Elle Australia - January 2019
Elle Australia - January 2019
Elle Australia - January 2019
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P26. HOW TO DRESS FOR SUMMER The best heatwave-ready dresses, shorts and sandals.
P46. THE ELLE HOT LIST An early adopter’s ultimate guide to 2019 (like the sunnies you need NOW).
P98. LIFE OF LARA Model mogul Lara Worthington on loving life and looking to the future.
P124. HOW TO BE WELLE IN 2019 Easy ways to be an even better you (think turbo barre).
P146. WHERE TO WEEKENDER NOW Book, pack and head to these fabulous hotels.
P155. YOUR ALL-STAR GUIDE TO 2019 Your astrological predictions for the year ahead.
ON THE COVER
Photography:
Darren McDonald at Artist
Group. Styling: Marina Afonina
at Assembly Agency.
Hair: Christian Marc at Forward
Artists. Makeup: Sarah Uslan
at The Visionaries. Production:
Flower Ave. Lara Worthington
wears: dress, $7,200, GUCCI,
gucci.com/au; Wave necklace,
$415, bracelet, $8,750, both
TIFFANY & CO., tiffany.com.au.
On subscriber’s cover:
Wave necklace, $415, bracelet,
$1,600, both TIFFANY & CO.,
tiffany.com.au
FIRST
LOOK
P19. FRESH TAKE
Do resort season right.
BEAUTY
P20. SEE THE LIGHT P115. THE SCENTS
Add edge to linen looks. OF THE SUMMER
FEATURES Rosy spritzes to revel in.
P22. TWIN SETS P52. WHO’S YOUR GURU?
Go double or nothing. The new cult of celebrity P116. AN INSTANT GLOW
enlightenment. IN YOUR LUNCH BREAK
P24. MY WORLD A fast and gentle way to
A Parisian creative P54. NO TURNING BACK resurface your skin.
consultant’s dream abode. We’re still totally into Cher.
P118. THE AWAKENING
P34. PASS IT ON P58. THE REAL PRICE Millennials get a libido boost.
A slow fashion label’s sexy
take on hand-me-downs.
OF EMPOWERMENT
Don’t be fooled by those P120. SAVING FACE
LIFESTYLE
P138. HOME ON
“fauxpowerment” promises. How to fight back against THE RANGE
P36. IN FULL BLOOM complexion pollution. A Byron Bay entrepreneur’s
Lily Allen’s cool comeback. P62. GHOST CHILD enviable farmhouse retreat.
The story that bagged the P130. ANSWERING
P38. MADE A NYE ELLE fiction competition. ONLY TO MYSELF P152. HOW I’M WIRED
RESOLUTION TO Beth Ditto shares her Sarah Ellen’s secret geeky
GET OUT MORE? bad-ass gym philosophy. pleasures (from steamers
Skip Netflix, do this. FASHION
P68. ACTION REPLAY P132. WORLD CLASS
to smoothie makers).
P40. HOW TO TOP YOUR High-vis activewear Our global edit of this P169. PRIVACY NOTICE
PERSONAL BEST and neon swimsuits. year’s best beauty buys.
What Bel Powley did to AND MORE…
win us over completely. P78. BEST WESTERN
Felt hats, fringed jackets
P41. I GET BY WITH and faded denim.
A LITTLE HELP
Newsflash: pets are P88. CUT LOUCHE
the new therapists. Give your nine-to-five
a French twist.
P42. A REAL SONG
AND DANCE MAN
Meet the genius behind
Mary Poppins Returns.
P44. PERSPECTIVE
Fernanda Ly’s fight for
inclusion in pop culture.
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NEW YEAR,
NEW YOU?
WE THINK THE
OLD ONE IS JUST
FINE is redefining what is important by evolving her
beauty brand The Base in order to shine a light
WELCOME TO 2019. YOU MADE IT. on the causes closest to her heart. At 31, she
The new year is gleaming in front of you like is finally feeling as though she’s exactly where
a shiny new pair of boots, just waiting to be tried she needs to be: incredibly content and
on for size. Oh, the places you’ll go. The new comfortable in her own skin. And it shows.
heights you’ll reach. Those shoes are so box-fresh If there’s one message that jumps out from every
it’s tempting to want to throw everything else out page this month, it’s optimism. From the most
and start again. But while we love a wardrobe inspiring women in music — Cher, who’s finding ever
cleansing metaphor as much as the next fashion greater success in her seventies (p54), Lily Allen,
obsessive, the trouble with starting over is that you who’s revelling in her return to the spotlight (p36),
lose all the good bits as well as the bits you’d like and Beth Ditto, who details her positive relationship
to let go. The same goes for sweeping New with the gym (p130) — to the uplifting summer fashion
Year’s resolutions that vow to overhaul your life, and beauty buys that will inject freshness and fun
your look, your livelihood. Chances are, you’re into the coming weeks, which will hopefully be filled
already pretty damn amazing. (In fact, if you’re with swimming, snoozing and sipping lambrusco
reading ELLE, we can guarantee you are!) And (culture director Elle McClure calls it as the new
we’re guessing it’s the small tweaks that are going prosecco in the ELLE Hot List on p46). And at a time
to make all the difference to the year ahead. when finding hope and meaning is more important
After reading our beauty and wellness director than ever, Lauren Sams asks, “Who’s Your Guru?”
Janna Johnson O’Toole’s guide on (p52). Right now, I’m looking to astrologer
new ways to be well, I’ve decided Susan Miller, who returns with her horoscope
those tweaks, for me, are going to be guide to the year ahead (p155) and says I have
getting serious about sleep, switching every reason to feel optimistic about my financials.
Photography: Darren McDonald. Lara wears: dress, $4,660,
my phone to “do not disturb” mode So that shiny new pair of boots isn’t completely out
more often and uncrossing my legs of the question, then. Lucky, because I already have
Alexander McQueen, alexandermcqueen.com/au
(who knew?). For Lara Worthington, an Isabel Marant pair earmarked (p78). Enjoy.
who radiates confidence on this
month’s cover, it’s about looking
ahead, embracing change and living
life on her own terms. With two
beautiful boys and a home base
in LA, the Australian model mogul
A _ LEEK
@GENEVRA
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and floaty dresses. Your feet
(and outfit) thank you
in advance. E
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Sandals, $670, HERMÈS, Sunglasses, $260,
(02) 9287 3200 HOLLY RYAN X PARED,
paredeyewear.com
Bag, $945, GUCCI,
1300 442 878
Louis Vuitton
MOOD BOARD Hat, $150, AVENUE,
a
avenuethelabel.com
FRESH
Chloé
Chanel
or sippinng Negronis in Positano
bars – w which is to say, not too
readily associated with “real
life”. Buutt as we approach 2019
and our attitudes towards
Zimmermann
shoppinng continue to evolve,
we no lo onger
o have much interest
in buying pieces to wear for a three-week Closer to home, Zimmermann
Z made retro
Fendi
sojourn, only to relegate them to the back of shapes feel more modern than ever, layering
our warrdrobes along with our suitcase. polka-dot blouses under all-in-ones, and Matin
Verssatility is everything, which is why we reminded us of the enduring style chops of khaki
were p particularly smitten with the Resort 19 shorts. (With a linen shirt? Check. White tee?
collections. They just felt so… wearable. Check. Black one-piece cossie? Check.)
Words: Grace O’Neill. Photography: Sevak Babakhani (still-life)
Chanel showed fresh white two-pieces with Are you reading this thinking, “Well this is
simple boater hats (and layered strings of all well and good for weekends but what
pearls – it is Chanel after all), Salvatore about work?” Resort may feel like an anti-
Ferraga amo gave the blazer a summer- office season, but to write-off its corporate
appropriate upgrade in eggshell potential is to seriously
linen, while Fendi made its signature “The underestimate it. Chloé’s ivory
monogrammed jumpers feel fresh in
a cropped and sleeveless V-neck
POWER slip dresses look just as good
with tailored blazers and
design. Paired with high-waisted is in pumps as they do with strappy
blue denim jeans, the latter will be how you flat sandals. And a pair of wide-
your best friend on those not-hot-
enough-for-shorts summer weekends.
wear it” legged pants from Hermès are
as likely to elicit compliments in Dress, $1,100,
the office kitchen as they are ZIMMERMANN,
zimmermannwear.com
over brunch with mates.
Salvatore Ferragamo
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Shorts, $295, MATIN,
matinstudio.com
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UP CLOSE
Natural fibres
PHOTOG R APHY BY
ADRIAN PRICE
get a sharp new spin
SEE THE
kitx.com.au
Shirt, $599, KITX,
LIGHT
Words: Claudia Jukic. Styling: Dannielle Cartisano. Hair: Keiren Street at Vivien’s
Creative. Makeup: Kristyan Low at DLM. Model: Laura Kluenter at Priscillas
Dress, $989,
LEE MATHEWS,
leemathews.com.au
No summer wardrobe is
complete without touches of
cream and khaki. Select suits,
shirts, balloon-sleeve dresses
and bucket hats in airy,
breathable fabrics for the
long, hot days ahead.
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Miu Miu
Hermès
Chanel
Gucci
TRY THIS
twin
sets
Our new-season
style MO:
Jacket, $85, skirt, $60, DOUBLE
both TOPSHOP,
topshop.com or NOTHING
SERIOUS QUESTION:
why have we overlooked
co-ords for so long? A synced
set, in bright block colours,
checks or fresh neutrals, offers
a simple way to look polished
and put-together with minimal
effort. Plus, consider the
economic benefits: your tops
and bottoms can be worn
with other separates, turning
one outfit into three. E
Top, $60, shorts, $80,
both SPORTSGIRL,
spo sg .co
sportsgirl com.au
au
Words: Grace O’Neill. Still-life styling: Samantha Wong. Photography:
Jason Lloyd-Evans; Getty Images; Sevak Babakhani (still-life)
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Very few Parisians can claim
to live in an actual house, with
its own front door, but Claire
Thomson-Jonville, Scottish
creative consultant, former
editor-in-chief of high-glamour
cult magazine Self Service
and mother of two, is one
such lucky resident. She lives
in a charming three-storey
maison. “A house, in the 8th
arrondissement!” she says,
still with a trace of disbelief.
MY
INSIDER
WORLD
ELLE explores the life, style
and maison of creative consultant
Claire Thomson-Jonville
P H O TO G R A P H Y B Y A devoted Nike fan,
TH OM AS CH ÈN È Thomson-Jonville has a stash
of more than 3O trainers, with
her Off-White x Nike Air
Jordan styles on high rotation.
Monogrammed pouches
and fashion blankets are also
a favourite — one by Hermès
is artfully folded in the
Words: Alice Cavanagh
Thomson-Jonville is keeping
an eye out for a vintage
mirror and coffee table. “My
phone to-do list is literally ‘buy
At weekends, Thomson-Jonville’s furniture’, but I wanted to live
pace slows significantly and she in the space and then start
seeks out family time, heading to buying things,” she says. “But
the Jardin des Tuileries, Parc I have no time!” This year has
Monceau and other green been full of change: along
spaces. While she rarely has with the new address, she left
time to cook (“I just can’t be her post at Self Service after
bothered,” she says, with 10 years to break out on her
refreshing frankness), she clearly own as a freelance
relishes downtime at home when creative consultant. E
she’s not travelling for photo
shoots or fashion weeks.
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THE Shirt, $420, BASSIKE,
bassike.com; skirt, $9,705,
MANUAL:
HOW TO
DRESS
FOR
SUMMER2019 heralds a renewed sense
of playfulness, and we couldn’t be
happier about it
There’s a temptation in summer
to stick to your tried-and-tested
rotation of white tees, denim
shorts and linen day dresses.
But why limit yourself when
there’s a smorgasbord of
fresh new trends to experiment
with? More is more – so
proceed without caution.
Skirt, $599,
LEE MATHEWS,
leemathews.com.au
Pretty, understated
gingham or big, bold,
bright plaid – why not Dress, $99, ZARA,
throw caution to the wind zara.com/au
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Dress, $99, ZARA,
zara.com/au
Scarf print is the pattern
du jour for 2019. Whether
it’s a statement-making
maxi or a demure silk shirt
worn with jeans, consider
this your easiest entry into
on-trend summer dressing.
Scarf, $390,
HERMÈS,
(02) 9287 3200
Pants, $139,
THE EAST ORDER,
theeastorder.com.au
Sandals, $100,
$ SOL
Sandals, $99,
SANA, sol-ssana.com.au
ANCIENT GREEK
SANDALS,
Sandals, $140, SOLE PURPOSE davidjones.com
A.EMERY, aemery.com
This season we’re
trading in our black
sandals for brown.
Why? It feels fresher
and more modern – but
still goes with almost Sandals, $199,
everything we own. > MARIA FARRO,
mariafarro.com
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THE
ELLE
MANUAL:
HOW TO
DRESS
FOR
SUMMER
H
H
Handbags g arre, at their
heart, a practical accessory
– which makes the current
Bag, $395,
BUILDING BLOCK, crop of sculptural totes and
building--block.com clutches all the more fun.
We’re lusting over Gucci’s
medicine ball-esque
number – among others.
Bag, $4,800,
CHRISTIAN DIOR,
(02) 9229 4600
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Pants, $365, MIH,
edwardsimports.com
Gucci
Prada
Groundbreaking? Maybe
not – but who cares about
stamping out new ground
when you’ve got a proverbial
greenhouse of prints on
offer? Daisies, daffodils,
peonies… we’ll take the
whole bunch.
Dress, $745,
MOTHER OF PEARL,
parlourx.com
Miu Miu
Dress, $795,
ZIMMERMANN,
zimmermannwear.com.au
WELL
GROUNDED
All hail the return of
the anklet: summer’s
most nostalgic
Necklace worn as Anklet, $450, LUCY Bracelet, $480, CHRISTIAN Anklet $129,
Anklet, $129 KIRSTIN ASH,
ASH
accessories trend. >
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anklet, $159, FOLK, lucyfolk.com DIOR, (02) 9229 4600 au.kirstinash.com
RELIQUIA,
reliquiajewellery.com
m
THE
ELLE
MANUAL:
FOR
SUMMER
The resurgence of all things
’00s has extended to our
footwear. Barely-there
sandals, ballet flats and
even humble thongs are all
staging a comeback.
Shawl, $1,010,
LOUIS VUITTON,
au.louisvuitton.com
From floaty maxi
dresses to tees and
scarves – consider this
iconic hippie print an
instant injection of joy. Dress, $660, MARYSIA,
marysia.com
Top, $169,
Pringle Of Scotland
THE UPSIDE,
theupsidesport.com
Ports 1961
Bag, $7,865,
HERMÈS,
(02) 9287 3200
Shirt, $95, RPM,
rpm.co.nz
80, RUSTY,
Shirt, $8
au.ruusty.com
Rosie Assoulin
Shirt, $2,820,
LOUIS UITTON,
au.louis uitton.com
Shirt-dress, $170,
RUE STIICC, ruestiic.com
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THE
ELLE
MANUAL:
HOW TO
DRESS
Emilio Pucci
FOR Earrings, $380,
PRADA, prada.com
SUMMER
Shorts, $29.90,
UNIQLO,
uniqlo.com/au/store
Bag, $515,
SIMON MILLER,
mychameleon.com.au
Louis Vuitton
Shorts, $3000,
SIR THE LABEL,
sirthelabel.com
Shirt, $395, FRAME,
edwardsimports.com
JUST ADD:
Tunic tops,
statement-making
earrings, pastel
loafers and raffia
Shorts, $169
9, wedges are your
KOWTOW W,
au.kowtowclothinng.com
shorts’ new best
friends this summer.
Wedges, $80,
ASOS, asos.com
Christian Dior
Shorts, $35
50,
ZIMMERMA ANN,
zimmermannweear.com
Christian Dior
Jacket, $590,
MICHAEL LO SORDO,
michaellosordo.com
Blazer, $490,
ALICE MCCALL,
alicemccall.com
Dress, $669,
GINGER & SMART,
gingerandsmart.com
Dress, $695,
ZIMMERMANN,
zimmermannwear.com
Jacket, $695, SANDRO,
(02) 9327 3377
Dress, $299,
SPELL & THE GYPSY
COLLECTIVE,
shop.spelldesigns.com.au
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IN FOCUS
PASS
WITH RESPECT
FOR THE PAST AND
AN EYE TO THE IT
ON
FUTURE, NEW LABEL
MASTANI
IS MELDING
TRADITIONAL
WITH VISION
FOR SLOW FASHION
WITH A SOCIAL Top, $499, pants,
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AS A YOUNG GIRL GROWING UP IN THE TOWN
of Jalandhar in India, Kudrat Makkar would drape herself in her
mother’s handmade saris and shawls.
“My love of fabric and fashion started when I was raiding
mum’s wardrobe,” she laughs. “Because I come from a very
small city there was really no contemporary fashion at all, but
mum had a lot of heirloom pieces and that’s how I learned about
quality and craftsmanship.”
As she grew a little older, Makkar would accompany her
mother to visit the artisans who made those garments. “Mum
would go to all these small embroiderers and craftspeople who
worked by hand and she would explain how everything was Dress, $699,
MASTANI,
done,” says Makkar. “In those days you had to buy the fabric, use mastanilabel.com
your imagination and then let the craftspeople work their magic.”
From those early studio visits with her mother, Makkar’s own meeting artisans whose traditional techniques spanned
imagination was sparked and she vowed that one day she generations. “We were visiting a few villages because my
would work in fashion. Three decades later the result is father does a lot of charity work in India and I suddenly realised
Mastani, a label based in Melbourne with an atelier in India I could do something that could make a difference,” says
and a design team in Milan. The brand’s name comes from that Makkar. “I’d always appreciated the beauty of hand-looming
of an Indian princess who was a symbol of both strength and and embroidery through my upbringing, so I thought I could do
femininity, two values Makkar aspires to embody in her designs something to help sustain their skills and also, in some small
that fuse Indian skills spanning centuries with modern cuts way, to give back.”
and silhouettes. Traditional hand-looming Today, Mastani’s atelier is located
techniques and intricate embellishment and
beading are the hallmarks of the label that “Her in Bengaluru in the Indian state of Karnataka
and consists of a small team of 20. Artisans
aims to preserve and revitalise Indian crafts designs fuse are provided with above-average working
while educating its wearers about the culture Indian skills conditions and pay and guaranteed
of the hands that shaped their garments.
After two years of boarding school in the SPANNING minimum orders to foster the preservation of
their expertise.
Himalayas, where Makkar’s father sent her CENTURIES “I commit for, say, the next five years, to an
to instil a sense of independence and with modern order of a certain amount every month so they
strength, she moved to Australia, where she
completed an architecture degree at the
cuts and don’t have to worry about going out and finding
other work,” says Makkar. “A lot of these
University of Melbourne. “I always wanted silhouettes” traditional techniques are dying because there is
to do something in fashion but coming from not enough regular work so people have to stop
an Indian family they really wanted me to do and become labourers or do odd jobs instead.”
a degree and I thought architecture was the closest thing while Textile waste at the atelier is minimised, in line with Mastani’s
still staying in the design field,” she says. focus on sustainability. Fabric scraps are kept for finishing and
When she graduated, an opportunity arose to run an used on trims on garment bags and some styles, and samples
Words: Georgina Safe. Photography: Will Davidson, Tracey Lee Hayes
education business, which Makkar did for five years before and garments that do not pass quality control are either upcycled
founding Mastani. “Running a business helped me build my by the atelier or donated within the local community.
business skills, and studying architecture enabled me to “We pride ourselves on not letting anything go to waste,”
understand craftsmanship and construction with the kind of says Makkar.
experience you just can’t get in fashion school,” she says. Mastani’s new spring/summer collection also scores high on
She decided to bring her creative and commercial nous desirability. Easy inky tunic tops, wrap jackets with matching silky
together with Mastani two years ago after she went home to trousers, oversized kimono coats and exquisitely embellished
India to see her family. She visited several remote villages eveningwear are among the pieces in the range designed to be
worn this season, and for seasons to come, in line with the
original pieces beloved by her mother.
@mastani.label
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MUSIC
in
full
bloom
After a tumultuous
decade in the
spotlight, Lily Allen
is back – with a
whole new attitude
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If it feels like Lily Allen has been narrating your entire adult life, it’s an orgasm to the breakdown of her marriage with Cooper, and
because she has. From dodging dodgy blokes at the bar (“can’t the various vices she used to cope at the time (sex with female
knock ‘em out/can’t walk away”), to bemoaning the guys who escorts, drugs and alcohol). But it’s the less salacious bits of the
just don’t care that you’re not quite getting there, sexually speaking book that are the real meat in the sandwich: the passages that
(“you’re supposed to care/that you never make me scream”), to muse on a lonely childhood spent buffeting from one distracted
lamenting lost friendships (“could you please find it deep within parent’s house to another, the devastation of losing her firstborn,
your heart/to go back to the start”), to deeply relatable body George, to stillbirth and the emotional wreck she was during the
image debates ( “I wanna be able to eat spaghetti bolognaise/ first year of Ethel’s life, due to a life-threatening illness the baby
and not feel bad about it for days and days and days”), to true suffered. Then there are the pages that detail exactly how hard it is
#goals (“I want loads of clothes/and fuckloads of diamonds”), to succeed as a musician: from Allen’s early days cutting out her
there is a Lily Allen lyric for every stage of a woman’s life. own record covers on the floor of her mum’s flat in London, to
After a four-year stint without an album (she calls Sheezus, her losing millions in royalties because she “accidentally ripped off
2014 album, “a commercial and creative disaster”), Allen came Take That and couldn’t be bothered to do the paperwork”, to the
back – both musically (she released No Shame last year, grind of constant touring, something she says contributed to the
to critical and commercial success, and is in the breakdown of her marriage.
midst of a world tour) and with her first book “I WANT TO She wanted to write the memoir, she says,
– a memoir called My Thoughts Exactly. partially as a record for her daughters. “This is
Calling anyone “the voice of a generation”
C R E A T E . I L O O K a very important period of their lives that they
seems trite, but in Allen’s case it just might be F O R W A R D T O won’t remember, but it will shape so much of
true: she’shonest(tothepointofsensationalism) GETTING UP, their future. I wanted them to hear how it all
about absolutely everything. When it comes to happened from me, not on the internet.” She
GOING TO THE
Lily Allen, nothing (sex, drugs, alcohol, body says writing was cathartic (“I mean, kind of
image, mental illness…) is off the table. Which S T U D I O A N D depressing to go through all of it again, but
might be part of the reason she’s been tabloid WRITING GREAT yeah, positive in the end”) and allowed her to
fodder since she burst onto the music scene SONGS” take responsibility for her actions. Writing the
back in 2006 with her first album, Alright, Still. book, she says, helped her “grow up” and
The UK tabloid press are notorious for their draw a line under the past decade of her life.
voracious pursuit of celebrities and Allen But it’s not the sort of memoir that leaves the
seems to be particularly targeted. “Oh,” she reader with a sense that everything’s going to
says plainly, when asked why she thinks that is. be alright. She’s honest about her
“Because I was a young woman who shortcomings, her vulnerabilities and mistakes.
@lilyallen
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Neneh Cherry
Nick Cave: UNTIL
Nick Cave
Wendy and Brett Whiteley SHE SOUNDS
Clara Luciani
GRAND DESIGNS
American artist Nick Cave (no, not the Made first all-woman line-up, including Parisian
songstress Clara Luciani. Falls Festival is a
departure from last year, when it copped
musician) has created his most impressive
installation yet, comprised of millions of
plastic beads, crystals, ceramic birds,
a NYE flak for a lack of female acts – get excited
for Jack River, Tkay Maidza, Odette and
Hatchie. Then Laneway offers big-ticket
flowers, wind spinners, gilded animals
and… Christmas decorations. You can resolution acts like Jorja Smith and Courtney Barnett.
So Frenchy So Chic runs January 11-19,
even climb one of the artwork’s ladders
and take in the view from the top. It
needs to be seen to be believed. to get out sofrenchysochic.com; Falls Festival runs
December 28 – January 6, fallsfestival.
com; St Jerome’s Laneway Festival runs
NickCave: UNTIL is on until March 3;
carriageworks.com.au
MODERN CLASSICS
more?
Stick to your guns
January 28 – February10,
lanewayfestival.com
CAVE DWELLER
Some of the world’s most recognisable and hit these Musician, author, composer and Gucci
and beloved pre-Raphaelite works have
journeyed from London’s Tate gallery to
happenings front-rower Nick Cave (yes, that one)
will take to stages around the country for
Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia, a series of candid conversations and solo
so it’s worth making your own jaunt to the LOVE INTEREST piano performances. Get ready to hang
capital. Don’t miss the chance to get close Art aficionados will flock to world- onto his every prophetic word. E
to John Everett Millais’ famed “Ophelia” premiere performance, Brett & Wendy: January 5-23; nickcave.com
and John William Waterhouse’s A Love Story Bound By Art, which mixes
“The Lady of Shalott”. acting, dance and live music to bring
Love & Desire: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces to life the colourful and turbulent artistic CALL ME EVIE
BOOK OF THE MONTH
From The Tate until April 28; nga.gov.au and romantic partnership of Wendy and BY J.P. POMARE
Brett Whiteley. Choreographed by the As you prepare to while away your
Words: Elle McClure. Photography: Getty Images; James Prinz; Christie Goodwin; Wolfgang
POP YOUR CHERRY Australian Ballet and Sydney Dance summer days, you’ll need a new
Neneh Cherry has long been a pillar of Company’s Lucas Jervies and directed by must-read thriller to tear through
pop (along with ageless, cool style) but Kim Carpenter (behind performances feverishly. Enter Call Me Evie, the
Tillmans; courtesy of Brett Whiteley archive, copyright Wendy Whiteley
now she’s back in a big way. In October by Melbourne Theatre Company and latest in the vein of Gone Girl-style
she released the Four Tet-produced Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre) it’ll be suspenseful tomes. You’ll be
Broken Politics – her first solo album in a not-to-miss piece dedicated to two compelled by trying to figure out
four years – and now she’s headed of Australia’s greatest creatives. what the hell happened to land
to Australia, performing as part of the January 18-27; sydneyfestival.org.au Evie in New Zealand, held hostage
Sydney Festival and Tassie’s MONA by a man whose identity is known
FOMA (held in Launceston). Snap up only to her, but who’s adamant he’s
tickets quick smart – and prepare to only protecting her from herself.
“The Lady Of Shalott”
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know you’ll love. For a chance to win a copy of this
one, head to ELLE.com.au/win
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her marriage [with Prince Albert]. I think she had
this ambivalence toward them because she was
somebody who had fought for her
independence, only to [marry at the age of 20
and become pregnant the following month].
STREAMING
Obviously there were no contraceptives, and
that often meant being pregnant without
NEXT
As one of few
within their court. She seemed torn between
resentment for having to give up her
independence and also her love for them.”
ON THE CRY
“Filming was an emotional marathon; I had to
female leads really manage my mental endurance because it
in sci-fi hit was incredibly dark in places. [The series centres
Doctor Who, ON SWOTTING UP TO PLAY
QUEEN VICTORIA
around the kidnapping of a child in a small
the “perpetually Australian town.] I kept trying to think about my
has crises of image, in all her straight-laced collars, would “I choose roles on a script-by-script basis and
MATERNAL INSTINCT been looking every single night at the minute. But
“Victoria is not thought to have been a very I finished filming The Cry on a Saturday and
affectionate mother – she would tell her children began Victoria on the Monday, so for now I’m
they spoilt her honeymoon and the first years of potentially going to take a holiday!” E
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WHILE YOU
WAIT…
…for your favourite series
DON’T FEAR THE UNKNOWN to return to TV screens, catch some
“It was weird that my first film [The Diary of their biggest stars in a swathe
Of A Teenage Girl] was such a success, of new movies.
because afterward it was like, “What BIG LITTLE LIES’ Meryl Streep in
happens now? Is it all downhill from Mary Poppins Returns (January 1)
here?” It was a hell of a starting place and Kathryn Newton in family
– I loved working with the director drama Ben Is Back (January 31).
[Marielle Heller] and I related to the GAME OF THRONES’
character of Minnie so much because I’d Gwendoline Christie in the uplifting
never truly seen a teenage girl portrayed Welcome To Marwen (January
TV
how to like that – and so coming off the film and
its press tour and going back to the grind
was an adjustment. The challenge was
10) and Sophie Turner in X-men
spin-off Dark Phoenix (February 7).
STRANGER THINGS’ Sadie Sink
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SELF
little help
done into the benefits of ESAs, but several
studies have detailed the perks of
spending time with pets. “People feel
happier, calmer, more trusting and less
stressed,” explains Jones. When it comes
to finding the right animal for the job, she
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT post-traumatic stress disorder and many says it’s a very individual process: “Many
ANIMALS make their other serious conditions on the spectrum of peoplehavefoundtheirESAbyaccident.”
tomorrow night or maybe for the next 67 nappy), are raising awareness of ESAs, #animalselfies from fellow passengers. E
nights,’” she has said of her paralysing while breaking down the taboo of
@lenadunham
of ESAs is on the rise. Emotional support says the reason is more of us are attachment
animals have been known to living in isolation. “There is a rise in and
assist people who suffer from severe
depression, generalised anxiety disorder,
single-person households and
many people are delaying
connection”
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A REAL
MAN
SONG
AND
DANCE
MAN He’s won
a Pulitzer,
reinvented the
modern musical
and is happily
married to his
high school
sweetheart.
He’s now set
to star in Mary
Poppins Returns,
which begs
the question:
could we
possibly love
Lin-Manuel
Miranda any
more?
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The first rule of celebrity interviews is not to ask the same old
questions everyone asks. But when it comes to Lin-Manuel
Miranda, it’s hard to hold back. So, when is Hamilton coming to
Australia? The answer is “at some point,” which is vague but
hopeful. It’s also extremely polite, given that this interview isn’t
the biggest fan of The Little Mermaid. Done.” live promo for the next ad break, the announcer says something
Married since 2010 to his high school sweetheart, lawyer like, ‘Coming up next… Eddie Perfect! Tim Minchin!’ And then the
Vanessa Nadal, and a father of two, Miranda says getting the camera pans to us and the announcer clearly doesn’t recognise
work-life balance is just as tricky for Broadway royalty as it is for us at all, so he says, ‘And… shitloads more!’ So that’s who we
the rest of us. “We struggle with that just as much as anybody on were for a long time: Shitloads More.” He laughs. “I love the
earth, really. When you have two kids it’s sort of divide and history of being unacknowledged and unappreciated in
conquer – like I’ll run after that one, you take that one.” He Australia. I wouldn’t trade it for the world!” E
laughs. “We’re figuring it out every day.” I ask him what the Mary Poppins Returns is in cinemas January 1
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PERSPECTIVE
“I DON’T
WANT
PEOPLE
OF ASIAN
“ I’ll never forget meeting with
modelling agencies in New HERITAGE lead. I don’t know why it’s taken
us until now to start seeing Asians
York – who usually had a total of
one Chinese model on their
books – and being told, ‘We
TO FEEL LIKE in major roles – ones that aren’t
the stereotypical know-it-all geek,
the kung-fu master or the
aren’t looking for another Asian.’
Modelling really opened my THEY DON’T mysterious geisha – but it feels like
change is finally happening. As
eyes to the lack of diversity in
media, and then I started noticing EXIST IN THE the director of Crazy Rich Asians,
Jon M Chu, said, “It’s not a movie.
it in all pop culture. Once you
realise it, you can’t ignore it.
The majority of people on
WORLD” It’s a movement.” We can finally
watch these films and think,
‘These characters really do look
earth are Asian, yet we have Model Fernanda Ly is on a mission and act like I do.’
always been a minority in to fight for inclusivity Constance Wu – star of
popular culture. Growing up, Crazy Rich Asians – wrote an
the only actress I remember open letter about the
who looked like me was Lucy significance of the film, which
Liu. I definitely don’t remember seeing any Asian models. has since been quoted over and over. She wrote: ‘My friend
There were a lot of male martial-arts masters – no-one that Ava DuVernay says, ‘I work in an industry that really has no
I could relate to. regard for my voice and the voice of people like me and so,
You could say I found success as a model because people what do I do? Keep knocking on that door or build your own
saw beyond my non-whiteness and believed in me. I definitely house?’ My dear Asian-American friends, we are building
feel the pressure as one of the few Asian models who openly our own damn houses. We got the tools, the ability and we
speaks about our representation – or lack thereof – in the definitely got the style.’
general media. I don’t want other people of Asian heritage to I want to use my platform to build our house; to support and
feel like they don’t exist in the world because they’re not seeing advance Asian representation in Western pop culture, and
accurate depictions of themselves in pop culture; and I don’t I want to see it flourish. Our generation, Asian or not, needs to
want to see our culture being used as a sprinkle of decoration fight for inclusivity. Everyone needs to see these films, and not
on an otherwise whitewashed film. One thing that inevitably only that, to see the relevance of them. Start to notice when our
comes up in conversation with first- and second-generation culture has been misrepresented and speak up about it. We
Asian people living in Western countries is about how our also need non-Asian culture consumers to speak up so that
As told to: Alexandra English. Photography: Instagram/@warukatta
culture has either been misrepresented or erased from those at the top of the industry hierarchy will accept us as being
Hollywood altogether: traditionally Asian roles have been no different from themselves. The media needs to represent the
rewritten for white actors wearing yellow face. people who consume it, and that is all of us.
Despite our multicultural society, it’s still such a battle for There is a movement happening. And as long as we have
Asians to be represented on-screen, which is why the film people like Kwan – who turned down a huge pay cheque
adaptations of two novels – Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians from Netflix so he could reach wider audiences in the cinema
and Jenny Han’s To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before – have been – championing our representation, and actors and actresses
so widely celebrated. Crazy Rich Asians is the first Hollywood like Wu imploring us to build our own houses, next time a film
film with an all-Asian cast in 25 years [since 1993’s The Joy Luck with an all-Asian cast appears in a Western cinema, we can
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Club], and To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before has a female Asian finally call it normalisation rather than cause for celebration. E
”
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w as homewares,
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at drnks.com
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Hird, group sommelier for folks behind Melbourne’s a style statement, rather than
Sydney venues including beloved Bar Liberty), to a neww-year-resolution fail. >
Icebergs and Bondi Beach Alberto (the Italian cousin
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the tech break and take the beauty game for years
a sabbatical no matter – but we’re catching up.
where you dine. Turns out While we’ll always have a soft spot Get on board with the latest
your parents were onto for black, white and cream, we’re cult brands to hit our shores:
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YOUR
GURU?
Why we’re seeking a guiding light
in turbulent times
Is your luminary Jess Magic, the musical storyteller who runs
invitation-only Soul Salons for the rich and famous? Or
W OR D S BY
Amanda Chantal Bacon, Moon Juice founder. Perhaps it’s
LAU R EN SAM S her more famous contemporary, Gwyneth Paltrow? Maybe
you visit the HairWitch when you’re in Brooklyn and get
a side of Sanskrit healing with your blow-dry? Do you follow
Instagram affirmation queen Cleo Wade? Progressive
pop-stars Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez? How about the
self-help author Gabrielle Bernstein, who says “the universe
has your back”? Or are you more into memoirist-turned-civil
rights spokesperson Glennon Doyle? Is your guru Oprah?
The woman you buy crystals from? Or is it someone so cool
and niche we haven’t even heard of them yet?
n age of the guru, where it seems as actually old things,” she says, referring to crystals, astrology
meone to turn to in times of trouble — or and the positive kind of charismatic leadership. “We’re seeing
hen we’re scrolling through Instagram, what else could make life a little more meaningful, a little more
d of a boost to get us through the rest of bearable.” As the world gets (literally) hotter, as house prices
about everyone I follow (and by that rise and rise and as politicians continue to disappoint, is it any
ollow) on social media has something wonder we’re turning to ourselves (through the guidance of
n for faith and affirmation. I’ve lost count others) for introspection and nurturing?
ve seen someone credit their massive This quest for personal transformation — whether it be fuelled
ry from heartbreak/long-awaited by gurus such as Gabrielle Bernstein, Elizabeth Gilbert, Cheryl
en major life milestone here] to their Strayed, Sheryl Sandberg or even Oprah — is nothing new, says
ook or a citrine crystal. Cristina Rocha, an associate professor at Western Sydney
e more inclined than ever to believe that University. “It has its roots in the Human Potential Movement of
success, it comes as little surprise that the ’60s and ’70s, and other counterculture movements,” she
eriously on the decline. According to the explains. “It’s about understanding and healing yourself —
ensus, in 2016, “no religion” is now constantly being on the lookout for ways to improve who you
e, ahead of Catholic, Anglican, Uniting are.” Sophi Bruce, who teaches at The School of Life, says the
st, Presbyterian, Eastern Orthodox, desire to be more self-aware is noble. “People need to be
stal, Lutheran and Sikh. Furthermore, nourished in different ways, and if looking inside yourself to find
g paganism, Wiccan and even druidism healing can help you, then I think that’s fantastic.” The flipside of
rs. Where traditional belief systems this, though, says Rocha, is that these new forms of faith are so
suffering from major PR crises (the Royal introspective they don’t allow for collective action and collective
ex abuse, for one), smaller, more growth. “Turning to something like astrology because you feel
re gaining traction. And alternate forms lost is fine, but it doesn’t allow you to look at the structural
as — from astrology to self-help to problems in society and what role you might play there.”
ations — are cropping up everywhere. If there are any women in this brave new world of gurus who
new philosophy, one that doesn’t give have a real shot at making lasting changes that could overcome
ender identification or socioeconomic structural inequality, it’s those like Glennon Doyle, who have
and influencer Cori Amato Hartwig parlayed their fame in this new sphere into true political activism.
en). Many millennial women feel these Doyle, a Christian mummy blogger turned bestselling memoirist,
offer a type of inclusive, accepting who ELLE US referred to as “the guru of the moment”, has
ways found in more traditional forms of positioned herself as the leader of the Christian resistance to
why people are into this stuff, even if to Trump. She told ELLE US last year, “We wake up in the morning
e kooky. Jess Magic, the musician who and literally say to each other, ‘Coffee and revolution.’”
the living rooms of tech billionaires The guru movement is not without its detractors, of course
Man at home”), encourages all — there are those who dismiss astrology or affirmations or
, smile and have a “songversation” with self-help as inconsequential and lacking in substance.
as turned her Instagram affirmations Banu Guler, co-founder and CEO of popular astrology app
ir bestseller Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom Co-Star, says she’s used to people seeing her field as silly.
come a guru for the millennial feminist “We’re so quick to dismiss things that are embraced or driven by
ended the March For Our Lives in women — think about fashion or beauty, how quick we are to
gans for their placards. “[Girls] revere write those off as trivial.” Astrology, she says, is a “social glue”
would adore your favourite loving, that helps women, in particular, find a sense of community.
ster,” says Reese Witherspoon of “Politically, we’re in a tumultuous moment,” she says. “The
called her “the millennial Oprah”. situation is untenable, so people want something to cling to that
hs could not have come at a better time can make sense of the chaos.” When it comes to the dissolution
pularity is indeed due to the current of faith, Guler points out that people aren’t just losing their faith in
ring moments of political and cultural politics, it’s social media as well, especially after Facebook’s
rong narratives and solutions to tricky Cambridge Analytica data-leak fiasco. “People want to find
the ability to put the question out there meaning and structure. So what if they find that in astrology or
urton, writing in The New York Times, crystals or in reading a book with new ideas? I just don’t get why
of these new forms of faith to a future you’d want to dismiss that, if someone found real meaning in it.
We’re trying out new things that are Isn’t that what we all want?” E
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NO
TURNING
BACK With a new hit
Broadway musical
underway, Cher
opens up about
a singular life filled
with love, failure, loss
and success
beyond
imagination
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HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED TO THINK ABOUT CHER? show, and she is still working with its writers to get the script right.
You are aware of her, of course, the way you are aware of the “I’m fussy ‘cause it’s my story,” she says. “I want it to be honest and
sun, with its blinding light, its rising and setting. But have you ever right and funny and sad, like my life.”
considered the totality of Cher — not just the celestial body herself, While you might guess a personality as strong as Cher would
and not just the epic arc she has travelled, but the sheer range of suck the oxygen out of any room, her physical presence — we are
stellar explosions she has undergone? now sitting alone on a leather couch next to a grand piano — is
Let’s review. She became famous as half of Sonny and Cher in quiet, still, calm, even delicate. The word vulnerable also comes to
1965, at the age of 19. They sold millions of records, morphed into mind, yet doesn’t feel quite right, since it’s so often taken to mean
a lounge act, then drew more than 30 million viewers a week on “weak”. It’s rather that Cher is open and listening, and thus
their hit show, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. Cher launched exposed. If in her work she is on output, in person she is on input.
a solo career on the side, releasing three number-one singles: Powerful but not overpowering.
“Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves”, “Half Breed” and “Dark Lady”. After Nicolas Cage gets at this quality when I ask him to describe
divorcing Sonny in 1975, she starred in her own damn TV show, her acting talent. “Cher is a person with a huge heart, and that
thank you very much, which was called — what else? — Cher. really comes through not only in her music but as a screen
Many more Chers followed. There was Disco Cher, Punk performer. She has an extraordinary blend of strength and
Cher and Rock’n’Roll Cher. In the ’80s there was Best Actress vulnerability on-camera,” he says. Micaela Diamond, the 19-year-
Cher, who starred with Meryl Streep in Silkwood, Jack Nicholson old actor who plays a young Cher in the new musical, used this
in The Witches Of Eastwick and Nicolas Cage in Moonstruck. quality in her interpretation of the star. “I just tried to find her
She ended the decade with one of her biggest hits, “If I Could Turn superpowers. My favourite is her combination of power and
Back Time”, giving the world Battleship-Thong Cher. She’s long vulnerability. To be so vulnerable and yet have the most power in
been a fashion icon. Cher was the first megastar to wear a “naked the room, that’s a hard place to stand in. She was born with that.”
dress”, decades before J.Lo, Rihanna and Kim Kardashian did. There is a unique irresistibility to Cher; she is both otherworldly
In fact, we’re currently in the early stages of a new version and relatable. “My earliest impressions of her were when I was
of Cher. Did you notice how her mid-2018 Mamma Mia! Here a freshman in high school, and ‘I Got You Babe’ was number
We Go Again cameo segued into a surprise ABBA tribute one,” remembers Meryl Streep. “I knew she was also high-school
album? Those amuse-bouches have recently culminated in her age, but she had such a deep, velvet, mature voice. I sounded like
new musical, The Cher Show. Tweety bird at that age. And her hair was like a dark curtain that
It’s only when I set foot in her presidential suite at the Sunset swung and shone, and she had one crooked tooth that made her
Marquis one balmy night and begin climbing even more perfect.”
a spiral staircase, that it hits me: Wait, Cher is In an alternate universe, the world doesn’t
also an actual human? meet Cher at all. Her mother, Georgia Holt,
But there she is, standing at the top, wearing “I’m fussy was a 19-year-old aspiring actress. Her father,
a black blouse, black pants and black boots, ‘cause it’s my John Sarkisian, was a young truck driver. The
with an unearthly glow emanating from her
story. I want two met at a dance in LA and married soon
porcelain face and platinum bob. She’s been
interviewed all day, by many different people. it to be after. By the time Holt realised she was
pregnant, she’d left Sarkisian. Holt’s mother
I gather that most, if not all, were men, because honest, funny gave her daughter a choice: go back to your
as I enter her line of sight and extend my hand to and sad, husband, or abort the pregnancy. Holt chose
shake hers, Cher beams a cheeky smile and
exclaims, “A woman!”
like my life” the latter but then couldn’t go through with it.
Cherilyn Sarkisian was born in El Centro,
Talking to Cher, she’s exactly who you a border town in the Imperial Valley. “My
expect her to be, and also the opposite. She’s father’s father had a refrigerated-truck business,
the same woman who called David Letterman an asshole on the and they were just driving through,” says Cher. Sarkisian was
air and, more recently, offered this critique of political lobbyist a ne’er-do-well with a gambling and heroin habit, and Holt
Paul Manafort on Twitter: “FYI… Manafort… [gangster] John Gotti divorced him a year after Cher’s birth. Though Cher had a series
called… he wants his look back!!” When I ask if she’s ever met of stepfathers — Holt was married eight times, to six different men
Donald Trump, she says she doesn’t think so, then adds: “I do — she mostly watched her mother survive alone. Cher spent some
remember seeing him once in a place I used to go to and thinking, of her childhood in an orphanage in Pennsylvania, most of it in Los
‘God, what an idiot.’ And all he was doing was walking around.” Angeles, and very little of it with Sarkisian.
About the genesis of the musical, she explains that a producer Cher grew up poor in close proximity to Hollywood, and her
first approached her with the idea more than a decade ago, “but mother socialised with an illustrious group, including comedian
then that script was terrible”. It has taken years to develop the Lenny Bruce and actor Robert Mitchum. Cher vowed to become >
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a star when she saw her first colour movie, at Grauman’s Chinese Two days, three days later, we were famous.” Meryl Streep
Theatre. It was Dumbo. “I was in the movie, right along with those recalls, “It was the first time I had ever seen anybody wear
elephants and crows,” she later wrote in a memoir. “That was my sheepskin inside out, with the scratchy stuff on your skin. I thought
first career ambition: to be a star in animated films.” that might be unpleasant. And how do you wash it?”
She was a precocious teenager. She got her driver’s licence There was a run of hits, including “The Beat Goes On”. But as
as soon as she turned 16 so she could cruise Sunset Boulevard in the movements of the late ’60s picked up — free love, psychedelics
her stepfather Gilbert’s Skylark. One night, while passing popular — Sonny and Cher, a straight-edge couple, lost their aura of cool.
hangout Schwab’s pharmacy, she was crashed into by a white By 1968, they were facing a backlash. “We broke big barriers,
Lincoln convertible. “Are you nuts?” she remembers saying to the but we didn’t do drugs,” says Cher. “And we didn’t change our
guy. “Then I looked at his face, and I thought, my god, it’s Warren sound. That was really wrong.” They had their child, Chastity, in
Beatty.” Spoiler alert: Cher and Beatty started dating. “But you 1969. Then they went on the road, performing in nightclubs — or,
can’t call it a relationship,” Cher tells me. “It was very Warren.” as Cher has referred to them, “nightmarish clubs”. To entertain the
Cher didn’t get home until well after curfew that night. As band during slow nights, they started talking. Without meaning to,
punishment, she was barred from seeing Beatty the following they had turned their banter into a comedy act.
night. Beatty called Holt and negotiated Cher’s release. The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour premiered on CBS in 1971
This was right around the time that Cher met Sonny Bono. Their and became an instant hit. Cher was an obvious star. “You couldn’t
first encounter was at Aldo’s Coffee Shop in Hollywood. watch her show and not recognise her natural talent as an actress,”
“Everyone just disappeared,” remembers Cher. “He was the most says Streep. “She made everybody else on TV look like they were
unusual person I’d ever seen. He had longish hair, and he had the trying too hard, pushing. She was so immediate, free, and she was
most beautiful suit on, and beautiful long fingers, and Beatle boots, canny about landing the jokes. Skilled, but it was invisible.”
but they were Cuban heels.” By then, Cher had dropped out of The marital barbs may have been the biggest draw. They were
high school — “I was dyslexic, so school for me was one big usually delivered, deadpan, by Cher, with Sonny providing the
nightmare” — and moved into an apartment with a few other set-up. Sonny: “What, you think you’re living with a dummy?”
women. Sonny moved in next door. When Cher lost her Cher: “I never said this was living.” If that sounds tame by today’s
apartment, she moved in with Sonny. standards, consider this: when Rolling Stone
Sonny was working for Phil Spector, and soon Cher was profiled Sonny and Cher in 1973, the writer
singing backup in Spector’s arrangements, including the Righteous included this: “Many of my friends favour the
Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” and the Ronettes’ “Be belief that after work, Sonny beats the shit out
My Baby”. Sonny was gunning to produce of her with a tyre iron. They had asked me to
Cher as a solo act, but Cher didn’t want to reaffirm this.”
be onstage alone. So they began recording There was another lure. Cher had brought
and performing together, first as Caesar and on Bob Mackie to design her costumes, as
Cleo, then as Sonny and Cher. CAPTIVATING many as 13 looks a week. “To be cute and
Sonny once described them as “the first CHER FACTS pretty back then, you had to have a turned-up
unisex couple”, which pretty well captures nose and lots of blonde hair,” says Mackie.
their sound and look. Cher says none of it SHE AND MERYL STREEP “But Cher is an amazing-looking girl. She can
was calculated. “When we first started out, saved a girl from being look like anything. She loved getting dressed
I wore a dress and he wore a suit, and then mugged on the streets up, and nothing intimidated her. By the end,
they lost our luggage at Cow Palace, and of New York. people were turning on the show just to see
we had to go in our day clothes. That was what she was going to wear.” Colours were
who we were. Sonny wore that bobcat ANDY WARHOL bold, sequins were plentiful, coverage was
[vest], and I wore huge bell-bottoms,” says once crashed a party minimal. “Almost nothing he ever made me
Cher. “We didn’t think, ‘Oh, we’re breaking at her house. “Best did I hate,” says Cher. “The minute I started
some taboo’ or ‘We’re avant-garde’ or any crasher I ever had,” getting beads, I didn’t care what happened.”
of that. We just loved the way we looked.” she says. As the show took off, the marriage tanked.
They didn’t resonate at first. “Kids liked it, Sonny had more than an eye for other
but adults just hated us,” says Cher. “I mean, SHE MAKES JARS women. Cher began to chafe against the
really hated us. Fistfights hate.” When “I Got of chicken bolognese constraints Sonny put on her. They separated
You Babe” came out, in 1965, they went to for friends at Christmas, in 1974. Some time that year, Cher’s new
London. “It sounds so dumb, but everything with labels that read boyfriend, David Gefen, urged her to seek
happened so fast,” says Cher. “I didn’t even “Diva Pasta”. That’s a list information about her business arrangements
know where I was. One day we were poor. we’d like to be on. with Sonny. When she did, Cher learned that
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CHER WISDOM
Enterprises had outstanding contracts Cher broke by leaving, she Before I leave, I ask Cher why she thinks following fun and
owed Sonny millions. That same year, Cher was on the cover of acting on instinct has, in her case, produced so many pivotal
Time, alone, in the original beaded nude dress Mackie designed moments. “It doesn’t always,” she says. “Look, I’ve had huge
for her. In some parts of the South, people ripped off the cover. failures in my life. Huge dips and ‘Oh, you’re over. You’re over.’
But it didn’t derail her. She’s had decades of hits and paradigm- This one guy once said, ‘You’re over,’ every year for I don’t know
shifting fashion moments, plus won an Oscar. If you somehow how many years. And I just said to him, ‘You know what? I will be
have not seen the movie Moonstruck, go to YouTube right now here when you’re not doing what you do anymore.’ I had no idea
and pull up the clip of Cher’s character Loretta Castorini watching if I was right or wrong. I was just tired of hearing him say it.” E
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THE
REALOFPRICE
EMPOWERMENT IT’S BECOME ONE OF THE MOST
OVERUSED WORDS IN THE
CONVERSATION AROUND FEMINISM,
SO HOW DO WE CUT THROUGH
“FAUXPOWERMENT”
TO FIND WHERE THE TRUE POWER LIES?
W ORD S BY
H A NNAH B ETTS
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO – possibly your entire lifetime However, in the fight for equality, aren’t there bigger, more
– I taught feminist theory at Oxford University. Back then, our pressing issues than the gender of your gingerbread biscuit or
poster-thinker was Judith Butler, whose most famous works argued the colour of your beer bottle? Aren’t these, in fact, just further
that gender, sexuality and man and woman as biological entities examples of what one might refer to as “fauxpowerment” — the
could only be determined in performance – as it played out, so to overselling of false or banal so-called empowerment to women?
speak. Our heroine argued this in language so convoluted it For empowerment has become one of the most used – and
rendered us cross-eyed. How we fretted, how we thrilled. abused – terms in the conversation around feminism, in a way
Fast-forward to 2018, and I found myself gazing at some newly that serves to dilute and undermine the cause itself. Bandying the
released gingerbread biscuits, Godfrey and Annie. Annie sports word about for everything from childbirth to chocolate, fitness to
a frock and a red (lipsticked?) smile. However, according to their floor cleaner is stripping the term of any meaning at a time when
producer, neither are gingerbread men, making it clear they are genuine power is still lamentably far from women’s grasp.
gender-neutral biscuits. “Christ,” I thought, “We did this. A couple So from where did this omnipresent word spring? Its first
of decades on, our elaborate academic wranglings are being appearance in the English-speaking West occurred in the ’70s, in
packaged and sold with a ‘Have a nice day.’” relation to African-American communities. Feminists began using
It’s not just gingerbread snacks being deployed in the the term in the ’80s and ’90s, tending to deploy it in reference to
battleground for gender equality: in recent years, more and more changes within the developing world. As the century staggered to
brands are pushing supposedly empowering messages, often its end, women’s magazines increasingly appropriated the word
specifically aimed at women, to sell their products. As a journalist, to buoy their readers, bolstered in turn by the Spice Girls’
I might receive 900 or so emails a day, legions of them banging championing of so-called “girl power” (an ideology that occupied
the empowerment drum over the latest hair thickener or protein an uncertain territory encompassing pinching Prince Charles’
bar. Femvertising is nothing new (hell, there are even bottom and being nice to your pals). Then, in 1998, came HBO’s
#Femvertising Awards) – lessons in female empowerment Sex And The City, and empowerment became enmeshed with
have been thrown at us from all corners of consumerism. Take conspicuous consumption. “Hey, Manolo lover,” the commercial
the furore over Scottish brewer BrewDog’s pink “beer for girls”, clamour went, “prove your independence by enslaving yourself to
launched for International Women’s Day – allegedly to a credit card.” Not only did this transfer empowerment from some
highlight the gender pay gap – and lambasted for being the sort of collective experience to an individual high, it put it firmly
marketing gimmick it was. within the realm of the (designer) wallet, conflating consumerism
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with female autonomy. In 2003, the satirical website The Onion
ran the headline “Women Now Empowered By Everything
A Woman Does”, with “does” meaning “buys”.
Big business was not slow in striving to exploit the idea
of “women’s lib” as a commodity. Whether it was an It-bag,
an It-restaurant or an It-shoe, the “It” we were being sold
was empowerment; because we were worth it. The global
financial crisis of 2007–2008 looked to have thrown
a spanner in the works of consumer feminism, but, in fact, it
merely forced it underground.
When it emerged, it was no longer confined to luxury goods,
but became a marketing free-for-all. Today, anything can be
sold as empowering, from leggings to lingerie, weight-loss
programs to wine, sanitary items to Kim Kardashian’s arse.
As Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project,
notes: “The idea of selling individual women ‘empowerment’
can be an easy way for brands to jump on the bandwagon of
a thriving feminist movement without actually engaging with the
systemic, ingrained issues women are really battling. It is
frustrating when we are sold the idea that women themselves
could solve the problem of institutionalised discrimination and
abuse by simply buying the right shampoo or T-shirt.”
That’s not to say organisations and companies can’t adopt
meaningful feminist messages, “but they need to put their
money where their mouth is if they expect it to be convincing,”
says Bates. “It’s no good slapping feminist quotes on your
merchandise if your senior leadership is completely dominated >
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“We need
less stuff
and FEWER
POWER
by men, or if you’re paying your female staff
less than their male counterparts.” POSES: a weapon of war? Moreover, at a time
when the pussy-grabber-in-chief occupies
This attitude – separating genuine feminist more action, the White House, isn’t the notion that getting
commitment from mere bandwagon leaping progress, your power can be reduced to the perfect
– lies at the heart of the issue. Kate
Bosomworth, chief marketing officer at M&C
rights” pink drink a tad Marie Antoinettish?
In this fauxpowerment-saturated world,
Saatchi’s UK branch, argues that today’s we need to distinguish the faux from the real
fauxpowerment explosion was inspired by deal. Sure, I bought myself a mock prefect’s
a handful of genuine attempts by businesses to engage with badge saying “feminist”. It was funny and playful, and feminism is
women’s issues. “The 2004 Dove [Real Beauty] campaign was not without these qualities. But right now we need less stuff and
the first of its kind,” she tells me. “Then we had Pantene’s #Shine fewer power poses: more action, progress, rights.
Strong. These campaigns were challenging, disruptive and truly Sam Smethers, chief executive of gender equality lobby
tipped norms. However, those that have followed suit haven’t group the Fawcett Society, tells me: “I’m not po-faced: there is
always been that authentic. Like us, they need to apply real a value in having fun with the message. We sell great feminist
insight into how to solve problems and help; how to bring a truth T-shirts and Tatty Devine jewellery and they get people talking.
that no-one’s talked about before. Not just putting women in their However, the concept of empowerment is something we slip
adverts – consumers can see through that in a nanosecond, into for want of something better, or clearer, to say. It suggests
as they can find out very quickly whether organisations are true that women move from being powerless to powerful, when it’s
to their word.” more about recognising your own power, then recognising the
It is this lip service to empowerment that brings us so many structures and barriers designed to make women feel less
platitudes: from one Dove campaign imitator too many powerful. It’s these barriers that need addressing: not changing
informing us that our chubbiness is emancipatory, to the individual, but the system they find themselves in.”
Hollywood’s tokenistic rehashing of male-focused hits. And so As the novelist Naomi Alderman, author of the prize-winning
here we are, in a world in which we are presented with The Power, asserts: “Products, my friends, are very nice. But they
“empowering” control knickers, rosacea cures and rosé, with are not the same thing as doing the inner work to increase your
power something you can buy into so long as you’re not confidence, or knowing you have a group of female friends to
Photography: Getty Images
disempoweringly poor. rely on, or understanding truly in your heart that the fact that you
Call me a killjoy, but doesn’t this seem tawdry given that the feel shit about yourself a lot of the time is not your fault and that
issues women might more obviously seek empowerment over there are societal forces trying to make women, in particular, feel
include voting access, equal pay, equal parenting, abortion shit about themselves. Enjoy the products – why not? But do the
rights, forced marriage, genital mutilation and rape as work, too.” You said it, sister. E
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GHOST
CHILD BY
MICHELLE JAGER
Eli begins cooking breakfast. He drops a big yellow knob of upending Clem. On the floor, legs and arms akimbo, a sharp
butter into the frying pan and soon the room smells of bacon. pain in her shoulder, Clem sees the child standing at the end of
Butch is drooling. A long strand hangs from the corner of his the bed, watching.
mouth then drops straight through the child’s head onto the floor. “Fuck,” she snaps.
“Butch, gross,” Clem reprimands. “Don’t swear in front of the kid. Cover up,” says Eli, throwing
The child, unperturbed, squints momentarily before resuming her a blanket.
the game with the water bowl and remote. “Why don’t you knock, kid?” says Clem.
“She’s hefty for a ghost,” says Clem and stabs her fork into “Babies don’t knock. They don’t know to,” says Eli. “Read the
a rasher and cuts, mixing it with egg before scooping it into her baby books.”
mouth. Yolk drips down her chin. Clem looks into the baby’s eyes and thinks, bullshit. Ghost
“He’s a baby,” says Eli. “Babies are meant to be chubby.” child laughs, turns, and toddles out.
“He?” says Clem. “I think he has my eyes,” says Eli.
“She?” says Eli. Clem agrees but doesn’t say so.
Clem is short for Clementine. She is named after a character She comes home to find Eli clearing out the study. There are
in a James Baldwin novel. Eli is short for Eliyahu. He is named piles of books, his computer, her laptop, the desks, her easel and
after an Israeli football player. Ghost child has no name. No brushes and paints and paintings lying out in the hallway and
parents. No gender. lounge. There is a crib and a change table alongside the desks.
Clem suggests checking the nappy to see if they can Eli is turning the study into a nursery. There is newspaper laid
designate one, but the ghost child is hard to catch. It slips through out on the floor. He’s painting the room yellow. The ghost child is
their fingers just when they think they’ve got a hold, or disappears pulling up the sheets of paper and scrunching them in a pile.
and reappears out of reach. “Gender neutral,” says Eli.
They can’t agree on a pronoun. Clem stares at the canary colour and feels the sudden urge to
“You’re such a narcissist,” says Clem. paint it over pink. She doesn’t like pink, but that’s not the point.
“Why?” She’s not sure what the point is, but is sure there is one.
“Because you’re a man you want a boy. A mini-Eli.” “Gumtree,” says Eli, pointing at the crib and change table.
“No, I don’t. I just think he looks like a boy.” “A bargain.”
“Babies don’t look like anything,” says Clem. “They’re He beams and carries on.
just babies.” Clem looks down at her paintings. Eli has them in a pile with
“Well, what about you then? You want it to be a girl. Are you a printer cartridge resting on top. The one she can see beneath the
a narcissist?” cartridge is of a landscape. Bland, anaemic. A piece of crap,
Clem ignores him. Clem thinks. But it makes her feel sad seeing it dumped there.
They stick to “it” though both are uncomfortable with this. The “Look,” says Eli, holding up Where The Wild Things Are.
child offers no comment. It can’t speak and seems unconcerned “My favourite book as a kid. I’m going to read it to him at night
by the matter. before bed.”
Eli offers the child a doll and a truck as a way of determining. Clem looks at the book and looks at Eli.
Clem tells him he’s being ridiculous. That such desires aren’t “Max,” she says. “That’s a good name.”
innate but cultivated by culture. “For Maximillian? I knew you’d come around.”
The child plays with the doll and the truck. Then discards both “For Maxine,” says Clem. “And ghost children don’t sleep.”
for Butch’s bone. The ghost child squeals and claps its hands.
Clem can see herself and Eli in the child. She’s sure she’s not There is a drawer in the kitchen full of ovulation kits and
imagining it. Eli’s nose – broad and wide-nostrilled – and her pregnancy tests and pregnancy vitamins. Clem routinely pees on
mouth – fat-lipped but pinched. It’s hard to tell definitively though, sticks looking for double lines or smiley faces. The electronic
because they often get lost in the background. The pattern of ovulation kits give her the smiley faces when she’s fertile. A big fat
a cushion or bedspread distort the child’s features. zero when she’s not. Reward and punishment. She can’t help but
Sometimes there’s a familiar expression: Eli’s look of surprise, feel thrilled, like she’s really achieved something, when she gets
eyebrows up in perfect arches; Clem’s look of concentration, a smiley face. And like a failure when she doesn’t. It taps into her
furrowed brow, curled lip. It’s disconcerting. Seeing her need for praise, for external validation, normally sought for from
mannerisms mimicked. Clem wonders if her mother felt the same. parents, teachers, institutions, employers, friends, enemies and,
Ghost child crawls or sometimes toddles around the house. It’s now, from a piece of plastic. She hates herself for this.
hard to keep track of, particularly as it can pass through walls. It’s When she gets smiles, she charts her fertility, barks orders
often silent, except for a squeak or a sudden laugh. It rarely cries. militantly, the sex is perfunctory.
In the middle of sex, as they are changing position from Clem When she gets a zero she sulks and drinks. Sometimes she
on top to doggy, Eli lets out a shriek, grabbing the doona and cries, but only if there’s no-one around. >
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Clem prepares a lecture on the film Alien. She is going to and gold to cobalt, listening to Modest Mouse sing – “And we’ll
discuss motherhood. The monstrous feminine. The abject. all float on okay.”
It’s early and Eli is still asleep. Clem couldn’t sleep. She had “Where have you come from?” Clem asks ghost child. “Who
felt nauseous. Laid there from 3am until 5am, before finally do you belong to?”
slipping out from the warmth and turning on her computer. But ghost child is too busy touching the bricks around the
There is a picture of the alien bursting from John Hurt’s fireplace, feeling them, smelling them, tasting them, tracing the
stomach up on the screen. Clem is scribbling down notes about cracks, to answer.
borders being violated, bodies transgressed, blood, guts, vomit, At 2:48 in the morning, ghost child begins to bawl.
semen, shit and piss. Identity, subjectivity Clem burrows under the blanket. Eli gets up.
threatened, destabilised. Clem spreads out on her stomach, lying with her
She shivers as an icy breeze passes “Her period head pressed against the warm sheets, Eli’s
over her feet and ankles. She looks down.
The child looks up at her, legs crossed, IS LATE, smell. Rexona, sweat.
Eli comes back in and turns the light on.
sitting at her feet, playing with her slippers. but when “I can’t find him,” he says. “Help me look.”
Rubbing its hands over them, through them. she does They search the house, but ghost child is
It has a widow’s peak just like Eli. Pale a test there nowhere to be found. Ghost child’s cries fill
shadows beneath the eyes, soft blooms,
which match his. Clem’s never noticed this
is only every room.
Clem sneaks out the back and sits in her
before. Normally its outlines are vague, ONE LINE” dressing gown with a wheel of brie and
barely discernible. But right now, they a cigarette. She eats half the wheel. She smokes
seem a little more solid. Gelatinous. the cigarette, watching the stars.
Shimmering like liquid mercury. The house is quiet when she goes back in. Eli tells her she
Clem’s stomach churns. She runs for the toilet. stinks when she climbs into bed. He doesn’t mention ghost child.
Her period is late, but when she does a test there is only one “I’ll change the sheets in the morning,” she says.
line. It could be too early to tell or maybe she’s just late. She lies there in the dark, listening to Eli breathe. She feels
Clem googles early signs of pregnancy and how long it can empty even though she’s full of cheese.
take to get a positive test result. She reads the comments in baby “Is ghost child yours?” Clem asks.
forums. One woman says she didn’t get a positive test until eight Eli is playing Super Smash Bros on the Wii.
weeks. Another says she continued to get her period well into “Hang on,” he says. “I’ve almost got this.”
her pregnancy. Another says she has been trying for 14 months He doesn’t. He swears and throws down the controller.
now and is giving up hope of naturally conceiving. She says “What?”
she’s scared. “Ghost child, is she yours?”
Clem reads this last one several times before giving up “I think so,” he says. “Isn’t he ours?”
her search. Clem looks at ghost child, who is sitting quietly with a book
Cramps. Not too painful, but uncomfortable enough to wake about succulents. The book is upside down.
her. To make it difficult to sleep. “I don’t know,” she says slowly.
She bleeds for 12 days. Brown, then bright red. Wine- They sit in silence, watching ghost child turn pages.
coloured clots. Clem begins doing the pregnancy tests earlier and earlier. As
On the twelfth day, Clem books an appointment with her if she might be able to catch the double line unawares. Feeling
doctor. By the time of the appointment, the bleeding has stopped. that this might prevent the flow of blood. Trick it somehow. It
Clem is apologetic. She feels as if she’s wasting the doctor’s time. doesn’t. Instead her periods come earlier and earlier. She
It was probably a freak period, she thinks. Or cancer. bleeds intermittently between cycles. She worries she’s
“It could be an early miscarriage,” the doctor tells her, eyes menopausal. She worries about becoming anaemic.
sympathetic, tone gentle. All she seems to do is bleed.
“Oh, okay,” says Clem. Sometimes, when Clem goes to touch Eli’s shoulder to tell him
She goes for a drive. Stops at a servo and buys a fat donut something, it’s as if her hand passes straight through him and her
with pink icing and rainbow sprinkles. She goes to the lookout voice disappears. He carries on with whatever he’s doing until she
spot at the nearby airfield to watch the planes take off and land. tries again – her hand meeting solid flesh, her voice barking “Eli!”
Modest Mouse plays from her phone. “Shit!” he’ll say, jumping, “Where’d you come from?”
The icing on the donut is wet and sticks to the paper bag “It’s taking longer than I thought,” says Eli.
when she pulls it out. It’s stale when she bites into it. But she eats This takes Clem by surprise. More his articulation of the
it anyway, watching the planes cross a sky that turns from mauve thought than the thought itself. She starts to cry.
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home, she is less solid, less real, than the X-ray itself. a lovely smile. Clem likes it. It is, she thinks, a bit like her smile. E
“Look,” she says. “My fallopian tubes have gone AWOL.” Michelle Jager is the winner of the ELLE writing competition,
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bikini, $97 for set, green bikini, $86 for set,
both TRIANGL, triangl.com (both worn
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bead bracelets on model’s right hand, approx
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roxanneassoulin.com (worn throughout);
orange watch, approx $245, MARC JACOBS,
marcjacobs.com (worn throughout); blue watch,
approx $1,805, TAG HEUER, tagheuer.com
(worn throughout); bead bracelet on model’s left
hand, approx $350, AURELIE BIDERMANN,
saksfifthavenue.com (worn throughout); orange
belt bag, approx $70, yellow belt bag, approx
$70, both LESPORTSAC, lesportsac.com
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$3,310, all CHANEL, chanel.com;
pink bikini, $86 for set, TRIANGL,
triangl.com; sunglasses, approx $696,
TOM FORD, tomford.com; scrunchies
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70
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swimsuit, approx $109,
BODY GLOVE, bodyglove.com;
sunglasses, approx $285,
DIESEL, diesel.com;
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BLACKSTRAP, bsbrand.com
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all MAISON MARGIELA,
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MONCLER, moncler.com; white
swimsuit, $140, TRIANGL, triangl.com;
T-shirt, approx $39, VOLCOM,
volcom.com.au; neck warmer,
approx $35, AVALON7,
avalon7.co; belt bag, approx $78,
LESPORTSAC, lesportsac.com;
snowboard, stylist’s own
Puffer jacket, approx $843, HERNO,
farfetch.com; scrunchies, stylist’s own
(worn throughout)
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ETRO, etro.com; bikini, $126 for set,
TRIANGL, triangl.com; boots, $POA,
MONCLER, moncler.com; neck warmer,
approx $35, AVALON7, avalon7.co
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pants, $1,660, all PRADA, prada.com;
bikini, approx $80, BODY GLOVE,
bodyglove.com; snowboard, approx
$625, RIDE SNOWBOARDS,
ridesnowboards.com; binding,
approx $210, BURTON, burton.com;
hair tie, stylist’s own
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a difference
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christopheresber.com.au;
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bracelet, $8,750,
both TIFFANY & CO.,
tiffany.com.au
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gucci.com/au; Wave
necklace, $415, ring, $1,400,
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tiffany.com.au
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matchesfashion.com; skirt,
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christopheresber.com.au; bracelet
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with briefs, $1,830, both
STELLA MCCARTNEY,
stellamccartney.com;
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TIFFANY & CO.,
tiffany.com.au
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LARA WORTHINGTON HAS BARELY HAD ANY SLEEP. a children’s charity that purchases essential medical equipment for
Not because of some Hollywood party or fashionably late sick and injured children, Bowel Cancer Australia, an organisation
catch-up with famous friends. In fact, a middle-of-the-night bathroom Worthington has worked with since her father passed away from
run resulting in a blind tumble over a misplaced chair is to blame. the disease in 2008, and the World Wide Fund For Nature.
With her husband away working and her boys sound asleep, Meeting with each charity was a watershed moment for
Worthington spent the early hours of the morning lying awake, Worthington, and in the case of the World Wide Fund For Nature,
concerned that her nose (having taken the full brunt of the fall) might a way to improve her understanding around increasingly important
swell ahead of today’s cover shoot. It hasn’t. A faint red mark is just issues in her family’s life. “I love the awareness they bring to the
visible across the bridge, which is centred perfectly in the middle of conversation of life on this planet. I sat with them and learnt so
an otherwise remarkably unblemished face. In the light of day she much,” she says. Sam’s choice to wear a “Climate Change Is Real”
can laugh about it, flashing her signature megawatt grin and hoodie when they attended the Australians in Film Awards in
instantly disarming the entire crew. She’s happy to be here. “Any October made the couple’s stance on the future of the environment
time to shoot is like a little holiday for me! It’s nice. I used to think it clear, and his work with Cameron, who carries the message of
was work and now it’s like a little escape,” she laughs. respect for nature through the Avatar franchise, has brought home
Life is non-stop for the Sydney-born model and entrepreneur, the need for real change .“Day to day we do as much as we can,
who relocated to LA from New York last year wherever we can. It can be challenging to be
with husband, actor Sam Worthington, and completely green but we do our absolute best.
sons, Rocket, 3, and Racer, 2. She’ll be taking “I’m the type Being on set with James, there are no water
the family to Canada shortly to join Sam who is
thereworking,beforedirectorJamesCameron’s of person bottles, Sam’s trailer is all solar powered, so
many things run off a better system. Talking to
Avatar sequels takes them on to New Zealand. that moves him, I go away and I go, ‘What am I doing with
“We travel so much. That’s the type of people
we are, we love to be at home but then we love with the my life!’ He makes me think about the bigger
picture,” says Worthington. “Our families are
to leave. While [the boys] are young I think it’s
just fine... no iPad, get out in the real world, it’s
times… I like very close, we spend a lot of time at their house,
it rubs off on you. It can’t not.”
good,” she says. Consistency, though, has to evolve” In her own work, she chooses to align
been key in the past 18 months. “My main focus herself with brands like Tiffany & Co., who are
has been on my children and I just slot in my known for their track record in sustainability
work and my ideas where I can. I feel like the balance of both is and supporting conservation of natural environments like the
really important for me to be able to be a great mum and a great Great Barrier Reef. You could say nature is Worthington’s
wife – still having a sense of yourself is important.” lifeblood, and crucial to the upbringing she wants for her own
Worthington is kept busy as CEO of her beauty brand, children. The now 31-year-old spent her childhood at the beach
The Base, which, after launching in 2014, is evolving with her into its with her dad, a landscape gardener, and has fond memories of
next phase. As of December, the business becomes Share The watching him surf. Her family spent most of their time outdoors
Base, a non-profit organisation which, for now, concentrates on just and grew their own fresh produce in the backyard. “Growing up
one iconic product, the LB Cream. Upon check-out, customers can in Australia has instilled that carefree simple lifestyle into my life
choose between three causes, with 100 per cent of net profits and my husband’s as well, as he grew up in Perth. You never
donated to their chosen charity. “The main gift I’ve taken from forget where you come from.” The fresh air, sunshine and an
starting The Base is the connection with customers and supporters,” ocean swim are still the first thing Worthington seeks out after
explains Worthington. “They’re mostly women and that for me has a long flight to Australia. “I think I need the sun and the beach
been a super uplifting experience. When I launched The Base it to feel like myself.”
was a different time in my life. Since then, so much has changed, not Nostalgia for home aside, Worthington is only interested in
only within my little world but globally as a society, as women looking forward. There’s an air of self-assurance around her.
today. It’s exciting, because I’m the type of person that moves with A woman content, confident and comfortable in her own skin. And
the times as well, I like to evolve. So I’m continuing The Base and despite the dramatic start to her day, the cover shoot is one she’s
evolving it to support other people in the community.” incredibly proud of, having known and worked with photographer
It’s taken Worthington over a year to work through the details, Darren McDonald since they were in their teens. “It’s probably one
meeting with more than 20 charities to decide which could most of my favourites ones, just because it’s so natural and not much
benefit from her support. It was important they were based in makeup and my hair is back – I always have my bloody hair out!”
Australia (“to keep it in my own backyard”), supporting causes her she laughs. “I feel like this is new and exciting for me. Not that I care
customers would be invested in and close to her own heart. To start, what anyone else thinks but, I really love it... It’s of the times. I feel like
Share The Base will support the Humpty Dumpty Foundation, it’s super empowering.” E
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Top, $760, MIU MIU,
miumiu.com; briefs, $77, FELLA,
fellaswim.com; Wave necklace
(worn as bracelet), $415, ring,
$1,400, both TIFFANY & CO.,
tiffany.com.au
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Sunglasses, $129,
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and easy shapes in
a Parisienne palette
of pretty neutrals.
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Bag, $49.99, GLASSONS,
glassons.com
Shoes, $119.95,
SPORTSGIRL,
sportsgirl.com.au
Shoes, $199,
SOL SANA,
Shoes, $230, STT AGNI, sol-sana.com.au
incu.com
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nixon.com/au
Top, $12.95, TOPSHOP,
topshop.com
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ILIA, mecca.com.au oils I sourced on my travels
through Morocco and now
“This foundation is sentimental stock in my online store.
The travel to me. I discovered it in the The orange blossom oil
photographer “Growing up, I was in awe lead-up to my wedding and reminds me of the first time
spends her of my mum’s beautiful creams after wearing it on the day I went to Marrakech with
days outside and lipsticks. She showed
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I’ve never used anything else.
It’s not oil-based and is super
my boyfriend (who’s
now my husband).”
capturing beautiful routine. My routine needs lightweight so my freckles are 6. Marrakech Pure Orange Blossom
moments, so she to suit my busy lifestyle. I’m still visible, which I love.” Oil, $68, KARA ROSENLUND,
relies on products constantly travelling, so this 4. Future Skin, $114, CHANTECAILLE, kararosenlund.com
10.
9. Arch Brow Sculpting Pencil, $49,
HOURGLASS, mecca.com.au
9.
Sevak Babakhani (still-life). Cup by @anamonestudios
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“This multi-tasking stick can be
8. applied to the cheeks, lips
4.
and eyes. It has cocoa butter,
shea butter and Vitamin E in it,
6. and makes my skin feel really
hydrated and refreshed. It’s a
rich colour but looks natural.”
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Cordyceps, $38,
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streamline
your routine
with beauty
sticks
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gym tote/beach
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Women’s Libido +
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$60 for seven,
WELLECO, these compact,
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Charcoal Cleansing Stick,
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generation before them. If you’re exhausted at the end of the day.”
opting out by choice, great; but if Shanks has harnessed the libido-
it’s because you can’t seem to find boosting power of the cordyceps
the right mood, then there are new mushroom in her latest offering – and
Words: Janna Johnson O’Toole. Photography: Jamie Nelson / Blaublut-Edition.com;
naturopath and founder of Orchard water and take as a shot, or pour into
a smoothie. Whichever you choose,
expect to notice a change in less Take The Day
Off Eye Makeup
than two weeks. Plan accordingly. Remover Stick,
$33, CLINIQUE,
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Detoxilyn City Mask,
$136, BY TERRY,
mecca.com.au
Dramatically Different
Hydrating Jelly, $49
for 125ml, CLINIQUE,
clinique.com.au
SAVING
already see they’re constantly surrounded
(think of that incessant layer of soot lining
your windowsills), but what’s even more
alarming is that the particulate matter
suspended in the air enters the skin, attacks
cell DNA and, over time, causes wrinkles,
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Sublimage L’Essence
Fondamentale,
Vitalizing Healthy Glow $635, CHANEL,
Day Cream, $49.95, 1300 242 635
MAVALA, mavala.com.au
Atmosphere Protection
Cream, $75.95, OSEA,
DNA Renewal
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ANTIOXIDANT COMBO
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MECCA COSMETICA,
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UV or blue light — is our epidermis,
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The first step in your AM routine: apply continuous regeneration, so cells
an antioxidant serum “to bind to free are plump and youthful, operating at full
radicals and keep them from causing or toner. Follow that with an antioxidant- speed. But as we age, things start to
cellular damage”, says Dr Engelman. rich purifying mask a few times a week; slow down, the epidermis becomes
Next, block particles, as well as or opt for a charcoal formula if you thinner and the cells become less active.
digital light, with a product designed to have an oilier complexion. “Activated But researchers at Chanel have
“form a semipermeable membrane that charcoal helps clear out superficial discovered that the SNEV protein
protects pores from getting infiltrated”. toxins before they can do serious (short for SeNescence Evasion Factor)
As the final step in your routine, use damage,” explains Dr Engelman. acts like a cheerleader, boosting
a mineral sunscreen to deflect UV as cellular activity and revving it back
well as HEV. “Titanium dioxide and REPAIR DNA DAMAGE up to optimal function, which helps the
zinc oxide act like tiny shields on the WHILE YOU SLEEP epidermis look and act younger. To
skin’s surface against a broad spectrum According to Beverly Hills dermatologist activate SNEV, the researchers have
of light,” says Dr Engelman. Dr Ronald L Moy, undoing even some turned to the perennial plant solidago.
of the damage caused by toxins, digital “Chanel Research carried out a lot
AT NIGHT, REMOVE light and UV rays can improve skin. of tests to evaluate the efficacy of our
TOXINS FROM THE His skincare line, DNA Renewal, exclusive solidago extract and found
SKIN’S SURFACE harnesses the power of DNA repair it stimulates the expression of SNEV in
Don’t skip washing your face before enzymes, derived from plankton, the cells,” says Armelle Souraud,
bed and consider a facial brush to help blue algae and mustard greens. Chanel’s director of scientific
achieve a deeper clean. “Ultrasonic To detox from the inside out, Moy communication. “The solidago extract
devices loosen up pollution particles recommends a daily dose of vitamin B3 counteracts the effects of ageing by
from the pores, so they can be easily (aka niacinamide), which has been improving cellular vitality and restoring
removed,” says Dr Engelman. “shown in studies to boost DNA repair the density of the skin, so it improves the
Wipe away residual debris with and lessen signs of ageing as well as thickness of the epidermis by up to 54
a cotton pad soaked in micellar water decrease the potential for skin cancer”. per cent.” Featured in the brand’s new
And as always, aim for quality sleep Sublimage L’Essence Fondamentale,
BB Blur, $49, FREEZEFRAME, each night. “When your circadian the solidago extract is perfect for
eze me.com.au
rhythm isn’t operating at peak condition, night-time when skin is in repair mode,
you’re damaging your skin’s ability to but the addition of vanilla planifolia
protect and heal itself,” he explains. provides additional potent antioxidant
protection, reinforcing the epidermis
Charcoal Rescue Masque,
$70.50, DERMALOGICA, so it can continue to protect against
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Super Volcanic Clay
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ANSWERING
ONLY TO
MYSELF
BETH DITTO I DIDN’T ENTERTAIN the idea of sport as a child – not because I
hated sport, but because I hated the heat. I’m an indoor person,
ON BEING always have been. You want to know why? Because that’s where the
air conditioning is: indoors. I hate the heat more than I hate tornadoes,
FAT, FIT and I’m deathly afraid of tornadoes. Growing up in Tornado Alley in
the US state of Arkansas was less than ideal – if there was ever a hint of
AND NOT a dark cloud in a blue sky, I would freak out and refuse to leave the
house. But the heat? That’s another level of hate.
AFRAID My first and only ever series of exercise classes took place when
I was four years old. In the ’80s, my mom and Aunt Janey used to go
OF THE GYM to the local leisure centre for aerobics classes and I would tag along
in my burgundy and pink hand-me-down leotard. I would go for it,
harder than everyone else in the class. I would try to follow what the
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adults were doing, but I had ADD and I was four, so I actually doing on the machines and would look like an idiot. I tried the
had no idea what was going on – I would just dance like crazy rowing machine but I wasn’t coordinated enough – I just slid
in front of the mirror. I didn’t like being given instructions or told back and forth and I’m pretty sure that’s not how it works. I tried
how to do things. I still don’t; I like to do things my own way. The the treadmill but the fear of falling off was too great. So the
culture around sports at school was jock-like, aggressive and internet became my personal trainer. If I felt like I was doing
sexist. My family didn’t have the money to indulge in team sports, something wrong, I’d google to find the right way. I’m really
but even if we had, I was told I wouldn’t be good at it – not by strong, like, bull-in-a-china-shop strong – I hug too tightly, shake
anyone in particular, but by the culture: fat kids aren’t meant to be hands too firmly – so there’s a lot of muscle under here, but
good at sports, right? Sometimes I think those who weren’t cut I don’t do weights. The one time I did I started to look like The
out for a life of running laps in PE lessons should have just been Hulk. The gym is like a sewing machine: you have to learn how it
left alone. Let us draw, let us dance, but for the love of God, do do it right to get the best results. You can’t just shove a piece of
not make us run. The voices in my head – my mom, who was fabric in there and expect to make a dress. But best of all, there’s
struggling with her own weight; society; my teachers – made me air conditioning.
believe I was too big to run, that the kids would laugh and that I’m not a fan of group classes. I thought a HIIT class was
trying wasn’t even worth it because I wouldn’t be able to climb punching, but then I found out what it really was and decided
the hill or run the damn laps. there was no way I wanted to do that. Zumba is a “Hell, no!”
But I had a eureka moment when it dawned on me that I liked I don’t want to be on anyone else’s page, I want to be on my own.
what was happening: I was getting better at running, I was getting The gym is my time; it’s a sacred, meditative place where I can just
better at moving. PE wasn’t about me – no-one was even looking be. I am such a people person, and Lord knows I can talk, but
at me, they were all just running their own race. So I ran. I may sometimes I need my own headspace. The gym is the only place
have been at the back of the pack, running in socks, but I moved, I listen to music I’m working on, but for the most part, I like listening
and moving was good, moving made me feel fucking great. to someone like Tori Amos. I like going double-time to slow songs.
Exercise, whether it was running, softball or balloon toss (throwing Have you ever listened to “Heartbeats” by The Knife on the cross
a balloon filled with water – I was Olympic-level good at that) – trainer? Do it now. That is my ultimate gym jam.
wasn’t about anything other than showing myself I could do When it comes to other people in the gym, occasionally you
something no-one else thought I could, and that made me will have that fat-girl moment where you clock another fat girl
competitive. I suddenly became the girl who and you have this nod of acknowledgement
muttered under her breath, “For the love of like, “We both know why we’re here and we
God, she’s batting again,” when we weren’t
winning; who shouted “Goddamit, Becky!” “I go to the can do this.” If you’re fat, I think you have the
fear – not of the gym, but of other fat people
when my classmate shied away from a spike gym looking thinking you’re selling out; that you’re trying to
in volleyball. I wanted to win. like a frump. change yourself, that you’re trying to get rid of
I started going to the gym when I was
I’ll go in a label. Thank God the body-positive
a redhead, aged 28. I chronicle my life by the
hair I had at the time. My dad was diagnosed pyjama movement came in and affirmed that, actually,
you can be fat and take care of your body.
with rheumatoid arthritis in his forties, and it bottoms… That is all I am trying to do.
ultimately rendered him wheelchair-bound. I do brush The only time I have ever been strict with
I was pushing 30 and didn’t want the same
my teeth, myself in terms of diet and exercise was in the
fate. I wanted to keep moving, but, more
importantly, I wanted to continue performing, though” run-up to marrying my wife, Kristin. I wasn’t
shedding weight for the wedding so much as
As told to Billie Bhatia. Photography: Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello.
kind of “look”. I can give zero fucks and just go for it. And by “go extensions and that shit’s expensive. I can’t risk sweating them
for it”, I mean go batshit crazy on the cross trainer – it’s the only out! When you do exercise, do it to feel good about yourself
machine I use. I wasn’t worried about people thinking I was fat and good in your own body, not conform to someone else’s
at the gym; I was worried I wasn’t going to know what I was standards! E
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Emma Lane’s farmhouse-turned-family
home has character, cosy quirks and incredible
Byron Bay hinterland views
PHOT OGR APHY B Y
J E SSIE PRINCE
S TY LI NG B Y
SARAH EL LISON
W OR DS B Y
KATE LA NCASTER
The sunken lounge (Lane’s
favourite hangout spot) was
designed in collaboration
with Sarah Ellison
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“The earthy colour
palette disguises
muddy footprints The decor is a mix of
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unique Europe-meets-Australia motif of the estate.
Their most recent venture, a renovated two-acre
beachside property south of Byron called The Beach
House East Coast, also embraces the same laidback
theme but with a coastal feel. “There’s a barefoot
sophistication that I love to adopt in my lifestyle –
relaxed yet curated,” says Lane. It’s an aesthetic that
seeps into every aspect of the house, from the raw
timber fittings and soft natural renders, right down to the
muted earthy colour palette of the terracotta tiles and
linen furniture, which disguise the marks and muddy
footprints that are inevitable with children and pets.
With such an expansive property, you’d presume
choosing a favourite corner would be difficult. But Lane
points to the sunken lounge, designed in collaboration
Pre-existing features have
with interior designer Sarah Ellison and situated at the
been given new life – like heart of the property, as the space her family inhabit
this wine storage barrel
that’s now a bathtub
the most, along with the outdoor entertaining area.
“Tom often cooks dinner over the coals of the fire pit
while we gather around to look out over the view.” E
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LAKE ST CLAIR
THE RETREAT AT
PUMPHOUSE POINT
You’d be hard-pressed to find a travel
bucket list that doesn’t include the
instantly recognisable Pumphouse
Point, which juts out incredulously over
the vast Lake St Clair (Australia’s
deepest) in central Tasmania. If you
haven’t yet crossed it off yours, the enviable stays on the island. Inside,
opening of the property’s luxe new you’ll find all the contemporary finishes
bolthole, The Retreat, might just be you’d expect a city apartment to have
the calling card to get you there. (copper sinks, a freestanding bath,
Set on shore, the self-contained rain shower and clever lighting panels)
Retreat’s floor-to-ceiling windows look married with wares resulting from
over the lake, the Pumphouse building a mindful approach that’s typical of the
(which dates back to 1940 and has area and those who inhabit it. Think
a series of suites, most fully booked on twin Jardan armchairs made of
any given weekend) and a set of epic Tasmanian timber and Australian
snowcapped mountains. Despite the merino upholstery perched in front of
view, you’ll find it’s tucked behind just a fireplace, a bed you could swim in
enough trees to retain your privacy custom-made by Launceston-based
– especially important when taking to furniture designer Simon Ancher, and
the outdoor tub with wine in hand. a myriad of other locally-sourced,
Dreamed up by one of the original ethically-produced pieces – all the
developers of Pumphouse and JAWS way down to face masks sourced
Architects (also responsible for the from local apothecary Fig + Elm.
sustainable cabin stays peppered That careful consideration extends
along another Tasmanian wonder, the to the edible, with delicacies from the
Three Capes Track), the Retreat has island, hand-picked by staff, and a list
quickly become one of the most of local wine, beers and spirits. If you
can bear to leave your room, guests
congregate nightly for shared dinners
in front of the fire. Heaven. >
pumphousepoint.com.au/the-retreat
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BRISBANE
THE CALILE HOTEL
On the buzzy James Street strip sits
the brand new The Calile Hotel, an
“urban resort” designed by architects
Richards and Spence, who have bringing an international feel to the
been responsible for much of the property and its 175 rooms.
surrounding dining and shopping If you can’t nab a table at nearby
precinct (where you can shop foodie favourite Gerard’s Bistro, or
Bassike, Dion Lee, Zimmermann at the on-site Hellenika (an outpost of
and Lee Mathews). This time they the much-loved Gold Coast eatery),
took cues from warm-weather pull up a cabana on the pool’s deck
locales Miami, Palm Springs, and order from the menu. Once you
Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City, eventually retreat from the perpetual
sunshine to your room, you’ll find day
beds and linen robes to help keep
the poolside spirit alive.
thecalilehotel.com
MELBOURNE
UNITED PLACES
BOTANIC GARDENS
Tucked between bustling cafes and
foodie hotspot Matilda, and on the
edge of Melbourne’s iconic Royal
Botanic Gardens, is the new United
Places. With just 12 suites, it feels like
a set of chic serviced apartments,
with all the comforts of a hotel (like
Netflix and a butler service), but
without the clunky conventional
check-in desk. Instead you’re
PERTH
whisked up to your room on arrival.
Our pick: one of the two-bedroom QT
suites, with a bathtub overlooking If you’re after a stay that marries
the gardens below, though there’s Perth’s CBD bustle with some classic
still plenty to love in the other rooms WA chill, the newly-opened QT is it.
– not least the Santal 33-scented Designed by architect Nic Graham,
Le Labo toiletries. the property is half modern oasis,
The silver lining of a stay at United half love letter to Western Australia.
Places? A hand with nabbing a table In typical QT style, each detail is
at the aforementioned Matilda – carefully considered, with homages
and being close enough to climb to the state’s most beloved icons
into bed minutes after your meal. – printed black cockatoos line the
unitedplaces.com.au wallpaper, aerial shots of salt mines
adorn bathroom benchtops, green-
and-purple bedrooms are modelled
after the region’s vineyards and the
lobby emulates the coastline, with
ocean-turquoise and Pindan-rust
hues. Head up to the rooftop bar,
down to restaurant Santini Grill, or
submerge in the cavernous bathtub. >
qthotelsandresorts.com/perth
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SYDNEY
PARAMOUNT HOUSE
HOTEL
A stay at one of Sydney’s most stylish
new openings puts you in good
company – you’ll barely have to
stretch your legs to reach Paramount (made in Tasmania from recycled
Coffee Project (ensuring you beat its and offcut wool). In the hallways,
weekend brunch queues), the Golden you’ll find artwork from China
Age Cinema and its dimly lit, under-the- Heights gallery around the corner.
radar bar, Chin Chin Sydney and wine The rooms themselves have
bar Poly (an Ester restaurant spin-off a homey feel – if your home is a
offering some 160 drops). well-styled city apartment, that is –
Inside, there’s a focus on luxe with bang-on-trend exposed brick
touches sourced close by, like locally (it’s the former Paramount Pictures
produced wine, Yulli’s Brews beers Studios HQ, after all), terrazzo-tiled
and LP’s Quality Meats, Aesop showers and luxe Jardan furniture
toiletries and Seljak Brand blankets pared back with specially sourced
vintage pieces. Once you peel
yourself out of the Japanese-style
timber bath, you’ll find the bed lined
with linen sheets, a departure from
typical crisp, cold hotel bedding.
paramounthousehotel.com
PORT STEPHENS
BANNISTERS
The latest addition to a growing
collection of beautiful properties
is Bannisters’ gleaming white
Port Stephens address, boasting
glimmering bay views and housed
inside an immaculately-renovated
building that had a former life as
a motel. With 78 rooms, it’s bigger
in scale than the boutique-sized
Bannisters’ Mollymook, but
manages to retain the magic.
If you bother to tear yourself away
from the infinity pool that overlooks
the sandy shores of Soldiers Point
or the stellar in-house dining options,
there’s a beach and a jetty only
a few steps away. If you don’t catch
your own dinner, book a table at the
famed Rick Stein at Bannisters, which
serves local oysters and rock lobster
among an array of seafood, like fish
WAIHEKE ISLAND,
With five private residences and pie and Singapore chilli crab. E
NEW ZEALAND
views over both the island and the bannisters.com.au/port-stephens
VILLAS WAIHEKE surrounding Hauraki Gulf, Villas
A world away from Auckland (yet Waiheke serves as a picturesque
only 35 minutes by ferry), is NZ’s home base, with local favourites
WELLINGTON
staycation spot of choice, Waiheke Batch Winery and Peacock Sky
Words: Elle McClure. Additional words: Amy Starr, Mahalia Chang.
Island, beloved for its vineyards Vineyard both less than a 15-minute With a coffee scene to rival
(read: all-day wine tasting), olive walk away. There’s also a gym Melbourne’s and an impressive
groves (read: olive oil worthy of and 12-metre mineral pool in case amount of foodie spots for a city
a spot in the most discerning foodie’s you’re tempted to work off all that of just over 200,000 people,
Photography: Adam Gibson, Jason Futrill
pantry) and postcard-worthy wine – but we dare say you’ll forego “The Windy City” is the
beaches with their white sands and the former and shortcut to the latter weekender for those in-the-
(relatively) balmy waters. It’s the with a holiday read in hand. know. Check into hotel-cum-art-
preferred weekender destination for villaswaiheke.com hub QT (qthotelsandresorts.
savvy Aucklanders, so do as they do com/wellington), grab a pastry
and make a beeline for the famed from French bakery La Cloche
Ostend Market for gourmet local (lacloche.co.nz/terrace)
fare and take-home treats you’ll and coffee from Nikau Cafe
pray are customs-friendly. (nikaucafe.co.nz), followed
by an arty fix at the
City Gallery Wellington.
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YOUR
ALL-STAR
GUIDE
TO 2019
HOROSCOPES 2019
A SHINY NEW YEAR IS
UNFOLDING, GIVING
YOU A BLANK SLATE
ON WHICH TO WRITE
ANOTHER EXCITING
CHAPTER OF YOUR
LIFE’S STORY. WILL THIS Much of last year was about
reflection and lessons, but 2019
YEAR BE BETTER, is the time to make progress.
BRIGHTER AND EASIER Happily, Venus and Mars won’t
go into retrograde at all, ensuring
THAN THE PAST ONE? a productive year full of energy.
IN MANY WAYS, A big feature of 2019 (and
THE ANSWER IS YES 2020) is that Saturn and Pluto dock
and become “Siamese twins” in
W ORD S BY
February, something that happens
SU SAN M ILL ER every 35 to 38 years, creating
a formidable force that can bring
frustrations and tough love.
Uranus will move into Taurus
for the first time since 1942 and will
sit there for seven years, adding
innovation to anything to do with
wealth. Neptune will add a spiritual
quality to creativity, while Jupiter
IL LU STR A TIO NS B Y
promises to give outstanding
JANN A Y OTT E
golden luck that benefits all signs. >
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YOU WILL LOVE the coming year.
Jupiter, giver of gifts and luck, will
be in Sagittarius all the way to
December 2, 2019, broadening
your outlook and bringing not only
opportunities but also the means
to take advantage of them. Like MAR 21 — APR 20
Aries, Sagittarius is a fire sign, MONE Y
so you will absorb the goodness Your earning power is about
ARIES
of Jupiter effortlessly. If your usual to undergo important change.
approach is to view new projects Sometimes in life, as we make
within their specific parameters, the ascent to higher influence,
you’ll now view them in their compensation can lag, but this
largest, most successful won’t be your problem. Your
panoramic manifestations. finances are poised to do
exceedingly well, and a lot
of it has to do with Uranus. L I FE
W O RK When the planet moves into Get your diary out because
Jupiter is currently in your Taurus on March 6, it will stay you have some key dates to
intellectual ninth house until for seven years, bringing vast note down. First, Mercury
early December 2019, so all changes to your income. You will retrograde three times in
year you will be coaxed to will likely be paid more than 2019 (March 5-28, July 7-31
learn, grow and share your you ever have, but you will be and October 31 – November
knowledge. The ninth house beset with larger expenses, 20). These periods are not
is closely associated with possibly because of taxes or favourable for making legal
international travel, meaning standard-of-living upgrades. commitments or buying LOVE
you might work abroad or at You will learn to manage expensive electronics Romance and possibly even
home while collaborating with money in a more sophisticated — they won’t turn out as you a baby could be part of the
companies based overseas. way and find ways to avoid expected. Also take note of picture in 2019, especially on
Travel on January 22, as this the extremes of Uranus by the eclipses: the first four (on or close to January 20, when
is when Venus joins Jupiter, setting up contingency plans. January 5 and 20, and July a full moon lunar eclipse will
so whether you go for love If you want to ask for a pay 2 and 16) will clear out the occur in Leo in your fifth house
or business, the results will rise, do it with the new moon cobwebs and put you on the of love, pregnancy and birth.
be sensational. on May 4. All new moons right path for a new life. If you are single, you may meet
January is also the best open up a 10-day portal of You might start thinking someone quite special at this
time for you to take on a new opportunity, so the sooner you about making home-related time. Eclipses bring life-altering
endeavour because your act within that period, the changes when Mars moves events in the blink of an eye,
ruler, Mars, is in your sign. stronger the moon’s influence. through Cancer (May 15 so if you are looking for
You’ll likely display a rare This is also the time to ask – June 30), but they have the a relationship with someone
level of determination, about other benefits, such as best chance for success when you can build a life with, this is
meaning you will more easily leave. Be patient and you you act around the July 2 a good time to start dating.
push forward with your plans. should have answers by the lunar eclipse with Cancer
Jupiter will move into your May 18 full moon. If you are in your home sector.
career sector in December, self-employed, this is the time
bringing you honours and to go after that dream client.
applause and perhaps REMEMBER… YOUR YEAR WILL BE THRILLING,
a prestigious new position. WITH LEARNING, CAREER SUCCESS AND AN
INCREASE IN INDUSTRY PRESTIGE, ALONG WITH
BREATHTAKING TRAVEL AND GROWTH IN YOUR
ROMANTIC, FRIENDSHIP AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS.
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TAURUS
YOU ARE ENTERING AN
EXCITING period in your life.
Uranus, the planet of innovation,
disruption, creativity, rebellion,
independence and sudden
APR 21 — MAY 21
change, enters Taurus on March
6, 2019, and remains there for
seven years. Uranus takes 84
years to circle the Sun, spending
seven years in each sign it visits, so
this could be the first and last time
in your life that you will experience L I FE
Uranus in Taurus. The planet last Now and in the coming seven
toured your sign in 1946. years of Uranus in Taurus, you
will be more determined than
ever to make a contribution to
WO RK the world and make your time
In 2019, you will be on the on earth count for something.
cutting edge of all that is Uranus rules humanitarian
innovative and fresh. Uranus is causes, charities and helps LOVE
the natural ruler of your tenth MONEY marginalised or overlooked Your romantic prospects glow
house of career, so you may The outlook for the full moon segments of society, so you brilliantly for 2019 and your
HOROSCOPES 2019
start to shift your work life in eclipse in Leo on January 20 may be moved to protect love life will be best when
a new direction. Your job is mixed. On one hand, the environment, care for passionate Mars moves
is likely to be powerfully Uranus, the planet of sudden animals, or dedicate time to thorough your true love sector
influenced by changes in news, will be at sharp odds underprivileged children. between August 17 and
technology, and if it has with the sun and new moon, A key date for home and October 3. At the same time,
always been your dream to be which is a disruptive, jarring family matters is July 31, Venus, the goddess of love,
famous, now’s your chance. aspect. On the other hand, when the new moon is in will tour the same sector from
Three heavenly bodies in Venus will arrive arm-in-arm Leo but this might not be August 21 to September 14,
Aquarius congregating in your with Jupiter, the planet of gifts entirely positive. Unexpected giving you a rare and
tenth house in early February and luck. This is a glittering, housing disputes may arise, wonderful overlap mid-year.
suggest the best time to forge five-star aspect that will likely so be prepared and make Of these dates, the evenings
ahead in your career will be save the day. As your ruler, sure agreements with your of August 23-25 deserve
around the 14th of the month, Venus carries greater weight landlords and housemates a gold star for finding love or
10 days after the new moon. for you than any other sign are airtight. Avoid signing for celebrating your love for
This new moon suggests there with the exception of Libra, papers between July 31 and someone. Venus will conjoin
will be strong competition for with whom you share Venus’ August 10. Instead, make big Mars on that heavenly
the job you want, but you may rulership. If you find yourself decisions on August 31, when weekend and it doesn’t get
be lulled into assuming you in a financial fix at this time, the ruler of your home sector, any better than this! Plan
have no competitors at all. Venus and Jupiter will provide the sun, will be beautifully something special with the
They’ll be right under your an answer that works conversant with Uranus. one you love or, if you’re
nose, so you need to be perfectly, so stay optimistic. International relationships single, go out and see what
organised and polished. Jupiter entered Sagittarius and exciting travel plans will the world has to offer. Cupid
A full moon lunar eclipse last year on November 8, also be an important theme will be watching over you. >
in Capricorn on July 16 sees 2018 to stay 13 months, so for you this year.
Saturn placing undue pressure this will be a fantastic year to
on you, but other planets in see your savings multiply.
Capricorn and Cancer are
friendly to Taurus, so you’ll
get through it. REMEMBER… DEAR TAURUS, YOUR YEAR AHEAD HAS SO MANY
ELEMENTS, TWISTS AND TURNS, AND PLENTY OF SURPRISES. MORE MONEY,
CAREER PROGRESS, FOREIGN TRAVEL AND AN EMPHASIS ON LEARNING
AND THE MEDIA, AS WELL AS OVER-THE-TOP LOVE, CAN ALL BE YOURS.
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AS YOU BEGIN 2019, you
GE INI
will find that working in
collaboration with others
will bring you your greatest
personal growth, along with LOVE
profits. Jupiter, the planet Various points of the year
of happiness and good fortune, will be extra special for you
recently moved into your whether you’re single, dating
seventh house of serious, or happily married. The first
committed relationships on special romantic period of the
November 8, 2018, and year will span March 31 to
is now settled there and May 15, when Mars tours
ready to bring you rewards. your sign, amping up your
MAY 22 — JUN 21 magnetism. Gemini rules
short-distance travel, so if you
WO RK are attached, flirt with your
Geminis, as twins, often like partner and make plans for
to work one-on-one, so if you a weekend away “just us
are in a field where you are M ON E Y two”. You could gain much this
represented by someone else Your finances are becoming year from taking private time
— an agent, for instance – you a major focus of your life, together to strengthen the
HOROSCOPES 2019
will likely benefit enormously even if you already feel bonds you share.
from the alliance. Similarly, if well-versed in money matters. LI FE Another dazzling time for
you are an agent or manager, When Saturn left your June is your lucky month, romance starts on the new
you’ll find one of the talents partnership sector last year, it when a new moon in Gemini moon in Libra, on September
in your stable will become headed to your eighth house on the 3rd is a cosmic gift 28 (and for 10 days after),
a star from your efforts, and of other people’s money. certificate to direct in any way filling your fifth house of true
together you can go far. Saturn is the stern taskmaster you please. Venus enters your love. If you have already met
Your best career moment who teaches life lessons, and sign on June 8, amplifying The One, this period will add
of 2019 will be within 10 these could concern any sort your confidence. Now’s the sparkling notes of passion
days of the March 6 new of loan, debt or payment due time to socialise and pamper to your relationship. Venus and
moon. In March you can to someone else, such as yourself. The eighth house your ruler, Mercury, will be
expand your authority and court costs or taxes. You will rules transformational in your love sector, which is
influence and the new moon need to remain practical and experiences and indicates a good sign you’ll be ready to
will open up new career conservative about money there might be a need for give your heart fully to the one
opportunities that you must all year (find a by-the-book surgery. When the part of you you love. Venus and Jupiter will
take advantage of. accountant who takes no that is hurting is no longer be signalling sweet messages
If you’re looking to reach risks with your tax return) and there, you are transformed to each other (the planets will
closure on a business deal of set up a plan so that you with vibrant health. This house be 60 degrees apart at the
some kind, you should have have funds in place should also rules insurance, so you September 28 new moon),
your answer by September you run short. may be on the phone with an aspect indicating
14, and it’s looking positive In January, news may your health insurance opportunity. There’s no doubt
thanks to Neptune and a full come about someone who company to make sure your this new moon could be very
moon. If you work for others, has betrayed you financially, procedure is covered. special for your love life.
you might change jobs, or or an unexpected expense
if you are self-employed, you might come up. The July 2 full
might land new clients and moon solar eclipse puts the REMEMBER… YOU HAVE SO MUCH
exciting projects. In 2019, focus on your salary, savings TO LOOK FORWARD TO! MAGNIFICENT
collaboration is the golden and spending, while Neptune COLLABORATIONS, MORE MONEY,
key to your success, so don’t comes to the rescue with CAREER GROWTH, ROMANTIC FUN
try to do everything yourself. a creative project that could AND SHORT-DISTANCE TRAVEL WILL
reap financial rewards. MAKE 2019 YOUR YEAR TO SHINE .
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CANCER
SATURN, THE TASKMASTER
planet that tests all things
JUN 22 — JUL 23
— health, relationships and
business endeavours — is your
friend, but it might not always
feel that way. The planet’s LOVE
influence may have you under If you are smitten with
strain, but you are always someone who you are serious
stronger for having gone about marrying, don’t be
through a Saturn cycle. 2019 hasty. Meet that person’s
has a powerful emphasis on friends and family to get
partnerships and health. a well-rounded view of their
life. If you are dating and
your partner is not ready to
W OR K become engaged, it will be
Jupiter, the good-fortune MONE Y because Saturn’s position
planet, is ready to serve The sun is the natural ruler of creates a need to focus on
you from its perch in your your second house of earned a singular goal, and not to
sixth house of work income, so you may have to LI F E take on too many life changes
projects. The planet’s new work harder than usual in 2019 The good news is Uranus will at once. Be patient. Your
placement is an indication to reach your financial goals. enter Taurus on March 6 and partner’s state of mind shows
that your career is about to This is true no matter where you jazz up your social life, for up in your chart, too, as we
get more interesting. If you work. You may have higher- Uranus is the planet that are all linked to each other.
are self-employed, you will than-usual expenses this year rules electricity, giving you If you are already married,
not have to look far to and paying them may press on magnetism to spare. Taurus you may hit a rocky patch in
generate new business. Be you. Now Saturn is opposed to is an earth sign that blends January or July due to Saturn’s
determined to network at the sun, you may find it hard to beautifully with your water position in your marriage
professional events and get a generous pay rise, but sign element. As Uranus sector, but if love is present,
keep an ear out for job or this situation will be temporary. moves to your friendship/ you will iron out any difficulties
business opportunities that Stick to the program and things events/new people sector and grow closer. If you are
aren’t being advertised. will improve in time. Saturn (eleventh house), you will happy, you may find that your
You’ve had more than changes our status and makes enjoy the new life the planet partner is going through a
your share of career ups us feel more grown up after we has in store for you. difficult patch at work, or with
and downs over the past take on more responsibility, Uranus will remain in health, in which case you will
seven years thanks to no matter what age we are. Taurus, and at a friendly angle want to be of assistance. If you
Uranus putting you through In January, your motivation to your sun, for seven years, have been unhappy in your
cosmic tests of your flexibility in business is financial growth bringing many new people marriage, Saturn’s visit to your
and resourcefulness. In and stability. Saturn rules the into your life. The majority of seventh house of contractual
2019, Uranus leaves you concept of time, so you will be these friends may be younger relationships may bring the
alone and your professional motivated to make your time than you, with motivation to do realisation that you must leave.
life will seem much more count for something more. humanitarian projects. You will There is no predestination
settled, but don’t become The July 2 solar eclipse also be increasingly sensitive here — you will make the final
complacent as the July 16 opens a door for collaboration to those who need a voice to decision. In this house, Saturn
lunar full moon might see with someone you’ve known champion their cause and will ask for your answer. >
a trusted business colleague for a long time, and it could become inspired to help.
leave. Mercury will be pay generously. It’s also a good idea to join
retrograde, so be careful a social or professional club.
with communications — it’s
all too easy to pick up the REMEMBER… THE SIXTH HOUSE, WHERE JUPITER WILL BE VISITING IN
wrong message or give 2019, ALSO RULES THE POSITIVE STEPS YOU NEED TO TAKE TO STAY HEALTHY.
someone the wrong NOW JUPITER IS IN SAGITTARIUS, YOU WILL HAVE THE BEST YEAR YOU’VE HAD
impression at this time. IN MORE THAN A DECADE TO FOCUS ON GETTING FIT AND STRONG.
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LEO
YOU WILL LIKELY FIND 2019
to be one of your best years in
recent memory and, if you are
open to the idea, you will be the
celestial favourite for finding
genuine romance. Jupiter, the
giver of gifts and luck, entered
Sagittarius and your fifth house
of true love late last year on JUL 24 — AUG 23
November 8, 2018, and is set
to direct its golden rays there
until December 2, 2019. The
universe is poised to give you
great happiness, dear Leo. MON EY
Saturn will be at a fine angle LOVE
to Neptune all year, and in If you are single and hoping to
WO RK exact aspect on January 31 find lasting love, this year you
You will have a major and June 18. This suggests that will need to do your part by
development with Uranus, if you are creative and work LIFE circulating socially, for the
planet of all things in the arts (as many Leos do), Saturn in the sixth house may universe is on a mission to
unexpected, moving to you stand to make a have an effect on your health. couple you up with the perfect
Taurus on March 6 and handsome profit. The weeks Saturn rules bones and teeth, person. This is the first time in
staying in your tenth house near your birthday will be so you may need to check more than a decade that you
of honours, awards and a vital time for you. Mars will with your doctor about taking have had the great planet
achievement for seven years. enter Leo for the first time a supplement for your calcium Jupiter’s powerful help in
You have never hosted in two years, and set off a new intake. Also ask your doctor matters of the heart. Don’t be
Uranus in Taurus in this part two-year chapter. However, if you should work on too set in your mind about your
of your chart before, and when Mars enters Leo on July strengthening your bones by qualifications for your ideal
when this trend ends in April 1, Mercury will be retrograde, lifting weights or by taking partner, but rather be open
2026, it won’t appear here making it an unfavourable other measures. Step up to a wide variety of types.
again until 2102. For this time to launch big projects. visits with your dentist, too. If you have already found
reason, you need to make The period between August 1 When things in our lives true love, you will be able
the most of this outstanding and August 17 is the time to stagnate, the universe sends to make exciting future plans
trend for your career. make announcements. an eclipse to bring about together. The January 20 lunar
Uranus will bring sudden Happily, Venus will be in a change in conditions. eclipse in Leo will bring up
breakthroughs but also an Leo from July 27 until August The full moon lunar eclipse major life decisions. It will also
occasional setback. This is 21, increasing your charm and on January 20 will ask you focus your attention on your
common when you reach for making your ideas irresistible. to re-evaluate your goals. own desires for the future,
the stars, but the bigger the It may take more time and Do some need to be taken possibly concerning your
goal, the greater the chance money to get a new project off the list? Are there any you feelings about children, or,
for issues to arise. off the ground than you first should add? Think about all if you already have them,
The payoff from having assumed, so build elasticity into your achievements in the past special plans you may
Uranus in this part of your your estimate. The actions you two years and give yourself want to make for them.
chart is a gift from a loving take during the May 15 new a pat on the back.
universe. Take note of the moon period have the power
10-day new-moon portal to shape your professional
from May 15, you will have (and financial) life forever. REMEMBER… DEAR LEO, SO MUCH CHANGE
a crown of stars at the top of The full moon on November 12 AND GROWTH IN YOUR CHART GUARANTEES THAT
your horoscope, indicating will bring news about your YOU WILL HAVE AN EXCITING YEAR. YOU ARE ALMOST
that there will be no career and job offers should ASSURED A POWERFUL EXPERIENCE IN MATTERS OF THE
obstacles between you and be taken seriously. HEART. YOU CAN EXPECT FUN, LEISURE AND FOREIGN
the influential people you TRAVEL WITH THE ONE YOU LOVE. YOUR CAREER WILL
want to meet or work with. BE ON FIRE, WITH PLENTY OF WAYS TO PUT YOUR
VIRGO
do so in the coming 12 months. month to watch for your love
life, especially around the time
W OR K of the new moon solar eclipse
Take special note of the time on January 5 when a build up
when Mars tours Gemini, of five heavenly bodies in
(March 30 – May 15), for Capricorn will gather in your
you will have no problem LI FE fifth house. A relationship with
getting in the door of Jupiter, the giver of gifts and someone a bit older than you
influential people. If you are luck, recently entered — say eight years or so — or
self-employed, this is the time Sagittarius and your fourth with someone whose soul
to do a publicity campaign. house of home, and will age is older than their
HOROSCOPES 2019
Watch for the professional stay almost all year, until chronological age would
opportunities the June 3 new December 2. This is the first work quite well. You may
moon brings. However, that time you have hosted Jupiter in already be with this person.
new moon will be at a hard your house of home and Saturn often enforces
angle to Neptune, so be sure family since December 2007. separations to test the strength
you and your prospective Under this rare trend, if you of a relationship. Sometimes
employer are on the same want to make changes, don’t the test is simply to show you
page. Go that extra mile and settle for anything less than that there are times when you
spell it out in an email so you finding and creating your must put your own needs first.
can have peace of mind if M ON EY dream living space. If the first Saturn won’t leave your house
there is a miscommunication The fourth house of your few options don’t excite you, of love until December 2020,
along the line. If you are horoscope, where all your keep looking. This is meant to but hang in there. What you
creative, add more time and fortunate golden nuggets lie be your big reward in 2019, achieve with Saturn, you keep
money to your estimates so in 2019, also governs your not to come again until forever. This could prove to be
you can take your time with parents. You may receive October 2030. your one true love.
a particularly important generous financial help from If you decide to move, you If you have a baby in 2019,
project (you will be incredibly your mother or father. can now find a space that is Saturn’s presence suggests
proud that you did). This year, your home can large, with plenty of sunshine, you may find parenthood the
You will be at your best generate income, so buy or situated in your ideal hardest work you will ever do,
this year, so keep thinking sell property, or do some neighbourhood. Jupiter’s with the greatest happiness you
of projects to embark on. major renovations. If you influence is known to add light, will ever experience, but as a
The best time to launch an have a beautiful apartment, expansiveness and happiness Virgo, you are a master juggler
initiative close to your heart rent it out to holidaymakers to all that it touches. If you and known to be exceptionally
is when Mars tours Virgo or location scouts for have already found your ideal flexible and adaptable. >
(August 17 – October 3). photoshoots or movies. home, then think about leasing
This is the beginning of a new or buying a holiday bolthole.
two-year cycle that puts you
in full control of your career REMEMBER… YOU WILL END THE YEAR IN A HEAVENLY STATE.
and miles ahead of the other ON DECEMBER 27, JUPITER WILL CONJUNCT THE SUN, MAKING IT THE
signs. This is the perfect time LUCKIEST DAY OF 2019. BY DECEMBER, YOUR LOVE LIFE WILL BE
to put plans in motion. SHOWING ENORMOUS GROWTH, FOR JUPITER WILL ENTER YOUR
TRUE LOVE SECTOR FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN A DECADE.
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LIBRA
SEP 24 — OCT 23
reaping the rewards. For For example, you may have sign, and Jupiter will be may need to be out of town
major career advancement, been giving up dinners out sitting in a fire sign — two at a party or wedding. If
you should start to interview with friends so you could save compatible elements — so invited, by all means go.
for a new position from May for your first house faster. you will easily absorb the If you are attached,
15 to July 1, when Mars will If the presence of Saturn good fortune the planet has February will be a
light your tenth house of translates into difficulty paying in store for you. Now that sensational month, too. Plan
honours, awards and your mortgage, keep your Jupiter is in your third house super-romantic date nights
achievement. This will be the spirits up — the situation will for the first time in 12 years, or a weekend away. The
first time in two years that you ease noticeably by year’s you will likely travel more other big day in 2019 will
have had Mars’ help in end. It is possible that repairs than you have in recent be August 15, an important
taking such a major step, so or renovations will cost more years. While the emphasis full moon in Aquarius, which
you will need to be ready to than you anticipated, but will be on short travel, you is very likely to mark an
move forward at this time. again, you will regain balance could go abroad in April, enchanting moment in your
Keep your phone powered by year’s end. If you are trying when Mars will be zooming timeline. Single or married,
up: you won’t see this flurry to sell property, you’ll need to through Gemini and your this full moon will be as big
of career activity coming! be patient. This is not a year ninth house. Go in the first 10 as a pizza pie in the sky
To improve a current role, you will likely make a killing in days of April and stay far and perfect for you.
expand your horizons. Do real estate, unless your birth away from the full moon on
business with out-of-town chart has Virgo rising. the 19th, when Uranus will
clients face-to-face instead of challenge that moon.
via phone or email. They’ll
appreciate the extra effort
and it will pay off. If you need REMEMBER… EACH YEAR, WE HAVE THE LUCKIEST DAY OF THE
extra training or want to YEAR, AND IN 2019 IT WILL BE DECEMBER 27. THIS IS WHEN THE SUN WILL
study, take advantage of ALIGN PRECISELY WITH JUPITER. ONCE A YEAR, THESE TWO DAZZLING
Jupiter’s move into LUMINARIES CHOOSE TO MEET A DIFFERENT SIGN AND PART OF YOUR
Sagittarius. You can make CHART TO MEET. WHILE EVERY SIGN WILL FEEL HAPPINESS ON DECEMBER
enormous strides now if you 27, EACH SIGN WILL SEE LUCK IN VARYING WAYS. FOR YOU, DEAR LIBRA,
strike at the perfect moment. HAPPINESS WILL COME FROM HOME AND FAMILY, ENSUING A
Beware competition from SPECTACULAR END TO 2019. IT LOOKS AS THOUGH YOU WILL BE HAPPIER
friends, though. AND MORE CONTENT THAN YOU HAVE BEEN IN A VERY LONG TIME.
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SCORPIO
LAST YEAR WAS YOUR
WONDER YEAR, when OCT 24 — NOV 22
good-fortune planet Jupiter
toured Scorpio from October
2017 to November 2018 and
gave you a chance to make
several fresh starts. You were MONE Y
so busy taking advantage of Jupiter is now in Sagittarius,
new opportunities, you may the sign it rules, and so it
not have noticed you were is comfortable in this sign. LI F E
planting seeds for your future. Since November 7, 2018, Are you thinking of moving to
These efforts are about to give Jupiter has been in your a larger apartment or house?
your days new life in 2019, second house of earned The new moon on February 4
with quite a financial harvest income, and will remain has you finding the ideal
due to you in months ahead. there until December 2, space, so be ready to browse
2019. Now that Jupiter has spaces with your real estate
set up shop here, it will bring agent in the 10 days that
WO RK you the opportunity to create follow. The actions you take L O VE
If you did not seed a new the greatest financial bounty then can affect you for a year December 6 to 31, 2018,
venture or receive acclaim for you have seen in 12 years, or more, possibly forever. was a lively and vibrant
your work last year, you may and very possibly your entire Early or mid February will period for romance. Mars
still get a chance during the life. Many of the sources of be the most important point was boosting your true love
January 5 solar eclipse. income you will see spouting of the year to move or make sector, and you may have
From July 1 to August 16, up in the coming year will other home-related decisions, had more than one exciting
Mars, your ruler, will journey revert to conversations you and lots of options will come romantic episode that you
through Leo to light your tenth started and presentations you up in this period. The glitch of are still holding in your heart.
house of honours, awards made in 2018. In short, you that new moon is that Jupiter If you met someone new
and achievement to make are about to develop an will be at a hard angle to over the holidays, you had
your working life very busy. entirely new pipeline of cash. Neptune, so be sure you perfect timing.
However, Mercury will Take note of the new understand all the terms of In 2019, when it comes
retrograde from July 7 to 31, moon of June 16. This is a a loan or mortgage. Also to romance, your biggest,
so your puzzle pieces may strong new moon for you as it make sure you pay particular brightest period will come
not fall into place – plan could see more money flow attention to finding out if there after the new moon of March
a holiday for July instead. into your bank account. If you are parts of the property you 6, which could be quite lyrical
Saturn, the teacher planet, work on a performance basis, will need to fix or address. The and poetic for you. If you are
and Pluto, the transformation such as on a bonus structure appraiser would likely pick single, be sure to circulate in
planet, are touring your third or on commission, it seems those areas to fix in his report, the 10 days that follows this
house of communication. You you will do well that way, too. but with Neptune going new moon (the very best new
appear to be working on a lot rogue, the appraiser may miss moon of 2019 to help you
of new contractual deals in one or two, or the seller might enjoy romance) – it could
2019, but it will take time not give you full disclosure. easily bring a meeting with
and attention to detail to your one true love.
get them all just right. If you are attached, you
may decide to try for a baby
in March, with success.
March will be all about
REMEMBER… GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT. making efforts to make your
AN ECLIPSE ON DECEMBER 25, 2019, MEANS THE MOST EXCITING personal life softer, sweeter
GIFT SANTA WILL LEAVE YOU WILL BE GLORIOUS PROFESSIONAL and all you dreamt it to be. >
APPLAUSE AND THE PROMISE OF AN EXCITING 2020 AHEAD.
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YOU HAVE WORKED LONG
and hard, and now you are
entering a glorious year of
reward in just about every
area of your life. You are
about to see growth in love,
romance, in regard to children NOV 23 – DEC 22
and relationships, as well as
impressive career progress,
health and travel opportunities.
WO RK
In your Emerald Year [a rare
and fortuitous time as the L O VE
celestial favourite], you will MONE Y Ancient astrologers wrote that
t successful people from Saturn, the stern taskmaster when someone single has
alks of life, including planet, is currently giving you Jupiter in their sign, as you do
from business, media, a cosmic financial MBA and LI FE now and through 2019, it is the
publishers and agents, or won’t leave your second house Every 12 years, when Jupiter, very sweetest time to meet your
SA I ARIU
people who work in virtual of earned income until the planet of good fortune, true love. You must do your
worlds and research. You December 2020. During this visits you, the other planets part to circulate socially, as
may befriend a professor, time, you may find clients, surrounding Jupiter are in you will have until December
ambassador, government management and prospective different places, and so the 2, 2019, to make that first
official or political leader. employers to be tight-fisted or effect is different each time. connection. Mars, the ruler of
One or two may take special unable to meet your salary On November 8, 2018, your fifth house of love, will be
interest in helping you to get requirements. You can get Jupiter entered Sagittarius for in Aries, lighting your romantic
ahead. When asked, a prestigious new position in the first time since November sector from January 1 through
“How can I help?” have March or end-of-August/first 24, 2006, through December February 14, so you’ll start the
an answer ready. half of September, but the 18, 2007, and won’t leave year off with a wonderful
Mars will light your tenth compensation will need to be until December 2, 2019, boost. Remember, you won’t
se of career achievement revisited later, after you’ve meaning this year should be need Mars to help you as
e first time in two years proven your worth. one of your best of your life Jupiter is doing all the heavy
August 18 to October 4. On December 2, 2019, the as you enjoy all the goodies lifting, but it sure is nice to know
This is an important moment good fortune planet, Jupiter, Jupiter has to give. you also have this sexy planet
owcase your talents to will move into your second With Jupiter in your sign, of action working for you as
pective employers. house of earned income. your health will improve 2019 takes off.
A promotion opportunity at This sensational outlook for and you’ll feel strong and International travel is likely
your current company substantially increasing your optimistic. You may take up to occur this year, and you may
also arise. earned income will stretch until a new sport or start to eat take at least one visit to an
you have your own December 18, 2020. This is more nutritious foods. exotic city or paradise island
ness, start an advertising why you need to stay upbeat Sagittarius is closely aligned you always hoped to visit but
ublicity campaign, and – the money to solve your cash with the idea of strong mind, had assumed was slightly out
you’ll see results. Put a star on flow problems is on the way. body and spirit. If you treat of reach. This year, you need
August 30 when a powerful yourself to a package of to dream big, for all kinds
new moon will come by – the training sessions from of good things you never
most important one of 2019 a personal trainer, you’ll imagined possible could
for your career. see noticeable results. happen. If you are attached,
you will be able to take an
REMEMBER… DECEMBER 27 WILL BE THE LUCKIEST DAY OF 2019 FOR awe-inspiring trip together.
ALL THE SIGNS, WHEN GOOD FORTUNE JUPITER WILL MEET WITH THE MIGHTY You can weave a memory
SUN. FOR YOU, THIS CHANGE WILL BE PURELY FINANCIAL AND YOU WILL FIND in 2019 that you will share
YOURSELF AT THE RIGHT PLACE AT PRECISELY THE RIGHT TIME TO REAP THE forever and travelling with your
BENEFITS. YOU WILL ENTER 2020 WITH RENEWED CONFIDENCE, AND MUCH partner will bond you closer.
TO SHOW IN TERMS OF GROWTH IN JUST ABOUT EVERY CORNER OF YOUR LIFE.
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CAPRICORN
THE PAST YEAR HASN’T
BEEN EASY FOR YOU, with
taskmaster Saturn teaching
tough love by imparting
a series of tests and challenges
that seemed daunting at DEC 23 – JAN 20
times. Have faith that the
improvements and rebuilding
of your life will be well worth
the effort. The changes you are
implementing will bring growth
and security for decades. L O VE
Your love life is due for
sparkling rejuvenation as
W OR K Uranus, planet of surprise,
Saturn will stay in your sign L I FE moves into compatible earth
until December 16, 2020, Saturn in Capricorn can be sign Taurus on March 6 for the
and, because it’s your ruling a draining influence. Ask your first time since 1934 to 1942.
planet, you’ll absorb its doctor if you have sufficient Uranus takes 84 years to
HOROSCOPES 2019
lessons and wisdom more bone density and if you should revolve around the sun and
easily than most. The planet make dietary changes. You spends seven years in each
gets a bad name, but it’s may also lose weight under sign it visits. It provides surprise
really your best friend – a this influence. and stimulation in the house
high-priced tutor to help build Sometimes Saturn makes it visits, and for you in the
structure in your life. Saturn is life seem out of balance, so coming seven years, the
currently asking you to devote do something fun once a excitement in your life will be
your time to one big life event, M ON EY week. It could be as simple supplied by love, children
such as taking on a powerful In terms of overall career as going to a movie or and creative efforts.
position at work, getting progress, notice what having dinner with a friend. If you’re single, you may
married or having a baby. happens at the full moon, Your twelfth house, discover to your amazement
Or, you might publish your first April 19, plus or minus activated through most of that Cupid and his fleet of
book, start your own business, three days. You may get 2019, also rules healing, so angels is hiding behind every
buy or renovate your first exceptional praise or it’s a good time to consult tree and pot plant, so look your
house or go back to uni. publicity, a promotion or a a professional therapist if you best even if you go to the
You may have been new job offer. Your income have been troubled by a supermarket . Uranus’ method
working long hours with appears to be poised for an matter. You may also want to is swift and without warning,
Saturn on your sun, as you upswing then too, especially investigate how meditation but the planet is associated
have now. You must try to if you work on a commission, can make you calmer and with technology, suggesting
get rest, for if you run short bonus or royalty basis. more productive. you may meet through
continually, the demands of This same house of your a dating app or website. >
Saturn could make you feel horoscope also rules
overwhelmed or sad. company perks of all kinds,
Uranus’ move to fellow including health insurance, so REMEMBER… YOU HAVE YOUR MOMENT
earth sign Taurus will turn you speak up for those, too. If you TO STEP INTO THE SPOTLIGHT AND ONTO THE
into a virtual ideas factory have your own business, you WORLD STAGE. THE AUDIENCE WILL BE WAITING
starting March 2019, a trend may be approved for a loan AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY CLAPPING HANDS FOR
that will continue for seven or bank line of credit. If you YOU — WHAT WILL YOU SAY, DEAR CAPRICORN?
glorious years. receive a cheque at this time, IT WILL BE TIME TO SING THE SONG IN YOUR
it is due to be generous. HEART, FOR YOU WILL HAVE THE FORCE OF THE
UNIVERSE BEHIND YOU TO MAKE A DREAM
THAT’S DEAR TO YOU COME TRUE.
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Q RIUS YOU MADE A NUMBER
of savvy career moves last year
JAN 21 – FEB 19
HOROSCOPES 2019
have uncanny timing, in the It looks like a lucrative, and, if you’re attached,
right place at the right time to prestigious assignment will your arrangements for your
take advantage of sparkling come to you as a wonderful LI FE children or possibilities
opportunities that Jupiter will surprise. At the same time, Pisces is considered one of the for a pregnancy.
send you. You will be offered Neptune will be involved with most imaginative of all signs. A full moon lunar eclipse in
an array of choices, so have Saturn, indicating an artistic Your subconscious is always Capricorn will arrive on July
your professional priorities in idea you come up with could active and you’re known to 16, and bring your attention
order so you can make wise have staying power. take in information about the back a friend or to a group
decisions when they arise. Your recent financial past world through the visual right that you belong to now.
You might be tempted to may have given you more than brain, the part of the brain that In some of the eclipses,
accept them all, but to do a few sleepless nights. While deals with symbols and Saturn will take a prominent
that will stretch you too thin, you may have earned more gestures, music and the arts. role, suggesting one of several
and not allow you the time money than you ever imagined Don’t be concerned that possibilities. Saturn teaches
or energy to create the possible, you also likely 2019 will be all work and no us to become mature and
stunning results you will experienced some monstrous play. You will have enormous enlightened, and as the
want to achieve. When financial expenses. Luckily, emphasis on romance and January 5 and July 16 eclipses
considering the offers, your finances are about to friendship, thanks to the coming emphasise friends, you may be
choose one or two that have calm down and to generate four eclipses. New eclipses in asked to help someone close
the greatest long-term a more predictable, yet Cancer and Capricorn will to you who is going through
potential and that will allow generous, flow. ping their energy 180 degrees a difficult time. As part of your
you to be truly happy and back and forth across the sky, personal growth, you will
utilise your talents well. enlivening your love life and want to be at her side. E
VIPs will also seek you out your social circle.
and want to give you more
responsibility and power. REMEMBER… ASK YOURSELF, WHAT DO YOU TRULY WANT TO HAPPEN
Of course, to those who are IN THE COMING YEAR, PROFESSIONALLY AND FOR YOUR PRIVATE EMOTIONAL
given much, much will be LIFE? YOU MAY HAVE A MATERIAL WISH (BUYING YOUR FIRST HOUSE), AN
expected. Still, instead of EXPERIENTIAL DESIRE (TO VISIT JAPAN) OR IT MAY BE SPIRITUAL (GETTING MARRIED
feeling pressured, you will OR HAVING A BABY). TAKE TIME TO DO SOME DEEP THINKING, AS IN ORDER
find you are well prepared TO SEE YOUR DREAM MATERIALISE, YOU MUST KNOW WHAT YOU WANT AND
to assume your new role. TAKE THE STEPS TO GET THERE. THE UNIVERSE WANTS YOU TO EXAMINE YOUR
PRIORITIES AND CHOOSE THE DREAMS THAT MEAN THE MOST TO YOU.
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2. Tell her superiors that she is a very
passionate, wily leader. (And if you don’t
let management know this in such a way
that it gets back to her, you are not the
woman I take you for.)
PS: Read Robin Green’s bad-arse book
TORMENTED? friend will forgive you. Instead, draw up The Only Girl: My Life And Time On The
a list of your personal standards, take Masthead Of Rolling Stone. It’s chock-full
DRIVEN WITLESS? control of your moral life and end this of excellent advice!
FEAR NOT, squalid little bed game.
HELP IS JUST MUMMY DEAREST
A SHORT FUTURE PERFECT? My mother, who I adore, can’t hold a job
I am 30. At 13, I fell in love from afar with and is a totally charming freeloader. For as
LETTER AWAY an extremely handsome man. He is long as I can remember, it’s always been
successful, good-natured, funny, rich, kind just the two of us, but now she has a male
and so successful he’s almost a celebrity. “friend” who has no job, no money and no
HAND GRENADE I’ve never met him, but trust me: I love him. car – and is 26. (PS: I am 26.) My mother
I have a crush on my best friend’s man. – HOW DO I MEET MR PERFECT? and I share an apartment. I don’t make
I’ve tried to behave myself, but one night Conquer, my kumquat: My inbox is filled a huge salary, but I keep us afloat. What
the three of us got drunk at a charity with long letters from women who live with gets me is that this male “friend” stays at our
event and my friend’s boyfriend insisted guys who are perfect. And 99.99 per cent apartment for free, eats free and drives our
I stay the night with them. Not only did of my correspondents are sick of them! cars free. She’s blind to this man! E. Jean!
we all sleep in the same bed, he initiated Get a real chap with some flaws. They are I’m tried! Please help!
some “handcraft”, which I then stupidly less dipshitty. – TOO NICE
followed. Did I mention my best friend Miss Too, darling: The kindest thing you
was in the same bed? WORKING GIRL can do is force your mother – a magnificent
This situation has been repeated My boss hates me! I just can’t please woman I deeply respect for getting away
many times and I don’t know how to her. She favours the men in the office. with this BS all these years – to stand on
stop it! How do I redirect my relationship When they do something wrong, she her own two feet. She’ll hate it, but it will
with him before it’s too late? I am aware says nothing. If I make the slightest help her plan for the future. As for her
he is a complete asshole. mistake, she storms around and choice in men? That we can’t control. So:
– CONSUMED WITH GUILT reprimands me. She says I don’t follow move to a chic studio apartment of your
Miss Guilty: For 25 years, Aunty Eeee directions but I think she misconstrues own, let your mother stay put and help her
has been filling the very air with my initiative as insubordination. Does with the rent for the first few months. Then
a hurricane of tender-hearted, godlike she hate me so much that, despite the cease. Your new life is gonna be fabulous!
mercy. But I have a few words for you, time and effort I’ve been putting in, she
my darling: Get the hell out of that bed! will hinder my chances for promotion? Ask a question: tweet @ejeancarroll
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