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Marley Morgan Ualaroi, Gamilaraay, Wiradjuri photographer and storyteller Marley Morgan travelled from Gumbaynggirr Country to Larrakia Country, where she captured First Nations fashion designer Lillardia Briggs-Houston’s latest collection for ‘New horizon’ (from page 62). The shoot unfolded during the gathering of the Creative Australia Tri Nations Exchange Program and the energy on set was “calm, focused and deeply respectful”, Morgan says. “Everything centred on honouring the link between personal history, artistic expression and our ancestral ties.” Esmé Creed-Miles The cast and crew of the earthy and romantic new Sense and Sensibility adaptation, written by novelist Diana Reid and out this month, knew they were creating something special. So much so that star Esmé Creed-Miles – who plays Austen’s sensitive heroine Marianne Dashwood – brought her Leica M5 to set, stealing…

To capture her first-ever cover for Vogue Australia, styled by Harriet Crawford, Sydney-born actor Sophie Wilde spent a rain-soaked day racing around her hometown, moving from a studio to Sydney’s State Theatre, before wrapping in a 1968 Ford Mustang. Head visuals producer and bookings editor Charlotte Rose was on set for the 10-hour shoot, bringing the concept to life while keeping a close eye on the unpredictable weather. “Sophie grew up in the inner west, and that easygoing energy is still very much a part of her,” she says. “Despite the cold and rain, she was still right there with the crew trying to get the best shot.” Photographed by Jamie Heath using a mix of digital, Contax and VHS cameras, Wilde was completely at ease in front of every…

STAND-UP VALUES The statement collar frames the face with drama and a hint of historical dress. Trust the master of time travel, Louis Vuitton’s Nicolas Ghesquière, to bring it into the here and now in bold bottle green. Head and shoulders above the rest. LEAN IN A counterpoint to loose, generously cut trousers that have dominated working wardrobes for years, slick, lean second-skin pants are firmly back on the fashion map. The new power polish. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s edit of the best of the trend. UNCOMMON STRANDS Looped one on top of the other is the way to approach the current crop of delicate chains with talismanic charms. Bohemian layering grows up. GIVING THE SLIP There are few things more liberating than shimmying into a silk…

Of all the Academy Award nominees in history, Christian Dior is perhaps one of the lesserknown. A couturier in a purist’s sense, he is remembered for defining the contemporary feminine silhouette with his wasp-waisted New Look, but he also, in fact, worked for both stage and screen. In 1942, four years before founding his fashion house, Dior created costumes for the characters in films Lettres d’amour and Le Lit à colonnes. In Paris, in 1947, he conceived the sets and dancers’ costumes for Roland Petit’s ballet Treize danses. More film projects followed, and in 1955, Dior earned an Oscar nomination for his costume design for Stazione Termini, a romantic drama that screened at Cannes. Today, designers working across film and fashion are commonplace, thanks in part to creative directors like…

I’m not generally passionate about fashion,” Abbey Lee says with characteristic no-holds-barred honesty. “Fashion is not my thing.” Those familiar with Lee’s oeuvre may be surprised by that statement. By all accounts she is one of Australia’s most successful models, having walked for Chanel, Alexander McQueen, Dior, Prada and Versace before she’d turned 22. This month, Australian label Common Hours will release a collection in collaboration with Lee. Comprising 13 ethereal looks that the actor helped design, it arrives on the eve of her new film, The Engagement, directed by Australian Dacre Montgomery. The film, which was shot in Western Australia, features Lee wearing a piece by the label. Speaking over Zoom from her rural home in upstate New York on a sticky summer evening, Lee explains that her approach…

Nineteen ninety-seven to 2002,” Sandra Choi says decisively of what she believes is the most definitive period of the Jimmy Choo brand. Choi is right, of course. It’s when the brand went from a single workshop to global phenomenon and, not long into the business, whipped up custom creations for the well-shod, including the likes of Cate Blanchett and Diana, Princess of Wales, who would famously drive up to the door of the brand’s first London store, parking in a nostopping zone to get her fix. Choi, creative director of Jimmy Choo since 1996 and niece of its namesake founder, learned the craft of shoemaking at her uncle’s East End atelier, so is intimately versed in the brand’s history and has proved her mettle in stewarding its future. She’s applied…

In 1996 I was voted ‘Sexiest Woman in the World’ by FHM readers – a title that arrived with all the certainty of a cultural verdict. How ‘sexy’ I felt inside – or indeed looked – when the accolade was announced is another story. There were phases, before and after Dana Scully became a phenomenon, when I dressed with the bravado of the young: skirts so short a thigh-length jacket covered the hem; low-slung trousers revealing a glimpse of thong. They were intended to provoke. I remember catching my father’s sideways glance in a Starbucks once and feeling the weight of his judgement and embarrassment. It was a feeling I knew well, but what I can’t recall is if I absorbed that familial shame and eventually, quietly adjusted my attire…

I’m a very cultural woman,” Lillardia Briggs-Houston says. “I can’t rush the process of designing.” As she speaks, the Wiradjuri, Yorta Yorta and Gangalu designer and artist is framed by the bright August sun of Larrakia Country in Darwin, blisteringly hot even in the day’s last hour. She’s travelled from Bungambrawatha (Albury), New South Wales, to accept her third National Indigenous Fashion Award (NIFA), for Textile Design. The winning piece is a gossamer hand-dyed blouse and skirt inspired by the Binyal, or river red gum tree, which grows on her ancestral Country and is her daughter’s birthing totem. Such totems are customary in her culture. On the body, it floats in the air like a living organism, proof of Briggs-Houston’s abilities as both a designer and a conduit for cultural…

Unlike in the past, women’s watches are no longer limited to something small and diamond-encrusted. Yet conversations about size are beginning to re-emerge in a major way in the world of watches, and it’s the very small and the universally agreed-upon mid-sized that are considered the sweet spot. This raises familiar questions from fashion: what is the right size, and how do you find your perfect fit? Courtney Bachrach, the watch collector and influencer behind Instagram’s @tinywristcheck, says changing views on size align with shifts in personal preferences and taste. This includes growing celebrity interest in vintage finds and design-focused archival timepieces. Not coincidentally, contemporary watch designs are leaning into these styles, with recent novelties from the likes of Piaget, Chopard and IWC Schaffhausen reimagining heritage pieces. “For decades, women’s…