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 • It's not often sibling models cover an issue of Vogue Australia, which is why our creative team sought to celebrate the natural bond and big-sister energy between Adut Akeeh and her younger brother, Bior, for our special shoot.

Natural instinct • A sense of kinship reigned as supermodel Adut. back on home soil, guided her younger brother in his first cover shoot set in a dramatic coastal locale.

The archetypes • Core pieces have been reinvented and are reborn. Welcome back uniform dressing: clothing with integrity, simplicity and alive with a contemporary spirit.

Butterfly effect • Now more than ever, fashion is about clothes that are tremendous, genius and for keeps. Haute couture spring/summer ‘23 was all that. From the big guns to smaller salons, this is a season cut with a tailored edge and bursting with ideas that will fly.

Line of vision • Hermes's clever new platform sandals give the illusion of walking on air through underfoot geometry resembling sleek architectural apertures.

New directions • Carla Zampatti had one lesson for her daughter Bianca Spender when it came to business: work hard. As the designer celebrates 15 years since the launch of her label, she reflects on what it meant to forge her own path.

The luminaries • The second instalment of Vogue Vanguard, an ongoing series, celebrates the game-changers and innovators breaking ground in our most creative fields. This time, two Australian sisters leading a British label light the way.

Abiding values • After more than five decades at the very top, and with a new Australian flagship, Ralph Lauren is still flying the red, white and blue for the American dream, and the family business.

Two piece • As fashion bridges gaps between womenswear and menswear, more couples, united by their unique connection, are translating that into the joy of a unified wardrobe.

Heir supply • With equal parts heart and precision, Olivia Bond is the independent designer reviving heirloom jewellery.

To die for • Elizabeth Olsen's next trick? A true-crime television show that upends our understanding of the perfect family – and the perfect life.

Love story • An unlikely couple. A post-divorce happy ending. A family saga of love. These must-read new books celebrate romance in all its forms.

State of dress • With the dress emerging on the runway as a symbol of empowered elegance, its story as a continued battleground for womanhood deserves a closer look.

Runs deep

Two of us • She's a global supermodel travelling away from her family. He's her younger brother in Adelaide with a bright path ahead, but Adut Akech and Bior's deep bond transcends distance. As they navigate the world together, she leads him, hand-in-hand, into the future.

Keeping Virgil • On a freezing morning in Chicago, Shannon Abloh – wife of the late visionary designer Virgil Abloh – joined Vogue Australia's Christine Centenera to talk about securing the legacy of one of fashion's most creative forces.

Clean break • Distill, distill, distill – that was the message designers whispered, not shouted, with the return of an ultraminimal mien.

Holding the line • So-called nepo babies are here to stay, generating chatter with every move, nowhere more so than in fashion. So what does the ubiquity of those with a famous lineage say about them, but more importantly, us? Lynn Yaeger takes a...