Vogue Australia April 2022

The global theme for Vogue this month is Code Breakers, which encourages us as editors and readers to challenge stereotypes and our own gender bias. So, for the first time in the 63-year history of Vogue Australia, we feature a man, solo, on our cover. Code Breakers is about championing the connectors and collaborators who are shaking up the system, and who better to feature on the cover of Vogue than Indigenous Australian music phenomenon, The Kid Laroi. At just 18, he’s been nominated for Best New Artist at this month’s Grammys, and his song Stay with Justin Bieber hit number one in the music charts across 23 countries. GQ Australia editor Jake Millar chatted to the singer, while he was en route to Disneyland with his girlfriend, TikTok star Katarina Deme,…

Jake Millar “Just getting started,” is the phrase GQ Australia’s editorial director Jake Millar chooses to describe internationally renowned artist The Kid Laroi. “I wanted to introduce him to people who aren’t familiar with his music, but also give fans a piece they could enjoy,” Millar shares of his aim for Laroi’s first interview with Vogue Australia, which you can read from page 107. When quizzed on a highlight from their conversation, Millar recalls the moment the Australian supernova shared a sneak peek at his latest tattoo. “It’s the kind of moment interviewers dream of because it helped capture his personality and showed how crazy his life has become. The tattoo is not great, but the anecdote was.” Craig Silvey In an effort to highlight the importance of allyship and empathy, acclaimed Australian…

As much as we are giving as readers, we are also letting ourselves go. When we allow ourselves to be hypnotised by a story, we dissolve our identities and adopt many others. It is an exercise of profound empathy, which is why reading enriches us so deeply. Unmoored from our bodies, we drift towards new possibilities and perspectives. We are confronted by new experiences, new predicaments, new emotions, new people. It is impossible to open a book and not meet somebody new. And in their company, we might find ourselves exposed to the shocking and mystifying and unfamiliar. But for those readers who feel displaced, misunderstood, marginalised, confused, dismayed or isolated in the real world, in a fictional landscape they might stumble across their own reflection. They might recognise themselves.…

BOLD STROKES Splash out on the dynamism of free-flowing artful patterns like those in multicoloured swathes that appear to dance across Elk’s modern-day workwear. GRAPHIC CONTENT Dip a toe into the look by mixing in a classic to anchor the style in the everyday. Fibres optic In striking black and white, optical geometrics make an outfit sing. Play with clashing versions for a slightly surreal take. To pursue a grown up stance, try an elegantly sweeping dress, like Gucci’s tessellated stand out. “There is a naturally hypnotic power to these prints in bold contrast. Perfect for those less chromatically inclined, they leave a maximal impression with minimal colour. Choose oversized patterns that give the illusion of movement.”– ALICE BIRRELL, FASHION FEATURES DIRECTOR NO WALLFLOWER A new breed of florals, big on impact, take root. Opt into wallpaper-esque renditions…

“There’s awareness that the collective is more powerful than the individual” Sydney creative Denis Vukcevic might never have seen his soaring fluorescent witch’s hat with a gargantuan spiralling point – like something plucked from a lysergic Tim Burton fever dream – sailing down the runway at Australian fashion week, if it wasn’t for Jordan Gogos. “Before the show I had never worked with fashion or creating wearables. I initially had no idea how to create my witchy character,” the fledgling artist and designer recounts. “But throwing myself into the fire with the love, guidance and support of the Iordanes Spyridon Gogos [ISG being Jordan Gogos’s Greek moniker] community gave me the magic to make her come alive.” Like the long list of names that Gogos collaborates with as standard practice for his…

Danielle Statham worked hard to create a carbon-positive Australian farm that produces Good Earth Cotton. Auckland-based Maggie Hewitt is a thought leader in the sustainable fashion space. The two antipodeans aligned on their missions to better the fashion industry by joining forces on Hewitt’s latest capsule. Using the world’s first carbon-positive cotton grown on Danielle and husband David Statham’s farm in New South Wales, Hewitt built a collection with cotton pieces that are traceable from seed to shelf. As Hewitt’s collection debuts – the latest in her capsule drops that eschew the seasonal calendar – the two discuss what can be achieved when we draw on our commonalities. VOGUE AUSTRALIA: How did you first connect? MAGGIE HEWITT: “There was a sourcing consultant we were working with here in New Zealand, and it…