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AMY TROOST “I'm very excited to collaborate on this project with Charli XCX. I'm really into her energy and sense of fun,” says Ontario-born, New York-based fashion photographer Amy Troost of her first project with Vogue Australia, one that sees her also working alongside the Brat singer-songwriter for the very first time. “I got inspired by Charli's sense of style and how she presents herself,” says Troost, adding that the shoot also involved “the team and I going through multiple creative exchanges and then trying to find something that is true to Charli and her amazing energy.” HANAN IBRAHIM Somali-Australian model and January 2023 Vogue Australia cover star Hanan Ibrahim returns to the pages of this issue in a fashion feature titled 'Strike a balance', from page 136. “Working with Vogue always brings…

This may be Charli XCX's first cover of Vogue Australia, but it's not the first time the singer-songwriter has appeared in the title. For the March 2019 issue, Charli was styled and photographed by our team while visiting Sydney as the opening act on Taylor Swift's Reputation tour. Five years on, and the 32-year-old is the cover star of our September issue, while her latest album, Brat, is one of the most talked-about releases of the year. “From the moment Charli rolled up on set in her black Porsche with party tunes blaring, until we finally wrapped a long day of shooting, she was friendly, down-to-earth, and hardworking,” says executive producer and talent director Rikki Keene of the day on set in LA. “The concept was to capture Charli's authentic energy through strong…

In a year that proliferated with consequential elections for major global powers and held instability and economic slowdown, fragility reigned. A level of impermanency and insecurity that has made itself uncomfortably present in our lives is powering a new craving, and it's making its way into our wardrobes. Enter the familiar and the recognisable for autumn/winter '24/ '25. Style codes we are already acquainted with hold a new comforting appeal, providing a framework for the path forward. “Antecedents literally fashion the present,” Prada's show notes read. But dispense with any expectation of ho-hum sameness. Wearable, recognisable clothes became rock-solid guardrails within which designers brought to bear their creativity. Innovation and novel ideas came in the foil of existing style tropes. The familiar, remixed. It is why heritage fabrics, from hunting tweeds to heavy-wearing…

New romantics One of the most pronounced changes this season was the bohemian mood breezing onto runways. A romantic dress in airy fabrics, lace and ruffled trims is the style circuit breaker of the moment. Channel its free spirit by fearlessly layering accoutrements. Sc an the QR code to shop Vogue's edit of the trend. Know the drill The contrast between khaki's practicality and the new crop of sophisticated silhouettes makes for the season's most compelling combination. Muted moss, sage and olive lend an edge to polished pieces. Strike a posey Florals have undergone their seasonal rework, this time through subverting tradition. Think heirloom wallpapers and dainty pastoral botanicals recut into everything from oversized jackets to slinky dresses with fresh attitude. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue's edit of the best Australian hat brands. Top stuff In line…

An immortal parallel exists between a tiny 17th-century village in Catalonia and a young Italian model arriving in Manhattan in 1968. The same year Elsa Peretti lit the fuse on a glittering career as a model and creative in the throes of the decadent 1970s, she also embarked on the project of a lifetime: restoring a tumbledown gathering of buildings in Sant Martí Veil, one of the first of which she bought shortly after for US$8,000. “There are many Elsa Perettis and Sant Martí Vell encompasses them all,” says Stefano Palumbo, director of the Nando and Elsa Peretti Foundation, which safeguards her legacy and furthers her many philanthropic pursuits. The Elsa most know best was one of Tiffany & Co.'s most prolific and influential designers. She joined the jeweller in 1974…

If the calling card of the younger generation in fashion is not to have a traditional job title, then Rachele Regini is a frontrunner. Daughter of creative director of Dior, Maria Grazia Chiuri, the 28-year-old's influence at the French house can be captured as cultural and creative advisor, a position she's held since 2019 - but only loosely. What she does is more protean: connecting with artisans around the world, introducing gender theory into the design room, and sitting in on interviews and being part of conversations with her mother, who has corralled the politely feminine DNA of Dior into modern relevancy. By Chiuri's own admission Regini challenges her (a welcome input), inciting cogitation on crucial questions of gender equality that oftentimes underpin Chiuri's collections for the French house. And she…

If there's any label capable of proving there's sublime magic in the everyday, it's Romance Was Born. Co-founder Luke Sales, who, along with Anna Plunkett, has fashioned its signature fantastical view of Australiana for nearly two decades, puts it best. “It's one of our house codes – sandwiching things together that you don't think should go together,” he says with a smile. In this instance, he's discussing the final look at Romance Was Born's resort '25 show presented in May. Sales describes the look as “the bride”, borrowing from the haute couture tradition of the closing runway look, often white and epitomising the peak of a brand's craftsmanship. But it wouldn't be a Romance show without some quirks. This season's closing bridal dress wasn't white, but featured a symphony of lilac,…

Fashion designer Mary Katrantzou is used to working where excellence is not just expected, but demanded. The lauded designer has created costumes for the New York City Ballet and Paris Opera, crafts couture pieces as par for the course, and recently put the finishing touches on the dresses worn at this year's Olympics torch-lighting ceremony. But her latest role takes things beyond even this. “A lot of things that maybe are allowed in different brands aren't allowed at Bulgari,” says the 41-year-old, who was announced by the Italian jeweller as its first-ever creative director of leather goods and accessories earlier this year. “The level of quality is so high. A lot of things you need to think creatively about how to achieve, because they won't accept anything less.” In her mellifluous voice,…

Joshua Yeldham first began painting owls deliberately, desperately, when the artist and his wife were beginning IVF. “I retreated into my creativity and in my sadness I went into the forest and that's where this strange connection happened,” Yeldham recalls, “where the owls were really loud, where I was camping in the bush.” He sketched an owl, the first of, he estimates, a hundred such works. “I was warning off the darker side of my thoughts about failure, and not being a dad, and I used the owl as a gatekeeper … just asking them, 'Please, consider us worthy to have a kid.'” Now, 24 years and two children later, Yeldham still paints owls. Devotedly. Though these days, he reflects, the bird signifies something different: “The ability to fly above yourself…