down to the unspoken language of kin, or the unfiltered push-and-pull of family dynamics. William Gao and Olivia Hardy have both. Together, the British Chinese brother-sister duo form Wasia Project, a band that began in 2019 as a few jazz-inflected indie pop songs for a younger generation. Gao, now 23, and Hardy, 21, had a musical education long before Wasia Project. As kids, Gao was classically trained on violin and Hardy on piano. When asked how old they were when they picked up their instruments for the first time, the pair respond simultaneously: “About four years old.” “Did I just freeze?” Hardy…

KEAHANIE BAKER Keahanie Baker’s paintings, whorls of desert technicolour, tell the story of Minyma Malilu, one of the creation tales of the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) people in central Australia. “Minyma Malilu was an elderly crippled woman who travelled the country. She dug a deep cave to live in.” Baker and her family would visit the cave often, and later, back at their art centre in their hometown of Kanpi in South Australia, Baker would watch her family of artists commit this sacred story to canvas. Baker, who is 23 and now lives in Papulankutja, Western Australia, with her partner’s family, is still surrounded by art. “My partner’s grandmother is Anawari Mitchell and her sister is Angilyiya Mitchell. They are both great artists and we sit together when we are…