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ANNEMARIEKE VAN DRIMMELEN Though she currently splits her time between LA and her home city of Amsterdam, photographer Annemarieke van Drimmelen was born in Sydney and spent the first three years of her life in Australia, returning again for a few years as a teen. Meeting Kate Winslet for the first time, and capturing her in the English countryside for the cover shoot, turned out to be a special experience for van Drimmelen. “I really love Kate’s honesty, vulnerability and strength,” she says. “The way she showed up and was present during that day taught me something very important: when you’re completely yourself, like she is, you don’t have to hold back or protect yourself. Life becomes fun and creativity can just flow freely … And it’s contagious! The energy becomes…

Middle ground Belts are still having a major moment, but now move from the hips to the waist. Play it structured and cinched for the power silhouette of now. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue’s edit of the trend. Acid test Shake up the style score with searing brights - neon lime, turquoise blue, fiery reel - that make pastels feel passé. Chutes and scores Ballooning, swashbuckling trousers are the unlikely new entry to this season’s silhouette but one that rewards the wearer with comfort and a way to make an impact. Consider the parachute back. Scan the QR code to shop Vogue's edit of the trend. Turning tied Bows maintain their hold in fashion, but for this season they emerged with a couture drama pumping up the volume and taking centre place on trophy pieces. In touch In keeping…

Some prodigious music talents are drawn to the act of performance, but for Gracie Abrams, it's a different story. "What I fell in love with really young and knew I wanted to do forever was writing," says the 25-year-old, whose lifelong love of poetry led to a career as a singer-songwriter. "I always ended up feeling closer to myself after writing - I honoured that feeling and just never wanted it to go anywhere." The feeling has remained the same, but Abrams's rapid ascent has been one for the books. An array of singles and two EP releases since 2019 established Abrams as a well-kept secret, but her 2023 album Good Riddance was a mainstream breakthrough and drew millions of fans to her pop anthems, which blend raw emotion with poignant…

Pinctada maxima is the scientific name for an oyster found in the cobalt waters off Western Australia's northern coast, known for producing the world's largest and most brilliant pearls. The rare mollusc entranced Nicholas Paspaley, the Greece- born jeweller who relocated to Australia with his family more than a century ago. So much so that after arriving in the Kimberley he bought a pearling lugger, eventually exploring the region's coastline in search of the most faultless gems. In times before technological advancements, pearling journeys were often treacherous, and Paspaley braved Australia's deep waters and sparse terrain to cultivate enigmatic South Sea pearls within Pinctada maxima. What propelled him was the demand for pearls, and pearl strand necklaces considered a statussymbol in many ancient cultures, and one of the earliest and most…

Edward Cuming Many designers who studied a Master of Arts at London's Central Saint Martins, a famously gruelling course, skirt around what it's like to face intense critiques at one of the best fashion schools in the world. Not designer Edward Cuming who reflects on his time there with characteristic Australian candour. "At times CSM was true torture," he states bluntly. "But my classmates were very inspiring." It was all worth it. Now Madrid-based, Cuming's eponymous label is five years old and stocked globally, including at Dover Street Market in Paris and New York as well as Ssense. And on his recent world tour Usher chose Cuming's pieces for his stage wardrobe. Aside from the value of hard work, Cuming, who began in menswear but has since added womenswear to his line, also…

Like a practised gambler in possession of the cards of a lifetime, Territory shows its hand early. In the first 12 minutes of the Netflix series there’s a dead body, a breathtaking muster of 4,000 cattle and enough drone footage of the Northern Territory – all red plains under an impossible sky – to power a tourism board campaign. But the first thing we see is a camera circling actor Anna Torv like a vulture, as a Top End morning, hard and brilliant, breaks over her face. Torv stars as Emily Lawson, who has married into a family in possession of a cattle station occupying a slice of land bigger than the country of Belgium. “I’m just a cattleman’s wife,” she demurs later in the series, with the poker face she…

In 1983, a group of Australian sporting underdogs rose up to win the America’s Cup and showed the world what this nation was made of. It was the first America’s Cup competition in 132 years that a country other than the US had won. That all-male crew was led by John Bertrand, who became a national hero when at 5.21pm on September 26, 1983, off the coast of Rhode Island, the yacht Australia II crossed the finish line to win the regatta. In 2024, there is another group of Australians, this time women, who want to show the country, and the world, that they can make history, too. For the first time, Australia is fielding an all-female team in the America’s Cup in Barcelona, its members determined to “write a new chapter”…

Christien Meindertsma lives in a tiny village in the Netherlands countryside, half an hour outside Rotterdam. “A strange rural patch with really bad phone reception,” she sums up with a laugh. If the designer needed to drive into the city, which she often does, she would do so under the arch of the Van Brienenoord Bridge, which is sandwiched between two wedges of lush parkland. The city of Rotterdam has an elegant solution to maintaining this greenery, along with all the other verdant patches woven through the city: a flock of sheep. The oldest tool in the book. If you spot some sheep on the dyke that abuts the Van Brienenoord Bridge, “that’s them!” exclaims Meindertsma. Between 2,000 and 2,500 are charged with keeping Rotterdam’s pastures in shape, and the people…

A former American Vogue editor, Plum Sykes is the queen of champagne bubble books about champagne bubble problems. (You may have read her previous good-time novels, Bergdorf Blondes, The Debutante Divorcée and Party Girls Die In Pearls.) Wives Like Us, her latest, revels in the dramas – marital nonsense, crumbling mansions and butler tomfoolery – of the glittering Cotswold set. The story is mille-feuille-light but Sykes, courtesy of her fashion writer past, has a way of capturing an aesthetic and mood that makes for such fun reading. How much you’re going to enjoy Intermezzo, Sally Rooney’s fourth novel, about two grieving brothers, depends on which of her previous books you love the most. Intermezzo blends the complicated power dynamics of Conversations With Friends with the form-bending ambition of Beautiful World, Where…