Gemma Ward on returning to modelling, mental health and motherhood
Share 11th Jul 2019 Australian model and actor Gemma Ward has been announced as the ambassador for Curing Homesickness, a Sydney Children’s Hospital campaign in collaboration with fashion brand Assembly Label. “This is a beautiful initiative, especially because it is one that is uniting all of the hospitals across the nation, working towards a unified…
25 beautiful places in Bali to add to your bucket list
Bali occupies a special spot in the hearts of most Australians who’ve been there. A place of Bintang beer, cheap flights and the uncanny ability to bump into you someone you know literally every single time you go there. But beyond the hordes of dressed-down Australians wandering the streets of Seminyak in their thongs and…
Olivia Wilde on her directorial debut, the #MeToo era and the importance of female alliances
Share 11th Jul 2019 n a spring day last year, Olivia Wilde met two young actresses, Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever, for lunch at a restaurant in Los Angeles. Wilde had cast the pair as co-stars in Booksmart, her upcoming film that would mark her transition from actor to director, but Feldstein and Dever hadn’t…
Hayman Island resort has reopened with a $135 million makeover
Some pretty wonderful things have happened in InterContinenal hotels. Film star Grace Kelly met her royal husband, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, at the InterContinental Carlton Cannes in the south of France. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr put the finishing touches on his historic ‘I Have a Dream’ speech at the Willard InterContinental in Washington…
What it actually means for you when Mercury is in retrograde
Share 10th Jul 2019 Found your technology letting you down lately? Parcels not making it to their correct destinations? Life just a little bit upside down? Well don’t worry, it’s not just you. It’s Mercury. And as a white witch, Rebecca Ryan knows exactly what it can mean for you (and your life events) when…
Everything to know about Judy, the biopic tipped to earn Renée Zellweger an Oscar
Share 10th Jul 2019 Renée Zellweger is starring in what could be an Oscar contender, the Judy Garland biopic, entitled Judy. Zellweger embodies the late entertainer in the first official trailer released for the project. Much like other musical biopics of late, like Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman, Judy promises to supply key musical numbers, romance,…
Inside the Ruinart hotel designed by Loewe’s Jonathan Anderson
Ruinart’s Hotel 1729, its one-bedroom pop-up completely unique to London, has just returned for a second time under the creative direction of fashion designer Jonathan Anderson, creative director and founder of JW Anderson and creative director of Loewe. Bringing his love for craftsmanship and antiquities to an elegant townhouse in Notting Hill, Anderson has created…
Queen Letizia of Spain style file
Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano’s rise to royalty reads like a real-life fairytale. Born into a middle-class family, she was working as a television journalist when she met her prince by chance, having been sent to cover a story the future king was working on. An engagement followed and then their 2004 wedding, after which Letizia received…
A look back at the surprising history of royal christenings
Share 8th Jul 2019 When Queen Elizabeth II decided a new baptismal gown needed to be made for royal christenings, there was only one person she trusted for the task: Angela Kelly. Her Majesty’s personal dressmaker turned advisor and confidant, Kelly was asked by the monarch to recreate the historic family christening robe, which had…
Country strong: inside the new campaign for Utopia Goods
Homegrown textiles by Utopia Goods are as Aussie as Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, and the duo behind the brand has chosen a quintessentially Australian country town to shoot its latest collection of hand-printed linens. Artist colony and former gold rush town Hill End provides an apt backdrop for Bruce Slorach and Sophie Tatlow’s Australiana style, and…