Vogue Australia

Vogue Australia epitomises the finest in fashion, design and journalism. It enlightens, entertains and inspires by focusing on its position as the authoritative voice in Australian fashion. Vogue Australia combines a modern mix of glamour, style and intelligence presenting the ultimate in fashion, beauty, health, and the arts.

Vogue Australia

Editor's letter

Contributors • Helmed by Nicole Kidman, this issue celebrates Australian excellence making its mark both here and abroad. Meet the people who helped shine a light on our brightest homegrown talent as well as revealing their own.

Wild at heart • The indomitable Nicole Kidman returns to the cover of Vogue for an issue celebrating Australian excellence. She takes the pages by storm in looks that mirror her own fearless spirit.

This must be the place • Australian style is many things but united in being distinct; influenced by our geography, diversity and vibrant lifestyle, wardrobe cues created here are adopted world over. This is what makes us.

Home grown • Meet the new guard of Australian designers set to define local style next: emerging, independent creatives forging their own paths through conscious craft and unique expression.

Liquid asset • A marvel of metallurgy and architectural form, Cartiers Clash [Un]limited watch is a geometry lesson in molten gold-from its tiny gold spheres to articulated links and 16-faceted cut-glass face.

Boy wonder • After opening his first overseas store and with more plans stateside, New York-based homegrown designer Dion Lee has sealed his fate as an international success story.

Old future • As we seek to solve fashion's sustainability crisis, Australia has the potential to be a world leader with an invaluable ancient knowledge base.

Oceanic feeling • Albus Lumen and jeweller Ryan Storer have partnered on a new range of wearable jewellery that taps the mercurial beauty of water.

Changing ways • Spring/summer ‘24 was a season of pragmatic clothe – the excitement came in choosing how to wear them. Zeroing in on the alchemy of putting together an outfit, leaving room for self-expression, designers put forward compelling styling shortcuts. It's all about choice. Wear your way.

Şener Besim • The Australian designer has built an uncompromising label over seven years, drawing on his cross-cultural roots. Here, the creative shares what sparks him.

Female intuition • For her third solo show, the Australian artist Gabrielle Penfold found inspiration in an unlikely place: Coco Chanel's Paris apartment.

Table setting • Melbourne chef Ellie Bouhadana learned to cook by watching her grandmother in the kitchen. Now, as she releases her first book, Vogue sits down with the next big thing in Australian food.

Grand designs • In The New Look, the Australian actor Ben Mendelsohn takes on his most surprising role yet: the creative force that was the designer Christian Dior.

Playing to win • With the launch of her foundation this month, Ash Barty shares her ambition for making a lasting impact in the lives of Australian youth.

Stage craft • Nobody commands an audience like Zahra Newman and this year, in two very different solo shows, she is tackling her biggest challenges yet.

KILLER INSTINCTS • In art, fashion and life, Nicole Kidman doesn't believe in absolutes. On the occasion of her ninth cover of Vogue Australia, she talks to Hannah-Rose Yee about continuing to subvert everyone's expectations.

New horizons • Introducing the lay of the land for spring/summer ‘24, which sees precisely cut silhouettes meet free-flowing form in a statement of resolved simplicity.

Start me up • Abbey Lee embodies Gucci's brooding next-era allure as new creative director Sabato De Sarno fuses a...