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JESSE LIZOTTE A few months before South Australian supermodel Adut Akech Bior was expected to welcome her first child, photographer Jesse Lizotte travelled to the picturesque Adelaide Hills to capture the heavily pregnant beauty alongside her family for her eighth cover of Vogue Australia. “The energy on set was calm. I could feel Adut was most at ease when surrounded by her family,” says Lizotte, who adds he felt privileged to document such a poignant moment in the model's life. “It was important to celebrate motherhood and sisterhood by capturing moments in a reportage style that felt intimate and personal. I hope the viewer feels moved by these vignettes of connection set against the beautiful backdrop of nature.” LAURA MAZIKANA “This was my first time working with Adut, and I…

South Australian supermodel Adut Akech Bior has graced many covers of Vogue Australia, however her most recent serves to mark a significant turning point in her life. Expecting to welcome her first child in weeks, a heavily pregnant Akech returned to Australia from her base in Los Angeles to front her eighth issue of the publication. Captured in the Adelaide Hills by photographer Jesse Lizotte, the mother-to-be shared the spotlight with her family in a series of new season styles curated by senior fashion and market director, Kaila Matthews. “Adelaide has many beautiful options when it comes to locations but I knew we wanted something more like an overgrown forest than drier bush,” says Charlotte Rose, head visual producer and bookings editor. With help from the Adelaide Hills Council and…

Golden age Less old-world decadence and more futuristic edge, the new gold – from molten lurex jacquard to spangled paillettes – is a forward-facing statement to lead with as party season approaches. Fringe movement The runways were awash with the swish of tasselled edges and fringed skirts that notch up the glamour factor, day and night. Instant insouciance. Served with a twist Designers draped and torqued fabrics to sculpt the most interesting shapes of the season and add a hint of drama to any outfit. Choose pieces that accentuate an asymmetrical silhouette. Modern persuasion The crisp and clean lines of 1960s abbreviated shifts and skirt suits serve as a visual palette cleanser. Pulled together with an undertone of youthful rebellion. Rounding off There's no contest for the bag of the…

Schiaparelli Daniel Roseberry's mastery of couture techniques is the bedrock of this most contemporary fashion surrealism, combining nostalgia and seduction, all with the integrity of the petites mains. This is a house that celebrates techniques through exceptional creativity that in turn continues to burn so brightly on the red carpet. Standouts included the incredible silver embroidered feathery wings – the show's motif being the phoenix – plus the expertly slick satin cocktail dresses. Oh, and the tailored looks with their epic shoulders. It may have been inspired by 1950s Schiaparelli, but it nailed the now. Chanel It is tricky negotiating a collection without a lead designer, but the Chanel studio – all 150 of the craftsmen and women who work at the five ateliers within 31 rue Cambon – rose…

VIEWPOINT Two extraordinary dresses by Peggy Griffiths and Cathy Ward have made their way to Naarm/Melbourne, where they will walk the red carpet at the 2024 National Gallery of Victoria's (NGV) Gala next month. These gowns, designed by the mother-granddaughter duo from the Kimberley, are part of the ongoing biennial NGV Indigenous Fashion Commission supported by philanthropist Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM. This series has been central to showcasing Indigenous designers on the national and international stage. The project first launched in 2022 with a gown designed by Julie Shaw, a Yuwaalaraay designer, in collaboration with Bula'bula weavers Evonne Munuyngu, Lisa Lalaywarra Gurrulpa, Serena Gubuyani, Mary Dhapalany and Margaret Djarbalarbal Malibirr from Ramingining, East Arnhem Land. This year's designers, Griffiths and Ward, both work at Waringarri Aboriginal Arts in Kununurra, a flourishing…

With its blazing sun, Australia is a nation of hat-lovers who know their way around a wide brim. After a clutter of summer straw and raffia toppers crowded runways these past few seasons, the style-conscious have recognised an exciting union of practicality and creativity. Chanel's 1920s-inspired topper in ladylike shades, Moschino's elegant garden hat and Louis Vuitton's saucer hats in space-age white and jet black and clinically precise lines for resort '25 all offered shade and the allure of a half-obscured face. Trackside this spring racing season, look to labels capitalising on fashion's major hat moment. There's Jacquemus, whose soaringly large ‘chapeau bomba’ balanced atop Anya Taylor-Joy's head at Cannes, while another of the brand's hats was sweetly tied around her neck for a second look, reframing grand Riviera style…

When fashion designer Rebecca Vallance and Nicky Hilton Rothschild join a video call from the latter's New York home – dressed casually, laughing while recounting the chaos caused by fashion week and a visiting president in the city – it feels as though they've been friends a long time. Not so. The designer and socialite first met just over a year ago in the same city, close to Hilton Rothschild's apartment in NoHo. “My family and I have been wearing Rebecca's designs for a few years – a couple of years ago I reached out to her about a dress I was fiending after that was sold out everywhere,” Hilton Rothschild recalls. “We sort of formed this little pen-pal relationship. She was coming to NYC, so we met up for…

Nick Ward Inspiration can strike Nick Ward on his walks or in the studio, but for his recently released debut album, House With The Blue Door, it was at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and an exhibition of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint's paintings. “I knew I wanted to make something really optimistic, summery and warm,” the Sydney-based artist shares, “but very much from the perspective of a kid or teenager.” After he left the gallery, he got to work. In just a few years, the 21-year-old has become one of the most in-demand names in Australia's thriving pop music scene. Tasked with writing for Troye Sivan's most recent record – something Ward says “opened up a whole new world creatively for me” – the artist is now…

Viewing the work of American artist Julie Mehretu is an immersive and intense experience. Her drawings, prints and large-scale abstract paintings are alive with intricately layered marks, lines and symbols. Gazing at them creates a sense of being pulled into the composition, where amid the seeming chaos, patterns and rhythms begin to emerge. For Mehretu, this interplay between her work and the observer is, in part, what drew her to this nonrepresentational style. “There's this kind of possibility available in abstraction that I find really intriguing,” she says. “In the space of searching and trying to find liberatory places in art-making, abstraction allows for a more experiential kind of dynamic with the viewer, one that is less instructive.” Mehretu was born in 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to an American…