Vogue Australia January 2023

Heralding a new year provides the opportunity to renew and refresh; to leave a year behind and embrace new possibilities with a sense of optimism. With that in mind, we’d like to introduce you to Hanan Ibrahim, the Somali-Australian model who graces our cover this month in what can only be described as a paradigmshifting story. Hanan has been building her career as a model in recent years, both within these pages and on the runways of Australian fashion week, proudly wearing her hijab and challenging stereotypes while highlighting the importance of visibility for Muslim women in the fashion industry. In recent months she has made the empowering decision to become a fluid hijabi, meaning she now only wears her head covering part-time. In honour of her decision, and the conversation it…

EDWARD BOWLEG Ahead of the Australian Open this year, our topranked female tennis player Ajla Tomljanović flew from her base in Florida to New York to be captured exclusively by Vogue. “I was certainly more conscious of the fact that we were shooting an athlete, in regards to what I selected,” says Edward Bowleg of his styling in ‘Game changer’, from page 96. “In knowing that she was open to experimenting, I took things to propose to her that may not be pieces she would wear in her ordinary life,” he recalls. An inspiring sense of raw strength pervades each look, as Tomljanovic changes from a Ralph Lauren shirt into a well-tailored Gucci suit. “We wanted to keep Ajla in fashion but give a nod to her athleticism,” he continues. “Honestly,…

Swim star Taking the plunge in the skin-baring mood of the season is easier with Chanel’s 90s-feel monochrome string bikini. Want to shop Vogue's edit? Scan the QR code to shop the best of the trend. Max effect A resort- ready cover-up should be top of the list with the newest versions making for hyperhued twists on the caftan's classic appeal. Neutral stance Camels and tans are anything but boring worn the new way: in a perfectly matched set with demure accessories. Full spectrum Cali-cool meets jet-set suave in rainbow brights. Colouring everything from swim to cover-ups, embrace the season in multicoloured deckchair stripes. Short order Tailoring has been taking hems higher recently, so it’s little surprise a short suit that borrows from the Bermuda is the rulebreaking silhouette for high summer. Want to shop Vogue's edit? Scan the QR code…

Casting around outside the shows of late, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d crossed paths with football fans on their way home from a match. Or motorsports die-hards, revved up for a day trackside. And are those tennis enthusiasts headto-toe in blinding Wimbledon whites? In Paris? In September? A second glance reveals these supporters are pairing rugby stripes with sky-high Balenciaga boots, hoodies with sleek white maxis, 1980s shell jackets with shoes from The Row, and that tracksuit? Vintage Gucci. Fashion’s total re-embrace of sports influences is not just a natural go-round of the trend cycle - long has the athletic been a rich vein of design inspiration but a confluence of many forces. Instead of philosophising on complex social mores, Felicity Brand, head of branding and merchandising at local luxury multi-brand…

When Lucy Hinckfuss began tie-dyeing pieces by hand in her Sydney studio for new label Luuda, a stylist friend asked if she writes down exactly what she puts into each coloured concoction. “I said, ‘No, I just remember it.’ And she said, ‘What?’” she recounts with a laugh. “It’s a little bit like the way I cook; I don’t really follow recipes.” Hinckfuss’s life incidentally has had a strong food link; until late 2021, she was married to restaurateur Maurice Terzini, helmsman of Bondi’s Icebergs among other venues, with whom she shares two children, and is co-founder of clothing label Ten Pieces. While Hinckfuss was collaborating on its monochromatic unisex streetwear, she began exploring tiedyed dresses with a modern slant. “There was, however, perhaps a feeling they confused the Ten Pieces…

The start of a new year always makes me sentimental. I like to spend time looking back on the 12 months passed and every year the memories that mean the most to me are always the ones centred around sitting at a table with someone I love. If given a choice to relive moments of my life over again, it’s not the seemingly big ones that I’d want to step back into or experience once more. I would want to be able to sit back down at a small Parisian cafe with my mum on the first trip that was just the two of us, when we marked each sunset with a glass of champagne, or be 19 again for just one evening so I could share a tub of…