Tabla de contenidos para December 2019 en Harper's Bazaar Australia

ROYAL WATCH Like us, royals have to attend family Christmas events. We’ll keep an eye out for Meghan and Kate (and their impeccable style) as they head out on their end-of-year official engagements. HIT RESET After all the merriment of the silly season, you’ll no doubt be craving a refresh. To help, we’ve got the health and wellness trends to try for the new year. FANCY DRESS Holidays call for holiday dressing, and your usual nine-to-five wardrobe simply won’t suffice. From party dresses to statement heels, we compile your festive wish list. ON BENDED KNEE Summer is prime time for marriage proposals. If you’re planning on tying the knot, we have your next steps covered, from engagement ring trends to dream venues. CULTURE FIX With Boxing Day bringing a host…

It’s not very often you find yourself on the front line of history in the making. The realisation that we live in a time when everyone, everywhere is needed. Although sometimes it can feel hopeless and overwhelming, the worst thing we could do right now is lose hope. As a climate scientist, it’s my job to monitor Earth’s vital signs. We carefully chart changes in temperature, ice cover and rainfall patterns, just like a doctor or nurse tends to a patient in their care. Unfortunately, things are now changing a lot faster than many scientists ever imagined. Just like a patient in intensive care, Earth is in a race against time. Increasingly it is becoming hard to bear witness to the events now playing out season by season every single…

Author and human rights advocate Tara Moss is currently undertaking a PhD at The University of Sydney, looking at the intersection of the vintage scene and sustainability, feminism and political engagement. She has a particular interest in the salvaging of vintage clothes and the taking up of 1940s ‘make do and mend’ skills, and is also the current patron for the Australian Sewing Guild, promoting mending, sewing and craft for sustainability, body positivity and style with a vintage focus. Can you explain the ‘make do and mend’ philosophy and how it relates in a contemporary sense? ‘Make do and mend’ was the term famously used during World War II for the push to encourage and teach sewing and mending. In addition to making good economic sense, this was a necessity…

Think of disability-friendly fashion and what usually comes to mind is clothes lacking any fit, form or style, like oversized tracksuits or hospital pyjamas. But on the runway at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival Brisbane this year, each piece in Carol Taylor’s MeQ collection was hiding a little secret: they had all been designed for people with disabilities. Taylor, who has quadriplegia, heightened waistlines for those of us in wheelchairs, switched awkward buttons for concealed magnets and replaced fiddly zips with ones that could be done up easily by someone who finds such tasks difficult, as I do. Like all inclusive fashion, each piece could be worn by someone with or without a disability. I was thrilled to be one of the models for this groundbreaking moment in Australian fashion. Our industry…

Surprisingly, the spark that ignited Giorgio Armani’s lifelong obsession with Japanese culture had nothing to do with fashion. It was the legendary films of Akira Kurosawa, including Seven Samurai, Rashomon and Kagemusha. He was watching these movies and studying the work of woodblock artist Utamaro when he designed one of his most iconic collections, A/W 1981, which referenced traditional Japanese dress partnered with modern Italian fabrics. Armani has continued to travel to Japan and be inspired by its culture, particularly evident in his A/W 2008, A/W 2011 and S/S 2015 Privé collections, and he returned once again this year to stage his cruise 2020 show in Tokyo. “I love the simplicity and refinement of Japanese culture,” Armani, now 85, told the gathered media before the show. “It has a cleanness…

STELLA McCARTNEY is a busy woman. Granted, we’re all busy, but she’s the kind of busy that casts one’s own busyness in an embarrassingly feeble light. So busy, in fact, that there were real fears this piece wouldn’t come together at all. We were trying to reach her at a hugely inopportune moment: right in the midst of staging her S/S 2020 show, a spectacular in the Opéra Garnier, her chosen venue since joining the Paris fashion week schedule in 2001. After the show, she announced the appointment of a new chief executive officer in Gabriele Maggio and jetted to Asia for a monthlong tour. Earlier this year she launched a capsule collection inspired by The Beatles, called All Together Now; partnered with Google to tackle reducing the use of…

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GALLERY GIRL Colourful, off-kilter treasures for your favourite art lover RICH LISTER Sophisticated selections for your ‘together’ lawyer JETSETTER Fun finds for the frequent flier whose definition of ‘off-road’ is cocktails on the beach LITTLE BUD The cutest covetables for clued-up kids and the young at heart GO GETTER Legit-looking gear for the active — and those who are just pretending for Instagram DESIGN FIEND Dude who has to have the coolest version of everything? We see you ……

LIKE MANY UKRAINIANS, I am from beekeepers on both sides of my family. I think it’s strongly in my blood, and it’s very important in our culture, so beekeeping is something that has always been around me. For a long time it didn’t feel like something I could take on — it’s a little difficult when you’re permanently on the road, as I am — so I was quite content just helping others. My first personal hives were actually an emergency rescue, so it fell into my lap. I’m now part of [Melbourne-based beekeeping collective] Honey Fingers. KEEPING BEES INVOLVES a lot of talking, a lot of helping, a lot of learning. I’d recommend anyone interested in bees find an [existing] community of keepers whom you can chat to and…

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THERE IS AN EXPECTATION around the fine dining experience that the freshest organic ingredients possible will be served, and the kitchen gardens attached to Matt Moran’s Chiswick restaurants in Sydney are a testament to this. “It just makes sense,” head chef François Poulard says as he shows me through the garden at Chiswick Woollahra on a warm spring morning. “Our gardener, Pete [Hatfield], comes in three times a week and will bring whatever is at its best into the kitchen,” he explains, gesturing at today’s haul, which includes rhubarb, pineapple sage, parsley and (edible) violets and marigolds. “There will be at least one ingredient from the garden used in every dish we serve.” The contents of garden beds are rotated constantly, with no one thing ever grown in the same…

VENUE & MENU: Art Gallery of NSW; Chiswick at the Gallery (Solotel) DRINKS: Champagne Vadin-Plateau, Decante This, Bird in Hand, Byron Bay Brewery, Casamigos Tequila FLORAL DESIGN: My Violet ARTWORKS: Vicki Lee CENTREPIECE VESSELS: Iittala LOUNGE BAR FURNISHINGS: StylecraftHome MC: Marta Dusseldorp GUEST PERFORMER: Jessica Mauboy DJ: Carla Uriarte GIFT BAGS: Estée Lauder, tde., Wedgwood, Luken & May, Goldwell, StylecraftHome, Etihad, Champagne Vadin-Plateau, The Beauty Chef, Bird in Hand MODELS’ JEWELLERY: Dinosaur Designs SHOW MAKEUP DIRECTION: Carol Mackie, Artists at Play SHOW HAIR DIRECTION: Daren Borthwick for Goldwell Australia MODEL AGENCIES: IMG Models, Priscillas Model Management, Kult Australia, Chadwick Models, Vivien’s PRINCIPAL PARTNER: Estée Lauder EVENT PARTNERS: Solotel, Chiswick, Fivex, Aston Martin Sydney, Designer Rugs PHOTOGRAPHY: Oliver Begg, House of Cameo, SubZero Photography EVENT PRODUCTION: Lara Inc Events…

“Protecting the environment can feel almost overwhelming because we expect change to happen in a perfect way. But change happens by tiny numerous pivots. You may think the little changes won’t make a difference, but they do. It could be, I won’t use a single-use plastic water bottle or I’ll introduce more meat-free days and make sustainable seafood choices. Or I’ll offset my carbon footprint when I have to travel. Everything makes a difference.” – Georgia Fowler “We have to change our thinking and embrace new ways of creating, using and reusing our resources. We can and must do our part for our planet, for ourselves, for our fellow inhabitants and future inhabitants. Let them not look back at us with disappointment. Let us be the incredible human innovators we…

SUMMER calls for a return to simplicity: digital detoxes, hours spent in the company of the books you’ve been waiting all year to read, a diet heavy on champagne and oysters. Glorious. BAZAAR’s approach to holiday style is equally pared-back: black string bikinis with ribbed tanks, fit-like-a-glove vintage Levi’s, understated leather sandals, simple silk slip dresses and perfectly cut black blazers. It’s the kind of refined minimalism embodied by our cover stars, Charlee Fraser, Gemma Ward, Alexandra Agoston, Georgia Fowler and Victoria Lee — a quintet of Australia’s biggest fashion talent, modelling the crème de la crème of local and international fashion. Just add water, and splashes of gold jewellery from Tiffany & Co.’s new T collection. ON THE COVER Photographed by Darren McDonald. Styled by Naomi Smith. VICTORIA LEE…

SUNSHINE STATES Cast away heavy hardware and layer on souvenir-inspired jewellery by Instagram hit Gimaguas. Spanish twins Claudia and Sayana Durany’s high-spirited designs are produced by artisans from around the globe and have found a coterie of fashion fans including Gigi Hadid and Leandra Medine Cohen. HAT TIP Cover girl Gemma Ward is among the many fans of Australian headwear label Will & Bear, which uses upcycled woollen clothing offcuts and 100 per cent Australian wool to create its covetable toppers. In early December, the brand will launch a line of three new straw hats. Summer awaits. UNDER THEIR SPELL Cult favourite Spell & The Gypsy Collective of Byron Bay is moving towards a circular business model. The latest collection, Seashell, is its biggest step in the right direction to…

Fashion seems to be single-mindedly obsessed with sustainability at this moment in time (and rightly so), but the conversation tends to be very big-picture. Attention often goes to how luxury conglomerates and fast-fashion giants can clean up their carbon footprint, while less is said about how smaller brands are adapting. For Helen Kaminski, the luxury Australian hatmaker which has cultivated a loyal fanbase since the ’80s, transforming the brand into a sustainable business has become a main focus in recent years. “Traditionally, hatmakers use fur to create their most premium felt hats, but that’s no longer an option for us,” says the brand’s head of design, Pernille Sejer. The search for ethically sourced fur alternatives led Sejer to an unexpected partnership with nonprofit The Woolmark Company for the latest collection.…

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Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat both worked fervently and died young, leaving two prolific art careers cut tragically short. But to cap their similarities there would be to miss a wider portrait of their friendship and the social and political atmosphere of 1980s New York. A new exhibition, exclusive to Melbourne’s NGV International, attempts to paint that portrait in more than 300 works by the two artists.Aesthetically, Haring’s and Basquiat’s works can be worlds apart — the former with simple line figure drawings; the latter with collage-like compositions — yet conceptually, they are twins. Or at least siblings. Haring and Basquiat (who were born and died two years apart) emerged in the art world at a time of artists’ squats and experimentation, and used the streets as their canvases, where…

YARA SHAHIDI shimmers. Her fingernails are painted a pale iridescence that catches the light of the fixtures overhead as she gesticulates exuberantly while explaining the importance of “intentional intersectionality”. But it goes beyond makeup — she seems to glow from the inside. We’re in New York’s Crosby Bar on a rainy afternoon and the 19-year-old actor has just come from a luncheon at which she presented an award to Taraji P. Henson. Yara entered the cultural lexicon at 14, playing Zoey Johnson on the US sitcom Black-ish, but she cemented her position there offscreen by speaking out on issues of social justice. The first word used to describe her is as often ‘activist’ as ‘actor’, and no less an eminence than Oprah Winfrey has said she hopes she is still…

Now in its fifth year, the annual BAZAAR in Bloom soiree has cemented its place as one of the highlights of the philanthropic social calendar. Held for the first time in the hallowed Art Gallery of New South Wales, this year’s event saw more than 300 guests gather to raise awareness of and crucial funds for The Royal Hospital for Women in Randwick, Sydney. For half a decade now, Harper’s BAZAAR and The Royal Hospital for Women Foundation have proudly hosted the gala, runway show and auction, and the fashion set continues to enthusiastically throw their support behind the cause. This year, the impressive turnout included notable fashion names Carla Zampatti, Alexandra and Genevieve Smart, Rachel Gilbert and husband Tom Williams, and Camilla Franks. The proceeds raised will contribute to…

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OUR PLANET is in a state of emergency. As consumers, we must use our voices and our wallets to demand more sustainable fashion. We need to think more consciously when we shop and ask ourselves: How long will this item last? What is it made of? Who made it? What is its carbon footprint? Does it need to be new or can I shop vintage or pre-owned instead? When I no longer wish to wear it, will I resell it, exchange it or pass it on to someone? Every single one of us should feel the obligation, the urge and the responsibility to make better environmental decisions, and the fashion industry also needs to take action to speed up the transition towards more responsible practices. FASHION I find sustainable Scandinavian…

Natalie Isaacs is the founder and CEO of 1 Million Women, a global movement of women and girls who pledge to take practical action to fight climate change by changing the way they live. Now 10 years old, 1 Million Women has become a leading Australian network concerned with climate change, with 940,000 followers (and counting) and 4.5 million website views each month. In September, Isaacs addressed the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, presenting her recently launched app, which was credited as an innovative tool for building a movement and delivering behavioural change. Harper’s BAZAAR: How did all this start? NATALIE ISAACS: I was a cosmetics manufacturer for 23 years, but in 2006 I had an epiphany. There were a number of touch points: Al Gore’s documentary An…

After seasons of abstract florals, puffy sculptural dresses, sequins and bold shoulders, we’re craving something a little more pared back this summer. As, it seems, were the showgoers at the S/S 2020 shows. In among the usual head-to-toe designer ensembles and underneath the peacocking was a welcome thread of minimalism — the chicest women were those who made black a summer-friendly hue. Doutzen Kroes and Blanca Miró Scrimieri wore simple black day dresses; Lauren Santo Domingo opted for high-waisted trousers and a tank cinched at the waist with a thick black belt. Eva Chen wore a sleeveless set by Ukrainian brand Poustovit, while supermodel Soo Joo Park looked super modern mixing black with a dash of caramel outside the Tod’s show (both proving leather for summer works wonders). Simplicity never…

What does a dress code sound like? Corporate wear might be stiff and swift, the steady, repetitive swipe of trouser legs walking with purpose. Or for a smart-casual catch-up, the whisper of cotton T-shirting and the soft, slinking pad of sneakers. Surely a beach date wouldn’t be complete without the smack of a flip-flop? For the new season, the sound is a clatter of beads flung around on the dance floor, the domino-like micro claps of oversized gold sequins as they serpent over a body in motion or the deep swoosh of fringe in full swing. “Whether you want to dance all night or take off your shoes and dance on the table, for party dressing it’s important to feel you can move and that your movement is free. You…

In an industry full of big personalities, Michael Kors is one of the biggest — but not in a terrifying, tantrum-throwing way. Instead, he is warm, funny, upbeat and positive — all characteristics that are also evident in his runway shows. Long before anyone started talking about diversity, you’d see women of all ages, shapes, sizes and backgrounds on the Kors catwalk. Perhaps most radical of all, you’d see models who looked happy and healthy, rather than miserably hungry. It’s hard not to feel cheerful in his company, as I am reminded when we meet at his new London townhouse boutique on Bond Street. “I’m really happy to be here,” he says, “and really happy to see you.” He flashes his signature sunny smile and his exuberance fills the room.…

It’s been many years since my first visit to Portugal. At the time I was just 16, maybe 17. I was in Spain on vacation with some friends and we spontaneously decided to take a trip to Porto. Just across the Spanish border, I discovered a beautiful, melancholic country. I have since visited Portugal as often as I can. My house is in Melides on the Alentejo coast. I discovered the property by chance: a few years ago, I was working near Comporta and I suffered a cut that required some stitches. On the way home from the hospital, I came across a path winding through rice fields to a fisherman’s hut that looked all but abandoned. As soon as it came up for sale, I bought it and built…