March/April 2020

Vogue Living

The art of living.

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Rebecca Caratti EDITOR editor@vogueliving.com.au CREATIVE DIRECTOR Natasha Allen DEPUTY EDITOR Verity Magdalino STYLE EDITOR Joseph Gardner ACTING CHIEF COPY EDITOR Virginia Jen DESIGNER Alicia Ridley MARKET EDITOR Anna Delprat MELBOURNE EDITOR & FEA
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Contributors
Australian born-and-raised Colls discovered the world of fashion through the pages of his mother’s magazine collection, and began his career as a portrait photographer in the regional town of Geelong, Victoria, at 16. He worked his way to Sydney and
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Take The Tour
Swedish fashion label Acne Studios is traditionally known for its unique take on everyday clothes. Now, the brand has opened up its extraordinarily cool Stockholm headquarters with great aplomb. Located in the former Czechoslovakian Embassy, the offi
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Editor’s Letter
As we send this edition to print, Australia is experiencing some of the most devastating bushfires we have seen on record, with homes, lives and livelihoods lost. In lieu of my usual letter, I want to express our deep sadness here at Vogue Living ove
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How To Help Those Affected By Australia’s Bushfires
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Bringing It Home
Showy or sombre, practical or crazy, fashion designers are crossing the line from clothes to interior design. Dolce & Gabbana’s madcap Smeg kitchen appliances patterned with Sicilian motifs, Gucci’s outpouring of objects from creative director Alessa
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Statement Pieces
STYLING ASSISTANTS: ANNA DELPRAT, NONCI NYONI AND SAMANTHA TORRISI ■
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On The Runway
STYLING ASSISTANTS: ANNA DELPRAT, NONCE NYONI AND SAMANTHA TORRISI. MODELS: NAT BUCHANAN AND ZOE TAKALA, FIVETWENTY MANAGEMENT ■
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Modern Love
Fashion photographer Chris Colls shoots for some of the world’s biggest brands and most inspirational publications, from Saint Laurent to Vogue Paris and Andy Warhol’s legendary Interview magazine. As well as being a muse to Jean Paul Gaultier, Alexa
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Ann Demeulemeester
Ann Demeulemeester made her name in the fashion world with bold, asymmetric tailored silhouettes that constantly traversed the themes of light and dark, romantic and rock chick. Now, the Belgian designer is playing the same game with a new collection
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Cindy Crawford
The name Cindy Crawford has long been synonymous with style. (After all, she’s a supermodel, and let’s not forget about her days hosting MTV’s House of Style.) Crawford’s love of fashion is equally matched by her passion for design. The model’s homes
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Rick Owens
I have always loved the Lido, its provincial side — close to Venice but without the disadvantages,” says American fashion designer Rick Owens. Owens, with his wife and business partner Michèle Lamy, became a regular visitor to the region when he relo
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Going Full Circle
For the trailblazing multi-disciplinary designer and creative director Emma Elizabeth, fashion is just one ingredient in a life-long obsession with design. “I dress to please myself,” says the founder of Local Design, a platform that supports and pro
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Bella Freud
There is a cinematic quality to the way daylight distils into every corner of British fashion designer Bella Freud’s West London apartment, allowing key furniture, sculptures and artworks to take centrestage in an otherwise uncluttered interior. “I w
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Higher Purchase
Ask anyone in the business of retail fashion how they’re finding trade, and the expletives will flow. Particularly from those invested in brick-and-mortar shops — the once-calculable space of the sell in which all fashion and fixtures channelled desi
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Dries van Noten
When it comes to rocking the fashion world, Antwerp has a surprisingly active track record. Straddling the banks of the river Scheldt in Dutch-speaking Flanders, the small Belgian city leapt onto the international fashion stage in 1986 when six young
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Model HOME
It’s one of those still, green midsummer days in the heart of England. The hedgerows are thick with hawthorn and bindweed, Queen Anne’s lace is nodding, hot red poppies bopping, and halfway along a pot-holed lane, fields give way to a dramatic modern
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Guiding Light
For an illustration of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling fable, it’s hard to go past this elegant apartment in leafy Østerbro, Copenhagen, a mere suburb away from where the master storyteller once lived. It stood empty and unloved for a yea
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Little By Little
Asked to recount the when and where of this Melbourne mansion dropping into his design lap, architect Travis Walton thinks back to 2014 and one of those storied New York bars where fabulous creatures hold court and Old Fashioneds flow. He remembers a
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Fashion Show
Having recently left a beloved Haussmann apartment, Thierry Gillier, founder of Paris-based fashion house Zadig & Voltaire, his wife, artistic director Cecilia Bönström and four children, now live in a five-bedroom, 500-square-metre home that feature
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Colourful HISTORY
Behind the late 19th-century façade of John Demsey’s six-storey house on Manhattan’s Upper East Side lies a riot of colour and pattern, where Pop Art collides with pop icons, mid-century modernism with 1970s family heirlooms, geometric prints with wi
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Generous Spirit
The partial redesign of this property for a high-profile chef in Sydney’s Rose Bay was all about entertaining. The client wanted a kitchen that would serve as an extension of his professional life, with luxury equipment and plentiful space to host gu
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Period Peace
The brief for the restoration and renovation of a Georgian townhouse in London’s South Kensington was to incorporate the client’s love of modernism but still respect the property’s age. Interior designer Alice B Davies and architect Jennifer Jammears
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Light Up
Before Jaune cofounders and architects Marine Delaloy and Paula Alvarez de Toledo overhauled this Paris apartment, it was an awkwardly partitioned space. The firm’s brief was to bring light into all the rooms and open up the living area for a new per
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Kelvin Ho
Three contrasting passions of mine influence my idea of a dream kitchen: modernist design with an outdoor Mediterranean atmosphere, grounded by industrial undertones. The kitchen itself is fundamentally very functional and follows rectilinear lines,
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Perfect Harmony
The forward-thinking owner of this main bathroom and kitchen in Munich, Germany, gave French design studio Liaigre and its creative director, Frauke Meyer, total creative freedom over the home. There was one main condition to the brief: the studio wa
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Vein & glory
For this iconic 1960s modernist apartment in Sydney, Eva-Marie Prineas of Studio Prineas came onboard to rethink the connection of its kitchen to its living areas and to better showcase the incredible 270-degree view of the city’s glistening harbour.
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Happy Place
The brief to interior design studio Las 2 Mercedes was to create a cosy and practical house in Madrid without losing sight of good design. “The owner is a cooking fanatic, making the kitchen a priority,” says Mercedes Valdenebro. “It was essential to
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Giancarlo Valle
My dream bathroom is a space that has none of the things you’d find in a common bathroom. It should go beyond utility and into the realm of experience and escape. It’s an intimate space and should remind you of that fact. The room should encompass a
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Think Pink
Just a stone’s throw from one of the world’s most elegant hotels sits a shop so playful, so joyfully reverent of the sea, it’s as if Ariel grew up, ditched Prince Eric and became a niche influencer with her own chic store on Italy’s Amalfi Coast. Des
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Elsa’s Byron
Elsa Pataky, the Spanish actor and ambassador for Dior, unveils her favourite places to shop, eat and enjoy the outdoors with her husband, Thor actor Chris Hemsworth, and their three children, India Rose, Sasha and Tristan, in her adopted home of Byr
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VL Collection
Fox Galleries presents exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, with a focus on work that is conceptually driven and visually compelling. Mark Schaller, Botanic Gardens, 2019. Gouache on paper, 50 cm by 70 cm. 79 Langridge Street, Collingwood P: 0
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Floating On Air
Feather-light with true clarity of form, this versatile blow-up seat is turning heads with the fashion set. This re-edition, based on the original 1960s design by Verner Panton, debuted its return alongside the catwalk at Prada’s SS2019 men’s and wom

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