Vogue Australia November 2022

This month, we warmly welcome back Catherine McNeil to the pages of Vogue Australia. It has been eight years since she last appeared on the cover under the headline 'Catherine the Great' as part of a special collector's edition for French designer Jean Paul Gaultier to mark an international exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. This cover marks another important milestone, albeit on a more personal level for McNeil. For the past three years, she has focused on her sobriety and personal development outside of the fashion world after she realised her pace and partying off the runway wasn't sustainable. “Now I’m learning who I am as a person, and I think that’s great in my 30s,” she tells Vogue’s Amy Campbell. “It wasn’t easy at all … But it…

Jake Terrey Jake Terrey, a Sydney-based fashion photographer who has been working with Vogue since the age of 22, captured homegrown model Catherine McNeil for his first cover for the publication. “The only real goal I ever set myself was to do a Vogue cover by the time I was 30. [It] took me two more years than that, but here we are,” he says. When quizzed on his favourite image from the feature, the creative cites one of the shoot’s most memorable moments. “Impossible to say, but the McQueen look we shot at the end of the day will always remind me of how incredible Cat is,” Terrey tells Vogue of the image plastered across page 139. “It was wildly cold and windy, but she was always able to nail…

I was at an all-time low when I decided I wanted to try to fix everyone else’s problems. My head was a mess and my heart was broken. It was one of those years where every month brought a new sadness – an annus horribilis, I think they call it. And, in a mean-spirited move from Fate, My Bad Year also coincided with THE Bad Year – 2020. The most horribilis of all the annuses. During that time, I pitched myself as an agony aunt to my editor at the Sunday Times Style. I had always wanted to be an agony aunt. In my adolescence, I would buy teen magazines and immediately skip to the problem pages. Sex was discussed in my house, I imagine much more than it would have…

Seeing spots The ladylike overtones of polka-dots mean whether you choose to wear them with flats or knee-high boots, they will always read polished. Want to shop Vogue’s edit? Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s edit of the best of the trend. The long view Maxi skirts enter the frame as the grown-up palette cleanser after a season of micro minis. Wear them slung low and slinky for night, or layer up with a blazer for instantly clever casual. Top of the pile Velvet shakes off its traditional cold-weather associations, emerging as a bold look for daytime through bright colours and rich jewel tones. Keep the bold feel going for night by giving extra leg in strappy heels. Want to shop Vogue’s edit? Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s edit of the best party-ready sheer dresses. All…

Why would anyone buy anything now unless it provoked a dream or some sense of magic?" asks Ian Griffiths, Max Mara's creative director, sitting in a grand palazzo off the Avenida da Liberdade in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. "We always look for a location that inspires a dream, a place where there's a lot of history and art heritage, but also contemporary culture and architecture," he continues of the resort '23 presentation, which drew the fashion pack, along with Claire Danes, Emily in Paris's Ashley Park, and our own Lara Worthington, to the harbourside city. What transpired was a two-day extravaganza that culminated in an evening showcase set against the lush gardens and brutalist architecture of the city's Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. “The Jerónimos Monastery is beautiful,” quips the British-born Griffiths…

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