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he champagne was chilled, cheese and

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Pixel Smartburst
Reportage

Behind
the
lens
He showed us Naomi, Kate and Cindy as wed never
seen them before, and catapulted a young model
called Helena to fame. With a new book celebrating
his work, Bethan Holt meets Peter Lindbergh, the
photographer who changed the face of fashion forever
R AW B E A U T Y
The Supers (from far left: Naomi
Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana
Patitz, Christy Turlington and Cindy
Crawford), photographed by
Peter Lindbergh, 1989
In 1989, Peter Lindbergh ushered in
the next decade by capturing the new
supermodels for a magazine cover.
This black-and-white group shot
was a refreshingly simple antidote
to the glitz and glamour of the 80s.
They were the kind of models who
were really independent, joyful and
sporty, but most importantly they
were strong in themselves. I thought
that should be the future, explains
the now 71-year-old photographer.
 HIDDEN GEM
Helena Christensen and Marie-
Sophie Wilson, Paris, 1991
When I met Helena, I was
flabbergasted, the photographer
recalls fondly of the Danish
supermodels unique look.
Christensen has said: I am so
grateful for Peter seeing behind
my teenaged, fluffy look and
finding some girl behind there.

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 Reportage

S TA R P O W E R
Kate Moss, New York, 1994
This was just before Kate
took off to become Kate
Moss, says Lindbergh. The
photoshoot, for an American
fashion magazine, was titled
A Star Is Born. I remember
her being the coolest model Ive
ever worked with, he adds.
She was far more charming
than all of us put together.
W H AT YO U
L O O K I NG AT ?
Linda Evangelista, Brooklyn, 1990
The Canadian supermodel and the
German photographer were close
friends, so much so that other models
would remark on his relationship with
Evangelista. (He has taken hundreds of
pictures of her over the course of his
career.) I heard this interview with
Kate Moss and she was saying that we
had worked together quite a lot, but
that we werent close like me and
Linda Evangelista, says Lindbergh.
She was complaining about it
a little bit and it was very cute.
 Reportage
TRIP THE
LIGHT
FA N T A S T I C
Linda Evangelista and Hugh
Grant, New York, 1992
This, like all of Lindberghs work,
is an unretouched image. He never
retouches his photos, and all media
outlets have to sign an agreement
swearing they will not airbrush his
work. I dont retouch anything,
states Lindbergh. Oh, but she looks
tired! they say. So what if she
looks tired? Tired and beautiful.

marieclaire.com.au 35
Reportage
INTO THE
GROOVE
Madonna, Los Angeles,1994
This unpublished image was
part of a series where Madonna
then at the height of her
fame embodied the spirit of
Martha Graham, a renowned
American dancer. It was the first
and only time Lindbergh would
work with the music icon.
What really struck me was her
strong motivation, he recalls.

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 A CUT
ABOVE
John Galliano,
Paris, 1996.
Left: Tina Turner,
Paris, 1989.

I
n the late 1980s, Peter Lindbergh dared to
do what few fashion photographers had Lindbergh with his supers,
done before: he showed models as they were. photographed by Jim Rakete,
At a time when it was all big hair and pu
pushing New York, 1989.
the boobs up, he stripped you of those props I felt totally uncomfortable and
and showed you in a different way. Its like I have a strange look on my face,
being photographed right when you wake up but I accidentally looked so good
in the morning, was how Cindy Crawford on once in this picture, says Lindbergh.
described Lindberghs method. Honest, simple images I really liked [the models].
that show a natural vision of a womans beauty shouldnt
be a radical idea but, back then, it was.
Almost 30 years later, Lindberghs photography is
still as in-demand as ever. This year, he was commis-
sioned to lend a refreshed and relaxed version for the
2017 Pirelli calendar, which stars a clutch of his favourite
women, including Nicole Kidman, Alicia Vikander and
Julianne Moore. He admires them because they all have
the courage to be exactly as they are.
Now, a book of his work entitled A Different Vision
Of Fashion Photography (Taschen, approx $80) has
been released. Featuring more than 220 of Lindberghs
agenda-changing images (all untouched) of strong,
independent women, the plan is to tour the inspiring
collection around the world, hopefully to Australia.
If photographers are responsible for creating
or reflecting an image of women in society, he
says, then, I must say, there is only one way for the
future, and this is to define women as strong and
independent. This should be the responsibility of
photographers today: to free women, and finally every-
one, from the terror of youth and perfection.
 Asylum seekers and
refugees have been
I
ts a situation millions of Aus-
enduring a living hell tralian women fear finding
on Nauru, with little or a lump in their breast. Three
years ago, Dina*, a mother-
no access to basic of-four, felt the cold trickle
of panic that follows that exact
healthcare. Despite nightmare discovery. The quietly spo-
ken 39-year-old found multiple lumps
recent news of a US in both her breasts, and her left breast
resettlement deal, their began discharging green mucous.
While other mothers, sisters and
future is still uncertain. wives facing a possible breast-cancer
diagnosis find reassurance and hope for
Anna Merlin reports survival in Australias modern medical
system, Dina feels completely aban-
doned. Thats because she was among
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the 1300-odd asylum seekers sent to
the Pacific island of Nauru after trying
to reach Australia by boat in 2013.
Now living in the community after
her family was granted refugee status,
Dinas healthcare falls under the Nauru
system. Yet the islands facilities are fail-
ing to cope with the complex medical
conditions of new arrivals like herself.
Adding to the confusion, in
November, the Australian government
announced a one-off, not to be
repeated deal to send refugees on
Nauru and Manus Island to live in
America. At the time of publication, no
numbers or timeframes had been

announced, although women, children
PHOTOGRAPHED BY GETTY IMAGES. *NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED
and families have been prioritised. The
agreement is with the outgoing Obama
administration and so far it is unclear
whether US president-elect Donald
Trump, who will be inaugurated in Jan-
uary, will accept the refugees.
Human rights lawyer George
Newhouse describes the quality of
medical treatment offered to refugees
and asylum seekers on both Nauru and
Papua New Guinea as medieval.
They are under the direct care and
responsibility of the Australian govern-
ment and the way we treat them is
shameful, he says.
Dinas sister, Maha*, faces a similar
predicament. For nine months, she has
suffered chest pains and has gallstones.
More pressing are her gynaecological
issues. She has difficulty urinating,
blood in her urine and a golf ball-sized
uterine growth. Her surgeon at the
Nauru hospital says he cant operate
because he lacks the proper equipment.
Making the situation even more
stressful is the fact that theres a family
history of cancer. (The sisters have asked
marie claire to change their names out
of fear of backlash on Nauru.)
I am crying from my heart. I swear
if I knew this will be the situation I
Investigation
Nauru, the smallest
island nation in the
world, covers just 21km
and has a population of
around 10,000 people.
would have preferred to die in my coun-
try, says Maha. This is Death Island.
Doctors4Refugees has examined
the sisters medical records and made
urgent requests for both sisters to be
treated in Australia. But the pleas have
fallen on deaf ears.
The sisters are far from alone
in their struggle to access what most
Australians would consider basic
healthcare. marie claire is also aware of
a second refugee mother with untreated
breast lumps who recently attempted
suicide. She was rushed to hospital,
but her friends had to take in sheets
and blankets from home because
Investigation
there were no clean ones available in
the Nauru emergency department.
Amnesty International and Human
Rights Watch covertly interviewed 84
asylum seekers and refugees, and issued
a report in August 2016 that painted an
appalling picture of healthcare stand-
ards on the island. The shocking details
included a woman being forced to
give birth under a hospital bed without
a mattress. Her husband had to buy
soap and toilet paper because there was
none in the bathroom.
[Refugees and asylum seekers on
Nauru] endure unnecessary delays and
at times denial of medical care, even for
life-threatening conditions, the report
found. Medical equipment is rudimen-
tary, and specialist medical attention
is not regularly available.
A government spokesperson says
the Nauru government was responsible
for providing medical care to refugees
and it was delivered in line with Nauru
community standards. However,
Nauru is poverty stricken and decades
of phosphate mining have rendered the
tiny island an environmental waste-
land. According to the World Health
Organization, in 2014, Naurus health-
care spend equated to $512 per person,
compared to $4357 in Australia.
Controversy surrounding the
healthcare of asylum
seekers and refugees has
never been far from the Officials
headlines. In May 2016, denied they
a refugee, allegedly raped had set an
on Nauru and sent to Papua
New Guinea (PNG) for an abortion
abortion, won a federal deadline for
court case ruling that the
a rape victim
Australian government had
a duty of care to ensure she
had access to a safe and legal abortion.
(Abortions are generally illegal in PNG,
unless to save the mothers life.) In
another case, in 2015, immigration
officials denied they had set an arbi-
trary abortion deadline for a Somali
refugee who claimed she was raped.
Another prominent case involves
a 12-year-old boy who broke his arm
riding a bike in 2015 and has not
received a post-operative follow up. He
remains in severe pain and has lost feel-
ing in his wrist and fingers. His lawyer
fears he could be permanently disabled.
40 marieclaire.com.au
Clockwise from above: held
on Nauru for three years,
a young refugee chooses
what she most needs; more
than 400 asylum seekers
remain in cramped
conditions; the old Nauru
hospital reflects the poor
standard of healthcare
available on the island.
Its an issue likely to stay in the
news in coming months with a new
Senate inquiry examining abuse,
neglect and self-harm allegations at
Nauru and Manus Island detention
centres in the wake of the leaking of
2000 Nauru incident reports.
The International Health and
Medical Services (IHMS), the global
healthcare company that runs the
detention centres health service, has
denied the claims of poor-quality
treatment. Immigration
minister Peter Dutton has
also repeatedly defended
the facilities on Nauru
citing Australias $11 mil-
lion upgrade of the medical
clinic at the detention cen-
tre and $26 million on the
Nauru hospital.
But according to a
healthcare insider who has
worked on the island and who spoke
exclusively to marie claire on the con-
dition of anonymity, only some parts of
stage one of the hospital upgrade are in
use. These include the dental clinic,
consulting rooms, ultrasound room
and X-ray building. Construction on
other new sections is mostly finished,
but the facilities are empty and inside
no equipment is set up.
Patients are still being treated in
the dilapidated and asbestos-ridden
emergency department and maternity
ward. Photos seen by marie claire of
inside the hospital show dubious
hygiene standards, mouldy walls, tiles
missing from floors and walls, grotty
toilets, bedrooms with dirty floors and
equipment covered in dust and uniden-
tifiable substances. There is chronic
thieving of equipment and supplies,
says the insider. Even bandages and
sterile gloves can be hard to come by.
In May, the Nauru government
revealed the remote control and modem
for the hospitals CT scanner had been
stolen during a break-in, rendering the
machine unusable for months.
A
ustralia is now the last-
resort destination for
those in urgent need of
medical attention. Refugee
supporters lament commonsense
and human compassion have been
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lost in the politically toxic debate over
asylum seekers and refugees.
According to the healthcare insider,
the number of medical transfers to
Australia has been dramatically scaled
back since May 2015. Some who have
worked on the island believe this strat-
egy was aimed at stopping Australian
lawyers from taking legal action to
block people being returned to Nauru
after their treatment.
In February 2016, there was
a 10-day stand-off between staff at
a Brisbane hospital and the federal
government over the discharge of a
baby girl named Asha because doctors
Investigation
feared the burns patient would be sent
back to Nauru immediately. The one-
year-old was eventually released into
community detention in Australia.
Pregnant women are no longer
sent to Australia automatically at 30
weeks gestation. Since February, the
Australian immigration department
has mandated medical transfers to
PNG rather than Australia for special-
ist services not available on the island.
The patient virtually needs to be
at deaths door in order to be sent to
Australia for medical treatment, says a
healthcare insider, adding that during
the recent federal election campaign
some transfers to Australia were
undertaken covertly to avoid becoming
a potential election issue.
The immigration department would
not provide statistics on medical trans-
fers from Nauru to PNG, or to Australia
or other countries in 2016. The Nauru
government also declined to respond to
marie claires questions about the qual-
ity of healthcare offered to refugees.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
In August last year, refugee
children on Nauru (left) protest
against Australias offshore
Where does the buck stop? detention operations.
This is a tricky question
The Australian government insists it is not
responsible for the asylum seekers at the
Nauru detention centre or the refugees living allow me to put on my glasses.
in the community. Canberra claims it does
They didnt care about what
not run the detention centre, however, the
the doctor had to say. They
immigration department hands out contracts
just put me on the airplane.
to companies who do.
The Australian Medical
The federal government says the Nauru
government operates the centre, assesses
Association (AMA) has been
asylum claims and is responsible for the scathing of the lack of govern-
welfare of asylum seekers and refugees. ment transparency as well as
The United Nations refugee agency the immigration departments
maintains under international law, Australia interference in medical trans-
has responsibility for those it sent to Nauru. fers. Its an issue of great
Human rights and legal experts argue concern, says AMA president
they are subject to Australian jurisdiction Dr Michael Gannon. Its
and effective control despite being in doctors who have the skill and
a foreign country. They have largely expertise to make clinical
welcomed the US deal, but, at this stage, decisions about where and
it is unclear whether the resettlement how people are treated.
will still go ahead. Dr Gannon said doctors
are also fearful of speaking
out about the deficiencies in
asylum seeker and refugee
But their hopes for a positive future healthcare because of the Border Force
have not manifested. In September, Act, which threatens entrusted peo-
after months of delays, Dina was finally ple with two years jail if they record or
airlifted to PNG to see a medical spe- disclose information about conditions
cialist. A mammogram confirmed there in centres on Nauru and Manus Island.
were lumps in both her breasts. She Meanwhile back on Nauru, the
still doesnt know whether theyre recently announced US resettlement
malignant or benign. There were no deal has created new uncertainty.
female Arabic interpreters on hand in Speculation is rife that the plan will
PNG, which made the medical consul- be rejected by the incoming
tation even more difficult. Trump administration, cementing an
Both IHMS and the Australian unknown future for all. We dont
immigration department have any family in Amer-
declined to comment ica, says Maha. I want to
directly on the sisters The patient know where we will be
medical cases citing needs to be going and whether its

F
or Dina and Maha, risking the
perilous journey from their
Middle Eastern homeland to
Australia was all about ensur-
ing their children had a future.
In 2013, after an uncle was mur-
dered in front of them, the sisters opted
to flee with their kids, leaving their hus-
bands behind. Other family had already
migrated to Sydney and Melbourne and
patient confidentiality at deaths
and refused to explain why
they havent been sent to door to be
Australia for treatment. sent to
Decisions about medi-
cal transfers are made on a
Australia
case-by-case basis accord-
ing to clinical need, in consultation
with the health services provider and
government of Nauru, says a depart-
a good place not just for me
and my family, but all the
refugees on Nauru.
The anti-Muslim rhet-
oric of Donald Trump is
troubling for Dina and
Maha, who both wear head-
scarves as part of their faith. They are
contemplating whether to take them
off if they move to America, amid a ris-
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had raved about the best country ever.
After five months the two families
made it to Indonesia, where they
squeezed into a small, rusty fishing boat
that miraculously made it to Christmas
Island on July 25, 2013. The families
were transferred to Nauru and have
been there since. They were in immigra-
tion detention for a year before being
released to live in overcrowded, mouldy
one- and two-bedroom lodgings.
ment spokesperson.
For the few who make it to Aus-
tralia for medical attention, the process
can be traumatising for all involved.
One woman told researchers she was
sound asleep in her hospital room
when suddenly officers barged in
demanding she wake up. There was an
officer on each side of me holding my
arms, and more officers behind me. My
legs were shaking. They didnt even
ing tide of Islamophobia. The sisters
are also worried about their ability to
be reunited with relatives in Australia.
But Maha has other fears too.
I am really only worried about one
thing, she explains. That if I die, who
will take care of my kids?
HAVE YOUR SAY
Go to getup.org.au and sign the petition
to protect the rights and wellbeing of
refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru.

42 marieclaire.com.au
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FOOD
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$ 1 0 0 .1 7
TOTAL:

THE JUNK-FOOD FAN

Summ 29 (with daughter Daisy,
Summer,
3), is a
an author and mum of two.
+ + +
She trtries to eat well, but often Frozen chicken
Yoghurt, Bottle of red nuggets,
ends upu at the drive-through 1kg, $4 wine, $20 400g, $6.80

Im AAmerican, and before I moved

here, I ate out almost every meal.
Mum was a busy widow she didnt + + +

49.95, BY LACEY LANE. EMMA WEARS JACKET, $99, BY TOPSHOP; DRESS, $369, BY IRO
JEANS, $89.95,, BY TOPSHOP; SHOES, $179.95, BY WITCHERY. DAISY WEARS TOP, $87.95, BY CHLO;
have time
t to cook. I love everything

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Chicken
from escargots to pizza I dont thighs, 1kg, Mayonnaise, Milk, 1L,
discriminate! When I moved here
discrim $14.99 $3.99 $2.80
with mym husband, I was shocked.
Food isi much more expensive.
So I learnt to cook. I have two
S + + +
kids and
a I want them to eat well.
2x 5 x cans 2 x Quarter
But I still love junk food its my frozen of tuna, Pounder
inner lazy girl! My eating is kind of pizzas, $10 $5 meals, $13.70
all over
ove the place Ill have green
tea with
wi eggs, avocado and fetta in
a wrap for breakfast, and a burger
for lun
lunch. Because of the kids, I feel
+ + +
like Im
I at the shops all the time. Crackers, Banana bars,
250g, $3.50 Fruit Roll-Ups,
They go through fruit and vegies $2 (pack of 8) $5 (pack of 14)
like the
th world is running out.
Im not into fad dieting and
I
Im aware
aw of the dangers of pro-
cessed food. However, Im totally
+ +
BLOOMERS, $49.95,
PHOTOGRAPHED

OK with
wi eating a frozen pizza every Hummus, White
once in
i a while. I also feel like brie, 220g, bread Bananas,
$3.99 loaf, $1.90 1kg, $2.50
crackers and wine is an acceptable
cracke
dinner not every night, but its OK.

44 marieclaire.com.au
mariec
 Real people
8
L:
TOTA

$ 1 0 0 . 0
+ +
Free-range 1x
eggs, $8.45 cauliflower,
(a dozen) $3.48

+ +
4x 4x
zucchinis, avocados,
$6.60 $11

+ +
Bunch of Bunch of
basil, $3 coriander, $3

+ +
Bean Bag of
shoots, lemons,
250g, $2.20 $5.70

I spend Sundays
+ +
prepping my food 3x
chillies,
4 x organic
chicken
for the week $1.44 breasts, $30

+
2 x cans tuna, Hemp seeds,
$10.36 250g, $14.85

THE CLEAN EATER guacamole. I eat an avocado pretty

Emma, 27, is a self-described health nut. Her days revolve around nutritious much every day. For dinner, I eat meat
food and she considers wholesome ingredients an investment in her future or fish with salad or sweet potato chips.
Dinner is small because I graze a lot.
Health is incredibly important to me. apple slices topped with hemp seeds, or My day revolves around food
Im obsessed with superfoods. Five a Ryvita cracker with miso paste, cot-
cot making it, eating it. On Sundays,
years ago I did a nutrition course, and tage cheese, basil, avocado and flaxseed I spend the day prepping my food for
it all blew up from there. oil. Sometimes Ill have a hemp protein the week. Food takes all my money, but
I wake at 5am and have a spoonful shake. Lunch is salad, or zucchini pasta its an investment. When I go out with
each of fish oil, spirulina and silica oil, with veg and pesto. I limit meat to twice friends, Im more relaxed than Id nor-
a kombucha shot, tablets (grape seed, a week. In the afternoon, I snack on mally be. Last week I went to lunch
CoQ10, biotin), a glass of turmeric with boiled eggs I make 20 on Sunday for with a friend and we shared a cheese
hot water and a cup of green tea. Then the week or carrots or another shake. platter. I know that not everyone eats
I head to the gym. I dont eat a proper I make polenta bread every week and like me, so Im conscious of letting
breakfast, but I snack at work. I have sometimes have a slice of that with myself relax a bit around friends.

marieclaire.com.au 45
 THE GOURMET
Sarah, 37, lives and breathes food. For her, its no
big deal to spend hundreds of dollars on one dinner

I would classify myself as a foodie. For my birthday I dined at Attica

I love to cook and eat out. Theres
nothing better than a fabulous meal
and wine with friends. Im lucky to
live in Melbourne where we have so
many amazing restaurants.
On weekends, youll find me at
the farmers market. Its my happy
place. I care about where food comes
from, and how its produced, so I buy
organic and, as much as possible,
try to buy locally. The only imported
food Ill buy is French cheese!
When cooking for friends, I go
all out and wouldnt shy away from
spending a few hundred dollars.
Australias number-one restaurant
and at Brae [both in Victoria] a
few nights later. Each dinner cost
about $450. A few months ago I
travelled to Sydney to dine at Quay,
and Im heading back in a month
to go to Sepia. When I travel, I go to
local markets and do a cooking
course. Some people might go
shopping for clothes overseas; Id
much rather go to a food market.
Cooking is like meditation for
me. I plan my weeknight meals
on the weekend so Im organised
for the week ahead.

+ + + +
French
TOTAL:
double-cream Organic Dark artisan 12 x Sydney Truffles (when

$ 9 9 .1 0
soft cheese, eggs, $14 chocolate, rock oysters, in season),
350g, $20.70 (a dozen) 100g, $12.90 $16.50 20g, $35

TOTAL:
THE
$100

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SARAH WEARS SHIRT, $370, BY CAMILLA AND MARC; JEANS, $249, BY NYDJ JEANS. KYLIE WEARS SHIRT, $299, BY AG; SKIRT,
GURU + + + +
Kylie, 36, is a former
athlete who was
2 x bunches Almond or Bag of Fire Tonic
diagnosed with chronic fennel, coconut carrots, herbal
fatigue syndrome seven $2.50 milk, 1L, $2 $1 elixir, $20
years ago. Now, instead
of eating for performanc
performance,
she eats to heal her body
bo
+ + + +
Dulse Nutritional 4 x cans Coconut
seaweed yeast, coconut oil,
flakes, $6.50 $5 cream, $4 1L, $10

Ive always been into wellness.

I got a scholarship to a US uni as an
to think How do I stabilise my
blood sugar? and Am I getting
+ + + +
Bones 2 x bunches Alfalfa Bunch of
800-metre runner, and my whole my meal times right? I learnt a lot for stock, organic sprouts, coriander,
life was about eating for fuel. about my body as an athlete, but $15 celery, $14 $3 $2
When I was diagnosed with Im learning more with my virus.
chronic fatigue, I was bedridden Im a big believer in super-
for six months. Now, I work as
a personal trainer and nutritionist.
foods. When I was diagnosed,
I was looking for a magic bullet
+ + +
Its been an interesting tran- a supplement or food that would Fresh 3 x cans 1 x can Sweet
white wild sardines, potatoes,
sition from eating for performance cure me. Now Ive realised its fish, $6 salmon, $5 $1 1kg, $3
to eating for wellness. My body is about eating a wide range of fresh
still very sensitive to foods. I have fruit and veg daily. Its that simple.

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 Real people

THE CONVENIENCE QUEEN

Kate, 34, is a vet and the founder of tech
start-up Thankly. She eats all of her meals
out and says she doesnt have the time
or inclination to care about food

I never eat at home. I never cook. Ive lived in

my apartment for three years and Ive never
used the stove or oven. Theres nothing in my
fridge. Nothing. No bread, no milk. Actually,
I have a dog and he gets fresh meals deliv-
ered, so thats the only thing in my fridge.
Food is my lowest priority. I eat when
Im hungry, or if Im out for a social occasion
or work meeting. If Im at home and theres
nothing to eat, I dont eat. Id have
to be insanely hungry to go out to
I neverr eat get something.
at home.
me. I live in the city, so I dont
Theree is go to big supermarkets as theyre
not around me. A typical day
nothing g in starts with coffee. I dont snack.
my fridge
dge Sometimes I eat lunch, some-
times I dont. I might have a
punnet of blueberries or grab a
sandwich. In the evening, I might have
a salad. A few nights a week I go out for
dinner with friends.
People think Im unusual for not caring
about food, but why are people obsessed
with spending hours making food when its
gone in a few minutes? Whats the point?
Its actually been problematic with
partners in the past. Ive been asked, What
will happen if we have kids? Will they
starve? I find that sexist. Nobody would
ever ask a man whos not into cooking what
would happen to his kids.

+ + +
1 x grilled
3x 3 x chicken chicken and
coffees, $12 salads, $48 salad wrap, $8

TOTAL:
+
1 x organic fresh
$100
2 x chicken cold-pressed
stir-fries, $24 vegetable juice, $8

marieclaire.com.au 47
 I FOUND MY
BIRTH M THER
THROUGH
GOOGLE EARTH
Saroo was only five-years-old when he found himself lost in the
slums of Calcutta, India. Two decades later, from his new home in
Australia, he began a painstaking search for his birth home, using
instinct, hazy memories and Google Earth. Here, in an edited
extract from his new book which has recently been made into
a Hollywood film, Lion Saroo shares his incredible story

Saroo Munshi Khan was born in a
poor neighbourhood of India and
lived in a two-room dwelling with
his mother, two older brothers,
Guddu and Kallu, and a younger
sister, Shekila. To make ends meet,
his mother worked on building sites
where she was often away from
the family home for days on end.
The older boys helped by looking
for odd jobs at railway stations and
by the time they were teens, they
were mainly living on the streets.
O
ne night, when I was five
years old, my brother
Guddu came to visit. As
Guddu was the eldest it
was he that I looked up to the most and
when he said he was leaving I jumped
up and said, Im coming with you! He
agreed and I was thrilled.
Soon I was laughing as we sped
through the streets on the way to
the train station, Guddu doubling me
on a bicycle he had hired. Once there,
the train pulled in noisily and we
scuttled aboard. We got as comfortable
as we could on the hard wooden seats,
but the fun of the adventure was
starting to wear off. By the time we
got to the main town an hour away,
I was so exhausted I slumped onto
a wooden bench on the platform and
said I couldnt go on without a rest.
Guddu said that was fine. Just sit
A NEW LIFE down and dont move. Ill come back
Above: Saroo, in a little while and we can find
aged six, arrives
in Melbourne on
September 25,
1987. Right:
meeting his
PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE; COURTESY OF SAROO BRIERLEY
adoptive
PHOTOGRAPHED BY AAP; GETTY IMAGES; COURTESY OF
parents, John
and Sue
Brierley, for the
first time. They
welcome him
with a book
and a toy koala.
Left: the city of
Calcutta
where Saroo
was found more
than 1000 km
from his home
town. Above
left: reunited
with his mother
after 25 years.
First person
somewhere to sleep the night. He
was probably going to scavenge some
food, or hunt for coins around the
platforms. I lay down and must have
fallen asleep straightaway.
When I woke up, it was very
quiet and the station was deserted.
Bleary eyed, I looked around for
Guddu, but couldnt see him anywhere.
There was a train at the platform, but I
didnt know if it was the same one, or
how long Id been asleep.
I looked into a carriage and found
no-one, but the empty wooden bench
seats were more comfortable and felt
safer than the quiet station Guddu
would come and get me soon, perhaps
with a treat hed found while cleaning.
In a few moments, I was sleeping
peacefully again.
When I awoke, it was broad
daylight and the full sun was glaring
straight into my eyes. And, I realised
with a jolt, the train was moving
rattling steadily along the tracks.
I jumped up. The carriage was
empty, and the landscape outside the
barred windows was passing quickly.
My brother was nowhere to be seen.
I can still feel the icy chill of
panic that hit me. I was frantic, my
heart beating triple-time. I couldnt
read any of the signs in the carriage,
which might have told me where I was
heading or even how to get out as
the doors were locked. I ran up and
down yelling out my brothers name,
begging for him to come and get me.
I called for my mother and my brother
Kallu too, but all in vain. There was
only me. I was lost.
After long hours hurtling along
the track in the empty carriage where
I either cried or sat hunched up in
a protective ball, the train eventually
came to a sudden stop. Staring from
the bars of the window I saw crowds
of people rushing everywhere
hundreds, perhaps thousands, and
someone opened one of the doors
to my carriage. I ran for it and
escaped from my carriage prison. I was
barefoot and had nothing but the
clothes I was wearing and though
I didnt know it at the time, I had
arrived in one of the worlds most
dangerous cities: Calcutta.
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First person
Miraculously, Saroo survived six
months of living on the streets,
before being sent to an orphanage
by local police. From there he was
adopted by a Tasmanian couple,
John and Sue Brierley, and travelled
thousands of kilometres to settle
into a new life in Hobart. But the
streets of his childhood home and
the plight of his family haunted
him how would he ever locate
four people in a vast country of
more than a billion? He found
an unlikely assistant in Google
Earth meticulously tracing train
tracks from Calcutta.
O
ne night in 2011, I came
home from work, and as
always, grabbed my laptop,
opened Google Earth
and settled in for a session on the
sofa. I had slowly eliminated whole
areas of India and was currently
examining the countrys Central West.
Finally, I came across a little blue
symbol denoting a train station. Out
of habit I started tracing its rail route
and I quickly came across another
station, a bit bigger, again with a
platform on only one side of the tracks
but some areas of the township on
either side. That explained the
overpass, and what was that was that
a water tower just nearby?
Holding my breath, I zoomed in
for a closer look. Sure
enough, it was a municipal Suddenly, what
water tank just across
from the platform, and not
I was looking
far from a pedestrian at on screen
overpass spanning the matched the
railway line, exactly how
I remembered the town I picture in my
lost my brother in. Might head exactly
it be? I clicked on the blue
train station symbol to reveal its
name it was called Burhanpur. My
heart nearly stopped. Burhanpur!
I knew it as Berampur. I was so close.
I zoomed back in and re-examined
the ring road, the water tower, the
overpass, and they were all positioned
where I remembered them. That
meant, not far away, just up the line, I
should find my home town, Ginestlay.
Almost afraid to do so, I dragged
the cursor to pull the image north
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Right: Google Earth
reveals Burhanpur
Railway Station
(also far right) and its
familiar water tower. It
was here where Saroo,
aged
ged five, boarded the
train that would take
him across India.
along the train line. When I saw that
the track crossed a gorge just on the
edge of the built-up area, I was flooded
with adrenalin I remembered in a
flash that the train I took with my
brothers travelled on a small bridge
over a gorge like that. If this was the
right place, this was the river I used to
play in, and there should be a bigger
concrete dam wall to my right.
And there it was, clearly visible as
if on a sunny day, which it must have
been when the satellite passed overhead
and took the picture.
I sat staring at the screen for what
seemed like an eternity. What I was
looking at matched the picture in my
head exactly. I was
frozen with excitement
and terrified to go on.
If I really was
looking at Ginestlay for
the first time in 24
years, then I should be
able to follow the path I
remembered from the
river back to the train
station. I began to drag the cursor
again, slowly moving the map to trace
the course of the path, which wound
gently alongside a tributary stream, left
and right, around a field, under a street
overpass and then the station. I clicked
on the blue symbol and the name came
up: Khandwa Railway Station. The
name meant nothing to me.
How could this be? I tried not to
despair. From here, I knew the route to
where home should be. This was why
Left: long hours
were spent combing
over vast land areas
and railway tracks
searching for his home
town on Google Earth.
Right: together again,
Saroo (centre) with his
birth family (rear, from
far left) brother Kallu
and his wife, Nasim,
their daughter, Norin,
mother Kamla and
sister Shekila, (front
from left) Shekilas son,
Ayan, and Kallus sons,
Shail and Sameer.
Id gone over and over it in my head
since I was a little boy, so that I never
forgot it. I followed the road along the
route of the underpass, and then the
streets and alleys I had walked as a
child the way I used to imagine myself
walking when I lay in bed in Hobart at
night, trying to project myself home to
let my mother know I was OK. Before I
realised it, I was looking down at the
neighbourhood I knew as a boy.
I looked through the maze of alleys
where we lived, and I was sure I could
see the little rectangular roof of my
childhood home. I hovered over the
streets for a while, astonished, trying to
take it all in. It had taken eight months
of searching, and was nearly five years
since Id first downloaded Google
Earth. But I had found my home town.
Soon after, I turned to another tool
that hadnt been around when I started
my search Facebook. I searched for
Khandwa, and up came a group
message called Khandwa: My Home
Town. I sent a message to the group
administrator: Can anyone help me, I
think Im from Khandwa. I havent
seen or been back to the place for 24
years. Can anyone tell me the name of
the town or suburb on the top right-
hand side of Khandwa? I think it starts
with G not sure how you spell it, but
I think it goes like this (Ginestlay)? The
town is Muslim on one side with
Hindus on the other, which was 24
years ago but might be different now.
It took two days to get an answer.
But when the answer came it was

heart-stopping: not Ginestlay, but a
neighbourhood called Ganesh Talai.
That was as close to my childhood
pronunciation as you could hope for.
I wasnt sure what to do it was
overwhelming. From the moment I
found the place, I tried to keep a lid on
my expectations. How old would my
mother be by now, I wondered. I wasnt
sure, but life expectancy probably
wasnt that great, and she lived a hard
life as a labourer. Was my sister,
Shekila, OK? What happened to Guddu
that night in Burhanpur? Did he blame
himself for my getting lost? Would any
of them recognise me if we met again?
There was, of course, only one way
to be sure. I got on a plane.
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PHOTOGRAPHED BY MITCHELL KANASHKEVICH/CONDE NAST SYNDICATION; COURTESY OF
U
nder a hot sun in clear skies,
I approached the outskirts of
the town directing the taxi
driver as best I could. I found
I didnt recognise it at all, which gave me
an instant chill. The area had an
industrial look that I didnt recall. The
station also looked a little different from
how I remembered it, but I found I
instantly had my bearings from there,
I knew the way to anywhere in Khandwa.
I knew where I was. I was elated.
My heart was in my mouth as
I approached the place where
I remembered the crumbling brick flat
to be. And before I could think about
what I was expecting, I found myself
standing right in front of it. It looked
so tiny to me, but it was unmistakable.
It was also unmistakably abandoned.
This remarkable tale
has been brought
to life on the big
screen. The movie
Lion stars Dev Patel
(above) as an adult
Saroo, Nicole
Kidman as Sue
Brierley and Sunny
Pawar as a young
Saroo (right).
Although Id told myself over
and over that I couldnt expect to just
fly to India and find my family safe and
well in the same place after all this
time, it was hard to absorb that Id
found the flat without any of them in it.
Despite my best efforts, secretly, I had
been convinced that if I found my way
back home, theyd be here waiting.
I had no idea what to do next. As I
stood there, for the first time with no
plan in my mind, a young Indian
woman holding a baby came out of the
next door. Quickly, I said, This house
and then recited the names of my
family: Kamla, Guddu, Kallu, Shekila,
Saroo. She told me what I couldnt
bear to hear: that no-one
lived there anymore. Could it be
Then two men walked
over to see what was
true that this
happening. One of them passing
looked at the photos stranger knew
[of me as a child that
I always carried with me], where my
told me to wait, and then mother was?
walked off down an alley.
After a couple of minutes the man
returned and said the words Ill never
forget: Come with me. Im going to
take you to your mother. My head
began to spin. Could it possibly be true
that this passing stranger knew where
my mother was? It seemed too unlikely.
After only about 15 metres, the man
stopped. This is your mother, he said.
She was slender and seemed so
small, with greying hair pulled back in
a bun. Despite the years, I knew the
fine bone structure of her face the
instant I looked at her, and in that
moment she seemed to know me too.
She stepped forward, took my hands
and held them, and stared into my face
with utter wonderment. For my
mother, 25 years after losing him, her
son had simply reappeared.
The first thing she asked me was,
Where have you been? That Id come
from somewhere as far away as
Australia was incomprehensible.
When my sister, Shekila, arrived
with her husband and two sons, our
mother was holding me and crying, and
my sister burst into tears as I stood to
embrace her. Kallu then arrived and was
stunned to lay eyes on me
I knew how he felt. But
where was Guddu? Thats
when I was told that he
hadnt come home either
that night. Guddu had died
in a train accident. My
mothers house was full of
well-wishers late into the
evening, but eventually
I had to go I was completely drained
and my head and heart were full to
bursting. It was my mum who described
the days events better than I ever could:
she said she was surprised with
thunder that her boy had come back,
and that the happiness in her heart was
as deep as the sea.
This is an edited extract from
Lion, previously published as A Long
Way Home, by Saroo Brierley
(Penguin, $22.99).
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Celebrity report

MEET
MR
LIKES
He went from knowing zero people to
becoming the king of Instagram and the
most connected man in fashion and
Hollywood. Alexis Swerdloff reveals the
secret behind Derek Blasbergs success

GETTY IMAGES; INSTAGRAM/@DEREKBLASBERG
Derek Blasberg chats to (from
left) Pixie Geldof, Daisy Lowe
and Laura Bailey at the Erdem
show during London Fashion
Week in 2013, as fashion maven
Anna Wintour (far left) looks on.
Below: Blasbergs Instagram
feed gives his followers
a glimpse into his A-list life.
I
t was a crisp July evening in Paris during
the haute-couture shows, and a small assort-
ment of celebrities and fashion people were
milling around the basement of the Frank
Gehrydesigned Louis Vuitton Foundation. The
occasion was the Love Ball, hosted by Natalia
Vodianova, a top model who is the partner of Antoine
Arnault, the son of the chairman and CEO of LVMH.
Tuna tartare and Champagne were being served. Kanye
West was standing alone in a corner.
Suddenly, a sweet-faced man in a tuxedo arrived,
and the rooms energy became palpably less stiff.
Hiiii, Derek, said Givenchy creative director
Riccardo Tisci.
Hiiii, Derek, said Tiscis date, the Italian model
Mariacarla Boscono.
Hiiii, Derek, said Marc Jacobs.
This is how people tend to greet Derek Blasberg,
a man whos become the object of much fascin-
ation among those in his orbit not to mention his
Celebrity report

STRIKE A POSE
Everybodys favourite Instagrammer
in his element, between Candice
Swanepoel (left) and Karlie Kloss
in New York in February 2016.

half a million Instagram followers.
In a room of boldface names, all eyes
were on Blasberg.
In part, thats because he was
being trailed by both a cameraman
and a photographer, each for a sepa-
rate job. Since April, hes been the
host of his own fashion-news show,
CNN Style, which airs on CNN Inter-
national. Hes also Vanity Fairs
Our Man on the Street and a senior
I have spent quite a bit of time his closest friends. We settle out on the
with Blasberg over the past few weeks terrace, where a uniformed maid offers us
trying to figure out how he got here biscuits on a silver platter. Try them, he
not just at a black-tie gala in Paris urges. Theyre French Oreos!
with media outlets trailing him like Dressed snappily in a tan blazer and
puppies, but on Instagram, where hes navy trousers, Blasberg explains in his
singing Blondie songs with Kendall slightly nasal lilt that in two days, hell be
Jenner in Rome; lying on a couch with heading to Rome on the Fendi plane for
Reese Witherspoon and Jessica Alba the brands 90th anniversary. Then on to
in Beverly Hills; cruising on a yacht in Naples for Dolce & Gabbanas Alta Moda
St Barts with Diane von Furstenberg fashion show. Then hell meet up with
and Wendi Deng; cuddling up next to his boyfriend of two years, venture capital-
Gwyneth Paltrow on an airplane. ist Nick Brown, with whom he has just
When I first met him, I was bought an apartment in New York on
a little dubious, Paltrow tells me. 75th between Fifth and Madison. Theyll
I was like, Are you a professional be in Capri for a few days aboard David
best friend of celebrities? And why Geffens yacht, Rising Sun, and then
are you everywhere at once? Then, St Moritz for Greek shipping heiress Euge-
after 10 seconds, I fell completely nie Niarchoss 30th-birthday weekend
in love with him. all after the few weeks Blasberg has spent
Blasberg, 34, sees bopping among Cannes,
himself primarily as a London, New York and
journalist: Obviously, Switzerland. This is a fairly
Anna [Wintour] and typical schedule, although
Graydon [Carter] are I was like, Are when I check in two weeks
hashtag goals, he says. you a professional later, it seems to have given
And with social-media him a respiratory infection.
accounts whose fol-
best friend of Blasberg grew up in a
lowings rival the circu- celebrities? middle-class suburb of Mis-
lations of some mags, Gwyneth Paltrow souri, US, and knew from
hes become part of the an early age he wanted to
glue, or the accelerant, get out of there. His mother,
that makes fame work. Carol, the managing editor of a medical
journal, remembers her son coming home

W
staffer at the Gagosian Gallery, where e meet on another from school one day to find freshly poured
GETTY IMAGES; INSTAGRAM/@DEREKBLASBERG

he works with the publications
department and connects the expen-
sive art with his expensive friends.
Despite all this, his name still elicits
the frequent, But what does he actu-
ally do? That hes constantly popping
up in one outlandishly fabulous place
after another in Sardinia on a hike
with Gwen Stefani, on Katy Perrys
arm at the Golden Globes elicits the
follow-up: Who even is he?
afternoon in Paris at
his friend Lauren
Santo Domingos
gallingly gorgeous 18th-century htel
particulier in Saint-Germain. This is
where Blasberg stays whenever he
is in town, which is about five or six
times a year. Isnt it major? he asks. he says. But he quickly found work at Elite
Blasberg tells me that Santo Domingo,
the model Karlie Kloss, and WSJ.
Magazine editor Kristina ONeill are
concrete on the street in front of their
house. Derek decided to put his initials in
the concrete, she says. But they were not
small letters more like two-feet tall and
his entire name spelled out: D-E-R-E-K.
When an 18-year-old Blasberg arrived
in New York in 2000, I knew zero people,
writing biographies of models, scratching
his itch for celebrity. From there he
won internships at Vogue, W and V, and

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Celebrity report

parlayed them into real-world hobnob-
bing. He spent a semester in London,
where, after only a month it seemed
like all of London knew him, says
friend Arden Wohl, who was studying
there, too. Blasberg introduced Wohl to
Kate Moss and Alexander McQueen,
who attended his 21st birthday.
Immediately after college, Blas-
berg was hired as an assistant to Vogues
managing editor at the time, Laurie
Jones. It didnt go very well. (He
was fired after less than a year, he says,
for being the worst assistant in the
world.) But the mid-2000s were
the age of the great socialite renais-
sance, and Blasberg was in the thick of
it, attending the parties and then writ-
ing them up for various international
Vogue magazines and Style.com. Along
the way, The New York Times featured
him as an example of the growing
phenomenon of the male socialite, and
he met Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
We met just sort of living in New York,
right? New York Citys like that, right?
And when they were launching their
fashion label The Row and were inter-
ested in putting out a book, they turned
to Blasberg to help them write it.
Around the time the book came
out, in 2008, the publisher approached
Blasberg about writing some sort of
socialite handbook, and in 2010, in
the dark days of the recession, Classy:
Exceptional Advice For
The Extremely Modern
I think the key is that I dont
overthink it too much but also that
a witty caption is an important part of
the game, he said. Blasberg is very
partial to puns. Hell post a picture of
Stella McCartney and Rita Ora hug-
ging one another at Glastonbury music
festival and write GLASTO NO SHE
DIDNT! or a picture of him lying in
Karlie Klosss lap in Hyde Park and
write Hyde and go seek. With Kendall
Jenner at the Calvin Klein show: See K
at CK @kendalljenner.
Paltrow tells me she consults with
Blasberg when crafting her Instagram
captions. I hate writing captions, and
hes so good at it. He gave me a good
one the other day. Its a photo of
Paltrow, Michael Kors and Jessica
Chastain in sunglasses. The caption
Blasberg came up with: Shady dates.
Whats most impressive about
Blasberg, his friend the writer Bob
Colacello tells me, is that hes able to
give his Instagram followers enough
to keep them happy an inside look at
this special world without making his
rich-and-famous friends feel like hes
betraying their privacy. And I can tell
you, that takes a lot of skill.
Not so long ago people went out in brings an audience with him is a big
New York partly in order to have their draw for his employers. But maintaining
photos taken usually by Patrick the brand, he said, takes effort: I know
McMullan or Bill Cunningham, who that on Instagram my life is going to look
were part of an elite corps who decided footloose and fabulous, but its actually
who was worthy of being super-structured and organised.
shot. They were then

Lady arrived with a glitzy
launch at Barneys. The
book put Blasberg on The
New York Times bestseller
list, he was given a writing
contract with Harpers
Bazaar, and an expanded
follow-up, Very Classy,
scrutinised and whittled
Dont be a down by a party-pages
editor. Instagram and
gossip, dont be Snapchat changed all this;
a dick, have now anyone with any
fun and smile following can create their
own version of what hap-
Derek Blasberg pened last night and share
B
lasberg obviously benefits
from the celebrity snowball
effect: once you get a few
famous pals, the rest keep on
coming, especially if you run a side busi-
ness maintaining the relationships. If
you want to be the person people want
to have around, dont be a gossip, dont
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STORY ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN NEW YORK MAGAZINE

arrived in 2011.
In 2012, Blasberg joined Instagram.
I was late to it, actually, he says he
had been using a BlackBerry but
there was a point when I realised there
was a whole world I needed to speak to
in order to remain relevant. It worked:
the local character-about-town became
a global phenomenon. Who was this
person posting so many photos of him-
self with so many famous people?
I asked him to explain exactly what
it is that makes him so good at it.
it with the world. For the
type of model or socialite or actress
swirling through the worlds of fashion
and Hollywood, its now more impor-
tant to be in certain Instagram feeds
than it is to be in the party pages or
a Vanity Fair slideshow. And the Insta-
gram thatll get you noticed, the selfie
you want to be in, is Blasbergs.
Blasberg told me that until recently,
media outlets were wary of people like
him with built-in followings. That has
since changed the fact that Blasberg
be a dick, have fun, and smile more than
you frown, that sort of stuff, he says.
Thats not to say Blasberg isnt
above a little shit-talking or gossiping,
but his relentless upbeat-ism appears
to be a combination of genuine instinct
and applied affect.
At the end of the day, Paltrow
insightfully explains, hes a Midwest-
ern boy who cant believe who hes eating
dinner with, while simultaneously
being completely comfortable with
who hes eating dinner with.

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The mummy
blogger
blogg

Lacey Spears posted

hundreds of photos online
of her blond-haired,
blue-eyed son, Garnett.
She gathered a loyal
group of followers who
were sympathetic to her
and Garnetts struggles.

turned
murdererLacey Spears was so addicted to the
empty rush of online celebrity that
she poisoned her son for sympathy,
comments and likes. By Jan Goodwin
I
t was the depths of a freez-
ing, snowy winter in the
village of Chestnut Ridge,
New York, in January in
2014, but Lacey Spears
didnt care about the world
outside. The 26-year-old
was spending her every wak-
ing hour in a hospital ward. Medical
staff would see her hovering over her
son, Garnett, as his condition inexplica-
bly worsened. She buttonholed every
doctor or nurse. How is my boy doing?
Will he be OK? she pleaded. Reluctant
to leave the wan five-year-old alone,
Spears slept in his room every night and
sat by his bedside all day, stroking his
hair or rubbing his back, bringing him
ice chips when he couldnt drink or eat.
Despite her distress, the single
GARNETTSJOURNEY.BLOGSPOT.COM.AU
mother with few friends still found time
to update her blog, as she had been
doing since she fell pregnant. Praying
for a boy, she had written years before,
later introducing her new blond, blue-
eyed son as Garnett the Great. In the
years that followed, she detailed her
infant sons many ailments and illnesses
on her blog called Garnetts Journey.
This winter visit wasnt the first
time Garnett had been brought to
hospital. He had clocked up 23 visits
in his very first year of life. Spears
believed her son suffered from a slew
of medical problems, from Crohns
disease and being coeliac to ear abnor-
malities. When she had brought him
into hospital this January, however, his
condition quickly worsened, and he
was airlifted to another hospital in
Westchester, also in New York state.
Two days later, he was barely breathing
and his skin was pale and grey.
Doctors were shocked to find the
little boy had salt levels so high it
was metabolically impossible; that is,
levels his body alone couldnt have
produced. Garnett was soon wavering
between life and death.
G screaming in pain, Spears wrote
on Facebook. Desperate to save this
boy who was suddenly and inexplicably
extremely ill, medical staff placed Gar-
nett on life support. Four days after his
initial admission, a devastated Spears
posted: Garnett declared brain dead.
The next day, January 23, just over
a month after his fifth birthday, it was
Crime report
over. The boy who never
ne forgot a name,
loved bananas, yoghurt and all thing
things
red, had become a hospital statistic,
a tiny figure on a cold morgue slab, dead
before his life had begun. His mother
continued her stream of blog posts.
To her readers, she was a devastated
mother. Garnett the Great journeyed
onward today at 10.20am; His soul
is already with the angels; Im
not ready to let him go, she posted.
Turning to text messages, she wrote:
I WANT G Back. Later: I want to die.
B
ack in the real world, doctors
were starting to ask questions
about his death. An autopsy
showed he had died from
massive sodium, or salt, poisoning.
Hypernatremia, as the condition is
called, causes seizures, rapid heartbeat,
coma, kidney failure, and eventually
brain haemorrhage and death.
The sodium values recorded for
Garnett were the highest Ive ever heard
of, one physician told marie claire.
Soon after her sons death, the
grieving mother left New York state and
moved in with her parents in Scotsville,
Kentucky, some 1500km away. Suspi-
cions, however, had been aroused by
the childs condition and his mothers
behaviour even before his death, and
by April 2014, the death had been ruled
a homicide. In June, Spears was extra-
dited to New York and charged with his
murder. She pleaded not guilty.
marieclaire.com.au 63
Crime report

Aside from an alarming history that
would emerge about Spearss life, there
was a damning piece of evidence the
suburban mum would be hard-pressed
to explain. CCTV footage from the hos- hos
pital showed her more than once taking
the little boy into his hospital bathroom,
and carrying something. When Garnett
was nine-months-old, hed he d had a gas-
gas
tric feeding tube placed in his stomach,
to harm herself. Not surprisingly, she
was denied access to the internet, and
to photos of her dead son.
In March 2015, 14 months after
little Garnetts death and after a trial
where she had shown little emotion,
the mummy blogger was found guilty
of second-degree murder. She was
sentenced to 20 years in prison.
sente
internationally renowned expert on
Munchausen syndrome says this occurs
when the abuse is combined with
misuse of the internet to gain attention.
Its a form of abuse, rather than a men-
men
tal disorder, he explains.
Dr Feldman says the disorder is
often associated with borderline person-
person
ality disorder, marked by mood swings,
manipulative behaviour, and compulsive
p

after his mother convinced paediatri-
cians he couldnt keep food down and
he was diagnosed with failure to
thrive. Unusually, the tube had never
been removed. On the video, Spears
could be seen carrying a connector that
enabled her to access the feeding tube.
That same footage showed the
pair coming out of the bathroom, each
time with the boy doubled over in pain
and retching violently. Investigators
argued that by using a gastric-tube
feeding bag, Spears had been able to
fill his stomach with large amounts of
salt water. The child wouldnt have
been able to drink such vast amounts
without immediately vomiting.
And there was more. Seeking sym-
pathy, telling the world about Garnetts
apparently troubled health, and even
posting pictures of him as he hovered
near death, hadnt been Spearss sole
use of the internet. A search of her
mobile phone revealed that, nine days
before Garnetts death, Spears had
Googled the dangers of high sodium
and hypernatremia. Shed also
phoned a neighbour at the nearby
Fellowship Community, a Rudolf
Steiner community where she and
her son were then living, and asked her
to go into her apartment and remove
one of the gastric feeding bags she
had. The neighbour did as asked,
but when she heard how the child died,
she turned the bag over to the police.
It was found to contain extraordinary
levels of sodium the equivalent of
69 McDonalds salt packets, a forensic
toxicologist testified.
Awaiting trial in Westchester
County jail, Spears was refused
bail and kept on 24-hour suicide
watch. Confined alone in a cell in the
mental-health section, she was issued
a prison orange jumpsuit and shoes
with the laces removed in case she tried
D
uring Lacey Spearss trial, lying, as well as brief psychotic episodes,
there was no mention by impulsive and reckless behaviour.
either prosecution or People with Munchausens have a
defence that she was likely fear of abandonment, so its ironic they
suffering from a bizarre condition called sometimes kill their children, the only
Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a con- person close to them, he adds.
dition that would explain, although not Social media gave Spears a large
excuse, her murderous behaviour. It was and eager audience who believed every
only while granting some leniency in the word she posted. They responded sym-
sentencing that the trial judge declared pathetically every time she wrote about
Spears was obviously in the grip of the Garnetts multiple illnesses. And the
condition, although her crime, he said, postings on Facebook, Twitter and
remained unfathomable in its cruelty. previously Myspace were constant.
Munchausen syndrome by proxy Before he was even a year old, Garnett
is a disorder in which carers mothers, had been repeatedly hospitalised for
in 85 per cent of cases secretly harm seizures, ear infections and stomach
or induce illnesses in their child or problems. At that time, she posted:
children, because they crave the My Sweet Angel Is In The Hospital
attention and sympathy it brings. (The For The 23rd Time (Please Pray He
condition was named after Baron von Gets To Come Home Soon )
Munchausen, who grossly exaggerated Every few days, there would be
his wartime exploits to get attention.) another posting:
The Spears case, however, seems to Headed 2 The Doctor 4 The 3rd
be the first worldwide of what has been Time Today
tagged Munchausen by internet. Dr Garnetts Mummy is hoping
Marc Feldman, a clinical professor of the doctors can figure out what is going
psychiatry and psychology, and an on today
MUNCHAUSEN IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Vulnerable children, The girl recovered when donations. Her
easy access to medical she was removed from daughter nearly died.
information and drugs, her parents care, but In 2000, the
a captive audience and not before the mum University of Alabamas
addiction to adulation: gained a considerable Professor Marc Feldman
together they create online following. identified a new form of
the perfect storm In 2014, a 22-year- Munchausen syndrome
for Muchausen old Queensland woman Munchausens by
syndrome by proxy. was jailed for two years Internet, saying the
Last year a 42-year- for forcing her four- admiration of others
old blogger from the year-old daughter to online was a strong
Hunter Valley, NSW, was ingest chemotherapy motivation for parents
charged with repeatedly drugs. The mother to exacerbate the
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 Please Pray 4 My Little Prince He
Has Another Bad Ear Infection :) Poor
Baby Boy
My little prince is sick again.
I am so thankful 2 be a mummy!!!
My life is 4 my baby boy & he is my life!!!
Her growing circle of online
friends cried with her every time Gar-
Gar
nett was hospitalised, and cheered when
he recovered. Spears posted hundreds
of photos of Garnett
Garn as he grew,
g includ
includ-
ing one of the feeding tube inserted
when he was nine months old. Such
tubes can be uncomfortable and cause
infection, as well as nausea, vomiting
and diarrhoea. (Spears must have been
convincing doctors seemed to take her
word as to why the tube was required,
even though Garnetts weight was nor-
mal and online photos attested he was
an active boy with a healthy appetite.)
Mother and child took to moving
around the country, seeing new doc-
tors, visiting new hospitals, craving
new medical audiences.
But Spears has adamantly main-
tained her innocence. I spoke to her
for two hours, and she denied
everything, said author John Glatt,
whose new book, My Sweet Angel, has
reignited public interest in the case.
She said her son died as a result of
hospital malpractice. It was chilling.
The hairs stood up on the back of my
neck. She was very convincing.
L
acey Spearss compulsive lying
began long before Garnett
was born. She was raised
in Decatur, Alabama, the
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third poorest of Americas 50 states,
in a town where almost 30 per cent
of people live below the poverty level,
and the crime rate is high.
At 14, Spears told a classmates
mother she had been abused, and
moved in with the family for a while.
Child protection services could not
document the alleged abuse. (Eleven
years later, she would go on to make
similar unfounded allegations against
two male workers at the Rudolf Steiner
community where she was living with
Garnett at the time of his death.) At 15,
she joined a local churchs softball
team, where a church volunteer gave
her lifts to and from practice. Barely
Clockwise from top: one of
Spearss many posts on her
blog, Garnetts Journey; the
single mother was arrested
in June 2014; Spears in
court in December 2014;
Garnett and his mother
during one of his many
hospital admissions.
knowing her, Spears started calling her
Mum as she did with other women
she only knew casually, making them
very uncomfortable.
She began offering to look after the
toddlers of working single mothers for
nothing. But those women became dis-
turbed when Spears started posting
online that the children were hers.
In one case, a mother realised her son
was frequently coming home from
Spearss with earaches. The child was
fine once Spears stopped caring for
him. (Glatt alleges three
children fell ill with severe
earaches under Spearss She is
care, a claim her attorneys no longer
have since labelled as spec-
ulative and spurious).
a mother
At 21, Spears fell preg- because she
nant with Garnett. The murdered
father, Chris Hill, a self-
described alcoholic, who her child
installs garage doors, lived
in her apartment complex. Spears
struck him as a lonely person, he has
said, adding that their relationship was
little more than neighbours with bene-
fits. When Garnett was born, she cut
Hill out of her life and told him the
child was not his. He never met the boy.
Instead, she invented a fake father
for Garnett, a police officer she called
Blake, who she claimed was her soul-
mate. In her blog, she said Blake died
in a car crash when Garnett was two
years old. We have together survived
nearly 365 days, a complete year with-
out Blake, my soulmate and Garnett's
Daddy, she wrote.
The fantasies continued, with
Spears claiming online that someone
elses son was Garnetts brother. She
posted photographs of the two boys, cap-
tioned: Me and my babies.
But the woman who
craved to be a mother has
lost everything; her child,
her freedom, and any last
shred of respect. At her trial,
the prosecutor was blunt:
Spears is a calculating
child killer who researched,
planned, and executed the
intentional poisoning of
her son. Shes no longer a mother
because she murdered her child.
Thats not how Spears sees it. Her
last post read: I will always be Garnetts
momma. I will always be a mother.
Nothing will ever change that. But who
am I today? That, I dont know.
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Interview

Having gracefully navigated

the pitfalls of fame most
notably the tabloid obsession
with her relationships and her
body Jennifer Aniston is
charting her next destination,
says Kimberly Cutter
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Ive worked too hard in this life
and this career to be whittled
down to a sad, childless human

J ennifer Aniston likes
working from home, and
once you see her home,
its not hard to guess
why. Up the steep windy
roads of Los Angeles
you go, through discreet,
dark green gates that
open as if by magic into a sumptuous mod-
ernist compound. Aniston stands waiting in
the massive front doorway tiny, tanned and
smiling. Hi! she says, ushering me inside
along with her three boisterous dogs (Dolly,
Sophie and Clyde), which are clearly working
hard not to jump up on the guest.
At 47, Aniston has the wry humour of
someone who finds life alternatingly fright-
ening and baffling. Her feet are bare, her hair
is tawny, her blue eyes twinkling. Come on
in, she says, guiding me through the house:
charcoal-toned with dark wood floors. The
art is big and modern, the furniture long and
low, with a few well-chosen statement pieces: a Chagall
here, a massive amethyst crystal there. I get very
involved with doing my houses, says Aniston, who
bought the place with her then-boyfriend, Justin Ther-
oux, in 2012, and was married to him here last year.
Luckily, I worked with an architect who didnt mind.
People tend not to mind when it comes to Jennifer
Aniston. In fact most of the world cant get enough of her,
even though its been 22 years since she first leapt into
our living rooms as the spoilt but loveable Rachel Green
on Friends. She is the reason people drink smart water
and use Aveeno body lotion and will see this months
comedy Office Christmas Party (think The Hangover
meets Ferris Buellers Day Off plus drunk Santas). Peo-
ple just love her, says Anistons best friend and producing
partner, Kristin Hahn, who recently produced the indie
drama Cake with the actress. Its a blessing and a curse.
For the most part, Aniston has handled her fame
with grace and good humour, but in July, she had finally
had enough, publishing an op-ed in The Huffington Post
in which she socked it to the tabloids over their obses-
sion with her relationship status, her body and whether
shes pregnant, reminding women that we dont need to
be married or mothers to be complete. We get to deter-
mine our own happily ever after for ourselves.
Two weeks after our interview takes place, the news
of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Pitts divorce will hit the
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internet, and Aniston will be dragged, yet again, into the
public eye as part of the worlds most famous love
triangle, with GIFs of her in various states of gleeful
vindication multiplying across the Twitterverse. While
Aniston would not be drawn on the divorce, Theroux
branded the attempts to bring his wife into Brangelinas
relationship breakdown nonsense. Aniston, he has
said, understands that she is someone who has attracted,
for whatever reason, a level of attention where shes
Interview
become this sort of fable, I guess, in some sort of bizarre
morality play of what a woman should be.
When I ask Aniston why she chose to speak out in
July, she laughs, You mean: Why did I pick that moment
in time to cough up my 15-year-old hair ball? Shes
curled up on a grey sofa, drinking iced green tea. I think
I finally just got fed up, she continues. I was in a really
raw place. My mum had just passed away, and we came
back from vacation, we had paparazzi on us like crazy.
For much of her life, Aniston had a famously trou-
bled relationship with her mother, Nancy Dow, who
wrote a tell-all memoir about Aniston in 1999 called
From Mother And Daughter To Friends. But the pair rec-
onciled after Anistons divorce from Brad Pitt in 2005,
and Aniston spent the month of May caring for her dying
mother in Los Angeles an experience she describes as
extraordinary: I was literally in her hospital bed with
her, giving her morphine, cradling her like a baby. She
pauses: You know, it was a tough relationship. We had a
tumultuous experience, but never did we not love each
other, and I feel that we have a deeper connection, having
gone through that. It was such a beautiful full circle, tak-
ing care of her toward the end Aniston shakes her
head. Afterward, you kind of sit back and you go, Gosh,
all of those silly fights, all of that wasted time, all of that
stubborn behaviour. I learnt so much about her after
that, it broke my heart. She just wanted to be loved, but
she didnt know how, what that looked like.
Aniston was still grieving when she and Theroux
returned from The Bahamas in July. The couple had no
idea of the heyday the tabloids were having with pictures
of Aniston in a bikini. We were on an island, and when
I tell you I never saw one human being I mean, it was
really remote, says Aniston. And all of a sudden, when
we got to New York, we were hounded by the paparazzi.
Eventually, she realised that there was a magazine
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[saying] I was pregnant for the

umpteenth, bajillionth time. They had a
picture of me with a circle around my
abdomen and an arrow pointing to it
that said bump. She shakes her head.
If I can add up over the past 15 years
how many times thats happened to me
I just got sick of it.
Aniston initially started writing the
op-ed as a cathartic meditation, but
the essay quickly ballooned into a
broader exploration of the scrutiny that
all women in our society endure around
our bodies and our relationship status.
I just thought, Why are women seen
this way? says Aniston. My marital
status has been shamed; my divorce sta-
tus was shamed; my lack of a mate had
been shamed; my nipples have been From top: Aniston as
shamed. Its like, why are we only look- uptight CEO Carol in
ing at women through this particular her latest flick, Office
Christmas Party; with
lens of picking us apart? Why are we lis- husband Justin Theroux
tening to it? I thought: I have worked at the Critics Choice
too hard in this life and this career to be Awards in January 2016.
whittled down to a sad, childless human.
One of the funny things about hang-
ing out with Aniston is how remarkably
unlike a sad, childless human she
seems. The woman practically glows with mirth. And directors Josh Gordon and Will Speck and co-star Jason
while part of this mirth is due to her new marriage, a lot Bateman. As soon as they asked me, I said, Whatever it
of it comes down to the fact that Aniston actually knows is, I want to do it. The film follows the hard-partying
how to make herself happy. She meditates and does yoga Clay (T.J. Miller) who when his buzz-kill CEO sister
regularly. She eats well. She appreciates a fine tequila. (Aniston) threatens to shut down the tech company he
And perhaps most importantly, she hangs out regularly manages decides to host an epic office Christmas party
with a tight-knit circle of girlfriends, whom Aniston has in an effort to impress a potential client and save every-
basically considered her family since she was in her ones jobs. In other words, its just a big, fat laugh, says
20s. I owe everything in my life to those girls, she says. Aniston, which is so nice after all these superheroes and
Aniston knew pretty much instantly that Theroux sequels. Its fun to throw in a little popcorn comedy.
was the guy for her. They became good friends on the set According to Bateman, a good deal of the films joie
of the comedy Wanderlust, in 2010, and she thought, de vivre is due to Aniston herself. Anytime I work with
Thats the kind of guy like, thats a goal. Where is Jen or hang out with her, theres that incredible spirit,
that kind of guy, who connects to human beings so and its infectious, he says. When you do a comedy, you
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beautifully, and really listens, and is so creative and really want to feel safe so you can make a fool of yourself,
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present, and a problem solver and a crisis manager and
a loyal friend to the nth degree? Theroux was in a rela-
tionship at the time, but when the couple split up nine
months later, he and Aniston reconnected. Theyve been
together ever since. Why is he the right person for me?
All I know is that I feel completely seen, says Aniston,
and adored, in no matter what state. Theres no part of
me that I dont feel comfortable showing, exposing.
and she permeates a set with so much good spirit and
ease its amazing to see what that brings out in people.
Work aside, Aniston is open about the fact that shes
still in pursuit of motherhood, and is happiest spending
time with Theroux, taking the dogs for runs, torturing
herself at the gym, and cooking together on cheat days
(He makes great pastas and Philly cheesesteaks, or hell
come up with these crazy breakfast things where you just
go, Oh, why did you do that to me?!). She may be

T
hese days, Aniston is very selective about the
film roles she takes. You have to be so madly
in love with it and think, I will be so upset if I
dont go and play this person, she says. It
has to be worth it. Office Christmas Party, for example,
was an easy yes. Theyre like my family, says Aniston of
uncertain about whats next, but wears this uncertainty
with characteristic equanimity. This is a time when Im
not completely sure what Im doing, says Aniston. What
used to make me tick is not necessarily making me tick
anymore The most challenging thing right now is try-
ing to find what it is that makes my heart sing.

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With Justin I feel completely
seen ... Theres no part
of me that I dont feel
comfortable exposing
Millennial feminists
demand equality in all
areas except, it seems,
when it comes to going
Dutch. Josh Glancy and
Poppy Logan argue the
touchy subject of who
should pick up the bill

H E SAY S
S
hould a man pay for a first
date? I became single a few
months ago after a long
relationship, and was forced
to consider this question
for the first time in a while.
I think of myself as a well-trained
feminist male: enlightened, sensitive,
modern. So the answer seemed obvious
to me: we split it, right? This is 2016,
after all. Progressive women with
good jobs dont seriously still expect
the man to pay, do they?
Turns out a lot of them do.
This came up on a date recently.
The girl was a friend of a friend who Id
met at a party; she was pretty and
worked in marketing. During our dinner
at a slightly too-expensive restaurant,
I explained confidently how, being
a feminist, I generally dont pay for girls,
so we should split the bill. It seemed
only reasonable after two courses,
two bottles of wine and cocktails, wed
racked up a rather sizeable bill.
The suggestion went down terribly.
It was as though I had proposed
heading on to a S&M dungeon after
dessert. It pretty much scotched the
whole thing, and made me feel boorish
and ungentlemanly. I ended my
evening on my sofa, alone, watching
old South Park episodes. Not the plan.
The US academic Moira Weigel has
given this topic some thought in her
fascinating new book, Labor Of Love:
The Invention Of Dating, which has
even got The Economist talking about
sex. Weigel explains that the tradition
of men paying has its origins in the
contrasting salaries between the sexes
during the early 20th century. The
first working-class women who dated
earned hardly any money, she says.
Young women were often arrested on
prostitution charges for letting a man
buy them dinner or a cinema ticket.
EDWARD URRUTIA
Ive read interview after interview where
women who had been hauled before
the police said, But if I didnt let men
treat me, I wouldnt be able to eat.
Today, life has moved on, and
although theres still a fair amount of
wage inequality, most of the women
Ive been out with earn at least as much
as me, often more. So why would I pay
for them as a matter of course?
I put the question to two of my
female friends the following day at the
pub. Both of them are alarmingly
bright and successful, and went to the
type of schools where they teach you
world domination instead of netball.
Mention the words gender and
pay gap to them and you get a well-
informed lecture on leaning in, leaning
out and getting stuff done.
I explained what had happened,
expecting a chorus of empowered
female sympathy for my plight. Instead
they agreed with my now ex-date. Its
nice to feel looked after, one said.
I understand this feeling, but its
prehistoric. Man looks after woman,
man hunts while woman has child in
cave, man fights off other men with big
stick, man pays. This is the 21st-
century drinks and (maybe) dinner,
followed by an Uber home.
Unless a girl is being
followed by a creep down
a dark alley, she doesnt inequality
need me to protect her. is hardwired
Dont get me wrong:
I like romantic gestures. I
into concepts
like treating people. Im
not ungenerous. Ill open chivalry
doors for people if Im in
front of them, whether
theyre male or female or
my friends pet rabbit; thats just basic
manners. But to me, the idea of jump-
ing ahead and opening a door for a girl
with a flourish is a bit patronising.
So when it comes to first dates,
I prefer to split the bill. Or to offer to pay
and be told, Thanks, thats so nice. Ill
get the next one, (not least because it
means there is going to be a next one).
But my heart sinks if I reach for my
wallet and just get a smile and a thank
you. I dont like the idea of paying for
Society
dinner and then potentially sleeping
with someone later. Obviously its not
the same as paying for sex, but it is pay-
ing and then having sex. For me, thats
too close for comfort. The last thing
I want is for someone to feel obliged to
kiss me because I covered their dinner.
Theres something about the idea of
guys pay that feels horribly transac-
tional. It reminds me of going to terrible
nightclubs as an 18-year-old, where rich
boys would shell out on cocktails in the
hope of getting laid. It was effectively
prostitution: the boys buy booze and
dole it out to the girls, ultimately hoping
one will come home with them. It may
seem nice to shower women with gifts
and put them on a pedestal, but if the
man owns the pedestal, then good luck
to the woman when things go wrong.
One of the things my ex-date told
me was that she likes a bit of chivalry.
Well, Im afraid chivalry is worse than
patriarchy. It was invented by medieval
knights, who, when they werent paying
homage to fair maidens, spent their
time raping and pillaging their way
across Europe. Its important to realise
gender inequality is hardwired into
concepts such as chivalry and old-fash-
ioned dating etiquette. We can move on
from its nice to be looked after. And
we must, otherwise we are admitting
feminism has limits; that equality has
limits. Perhaps thats OK
Gender for some, but if so, they
should be honest about it.
Think all this sounds
a bit unromantic? Only if
you see romance as some-
thing thats done to women
such as by men. Treat people: buy
them flowers or choco-
lates, make them gifts,
write them letters, shower
them with joy and affec-
tion. But dont let guys pay be the rule.
All of this is important. Romantic
politics are the inner sanctum: were
not truly equal until we get them right.
In essence, a first date is a first-
round interview for a serious relation-
ship or marriage. If a couple end up
together after a first date in which
the guy automatically paid, then they
have begun their life together on an
unequal footing. Why would they ever
become equal after that?
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S H E SAY S
T
o prepare for a date,
I make sure my hair is
clean and (at least
roughly) blow-dried;
wax, shave or pluck
pretty much everything
from the eyebrows down; apply foun-
dation and lashings of eyeliner; squeeze
myself into a casually sexy outfit; and
go to the ATM. Because the bottom line
is, a girls gotta have cash on a date.
Cash means, when the bill lands on
the table, in those two to three awkward
seconds when both you and your dates
eyes land on that contentious slip of
paper, you can confidently whip out
your wallet and easily pay your half.
Can, I said. Not will or particu- James, Maxs best friend, a boy I had
larly want to. Because I cant deny when
I sit down opposite some lovely boy to
share a meal, Im assuming hell be the
one taking care of the bill.
I am not proud of this. That instinct,
that hope, that he will pay confounds
me. Because when it comes to feminism,
Ive read the books, bought the T-shirt
and written the university thesis. I can
quote Gloria Steinem and
I have a Hillary Clinton I equate
poster over my desk. In
every aspect of my life, I whether he is
expect to not only wear, happy to foot
but pay for, the pants.
(And, let the record show,
the bill with
once in a relationship, Im how much
wholly committed to he likes me
being financially 50/50.)
But first (and maybe
second) dates are like
some sort of Bermuda Triangle when it
comes to my feminist principles.
Trust me, Ive spent a lot of time
trying to work out why, at that very first
intersection between romance and cold,
hard cash, my staunch values disappear.
I cant deny part of the reason is
that, on some level, I equate whether
he is happy to solely foot the bill with
how much he likes me. The bill is more
than a simple account of how much
pinot gris he and I have sunk. It becomes
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a litmus test of how funny he found
my Donald Trump jokes and how much
he liked my work anecdotes.
On a coolly analytical level, I know
this is a ridiculous train of thought. But
in that moment when he nods and says,
Your half is $70, I feel a trickle of
disappointment. My brain translates
his simple statement as rejection. Sadly,
this notion has led me tragically astray.
A couple of years ago I was at my
first ex-boyfriend, Maxs, wedding 15
years after our break-up. As I happily
toasted Max and his new wife and wan-
dered to the bar for a refill, I spied a
handsome man in an impeccably cut
suit who looked very familiar. He was
I equated his willingness to pay with
known well during the years Max and
I dated. A decade and a half since I had
last seen him, the awkward polo-
shirt-wearing business student had
developed into a well-dressed, funny
guy. It was pretty instantaneous.
Glasses of bubbles were followed by
rearranging of place cards so we could
sit next to each other at the reception,
which was followed by us
absconding in a cab hours
later to curl up on a couch
in a dark bar. He was witty
and smart and there was
that lovely fact we had
known each other since
we were teenagers. Damn,
I thought, the guy I was
meant to end up with all
along was the same guy
I had once seen dance
to Christina Aguilera while drinking
a cocktail out of a teacup at university.
Two days later we went on our first
proper date. There was wine and pasta
and cheese. The eye contact was there,
the gentle glancing touches as we both
reached for the salad. And then, you
guessed it, the bill came.
Lets go halves, I said, slightly time I go on a date I can do so dressed
buzzed by champagne and wine, quite
sure he would insist on paying.
Sure, he said.
And my heart fell. That spring wed-
ding I had been mentally planning for
the past 48 hours crumbled. I was so
confused I thought he liked me. My
stupid brain, addled by years of Jane
st
Austen, interpreted his simple agree-
Au
ment as cold, hard rejection. And at that
me
poin , the date went p
point, precipitously
p y off-
course; there was something awkward
between us and a clunky second date a
week later was our final try at romance.
Perhaps on some unconscious level
his willingness to care for me. And yes,
I am perfectly aware of the vast, gaping
holes in this argument. In the cold light
of day, I know I behaved irrationally.
But it underlined how deeply ingrained,
on an unconscious level, the notion is
for me that if men like you, they will
pony up the cold hard cash.
There is a lot about modern dating
that, despite centuries of feminism, is
still patently unfair. While Im plucking
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and powdering and pulling myself into
a dress pre-date, there is a good chance
my potential paramour doesnt feel it
necessary to do more than add a quick
slap of aftershave. Women are still
expected to go to considerably more
effort and expense in getting frocked
up to hook a love interest than any
bloke would ever consider. Though it
breaks my feminist heart, its the game
we still play. And this, my friends, is the
territory we find ourselves in. The dat-
ing environ isnt equal. It is flawed
just like the humans who created it. All
is not fair in the pursuit of love.
So, men, I propose a simple bar-
gain I will happily not only pay for
half, but the whole evening if the next
like the last wannabe Romeo I met on
Tinder bed hair, a rumpled denim
shirt and a wicked grin.
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SPE A K I NG
with
Sting
Hes one of the most
famous singers in the
world, and this month,
hes back with his first
rock album in 13 years
EARLY DREAMS
JACKIE: You grew up in a working-class
family in Englands north, with shipyards
at the end of the street. How would you
describe young Sting, or Gordon Sumner
as you were then?
STING: I dont think Im that much
different. I recently turned 65 and
I actually spent the day alone, kind
of by accident. I went for a walk in the
park very early and I spent time
reading and thinking, assessing my 65
years, and the abiding emotion I was
feeling was one of gratitude.
I couldnt have asked for a better
life, considering the start I had, where
there was no clue about what the hell I
would do except work in the shipyard
or a coalmine. I had to dream really big
to get out of that.
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JACKIE: When did that dreaming start? and you kind of threw yourself
STING: I was fortunate. I had to work into another place?
on the milk round with my dad very STING: Yeah. It wasnt a happy childhood,
early in the morning, from the age of to be honest. It was a confusing and dif-
seven onwards, when all of my school ficult childhood, but, again, Im grateful
friends would be asleep in bed. It for that because it gave me this impetus,
allowed me the place to dream. I would this passion to be different and be
just imagine myself in a singular and go out, do
bigger world than the People say something. I never felt
one on those streets. I belonged there or any-
JACKIE: And music? Both
where do you where. But to be in a
your parents were musi- live and I say, state of permanent exile
cal in different ways? has been very useful to
STING:They were. My
Wherever Trudie me as an observer,
mum was a rather good is, thats home a teller of stories.
piano player. My dad
had a lovely voice and when they Sting and his now-
werent fighting they would perform wife, Trudie Styler,
together, but that wasnt very often! at a London
nightclub in 1982.
But Im from a musical family. My
uncle left me his guitar when he emi-
grated [to Canada]. I knew Id found a
friend for life as soon as I touched it
and that became my means of escape.
JACKIE: You hear that quite a bit from
people who have achieved immense
success that their talent is a means of
escape. Your parents were fighting a lot

JACKIE:And yet you have the most
amazing relationship with your wife,
one of real longevity and closeness ...
One thats the opposite of exile?
STING: Thats home now. People say
well where do you live and I say,
Wherever [my wife] Trudie [Styler] is,
thats home. But I always shy away
from this idea, Oh, you have a perfect
marriage. Ah, no, there is no perfect
marriage. We are fortunate that we
like each other a great deal. Of course,
we love each other too, but we actually
like each other and theres a difference.
You know, she can walk into a room
and light up my life and I think I can
do the same for her. We are not
blas about it or smug. We know a
relationship needs to be worked on
every day and weve managed to evolve
together and not apart.
Ive encouraged her to work as
much as she can. And so when we do
meet up its a big deal. You know, Ill
see her in 14 days from today I count
the days and then Im off again. Were
not in each others pockets the entire
time, but its kept the romance going
and thats important.
MAKING MUSIC
JACKIE: Lets talk about music. You gigged
for years before you got your big break.
What were the big lessons in that?
STING: I didnt really have success until
I was maybe 26. Before that Id been
a musician in all kinds of bands
cabaret, in the pit of a theatre,
I backed comedians, striptease artists,
variety artists, I played ballroom danc-
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ing bands with people in their 80s. I
played traditional jazz, I played in a big
band. So The Police was the first
rocknroll group I ever had.
I also had a job. I was a school-
teacher for two years in a mining
village. I also worked in an office, and
I worked on building sites. I was a
father at 23 [from his first marriage to
actress Frances Tomelty]. I had a real
life before I got this other strange,
privileged life. So I appreciate it more
than I would perhaps if Id just gone
straight from school to be some sort of
[reality TV show] winner and vaulted
into this unreal world ... I worry about
ROCKER ON
THE RISE
Clockwise from
right: a young
Q&A
Sting then
Gordon Sumner
jamming;
chart-toppers
The Police (with
Sting, far left) in
1979; marrying
Trudie Styler in
1992; in an early
80s publicity
shot of The
Police (centre).
5
Song that makes
you cry?
If I Loved You
from Carousel.
Secret talent?
I can peel an orange
with one hand.
first rock album in 13 years.
Go-to
One song on the new record
karaoke song? Heading South On The
Dont You Want Great North Road is about
Me by The Human your own journey from
League. Newcastle to London.
Then theres 50,000, which
What/who would
I took to be about musician
you take to a
desert island? Princes death?
My wife. STING:More than Prince.
David Bowie died in that
people who have that expe- Last meal? period, as did Glenn Frey
rience too young because Penne arrabiata. Id from the Eagles. I knew
like a nice spicy end.
what do you measure it by them all. My friend [actor]
and how do you survive it Alan Rickman, although not
when it goes away? a rock star was a cultural
JACKIE: You got your big break in the icon, died in that period, too. Again,
70s when you formed The Police and the idea of mortality [was there].
Roxanne became a massive hit. Did JACKIE: And theres also a song,
that surprise you? Inshallah, about the refugee crisis ...
STING: Well, as I said, I dreamt big. I STING:The global refugee crisis is some-
kind of dreamt I would have a hit thing that is going to be with us for the
record at one stage but I remember rest of the century, driven by warfare,
being in my kitchen in Bayswater in poverty and perhaps in the near future
London, in a little basement flat. I was by climate change. If there is a solution,
on a ladder painting the ceiling and the it has to be rooted in empathy. We are a
radio was on and suddenly I start species that migrates, all of us. Whether
singing along with my own song. I you live in Australia or Britain or Africa
went, My God, Im on the radio. And or the Middle East, you have migrated
it was a visceral, exciting, unforgettable from somewhere at some point. There
moment that you could never has to be empathy for those people
reproduce. That first time you hear who are running away from violence
something youve written and sung on and then were shutting up the doors.
the radio, its pretty exciting. So picture yourself on a boat with
JACKIE: Your new album, 57th & 9th, is your own children and your wife how
your 12th as a solo artist and your does that feel?
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Q&A Right, from far
left: wife Trudie,
and children,
Giacomo, Joe,
Fuchsia and
Mickey. Below:
speaking at the
2014 Annual
Freedom Award
Benefit Event for
humanitarian
aid workers.
JACKIE:The music industry has changed
a lot since you first began. How do
you think you would fare trying to break
on to the scene today?
STING:Its very easy to enter the world on
a big level very quickly through social
media, but the actual shop floor that
the industry was created on the clubs
and the bars, crossing the country in
vans, carrying gear all of that was
incredibly important to me and I value
my experience of that now in this very
privileged life I have. I travel in private
planes, I stay in the best hotels but
without the struggle, none of this
would mean very much.

A FULL LIFE
JACKIE:Youre a father to six kids
and a grandfather to four. What kind
of parent are you?
STING:One of the conundrums of my life
has been to try to balance a career that
takes place all over the world with a
balanced family life and I think Ive JACKIE: Nearly 30 years ago, someone havent made it this far. My parents
succeeded and failed in various degrees. asked you how you keep the love alive in didnt live this long. So I would say
Luckily, all of my kids have grown up to your relationship with Trudie, and you Ive lived probably most of my years
be very, very good and independent, brought up tantric sex. That comment already. That gives you, not in a morbid
beautiful people, despite my fathering has followed you ever since! way, a sense of the importance of time.
them. Probably their mothers can take STING: I think tantric sex is very Im a great believer in rehearsal, in
more credit than I can. misunderstood. Partially being well prepared for the next show
But Ive been a good my fault. I have studied and [dying] is a big show that we
provider. I provided a
Ive lived yoga a little bit and part all have to perform in, with courage
good education for them probably most of yoga is that everything and even humour.
and sustenance and roofs of my years in life whether its JACKIE: Now, you look amazing, 65. Hello!
over their heads and fun, breathing, walking, What is your secret?
and if Ive given them already. That eating, making love is STING: Vanity.
anything, its a lesson gives you, not potentially a religious JACKIE: Oh, vanity. You talked about
in really loving the devotion; sex can create vanity once. You had Botox?
work you do.
in a morbid life, so what could be STING: I did.
JACKIE: You said some- way, a sense of more sacred than that? JACKIE: And you stopped because?
where that your children the importance We have this rather STING:It was an interesting experiment.
wont get a piece of your odd Anglo-Saxon idea I got rid of this cleft in my chin I
100 million fortune when of time that sex is naughty or think I over-think things and it sort of
you die ... rude or embarrassing. worked from the outside in. I enjoyed
STING:I was being polemic, you know. Actually, its where we all came from. [the effect of the Botox], but I wouldnt
Obviously, I would help them when [Laughs] Its fun, but lets want to do it very often. Im
they need help, but theyre not those take it seriously as well. not that vain.
kind of kids. I dont think any of them JACKIE: As you said, you JACKIE: I read that you stopped
are expecting to be left massive recently turned 65 and you felt because it was making you
amounts of money. I wouldnt want reflective. Does mortality too vain, looking at yourself in
to rob them of that sense of satisfaction scare you? mirrors all the time.
in making your own way in the Yeah it does. I have I tend to avoid mirrors
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world. Theyre not just waiting around spent a lot of time thinking now. [Laughs] Ive seen
for me to die so they can buy a yacht about people I know, 57th & 9th enough of my face and I know
or something. contemporaries of mine who is out now what it looks like.

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 Below far right: Katherine
Johnsons mathematical
prowess helped launch
John Glenn (below right)
into orbit in 1962. The
feat belatedly earned
her the National Medal
of Freedom from
US President Barack
Obama last year.

COUNTING STARS
In 1962, the first American astronaut
launched into space. Today, the story of
how three black female mathematicians
helped make it possible takes centrestage
Katherine Johnson, calculating the trajectories her home town when she a glass ceiling laden
Dorothy Vaughan and of rockets and determining was older that her father with gender and racial
Mary Jackson were three launch timings, working (himself a NASA scientist) constraints. In fact, today,
ordinary women living in on the numbers that told her Johnson, Vaughan Johnson is the last
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Hampton, Virginia. They
were secretaries and
administrators. They had
husbands and children.
They taught Sunday school.
They were also gifted
mathematicians. And in the
1930s, they all started
working at an organisation
that would one day be
known as NASA.
Johnson rose so
swiftly through the ranks
that she became integral in
would send John Glenn,
the first American to orbit
Earth, and later, Apollo 11
to the moon.
If youre wondering
why you havent heard
about this story, youre not
alone. Its the exact same
response that Margot Lee
Shetterly, the author of
Hidden Figures, had six
years ago. Despite growing
up in Hampton, it wasnt
until Shetterly returned to
and Jacksons tale. surviving member of the
Until now, their story trio. In the past two years
has remained woefully she has received more
unexamined. Because recognition of her work
they were women, than ever before. (Last year,
because they were African- President Barack Obama
American, there wasnt a lot awarded her the National
of credence given to their Medal of Freedom.)
work, says Shetterly. Johnsons reputation
The book, and its film as a quick, keen and very
adaptation, will be released accurate numbers fiend has
in February; both belatedly followed her throughout
commend the womens her life. At NASA, she was
achievements in shattering often called up to check

MC FACT In 2014, 32.9% of womens postgraduate courses in NSW were in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.*
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difficult equations,
even when the
Weve got a organisation began
using its first computers
in the late 50s. If she
dark secret... says the computers
right, Ill take it,
Johnson recalls Glenn
saying, before he
stepped aboard the
rocket that would propel
him into space in 1962.
In February,
Johnson will be
immortalised onscreen
when the film
adaptation of Shetterlys
finalist .beauty book is released. The
movies all-star cast
includes Taraji P Henson
NEW Dry as Johnson, Octavia
Spencer as Dorothy
Shampoo with Vaughan and Janelle
Tinted Formula Mone, a scene-stealer
for Brown to as Mary Jackson.
Hot on the
Dark Hair heels of last years
#OscarsSoWhite
controversy, the films
truly diverse subject
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that is the point, protests
Henson. Is Katherine
gonna be happy? Thats
all I care about, the
actress has said. All
of these women went
unnoticed in history
and that is crazy to me.
In fact, Johnson has
seen the film. And of the
commotion around her
life story she is
delightfully nonplussed.
I saw her a couple of
weeks ago and shes like
Whats the big fuss?
I was just doing my job,
laughs Shetterly.
Hidden Figures
(HarperCollins, $24.99)
is out now. Watch it in
cinemas from February 16.
Foundation, with all
proceeds going
towards funding food
projects in Africa.
Madiba recognised
that sharing food was
one of the simplest
ways to show love,
says editor-in-chief
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(Echo Publishing,
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FRANCE
SOCIAL CAUSE
A London fashion designer-turned-humanitarian, Jaz OHara,
is raising awareness and hope for thousands of refugees online
MC: When did you first JO: Itwas just a slum
hear about the Jungle [authorities cleared the
refugee camp in France? camp last October],
JO: In 2015, there was a people looking out for
lot of news about the themselves. Its not an
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refugee crisis in the official refugee camp
UK, but it didnt tell run by UNHCR.
the human side of the MC: Who was the first
story at all. I remember person you met there?
reading a newspaper JO: Arefugee called
with a lot of questions: Osman. He had walked
Who are these people? to northern France
What was life like in from Afghanistan. [The
the camp? It was a group] walked for
Saturday, and I decided months and a lot of the
to go on Tuesday. I people died along the
bought some stuff that gruelling journey.
I thought people might MC: When you returned
need like food and home, you were inspired
warm clothing. to launch Worldwide
MC: What was your Tribe, your charity
first impression? and Instagram account
MC FACT 54% of refugees worldwide come from Somalia, Afghanistan and Syria.*
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Meet the woman inspiring
a very modern kind of
consumerism one where
brands put purpose first
When it comes to spending power,
millennials are the ones whove got
it: by 2017, theyre expected to fork
out an incredible $200 billion
annually on goods and services.
And not just on hoverboards and
light-up phone cases, but on brands
they trust will give back to the
community. Some 75 per cent of
millennial consumers affirm that
they would seek out brands that
place values at their centre.
Theres less room in the world for
companies who are not doing great
things, explains Sally Hill, co-founder
of meaningful experience agency
Wildwon. She wants the future of
raising funds. What shopping to feature thousands of
happened next? purpose-driven brands. Its this dream
JO: Iactually said to my that drove her to launch Purpose
boss I need a bit of time Conference (December 56, 2016,
off. And then I never in Sydney), an event designed to
really went back to inspire companies to kickstart their
work. You realise how own social enterprise. Therell be
much work there is to chances for networking, attending
be done. Worldwide workshops and speeches by industry
Tribe is my life now. leaders on achieving sustainability.
The refugee crisis is a Visit purpose.do.
global problem. And
thats the beauty of
Sally Hill,
Instagram and the is a long-time
internet: it gives you a advocate for
social change
global audience. Thats and corporate
what were about a sustainability.
global community that
comes together, where
there are no borders.
Connect with others
@theworldwidetribe.
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THINGS THIS
SUMMER

GIRL OF
THE MOMENT
Lola Kirke made a name for herself
in this summers quirkiest TV show.
And then Tom Cruise came calling

Lola Kirke is trying to pump petrol

into her car, at the start of a road trip
from New York all the way to Los
Angeles. Things arent going well.
Fuel is spurting unceremoniously
everywhere. Oh my God! she yelps.
Im sorry. This is a terrible interview.
Its the first reminder that were talking
to an actress, and not our droll best
friend. Thats how normal refreshingly,
unapologetically so Kirke is.
Its easy to forget that she was
once best known as the younger sister
of Girls actress Jemima. Because after
her own starring vehicle, TV show
Mozart In The Jungle, won two Golden
Globes this year, Kirke who plays a
wide-eyed oboist in the classical-music
dramedy became hot property. The
win was a real shock, admits Kirke.
Next year shell make the leap into
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blockbusters with Tom Cruises American

Made. The pair had such crackling
chemistry on screen that rumours
started to fly ... Its as believable as
saying Im the first woman on Mars,
1
Kirke shot back. Despite the A-list
cast, the film is a character piece,
WATCH IT!
Mozart In The
adds Kirke. I wasnt focused on Jungle Season
how toned my body looks when 3 streams on
Stan from
running. A pause. Because Im December 10.
a terrible runner, she laughs.

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EMMA STONE
LOS ANGELES AT DUSK
ALL-SINGING, ALL-DANCING MUSICAL
LA LA LAND
T
hese are the basic
elements of director
Damian Chazelles
passion project and
ode to Old Hollywood, which
follows an aspiring actress and
a loveable, roguish jazz pianist
in the first flush of their romance.
But theres something magical
about La La Land that defies the
maths and makes it more than
just the sum of its parts, even
when those parts include the
GO
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SO
ME
TH I
NG LIKE THIS ...
RYAN GOSLING
sizzling chemistry we know and
love between Stone and Gosling;
critical plaudits; and the most
dazzling, sweeping shots of Los
Angeles ever captured on film.
Its happy and sad. Its hopelessly
romantic. And in a year of
disappointing movies its a
diversion, a spectacle, and quite
possibly, the greatest of them all.
La La Land is in cinemas
on December 26.
@Play
EMMA AND RYAN ARENT THE
ONLY ONES WITH CHEMISTRY
TO BURN THIS SUMMER
JENNIFER LAWRENCE AND CHRIS PRATT:
They just dont make movie stars like they used
to. Unless you count Jennifer Lawrence and
Chris Pratt. It was only a matter of time
before they joined forces (in sexy space
thriller Passengers). Out January 1
MARION COTILLARD AND BRAD PITT:
The chemistry is so hot between these two
some speculated that Cotillard was the third
person in the Brangelina split. And the pair do
play two spies who fall in love in World War II
very convincingly in Allied. Out December 26
SIENNA MILLER AND BEN AFFLECK:
How will Ben Affleck atone for the sins of Batman
v Superman? With this sharp-suited gangster flick,
and the gift of finally a meaty leading role for
Sienna Miller as a backstabbing gangsters moll in
Live By Night.
Night. Out January 26
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L L E T S DANCE
REEL

DO YOU BELIEVE?
4 Because you're about to, when
The Book Of Mormon Broadway
smash hit and cutting religious
f ur moviies are
These fo
satire by the creators of South Park
piiriing,
e-iinsp opens in Melbourne on January
breathtakiing, aw ue 18. Trust us, this will be a religious

break ing an d 100 per cent tr
heart
Who doesnt love a
real-life tale of triumph
and adversity, wit and
courage, love and devotion?
If you build it, we will come.
Last summer we savoured
the sheen of reality in
Spotlight and The Big Short.
And this summer well be
lining up to see The Mercy
the true story of sailor
Donald Crowhursts solo
journey around the world
(bonus points for getting
leading man Colin Firths
shirt all wet again) and
Clockwise from Hidden Figures, the tale
above: Dev Patel of three black female
in Lion; Ruth Negga mathematicians who
and Joel Edgerton shattered the glass ceiling at
in Loving; Janelle NASA in the 60s (turn to
Monae and Taraji P.
page 83 to read more about
Henson in Hidden
Figures; and Colin
them). Craving a tear-
Firth in The Mercy. jerker? Loving will break
your heart: the account of
experience you wont want to miss.
Get your tickets at
bookofmormonmusical.com.au
interracial couple Richard
and Mildred Loving
desperately trying to prove
their marriage is legal in
civil rights-era America.
Then theres Lion, following
a young Indian boy named
Saroo (Dev Patel) who, after
being separated from his
family at a train station is
adopted by an Australian
couple (Nicole Kidman and
David Wenham). Years
later, he uses Google Earth ON POINT
Whimsical, romantic and com-
to find his birth mother.
pletely magical, The Australian
True. Story. And you can Ballets much-lauded production
read it all in Saroos words of The Sleeping Beauty is touring
on page 50. the country next year, starting in
Brisbane on February 24. Dance
The Mercy is in cinemas wunderkind Benedicte Bemet
in 2017. Hidden Figures is will reprise her star-making
turn as Princess Aurora.
in cinemas on February 23.
Get your tickets at
Loving is in cinemas in
australianballet.com.au
January. Lion is in
cinemas on January 19.
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THE WEEKND THE ROLLING STONES
Starboy Blue & Lonesome

REPE AT What is it? That slick, bass-heavy,

falsetto-thick RnB we know and
What is it? Just the most famous rocknroll
band of all times incredible 30th studio album.
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Four new records love from Mr Bella Hadid. What, another one? Yes. Recorded
Whos on it? Daft Punk. The iconic French in just three days, its their first new
for your summer electronica duo features on the first single. record in more than a decade.
soundtrack When can you get it? Now. When can you get it? December 2.

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MAY THE
FEMALES
BE WITH
YOU
A
long time ago, in a galaxy
far, far away, women got it
done. Thats the reality of
the Star Wars universe,
where even a brief journey in the
Millennium Falcon say, attempting
the Kesel Run in under 12 parsecs
unearths strong, female characters
in droves. The archetype, of course,
is Princess Leia. Fiesty and fiery, she
more than ably held her own against
a young Harrison Ford with the charm
factor dialled up to 11. Since then
weve had Padm Amidala (Natalie
Portman), Maz Kanata (Lupita
8 Youll never see a movie in
Immerse yourself in the incredible,
overwhelming, large-scale light
installations comprising tens of
thousands of LED globes by
Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima,
on display at Sydneys Museum
of Contemporary Art now.
Simply spectacular.
JOHN LEGEND
Darkness And Light
What is it? That super-smooth jazz-pop
hybrid Chrissy Teigens man does so well.
Whats the vibe? Its more upbeat than
Legends usual crooning. Theres some
toe-tapping beats and a general sense of joy.
When can you get it? December 2.
@Play
Rogue One:
A Star Wars
Story starring
Felicity Jones is
in cinemas on
December 15.
9
IT S OU TDOOR
CINEMA SE A SON!
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Glenelg beach in Adelaide plays
host to all the hottest summer
flicks with Ben & Jerrys Openair
Cinema from March 9.
Nyongo) and the most kickass of them
all: Rey, a breakout moment for Daisy
Ridley in last years The Force Awakens.
This summer you can add Felicity
Joness Jyn Erso (above) to that list,
a hot-headed smuggler who helms the
VICTORIA
The Rooftop Cinema, in the heart
Rebel mission to steal the Death Star
of Melbournes CBD, is the coolest
plans in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. movie-going experience in the
And yes, the film has been plagued city, from December 3.
with controversy extensive reshoots,
a less than buzzy trailer, a complete
rewrite but theres one thing we can
all agree on: Female. Action. Heroines.
Rule. Rogue One is Jyn Ersos world.
NEW SOUTH WALES
Were all just living in it.
more beautiful surrounds than
at Sydneys St George Open
Air Cinema, from January 7.
THE LIGH T FANTASTIC
QUEENSLAND
Cult classics and blockbuster
new releases rub shoulders at the
Moonlight Cinema, in Brisbanes
New Farm Park, from December 3.
DUA LIPA
Dua Lipa
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
What is it? Pop so good youll want to
rewind and replay it. Over and over again.
Whats the USP? The British-Albanians
debut single Hotter Than Hell has more
than 43 million Spotify streams. See the best in world cinema at
When can you get it? February 10. The University of Western Australia
as part of the Perth International
Arts Festival, on now.
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television Sherlock seasons would go
for 52 episodes (one for every week of
the year), they would feature more
romance, perhaps a wet shirt scene or
two, and they would be renewed
indefinitely. That way, Sherlock would
never end, and you wouldnt have to
come to terms with the fact that arrogant
Sherlock (your boyfriend Benedict
Cumberbatch, above) and his surly
Watson (Martin Freeman) might be
donning peaked cap and pipe for the very
T HIS IS A BE ACH
In fact, it might be the most popular
beach this summer. Its an art installation
comprising an ocean fashioned from
1.1 million plastic balls and housed at
Barangaroo Reserve during the Sydney
Festival. Its a shark-free, sun-protected,
non-salty, non-sandy, temperate beach we
know youre going to love. Go on. Dive in.
The Beach runs from January 7-29.
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last time. Which is what youre going to
have to do on January 2, when the first o of
the triptych of episodes that make up
Sherlocks fourth season airs. As always,
nobody knows what kind of Arthur Conan
Doyle-ian delights await us, what terrible
crimes and unspeakable nemeses will
befall the boys at 221B Baker Street this
time. But what we do know is this: when
youre done binge-watching, its likely
going to be the last Sherlock youll ever
watch. Proceed accordingly.
Sherlock streams on Stan from January 2.
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BOOK CLUB
Five titles to tuck
into your beach bag
Weve got something for everyone
this summer. For fans of historical
fiction, may we introduce The Fifth
Avenue Artists Society (Allen &
Unwin, $29.99) by Joy Callaway, a
delightful diversion of a novel about
a young woman in turn-of-the-
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What does the year ahead hold for you? Success? Love? Travel?
Astrologer Yasmin Boland reveals what the stars have in store
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Horoscope special
2017 AND YOU
Life is still a rollercoaster,
with chaos planet Uranus
in your sign all year,
keeping things interesting.
Highlights: The best
personal and professional
relationship prospects
youve had in over a
decade. Good relationships
can get better. Bad ones
will be easier to move
on from. What to work on:
Note when chaos overtakes
you work on alleviating it.
WORK & MONEY
You can be a power player
professionally: Dont be a
bully at work and dont allow
yourself to be manipulated.
With maniacal Pluto in your
career zone throughout
2017, you can be a real
power player. But you do
LOVE LIFE
Your love life is on S I G NATU R E
the up and up: April and STYLE
May should be good for
romance, assuming youre Anything red
not involved in a relationship suits you. You
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or with someone you can
tear through life
rely on, 2017 could be
wonderful. This is because towards your
happy and adventurous next adventure.
Jupiter is back in your love
zone for the time since
2005. This creates serious
romantic potential. Single?
Your love options open up.
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2017 AND YOU ground for the sake of a

S I GNATU R E Overall you should enjoy
STYLE your daily life more.
However, you may still have
Expensive. Earthy fears about money to work
through. Highlights: Health
tones suit you best
improvements. Lucky Jupiter
and you probably in your 6th house of health
never met a nearly all of 2017 means
?2EFC2=\3C6J@F you will be more motivated
towards better self-care.
didnt like. What to work on: Find out
where those money fears
came from.
WORK & MONEY
How hard are you willing
to work? 2017 is the year
when you get to decide how
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home and work zones,
urging you to nd a balance
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buck. Wise decision, Taurus.
LOVE LIFE
Time to let people under
your skin For most of
the year, your biggest
challenge will be learning
how to let people get closer
to you. Its too easy for you
to put up barriers (e.g. you
work so hard you barely see
them). That way you dont
have to let anyone really
close. However, by October,
everything changes with the
arrival of happy Jupiter in
your love zone. The last
three months of 2017 could
be the best you have had
love-wise in more than a
decade. You will realise you
deserve to be happy in love.

the professional. With fun

May 20

TAURUS
planet Jupiter in your daily
life zone, you could decide YOUR LIFE LESSON:
that having fun is actually Broken relationships
more important than will be xed or ditched.
Youre sensual, money-minded and persistent working yourself into the
2017 AND YOU
You have one more year
of serious lessons to
get through, nearly all of
which will come from your
personal and professional
relationships. Highlights:
A bit of respite, in as much
as you still need to work
really hard this year, but you
will also have a lot more fun
and romance than youve
had lately. What to work on:
Dont get mad, learn from
upsets with others.
WORK & MONEY
Dont give up now! The
truth is that 2017 is another
year of hard work for you
but its the last such
heavy-duty one you will
have for a while. Dont cut
corners at work, dont be
over-sensitive and do treat
lifes upsets as lessons,
whether you feel like
learning them or not. Put in
the hard work and hard
emotional yards now, and
you wont have to go
You sensitive, dynamic and self-starting
Youre
through this kind of
challenge for at least
another seven years.
LOVE LIFE
Learn from annoying
people ... Whether youre
single or attached,
remember this in 2017; the
people who annoy or upset
you the most are your best
teachers. Every time
someone proves difcult,
look within. This is not
about blaming yourself, but
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realising that problematic
people are your mirrors,
showing you where you
need to work harder to
relate to others. Its time
to get very real in all your
important relationships,
personal or professional.
YOUR LIFE LESSON:
Training your brain to
focus on the positive.
S IG NATU R E
STYLE
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2017 AND YOU risk nancial dramas. Forget
You still have to work hard about any past nancial
and be organised. The upsets the eclipses can
change everything.
upside is you should start
to get nancial rewards for
your efforts. Highlights: A LOVE LIFE
Let love work magic in
much happier family home
your life That might
life this should come as
very good news to you, oh
sound like something on a
cutesy greeting card, but
domesticated and family/
with magical Pluto in your
home-loving Cancerian.
love zone again in 2017,
What to work on: Take
you will have the chance to
care of yourself before
feel loves power. The good
caring for others. news is youre way less
argumentative, jealous and
WORK & MONEY controlling than you have
Leave the past behind: been. Singles can nd love
The eclipses in your two that really transforms their
cash zones in 2017 suggest life. Avoid bullies! Couples
its a turnaround year for can go deeper and deeper
you. This goes triple if into the relationship.
youve been working really
hard for the past few years
while Saturn has cruised
your daily work zone. The
rewards that come now YOUR LIFE LESSON:
could be rather surprising! The more you believe
However, if youve been in yourself the more
slacking off at work, it could money you can make.
be time to up your game, or
Horoscope special
2017 AND YOU
There are eclipses in your
love zone and your sign,
which mean that 2017
is a massive year for you
get clear on them and
then chase your goals.
Highlights: This will be a
busy year with lots to do
and see, and an innately
cheerful and optimistic
outlook which attracts
good things to you. What
to work on: Detox your
home, your relationships,
your job, your life!
WORK & MONEY
Inspiration equals cash in
2017: If you allow petty
power struggles, jealousies
or battles for control to rule
your daily working life, it will
be very hard for you to enjoy
2017. The best way for you
your own two feet the
better. This is not the time S I G NATU R E
for you to be too dependent
STYLE
on anyone nancially.
You know how to
LOVE LIFE make a fashion
Heres the thing Your
biggest enemy when it statement better
comes to love is that you than anyone.
could work too hard and You belong on
not leave enough time for
a catwalk.
romance. There is an
eclipse in your love zone in
August, which could bring
love issues to a head. If
youre single and looking,
make sure you let go of the
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more able to nd someone
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inner Zen. Highlights:
to detail ensures Better times nancially than
Youre modest, practical and analytical
you always look you have enjoyed recently.
well put The more you believe in
yourself, the more you earn.
together.
What to work on: Believe
that soulmates do exist.
WORK & MONEY
A potentially bumper year
nancially: With lucky
Jupiter in your cash zone,
you are more or less set
nancially. That is, unless
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spending, in which case
watch out. Jupiter in your
cash zone will boost your
bank accounts if you
believe in yourself. However,
Jupiter can also send bills
out of control. As much as
hard work is the most
reliable way of making
money, you do have luck on
dream ... You still have
Neptune in your love zone.
That means that if you
havent already done so,
you can connect with
someone who is a soulmate
(we all have more than one).
Do tune into dreamy
Neptune in your love zone
and see people though the
eyes of love. Itll soften
your Virgo tendency to
nit-pick! Be careful if youre
involved with someone who
you feel is not quite on the
level. They might be as
untrustworthy as you fear.
YOUR LIFE LESSON:
Take time out for you
on a regular basis to
contemplate life.

2017 AND YOU
This year, its partly about
the fact that youre extra
lucky and partly its about
the fact your dreams can
come true. Win/win.
Highlights: Having the
universe on your side. With
Jupiter in your sign for the
rst time in more than 10
years, youll nd good
fortune owing to you.
What to work on: Expecting
everything to magically
work out without any
effort on your part.
WORK & MONEY
A year of growth and
expansion: Of course, there
is more to your year ahead
than the fact that the big
planet Jupiter is in your sign.
But really, is there anything
more wonderful? Possibly
not! To have lucky and
adventurous Jupiter in your
sign is a massive deal. It
only happens once every 12
years and it puts Lady Luck
on your side. Workwise,
Youre deep, mysterious and intense
think of what you want to
achieve and go for it. Yes,
you will still have to work
hard, but you have a gust of
celestial wind beneath your
wings, so to speak. Things
that can go your way, will.
LOVE LIFE
Youre even more
appealing ... Librans are
renowned for being
attractive. Reason being,
youre ruled by the planet of
beauty, Venus, and youre
all about relating and
harmonising. Whats not to
like? When you turn on the
charm, there is no resisting
you. Now with cheerful
Jupiter in your sign, youll
be in even more demand.
YOUR LIFE LESSON:
Achieve goals by
making lists and
becoming disciplined.
SI G NATU R E
STYLE
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but you dont
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2017 AND YOU LOVE LIFE
Its a year for you to have as If you love yourself,
much time-out time as you others will too
can, while you work on your The biggest obstacle
self-esteem. Highlights: standing between you and
Dreams coming true related happy relationships right
to a child, romance or now is that you can be too
hard on yourself. Obviously,
creative project. What to
work on: Develop your if you dont believe youre
intuition at home and work. worthy of loving, you will
diminish your chances of
WORK & MONEY being loved for who you
are. Use Pluto in your mind
Money could be an issue
zone to overcome any
for you this coming year:
negative feelings you have
Perhaps youre worried
about yourself. Work on
about your earning potential
detoxing your mind of
or you dont feel you have
negative thoughts by
job security. Whatever
connecting with the
the issue, its crucial that
universe through yoga,
you worry less about cash prayer, chanting, meditation
and think more about how or any spiritual path.
to achieve nancial stability.
If youre doing well you
No
are undoubtedly working
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hard for your money.
Strategise about money YOUR LIFE LESSON:
1 this year. Get some Connect with your
nancial advice, be it from a inner self to see your
trusted friend, your bank true magnicence.
manager or an adviser.
Horoscope special
2017 AND YOU
You will have Saturn the
gruelling taskmaster of
the zodiac in your sign
throughout the year, so
its all about hard work,
experience and karma.
Highlights: One more year
of intense life lessons, which
will stand you in good stead
for the next 30 years. What
to work on: Pay attention to
whats going on and look for
the wisdom within.
WORK & MONEY
You deserve a medal
and a pay rise: You have
another 12 months of hard
work ahead of you. But
after that, guess what? You
wont be in such a tight
spot for the next 30 years.
12 more months, the
rewards will last a lifetime. S I G NATU R E
STYLE
LOVE LIFE
You want love as well? Youre
With all the hard work and
adventurous
pressure on you this year,
you could be forgiven for in every way
wanting to be alone. But life including in
isnt always that easy. how you present
Sometimes we have to keep
yourself to
all the balls in the air. If
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2017 dawns, chances are
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busy social life.
Youre funny, adventurous and knowledgeable

2017 AND YOU LOVE LIFE

S I GNATU R E You have the lucky planet
STYLE Jupiter making a rare
appearance in your career
Expensive, zone. This means you
can full your ambitions
tailored pieces
and enjoy the process.
you buy good Highlights: The headiest
quality classics heights of success that
that will last. youve achieved in over a
decade. What to work on:
Understand that youre a
very intense person avoid
steamrolling others.
WORK & MONEY
A 12-year professional
high: As a Capricorn, youre
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youre being transformed by
life and you can transform
your life. Its one of the most
intense astrological events
possible. When it comes to
your love life, you need to
remember that Pluto makes
you passionate, which is a
good thing. But you can
also make you controlling
and manipulative. Plus, it
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9 will be more popular at work Now is the time to
too, but dont over extend make change in your
yourself, especially if you personal life.
Youre practical, ambitious and strategic are self-employed.
2017 AND YOU
This can be a year of
adventure, mind-expanding
activities and life-changing
developments and events.
Highlights: Better than
usual chances to teach,
study, take adventures
and even get published.
What to work on: Be more
selective about who you
spend your time with; cull
your list of friends wisely.
WORK & MONEY
Major changes possible:
The two full moon eclipses
in 2017 occur in your sign
and money zones, so its a
big year for you. If you want
to change your nancial
circumstances, redouble
your efforts. If you put in the
work in January to October,
the end of the year could
bring some major, positive
developments. Note that
working with someone
else collaboratively could
pay off very well for you. If
you have issues to do with
Youre imaginative, dreamy and intuitive
money, which stem from
your past, work through
them by looking at where
they came from.
LOVE LIFE
Love changes ahead ... There
are two eclipses affecting
you and your love life this
year. They take place in
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of being with your current
partner. If youre single, this
Youre quirky, original and humanitarian
is the year to well and truly
draw a line under the past
and open up to new love.
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2017 brings a major chance you could get some kind of
S I G NATU R E
to change your life one nancial bonus this year.
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that wont come around
Romantic, again for a while. Stop LOVE LIFE
Make time for romance:
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With the alignments in your
it and just do it! Highlights:
will suit you, chart right now, it may feel
The end of February eclipse
preferably blues brings a chance to turn like its easier for you to be
like the water. your life around howsoever single or, if youre attached,
you would like to so grab to be very independent
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you will nd more happiness
to work on: Understand
and fullment now when
that the pressure youre
you throw yourself into
under is actually making
your partnerships, romantic
you a stronger and better
or otherwise. The thing
person who knows what
about relationships is that
theyre capable of.
they push all our buttons.
While that might feel
WORK & MONEY annoying in oh-so many
With Saturn in your 10th
ways, in fact it also helps
house and bearing down
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 Fashion Under
$250
Feeling the Christmas pinch?
This month we promise fresh
fashion thats equal parts purse-
pleasing and pretty. Pens and
shopping lists at the ready!
SIMON UPTON
Shirt, $85, by
Topshop; bikini top,
$130, by Tigerlily;
jeans, $159, by
Steele; slides, $150,
by Sambag. Opposite
page: shirt, $70, by
H&M; bikini top,
$110, by Seafolly;
skirt, $159, by
Innika Choo; earrings
(worn throughout),
$120, by Reliquia.
e shack
Breezy shirting, bikinis and a dash of denim
is all you need this summer. So gather your
things, hit the road and let the sun shine in
PHOTOGRAPHED BY SIMON UPTON STYLED BY BREE MCDONALD
 Top, $78, by
Revolve Clothing;
jeans, $115, by
Cos; slides, $150,
by Sambag; hat,
$20, by Condura.
 Dress, $138, by
Boden; shoes, $70, by
Bensimon; bag, $150,
by Witchery. Opposite
page: top, $160, by
Jacquemus at
Mychameleon.com.au;
bikini briefs, $110,
by Seafolly.
 Jumpsuit, $249, by
Shakuhachi. Opposite
page: denim dress,
$90, by Nine by
Savannah Miller for
Debenhams; bralette,
$79, by Innika Choo.
See Directory for
stockist details. Hair
by Michael Brennan/
The Artist Group using
Oribe. Make-up by
Sarah Tammer/
Creative using M.A.C.
Model: Zoe Bernard/
IMG. Special thanks to
Tours By Locals
Fiji, Tourism Fiji; The
Palms Apartments,
Denarau and the
village of Sanasana.
OPEN
AIR
Pare down your
wardrobe to an
edit of blissfully
simple basics in
a palette of
black, taupe,
rich berry, and
utilitarian khaki
PHOTOGRAPHED BY STEPHEN WARD
STYLED BY CHLOE BUTTENSHAW
Shirt, $179, shorts,
$129, and belt, $129, all
by Trenery; bralette (worn
underneath shirt), $25,
by Cos; shoes, $90, by
Seed; earrings, $120, by
Sarina Suriano. Opposite
page: bikini top, $120, by
Matteau Swim; pants,
$150, by Cos; belt,
$69.95, by Trenery;
earrings, $20, by Seed;
brass bangles, $100
each, silver bangles,
$180 each, all by
Dinosaur Designs.
Nude top, $179, and
nude skirt, $249, both
by Veronika Maine;
gold/black earring
(sold as a single), $110,
brass bangles, $100 each,
and silver bangles, $180
each, all by Dinosaur
Designs. Opposite page:
bikini top, $90, by
Seafolly; pants, $125, by
Cos; headband stylists
own; earrings, $120, by
Sarina Suriano; top brass
ring, $130, and bottom
brass ring, $160, both by
Dinosaur Designs.
Top, $159, by Saba;
bikini top, $160, and
briefs, $80, both by
Zimmermann; slides, $80,
by Country Road at Myer;
earrings, $120, by Sarina
Suriano; bangles, from
$90 each, all by Dinosaur
Designs. Opposite page:
swimsuit, $150, and
blanket, $80, both by
Seafolly; shoes, $129, by
Trenery; earrings, $150,
by Coyote Negro at
Mychameleon.com.au.
 Dress, $135, by Cos;
earrings, $120, top
bangle, $120, middle
bangle, $84, and bottom
bangle, $108, all by
Dinosaur Designs.
Opposite page: black top
with multicoloured
stripes, $70, and skirt,
$80, both by Zara;
earrings, $13,
by Missguided. See
Directory for stockist
details. Hair by Brad
Mullins/Creative using
O&M. Make-up by
Peter Beard/Work
using M.A.C. Model:
Madison/Work.
Breakers
Up at dawn, still out at dusk. Savour the
ocean blue in surfwear thatll have you ready
for whatever adventure the day brings
PHOTOGRAPHED BY SIMON UPTON STYLED BY BREE MCDONALD
Bikini top, $25, by H&M;
wetsuit, $160, by Roxy;
watch (worn throughout),
$179, by Baby-G; plaited
bracelets (worn throughout),
from $75, by Lucy Folk;
beaded bracelets (worn
throughout), from $35, by
Odisya. Opposite page: dress
(worn as a top), $110, by
Seafolly; bikini top, $99,
and briefs, $99, by Farron
Swim; sandals (worn
throughout), $140, by Teva.
Wetsuit, $160, by
Roxy; shorts, $70,
by Staple The Label.
Opposite page:
singlet, $40, by
Quicksilver; bikini
briefs, $29, by Cos;
sunglasses, $249,
by Marc Jacobs;
rings, $59 each,
all by Pandora;
towel stylists own.
Bikini top, $189, and
briefs, $109, both by
Stella McCartney
Swimwear at Myer.
Opposite page: blazer,
$120, by Sportsgirl;
bikini top, $150, by
Mister Zimi (price
includes briefs);
earrings, $80, by Odisya.
 Hoodie, $180, by Emma
Mulholland; bikini briefs,
$60, by Baku; hat, $20, by
Roxy; earrings, $50, by
Emily Green. Opposite
page: jacket, $30, by
H&M; bikini briefs, $86, by
Triangl; earrings, $50, by
Emily Green; wetsuit (on
surfboard), $160, by Roxy.
See Directory for stockist
details. Hair by Michael
Brennan/The Artist Group
using Oribe. Make-up
by Sarah Tammer/
Creative using M.A.C.
Model: Bella Brown/IMG.
Special thanks to
Tourism Fiji, Pacific Island
Air and Seaplanes, and
Nanuya Island Resort,
Yasawa Islands.
 BY THE SEA
Fashion Approaching the
stunning Sawa-
I-Lau natural
caves in the
Yasawa Islands.
Below: the
locals were
all smiles.

The crew capture

the idyllic summer on
the beautiful shores of
Champagne Bay beach.

A glimpse of
ON LOCATION a Nanuya
Island sunset.

FIJI
A blissful island paradise
set the perfect scene for
our summer fashion stories ...

IMAGES SUPPLIED BY TOURISM FIJI, DIEGO LORENZO JOSE, MITCHELL HAY; SIMON UPTON
TOP 3

W
ith the sun shining
against the lush tropical TIPS
mountains and crystal Use and share the
clear ocean it was difficult greeting Bula
liberally. Its used as
to decide at which incredible location we
a hello, a goodbye,
should start. But the moment we were and a welcome!
introduced to the villagers of Sanasana
and were welcomed by their warm As 40 per cent
smiles there was no question as to where of the population
Shack, page 106, would be set. The
Love Shack, is Indo-Fijian,
next day we set off for the Yasawa Islands indulge in authentic
Indian meals.
and courtesy of Pacic Island Air,
touched down atop one of the most calm Try the traditional
When working on and startling blue bays weve ever seen. sh dish Kokoda
location, ingenuity is It came as no surprise that the natural its Fijian ceviche
a must! Our team wonders of the Yasawas offered more and is made even
use a branch as a
clothing rack across than enough inspiration for our second more delicious with
the back of the fashion story, Breakers, page 122. Expect the addition of fresh
production van coconut milk.
while shooting at even more goodness from our magical
Natadola Beach. trip to Fiji in next months issue.

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ANYWHERE.
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STYLISTS AT
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 THE

ffashion editt
CLINE SPRING/SUMMER 2017
MC LOVES

THEE E YES
HAVE IT
Are statement sunglasse
sunglasses the
new It bag? With shades like
these, it certainly begs the
question. Regal and jewelled,
Miu Mius new cat-eye styles
Miu Miu,
are as exquisite as artwork $640 each, at
just this time for your face. Sunglass Hut

Spish,
spash Dive in to
summer with
Isla Bay, the first-
ever swimwear
collection by Spell
& The Gypsy
Collective. Using
the brands
signature vintage-
SHOP TALK
If you dont reside in Melbourne, book a flight and have some
inspired prints, savings ready to burn! This month, the countrys first Cline
its perfect for the store opens its doors at Chadstone shopping centre, stocked
beach, pool or with Spring 17. The best bit? Youll have the above looks
hammock. to lust over come early January. The countdown is on.

SPOTLIGHT
ON! RING TRUE
French jewellery designer
British fashion design Pascale Monvoisin offers
TEXT BY BREE MCDONALD

stalwart Paul Smith up an elegant spin on rock-

lends his joyous design chick with her signature
persuasion to Anglepoise blend of bone, turqouise
with the Type 75 Desk and moonstone bijoux.
Anglepoise x Paul Smith, Lamp Edition Three. Pascale Monvoisin, $1401,
$365, at Cultdesign.com.au Shine a light on chic! at Net-a-porter.com

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Our fashion
SHOP WITH OUR

STYLISTS
SUMMER team share
PIECE: their favourite
DAY T O budget buys
NIGHT for under $250
and style them
am to pm

Rings, $8 for a
set of 3, at
Boohoo.com

Topshop,
$129.95

MONICA RUSSELL
fashion assistant
Kayu, $239, at
Net-a-porter.com NIGHT
Isla,
$149

These black cropped

pants with tie detail set
the tone for summer. To
dress them up, add lace
and sparkling jewels

Ray-Ban,
$200, at
FleaMadonna,
Sunglass
$249, at
Hut
Farfetch.com

DAY

Hansen
& Gretel, $179

BaubleBar,
approx $50

Zara,
$79.95

Boohoo.com,
$28
Shop the looks at
styledbymarieclaire.com.au.

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 Dolce & Gabbana,
$228, at Stylebop.com

DAY Missguided,
$12.60

Mesop, VALERYI YONG

$189
senior fashion
editor

Zara,
Topshop, $69.95
$119.95

NIGHT
Topshop,
Mesop,
$149.95 Elevated pyjama
The Daily
$149
dressing will be my
Edited,
$189.95 cue by day. Ill add
a bell-sleeved blouse
Saltwater Sandals, $89.95,
at Theiconic.com.au
and heel by night

For understated style, pair this polka-dot dress

with a sunhat by day and a clutch for evening
Rubi,
$29.9
$29.95

Seed, $59.95
CHLOE BUTTENSHAW
fashion editor

Le Specs,
$119

DAY NIGHT
Petite
Grand,
$187
Country Road,
$79.95
SEVAK BABAKHANI; GETTY IMAGES

H&M,
$79.95

The Cambridge
Satchel Company,
$144.02, at
Farfetch.com
H&M, $79.99

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Fashion
Porselli, $235, at
Im drawn to this feminine shirts
Mychameleon.com.au appeal. Ill freshen it up with white
for day and silk pants by night

Kerry Rocks,
$149
TAR A MORRIS
ASOS, market editor
$87
Adorne,
$29.95

DAY

Country Road,
$139

Shakuhachi, $159

NIGHT McQ Alexander

Comme des McQueen, $236,
Garons, $130, at at Farfetch.com
Senso, $179
Mychameleon.com.au

P i th
Pair the seasons
s It skirtt
with sneakers and youre ure NIGHT
covered from 9 to 5. By y night, Sarina Suriano,
its about luxe additionsns $175, at Theiconic.
com.au

BREE McDONALD
fashion & news editor

DAY

GORUNWAY; GETTY IMAGES. COMPILED BY MONICA RUSSELL. TEXT BY BREE MCDONALD

SEE DIRECTORY FOR STOCKIST DETAILS. PHOTOGRAPHED BY SEVAK BABAKHANI;
Polo Ralph
Lauren, $228, at
Topshop,
Sylebop.com
$39.95

The Daily Edited,

$129.95
Colette by
Colette Hayman,
$34.99

Verali, $79.95, at
Theiconic.com.au

H&M,
J.Crew, $51, at Vans, $69.99
Net-a-porter.com $139.95

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Fashion Designed in the
late 1980s, the
original Link
wristwatch
featured the
lines now-
signature
S-shaped links.

Above: an early Link design

set with diamonds. Right:
new Link Lady offerings in
steel and mother-of-pearl.

ACCESSORIES NEWS

TIME &
AGAIN
TAG Heuers Link Lady collection
is a testament to ageless style

I
n the race to win over a new generation of fans,
authentic heritage watch houses find themselves in
a difficult position: a need to be seen as both up-to-
the-minute and timeless.
At New York Fashion Week in September, TAG
Heuer managed to achieve this seemingly impossible
feat by combining the launch of their new Link Lady
range (a reinterpretation of the iconic Link) with the
announcement of their latest muse: the formidable Iris
Apfel. The Swiss watchmaker which already boasts
heavyweight ambassadors like Cara Delevingne and
David Guetta is no stranger to the celebrity endorse-
endorse
ment, yet this collaboration with everybodys favourite
95-year-old It girl has been heralded as ingenious.
TAG also partnered with on-the-rise fashion brand
MONSE its New York Spring 2017 show featured
models with timepieces stacked high up their wrists like
bangles. Apfel, instantly identifiable by her short white
hair and oversized round glasses, sat front row, fittingly
adorned in her favourite piece from the Link Lady suite.
The new collection boasts three unique styles, pol- pol Left: MONSE
ished or brushed steel options, plus a bold new version in designer Laura
black ceramic. The original straps S-shaped links have Kim at the brands
Spring 2017 Fashion
stayed and been modernised with a flatter profile. Week afterparty
TAG Heuer CEO JeanClaude Biver said the house with style maven
wanted to create a new womans product. Modern Iris Apfel. Above
right: Apfel shows
women have changed, he said. Women want to shape off her TAG Heuer
their future and express their power and for that they
GETTY IMAGES

Link Lady. Above left:

need new status symbols. And the time, it seems, is now. MONSE models take
the timepieces
down the runway.

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SEE DIRECTORY FOR STOCKIST DETAILS. PHOTOGRAPHED BY EDWARD URRUTIA. TEXT BY LUCY ADAMS

FRESHLY
SQUEEZED
Reinvigorate your summer beauty
regimen with these zesty buys.
From a vitamin C-packed serum
to tangerine nails, theyll ensure
you start the new year looking and
feeling your best. For more warm
7 weather buys, turn to page 159.
1 SEPHORA Collection Colorful
Blush in Fascinated, $19. 2 REN
Radiance Perfection Serum, $67.
3 RIMMEL LONDON ScandalEyes
Reloaded Mascara, $17.95. 4 SALLY 5
HANSEN Miracle Gel in Tribal Sun,
$16.95. 5 AESOP Rind Concentrate
Body Balm, $39. 6 TOM FORD Lip
Color in Wild Ginger, $78. 7 CREED
Original Santal EDP 75ml, $319.
6
8 LA ROCHE-POSAY Anthelios
Nutritive Oil 50, $35.95.
SURFER
GIRL HAIR
Modern waves are healthier
and glossier than ever
before. So keeping your hair
hydrated with a nourishing
haircare routine is essential.
TREsemm stylist Chris
Nasellis trick is to scrunch a
texturising spray into damp
hair and let it dry naturally.

TOOLS shu uemura Cleansing

Oil Shampoo, $68; Pantene
Pro-V Ultimate 10 Conditioner,
$7.99; Bumble and bumble
Surf Infusion Spray, $41.

SUMMER
in'
Hot up your warm weather hair with these
beach-chic looks. Here, Lucy Adams shows you
five new ways to master aprs-surf strands
 Beauty

C AREFREE
BR AID
The perfect post-swim
solution. The key to this
easy, sexy style is to start
low at the nape, explains
Naselli. He recommends
adding texture to freshly
washed strands with some
mousse before blow-drying
and braiding it. Or make it
your second day style go-to.
By day two, the hair has
had texture build-up that
allows better hold for the
style, he says.

TOOLS John Frieda Luxurious Spritz hairspray on a toothbrush to keep

Volume Perfectly Full Mousse,
flyaways around the face at bay, I think
BEAU GREALY

$15.99; LOral Professionnel

French Girl Tecni.Art Messy
Cliche, $34; Batiste Stylist
its key the hair looks smooth not pulled
Hold Me Hairspray, $12.95. Chris Naselli, TREsemm stylist

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Beauty

UP AND
AWAY
Make your messy bun
multitask by spritzing on a
hydrating mist before you
pile up your strands and hit
the beach. Simply, pull your
hair back into a ponytail at
the centre of your head.
Split the pony in two
sections and begin to
twist around the elastic
in opposite directions.
Keep it secure with a few
The simple up-do is all the rage bobby pins and a light
mist of hairspray.
for the summer months. This knot is
BEAU GREALY

cool and modern with great texture TOOLS ghd Final Shine Spray,
$20; Moroccanoil Luminous
Chris Naselli, TREsemm stylist Hairspray Extra Strong, $37.95.

146 marieclaire.com.au
SUN-STRE AK ED
P ON Y TAIL
Refresh this classic style by applying
a leave-in conditioner to dry hair
before pulling it back into a ponytail.
It creates a natural texture without
feeling crunchy, explains Naselli.
For volume and fullness, try a sea
salt foam before brushing your
strands into place and securing
at the nape with a clear elastic.

TOOLS Klorane Leave-in Spray

with Flax Fibre, $19.95; and TRESemm
Perfectly (Un)Done Defining Wave
Creating Sea Foam, $8.99.
Beauty
DEMI DO
Its a modern lived-in look
with tonnes of texture,
explains Naselli. Roughly
dry your hair before
applying a sea salt spray.
Then, using a curling iron
take three centimetre
sections of hair at random
from the crown and create
zigzag bends. Once your
whole head is complete
loosen the sections. Gently
brush and smooth back the
top half and gather at the
middle back of your head.
Next, start a three strand
braid and once youve
crossed it over twice, secure
the base with an elastic.

T O O L S Remington
Keratin & Argan Oil Nourish
Conical Curler, $39.95;
KMS California HAIRPLAY
Sea Salt Spray, $33.95.

SEE DIRECTORY FOR STOCKIST DETAILS. PHOTOGRAPHED BY BEAU GREALY

To minimise frizz and prevent

heat damage, apply an oil from your
mid-lengths to your ends before styling
Chris Naselli, TREsemm stylist

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a few little extras). By Sherine Youssef
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1 2 3
CLE ANSE
Cleanlin
Cleanliness
but not when
w
skin. People
Pe
1
is next to godliness,
it comes to your
over cleanse and this
causes a lot of skin irritation and
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1 Clarisonic Mia FIT inflammation, explains consulting

inflamm
Cleansing Device, $225. Neutrogena dermatologist Dr Eleni
Neutrog
2 Neutrogena Deep
Clean Micellar Gel Yiasemides. Heres her advice
Yiasemid
To Foam, $16.99.
3 LOccitane Shea
Cleansing Oil, $29. A M Cleansing first thing is not
not
4 Omorovicza Hydra necessary as it may increase the
Melting Cleanser, $125.
likelihood of dryness and irritation,
she explains. Splash your face with
water, but only if you dont have Q: I USE VITAMIN A AT
rosacea (cold water can cause NIGHT DO I NEED TO
symptoms to flare up). CLEANSE IN THE MORNING?
A: Not necessarily. Vitamin A
Women
men often assume skin P M Dr Yiasemides suggests causes dryness, so over cleansing
hydration
dration is related to how skipping the face scrub (it can be will also result in further irritation,
much water they drink too abrasive on skin) and using a says Dr Yiasemides. This upsets
micellar cleanser to gently remove the pH balance of the skin and can
this is simply a myth dirt and make-up without stripping cause increased oil production,
Dr Eleni Yiasemides skin or leaving behind residue. which makes the skin greasy.

5 6

THE BUZZ: BALMS

Were seeing more of these emollient
cleansers on the market due to
improved formulations that do not
provide a heavy feeling on skin and
work well with skincare routines,
explains Muriel Pujos, head of scientific
communication at Philosophy.
EDWARD URRUTIA

5 Trilogy Make-Up Be Gone Cleansing

Balm, $38.95. 6 Sunday Riley Blue Moon
Tranquility Cleansing Balm, $72.
Beauty

2TRE AT
The most common skin complaints
Dr Yiasemides consults on include
adult acne, rosacea, sun damage
ALPHA-HYDROXY ACIDS
Taking the form of citric, glycolic or
lactic acid, these help refine skins
texture. At-home treatments offer
an intense exfoliation, or you can
opt for daily re-surfacing by using
a combination of vitamin A and
an alpha hydroxy serum, plus the
occasional use of a Clarisonic, says
Dr Yiasemides. If youre not sure,
leave it to the professionals: Women
3

and ageing, which is why she generally put too much on the skin,
recommends a combination of which can cause redness, breakouts
SPF, plus three key ingredients. and irritation, so I advise lots of
patients to cut out unnecessary
RETINOIDS products or treatments.
The umbrella term for vitamin
A-derived ingredients, including 1 Endota Spa New Age
AHA Transformation Peel
retinol and tretinoin, these help 14 Day Treatment, $60.
build collagen and elasticity, and 2 Paulas Choice Resist
Daily Smoothing Treatment
reduce pigmentation, age spots, with 5% AHA, 50ml, $40.
fine lines and wrinkles. According 3 Nip + Fab Glycolic Fix
Serum, $32.95.
to Dr Yiasemides, they are the 2
most effective ingredient in any
anti-ageing skincare regimen, 1
along with sun protection.
Available in both prescription and
over-the-counter formulas,
retinoids also exfoliate, improve
pore size, reduce blackheads and
boost luminosity. However,
excessive amounts of retinoids may
cause irritation, so apply sparingly
at night, after cleansing
i andnd before
moisturising, and use SPF daily,
recommends Dr Yiasemides.

4 StriVectin-AR Advanced Retinol Serum,

$145. 5 Dr Dennis Gross Ferulic + Retinol
Wrinkle Recovery Overnight Serum, $117. EYE DO
6 Medik8 Retinol 3 TR Serum, $75.
The delicate skin around
the eye contour deserves
4
extra TLC as its often
where the first signs
of ageing appear.
5 6

7 8
Soothing: 7 Kate
Somerville Goat Milk
De-Puffing Eye Balm,
$55. Smoothing:
9 8 Caudalie Resveratrol
Eye Lifting Balm, $75,
Firming: 9 Dior Capture
Totale Multi-Perfection
Eye Treatment, $145.
 13

MUST HAVE: MASKS

These have evolved by leaps and
bounds in terms of delivery and
efficacy. You can now find masks that
do not need to be rinsed off, that stay
on the skin overnight (like sleeping
masks) and that, thanks to new
textures, improve ageing signs,
so in addition to their immediate
benefits, they provide more long-term
benefits, says Pujos.

13 Glamglow GravityMud Firming

Treatment, $98. 14 Este Lauder
New Dimension Sculpt + Glow Mask,
$120. 15 Bobbi Brown Skin
Nourish Mask, $65.
10 11 12

ANTIOXIDANTS 14
These neutralise free radicals and reduce oxidative stress by
helping protect and improve the repair process in damaged
skin cells, resulting in anti-ageing benefits, explains Dr
Yiasemides. Antioxidant ingredients include reservatrol,
vitamin C (Dr Yiasmidess pick) and coenzyme Q.
Apply in the morning before moisturiser and SPF.

10 UltraCeuticals Ultra C23+

Firming, Concentrate
Treatment, $138. 11 Natio
Restore Antioxidant Face
Serum, $26.95. 12 Rationale
Melaneve Antioxidant 15
Enlightenment Treatment, $95.

THE BUZZ:
ANTI-POLLUTION
Climate change is not only damaging our
coastlines, its harming our complexions.
16 Clinique City In recent years, the scientific community
Block Purifying has recognised that pollution has a direct
Charcoal Clay
Mask + Scrub, $60. impact on accelerating skin ageing and
17 Philosophy Take contributing to dark spots, says Pujos.
EDWARD URRUTIA

A Deep Breath Oil-

Free Oxygenating Expect to see more products on the
16 17 Gel Cream, $50. market targeting this problem.

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2
1

MOISTURISE
MOIS
DRY VS DEHYDRATED SKIN:
THERE IS A DIFFERENCE
3
The former is a result
r of inadequate
oil in the skin; the latter a lack of
water (this is why even oilier skins
can sometimes become dehydrated).
d
Rich moisturisers help with dryness,
while hyaluronic acid can treat
dehydration. Its how you care
for your skin from the outside,

3
explains Dr Yiasemides. There is
no correlation between fluid intake
and skin hydration. Some women
naturally have dry skin and the only 4
solution is a rich moisturiser, which
will trap water in the skin, she says.

1 Dr. LeWinns Eternal Youth Day & Night

Cream, $69.95. 2 LOral Paris Age Perfect
Golden Age Rosy Re-Fortifying Day Cream,
$36.95. 3 Lancme Rnergie Multi-Lift Night
Massaging Cream, $110. 4 Comfort Zone
Hydramemory Cream Gel, $54. 5 Ole Henriksen
Sheer Transformation, $55. 6 SkinCeuticals 5
Triple Lipid Restore 2.4.2, $183. 7 The Body
Shop Vitamin E Aqua Boost Sorbet, $27.95.
8 Algenist Splash Absolute Hydration
Replenishing Emulsion, $61. 9 Chanel
Le Lift Restorative Cream-Oil, $188.

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8 9 7

EVENING NEWS 10

Overnight masks redefine the 12

term sleeping beauty

simply put one on, hit the hay
and wake up to better skin
Refines: 10 Caolin Pore Tightening Memory Sleeping
Mask, $58. Brightens: 11 Shiseido Ibuki Sleeping
Mask, $40. Hydrates and heals blemishes:
12 3CE White Milk Sleeping Mask, $32. 11

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Spoi
1 2

SPIRULINA
This blue-green algaes

ON TARGE T
fatty acids, vitamins,
minerals and peptides help
purify and detox the skin,
and improve elasticity. Bobbi Brown Remedies is a
Find it in: 1. Alpha Keri range of five potent skincare
Body Slimfit Heat-activating blends that can be used
SALVATORE FERRAGAMO A/W 2016/17

Slimming and Firming

Serum, $49.95. 2. Origins individually or layered for
By All Greens Foaming a healthy, #NoFilter
Deep Cleansing Mask, $52. required complexion.
Clockwise from top: No 93
Skin Fortifier; No 80 Skin Relief;

CURRENTLY
No 75 Skin Clarifier; No 86 Skin
Moisture Solution; No 91
Skin Reviver, $66 each.

COVE TING
Sparkly and long-wearing, Urban
B L O C K PA R T Y
Tis the season for outdoor fun and diligent sun
Decay Liquid Moondust Cream protection. Here are five ways to up your SPF game
Eyeshadow in Vega, $36, will
be in high rotation this summer.

1 3 5
YOU RE 2 4
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EDITORS
PICK GOLDEN
TEXT BY SHERINE YOUSSEF

Sheer and oil-free as well as

sweat- and humidity- 1. Mecca Cosmetica Sunbrella Superspray, $42, is invisible perfect for
resistant, Clinique that midday top-up. 2. New Banana Boat SunComfort clear spray SPF50,
Sun-Kissed Face Gelee, $17.99, allows sand to be easily brushed off. 3. La Roche-Posay Anthelios
$40
$40, gives every skin tone XL Comfort Cream SPF50+, $28.95, now helps fight free radicals.
a golden
g den glow. 4. Maritime pine extract in Napoleon Perdis Multi-Defence Broad
Spectrum SPF50+, $29, enhances elasticity and water retention.
5. Nivea Sun Protect & Moisture Moisturising Sunscreen Lotion SPF50+,
$10.99, has panthenol to keep skin supple and hydrating.

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Bea
M beauty advice
My
to young people is
sunscreen, sunscreen,
sunsc
sunscreen! Pictured:
sunscr
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Rati
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Sunscreen SPF50+, $70.
Sunscree

Mariah Carey
for M.A.C Blush
in Youve Got Me
Feeling, $45.

MY BEAUTY RULES
Sunglasses are my

MARIAH 8@E@2446DD@CJ@R
stage. Pictured:
Michael Kors
sunglasses, $329.95,

CAREY
The pop music icon talks blush, beauty school
at Sunglass Hut.

and her bling-inspired make-up collection

Creating make-up is close to
the process of creating a song.
When creating a background vocal
part, it is about the mixture of the
Taking care of your skin is so
important. You only have it once!
Also I truly believe that glow comes
from within. If you are happy and
GEORGE HOLZ/CONTOUR BY GETTY IMAGES; EDWARD URRUTIA

different tones and notes and textures; enjoying life, it shines through.
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its a similar process for make-up During the day I dont wear much My look in
or fragrance because you take make-up. I stick to M.A.C Lipglass, Honey is one of
different notes, textures and such as Its Just Like Honey the my favorites. That
tones to create something. video was almost
perfect shimmer. On stage its Bit
20 years ago and I
My favourite M.A.C product of Of Bubbly Lipstick, Golden Petals think the hair and
all time is Pink Swoon blush. We Eyeshadow, My Mimi Skinfinish make-up is still
created something similar in Mariah and a pair of my false lashes. wearable today.
Carey for M.A.C Blush in Youve Got Red lipstick and mascara are just
Me Feeling and I absolutely love it. not for me. So for my collection, we If I want just
Its the perfect pink for your cheeks. went for more nude, pinky lipstick a touch of colour
Ive always been a make-up girl. shades and false lashes. The silver during the day,
Ill use Mariah
I went to beauty school when I was and gold packaging is so unique and Carey for M.A.C
younger. Over the years Ive learnt beautiful. It was inspired by one of Dreamlover
that less is really more. my favorite things diamonds! Lipglass, [$39].

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Beauty
DO THIS:
Steer clear of dark
lipstick and reach
for a bright shade to
revive the face (a dab
of gold shadow on
the cupids bow
MC LOVES takes it to next-level
pretty). Try LOral
Paris Collection
Q How can I camouflage

W 2016/17
under-eye circles?
Color Riche in
A After applying a dewy
Doutzens Delicate

NINA RICCI A/
foundation, use a
peach colour corrector to Rose, $21.95.
cancel out any darkness, and
then follow with concealer,
advises Tobi Henney, LOral HOW-TO
Paris make-up director in
Australia. Choose a blendable,
full-coverage cream one to
two shades lighter than your
foundation, tap with your ring
Fake 8 hours
SLEEP
finger and finish with a light
dusting of finely milled powder
to set and reduce creasing.
Try It Cosmetics Bye Bye
Under Eye Illumination
Concealer (above), $42.

ON WITH
THE GLOW
Bronzer warms up a washed-out
skin tone: Nars Liquid Laguna
Bronzer (centre), $59.
Blush perks up the face:
Este Lauder Genuine Glow
Blushing Creme (left), $36.
SKIN SOS
Highlighter on high points of Five things to do before you
the face adds dimension, says go anywhere near your make-up
Henney: Revlon Photo-Ready Exfoliating sloughs off dead skin
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(right), $29.95.
1 & Thild Biocleanse Radiance
Micro Polish (above centre), $48.
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SHADOW
2 Splash your face with cool
water to get blood pumping.

P L AY Smooth on a hyaluronic acid-

Do: tap a lustrous gold packed serum and moisturiser
or soft pink on the lid for
TRY THIS (like Neutrogena Hydro Boost
a brightening effect. Dont:
use anything too dark. Dior For eyes that appear
3 Gel Cream, above right, $25)
to counteract dehydration.
Eye Reviver Backstage An eye gel de-puffs (bonus points
more awake, run a nude
Pros Illuminating Neutrals if you placed it in the fridge last
pencil on the waterline
Eye Palette (below), $109.
$109 night it will be extra soothing
(its more natural than
white). Try Charlotte
Tilbury Rock N Kohl
4 this morning). Try FAB Eye
Duty (above left), $63.
Liquid Eyeliner Pencil
in Eye Cheat, $43. 5 A quick squeeze of eyedrops
takes care of bloodshot eyes.
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increase energy and your metabolism, they also safeguard
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secret weapons over cereals or salads, in cooking, or whizz
up in smoothies to help maximise your mojo.

From top: 1 IsoWhey Wholefoods Organic Beetroot, Maqui Berry &

Goji tastes as good as it looks, $14.95 for 70g, isowhey.com.au.
2 Swisse Organic Chlorophyll Superfood Powder is a source of
antioxidants and iron, and (thankfully) berry flavoured, $27.49 for 100g,
swisse.com/en-au. 3 Kakadu Plum has 100 times more vitamin C than
oranges, and five times the antioxidants of blueberries, $27.95 for 50g,
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kakaduplumco.com. 4 Activated Nutrients Daily Superfood for Women

a mix of 55 plants and herbs, is the only certified organic multivitamin
powder on the market, $19.95 for 56g, activatednutrients.com.
5 Organic Turmeric add this anti-inflammatory spice to any dish
youd saut on the stove, $14.15 for 200g, turmericaustralia.com.au.
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Feast
You dont need
to eat like a saint
at Christmas.
Park the kale till
2017 and
indulge in bad
foods that,
according to
science, are
surprisingly
good for you

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 DELIVERY HEROES

on this ...
If a busy festive season
means more takeaway,
supercharge your meals
with these easy tweaks
by accredited practising
dietitian Geraldine
Georgeou

CHEE SE
A 55g serve of tasty cheese
offers around 440mg of
calcium; more than 40 per
cent of your recommended
daily intake, says sports
dietitian Chloe McLeod.
This culinary crusader also
helps protect teeth from acid
wear. Compounds in cheese
can stop acid erosion that
occurs when youre drinking
coffee and wine, explains
McLeod. Need another
excuse to hit the gruyre?
According to the Journal
Of Applied Microbiology,
probiotics (good bacteria)
survive cheese-making and
the ageing process imposed
on hard cheeses, such as
cheddar. If weight control
is the goal, switch to fetta,
says accredited practising
dietitian Robbie Clark. While
lower in probiotics and
calcium (just 180mg per
55g serve), it is also lower
in fat and kilojoules.
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ROAST TURK E Y
Turkey breast is rich in tryptophan, an amino acid that
boosts levels of the happy hormone serotonin in the
brain, and although it has a bad rap because of the PA D T H A I
extra fat, you can eat turkey skin. There is more good, Add lean protein, such as
monounsaturated fat in turkey skin than saturated fat, prawns or chicken, and
says McLeod. I wouldnt suggest eating it with abandon, request extra vegies.
as being high in fat means high in kilojoules. But if you
really like it, enjoy a small amount. Hallelujah.
Go for an organic, antibiotic-free, pasture-fed bird
as its going to have larger amounts of omega-3s, which
are very good for heart health, adds Clark.
SALT
If you love salt-rubbed gravalax or margaritas, youll
S PA G H E T T I
BOLOGNESE
Order an entre size
love this. A study of 130,000 people in The Lancet
with extra mince and a
found that a diet of too little sodium less than
side of rocket salad.
1200mg per day may be just as likely to increase the
risk of heart disease as a diet high in sodium. The ideal
amount, reports scientists, is 1600mg to 2000mg daily.
But your daily intake should be capped at 2300mg
(one teaspoon) per day, advises McLeod. Opt for salt
fortified with iodine [iodised salt], a compound that
supports thyroid function, she adds. On-trend
Himalayan rock salt or sea salt does contain more BEEF PHO
trace minerals such as magnesium and iron than Ask that extra steamed
table salt, however, its in really small quantities, so greens be added
the benef
benefits
f are really small, she adds. to your soup.

THE JURYS OUT

CR ANBERRY SAUC
SAUCE
Cranberries are loaded with antioxidants and can ca
help deter urinary tract infections, but store-bought
store-bou
cranberry sauce also contains 40 per cent sugar,
suga
says McLeod. Most of the packaged cranberry
sauces are made with cranberry juice, plus somesom
apple or orange juice as theyre cheaper than
cranberry juice, she reveals. I suggest making Half a cup of cranberries
your own, so you know it contains less sugar contains only 100 kilojoules and
and more cranberries. Use raw honey or maple
syrup as sweeteners, offers Clark, as they offer
research shows they can also
bonus benefits such as antioxidants. boost the bodys immune system
 FIGHT
CLUB
Get lean, strong and ignite your
confidence with this martial-arts
inspired workout, designed exclusively
for marie claire by taekwondo black
belt and former The Biggest Loser
trainer, Tiffiny Hall (tiffxo.com)
2
HORSERIDING STANCE SQUAT
This traditional taekwondo 2. Step your left foot to your
horse stance is one of the best right foot and pivot the left heel
leg toners of all time. The towards the right. Drive your
heel click is a plyometric right knee into your chest then,
move that boosts your heart engaging the glute, kick to the

1
rate and metabolism, while
the sidekick (yop chagi)
sculpts your legs like a boss!
HOW-TO
1. Assume a wide stance,
CROUCHING toes pointed to the front. Sink
down low as if youre sitting
DRAGON SQUATS on an imaginary horse. Hold
A full-body cardio move that tones arms, the squat for a few seconds.
switches on the core, works the quads
and builds ankle strength.
side with the edge of your
foot. As you kick, punch your
arm to the side so your arm
is parallel to your leg.
3. Place your kicking leg down
and step back to horse stance.
4. Jump up and click your
heels together mid-air. Repeat
steps 1 to 4 on the other leg;
alternate legs for 30 seconds.

HOW-TO
1. Crouch down low so your butt is resting on
HIGH KNEES WITH
your heels, and your knees are wide and low to OBLIQUE TWISTS
the ground. Balancing on your heels, tense your
Twisting through the trunk works the
abdominals. Move your hands out to the side,
obliques, slimming the waist beautifully,
ex your ngers to the sky and push through
your palms as if pressing against walls.
while high knees are good for cardio.
2. Perform three mini squats: bounce up and
HOW-TO
down twice, just high enough to lift your butt
1. With hips square to the front, run on the spot, bringing
off your heels, squeezing glutes as you go.
your knees up high to your belly. Hold hands in a guard
On the third squat, rise to standing position.
position: both elbows pointing to hips, forearms front-on.
3. Perform a front kick on the right leg, pushing
2. Now throw in the twist! Pull your belly into your spine to
through the hip and snapping your leg back
switch on your core. Twist your upper body side to side so
fast. Repeat with the left leg. Keep your hands
elbows meet opposite knees. Continue for 30 seconds.
rmly in guard position (see exercise 3).
Repeat steps 1 to 3 for 30 seconds.

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4 ROUND-THE-WORLD GUARD SIT-UPS

In taekwondo, we use this 360
move for self-defence, but its
awesome for cardio and abs, too.
1. Lie on your back with your arms
in guard position and bring your
knees up to your chest. Keep
your hands in guarded position
through the whole exercise.
2. Lift your hips and, leading with
your butt, staple your belly to your
spine and crunch your abs down
to the side. Inhale as you lift your
hips, exhale as you move to the side.
3. Continue to lift your hips, move
your butt and crunch the abs in
a circular motion (that is, wiggle), until
youve completed one 360-degree
round of sit-ups. Repeat steps 1 to 3
in the other direction for 30 seconds.

CAT STANCE
WITH FRONT KICK
This one strengthens thighs
and hamstrings and really
torches kilojoules. The kick is
a dynamic move utilising the
biggest muscles in the body
glutes and legs helping to
supercharge your metabolism.
5
HOW-TO
1. Sink low into cat stance: face
both feet forwards and slide
one foot in front of the other so
your heel is in line with the arch
of your other foot. Make sure UP
your weight is entirely on the THE ANTE
Do 30 seconds of
back foot. Raise the heel of your speed-skipping
front foot off the oor so youre (rope or no
rope) between

6
balancing on the ball of your
foot (see above). Sink low into
a squat, both knees bent, both
feet still facing forward.
2. With your back leg bent
low in the squat, pick up
your front leg and ick it
in a front-kick motion.
3. Lightly touch your foot
to the oor, lift it again,
and ick it forwards.
4. Keeping the back leg
bent, continue kicking for
20 to 30 seconds. Repeat
steps 14 on the other leg;
alternate legs for 30 seconds.
Modify it: Rather than
extending the leg in a icking
kick motion, pick up your knee
and bring it into your chest.
This challenges the thighs
DAVID GOUDIE
moves.
BURPEE-YAYS
This is my super-duper burpee. Its fun and gets results,
but only works if you yell yay when you jump honestly.
1. Jump, raising your hands above
your head while lifting your knees
high. Land in a standing position.
2. Bend down, touching hands to
the oor. Walk your hands out into
a push-up position, making sure
your feet stay put.
3. Perform one push-up.
4. Holding your body straight in
push-up position (that is, plank),
perform two mountain climbers:
bring one foot up quickly to touch
the ground beneath your knee, then
quickly reverse your feet; imagine
youre running horizontally.

and abs without putting

pressure on your knees. 5. Bunny-hop your legs into your
chest and jump up into standing
position. Repeat for 30 seconds.

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Inn Australia, the
humble
mble mango is as
quintessentially
uintessentially of
summer
mmer as thongs or
cicadas
das and it could
the best
cure
re cancer. A study #MINDBODYSOUL
by Texas A&M ON INSTAGRAM
University
iversity found the
polyphenols
phenols in mango
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 YOUR GET-REAL GUIDE TO CAREER & FINANCIAL SUCCESS
Bright
young
Think you need years of
experience under your belt to
become the boss? Think again
Jasmin Robertson, 30
is the director of gourmet food
company Rozas Gourmet
Becoming a CEO was never something
Id planned to do. My mum set up
Rozas Gourmet when I was four, so
its always been part of my life but
if Id known that it would grow to the
extent it has today, and that I would
end up as the CEO, I would have
been so overwhelmed!
My mum passed away when
I was 14, so my dad and I looked
after the business together. My passion
was acting, but Dad advised me to do
something that would guarantee me
a career so I did a business degree and
landed a graduate position in a major
firm. I didnt last long the corporate
world wasnt for me. So I quit and went
back to uni to study acting which was
my passion. My father was dismayed at
my choice and suggested I work in the
172 marieclaire.com.au
business as a way achieved growth.
to earn income while TOP TIP I visited independent
I studied, and allow grocers and small
him to retire. businesses with [our]
After a few years of Im a huge sauces to foster distributor
trying to juggle both, I relationships. Today we
realised I was giving only
advocate for employ 17 staff and sell
50 per cent attention to setting short- approximately 12,000
each. If I wanted results, term goals products each week. Our
I had to make a choice turnover has increased
and the business was an
you know you by 600 per cent and last
opportunity I had to take. can achieve. financial year we had a
I was 24 when I officially They are turnover of just under
took over in 2011. $3 million. This year
At the time we
the building our target is $4 million.
had one staff member blocks for My youth and
and our production was your future. inexperience were
outsourced. These systems fantastic attributes;
werent helping us grow, so by bringing when you havent done something
manufacturing in-house (literally) before, you approach it with a level of
to our home kitchen, sticking to the fearlessness. Ive made a lot of mistakes,
traditional recipes my mother made but theyve all been learning curves. The
and then re-branding to reflect what I mistakes have shaped who I am and
believe the business was capable of, we where the business has got to.
 @Work

Danni Addison, 29
is the Victorian CEO of the
Urban Development Institute
of Australia
I didnt know what I wanted
to do when I left high school,
but now I can see my career
decisions reflected an
ongoing interest in reform
and improvement. I worked
at a law firm, studied an
Arts degree and did an
administrative traineeship
in construction and property.
Then I worked for the
government through a
graduate program, where
I was challenged by the red
tape which in my view
prevented things from
actually happening!
I was appointed to my
current role in January 2015.
The UDIA is a nationwide
not-for-profit membership
organisation, and the most
important work we are
doing is creating a voice
for Victorias homebuyers.
I imagine some of the
decision makers had
concerns about whether I
was experienced enough
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refreshing to see a woman
my age, with a child [Danni
is mum to one-year-old son,
Jackson] doing well in her
career proving we need to
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idea of what a CEO looks like.
Im a big advocate of
work/life balance and for
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boundaries and having a
semi-regular work schedule.
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CHRIS GROENHOUT/NEWSPIX
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better at being a CEO,
mum, partner and just
at being me, when work
and life is balanced.
TOP TIP
Dont shy away secure it makes you less so.
from difficult
conversations
be respectful yet
brave and dont
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status quo.
Set your own
boundaries and
make them clear
HOW TO
MAKE
TOUGH
DECISIONS
AT WORK
(AND STILL BE LIKED)
1 Be proactive, objective
and decisive
Good decision-makers are proactive
in seeking relevant information, objective
in evaluating it, and decisive in taking
action, explains human behaviour expert
and author of Brave, Margie Warrell.
What they dont do is spend inordinate
amounts of time analysing, reanalysing
and sitting on their hands while they
wait for more certainty.
2 Own it
A good decision-maker doesnt wait
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by default. Ive seen many people struggle
to take a leap in a new direction and by the
time they build up the courage to go for it,
the door has closed or the opportunity has
gone to someone else.
3 Practise
Decisiveness is like a muscle; the
more you practise, the better you get at
it. It also helps you realise that putting
off a decision doesnt make you more
4 Focus on certainties
Uncertainty breeds anxiety which
in turn fuels self-doubt. Rather than trying
to predict the future, youre better off
focusing on making the best decision you
can right now, with what you know right
now. If things dont unfold as you predict,
5
Explain what youre doing
If your decision is unpopular with
others, explain the variables at play that

work mode I need to be brought you to your decision. What others

super productive. Because
of Jackson Im very open with
my schedule, and have learnt
that even the most well-
and known may not see is that if you didnt make this
choice, it could ultimately put them at
and they will greater risk down the track for example
be respected. a decision to restructure your business
may cost jobs, however not doing
that may cost the entire business.

marieclaire.com.au 173
 CAREER HACKS
TAKING
your leave
How to enjoy
j y a break without stressing
about being away from the office
I
s a holiday still really a holiday,
or does it just mean working
extra hard before and after
you go away? Psychologist
and author of The Innovation
Formula, Dr Amantha Imber, gives
advice on how to have a proper
break this year. You deserve it!
Train up your colleagues
Think about which of your
workmates could take on some of
your workload while youre on leave.
Your boss will love this, because you
have just upskilled another team
member who can pick up work
when you are off sick.
Communicate
Let everyone know when youll be
away. Dont say things like Feel free
to contact me if you need me. Trust
that your co-workers should be able
to deal with any crises that may arise.
FAST FIXES
FOR OFFICE MISHAPS
1 2
g
Get rid of temptation
Emails are like a drug; every now
and then, theres a piece of great news
sitting in your inbox, which is why
many people constantly check their
email in search of their next hit
of positive news. When on holiday,
delete the mail app from your phone.
Set up an out of office reply and
include someone elses contact details
for urgent enquiries. People wont
expect a response and you dont have
to feel guilty about not replying until
you are back from holidays.
Know it will make
you more efficient
If you stay on the hamster wheel
and never take a break, youll
quickly burn out. Annual leave
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The average
YOUR MEETINGS
employee attends
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understanding of whats being discussed than those who take
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unproductive UCLA. At White House cabinet meetings, everyone is made
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always a pleasure to serve
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RECIPES & FOOD STYLED BY KATY HOLDER

oysters with
chinese dressing

marinated calamari
with radish and
apple coleslaw
SERVES 8
1
/3 cup olive oil
1 tsp smoked paprika
pinch of chilli flakes
32 small or 16 medium squid
hoods, cleaned (see note)
23 lemons, halved, to serve
32 wooden skewers (optional),
soaked in cold water
RADISH AND
APPLE COLESLAW
1 fennel bulb, stalks removed
1 bunch radishes
2 green apples, skin left on
2 tbsps roughly torn
dill fronds
3 tbsps extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
(or white wine vinegar)
1 tsp brown sugar
1. To make the marinade,
combine olive oil, paprika,
chilli flakes and a pinch of
salt in a shallow dish. Take
the calamari hoods and,
using scissors, cut along the
side of each hood and open
out, rinsing under cold
water to remove any
remaining intestines. If
using medium-sized squid
hoods, cut in half. Leave
smaller hoods as a single
piece. Add to marinade,
turn to coat, then set aside
in the fridge for 1 to 4 hours.
2. Make coleslaw 30
minutes before the squid is
ready to cook. Using a sharp
knife, thinly slice fennel and
place in a bowl of iced water
for 10 minutes. Meanwhile,
thinly slice radishes, cut
apples into matchsticks and
combine in a large bowl.
Drain fennel and add to the
radishes, along with the dill.
Lifestyle
marinated calamari with
radish and apple coleslaw
Whisk together extra virgin
olive oil, vinegar and sugar
and drizzle over coleslaw.
Season with sea salt and
ground black pepper and
toss to combine at least
10 minutes before serving
to allow coleslaw to soak up
the dressing. Chill until
needed. 3. Preheat barbecue
grill plate (or chargrill pan)
to high. Remove calamari
from marinade and thread
onto skewers (the calamari
can also be cooked without
skewers), pressing them
flat on the barbecue plate
occasionally during cooking.
4. Cook calamari for about
2 minutes on each side until
just cooked through; do not
overcook. Grill lemon halves,
NOTE
cut side down at the same Ask the fishmonger
time, until grill marks to clean and prepare
the squid so they
appear. 5. Serve calamari are ready
immediately with coleslaw to use.
and grilled lemon halves.
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Lifestyle
seafood platter
with 3 dips
oysters with
chinese dressing
MAKES 24 OYSTERS
24 medium-sized oysters
in the half shell
crushed ice to serve
DRESSING
1
/3 cup grapeseed oil
(or other mild flavoured
oil, not olive oil)
cup rice wine vinegar
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp finely grated ginger
1 tsp caster sugar
1 tsp soy sauce
1 tsp lemon juice
1. Place all the dressing
ingredients in to a bowl and
whisk until well emulsified.
2. Arrange oysters on a bed
of crushed ice on a serving
platter and spoon a little
dressing over each oyster.
3. Serve immediately with
the remaining dressing
on the side.
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seafood platter
with 3 dips
SERVES 8
24 scallops in shells
34 cooked mud crabs
(depending on size)
34 cooked lobster tails
(depending on size)
32 cooked king prawns
50g butter
34 lemons, cut into wedges
baguette or crusty bread
to serve
1. Make all dips and
dressings before preparing
seafood (see right).
2. Carefully remove scallops
from their shells using
a sharp knife to detach
them, if necessary. Snip
off roe, if preferred, or
leave intact. Wash and dry
shells. 3. Holding the crab
horizontally, lift up and pull
off the top shell from the
back. Using a teaspoon,
spoon out any intestines
and the gills. Cut in half.
Remove any larger claws
and crack using the flat side
of a large knife, dont crush
the shell too hard or
fragments will end up in the
meat. 4. Slice lobster tails
in half lengthways and
remove the dark intestinal
vein running through it.
5. Slice the heads off the
prawns. Arrange prawns,
crab and lobster on a bed
of crushed ice on 1 or 2
platters. 6. Melt half the
butter in a frypan over a
mediumhigh heat until
melted and frothing.
Cook scallops in batches
for 12 minutes on each
side, until light golden.
Cook remaining scallops,
wiping out the frypan and
replacing the butter as
required. Return to shells
and either drizzle with the
sweet chilli and cucumber
dressing or serve another
dip on the side. 7. Serve
seafood platters and
scallops accompanied by
the dips, lemon wedges
and crusty bread.
CHIPOTLE CHILLI AND
LIME MAYONNAISE
cup good-quality
egg mayonnaise
1 tsp finely chopped chipotle
chilli in adobo sauce
2 tsps lime juice
1. Combine all the
ingredients, season
with sea salt and place
in a serving bowl.
LEMON, GARLIC AND
DILL MAYONNAISE
cup good-quality
egg mayonnaise
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 small clove garlic, minced
1 tsp olive oil
1 tbsps finely chopped dill,
plus extra to serve
1. Combine all the
ingredients and season
with salt. Place in
a serving bowl and
scatter over extra dill.
SWEET CHILLI AND
CUCUMBER DRESSING
3 tbsps caster sugar
Lebanese cucumber
1 birds-eye red chilli,
thinly sliced
2 tsps finely chopped
coriander
2 tbsps rice wine vinegar
1. Place sugar in a small
saucepan with cup of
water and bring slowly to
the boil . Cook until sugar
is dissolved, then set aside
to cool. 2. Halve cucumber
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lengthways then scrape out
seeds with a teaspoon.
Finely dice. 3. Add to
cooled dressing along
with remaining ingredients.
Divide dressing between
2 or 3 small serving dishes.

smoked trout salad
with lime dressing
smoked trout salad
with lime dressing
SERVES 8
DRESSING
2 tbsps lime juice
1 tbsps fish sauce
12 tsps brown sugar
(to taste)
2 lime leaves, central stalk
removed, thinly shredded
birds-eye red chilli, seeds
removed, finely chopped
SALAD
100g snowpea sprouts
small handful mint leaves
NOTE
Hot-smoked trout can
be bought from some
specialist food shops.
Alternatively, buy smoked
trout fillets from the
supermarket.
small handful coriander
leaves
200g smoked trout fillets
(preferably hot-smoked,
see note), flaked
50g trout or salmon
caviar (roe)
1 punnet micro herbs,
such as red sorrel
1. Combine all the dressing
ingredients, stir to dissolve
sugar then set aside for
10 minutes to allow lime
flavour to infuse dressing.
Divide snowpea sprouts,
mint, coriander and smoked
trout between 8 small
plates. 2. When ready to
serve, whisk dressing briefly
then drizzle over salad.
Scatter over roe and micro
herbs and serve.
For fresh and vibrant herbs,
pick the leaves an hour
beforehand and store in
cold water in the fridge.
Drain well and briefly pat
dry just before serving.
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MBE as patron, and she also saddles
up this year for the carnivals rst
polo tournament. Global racing star
Francesca Cumani and a rather
handsome crowd of international
polo stars also make this a must-see.
Fashions on the eld: Its a fresh
international crowd at this carnival.
Theyre young, way too attractive
and elegantly heeled. Opt for sizzling
summer colour
colour-blocked
blocked choices.

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 KENTUCKY DERBY Left: Kim
Kardashian makes a
CHURCHILL DOWNS RACETRACK, USA, hat statement
trackside at Churchill
MAY 6, 2017 Downs in 2009.
Below: the Kentucky
Its a date: Pack your wildest hat and head Derbys signature
to Louisville in the deep south of the US drink, the mint julep.
for the Derby. The bourbon is strong, the
fashion bold, the pre-race galas are grand.
Whats at stake: Bigger than the Super
Bowl, this is a US institution. The winning
jockey is decked out in a garland of up to
560 red roses. Mint juleps, the races
signature drink, keep the crowd smiling. Of
course, the horseracing is not to be missed:
20 horses who have earned their place in 35
races across the US and abroad within the
year compete for the title and $2.5 million.
Fashions on the eld: Hats are to be
a brash statement-maker. Balance the
look with minimal dress in hushed hues.

DEAUVILLE RACES
HIPPODROME DEAUVILLE LA-TOUQUES RACECOURSE, FRANCE,
JULY 30AUG 31 , 2017

The view across Deauville

Harbour towards the village
of Trouville-sur-Mer.

ROYAL ASCOT
ASCOT RACECOURSE, ENGLAND,
JUNE 2024, 2017
Its a date: For refined racing,
theres no beating this. Marvel at
the gents in morning suits sipping
champagne and spend a day
in the English countryside. With a
prize pool of more than $10
million, Ascot is serious business.
Fashions on the eld: Dress
for the Royal Enclosure with Its a date: Theres nothing like a spot of
conservative elegance. Hemlines horseracing in an elegant French seaside
need to fall just above the knee haven, two hours from Paris.
or longer, straps must be more Whats at stake: The area leading into
than 2.5cm wide, and hats must thoroughly chic Deauville is rich with the
be hats. No fascinators. Jolly nations best stud-farms. In August, five
good especially when the Group One races are run.
royal procession arrives! Fashions on the eld: This is a more relaxed
event, with deckchairs and parasols
trackside. Swap your hat for a chic band and
Top: Liz Hurley epitomises the elegant
channel the simple lines of the roaring 20s
GETTY IMAGES

dress code at Royal Ascot; men,

including Price Harry, are required to when Deauville was in its prime.
wear morning dress and a top hat; the
Queens own horses have won races
at Royal Ascot a number of times.

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finish line at
Flemington.

EMIRATES
MELBOURNE CUP
FLEMINGTON RACECOURSE,
AU ST R A L I A , N O V 7, 2 0 1 7
Its a date: Round off your year on
a racing high with the Spring Racing
Carnival in Victoria and the race that
stops a nation, the Melbourne Cup. Megan Gale
Whats at stake: A lot! The Melbourne and Rebecca
Cup delivers a prize purse of more than Judd in

5
The Birdcage
$6 million, with the winner taking home in 2015.
a cool $3.6 million. The big wins, along

tips
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day. The fashion adds to the fizz, with
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your inside giddy-up guide.
Fashions on the eld: Lace and tailoring,
colour and creativity win the day. Theres What makes for an
scope to go oversized with a hat, or give unforgettable racing
a nod to the latest millinery fashion. experience? Atmosphere. The
Push the style envelope. combination of a lush green track,
super-sleek horses, impeccably
dressed racegoers and a glass of
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French racegoers,
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Whats your strategy during
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(far left), favour spot. Go and look at the horses
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Whats a common mistake

QATAR PRIX DE LARC DE TRIOMPHE
CHANTILLY RACECOURSE, FRANCE, SEPT 30OCT 1 , 2017
Its a date: The most prestigious
race in Europe is a must-see,
but its home at Longchamp is
undergoing a major rebuild.
Until then, itll be at Chantilly.
Whats at stake: The Arc
brings the best horses from
around the world to Paris for
$7 million prize money.
Fashions on the eld: Wear
a demure French autumn
ensemble. This is the home of
fashion greats so pay respect with
a well-cut dress or chic suit.
to avoid? Check the weather!
Nothing worse than being cold
all day. Magic Millions is in the
peak of summer, which makes
outt selection so much easier!
What are you looking
forward to? Ill be playing
in the inaugural Magic Millions
Polo against a number of
internationals including
my husband [Australian polo
player Rob Archibald] and
Zara Phillips. I cant wait.

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Lisbon When Europe beckons, seasoned

travellers head to the continents
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Located in the citys historic Moorish
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the jewel in this boutique hotels crown
is on its first-floor terrace. Here, a red-
tiled infinity pool and chic wine bar
overlook the broad Tagus River.
OUT AND ABOUT
Head to the roof of the Bairro Alto Hotel
and Terrao BA (bairroaltohotel.com)
and watch the sun set over the 25 de
Abril Bridge with a mojito in hand. Near
the citys docks, enjoy a lively evening at
Fbrica Brao de Prata (bracodeprata.
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young chefs, whose shopkeeper At the rambling flea market
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plate menu delights in outside onto Saturdays), hunt long and
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Tower, head to nearby 4000 titles.
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on the road
G O T H E D I S TA N C E W I T H O U R C O O L - G I R L C A R G U I D E

3
ROUTE: Central Coast, NSW
RE VIE W: Sometimes Sydneys
crowded beaches offer more
of pain than pleasure in the

the best summer heat. But the

solution is to head north
to the sun-soaked, less
SUMMER populated beach strips.
SUNGL ASSES Youll need wheels, and
the perfect set belong to the
cute Mazda2. City-sized and
frugal, it sips fuel yet offers

1 enough room for four adults.

Even the cheapest models
try $16,990 drive-away

2
have all the Bluetooth and
USB connections needed to
get your playlist pumping.
Skip the freeway and
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commuter shows itself, with

its 1.5-litre engine ensuring
The manual gearbox is definitely mid-death you feel connected to both
rattle in Australia, with just 13 per cent the car and the road. The
Old Road deposits you on
of new cars sold in 2014 ordered with one. the Central Coast, where
Thats down from 33 per cent back in 2000. white-sand beaches await.

PART Y TRICKS

Theres nothing like MAY: MERCEDES-

JANUARY:
the OTT-ness of PORTSEA POLO
a lavish car One of the hot tickets for the
summer in Victoria is the
launch or brand Portsea Polo, and guests
collaboration. Here can expect a little Italian
flavour this year. A switch-up
are some of our has seen Alfa Romeo named
faves for the year the new major sponsor,
so expect its marquee to
be the place to be seen.
BENZ FASHION
WEEK AUSTRALIA
No other brand has tied itself
so successfully to the world
of fashion as Mercedes-
Benz, which not only
sponsors our own Australian
event, but similar efforts in
New York, Berlin, Miami,
Istanbul, Russia and Mexico.
OCTOBER: MAZDA
ROME FILM FEST
Mazdas luckier customers
were invited to rub shoulders
with Tom Hanks and Meryl
Streep at the 2016 event,
where there was also
a cavalcade of more than 50
MX-5s taking a scenic drive
to a specially constructed
Mazda drive-in theatre.
NOVEMBER: LEXUS
DESIGN PAVILION
Lexus has made its
Design Pavilion a feature of
Flemingtons Birdcage during
the Melbourne Cup Carnival
for more than a decade, and
it is a fixed and fabulous
part of the social circuit that
makes up one of the biggest
party weeks of the year.

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December 22 January 19
AFFIRMATION FOR THE MONTH:
my mind is diligent; my soul is serene.
A thrilling me-first month. Youre confident and charismatic and
your sex appeal runs high. Others must wait in the wings as you step
into the spotlight. The sun nudges you towards new work targets and
POWER DATES
15th: Routine goes out of the
window. 29th: Your drive to
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AQUAR I US
January 20 February 18
Prepare for a cash catastrophe.
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cash boost to save the day.
Soon after comes a demand
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At work, your ideas blaze a
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looks set for a breakthrough.
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continues. Just do
dont take on
too much too quickly
quic or little
will be achieved. FFriendships
are richer, and your
you social life
more vibrant. If you
youre in the
market for new lov
love, friends
are a great source of
introductions. Pay more
attention to professional plans SCORPIO
after the 22nd and youll be in October 23 November 21
an advantageous position. Change is happening and
while things may flow too
VIRGO swiftly, youll soon get the hang
August 23 September 22 of it. Further fulfilment may
If your efforts feel like all pain come via travel or study.
and no gain, dont lose heart. Look for social, romantic or
Youre a survivor and this helps business opportunities through
in January when your instinct overseas contacts. Learning to
and intellect make a powerful juggle work priorities makes
combination. Your goals more time for love and fun.
become clearer, but career Follow your dreams, Scorpio.
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and friendships make this a The time is right.
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work-hard, play-hard time.
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LIBRA November 22 December 21
September 23 October 22 Chances are youve felt
Youre sharp as a tack, Libra, trapped by regulations lately,
so little sneaks past you. But but now is the time to break
this awareness can be a bane free. Let go of old grievances
as well as a blessing. When and be ready to forgive and
always on full alert, you rarely forget as when one door
relax. So try to slow down and closes, another opens. Expect
take some time for pleasure. professional progress and
It seems ages since you have material gain. Counter any
allowed some fun and temptation to high living with
spontaneity into your life. moderation and a healthy diet.
 LIFE STORIES

As Netflix airs
The Crown, its
major new series
on the early
life of Queen
Elizabeth II, we
remember the
woman the royal
family preferred
to forget the
Duchess of
Windsor. By
Clare Press
PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHN RAWLINGS/COND NAST/GETTY IMAGES

WALLIS SIMPSON
Duchess of Windsor
 MARRIAGE
STAKES queen, who reportedly loathed Wallis,
Clockwise from referring to her as a certain person
left: Wallis weds
her ex-king, and refusing to have her in the house.
Edward, in 1937; The scandalous Mrs Simpson was
the duchess in
1940; first-time
being shunned. Well, thought Wallis,
bride in 1916 to well see about that.
US navy pilot Wallis had to believe that her
Earl Winfield
Spencer. husband-to-be would talk The Firm
around. Once they saw how serious he
was about her, and how happy she made
him, they would soften. Surely. She
allowed herself a moment to imagine

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he couldnt wear white, see how pretty their borrowed French how fine a particular tiara of Queen
not with having had villa looked today. And it did look Marys would look against her jet black
two husbands already. But pretty. Wallis had arranged for society hair; shed have to have the stones reset,
the ice blue couture gown florist Constance Spry to deck the of course. Then she snapped out of her
by Mainbocher would do place out. Spry had outdone herself reverie. Darling! she called, shall we
nicely, Wallis Simpson there were enough blooms to fill go down? I am ready now.
decided. It was supremely elegant, the Chelsea Flower Show in every Alas, Britain was not ready for
high-necked with long fitted sleeves, corner of the Chteau de Cand. And its former monarch to marry an Amer-
and bias-cut from clingy silk crepe so yet society photographer Cecil Beaton ican commoner and double divorce.
that it showed every angle of her was the only person of note who And one hed started seeing while
impeccably slim body. You can never would see the display. There she was still married. Just 10 months
be too rich or too thin! were only 16 guests. into his reign, King Edward VIII, 43,
thought Wallis. That The new queen, Wallis had not chose Wallis, nearly 41, over the
had a nice ring to it. invited her own family throne, shocking the world. He was the
She ought to make it who reportedly to her wedding on June first British monarch to abdicate,
a catchphrase. loathed Wallis, 3, 1937. Almost all of and in doing, shook the foundations of
Her fianc, the referred to her as the dukes illustrious the institution itself. And for what?
Duke of Windsor, who friends had declined to A woman! That woman ...
until very recently had a certain person attend. Precisely no-one On December 11, 1936, the day after
been Edward VIII, from the British royal his formal abdication, Edward made
King of the United Kingdom and the family was coming. Not Edwards a speech, broadcast on BBC Radio,
Dominions of the British Empire, and mother, Queen Mary. Not his younger explaining: I have found it impossible to
Emperor of India, was fussing around brother, Bertie, who, two weeks carry the heavy burden of responsibility
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straightening a vase of flowers. Wallis earlier, had been crowned George VI. and to discharge my duties as king as
couldnt think why he was bothering And not Berties wife, the former I would wish to do, without the help and
there werent any important guests to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, now the new support of the woman I love. The next

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At the outbreak of World War
II, the couple fled to this villa
in Lisbon, Portugal. Above
right: in Paris in 1937,
soon after the abdication.
day, his brother Albert, now King George
VI, granted him the title, his Royal High-
ness, the Duke of Windsor.
For the rest of their lives, the Duke
and Duchess of Windsor would remain
ostracised, and to all intents and
purposes banished to France. Wallis
was never given the right to refer to
herself as Her Royal Highness, and
except for a posting in the Bahamas
during WWII, Edward was never given
an official job, although he craved one.
They were to live out their days in
an endless loop of dinner parties,
shopping and golf, adored by an army
of pug dogs, but no children, and no
subjects, with only each other to blame.
Over the years, gossips said all
sorts of things about Wallis she was a
gold-digger, a brash American, a
manipulative seducer who ensnared
the king with sexual tricks shed learnt
from a Chinese prostitute, even that
she was really a man but rarely was
Wallis charged with being happy.
W allis Simpson was born
Bessie Wallis Warfield on
June 19, 1896, in Blue Ridge
Summit, Pennsylvania. She dropped
the Bessie, which she dismissed as a
name for a cow, from then on going
simply by Wallis. It suited her.
The Warfields were well off and
well bred, but when Wallis was seven
months old, her father, Teackle, died
of tuberculosis. In a precarious position
financially, her mother, Alice, began
Life stories
ROYAL THAW
Below left:
Walliss former
husband, Ernest
Simpson, with
his third wife,
Mary Kirk
Raffray, formerly
Walliss
childhood best
friend. Above
right: Wallis both had affairs. They had crazy fights;
greets Queen
Elizabeth, Prince
he once locked her in a bathroom in a
Philip and Prince fit of pique. In 1922, he was posted to
Charles at her Hong Kong, where, after a sojourn in
Paris home
during the Paris, Wallis joined him. There,
dukes last together, and separately, they went to
illness in 1972.
high-class brothels, claims Bayliss.
She was fascinated by it all and,
being a quick learner, had the girls
show her the sensual massage they
sewing to make ends meet. While Alice specialised in. Her husband threw in
worked, Wallis spent time with her the towel and succumbed to his more
aunt Bessie, an upright woman with a predominant gay side to live with
fondness for severe black dresses, and an artist. Rumour has it Wallis worked
a formative influence. for a time as a hostess in Shanghai.
Alice remarried What can be said
and there followed with certainty is that
a period of stability They were to live while there she did
with Wallis at school, out their days in something else
but when she was 16, an endless loop unthinkable in polite
her stepfather also society of the day: she
died, and mother and of dinner parties filed for divorce.
daughter were back with only each By the time it was
where they started. granted, in 1927, shed
This precarious
other to blame already started seeing
childhood made Wallis a married man, Ernest
hanker after security and status. She Simpson, in the US. When his divorce
was determined to be presented as the came through, they married, and in
Baltimore equivalent of a debutante, 1928 Wallis became Mrs Simpson.
even though Alice could not afford the According to Anna Sebba, author
dress (luckily she could sew). of That Woman, The Life Of Wallis
Its tempting to surmise that Simpson, Duchess Of Windsor, he was
Walliss controlling nature in later life madly in love with her; she didnt feel
she never allowed herself a hair out of the same, but was attracted to his
place, and famously nagged the duke dependability, the air of security and
has its origins here. breeding that he radiated. He was good
At a party Wallis met a dashing
US Navy pilot named Earl Winfield
Spencer Jr, a whirlwind romance
ensued and, in November 1916, they
wed. Wallis aged 20 finally had a hand-
looking and in love with her. The
Simpsons moved to England with
Ernests job and soon fell in with the
society party crowd. Now this was fun;
Wallis was in her element.
some husband and the security she Meanwhile, Edward, then Prince
craved. Except she didnt. Spencer was of Wales, was enjoying his glittering
a drinker with a terrible temper. nightlife phase. With his mistresses,
According to Ken Bayliss, author socialite Freda Dudley Ward and
of Secret Royal History, Spencer was Lady Thelma Furness, he was a
also a bisexual adulterer and when much in-demand dinner guest, and
they moved to Washington DC they trendsetting dresser his fashion
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REGAL, BUT
NOT ROYAL
Destined never
to be a royal
highness, Wallis
dressed as if
she were one.
Clockwise from
left: with
Edward in
Miami, 1941;
wearing an
emerald
necklace a gift
from the duke
at Versailles in
1953; a seated
portrait of the
duchess, 1964;
the couple on
holiday in Italy
in 1953.

choices were written up in the newspa- Queen Mary never forgave

pers. He met Wallis around 1934, and her son for neglecting his kingly
was soon in love, but there was the duty. She died in March 1953,
small problem of Ernest. and he returned, briefly, to attend
Edward was a new style of royal. the funeral. My sadness was
Gorgeous and a little frivolous (he once mixed with incredulity, he wrote
had a fling with a French courtesan), to Wallis who, still persona non
the prince was seen as rather danger- grata, remained in Paris, that
ous with a mind of his own and a social any mother could have been so
conscience. He didnt want to be like hard and cruel toward her eldest son
his father, the stuffy George V. for so many years ... Im afraid the fluids
The monarchy must change with in her veins have always been as icy cold
the times, Edward said in an interview as they are now in death.
in 1970, noting that through history it With no palace to inhabit or official
had done exactly that. It was the duties to perform, Wallis turned her
grieving widowed Queen Victoria who talents to creating the illusion of a regal
ushered in the famously austere era existence through style. Hiring the best
named after her. But when she was decorators, she filled their houses at
young and newly mar- Le Moulin de la Tuil-
ried, the court had Wallis turned erie in the Chevreuse
been fun, and before valley, and in the Bois
Victoria was crowned,
her talents to de Boulogne in Paris,
it had been dissolute. creating the with elegant antiques,
Edward wanted to
do things differently.
illusion of a while the walls were
hung with imposing
Some said he never regal existence royal portraits.
wanted to be king. through style Her wardrobe was
Many accused Wallis chic with exquisitely
of plotting to become queen, but cut suits and pieces by Balenciaga,
The duke died of throat cancer in
May 28, 1972, in Paris. Wallis became
increasingly paranoid that the royal
family, led by Lord Mountbatten,
planned to spirit away her husbands
possessions and leave her destitute.
While she still ate like a bird, she upped
her drinking, and a series of falls
saw her in hospital. At one point, she
broke her hip. Wallis died in 1986, and
was buried, according to Edwards
wishes, by his side at Windsor Castle,
embraced in death by the country that
had never welcomed her in life.
Her final decade was one of misery
and mystery. If the couple had been
fairly isolated in exile, in widowhood
the duchess was reportedly forced to be
a complete recluse.
In Behind Closed Doors: The
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according to Anna Sebba, she wanted
nothing of the sort. In fact, Sebba
writes, Wallis tried to leave the king at
the height of the abdication crisis. Wal-
lis was utterly genuine in her desire to
disappear from the kings life, if only to
preserve her own sanity rather than
from motives of altruism or to protect
the king, let alone the institution of the
monarchy. But the king was both too
stubborn and too smitten to back down.
Chanel and Givenchy. She dieted
obsessively, and had her hair dressed
by Antoine of Paris. All of this set off
her jaw-dropping jewels. Edward had
made a habit of ordering elaborate
pieces from Cartier, sometimes reset-
ting old family stones. Working with
Cartiers chief designer, Jeanne Tous-
saint, became a passion. At Cartier,
at least, the duke and duchess might
carry on like proper royals.
Tragic, Untold Story Of The Duchess Of
Windsor, biographer Hugo Vickers
claims she was kept prisoner in her
rooms by her so-called carer, an evil
lawyer named Suzanne Blum. Too frail
to protest, Wallis was fed by a tube, her
friends kept from seeing to what depths
shed sunk. It wasnt the royals who
stole her antiques, writes Vickers, it
was Blum. Turns out you can be too
rich and thin after all.

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