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P26. HOW TO DRESS FOR SUMMER The best heatwave-ready dresses, shorts and sandals.

P46. THE ELLE HOT LIST An early adopter’s ultimate guide to 2019 (like the sunnies you need NOW).

P98. LIFE OF LARA Model mogul Lara Worthington on loving life and looking to the future.

P124. HOW TO BE WELLE IN 2019 Easy ways to be an even better you (think turbo barre).

P146. WHERE TO WEEKENDER NOW Book, pack and head to these fabulous hotels.

P155. YOUR ALL-STAR GUIDE TO 2019 Your astrological predictions for the year ahead.

ON THE COVER
Photography:
Darren McDonald at Artist
Group. Styling: Marina Afonina
at Assembly Agency.
Hair: Christian Marc at Forward
Artists. Makeup: Sarah Uslan
at The Visionaries. Production:
Flower Ave. Lara Worthington
wears: dress, $7,200, GUCCI,
gucci.com/au; Wave necklace,
$415, bracelet, $8,750, both
TIFFANY & CO., tiffany.com.au.
On subscriber’s cover:
Wave necklace, $415, bracelet,
$1,600, both TIFFANY & CO.,
tiffany.com.au
FIRST
LOOK
P19. FRESH TAKE
Do resort season right.
P20. SEE THE LIGHT
Add edge to linen looks.
P22. TWIN SETS
Go double or nothing.
P24. MY WORLD
A Parisian creative
consultant’s dream abode.
P34. PASS IT ON
A slow fashion label’s sexy
take on hand-me-downs.
P36. IN FULL BLOOM
Lily Allen’s cool comeback.
P38. MADE A NYE
RESOLUTION TO
GET OUT MORE?
Skip Netflix, do this.
P40. HOW TO TOP YOUR
PERSONAL BEST
What Bel Powley did to
win us over completely.
P41. I GET BY WITH
A LITTLE HELP
Newsflash: pets are
the new therapists.
P42. A REAL SONG
AND DANCE MAN
Meet the genius behind
Mary Poppins Returns.
P44. PERSPECTIVE
Fernanda Ly’s fight for
inclusion in pop culture.
FEATURES
P52. WHO’S YOUR GURU?
The new cult of celebrity
enlightenment.
P54. NO TURNING BACK
We’re still totally into Cher.
P58. THE REAL PRICE
OF EMPOWERMENT
Don’t be fooled by those
“fauxpowerment” promises.
P62. GHOST CHILD
The story that bagged the
ELLE fiction competition.
FASHION
P68. ACTION REPLAY
High-vis activewear
and neon swimsuits.
P78. BEST WESTERN
Felt hats, fringed jackets
and faded denim.
P88. CUT LOUCHE
Give your nine-to-five
a French twist.
BEAUTY
P115. THE SCENTS
OF THE SUMMER
Rosy spritzes to revel in.
P116. AN INSTANT GLOW
IN YOUR LUNCH BREAK
A fast and gentle way to
resurface your skin.
P118. THE AWAKENING
Millennials get a libido boost.
P120. SAVING FACE
LIFESTYLE
P138. HOME ON
How to fight back against THE RANGE
complexion pollution. A Byron Bay entrepreneur’s
enviable farmhouse retreat.
P130. ANSWERING
ONLY TO MYSELF P152. HOW I’M WIRED
Beth Ditto shares her Sarah Ellen’s secret geeky
bad-ass gym philosophy. pleasures (from steamers
P132. WORLD CLASS
to smoothie makers).
Our global edit of this P169. PRIVACY NOTICE
year’s best beauty buys.
AND MORE…
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NEW YEAR,
NEW YOU?
WE THINK THE
OLD ONE IS JUST
FINE
WELCOME TO 2019. YOU MADE IT.
The new year is gleaming in front of you like
a shiny new pair of boots, just waiting to be tried
on for size. Oh, the places you’ll go. The new
heights you’ll reach. Those shoes are so box-fresh
it’s tempting to want to throw everything else out
and start again. But while we love a wardrobe
cleansing metaphor as much as the next fashion
obsessive, the trouble with starting over is that you
lose all the good bits as well as the bits you’d like
to let go. The same goes for sweeping New
Year’s resolutions that vow to overhaul your life,
your look, your livelihood. Chances are, you’re
already pretty damn amazing. (In fact, if you’re
reading ELLE, we can guarantee you are!) And
we’re guessing it’s the small tweaks that are going
to make all the difference to the year ahead.
After reading our beauty and wellness director
Janna Johnson O’Toole’s guide on
new ways to be well, I’ve decided
those tweaks, for me, are going to be
getting serious about sleep, switching
my phone to “do not disturb” mode
more often and uncrossing my legs
(who knew?). For Lara Worthington,
who radiates confidence on this
month’s cover, it’s about looking
ahead, embracing change and living
life on her own terms. With two
beautiful boys and a home base
in LA, the Australian model mogul
is redefining what is important by evolving her
beauty brand The Base in order to shine a light
on the causes closest to her heart. At 31, she
is finally feeling as though she’s exactly where
she needs to be: incredibly content and
comfortable in her own skin. And it shows.
If there’s one message that jumps out from every
page this month, it’s optimism. From the most
inspiring women in music — Cher, who’s finding ever
greater success in her seventies (p54), Lily Allen,
who’s revelling in her return to the spotlight (p36),
and Beth Ditto, who details her positive relationship
with the gym (p130) — to the uplifting summer fashion
and beauty buys that will inject freshness and fun
into the coming weeks, which will hopefully be filled
with swimming, snoozing and sipping lambrusco
(culture director Elle McClure calls it as the new
prosecco in the ELLE Hot List on p46). And at a time
when finding hope and meaning is more important
than ever, Lauren Sams asks, “Who’s Your Guru?”
(p52). Right now, I’m looking to astrologer
Susan Miller, who returns with her horoscope
guide to the year ahead (p155) and says I have
every reason to feel optimistic about my financials.
Photography: Darren McDonald. Lara wears: dress, $4,660,
So that shiny new pair of boots isn’t completely out
of the question, then. Lucky, because I already have
Alexander McQueen, alexandermcqueen.com/au
an Isabel Marant pair earmarked (p78). Enjoy.
A _ LEEK
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 THE PEOPLE BEHIND
THIS ISSUE REVEAL
THEIR HOT LISTS
MICHELLE JAGER
The winner of our fiction
competition (“Ghost Child”,
published on p62) has
a PhD in creative writing from
the University of Adelaide
and is obsessed with
anti-heroines. She’s also
the ultimate “odd-job lady”,
working as a university tutor,
research assistant, pet-sitter,
court report editor, wedding
photographer, pharmacy
assistant and writer.
On my playlist: Garbage,
The Jezabels, Beyoncé,
Nirvana, Kristin Hersh, Demis
Roussos and Johnny Cash.
I recently discovered
Montaigne and I’m hooked
on her song “For Your Love”.
On my reading list: Yoko
Ogawa’s The Diving Pool
and Maxine Beneba
Clarke’s Foreign Soil.
On my to-do list: Keep
a plant alive. I do not
have a good track record.
On my wish list: To publish
a novel. And to have a home
where I can keep a dog
— or many dogs.
On my bucket list: A road trip
around New Zealand.
On my blacklist: People
who chew gum on public
transport.
contributors
SARAH ELLISON
@sarahellisonstudio
A Byron Bay local, Ellison
multitasks as a furniture and
homewares designer and
interiors and fashion stylist.
She leant her simple, modern
aesthetic to our “Home On
The Range” shoot on p138.
On my playlist: RUFUS,
Paul Kelly and Led Zeppelin
(they’re my four-year-old’s
favourite band).
On my reading list: At the
moment I’m reading TC
– former pro-surfer Tom
Carroll’s autobiography.
On my to-do list: Start to
design a lighting collection.
On my wish list: Sparkly
Balenciaga slingbacks and
a Buds lamp by Foscarini.
On my bucket list: To show
my son as much of the world
as I possibly can.
On my blacklist:
Unnecessary plastic
packaging in supermarkets.
GRACE O’NEILL
@grceoneill
Our fashion features
director’s little black book of
celebrity interviews includes
Pamela Anderson, Kim
Cattrall and Alexa Chung.
She wrote our “How To Do
Summer” manual on p26
and plans to spend her days
off sans phone, with a stack
of books at a beach house.
On my playlist:
Hall & Oates, D’Angelo
and the Vanguard, Rhye,
Underworld and a lot of
George Michael.
On my reading list: The Rules
Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy,
Personal History by
Katharine Graham and
Kitchen Confidential
by Anthony Bourdain.
On my to-do list: To get
my driver’s licence!
On my wish list: Vintage silk
shirts by Dries Van Noten
– I have about 10 sitting in
my The RealReal basket.
On my bucket list: To try the
hot pastrami sandwich at
Langer’s Deli in LA – Nora
Ephron wrote an essay on it.
On my blacklist: Dogmatism
– now is the time to engage
with ideas that challenge
your world view.
JANNA YOTTE
@jannayotte
The art director turned
collage artist creates pieces
that deal with human nature,
femininity and vulnerability,
and her work has been
published from New York to
The Netherlands. When she’s
not creating striking imagery
(like the art for our horoscope
guide on p155), she’s tending
to her bower of orchids.
On my playlist: Charlotte
Cardin, Christian Löffler,
MorMor and loads of
podcasts.
On my reading list:
Mindsight by Daniel J. Siegel.
On my to-do list: A serious
closet clean-up, too many
dessert recipes and getting
that work/life balance.
On my wish list: A piece by
[sculptural taxidermy artist]
Polly Morgan, a vacation
somewhere warm and
inspiring, and some cute
and warm-enough-for-a-
Canadian-winter boots
(suggestions welcome).
On my bucket list: Many
feelings to amplify, many
fears to get rid of, many
connections to make. So
many places to travel and so
much food and drink to try!
Photography: Dave Wheeler; Alex Tran
On my blacklist: Rudeness.
 LOOK HEART
& SOLE Chunky, comfy and cult
– a stompy sandal is all the
more want-worthy when
emblazoned with Gucci’s
retro logo. How to dial down
the irony? Pair them with
pretty pieces like pastel suits
and floaty dresses. Your feet
(and outfit) thank you
in advance. E

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Words: Claudia Jukic. Styling: Dannielle Cartisano. Model: Laura Kluenter at Priscillas

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(02) 9287 3200 HOLLY RYAN X PARED,
paredeyewear.com
Bag, $945, GUCCI,
1300 442 878

Louis Vuitton
MOOD BOARD Hat, $150, AVENUE,
a
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FRESH
Chloé

HISTOR RICALLY, Resort season

Hermès

has b beeen associated with

lounging around Saint-Tropez

Chanel
or sippinng Negronis in Positano
bars – w which is to say, not too
readily associated with “real
life”. Buutt as we approach 2019
and our attitudes towards  

Zimmermann
shoppinng continue to evolve,
we no lo onger
o have much interest
in buying pieces to wear for a three-week Closer to home, Zimmermann
Z made retro
Fendi

sojourn, only to relegate them to the back of
our warrdrobes along with our suitcase.
Verssatility is everything, which is why we
were p particularly smitten with the Resort 19
collections. They just felt so… wearable.
Words: Grace O’Neill. Photography: Sevak Babakhani (still-life)
shapes feel more modern than ever, layering
polka-dot blouses under all-in-ones, and Matin
reminded us of the enduring style chops of khaki
shorts. (With a linen shirt? Check. White tee?
Check. Black one-piece cossie? Check.)

Chanel showed fresh white two-pieces with Are you reading this thinking, “Well this is
simple boater hats (and layered strings of all well and good for weekends but what
pearls – it is Chanel after all), Salvatore about work?” Resort may feel like an anti-
Ferraga amo gave the blazer a summer- office season, but to write-off its corporate
appropriate upgrade in eggshell potential is to seriously
linen, while Fendi made its signature “The underestimate it. Chloé’s ivory
monogrammed jumpers feel fresh in
a cropped and sleeveless V-neck
POWER slip dresses look just as good
with tailored blazers and
design. Paired with high-waisted is in pumps as they do with strappy
blue denim jeans, the latter will be how you flat sandals. And a pair of wide-
your best friend on those not-hot-
enough-for-shorts summer weekends.
wear it” legged pants from Hermès are
as likely to elicit compliments in Dress, $1,100,
the office kitchen as they are ZIMMERMANN,
zimmermannwear.com
over brunch with mates.
Salvatore Ferragamo

Shirt, $1,100, ZIMMERMANN,

As with everything we’re
zimmermannwear.com fawning over, the power is in
how you wear it. Get creative
– and ignore the rules. E

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Shorts, $295, MATIN,
matinstudio.com
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SEE THE

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Shirt, $599, KITX,
LIGHT

Words: Claudia Jukic. Styling: Dannielle Cartisano. Hair: Keiren Street at Vivien’s
Creative. Makeup: Kristyan Low at DLM. Model: Laura Kluenter at Priscillas
 Dress, $989,
LEE MATHEWS,
leemathews.com.au

Shirt, $395, BASSIKE,

bassike.com

No summer wardrobe is
complete without touches of
cream and khaki. Select suits,
shirts, balloon-sleeve dresses
and bucket hats in airy,
breathable fabrics for the
long, hot days ahead.

Top, $135, ALBUS LUMEN,

albuslumen.com; pants,
$250, BEC & BRIDGE,
becandbridge.com.au;
slides, $950,
CHRISTIAN DIOR,
(02) 9229 4600; hat, $60,
MARLE, marle.co.nz
Corsage blazer,
$1,100, pants, $550,
both ZIMMERMANN,
zimmermannwear.com;
shirt, $289, AKIN
BY GINGER & SMART,
gingerandsmart.com

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 Miu Miu
Hermès

Chanel
Gucci

TRY THIS
twin
sets
Our new-season
style MO:
Jacket, $85, skirt, $60, DOUBLE
both TOPSHOP,
topshop.com or NOTHING
SERIOUS QUESTION:
why have we overlooked
co-ords for so long? A synced
set, in bright block colours,
checks or fresh neutrals, offers
a simple way to look polished
and put-together with minimal
effort. Plus, consider the
economic benefits: your tops
and bottoms can be worn
with other separates, turning
one outfit into three. E
Top, $60, shorts, $80,
both SPORTSGIRL,
spo sg .co
sportsgirl com.au
au
Words: Grace O’Neill. Still-life styling: Samantha Wong. Photography:
Jason Lloyd-Evans; Getty Images; Sevak Babakhani (still-life)

Top, $325, skirt, $375,

both ALICE MCCALL,
alicemccall.com.au

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 Very few Parisians can claim
to live in an actual house, with
its own front door, but Claire
Thomson-Jonville, Scottish
creative consultant, former
editor-in-chief of high-glamour
cult magazine Self Service
and mother of two, is one
such lucky resident. She lives
in a charming three-storey
maison. “A house, in the 8th
arrondissement!” she says,
still with a trace of disbelief.

MY
INSIDER

WORLD
ELLE explores the life, style
and maison of creative consultant
Claire Thomson-Jonville
P H O TO G R A P H Y B Y A devoted Nike fan,
TH OM AS CH ÈN È Thomson-Jonville has a stash
of more than 3O trainers, with
her Off-White x Nike Air
Jordan styles on high rotation.
Monogrammed pouches
and fashion blankets are also
a favourite — one by Hermès
is artfully folded in the
Words: Alice Cavanagh

bathroom, and a green

Céline throw (much loved by
her daughter Georgia, 4,
and son Étienne, 20 months)

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At weekends, Thomson-Jonville’s
pace slows significantly and she
seeks out family time, heading to
the Jardin des Tuileries, Parc
Monceau and other green
spaces. While she rarely has
time to cook (“I just can’t be
bothered,” she says, with
refreshing frankness), she clearly
relishes downtime at home when
she’s not travelling for photo
shoots or fashion weeks.
Prints by photographers
Juergen Teller and David
Sims hang on the walls, along
with iconic imagery by
Corinne Day (including the
endlessly Instagrammed
black-and-white portrait of
a young Kate Moss). Her
bookshelves are chock-full of
carefully curated back-issues
of magazines, and the
surfaces are artfully cluttered
with Byredo candles and
stacked Hermès boxes.
Thomson-Jonville is keeping
an eye out for a vintage
mirror and coffee table. “My
phone to-do list is literally ‘buy
furniture’, but I wanted to live
in the space and then start
buying things,” she says. “But
I have no time!” This year has
been full of change: along
with the new address, she left
her post at Self Service after
10 years to break out on her
own as a freelance
creative consultant. E
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THE Shirt, $420, BASSIKE,
bassike.com; skirt, $9,705,

ELLE sandals, $670, both HERMÉS,

(02) 9287 3200; scarf, $580,
BULGARI, (02) 9233 3611

MANUAL:

HOW TO
DRESS
FOR
SUMMER2019 heralds a renewed sense
of playfulness, and we couldn’t be
happier about it
There’s a temptation in summer
to stick to your tried-and-tested
rotation of white tees, denim
shorts and linen day dresses.
But why limit yourself when
there’s a smorgasbord of
fresh new trends to experiment
with? More is more – so
proceed without caution.

Blazer, $610, RAG & BONE,

(03) 9563 1617

Skirt, $599,
LEE MATHEWS,
leemathews.com.au
Pretty, understated
gingham or big, bold,
bright plaid – why not Dress, $99, ZARA,
throw caution to the wind zara.com/au

and pair them together?

Top, $250, GANNI,
tuchuzy.com

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 Dress, $99, ZARA,
zara.com/au

 
Scarf print is the pattern
du jour for 2019. Whether
it’s a statement-making
maxi or a demure silk shirt
worn with jeans, consider
this your easiest entry into
on-trend summer dressing.
Scarf, $390,
HERMÈS,
(02) 9287 3200

Pants, $139,
THE EAST ORDER,
theeastorder.com.au

Dress, $932, TORY

BURCH, farfetch.com

Top, $410, SANDRO,

( ) 9327
(02) 9 3377

Sandals, $100,
$ SOL
Sandals, $99,
SANA, sol-ssana.com.au
ANCIENT GREEK
SANDALS,
Sandals, $140, SOLE PURPOSE davidjones.com
A.EMERY, aemery.com
This season we’re
trading in our black
sandals for brown.
Why? It feels fresher
and more modern – but
still goes with almost Sandals, $199,
everything we own. > MARIA FARRO,
mariafarro.com
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MANUAL:

HOW TO
DRESS
FOR
SUMMER

Bag, $3,780, PRADA,

prada.com

Bag, $2,225, GUCCI,

gucci.com/au

H
H
Handbags g arre, at their
heart, a practical accessory
– which makes the current
Bag, $395,
BUILDING BLOCK, crop of sculptural totes and
building--block.com clutches all the more fun.
We’re lusting over Gucci’s
medicine ball-esque
number – among others.

Bag, $650, COACH,

coach.com

Bag, $5,890, CHANEL,

1300 242 635

Bag, $4,800,
CHRISTIAN DIOR,
(02) 9229 4600

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 Pants, $365, MIH,
edwardsimports.com

Gucci
Prada
Groundbreaking? Maybe
not – but who cares about
stamping out new ground
when you’ve got a proverbial
greenhouse of prints on
offer? Daisies, daffodils,
peonies… we’ll take the
whole bunch.

Dress, $715, SALONI,

matchesfashion.com

Dress, $745,
MOTHER OF PEARL,
parlourx.com
Miu Miu

Dress, $795,
ZIMMERMANN,
zimmermannwear.com.au

WELL
GROUNDED
All hail the return of
the anklet: summer’s
most nostalgic
Necklace worn as Anklet, $450, LUCY Bracelet, $480, CHRISTIAN Anklet $129,
Anklet, $129 KIRSTIN ASH,
ASH
accessories trend. >

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anklet, $159, FOLK, lucyfolk.com DIOR, (02) 9229 4600 au.kirstinash.com
RELIQUIA,
reliquiajewellery.com
m
THE
ELLE
MANUAL:

HOW TO Shoes, $1,090,

DRESS CHRISTIAN DIOR,

(02) 9229 4600

FOR
SUMMER
The resurgence of all things
’00s has extended to our
footwear. Barely-there
sandals, ballet flats and
even humble thongs are all
staging a comeback.

Sandals, $670, HERMÈS, Heels, $399,

(02) 9287 3200 MANNING CARTELL,
manningcartell.com.au
Prabal Gurung

Top, $105, GANNI,

tuchuzy.com

Shawl, $1,010,
LOUIS VUITTON,
au.louisvuitton.com
From floaty maxi
dresses to tees and
scarves – consider this
iconic hippie print an
instant injection of joy. Dress, $660, MARYSIA,
marysia.com

Top, $169,
Pringle Of Scotland

THE UPSIDE,
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 Ports 1961
Bag, $7,865,
HERMÈS,
(02) 9287 3200
Shirt, $95, RPM,
rpm.co.nz

T-shirt, $29.90, UNIQLO,

uniqlo.com/au/store UNDER
THE PALMS
The non-ironic
Hawaiian shirt (or
shirt-dress) is this
summer’s answer to
Skirt, $69.95, ZARA, the Dad sneaker. >
zara.com/au Stripes feel sporty and
modern this summer,
reworked in chunky
bold prints and a zesty
citrus colour palette.

80, RUSTY,
Shirt, $8
au.ruusty.com
Rosie Assoulin

Dress, $360, BY JOHNNNY,

byjohnny.com.au
Miu Miu

Shirt, $2,820,
LOUIS UITTON,
au.louis uitton.com

Shirt-dress, $170,
RUE STIICC, ruestiic.com

Bag, $425, LUCY FOLK,

lucyfolk.com

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THE
ELLE
MANUAL:

HOW TO
DRESS

Emilio Pucci
FOR Earrings, $380,
PRADA, prada.com

SUMMER
Shorts, $29.90,
UNIQLO,
uniqlo.com/au/store

Bag, $515,
SIMON MILLER,
mychameleon.com.au
Louis Vuitton

Shorts, $3000,
SIR THE LABEL,
sirthelabel.com
Shirt, $395, FRAME,
edwardsimports.com

JUST ADD:
Tunic tops,
statement-making
earrings, pastel
loafers and raffia
Shorts, $169
9, wedges are your
KOWTOW W,
au.kowtowclothinng.com
shorts’ new best
friends this summer.

Did shorts ever really

go away? No – but
we’ve been under-utilising Sunglasses, $290, ILLESTEVA,
them for the past few mychameleon.com.au

summers. Choose from

high-waisted and belted,
linen and striped or
Shorts, $350, LUCY FOLK, Loafers, $495,
‘70s-inspired paisley. lucyfolk.co
om LACOSTE,
lacoste.com.au
Words: Grace O’Neill. Photography: Adrian Price; Sevak Babakhani (still-life);
Jason Lloyd-Evans; Getty Images. Styling: Dannielle Cartisano. Still-life styling:
Claudia Jukic; Samantha Wong. Hair: Keiren Street at Vivien’s Creative.
Makeup: Kristyan Low at DLM. Model: Laura Kluenter at Priscillas

Wedges, $80,
ASOS, asos.com
Christian Dior

Shorts, $35
50,
ZIMMERMA ANN,
zimmermannweear.com
 Christian Dior
Jacket, $590,
MICHAEL LO SORDO,
michaellosordo.com

Shake up the blazer’s office

connotations by opting for
soft tailoring, breathable
fabrics and a muted palette
of sorbets, eggshells and
whites. They’re best over
a pretty, calf-skimming Blazer, $179, ZARA,
day dress – cue: the checks, zara.com/au

stripes and florals you’ve

already stocked up on. E
Louis Vuitton
Gucci

Blazer, $490,
ALICE MCCALL,
alicemccall.com

Dress, $669,
GINGER & SMART,
gingerandsmart.com

Dress, $695,
ZIMMERMANN,
zimmermannwear.com
Jacket, $695, SANDRO,
(02) 9327 3377
Dress, $299,
SPELL & THE GYPSY
COLLECTIVE,
shop.spelldesigns.com.au

Dress, $229, Jacket, $599,

ELKA COLLECTIVE, MANNING CARTELL,
elkacollective.com manningcartell.com.au

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 IN FOCUS

PASS
WITH RESPECT
FOR THE PAST AND
AN EYE TO THE IT
ON
FUTURE, NEW LABEL
MASTANI
IS MELDING
TRADITIONAL
WITH VISION
FOR SLOW FASHION
WITH A SOCIAL Top, $499, pants,

CONSCIENCE $699, both MASTANI,

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Above left: kimono,

Kudrat Makkar

$1,399, pants, $899,

both MASTANI,
mastanilabel.com

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 AS A YOUNG GIRL GROWING UP IN THE TOWN
of Jalandhar in India, Kudrat Makkar would drape herself in her
mother’s handmade saris and shawls.
“My love of fabric and fashion started when I was raiding
mum’s wardrobe,” she laughs. “Because I come from a very
small city there was really no contemporary fashion at all, but
mum had a lot of heirloom pieces and that’s how I learned about
quality and craftsmanship.”
As she grew a little older, Makkar would accompany her
mother to visit the artisans who made those garments. “Mum
would go to all these small embroiderers and craftspeople who
worked by hand and she would explain how everything was Dress, $699,
MASTANI,
done,” says Makkar. “In those days you had to buy the fabric, use mastanilabel.com
your imagination and then let the craftspeople work their magic.”
From those early studio visits with her mother, Makkar’s own meeting artisans whose traditional techniques spanned
imagination was sparked and she vowed that one day she generations. “We were visiting a few villages because my
would work in fashion. Three decades later the result is father does a lot of charity work in India and I suddenly realised
Mastani, a label based in Melbourne with an atelier in India I could do something that could make a difference,” says
and a design team in Milan. The brand’s name comes from that Makkar. “I’d always appreciated the beauty of hand-looming
of an Indian princess who was a symbol of both strength and and embroidery through my upbringing, so I thought I could do
femininity, two values Makkar aspires to embody in her designs something to help sustain their skills and also, in some small
that fuse Indian skills spanning centuries with modern cuts way, to give back.”
and silhouettes. Traditional hand-looming Today, Mastani’s atelier is located
techniques and intricate embellishment and
beading are the hallmarks of the label that “Her in Bengaluru in the Indian state of Karnataka
and consists of a small team of 20. Artisans
aims to preserve and revitalise Indian crafts designs fuse are provided with above-average working
while educating its wearers about the culture Indian skills conditions and pay and guaranteed
of the hands that shaped their garments.
After two years of boarding school in the SPANNING minimum orders to foster the preservation of
their expertise.
Himalayas, where Makkar’s father sent her CENTURIES “I commit for, say, the next five years, to an
to instil a sense of independence and with modern order of a certain amount every month so they
strength, she moved to Australia, where she
completed an architecture degree at the
cuts and don’t have to worry about going out and finding
other work,” says Makkar. “A lot of these
University of Melbourne. “I always wanted silhouettes” traditional techniques are dying because there is
to do something in fashion but coming from not enough regular work so people have to stop
an Indian family they really wanted me to do and become labourers or do odd jobs instead.”
a degree and I thought architecture was the closest thing while Textile waste at the atelier is minimised, in line with Mastani’s
still staying in the design field,” she says. focus on sustainability. Fabric scraps are kept for finishing and
When she graduated, an opportunity arose to run an used on trims on garment bags and some styles, and samples
Words: Georgina Safe. Photography: Will Davidson, Tracey Lee Hayes

education business, which Makkar did for five years before
founding Mastani. “Running a business helped me build my
business skills, and studying architecture enabled me to
understand craftsmanship and construction with the kind of
experience you just can’t get in fashion school,” she says.
She decided to bring her creative and commercial nous
together with Mastani two years ago after she went home to
India to see her family. She visited several remote villages
@mastani.label
and garments that do not pass quality control are either upcycled
by the atelier or donated within the local community.
“We pride ourselves on not letting anything go to waste,”
says Makkar.
Mastani’s new spring/summer collection also scores high on
desirability. Easy inky tunic tops, wrap jackets with matching silky
trousers, oversized kimono coats and exquisitely embellished
eveningwear are among the pieces in the range designed to be
worn this season, and for seasons to come, in line with the
original pieces beloved by her mother.

“I want to create heirloom pieces that 10 or 20 years down

the line people will still want to wear,” she says. E

35
 MUSIC

in
full
bloom
After a tumultuous
decade in the
spotlight, Lily Allen
is back – with a
whole new attitude

Words: Lauren Sams. Photography: Getty Images

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If it feels like Lily Allen has been narrating your entire adult life, it’s
because she has. From dodging dodgy blokes at the bar (“can’t
knock ‘em out/can’t walk away”), to bemoaning the guys who
just don’t care that you’re not quite getting there, sexually speaking
(“you’re supposed to care/that you never make me scream”), to
lamenting lost friendships (“could you please find it deep within
your heart/to go back to the start”), to deeply relatable body
image debates ( “I wanna be able to eat spaghetti bolognaise/
and not feel bad about it for days and days and days”), to true
#goals (“I want loads of clothes/and fuckloads of diamonds”),
there is a Lily Allen lyric for every stage of a woman’s life.
After a four-year stint without an album (she calls Sheezus, her
2014 album, “a commercial and creative disaster”), Allen came
back – both musically (she released No Shame last year,
to critical and commercial success, and is in the
midst of a world tour) and with her first book “I WANT TO
– a memoir called My Thoughts Exactly.
Calling anyone “the voice of a generation”
C R E A T E . I
seems trite, but in Allen’s case it just might be F O R W
true: she’shonest(tothepointofsensationalism) GETTING UP,
about absolutely everything. When it comes to
GOING TO THE
Lily Allen, nothing (sex, drugs, alcohol, body
image, mental illness…) is off the table. Which S T U D I O
might be part of the reason she’s been tabloid WRITING GREAT
fodder since she burst onto the music scene SONGS”
back in 2006 with her first album, Alright, Still.
The UK tabloid press are notorious for their
voracious pursuit of celebrities and Allen
seems to be particularly targeted. “Oh,” she
says plainly, when asked why she thinks that is.
“Because I was a young woman who
expressed my opinion unashamedly.” From
day one, every move Allen made was
scrutinised by the press. It got so bad that at
one point, she lied and put out a statement saying she’d had
a miscarriage, because she was afraid the papers would find out
she’d had an abortion. Her only form of recourse, she says, is to
sue the publications for defamation. When asked how much she’s
spent on lawyers so far, she rolls her eyes. “Millions.”
Fame, she says, isn’t something she’s interested in anymore.
“I want to move on from the craziness of the last decade of my life.
I’m not focused on being famous now, like I was before I had kids.
I want to create. I look forward to getting up in the morning, going
to the studio and writing great songs – not writing great songs and
then getting them on the radio and going to an awards show. That
stuff just doesn’t feel very real to me anymore.” In an ideal world,
she’d move back to the country, to a place like the one she lived in
with ex-husband Sam Cooper, and their daughters, Ethel and
Marnie. “I like my peace and quiet. When I got to the end of my
driveway I felt like I was completely alone; I do miss that.”
The book is exactly as no-holds-barred as you’d imagine: from
Allen’s mid-air romp with Liam Gallagher to her struggle to have
an orgasm to the breakdown of her marriage with Cooper, and
the various vices she used to cope at the time (sex with female
escorts, drugs and alcohol). But it’s the less salacious bits of the
book that are the real meat in the sandwich: the passages that
muse on a lonely childhood spent buffeting from one distracted
parent’s house to another, the devastation of losing her firstborn,
George, to stillbirth and the emotional wreck she was during the
first year of Ethel’s life, due to a life-threatening illness the baby
suffered. Then there are the pages that detail exactly how hard it is
to succeed as a musician: from Allen’s early days cutting out her
own record covers on the floor of her mum’s flat in London, to
losing millions in royalties because she “accidentally ripped off
Take That and couldn’t be bothered to do the paperwork”, to the
grind of constant touring, something she says contributed to the
breakdown of her marriage.
She wanted to write the memoir, she says,
partially as a record for her daughters. “This is
L O O K a very important period of their lives that they
A R D T O won’t remember, but it will shape so much of
their future. I wanted them to hear how it all
happened from me, not on the internet.” She
says writing was cathartic (“I mean, kind of
A N D depressing to go through all of it again, but
yeah, positive in the end”) and allowed her to
take responsibility for her actions. Writing the
book, she says, helped her “grow up” and
draw a line under the past decade of her life.
But it’s not the sort of memoir that leaves the
reader with a sense that everything’s going to
be alright. She’s honest about her
shortcomings, her vulnerabilities and mistakes.
@lilyallen
Body image is a particular concern: “It’s an
ongoing battle; every day I look at myself in
the mirror and see the flabby bits on my waist
or legs and I have to say over and over, ‘It’s okay, you don’t have
to look like those girls on Instagram, like a model.” She worries
about the effect of social media on her children and tries to be
a positive role model, but that, too, is a work in progress. “The
conversation is always evolving,” she says.
The one constant in Allen’s career, the thing she’ll always love,
is touring (she’ll return to our shores in early February). If you’ve
ever seen her live on stage, you’ll know exactly how electric and
alive she becomes when she’s got a mic in her hands. Glastonbury
– where her dad, the comedian Keith Allen, organised the
comedy tent for years – is her favourite place to perform, but, she
says, “I’ll perform literally anywhere. It’s an honour, and I genuinely
mean that. I’m always shocked that people will pay money to see
me perform, it’s overwhelming to think I can fill a room with
thousands of people.” She smiles and leans back. “I’ll do it until
people don’t want me to anymore. There’s just nothing better.” E
Catch Lily Allen from February 2-12; lilyallenmusic.com. Her
memoir, My Thoughts Exactly, is out now ($34.99, Penguin)
37

Wendy and Brett Whiteley
Clara Luciani
GRAND DESIGNS
American artist Nick Cave (no, not the
musician) has created his most impressive
installation yet, comprised of millions of
plastic beads, crystals, ceramic birds,
flowers, wind spinners, gilded animals
and… Christmas decorations. You can
even climb one of the artwork’s ladders
and take in the view from the top. It
needs to be seen to be believed.
NickCave: UNTIL is on until March 3;
carriageworks.com.au
MODERN CLASSICS
Some of the world’s most recognisable
and beloved pre-Raphaelite works have
journeyed from London’s Tate gallery to
Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia,
so it’s worth making your own jaunt to the
capital. Don’t miss the chance to get close
to John Everett Millais’ famed “Ophelia”
and John William Waterhouse’s
“The Lady of Shalott”.
Love & Desire: Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces
From The Tate until April 28; nga.gov.au
POP YOUR CHERRY
Neneh Cherry has long been a pillar of
pop (along with ageless, cool style) but
now she’s back in a big way. In October
she released the Four Tet-produced
Broken Politics – her first solo album in
four years – and now she’s headed
to Australia, performing as part of the
Sydney Festival and Tassie’s MONA
FOMA (held in Launceston). Snap up
tickets quick smart – and prepare to
bust out some big accessories.
January 15-16, sydneyfestival.org.au;
January 19, mofo.net.au
38
Neneh Cherry
Nick Cave: UNTIL
Nick Cave
SHE SOUNDS
ARTS The summer festival stretch is packed
with girl-power acts. Leading the way is
Francophile delight So Frenchy So Chic’s
Made first all-woman line-up, including Parisian
songstress Clara Luciani. Falls Festival is a
departure from last year, when it copped
a NYE flak for a lack of female acts – get excited
for Jack River, Tkay Maidza, Odette and
Hatchie. Then Laneway offers big-ticket
resolution acts like Jorja Smith and Courtney Barnett.
So Frenchy So Chic runs January 11-19,
to get out sofrenchysochic.com; Falls Festival runs
December 28 – January 6, fallsfestival.
com; St Jerome’s Laneway Festival runs
more?
Stick to your guns
January 28 – February10,
lanewayfestival.com
CAVE DWELLER
and hit these Musician, author, composer and Gucci
happenings front-rower Nick Cave (yes, that one)
will take to stages around the country for
a series of candid conversations and solo
LOVE INTEREST piano performances. Get ready to hang
Art aficionados will flock to world- onto his every prophetic word. E
premiere performance, Brett & Wendy: January 5-23; nickcave.com
A Love Story Bound By Art, which mixes
acting, dance and live music to bring
to life the colourful and turbulent artistic CALL ME EVIE
BOOK OF THE MONTH
and romantic partnership of Wendy and BY J.P. POMARE
Brett Whiteley. Choreographed by the As you prepare to while away your
Words: Elle McClure. Photography: Getty Images; James Prinz; Christie Goodwin; Wolfgang
Australian Ballet and Sydney Dance summer days, you’ll need a new
Company’s Lucas Jervies and directed by must-read thriller to tear through
Kim Carpenter (behind performances feverishly. Enter Call Me Evie, the
Tillmans; courtesy of Brett Whiteley archive, copyright Wendy Whiteley
by Melbourne Theatre Company and latest in the vein of Gone Girl-style
Sydney’s Belvoir St Theatre) it’ll be suspenseful tomes. You’ll be
a not-to-miss piece dedicated to two compelled by trying to figure out
of Australia’s greatest creatives. what the hell happened to land
January 18-27; sydneyfestival.org.au Evie in New Zealand, held hostage
by a man whose identity is known
only to her, but who’s adamant he’s
only protecting her from herself.
“The Lady Of Shalott”
Call Me Evie is out now
($29.99, Hachette)
This is the latest instalment of the ELLE Book Club,
where each month we recommend one read we
know you’ll love. For a chance to win a copy of this
one, head to ELLE.com.au/win
*
 her marriage [with Prince Albert]. I think she had
this ambivalence toward them because she was
somebody who had fought for her
independence, only to [marry at the age of 20
and become pregnant the following month].
STREAMING
Obviously there were no contraceptives, and
that often meant being pregnant without

WHAT choosing to be – in Victoria’s case, nine times

over, with no pain relief during labour. To have

HER nine children and also be queen of an empire is

unbelievable to get your head around. As
someone who wanted to go out and see the

HIGHNESS world, but had to live her life in a different way

than expected, really took a toll. At the same

DID time, almost every other sentence in her diaries is

about her children, and [she and Albert] spent
a lot more time with them than what was usual

NEXT
As one of few
within their court. She seemed torn between
resentment for having to give up her
independence and also her love for them.”

ON THE CRY
“Filming was an emotional marathon; I had to
female leads really manage my mental endurance because it
in sci-fi hit was incredibly dark in places. [The series centres
Doctor Who, ON SWOTTING UP TO PLAY
QUEEN VICTORIA
around the kidnapping of a child in a small
the “perpetually Australian town.] I kept trying to think about my

pregnant” queen “[Queen Victoria’s] diaries are all online – she

wrote pretty much daily, over 62 million words.
character’s [separation from] her child on
a physical level, as though it was a physical thing
of England in What’s quite amazing is that I can read her that was happening to her, like losing her arm.
period drama diaries along the same period of time as we’re I gave myself a bit of a hard time at first – I spent
Victoria, or the filming. On my way to work or while the first couple of weeks of filming
mother of I’m in makeup I can look up the dates
we’re about to shoot, say ‘April 1848’,
The Cry airs
thinking I had been grossly miscast
because I am not a mum, and I kept
a missing baby in and get everything. We’ve just filmed
February 3
on the ABC thinking there was something
new psych-thriller the French Revolution, when King I wouldn’t be able to understand,
series The Cry, Louis-Phillippe was kicked out of because of what everybody says
Jenna Coleman France and went to stay with [the British Royal
Family], and I could read in her diaries what the
about that bond being so primal. But then
I thought that I also don’t know what it is like to be
leads with king said to her on his arrival. In terms of research Queen Victoria, and that’s my job.”
aplomb – but it’s amazing. She’s very unexpected, and is
admits she still completely not what her portraits and her public ON WHAT’S UP NEXT

has crises of image, in all her straight-laced collars, would “I choose roles on a script-by-script basis and

confidence suggest. She is incredibly frank and really, really

funny with a complete lack of patience. If she
likes you she is loyal to you forever, but if she
doesn’t like you she’s horrible.”
ON VICTORIA’S
@jenna_coleman_
often it’s led by a project feeling like a departure
to what I’ve just finished. After Doctor Who,
Victoria was the perfect antidote and then after
Victoria, The Cry felt very different. I’d love to do
some theatre, it’s just a matter of finding the right
play, and obviously the right timing. I’ve basically

MATERNAL INSTINCT been looking every single night at the minute. But
“Victoria is not thought to have been a very I finished filming The Cry on a Saturday and
affectionate mother – she would tell her children began Victoria on the Monday, so for now I’m
they spoilt her honeymoon and the first years of potentially going to take a holiday!” E

39

TV
how to
top your
personal
best
Bel Powley (who’s
way more than just
the Teenage Girl
she won us over
with) explains how
to win at life
Bel Powley experienced a rocket-fast
ascent to fame with her first-ever major
film, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl – her
portrayal of 15-year-old Minnie’s coming
of age saw her nominated for more than
a dozen awards (several of which she
won) and named “female revelation of
the year” at Cannes. So how do you
back that up? For Powley, it was by
sticking to her guns with a considered
choice of meaningful, complex and
feminist characters. The latest? As drug
addict Dawn Wershe – opposite
Matthew McConnaughey – in White
Boy Rick, based on the real-life case
of the FBI’s youngest-ever informant.
Consider this your how-to for the
ultimate in personal reinventions.
40
DON’T FEAR THE UNKNOWN
“It was weird that my first film [The Diary
Of A Teenage Girl] was such a success,
because afterward it was like, “What
happens now? Is it all downhill from
here?” It was a hell of a starting place
– I loved working with the director
[Marielle Heller] and I related to the
character of Minnie so much because I’d
never truly seen a teenage girl portrayed
like that – and so coming off the film and
its press tour and going back to the grind
was an adjustment. The challenge was
in finding projects that excited me in the
same way, but I eventually did.”
GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE
“Theatre and film feel like two completely
different jobs, because it’s like I’m
exercising completely different muscles,
but I really couldn’t do one without the
other. I learnt most of what I know from
being on stage; it’s kind of the basis
from where I work. I love the immediacy
and rawness of theatre. When you
do a movie, you can change your
performance 10 times in 10 different
takes, but with theatre you only get
one shot on that particular night. But then
you do the same play every night and
it’s interesting the way your character
develops really slowly – by the 70th night
it’s morphed and changed but you
haven’t even noticed it happening.”
NEVER DO THINGS BY HALVES
“I watched a lot of YouTube videos
of people smoking crack to prepare
[for the role of Dawn]. It sounds
ridiculous, but I found out that’s what
Naomie Harris did when she played
a crackhead in Moonlight. It was really
the only way to add that to my repertoire
– it’s not like I could draw on my own
experience. Matthew and I were also
very in-character on set. Our characters’
[father-daughter] relationship is quite
WHILE YOU
WAIT…
…for your favourite series
to return to TV screens, catch some
of their biggest stars in a swathe
of new movies.
BIG LITTLE LIES’ Meryl Streep in
Mary Poppins Returns (January 1)
and Kathryn Newton in family
drama Ben Is Back (January 31).
GAME OF THRONES’
Gwendoline Christie in the uplifting
Welcome To Marwen (January
10) and Sophie Turner in X-men
spin-off Dark Phoenix (February 7).
STRANGER THINGS’ Sadie Sink
in creepy horror flick Eli
(out January 31).
strained, so we had to stay in that space
to make it truthful. We weren’t fully
‘method’ but we did keep our distance.
I think it would have been weird for
us to play those characters and then
go and have a beer afterwards.”
AVOID REINVENTING THE WHEEL
“A role doesn’t have to be completely
new to be interesting; I much prefer
seeing new takes on existing people or
narratives. I recently did an independent
film directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour
called Mary Shelley – Elle Fanning
played Mary and I played her stepsister
Claire. Mary was famous for writing
Frankenstein, which is a story we all
know and love, but the director Haifaa
wanted to show Mary and Claire as
people had never seen them before
– as the young feminists they were. It’s
important to go back in history and pluck
out female figures and get to the bottom
of who they were, because often we
think of them as quite one-dimensional.
Any female character that is multi-
faceted will do for me right now!” E
White Boy Rick is out February 7
 SELF
I get by
with a
little help
EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
ANIMALS make their
humans calmer,
happier and better
able to cope with life
A SURE SIGN THAT MILLENNIALS
are bucking the stigma of mental health is
the current popularity of emotional support
animals (ESAs). More than just your
average pet, an ESA (often a dog or cat,
but possibly a chicken, rabbit or, yes, even
a pig) helps their owner cope with
2019-grade stress and anxiety.
There’s singer Ariana Grande, who,
when faced with criticism of her new
companion, a pig named Piggy Smalls,
tweeted: “SHE’S AN EMOTIONAL
SUPPORT PIG I NEED HER.” Then there’s
Lena Dunham and her “happy zoo”. “I’m the
kind of anxious that makes you like, ‘I’m not
going to be able to come out tonight,
Words: Elle McClure; Cat Rodie; Elle McClure. Photography: We Are The Rhoads/
tomorrow night or maybe for the next 67
nights,’” she has said of her paralysing
anxiety disorder. After a series of medical
issues — including a hysterectomy, in 2017,
at the age of 31, and the removal of her left
ovary a year later — she added three
Sphynx cats, Candy, Irma and LouLou, to
her collection of pets.
Trunk Archive/Snapper Images
It’s not surprising that the popularity
of ESAs is on the rise. Emotional support
animals have been known to
assist people who suffer from severe
depression, generalised anxiety disorder,
post-traumatic stress disorder and many
other serious conditions on the spectrum of
mental illness. According to the Black Dog
Institute, one in five Australians experience
a mental illness in any year, and half of us
will experience a mental illness in our
lifetime. As anyone who’s been triggered
by the horrors on their newsfeed can attest,
we’re living in tumultuous times.
ESAs are fast becoming mainstream.
Last year, Townsville Airport teamed up
with local organisation Sensitive
Companions to bring a therapy dog into
the terminal to help soothe anxious
travellers. Therapy dogs are also popping
up in hospitals, courtrooms and schools.
The trend is booming in the US, where
airlines noted that between 2016 and
2017, there was a more than 50 per cent
increase in the number of passengers flying
with their own ESAs. Stories, like that of
a woman travelling with her duck (dressed
in red shoes and a Captain America
nappy), are raising awareness of ESAs,
while breaking down the taboo of
mental illness.
Why are so many people
turning to animals for the extra
support they need? Melanie
Jones, a psychologist at Lead The
Way, a Melbourne-based animal-
assisted therapy organisation,
says the reason is more of us are
living in isolation. “There is a rise in
single-person households and
many people are delaying
parenthood. Psychologically, animals
are meeting our basic need for
attachment and connection. They’re
providing people with a reason to live, in
some cases.”
As yet, not much research has been
done into the benefits of ESAs, but several
studies have detailed the perks of
spending time with pets. “People feel
happier, calmer, more trusting and less
stressed,” explains Jones. When it comes
to finding the right animal for the job, she
says it’s a very individual process: “Many
peoplehavefoundtheirESAbyaccident.”
This was the case for Dunham and Bowie,
a Yorkshire Terrier she inherited from a
friend. When Bowie died last year,
Dunham took to Instagram to pay tribute,
writing “[Bowie] made me feel safe and
strong in a sea of change and reminded
me that joy needn’t be diminished by
a bunch o’ imperfect body parts.”
The law in Australia doesn’t yet
recognise ESAs (they’re considered pets,
unlike assistance dogs, which are medical
aids). However, you can ask a GP or
mental health professional to document
the role your animal plays in your life,
which can prove useful if you want to
bring your ESA to a public place or if your
landlord doesn’t allow pets. Of course, if
you want to take to the skies, you’ll need
to check with the airline first, and if your
ESA is a duck, squirrel or miniature horse,
be ready to field a lot of requests for
#animalselfies from fellow passengers. E
@lenadunham
“Animals are
meeting
our basic
need for
@arianagrande
attachment
and
connection”
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 A REAL
MAN

SONG
AND
DANCE
MAN He’s won
a Pulitzer,
reinvented the
modern musical
and is happily
married to his
high school
sweetheart.
He’s now set
to star in Mary
Poppins Returns,
which begs
the question:
could we
possibly love
Lin-Manuel
Miranda any
more?
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 The first rule of celebrity interviews is not to ask the same old
questions everyone asks. But when it comes to Lin-Manuel
Miranda, it’s hard to hold back. So, when is Hamilton coming to
Australia? The answer is “at some point,” which is vague but
hopeful. It’s also extremely polite, given that this interview isn’t

With Mary Poppins Returns co-star Emily Blunt

about Miranda’s Tony Award-winning, record-breaking, cultural
atom bomb of a musical. No. It’s about what comes next, when
you take the life story of one of the US founding fathers, Alexander
Hamilton, turn it into a smash hit hip-hop Broadway musical, blow
everybody clean away, and turn your sights to other things.
Specifically: Mary Poppins Returns.
The film is a sequel to the 1964 Julie Andrews classic;
Emily Blunt plays the titular Mary, and Miranda is
Jack, a lamplighter and Mary’s love interest. “It’s
daunting to remake a beloved film like “It’s daunting
Mary Poppins,” he says. “I think it’s very smart not to
do a reboot, it’s following on from the story.”
to remake secret is to being with one person for
such a long time – how do you keep
Miranda, who one imagines could have his pick of a beloved the romance alive? “I have no idea.
roles, was drawn to the project for the chance to film like Take holidays? Actually, that’s where
work with director Rob Marshall (Chicago) and Mary Poppins. I started writing Hamilton, on vacation
co-star Blunt, who he says is “so generous with
every member of the cast and crew”. I think it’s very one year. My wife made me go, we
hadn’t been on holiday for such
Miranda says he was one of those lucky kids who smart not a long time. But then I got this idea for
“always knew” what he wanted to do. His a-ha to do Hamilton, and I had to run with it. So
moment? Watching The Little Mermaid. “When
Sebastian the crab sang ‘Under The Sea’, it was like
a reboot” maybe that’s not right. That was not
very romantic for my wife.”
my life before then was black and white and my life Miranda is known for his work
after that was in colour. I don’t know what it is about promoting charitable causes. He
that song and that moment but it was the most transported I have released the song “Almost Like Praying” to aid Puerto Rico after
ever felt in a movie theatre.” At university, he started a hip-hop the devastation of Hurricane Maria, and next year Hamilton will
troupe, Freestyle Love Supreme (more on this later) and wrote open on the island to promote tourism there and hopefully raise
a draft of In The Heights, the musical which would first bring him “millions”. He also recently fought to reclaim the film rights to
popular and critical acclaim. In The Heights, which were owned by The Weinstein Company.
Nearly 10 years later, in 2008, it opened on Broadway and “It was important, as a man, to stand up and say I wanted the
went on to win 13 Tony Awards. From there he worked on Bring It movie out of those hands. And now we’re back on track, and
On: The Musical and in 2012, he began performing a show then Warner Brothers have the rights. The hope is to film next summer.”
known as The Hamilton Mixtape. Three years later it was born Miranda reassures us once more that Hamilton will definitely
again as Hamilton, and the modern musical changed forever. make it down under. “I love Australia,” he says. “I was there about
Since Miranda left the production in 2016, he’s won a Pulitzer for 10 years ago, maybe more. I got my first tattoo in Melbourne.”
it, been nominated for an Academy Award (for the songs he More than getting his first ink, Australia is a reminder of how far
wrote for Moana), written music for Star Wars: The Force he’s come, he says. “I don’t think I’ve ever told this story before.
Awakens, been nominated for an Emmy for hosting Saturday When I was in Freestyle Love Supreme, we were in this comedy
Night Live and, in an almost too-perfect full-circle moment, is now relief show in Melbourne. Nobody knew who we were, we
composing music for The Little Mermaid reboot. “My job is to be were literally filler. And I’ll never forget it because as they did the
Words: Lauren Sams. Photography: Jason Bell

the biggest fan of The Little Mermaid. Done.”
Married since 2010 to his high school sweetheart, lawyer
Vanessa Nadal, and a father of two, Miranda says getting the
work-life balance is just as tricky for Broadway royalty as it is for
the rest of us. “We struggle with that just as much as anybody on
earth, really. When you have two kids it’s sort of divide and
conquer – like I’ll run after that one, you take that one.” He
laughs. “We’re figuring it out every day.” I ask him what the
live promo for the next ad break, the announcer says something
like, ‘Coming up next… Eddie Perfect! Tim Minchin!’ And then the
camera pans to us and the announcer clearly doesn’t recognise
us at all, so he says, ‘And… shitloads more!’ So that’s who we
were for a long time: Shitloads More.” He laughs. “I love the
history of being unacknowledged and unappreciated in
Australia. I wouldn’t trade it for the world!” E
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 PERSPECTIVE

“I DON’T
WANT
PEOPLE
OF ASIAN
“ I’ll never forget meeting with
modelling agencies in New HERITAGE lead. I don’t know why it’s taken
us until now to start seeing Asians
York – who usually had a total of
one Chinese model on their
books – and being told, ‘We
TO FEEL LIKE in major roles – ones that aren’t
the stereotypical know-it-all geek,
the kung-fu master or the
aren’t looking for another Asian.’
Modelling really opened my THEY DON’T mysterious geisha – but it feels like
change is finally happening. As
eyes to the lack of diversity in
media, and then I started noticing EXIST IN THE the director of Crazy Rich Asians,
Jon M Chu, said, “It’s not a movie.
it in all pop culture. Once you
realise it, you can’t ignore it.
The majority of people on
WORLD” It’s a movement.” We can finally
watch these films and think,
‘These characters really do look
earth are Asian, yet we have Model Fernanda Ly is on a mission and act like I do.’
always been a minority in to fight for inclusivity Constance Wu – star of
popular culture. Growing up, Crazy Rich Asians – wrote an
the only actress I remember open letter about the
who looked like me was Lucy significance of the film, which
Liu. I definitely don’t remember seeing any Asian models. has since been quoted over and over. She wrote: ‘My friend
There were a lot of male martial-arts masters – no-one that Ava DuVernay says, ‘I work in an industry that really has no
I could relate to. regard for my voice and the voice of people like me and so,
You could say I found success as a model because people what do I do? Keep knocking on that door or build your own
saw beyond my non-whiteness and believed in me. I definitely house?’ My dear Asian-American friends, we are building
feel the pressure as one of the few Asian models who openly our own damn houses. We got the tools, the ability and we
speaks about our representation – or lack thereof – in the definitely got the style.’
general media. I don’t want other people of Asian heritage to I want to use my platform to build our house; to support and
feel like they don’t exist in the world because they’re not seeing advance Asian representation in Western pop culture, and
accurate depictions of themselves in pop culture; and I don’t I want to see it flourish. Our generation, Asian or not, needs to
want to see our culture being used as a sprinkle of decoration fight for inclusivity. Everyone needs to see these films, and not
on an otherwise whitewashed film. One thing that inevitably only that, to see the relevance of them. Start to notice when our
comes up in conversation with first- and second-generation culture has been misrepresented and speak up about it. We
Asian people living in Western countries is about how our also need non-Asian culture consumers to speak up so that
As told to: Alexandra English. Photography: Instagram/@warukatta

culture has either been misrepresented or erased from
Hollywood altogether: traditionally Asian roles have been
rewritten for white actors wearing yellow face.
Despite our multicultural society, it’s still such a battle for
Asians to be represented on-screen, which is why the film
adaptations of two novels – Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians
and Jenny Han’s To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before – have been
so widely celebrated. Crazy Rich Asians is the first Hollywood
film with an all-Asian cast in 25 years [since 1993’s The Joy Luck
those at the top of the industry hierarchy will accept us as being
no different from themselves. The media needs to represent the
people who consume it, and that is all of us.
There is a movement happening. And as long as we have
people like Kwan – who turned down a huge pay cheque
from Netflix so he could reach wider audiences in the cinema
– championing our representation, and actors and actresses
like Wu imploring us to build our own houses, next time a film
with an all-Asian cast appears in a Western cinema, we can

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Club], and To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before has a female Asian finally call it normalisation rather than cause for celebration. E

”
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ELLE
HOT
EVERYTHING YOU NEED
TO HEAD INTO THE NEW YEAR
WITH CRED
(DON’T DO 2019 WITHOUT IT)
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Lambrusco is back
back, baby
baby.
“It’s one of the most
underrated sparkling wines
on the planet,” says James
Hird, group sommelier for
Sydney venues including
Icebergs and Bondi Beach
Public Bar. “Lighter styles
made from the Sorbara
varietal are perfect for
summer drinking.”
@pandorasykes
Cam mo an d
cheecks, tartan and geometric
prrints – this summer we’re
emmbracing so-bad-they’re-
goood clashing combinations.
Loook to Instagram It-girls such
as British journalist Pandora
Sykes and cooler-than-
S
co
ool Copenhagen-based
stylist Emili Sindlev
for inspiration.
ELLE HOT LIST
@emilisindlev
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y th trappings
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w as homewares,
similar styles available making Italian great again, too – meaning that if they sit in
at drnks.com
from Capitano (by the the corner of the room, it’ll be
folks behind Melbourne’s a style statement, rather than
beloved Bar Liberty), to a neww-year-resolution fail. >
Alberto (the Italian cousin
to Sydney’s Restaurant
Hubert) and Don Peppino’s
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– including new Sydney
opening Bistecca
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enforcing a no-phone- AMOREPACIFIC,
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Hawaii recently passed a bill to ban
certain chemical sunscreen ingredients in
an effort to protect reefs from bleaching
(it’s estimated 14,000 tonnes of sunscreen
are deposited into the world’s oceans
annually). Until Australia does the same,
do your part by switching to oxybenzone-
and octinoxate-free varieties.
Since hitting the scene in
2016, Brit muso Rex Orange
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O’Connor) is an OS festival
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tickets, consider his jaz
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Laneway runs January
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From the runway to street
style, shorts are the new
mini-drress. Top summer
legs with
w your shorts of
choice: bike, bermuda or
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with an oversized tee and
strappyy sandal (just add
a blazzer for after-dark).
Vintage Colette books,
similar titles available
from penguin.com.au
Intrigued by the Keira Knightley-fronted movie,
Colette (out now)? Use your summer reading time to
revisit the cult-hit Claudine novels, penned by French
author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, yet first published
under her husband’s name in the early 1900s.
Suffering swipe fatigue?
Old-school “personals” are
back and leading the way
is @_personals_, created by
New Yorker Kelly Rakowski
for the LBTQIA+ community. Want your home to
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(ie. “Must love: cats, breakfast rest of your life? Inject
food & astrology memes”) are personality into your
encouraged to get in touch via space by snapping up an
DM. Call us old fashioned. irreverent work of Sydney-
@cacarrracha
based artist Carla Uriarte
– a celebration of colour,
quirk and random thoughts
– while they still fall into the
“affordable art” category. >
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 Stella McCartney
Louis Vuitton

Pour yoursself a cherry

c Coke
Zero, because The Young Pope,
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a follow-up p, Thee New Pope. about to join Cher on stage
Gothic nun seriees Lambs Of as she tours her ABBA-themed
Good will also be bingeworthy album Dancing Queen
whhen it hitss screens in 2019. (read more on p54), and
C
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to the runways, scarlet hair is
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says Anthony Nader, founder
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of Sydney salon Raw (rawhair.

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Lloyd-Evans; Bao Ngo; Tim Hardy; Jack Bridgland; Getty Images

com.au). “To get a bold, full-

pigment red your hair will need 2019 will be a huge year for
to be pre-lightened, so those music, with debut albums from
with naturally light hair will fare artists of the moment (think King
best and darker shades will Princess and Two People),
Little Simz

need more of a helping hand new stuff from local MVPs (Julia
before colouring.” Jacklin and Meg Mac, to start)
and highly anticipated albums
by Emily King, Mark Ronson
and Little Simz. Press play.
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ELLE HOT LIST

With his penchant for
the romantic, Pierpaolo
Piccioli of Valentino is
fashion’s current golden
child. Spring/summer 19
was more of the good stuff:
voluminous gowns (worn Stylecolor,
$33.95 each, KMS,
with flats!), feather trims kmshair.com
and a delicious palette of
bold prints. Get thee to the
newly opened Westfield
Valentino

Sydney store, stat.

Forget the music-festival-

appropes, brightly coloured
hairsprays of teen years past
– the latest temporary dye
spray formulations are from
salon-quality brands and come
in subtle colours
a sophisticated way to add
highlights and dimension…
if onlyy for a few hours. E

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 YOUR
GURU?
Why we’re seeking a guiding light
in turbulent times
Is your luminary Jess Magic, the musical storyteller who runs
invitation-only Soul Salons for the rich and famous? Or
W OR D S BY
Amanda Chantal Bacon, Moon Juice founder. Perhaps it’s
LAU R EN SAM S her more famous contemporary, Gwyneth Paltrow? Maybe
you visit the HairWitch when you’re in Brooklyn and get
a side of Sanskrit healing with your blow-dry? Do you follow
Instagram affirmation queen Cleo Wade? Progressive
pop-stars Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez? How about the
self-help author Gabrielle Bernstein, who says “the universe
has your back”? Or are you more into memoirist-turned-civil
rights spokesperson Glennon Doyle? Is your guru Oprah?
The woman you buy crystals from? Or is it someone so cool
and niche we haven’t even heard of them yet?
n age of the guru, where it seems as
meone to turn to in times of trouble — or
hen we’re scrolling through Instagram,
d of a boost to get us through the rest of
about everyone I follow (and by that
ollow) on social media has something
n for faith and affirmation. I’ve lost count
ve seen someone credit their massive
ry from heartbreak/long-awaited
en major life milestone here] to their
ook or a citrine crystal.
e more inclined than ever to believe that
success, it comes as little surprise that
eriously on the decline. According to the
ensus, in 2016, “no religion” is now
e, ahead of Catholic, Anglican, Uniting
st, Presbyterian, Eastern Orthodox,
stal, Lutheran and Sikh. Furthermore,
g paganism, Wiccan and even druidism
rs. Where traditional belief systems
suffering from major PR crises (the Royal
ex abuse, for one), smaller, more
re gaining traction. And alternate forms
as — from astrology to self-help to
ations — are cropping up everywhere.
new philosophy, one that doesn’t give
ender identification or socioeconomic
and influencer Cori Amato Hartwig
en). Many millennial women feel these
offer a type of inclusive, accepting
ways found in more traditional forms of
why people are into this stuff, even if to
e kooky. Jess Magic, the musician who
the living rooms of tech billionaires
Man at home”), encourages all
, smile and have a “songversation” with
as turned her Instagram affirmations
ir bestseller Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom
come a guru for the millennial feminist
ended the March For Our Lives in
gans for their placards. “[Girls] revere
would adore your favourite loving,
ster,” says Reese Witherspoon of
called her “the millennial Oprah”.
hs could not have come at a better time
pularity is indeed due to the current
ring moments of political and cultural
rong narratives and solutions to tricky
the ability to put the question out there
urton, writing in The New York Times,
of these new forms of faith to a future
We’re trying out new things that are
actually old things,” she says, referring to crystals, astrology
and the positive kind of charismatic leadership. “We’re seeing
what else could make life a little more meaningful, a little more
bearable.” As the world gets (literally) hotter, as house prices
rise and rise and as politicians continue to disappoint, is it any
wonder we’re turning to ourselves (through the guidance of
others) for introspection and nurturing?
This quest for personal transformation — whether it be fuelled
by gurus such as Gabrielle Bernstein, Elizabeth Gilbert, Cheryl
Strayed, Sheryl Sandberg or even Oprah — is nothing new, says
Cristina Rocha, an associate professor at Western Sydney
University. “It has its roots in the Human Potential Movement of
the ’60s and ’70s, and other counterculture movements,” she
explains. “It’s about understanding and healing yourself —
constantly being on the lookout for ways to improve who you
are.” Sophi Bruce, who teaches at The School of Life, says the
desire to be more self-aware is noble. “People need to be
nourished in different ways, and if looking inside yourself to find
healing can help you, then I think that’s fantastic.” The flipside of
this, though, says Rocha, is that these new forms of faith are so
introspective they don’t allow for collective action and collective
growth. “Turning to something like astrology because you feel
lost is fine, but it doesn’t allow you to look at the structural
problems in society and what role you might play there.”
If there are any women in this brave new world of gurus who
have a real shot at making lasting changes that could overcome
structural inequality, it’s those like Glennon Doyle, who have
parlayed their fame in this new sphere into true political activism.
Doyle, a Christian mummy blogger turned bestselling memoirist,
who ELLE US referred to as “the guru of the moment”, has
positioned herself as the leader of the Christian resistance to
Trump. She told ELLE US last year, “We wake up in the morning
and literally say to each other, ‘Coffee and revolution.’”
The guru movement is not without its detractors, of course
— there are those who dismiss astrology or affirmations or
self-help as inconsequential and lacking in substance.
Banu Guler, co-founder and CEO of popular astrology app
Co-Star, says she’s used to people seeing her field as silly.
“We’re so quick to dismiss things that are embraced or driven by
women — think about fashion or beauty, how quick we are to
write those off as trivial.” Astrology, she says, is a “social glue”
that helps women, in particular, find a sense of community.
“Politically, we’re in a tumultuous moment,” she says. “The
situation is untenable, so people want something to cling to that
can make sense of the chaos.” When it comes to the dissolution
of faith, Guler points out that people aren’t just losing their faith in
politics, it’s social media as well, especially after Facebook’s
Cambridge Analytica data-leak fiasco. “People want to find
meaning and structure. So what if they find that in astrology or
crystals or in reading a book with new ideas? I just don’t get why
you’d want to dismiss that, if someone found real meaning in it.
Isn’t that what we all want?” E
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 NO
TURNING
BACK With a new hit
Broadway musical
underway, Cher
opens up about
a singular life filled
with love, failure, loss
and success
beyond
imagination
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HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED TO THINK ABOUT CHER?
You are aware of her, of course, the way you are aware of the
sun, with its blinding light, its rising and setting. But have you ever
considered the totality of Cher — not just the celestial body herself,
and not just the epic arc she has travelled, but the sheer range of
stellar explosions she has undergone?
Let’s review. She became famous as half of Sonny and Cher in
1965, at the age of 19. They sold millions of records, morphed into
a lounge act, then drew more than 30 million viewers a week on
their hit show, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour. Cher launched
a solo career on the side, releasing three number-one singles:
“Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves”, “Half Breed” and “Dark Lady”. After
divorcing Sonny in 1975, she starred in her own damn TV show,
thank you very much, which was called — what else? — Cher.
Many more Chers followed. There was Disco Cher, Punk
Cher and Rock’n’Roll Cher. In the ’80s there was Best Actress
Cher, who starred with Meryl Streep in Silkwood, Jack Nicholson
in The Witches Of Eastwick and Nicolas Cage in Moonstruck.
She ended the decade with one of her biggest hits, “If I Could Turn
Back Time”, giving the world Battleship-Thong Cher. She’s long
been a fashion icon. Cher was the first megastar to wear a “naked
dress”, decades before J.Lo, Rihanna and Kim Kardashian did.
In fact, we’re currently in the early stages of a new version
of Cher. Did you notice how her mid-2018 Mamma Mia! Here
We Go Again cameo segued into a surprise ABBA tribute
album? Those amuse-bouches have recently culminated in her
new musical, The Cher Show.
It’s only when I set foot in her presidential suite at the Sunset
Marquis one balmy night and begin climbing
a spiral staircase, that it hits me: Wait, Cher is
also an actual human?
But there she is, standing at the top, wearing “I’m fussy
a black blouse, black pants and black boots, ‘cause it’s my
with an unearthly glow emanating from her
story. I want
porcelain face and platinum bob. She’s been
interviewed all day, by many different people. it to be
I gather that most, if not all, were men, because honest, funny
as I enter her line of sight and extend my hand to and sad,
shake hers, Cher beams a cheeky smile and
exclaims, “A woman!”
like my life”
Talking to Cher, she’s exactly who you
expect her to be, and also the opposite. She’s
the same woman who called David Letterman an asshole on the
air and, more recently, offered this critique of political lobbyist
Paul Manafort on Twitter: “FYI… Manafort… [gangster] John Gotti
called… he wants his look back!!” When I ask if she’s ever met
Donald Trump, she says she doesn’t think so, then adds: “I do
remember seeing him once in a place I used to go to and thinking,
‘God, what an idiot.’ And all he was doing was walking around.”
About the genesis of the musical, she explains that a producer
first approached her with the idea more than a decade ago, “but
then that script was terrible”. It has taken years to develop the
show, and she is still working with its writers to get the script right.
“I’m fussy ‘cause it’s my story,” she says. “I want it to be honest and
right and funny and sad, like my life.”
While you might guess a personality as strong as Cher would
suck the oxygen out of any room, her physical presence — we are
now sitting alone on a leather couch next to a grand piano — is
quiet, still, calm, even delicate. The word vulnerable also comes to
mind, yet doesn’t feel quite right, since it’s so often taken to mean
“weak”. It’s rather that Cher is open and listening, and thus
exposed. If in her work she is on output, in person she is on input.
Powerful but not overpowering.
Nicolas Cage gets at this quality when I ask him to describe
her acting talent. “Cher is a person with a huge heart, and that
really comes through not only in her music but as a screen
performer. She has an extraordinary blend of strength and
vulnerability on-camera,” he says. Micaela Diamond, the 19-year-
old actor who plays a young Cher in the new musical, used this
quality in her interpretation of the star. “I just tried to find her
superpowers. My favourite is her combination of power and
vulnerability. To be so vulnerable and yet have the most power in
the room, that’s a hard place to stand in. She was born with that.”
There is a unique irresistibility to Cher; she is both otherworldly
and relatable. “My earliest impressions of her were when I was
a freshman in high school, and ‘I Got You Babe’ was number
one,” remembers Meryl Streep. “I knew she was also high-school
age, but she had such a deep, velvet, mature voice. I sounded like
Tweety bird at that age. And her hair was like a dark curtain that
swung and shone, and she had one crooked tooth that made her
even more perfect.”
In an alternate universe, the world doesn’t
meet Cher at all. Her mother, Georgia Holt,
was a 19-year-old aspiring actress. Her father,
John Sarkisian, was a young truck driver. The
two met at a dance in LA and married soon
after. By the time Holt realised she was
pregnant, she’d left Sarkisian. Holt’s mother
gave her daughter a choice: go back to your
husband, or abort the pregnancy. Holt chose
the latter but then couldn’t go through with it.
Cherilyn Sarkisian was born in El Centro,
a border town in the Imperial Valley. “My
father’s father had a refrigerated-truck business,
and they were just driving through,” says Cher. Sarkisian was
a ne’er-do-well with a gambling and heroin habit, and Holt
divorced him a year after Cher’s birth. Though Cher had a series
of stepfathers — Holt was married eight times, to six different men
— she mostly watched her mother survive alone. Cher spent some
of her childhood in an orphanage in Pennsylvania, most of it in Los
Angeles, and very little of it with Sarkisian.
Cher grew up poor in close proximity to Hollywood, and her
mother socialised with an illustrious group, including comedian
Lenny Bruce and actor Robert Mitchum. Cher vowed to become >
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 a star when she saw her first colour movie, at Grauman’s Chinese Two days, three days later, we were famous.” Meryl Streep
Theatre. It was Dumbo. “I was in the movie, right along with those recalls, “It was the first time I had ever seen anybody wear
elephants and crows,” she later wrote in a memoir. “That was my sheepskin inside out, with the scratchy stuff on your skin. I thought
first career ambition: to be a star in animated films.” that might be unpleasant. And how do you wash it?”
She was a precocious teenager. She got her driver’s licence There was a run of hits, including “The Beat Goes On”. But as
as soon as she turned 16 so she could cruise Sunset Boulevard in the movements of the late ’60s picked up — free love, psychedelics
her stepfather Gilbert’s Skylark. One night, while passing popular — Sonny and Cher, a straight-edge couple, lost their aura of cool.
hangout Schwab’s pharmacy, she was crashed into by a white By 1968, they were facing a backlash. “We broke big barriers,
Lincoln convertible. “Are you nuts?” she remembers saying to the but we didn’t do drugs,” says Cher. “And we didn’t change our
guy. “Then I looked at his face, and I thought, my god, it’s Warren sound. That was really wrong.” They had their child, Chastity, in
Beatty.” Spoiler alert: Cher and Beatty started dating. “But you 1969. Then they went on the road, performing in nightclubs — or,
can’t call it a relationship,” Cher tells me. “It was very Warren.” as Cher has referred to them, “nightmarish clubs”. To entertain the
Cher didn’t get home until well after curfew that night. As band during slow nights, they started talking. Without meaning to,
punishment, she was barred from seeing Beatty the following they had turned their banter into a comedy act.
night. Beatty called Holt and negotiated Cher’s release. The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour premiered on CBS in 1971
This was right around the time that Cher met Sonny Bono. Their and became an instant hit. Cher was an obvious star. “You couldn’t
first encounter was at Aldo’s Coffee Shop in Hollywood. watch her show and not recognise her natural talent as an actress,”
“Everyone just disappeared,” remembers Cher. “He was the most says Streep. “She made everybody else on TV look like they were
unusual person I’d ever seen. He had longish hair, and he had the trying too hard, pushing. She was so immediate, free, and she was
most beautiful suit on, and beautiful long fingers, and Beatle boots, canny about landing the jokes. Skilled, but it was invisible.”
but they were Cuban heels.” By then, Cher had dropped out of The marital barbs may have been the biggest draw. They were
high school — “I was dyslexic, so school for me was one big usually delivered, deadpan, by Cher, with Sonny providing the
nightmare” — and moved into an apartment with a few other set-up. Sonny: “What, you think you’re living with a dummy?”
women. Sonny moved in next door. When Cher lost her Cher: “I never said this was living.” If that sounds tame by today’s
apartment, she moved in with Sonny. standards, consider this: when Rolling Stone
Sonny was working for Phil Spector, and soon Cher was profiled Sonny and Cher in 1973, the writer
singing backup in Spector’s arrangements, including the Righteous included this: “Many of my friends favour the
Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” and the Ronettes’ “Be belief that after work, Sonny beats the shit out
My Baby”. Sonny was gunning to produce of her with a tyre iron. They had asked me to
Cher as a solo act, but Cher didn’t want to reaffirm this.”
be onstage alone. So they began recording There was another lure. Cher had brought
and performing together, first as Caesar and on Bob Mackie to design her costumes, as
Cleo, then as Sonny and Cher. CAPTIVATING many as 13 looks a week. “To be cute and
Sonny once described them as “the first CHER FACTS pretty back then, you had to have a turned-up
unisex couple”, which pretty well captures nose and lots of blonde hair,” says Mackie.
their sound and look. Cher says none of it SHE AND MERYL STREEP “But Cher is an amazing-looking girl. She can
was calculated. “When we first started out, saved a girl from being look like anything. She loved getting dressed
I wore a dress and he wore a suit, and then mugged on the streets up, and nothing intimidated her. By the end,
they lost our luggage at Cow Palace, and of New York. people were turning on the show just to see
we had to go in our day clothes. That was what she was going to wear.” Colours were
who we were. Sonny wore that bobcat ANDY WARHOL bold, sequins were plentiful, coverage was
[vest], and I wore huge bell-bottoms,” says once crashed a party minimal. “Almost nothing he ever made me
Cher. “We didn’t think, ‘Oh, we’re breaking at her house. “Best did I hate,” says Cher. “The minute I started
some taboo’ or ‘We’re avant-garde’ or any crasher I ever had,” getting beads, I didn’t care what happened.”
of that. We just loved the way we looked.” she says. As the show took off, the marriage tanked.
They didn’t resonate at first. “Kids liked it, Sonny had more than an eye for other
but adults just hated us,” says Cher. “I mean, SHE MAKES JARS women. Cher began to chafe against the
really hated us. Fistfights hate.” When “I Got of chicken bolognese constraints Sonny put on her. They separated
You Babe” came out, in 1965, they went to for friends at Christmas, in 1974. Some time that year, Cher’s new
London. “It sounds so dumb, but everything with labels that read boyfriend, David Gefen, urged her to seek
happened so fast,” says Cher. “I didn’t even “Diva Pasta”. That’s a list information about her business arrangements
know where I was. One day we were poor. we’d like to be on. with Sonny. When she did, Cher learned that

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 MORE
CHER WISDOM

La Bohème. Watch the scene knowing this: “There was no-one

onstage. The director was whispering what was going on, what
“MY MUM SAID TO was happening: ‘And now she’s dying, and now the snow,’ and
ME, ‘YOU KNOW, all that. And I started crying,” says Cher. In Streep’s words,
SWEETHEART, “Moonstruck was when she showed how completely effortless
YOU SHOULD her fully-rounded talent was — funny, heartbreaking, inimitable —
SETTLE DOWN no-one else could’ve done it that way. She owned that part. She
jumped out of the screen. It was like we’d been waiting for her,
AND MARRY
and round the corner she came: ‘Yeah, and I can do this, too!’”
A RICH MAN.’ When Cher accepted her Oscar, on her way to the stage,
I SAID, ‘MUM, I AM
she tripped, lost an earring, and said, “Shit!” At
A RICH MAN.’”
the podium, she addressed the audience,
including her children, Chastity and Elijah Blue,
her son with Gregg Allman; Cage and Streep;
and Rob Camilletti, the bagel baker she still
“ALL OF US INVENT describes as the love of her life.
OURSELVES. The average person might need a rest after
SOME OF US JUST all this. In any event, the average person
HAVE MORE definitely does not then release a music video
IMAGINATION in which she straddles a cannon aboard the
THAN OTHERS.” USS Missouri in front of thousands of sailors.
But the really un-average thing is that Cher is still
at it. Just this morning, she went back to
Television City, where she and Sonny once
“I FEEL LIKE A BUMPER CAR. IF I HIT filmed the Comedy Hour, to be a guest on
A WALL, I’M BACKING UP AND The Ellen Show and to promote her new ABBA
GOING IN ANOTHER DIRECTION. AND album, her new Broadway musical, and her
Here We Go Again tour.
I’VE HIT PLENTY OF FUCKING How on earth do you fit all this into one
WALLS IN MY CAREER. BUT I’M
Broadway musical? How on earth did Cher fit
NOT STOPPING.” it into one lifetime? We haven’t even gotten to
the part where Chastity became Chaz five
years before Bruce became Caitlyn. If you
must know, Cher was scared at first, mostly
she was not an owner of Cher Enterprises, the company Sonny about the public’s reaction and especially for Chaz. But this, she
had founded in her name. Sonny owned 95 per cent of Cher weathered: “All of a sudden, this person comes in, and it’s fine.
Enterprises. Their lawyer owned the other five. That’s the child that you love, just in different wrapping paper.”
Cher suggested to Sonny that they become business partners. And we’ve barely touched on the time she magically knew the
Sonny wouldn’t do it. Instead, he warned her that if she left, robotic Auto-Tune effect would be the next big thing a decade
“America will hate you and you won’t have a job.” Cher filed for before everyone else, knew it with such conviction that she told an
divorce, claiming that Sonny had tricked her into “involuntary executive he could change the effect “over my dead fucking
servitude” and that their business dealings amounted to a violation body”, and thus unleashed, at the age of 52, what remains her
of the Thirteenth Amendment. When the divorce became final in greatest-selling single to date, posing the question: “Do you
1975, Cher walked away with nothing. Worse, because Cher believe in life after love?”
Words: Abby Aguirre. Photography: Getty Images

Enterprises had outstanding contracts Cher broke by leaving, she Before I leave, I ask Cher why she thinks following fun and
owed Sonny millions. That same year, Cher was on the cover of acting on instinct has, in her case, produced so many pivotal
Time, alone, in the original beaded nude dress Mackie designed moments. “It doesn’t always,” she says. “Look, I’ve had huge
for her. In some parts of the South, people ripped off the cover. failures in my life. Huge dips and ‘Oh, you’re over. You’re over.’
But it didn’t derail her. She’s had decades of hits and paradigm- This one guy once said, ‘You’re over,’ every year for I don’t know
shifting fashion moments, plus won an Oscar. If you somehow how many years. And I just said to him, ‘You know what? I will be
have not seen the movie Moonstruck, go to YouTube right now here when you’re not doing what you do anymore.’ I had no idea
and pull up the clip of Cher’s character Loretta Castorini watching if I was right or wrong. I was just tired of hearing him say it.” E

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 THE
REALOFPRICE
EMPOWERMENT IT’S BECOME ONE OF THE MOST
OVERUSED WORDS IN THE
CONVERSATION AROUND FEMINISM,
SO HOW DO WE CUT THROUGH
“FAUXPOWERMENT”
TO FIND WHERE THE TRUE POWER LIES?
W ORD S BY
H A NNAH B ETTS
A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO – possibly your entire lifetime
– I taught feminist theory at Oxford University. Back then, our
poster-thinker was Judith Butler, whose most famous works argued
that gender, sexuality and man and woman as biological entities
could only be determined in performance – as it played out, so to
speak. Our heroine argued this in language so convoluted it
rendered us cross-eyed. How we fretted, how we thrilled.
Fast-forward to 2018, and I found myself gazing at some newly
released gingerbread biscuits, Godfrey and Annie. Annie sports
a frock and a red (lipsticked?) smile. However, according to their
producer, neither are gingerbread men, making it clear they are
gender-neutral biscuits. “Christ,” I thought, “We did this. A couple
of decades on, our elaborate academic wranglings are being
packaged and sold with a ‘Have a nice day.’”
It’s not just gingerbread snacks being deployed in the
battleground for gender equality: in recent years, more and more
brands are pushing supposedly empowering messages, often
specifically aimed at women, to sell their products. As a journalist,
I might receive 900 or so emails a day, legions of them banging
the empowerment drum over the latest hair thickener or protein
bar. Femvertising is nothing new (hell, there are even
#Femvertising Awards) – lessons in female empowerment
have been thrown at us from all corners of consumerism. Take
the furore over Scottish brewer BrewDog’s pink “beer for girls”,
launched for International Women’s Day – allegedly to
highlight the gender pay gap – and lambasted for being the
marketing gimmick it was.
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However, in the fight for equality, aren’t there bigger, more
pressing issues than the gender of your gingerbread biscuit or
the colour of your beer bottle? Aren’t these, in fact, just further
examples of what one might refer to as “fauxpowerment” — the
overselling of false or banal so-called empowerment to women?
For empowerment has become one of the most used – and
abused – terms in the conversation around feminism, in a way
that serves to dilute and undermine the cause itself. Bandying the
word about for everything from childbirth to chocolate, fitness to
floor cleaner is stripping the term of any meaning at a time when
genuine power is still lamentably far from women’s grasp.
So from where did this omnipresent word spring? Its first
appearance in the English-speaking West occurred in the ’70s, in
relation to African-American communities. Feminists began using
the term in the ’80s and ’90s, tending to deploy it in reference to
changes within the developing world. As the century staggered to
its end, women’s magazines increasingly appropriated the word
to buoy their readers, bolstered in turn by the Spice Girls’
championing of so-called “girl power” (an ideology that occupied
an uncertain territory encompassing pinching Prince Charles’
bottom and being nice to your pals). Then, in 1998, came HBO’s
Sex And The City, and empowerment became enmeshed with
conspicuous consumption. “Hey, Manolo lover,” the commercial
clamour went, “prove your independence by enslaving yourself to
a credit card.” Not only did this transfer empowerment from some
sort of collective experience to an individual high, it put it firmly
within the realm of the (designer) wallet, conflating consumerism
with female autonomy. In 2003, the satirical website The Onion
ran the headline “Women Now Empowered By Everything
A Woman Does”, with “does” meaning “buys”.
Big business was not slow in striving to exploit the idea
of “women’s lib” as a commodity. Whether it was an It-bag,
an It-restaurant or an It-shoe, the “It” we were being sold
was empowerment; because we were worth it. The global
financial crisis of 2007–2008 looked to have thrown
a spanner in the works of consumer feminism, but, in fact, it
merely forced it underground.
When it emerged, it was no longer confined to luxury goods,
but became a marketing free-for-all. Today, anything can be
sold as empowering, from leggings to lingerie, weight-loss
programs to wine, sanitary items to Kim Kardashian’s arse.
As Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project,
notes: “The idea of selling individual women ‘empowerment’
can be an easy way for brands to jump on the bandwagon of
a thriving feminist movement without actually engaging with the
systemic, ingrained issues women are really battling. It is
frustrating when we are sold the idea that women themselves
could solve the problem of institutionalised discrimination and
abuse by simply buying the right shampoo or T-shirt.”
That’s not to say organisations and companies can’t adopt
meaningful feminist messages, “but they need to put their
money where their mouth is if they expect it to be convincing,”
says Bates. “It’s no good slapping feminist quotes on your
merchandise if your senior leadership is completely dominated >

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 “We need
less stuff
and FEWER
POWER
by men, or if you’re paying your female staff
less than their male counterparts.” POSES:
This attitude – separating genuine feminist more action,
commitment from mere bandwagon leaping progress,
– lies at the heart of the issue. Kate
Bosomworth, chief marketing officer at M&C
rights”
Saatchi’s UK branch, argues that today’s
fauxpowerment explosion was inspired by
a handful of genuine attempts by businesses to engage with
women’s issues. “The 2004 Dove [Real Beauty] campaign was
the first of its kind,” she tells me. “Then we had Pantene’s #Shine
Strong. These campaigns were challenging, disruptive and truly
tipped norms. However, those that have followed suit haven’t
always been that authentic. Like us, they need to apply real
insight into how to solve problems and help; how to bring a truth
that no-one’s talked about before. Not just putting women in their
adverts – consumers can see through that in a nanosecond,
as they can find out very quickly whether organisations are true
to their word.”
It is this lip service to empowerment that brings us so many
platitudes: from one Dove campaign imitator too many
informing us that our chubbiness is emancipatory, to
Hollywood’s tokenistic rehashing of male-focused hits. And so
here we are, in a world in which we are presented with
“empowering” control knickers, rosacea cures and rosé, with
power something you can buy into so long as you’re not
disempoweringly poor.
Call me a killjoy, but doesn’t this seem tawdry given that the
issues women might more obviously seek empowerment over
include voting access, equal pay, equal parenting, abortion
rights, forced marriage, genital mutilation and rape as
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a weapon of war? Moreover, at a time
when the pussy-grabber-in-chief occupies
the White House, isn’t the notion that getting
your power can be reduced to the perfect
pink drink a tad Marie Antoinettish?
In this fauxpowerment-saturated world,
we need to distinguish the faux from the real
deal. Sure, I bought myself a mock prefect’s
badge saying “feminist”. It was funny and playful, and feminism is
not without these qualities. But right now we need less stuff and
fewer power poses: more action, progress, rights.
Sam Smethers, chief executive of gender equality lobby
group the Fawcett Society, tells me: “I’m not po-faced: there is
a value in having fun with the message. We sell great feminist
T-shirts and Tatty Devine jewellery and they get people talking.
However, the concept of empowerment is something we slip
into for want of something better, or clearer, to say. It suggests
that women move from being powerless to powerful, when it’s
more about recognising your own power, then recognising the
structures and barriers designed to make women feel less
powerful. It’s these barriers that need addressing: not changing
the individual, but the system they find themselves in.”
As the novelist Naomi Alderman, author of the prize-winning
The Power, asserts: “Products, my friends, are very nice. But they
are not the same thing as doing the inner work to increase your
confidence, or knowing you have a group of female friends to
Photography: Getty Images
rely on, or understanding truly in your heart that the fact that you
feel shit about yourself a lot of the time is not your fault and that
there are societal forces trying to make women, in particular, feel
shit about themselves. Enjoy the products – why not? But do the
work, too.” You said it, sister. E
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CHILD BY

MICHELLE JAGER

THE GHOST CHILD APPEARS early one morning. Clem notices

it on her way to the toilet. It sits in the hallway, sucking on one of
the dog’s bones. She is surprised that the child can pick up the
bone with its transparent hands. Surprised to see the bone wet
with saliva. But not so much that she stops to look for long. Sleepy
and cold, she needs to wee and the child seems content enough.
Clem wees and goes back to bed.
“There’s a ghost child in the hall,” she says, pulling the doona
over her head.
Eli mutters something and gets up. Moments later, he climbs
back into bed and confirms that, yes, there is a ghost child in
the hall.
“What shall we do about it?” he asks.
“Sleep on it,” says Clem.
The ghost child is in the kitchen when they get up. Playing with
the dog’s water bowl. Butch, the dog, is sitting there watching,
managing to look both curious and affronted. The child is dipping
the TV remote in and out of the water and laughing.
Clem and Eli agree that the child has a nice laugh. It makes
them laugh.

Eli begins cooking breakfast. He drops a big yellow knob of
butter into the frying pan and soon the room smells of bacon.
Butch is drooling. A long strand hangs from the corner of his
mouth then drops straight through the child’s head onto the floor.
“Butch, gross,” Clem reprimands.
The child, unperturbed, squints momentarily before resuming
the game with the water bowl and remote.
“She’s hefty for a ghost,” says Clem and stabs her fork into
a rasher and cuts, mixing it with egg before scooping it into her
mouth. Yolk drips down her chin.
“He’s a baby,” says Eli. “Babies are meant to be chubby.”
“He?” says Clem.
“She?” says Eli.
Clem is short for Clementine. She is named after a character
in a James Baldwin novel. Eli is short for Eliyahu. He is named
after an Israeli football player. Ghost child has no name. No
parents. No gender.
Clem suggests checking the nappy to see if they can
designate one, but the ghost child is hard to catch. It slips through
their fingers just when they think they’ve got a hold, or disappears
and reappears out of reach.
They can’t agree on a pronoun.
“You’re such a narcissist,” says Clem.
“Why?”
“Because you’re a man you want a boy. A mini-Eli.”
“No, I don’t. I just think he looks like a boy.”
“Babies don’t look like anything,” says Clem. “They’re
just babies.”
“Well, what about you then? You want it to be a girl. Are you
a narcissist?”
Clem ignores him.
They stick to “it” though both are uncomfortable with this. The
child offers no comment. It can’t speak and seems unconcerned
by the matter.
Eli offers the child a doll and a truck as a way of determining.
Clem tells him he’s being ridiculous. That such desires aren’t
innate but cultivated by culture.
The child plays with the doll and the truck. Then discards both
for Butch’s bone.
Clem can see herself and Eli in the child. She’s sure she’s not
imagining it. Eli’s nose – broad and wide-nostrilled – and her
mouth – fat-lipped but pinched. It’s hard to tell definitively though,
because they often get lost in the background. The pattern of
a cushion or bedspread distort the child’s features.
Sometimes there’s a familiar expression: Eli’s look of surprise,
eyebrows up in perfect arches; Clem’s look of concentration,
furrowed brow, curled lip. It’s disconcerting. Seeing her
mannerisms mimicked. Clem wonders if her mother felt the same.
Ghost child crawls or sometimes toddles around the house. It’s
hard to keep track of, particularly as it can pass through walls. It’s
often silent, except for a squeak or a sudden laugh. It rarely cries.
In the middle of sex, as they are changing position from Clem
on top to doggy, Eli lets out a shriek, grabbing the doona and
FICTION
upending Clem. On the floor, legs and arms akimbo, a sharp
pain in her shoulder, Clem sees the child standing at the end of
the bed, watching.
“Fuck,” she snaps.
“Don’t swear in front of the kid. Cover up,” says Eli, throwing
her a blanket.
“Why don’t you knock, kid?” says Clem.
“Babies don’t knock. They don’t know to,” says Eli. “Read the
baby books.”
Clem looks into the baby’s eyes and thinks, bullshit. Ghost
child laughs, turns, and toddles out.
“I think he has my eyes,” says Eli.
Clem agrees but doesn’t say so.
She comes home to find Eli clearing out the study. There are
piles of books, his computer, her laptop, the desks, her easel and
brushes and paints and paintings lying out in the hallway and
lounge. There is a crib and a change table alongside the desks.
Eli is turning the study into a nursery. There is newspaper laid
out on the floor. He’s painting the room yellow. The ghost child is
pulling up the sheets of paper and scrunching them in a pile.
“Gender neutral,” says Eli.
Clem stares at the canary colour and feels the sudden urge to
paint it over pink. She doesn’t like pink, but that’s not the point.
She’s not sure what the point is, but is sure there is one.
“Gumtree,” says Eli, pointing at the crib and change table.
“A bargain.”
He beams and carries on.
Clem looks down at her paintings. Eli has them in a pile with
a printer cartridge resting on top. The one she can see beneath the
cartridge is of a landscape. Bland, anaemic. A piece of crap,
Clem thinks. But it makes her feel sad seeing it dumped there.
“Look,” says Eli, holding up Where The Wild Things Are.
“My favourite book as a kid. I’m going to read it to him at night
before bed.”
Clem looks at the book and looks at Eli.
“Max,” she says. “That’s a good name.”
“For Maximillian? I knew you’d come around.”
“For Maxine,” says Clem. “And ghost children don’t sleep.”
The ghost child squeals and claps its hands.
There is a drawer in the kitchen full of ovulation kits and
pregnancy tests and pregnancy vitamins. Clem routinely pees on
sticks looking for double lines or smiley faces. The electronic
ovulation kits give her the smiley faces when she’s fertile. A big fat
zero when she’s not. Reward and punishment. She can’t help but
feel thrilled, like she’s really achieved something, when she gets
a smiley face. And like a failure when she doesn’t. It taps into her
need for praise, for external validation, normally sought for from
parents, teachers, institutions, employers, friends, enemies and,
now, from a piece of plastic. She hates herself for this.
When she gets smiles, she charts her fertility, barks orders
militantly, the sex is perfunctory.
When she gets a zero she sulks and drinks. Sometimes she
cries, but only if there’s no-one around. >
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 Clem prepares a lecture on the film Alien. She is going to
discuss motherhood. The monstrous feminine. The abject.
It’s early and Eli is still asleep. Clem couldn’t sleep. She had
felt nauseous. Laid there from 3am until 5am, before finally
slipping out from the warmth and turning on her computer.
There is a picture of the alien bursting from John Hurt’s
stomach up on the screen. Clem is scribbling down notes about
borders being violated, bodies transgressed, blood, guts, vomit,
semen, shit and piss. Identity, subjectivity
threatened, destabilised.
She shivers as an icy breeze passes “Her period
over her feet and ankles. She looks down.
The child looks up at her, legs crossed, IS LATE,
sitting at her feet, playing with her slippers. but when
Rubbing its hands over them, through them. she does
It has a widow’s peak just like Eli. Pale a test there
shadows beneath the eyes, soft blooms,
which match his. Clem’s never noticed this
is only
before. Normally its outlines are vague, ONE LINE”
barely discernible. But right now, they
seem a little more solid. Gelatinous.
Shimmering like liquid mercury.
Clem’s stomach churns. She runs for the toilet.
Her period is late, but when she does a test there is only one
line. It could be too early to tell or maybe she’s just late.
Clem googles early signs of pregnancy and how long it can
take to get a positive test result. She reads the comments in baby
forums. One woman says she didn’t get a positive test until eight
weeks. Another says she continued to get her period well into
her pregnancy. Another says she has been trying for 14 months
now and is giving up hope of naturally conceiving. She says
she’s scared.
Clem reads this last one several times before giving up
her search.
Cramps. Not too painful, but uncomfortable enough to wake
her. To make it difficult to sleep.
She bleeds for 12 days. Brown, then bright red. Wine-
coloured clots.
On the twelfth day, Clem books an appointment with her
doctor. By the time of the appointment, the bleeding has stopped.
Clem is apologetic. She feels as if she’s wasting the doctor’s time.
It was probably a freak period, she thinks. Or cancer.
“It could be an early miscarriage,” the doctor tells her, eyes
sympathetic, tone gentle.
“Oh, okay,” says Clem.
She goes for a drive. Stops at a servo and buys a fat donut
with pink icing and rainbow sprinkles. She goes to the lookout
spot at the nearby airfield to watch the planes take off and land.
Modest Mouse plays from her phone.
The icing on the donut is wet and sticks to the paper bag
when she pulls it out. It’s stale when she bites into it. But she eats
it anyway, watching the planes cross a sky that turns from mauve
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and gold to cobalt, listening to Modest Mouse sing – “And we’ll
all float on okay.”
“Where have you come from?” Clem asks ghost child. “Who
do you belong to?”
But ghost child is too busy touching the bricks around the
fireplace, feeling them, smelling them, tasting them, tracing the
cracks, to answer.
At 2:48 in the morning, ghost child begins to bawl.
Clem burrows under the blanket. Eli gets up.
Clem spreads out on her stomach, lying with her
head pressed against the warm sheets, Eli’s
smell. Rexona, sweat.
Eli comes back in and turns the light on.
“I can’t find him,” he says. “Help me look.”
They search the house, but ghost child is
nowhere to be found. Ghost child’s cries fill
every room.
Clem sneaks out the back and sits in her
dressing gown with a wheel of brie and
a cigarette. She eats half the wheel. She smokes
the cigarette, watching the stars.
The house is quiet when she goes back in. Eli tells her she
stinks when she climbs into bed. He doesn’t mention ghost child.
“I’ll change the sheets in the morning,” she says.
She lies there in the dark, listening to Eli breathe. She feels
empty even though she’s full of cheese.
“Is ghost child yours?” Clem asks.
Eli is playing Super Smash Bros on the Wii.
“Hang on,” he says. “I’ve almost got this.”
He doesn’t. He swears and throws down the controller.
“What?”
“Ghost child, is she yours?”
“I think so,” he says. “Isn’t he ours?”
Clem looks at ghost child, who is sitting quietly with a book
about succulents. The book is upside down.
“I don’t know,” she says slowly.
They sit in silence, watching ghost child turn pages.
Clem begins doing the pregnancy tests earlier and earlier. As
if she might be able to catch the double line unawares. Feeling
that this might prevent the flow of blood. Trick it somehow. It
doesn’t. Instead her periods come earlier and earlier. She
bleeds intermittently between cycles. She worries she’s
menopausal. She worries about becoming anaemic.
All she seems to do is bleed.
Sometimes, when Clem goes to touch Eli’s shoulder to tell him
something, it’s as if her hand passes straight through him and her
voice disappears. He carries on with whatever he’s doing until she
tries again – her hand meeting solid flesh, her voice barking “Eli!”
“Shit!” he’ll say, jumping, “Where’d you come from?”
“It’s taking longer than I thought,” says Eli.
This takes Clem by surprise. More his articulation of the
thought than the thought itself. She starts to cry.

“Hey,” says Eli, putting his arm round her. “I shouldn’t have
said anything. I didn’t mean anything by it. I think it can take
a while. And if it doesn’t happen, then it doesn’t. No big deal.”
But it is a big deal. Clem can feel the weight of it, it sits inside
her. Ghost child watches her.
“Besides,” says Eli, “the problem could be with me.”
But Clem doesn’t think so.
Clem goes for an HSG scan. She has given blood, she’s
peed in a cup, all based on where in her cycle she is even though
she doesn’t know what her cycle is anymore. And now this.
Naked from the waist down in a hospital gown, she lies on
her back with three people around her. The radiologist, a nurse
and a nursing student. The latter just there to observe. Next to her,
on a screen, she can see an X-ray image of her pelvis. Bones.
Clem is a skeleton woman. A skeleton woman with a ghost
child. The radiologist tells her that it’s a bit like a pap smear, but
that she’ll insert a catheter and through the
catheter flood the uterine area with dye.
“You might cramp up a bit when the dye
“She
goes in, like a period,” she tells Clem, “but we’ll
be able to see if everything’s in order. The dye WONDERS
will fill the uterus and then the fallopian tubes.” if any fertility
On the screen, Clem watches the catheter procedures
enter her, long and white and thin. It pushes up for MEN
into the cavity amid her bones. She thinks of the
game Snake she used to play on her old
involve
Nokia and wonders if the line will just keep on a catheter”
moving and growing and moving and
growing. Then, out of the end of the white line,
darkness blooms. Fills her uterus.
But it doesn’t fill the fallopian tubes. Not everything’s in order.
Clem doesn’t have to show Eli the scan. By the time she gets
Photography: Stocksy
home, she is less solid, less real, than the X-ray itself.
“Look,” she says. “My fallopian tubes have gone AWOL.”
Eli tells her it will be okay. Clem drinks a bottle of red wine on
FICTION
an empty stomach while googling fallopian-tube blockages.
And then she drinks another bottle. And then she throws up on the
bathroom floor and in her hair, missing the toilet.
Ghost child lets out a long squeal and clenches its fists,
dropping to the floor. Stunned, Clem watches. Ghost child’s legs
are running nowhere; face screwed up, mouth wide.
“I’m the one that should be having a tantrum,” says Clem,
and notices peas in the vomit.
When Clem sees her GP, he tells her the scan is ambiguous.
“There could be a blockage or perhaps your tubes just
spasmed. It is an uncomfortable procedure, after all.”
Clem could see her tubes doing this – freaking out and closing up.
Maybe even just to embarrass her. Or from performance anxiety.
“But,” says the doctor, “further testing will need to be done.
Just to be sure. I’ll have to refer you and your partner to a fertility
clinic and they’ll probably recommend an ultrasound. And then,
if there is a blockage, probably laparoscopic surgery.
Otherwise, IVF might be the other way to go.”
Clem doesn’t like the idea of further poking and prodding,
insertions and harvesting. She hates being made aware of her
corporeality. She hates having to make a decision like this.
The doctor says, “We’ll also need a sperm sample from your
partner as it can be a combination of issues with both parties.”
Clem feels a little better. She’s solid enough to take a hold of the
X-rays and test results without them slipping through her fingers.
Clem tells Eli he has to see the doctor about his sperm. He looks
put out. Clem wants Eli to be a little put out after all her smiley faces
and vitamins and catheters and blood tests and peeing on things.
She wonders if any fertility procedures for men involves the insertion
of a catheter. Just to check everything’s in order. Or just for kicks.
Clem sits on the floor with the ghost child.
“I don’t know what I want to do,” she tells it.
Ghost child looks at her with interest.
“I’m scared,” says Clem. “I’m scared we’ll do
this and nothing will happen, and I’m scared that
we’ll do it and something will happen.”
Ghost child nods. Clem can see it understands.
“It’s just I don’t know what I’m getting if it does.”
And then adds: “I’m teaching Rosemary’s Baby
this week so I guess that’s weighing on my mind.”
Ghost child laughs. And this makes Clem smile.
It is a nice laugh.
“It also scares me there might be something
really wrong. Perhaps I don’t want to know.”
Ghost child nods.
“But then I think I’ve gone too far. I can’t not
know. I can’t not try,” she says. And then, “I just feel lost.”
And ghost child takes her hand and it’s an odd feeling, barely
there, cool like water, but comforting. Ghost child smiles. It’s
a lovely smile. Clem likes it. It is, she thinks, a bit like her smile. E
Michelle Jager is the winner of the ELLE writing competition,
in association with Hachette Australia.
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pink bikini, $86 for set, TRIANGL,
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TOM FORD, tomford.com; scrunchies
and snowboard, stylist’s own

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BALENCIAGA, balenciaga.com;
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BODY GLOVE, bodyglove.com;
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neck warmer, approx $35,
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all MAISON MARGIELA,
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(worn throughout); bandana,
stylist’s own; wrist scarf, stylist’s
own (worn throughout)

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MONCLER, moncler.com; white
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T-shirt, approx $39, VOLCOM,
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LESPORTSAC, lesportsac.com;
snowboard, stylist’s own
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(worn throughout)

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$2,360, TAG HEUER, tagheuer.com
(worn throughout); sunglasses, approx
$245, OAKLEY, oakley.com

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ETRO, etro.com; bikini, $126 for set,
TRIANGL, triangl.com; boots, $POA,
MONCLER, moncler.com; neck warmer,
approx $35, AVALON7, avalon7.co

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hair tie, stylist’s own

Hair: Joey George for Ibiza Hair.

Makeup: Yumi Mori for Make Up For Ever.
Producer: Andie Manzanares.
Model: Georgia Fowler at IMG.
Special thanks to: Alpine Sports, Santa Fe
 Top, $239, BINNY, binnywear.com;
pants, $315, IRO, iroparis.com;
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 LARA WORTHINGTON HAS BARELY HAD ANY SLEEP.
Not because of some Hollywood party or fashionably late
catch-up with famous friends. In fact, a middle-of-the-night bathroom
run resulting in a blind tumble over a misplaced chair is to blame.
With her husband away working and her boys sound asleep,
Worthington spent the early hours of the morning lying awake,
concerned that her nose (having taken the full brunt of the fall) might
swell ahead of today’s cover shoot. It hasn’t. A faint red mark is just
visible across the bridge, which is centred perfectly in the middle of
an otherwise remarkably unblemished face. In the light of day she
can laugh about it, flashing her signature megawatt grin and
instantly disarming the entire crew. She’s happy to be here. “Any
time to shoot is like a little holiday for me! It’s nice. I used to think it
was work and now it’s like a little escape,” she laughs.
Life is non-stop for the Sydney-born model and entrepreneur,
who relocated to LA from New York last year
with husband, actor Sam Worthington, and
sons, Rocket, 3, and Racer, 2. She’ll be taking “I’m the type
the family to Canada shortly to join Sam who is
thereworking,beforedirectorJamesCameron’s of person
Avatar sequels takes them on to New Zealand. that moves
“We travel so much. That’s the type of people
we are, we love to be at home but then we love with the
to leave. While [the boys] are young I think it’s
just fine... no iPad, get out in the real world, it’s
times… I like
good,” she says. Consistency, though, has to evolve”
been key in the past 18 months. “My main focus
has been on my children and I just slot in my
work and my ideas where I can. I feel like the balance of both is
really important for me to be able to be a great mum and a great
wife – still having a sense of yourself is important.”
Worthington is kept busy as CEO of her beauty brand,
The Base, which, after launching in 2014, is evolving with her into its
next phase. As of December, the business becomes Share The
Base, a non-profit organisation which, for now, concentrates on just
one iconic product, the LB Cream. Upon check-out, customers can
choose between three causes, with 100 per cent of net profits
donated to their chosen charity. “The main gift I’ve taken from
starting The Base is the connection with customers and supporters,”
explains Worthington. “They’re mostly women and that for me has
been a super uplifting experience. When I launched The Base it
was a different time in my life. Since then, so much has changed, not
only within my little world but globally as a society, as women
today. It’s exciting, because I’m the type of person that moves with
the times as well, I like to evolve. So I’m continuing The Base and
evolving it to support other people in the community.”
It’s taken Worthington over a year to work through the details,
meeting with more than 20 charities to decide which could most
benefit from her support. It was important they were based in
Australia (“to keep it in my own backyard”), supporting causes her
customers would be invested in and close to her own heart. To start,
Share The Base will support the Humpty Dumpty Foundation,
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a children’s charity that purchases essential medical equipment for
sick and injured children, Bowel Cancer Australia, an organisation
Worthington has worked with since her father passed away from
the disease in 2008, and the World Wide Fund For Nature.
Meeting with each charity was a watershed moment for
Worthington, and in the case of the World Wide Fund For Nature,
a way to improve her understanding around increasingly important
issues in her family’s life. “I love the awareness they bring to the
conversation of life on this planet. I sat with them and learnt so
much,” she says. Sam’s choice to wear a “Climate Change Is Real”
hoodie when they attended the Australians in Film Awards in
October made the couple’s stance on the future of the environment
clear, and his work with Cameron, who carries the message of
respect for nature through the Avatar franchise, has brought home
the need for real change .“Day to day we do as much as we can,
wherever we can. It can be challenging to be
completely green but we do our absolute best.
Being on set with James, there are no water
bottles, Sam’s trailer is all solar powered, so
many things run off a better system. Talking to
him, I go away and I go, ‘What am I doing with
my life!’ He makes me think about the bigger
picture,” says Worthington. “Our families are
very close, we spend a lot of time at their house,
it rubs off on you. It can’t not.”
In her own work, she chooses to align
herself with brands like Tiffany & Co., who are
known for their track record in sustainability
and supporting conservation of natural environments like the
Great Barrier Reef. You could say nature is Worthington’s
lifeblood, and crucial to the upbringing she wants for her own
children. The now 31-year-old spent her childhood at the beach
with her dad, a landscape gardener, and has fond memories of
watching him surf. Her family spent most of their time outdoors
and grew their own fresh produce in the backyard. “Growing up
in Australia has instilled that carefree simple lifestyle into my life
and my husband’s as well, as he grew up in Perth. You never
forget where you come from.” The fresh air, sunshine and an
ocean swim are still the first thing Worthington seeks out after
a long flight to Australia. “I think I need the sun and the beach
to feel like myself.”
Nostalgia for home aside, Worthington is only interested in
looking forward. There’s an air of self-assurance around her.
A woman content, confident and comfortable in her own skin. And
despite the dramatic start to her day, the cover shoot is one she’s
incredibly proud of, having known and worked with photographer
Darren McDonald since they were in their teens. “It’s probably one
of my favourites ones, just because it’s so natural and not much
makeup and my hair is back – I always have my bloody hair out!”
she laughs. “I feel like this is new and exciting for me. Not that I care
what anyone else thinks but, I really love it... It’s of the times. I feel like
it’s super empowering.” E
 Top, $760, MIU MIU,
miumiu.com; briefs, $77, FELLA,
fellaswim.com; Wave necklace
(worn as bracelet), $415, ring,
$1,400, both TIFFANY & CO.,
tiffany.com.au

Words: Genevra Leek.

Photography: Darren McDonald
at Artist Group. Styling: Marina
Afonina at Assembly Agency.
Hair: Christian Marc at Forward
Artists. Makeup: Sarah Uslan
at The Visionaries. Production:
Flower Ave

The Tiffany & Co. Wave Pendant

necklace is available exclusively
in Australia in sterling silver,
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will support conservation of the
Great Barrier Reef.

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 CLEAR QUARTZ LUMINIZER,
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THE
ILLUMINATI
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T Y
Hair: Keiren Street at Vivien’s Creative. Makeup: Kristyan Low
Words: Janna Johnson O’Toole. Styling: Dannielle Cartisano.

P H O TOGR A P HY B Y

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ADR IAN PR ICE

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at DLM. Model: Laura Kluenter at Priscillas
BEAUTY NOW

WHAT I USE

kara
“I keep one of these sticks in
my handbag, at my desk and
in the fridge. I use it to prepare
my skin for makeup and find it

rosenlund
really rejuvenates it.”
3. Cucumber Water Stick, $61, “I love wearing the perfume
ILIA, mecca.com.au oils I sourced on my travels
through Morocco and now
“This foundation is sentimental stock in my online store.
The travel to me. I discovered it in the The orange blossom oil
photographer “Growing up, I was in awe lead-up to my wedding and reminds me of the first time
spends her of my mum’s beautiful creams after wearing it on the day I went to Marrakech with
days outside and lipsticks. She showed
self-love through her beauty
I’ve never used anything else.
It’s not oil-based and is super
my boyfriend (who’s
now my husband).”
capturing beautiful routine. My routine needs lightweight so my freckles are 6. Marrakech Pure Orange Blossom
moments, so she to suit my busy lifestyle. I’m still visible, which I love.” Oil, $68, KARA ROSENLUND,

relies on products constantly travelling, so this 4. Future Skin, $114, CHANTECAILLE, kararosenlund.com

that work as hard mist protects my skin and

helps keep it soft and fresh.”
as she does 1. Rosewater Balancing Mist, $35,
JURLIQUE, jurlique.com.au
“This bronzer gives a natural
glow and adds dimension.”
2. Bronzing Powder in Laguna,
$58, NARS, mecca.com.au
mecca.com.au
“I only ever wear nude
lipstick. This Hourglass crayon
has a creamy, satin finish, and
gives the effect of plump yet
still natural-looking lips.”
5. Femme Nude Lip Stylo in Pink Beige,
$46, HOURGLASS, mecca.com.au
“I’m obsessed with this lip
exfoliator. This compact little
stick is made up of organic
ingredients, such as volcanic
stone powder, so my lips
always feel super smooth.”
7. Lip Exfoliator, $38, ILIA,
mecca.com.au

“I use this serum as the pink

pop of colour brightens and
accentuates my cheeks. This
rosy glow is flattering on just
about any skin tone.”
8. No Blush Blush, $50, PERRICONE
1.
MD, mecca.com.au

“The triangular shape of this

2.
brow pencil is so good for
sculpting and enhancing my
3. brows. The pointed tip and
7.
wand make it easy to get
clean lines quickly.”
Words: Amy Starr; Janna Johnson O’Toole. Photography: Asa Tallgard;

10.
9. Arch Brow Sculpting Pencil, $49,
HOURGLASS, mecca.com.au
9.
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5.
“This multi-tasking stick can be
8. applied to the cheeks, lips
4.
and eyes. It has cocoa butter,
shea butter and Vitamin E in it,
6. and makes my skin feel really
hydrated and refreshed. It’s a
rich colour but looks natural.”
10. Multistick in Cheek to Cheek,

114 $49, ILIA, mecca.com.au

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NEED TO KNOW

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for purple
shampoo
THE ANYONE WITH
HIGHLIGHTS NEEDS

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KRISTIN ESS, HAIRST YLIST

OF THE
AND FOUNDER OF HER
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Shampoo, $22,
THE PRODUCT: A sulphate-free KRISTIN ESS,

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shampoo formulated using
a blue-based purple.

THE BRUNETTE’S PRESCRIPTION:

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A vibrant bloomy spritz
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Neon Rose EDP, $109,
FLORAL STREET,
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Beautiful Belle EDP, $180,
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A HINT
An ultra-luxe body oil
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DIAL IT UP
A LITTLE
The rose petal note is
enhanced with the
freshness of orange
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perfectly paired with the
season’s chic linen frocks.
“Using it every day works to cool
down warmth, preventing creamy-
brown highlights from going brassy.”
THE BLONDE’S PRESCRIPTION:
“For someone with lighter or more
porous hair, use it once or twice a
week or (my favourite trick) split the
difference: mix regular and purple
shampoo in your hand. You can be
your own colourist – if you feel the
colour is getting too warm, add
a little more purple shampoo.”
THE REDHEAD’S PRESCRIPTION:
Okay, so there is an exception to
Ess’s rule — those with red hair like
herself! “I typically advise against
redheads using purple shampoo if
they want to keep their hair bright
because it’s designed to mute warmth.
I keep my hair vibrant by washing it
less and using at-home glosses once
a month to boost tone and shine.”
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WHAT IT IS: A minimally invasive
microdermabrasion skin treatment
that mechanically exfoliates the outer
layer and vacuums dead skin cells
away, revealing a softer, smoother
more luminous complexion (when
you skim the top off your stratum
corneum, the body replaces it
with new, healthy cells).
With no downtime, it’s a great
“lunchtime” treatment for nearly all
skin types (those with active acne
should skip it) and ideal for a quick,
instant glow with practically zero risk
of irritation, sensitivity or peeling.
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WHAT IT FEELS LIKE: The treatment smooth,
begins after a thorough cleanse, and
it’s so painless it’s actually relaxing curly or
— just a gentle tug as the suction tip
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that require a bit more attention, such
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experience no discomfort while
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THE DYSON AIRWR AP
they’re being worked over. HAS IT COVERED
The microdermabrasion (which
takes around 10 minutes) is followed by Rethinking the way we perform
a gentle enzyme and hyaluronic acid mundane tasks is Dyson’s MO,
mask (Skinstitut’s Enzymatic Micro Peel) and their latest innovation reinvents
to further encourage luminosity. It feels hairstyling — simultaneously drying
slightly tingly as it’s being massaged and curling. “Water breaks down
on, but it’s very tolerable.
My technician, who has walked
hair bonds and heat resets them,”
explains Sam Burrowes, advanced
me through each step and product,
finishes with an antioxidant serum,
design engineer for Dyson. “If we
can dry the hair while curling it, the
nourishing rosehip oil and SPF 50. bonds will reset with a much lower
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Words: Janna Johnson O’Toole. Photography: Manuel Pandalis /
VERDICT: My skin is slightly pink heat than you need when using
immediately after the treatment due a traditional wand on dry hair.” The
to the increased blood and oxygen
circulation, but it quickly subsides.
My pores look smaller and clearer
result is the Airwrap that uses 100°C
air (as opposed to the 180°C heat
standard to tongs or flat irons), which
and my foundation glides on, looking sucks the hair around the barrel (no
perfectly dewy with no extra effort. clamp needed), drying and curling in
The treatment also increases product mere minutes. Looking
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I notice my skin responding particuularly that too, smoothing frizz with two
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Airwrap, $699, DYSON,
treatment with almost no risk. If youu’re dyson.com.au
looking for a natural, chemical-freee
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skip the accompanying products.
5-Step Microdermabrasion, $89, LASER CLINICS
AUSTRALIA, laserclinics.com.au

IN MY KIT
Makeup artist
Daniel Martin
champions natural,
bespoke beauty,
making him
a favourite of
Jessica Alba and
Duchess Meghan
“To relax in my hotel room
after a long shoot, I light
a mini Diptyque candle,
which is a travel essential.”
1. Set of Mini Candles (Baies, Figuier,
Roses), $130, DIPTYQUE,
mecca.com.au
“I don’t leave home without
my Beautyblender and
sponge cleansing spray.”
2. Beautyblender Sapphire sponge,
$20, Brush Cleansing Spray, $24, both
BEAUTYBLENDER, sephora.com.au
“My clients are always taking
my Tatcha blotting papers
and Dior Lip Glows, so I have
to keep stocking up on them.”
3. Aburatorigami Blotting Papers,
$17, TATCHA, mecca.com.au
4. Lip Glow in Holo Pink, $49,
DIOR, davidjones.com
“I use Post-it notes to cheat
when I need to draw
a straight line for a cat-eye
or contour – wherever I need
to create a precision edge.”
5. Sticky notes, $17.95, POST-IT,
officeworks.com.au
“For some added radiance,
I use the Dior Backstage
Glow Face Palette on
the face and body.”
6. Backstage Glow Face Palette,
$76, DIOR, davidjones.com
1.
4.
11.
“Elmer’s clear glue is the
best for brushing onto unruly
brows to help them lie down
how you want them.”
7. Washable Clear Glue, $6.99,
ELMER’S, spotlightstores.com
“This eyelash curler by Surratt
Beauty fits effortlessly into
every contour of the eye.”
8. Relevée Lash Curler, $44,
SURRATT BEAUTY, mecca.com.au
“I always have tons of eye
masks in my kit, like this
Knesko one. They’re so
helpful to soothe stressed
skin or puffy eyes.”
2.
6.
5.
8.
12.
9. NanoGold Repair Collagen
Eye Mask, $23, KNESKO SKIN,
mecca.com.au
“Before I put on any
makeup, I apply Tatcha
The Silk Cream. It’s a great
moisturiser that suits
all skin types.”
10. The Silk Cream, $176,
TATCHA, mecca.com.au
“After a long flight I’ll wipe my
face with the Colbert MD
microdermabrasion pads.
They perk up my skin.”
11. Intensify Facial Discs, $102,
COLBERT MD, mecca.com.au
BEAUTY NOW
3.
7.
9.
10.
13.
“I use this complexion brush
to achieve a flawless
foundation base.”
12. Heavenly Luxe Complexion
Perfection Brush #7, $68,
IT COSMETICS, sephora.com.au
“The Dior Backstage Face
and Body Foundation gives
buildable coverage and
there’s a great range of
shades for every skin tone.
The plastic bottles are
lightweight, too, which makes
them great for travelling.”
13. Backstage Face and Body
Foundations, $70 each, DIOR,
davidjones.com
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Cordyceps, $38,
ORCHARD STREET, TRENDING
orchardstreet.com.au

streamline
your routine
with beauty
sticks
The perfect
gym tote/beach
bag/clutch
Women’s Libido +
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$60 for seven,
WELLECO, these compact,
welleco.com
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FORMULA 10.0.6,

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primping
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AWAKENING
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to rev up your sex drive
HERE’S A FACT: MILLENNIALS
ARE HAVING LESS SEX than the
generation before them. If you’re
opting out by choice, great; but if
it’s because you can’t seem to find
the right mood, then there are new
Charcoal Cleansing Stick,
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Street. “You’re left feeling simply too
exhausted at the end of the day.”
Shanks has harnessed the libido-
boosting power of the cordyceps
mushroom in her latest offering – and
Words: Janna Johnson O’Toole. Photography: Jamie Nelson / Blaublut-Edition.com;

natural supplements eager to helm she recommends stirring the earthy

the search party.
Unsurprisingly, feeling stressed is
a sure-fire way to put your sex drive
in reverse. “Stress is the archenemy
of our natural sexual desire, wreaking
havoc on our hormones, shocking the
nervous system and depleting our
energy,” explains Kirsten Shanks,
powder into coffee. “It turns your
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supporting energising elixir,” she says.
If you prefer a (ahem) fruitier vibe,
Welleco’s maca root and red
raspberry blend promise to boost
Nude-Expert Duo Stick,
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the body in handling stress. Mix with mecca.com.au
Sevak Babakhani (still-life)

naturopath and founder of Orchard
water and take as a shot, or pour into
a smoothie. Whichever you choose,
expect to notice a change in less Take The Day
Off Eye Makeup
than two weeks. Plan accordingly. Remover Stick,
$33, CLINIQUE,

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 Detoxilyn City Mask,
$136, BY TERRY,
mecca.com.au

Dramatically Different
Hydrating Jelly, $49
for 125ml, CLINIQUE,
clinique.com.au

DNA fx221 Recovery

Serum, $129, PRIORI,
prioriskincare.com.au

ULTRAVIOLET (UV) LIGHT FROM

THE SUN has long been deemed skin’s
worst enemy, wreaking havoc on a cellular
level, resulting in fine lines, pigment gone
wild and potentially even skin cancer.
But experts warn of another stealth
skin saboteur: pollution. City dwellers can

SAVING
already see they’re constantly surrounded
(think of that incessant layer of soot lining
your windowsills), but what’s even more
alarming is that the particulate matter
suspended in the air enters the skin, attacks
cell DNA and, over time, causes wrinkles,

FACE
Words: Nicole Catanese; Janna Johnson O’Toole. Photography: Kate Szatmari/

dryness, inflammation and uneven tone.

“Pollution microparticles are 20 times
smaller than your pores, so they easily
The Licensing Project/Snapper Images; Sevak Babakhani (still-life)

infiltrate the skin,” says NYC-based

Pollution is penetrating
your skin 24/7. Here’s how to keep your
dermatologist Dr Dendy Engelman.
Digital light pollution – blue light emitted
from your phone, tablet or computer – is
also a threat. This high-energy visible light
(HEV light) causes free-radical damage, as
UV light does, but penetrates the skin more

complexion in the clear deeply than UVA or UVB wavelengths.

“HEV destroys the DNA of skin cells and
leads to premature ageing and cellular

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Atmosphere Protection
Cream, $75.95, OSEA,
DNA Renewal
Treatment, $129, ASAP,
asapskinproducts.com
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death,” says Dr Barbara Sturm, an
aesthetic doctor based in Düsseldorf,
Germany, whose Anti-Pollution Drops
are a cult favourite.
The good news: you can bolster
your skin’s natural defences. Here’s
how to do it…
CREATE A PROTECTIVE
FORCE FIELD
WHEN YOU WAKE UP
The first step in your AM routine: apply
an antioxidant serum “to bind to free
radicals and keep them from causing
cellular damage”, says Dr Engelman.
Next, block particles, as well as
digital light, with a product designed to
“form a semipermeable membrane that
protects pores from getting infiltrated”.
As the final step in your routine, use
a mineral sunscreen to deflect UV as
well as HEV. “Titanium dioxide and
zinc oxide act like tiny shields on the
skin’s surface against a broad spectrum
of light,” says Dr Engelman.
AT NIGHT, REMOVE
TOXINS FROM THE
SKIN’S SURFACE
Don’t skip washing your face before
bed and consider a facial brush to help
achieve a deeper clean. “Ultrasonic
devices loosen up pollution particles
from the pores, so they can be easily
removed,” says Dr Engelman.
Wipe away residual debris with
a cotton pad soaked in micellar water
BB Blur, $49, FREEZEFRAME,
eze me.com.au
Charcoal Rescue Masque,
$70.50, DERMALOGICA,
dermalogica.com.au
Vitalizing Healthy Glow
Day Cream, $49.95,
MAVALA, mavala.com.au
1A All-Day Pollution
Repair Mask, $125,
ALLIES OF SKIN,
sephora.com.au
Antioxidant Serum, $46,
MECCA COSMETICA,
mecca.com.au
DNA Night Cream,
$185, RATIONALE,
rationale.com
or toner. Follow that with an antioxidant-
rich purifying mask a few times a week;
or opt for a charcoal formula if you
have an oilier complexion. “Activated
charcoal helps clear out superficial
toxins before they can do serious
damage,” explains Dr Engelman.
REPAIR DNA DAMAGE
WHILE YOU SLEEP
According to Beverly Hills dermatologist
Dr Ronald L Moy, undoing even some
of the damage caused by toxins, digital
light and UV rays can improve skin.
His skincare line, DNA Renewal,
harnesses the power of DNA repair
enzymes, derived from plankton,
blue algae and mustard greens.
To detox from the inside out, Moy
recommends a daily dose of vitamin B3
(aka niacinamide), which has been
“shown in studies to boost DNA repair
and lessen signs of ageing as well as
decrease the potential for skin cancer”.
And as always, aim for quality sleep
each night. “When your circadian
rhythm isn’t operating at peak condition,
you’re damaging your skin’s ability to
protect and heal itself,” he explains.
Super Volcanic Clay
Mousse Mask,
$32, INNISFREE,
innisfreeworld.com
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Sublimage L’Essence
Fondamentale,
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1300 242 635
PLANT
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MEET CHANEL’S LATEST
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The first line of defence against the
elements — whether it be pollution,
UV or blue light — is our epidermis,
the outermost layer of skin. A young
epidermis (lest we need reminding)
is dense, thick and undergoes
continuous regeneration, so cells
are plump and youthful, operating at full
speed. But as we age, things start to
slow down, the epidermis becomes
thinner and the cells become less active.
But researchers at Chanel have
discovered that the SNEV protein
(short for SeNescence Evasion Factor)
acts like a cheerleader, boosting
cellular activity and revving it back
up to optimal function, which helps the
epidermis look and act younger. To
activate SNEV, the researchers have
turned to the perennial plant solidago.
“Chanel Research carried out a lot
of tests to evaluate the efficacy of our
exclusive solidago extract and found
it stimulates the expression of SNEV in
the cells,” says Armelle Souraud,
Chanel’s director of scientific
communication. “The solidago extract
counteracts the effects of ageing by
improving cellular vitality and restoring
the density of the skin, so it improves the
thickness of the epidermis by up to 54
per cent.” Featured in the brand’s new
Sublimage L’Essence Fondamentale,
the solidago extract is perfect for
night-time when skin is in repair mode,
but the addition of vanilla planifolia
provides additional potent antioxidant
protection, reinforcing the epidermis
so it can continue to protect against
ageing elements all day long.
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Burberry
Scandaleyes Wow Wings
Mascara, $17.95, RIMMEL,
1800 812 663

MY ADVICE… is to love yourself,

avoid labels and be open to
change. The women who inspire
me taught me that – my mother,
BEAUTY MUSE sisters and close friends, like

cara Adwoa [Aboah].

MY BEST BEAUTY TIP… is

delevingne hydration and lots of sleep; the

basics. Treat yourself, too. Beauty
can be so much fun, particularly
with friends – do masks or go to
The model, actress, the spa together. There are
women’s advocate, I’M WORKING WITH BURBERRY so many ways to not just look

intrepid stylesetter
ON ITS NEW FRAGRANCE… beautiful, but to feel beautiful.
because I love the woman the
(who can forget brand embodies: strong, I DEFINE WOMANHOOD…
her ro al wedding energetic passiona
energetic, passionate, ever- in the same way I always have.

t and tails?) learning, ever-growing. I don’t think women have changed

in this post-Weinstein era – we’re
and eauty junkie MY FIRST FRAGRAN
NCE the same in terms of our courage
tells all MEMORY… is from childhood,
when I was always surrounded by
and endurance. It’s just that
our strengths are now being
nature: freshly cut deewy grass and highlighted and our voices heard.
the smell of different seasons. I love
when summer is com ming and spring MY HERO BEAUTY PRODUCTS…
Her EDP, $180, flowers are in full blo
oom. mascara and gloss.
BURBERRY,
myer.com.au
I STILL WANT TO AC
CCOMPLISH… Capture Youth
so much! I want to trravel around Age-Delay Advanced
Crème, $162, DIOR,

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Stay Satin Liquid Lip
the world more, direect a film one davidjones.com
Colour in Shoulder Pads, day and make a difference with
$14.95, RIMMEL,
1800 812 663 women’s education.
wom Words: Sophie Beresiner. Photography: Sevak Babakhani
(still-life); courtesy of Burberry; Jason Lloyd-Evans

MY MVP
ANTHONY NADER, EDITORIAL HAIRSTYLIST
AND OWNER OF SYDNEY’S RAW SALON

“With a few spritzes of Easy-Up Do Texture Spray,

I can whip hair into any shape. Think of this as hair grips
in a can — it holds with ease so I no longer need
to use a mountain of pins.”
122 Easy-Up Do Texture Spray, $49,
HAIR BY SAM MCKNIGHT,
mecca.com.au
Vida Glow is a well renowned beauty and wellness
brand that offers a holistic approach to nutrition with
a range of natural beauty and collagen supplements.
 Bikini top, $135, briefs,
$135, both MATTEAU,
matteau-store.com
(worn throughout)

HOW
TO BE

WELLE
IN
2019…
P H OTOG R AP HY B Y

C H RISTO P H E R COL L IE

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Jumper, $POA, CHAMPION,
championusa.com

…FORGET THAT TIRED CLICHÈ:

NEW YEAR, NEW YOU.
RESOLVE TO MAKE THIS
THE YEAR TO IMPROVE
ON PERFECTION
(BECAUSE WE LIKE YOU JUST
THE WAY YOU ARE)
 Top, approx $175,
MELISSA ODABASH,
odabash.com

SAY HELLO
TO YELLOW
Glare from phones, tablets and
computer screens is contributing
to an increasing rate of vision problems
known as Computer Vision Syndrome
(CVS). Protect your eyes by heading
to your phone’s settings and switching
the display and brightness from blue
light to yellow light – or adjust the
“colour temperature” setting from
“less warm” to “more warm”. Changing
the mode can help protect your sight.

TAKE INVENTORY OF YOUR

CHEMICAL
EXPOSURE
It’s scary to think about, but being aware
of how many chemicals you interact with
every day is important, and tiny tweaks
make a difference. Whether they be
pesticides from produce or dyes and
by-products from plastics, clothing
manufacturing, beauty products and
fragrances, resolve to make informed
decisions. Start by swapping traditional
household cleaners and detergents for
natural ones — your cardiovascular
system will thank you for it.

LEAVE YOUR
COMFORT
ZONE
Get an endorphin fix with
these new classes…
BARRE BODY ELEMENTS
Australia’s premier barre studio’s new
choreographed class, Elements, ticks
all the components of a full-body
workout in a fun new format. Flowing
cardio will make you sweat, while
a strengthening and toning section
will sculpt lean muscles. End with
stretching and mindful meditation,
so you leave feeling uplifted yet
grounded. A new Elements sequence
is released every eight weeks, so
there’s no chance you’ll be bored.
CYCOLOGY CLUB
If music is your workout motivation,
try this upbeat indoor cycling studio
that’s all about finding the beat and
riding to the rhythm. There’s no doubt
you’ll be huffing and puffing thanks
to the challenging pace, but you’ll
be having too much fun to even
entertain thoughts of quitting.
BARRY’S BOOTCAMP
Just a few months into its arrival and
the latest US fitness import is already
a heart-pounding success Down
Under. Intense cardio bursts (thanks
to the treadmill sprints), mixed with
strengthening sets (thanks to using
hand weights), performed in a dark,
room to booming music, is the fitness
hat-trick we’ve all been waiting for.
KEEP IT
MINERAL
Broad-spectrum SPF is now a beauty
routine non-negotiable, but some
formulations contain chemicals that
leave skin irritated, making it hard to
swear to use them religiously. Opt
for zinc, which protects against rays
without any unwanted side effects.
Traditionally white and chalky, the
latest formulations are now sheer or
tinted, making them the perfect base to
wear under makeup or simply solo. >

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 Swimsuit, approx $295,
TUULIKKI NYC,
tuulikkinyc.com 

DIY
DATA
In an age where transparency is
everything, at-home urine testing is
gaining popularity thanks to companies
such as We Test Online – get it? For
a heads-up on hydration, ketones, white
blood cell count, vitamin C levels and
more, wee on the enclosed pH strip and
resist the urge to google the results. The
test will flag if it’s worth visiting a GP.
Head to wetestonline.com.

FILL UP
ON FIBRE
There’s nothing sexy about it, but eating
natural sources of fibre will work wonders
on your gut. Prebiotics – such as those in
whole grains and leafy greens – are the
building blocks needed for the gut to
create healthy bacteria specific to your
biome. The latest research suggests
prebiotics are potentially more beneficial
than over-the-counter probiotics, which
aren’t tailored to individual needs.

UNCROSS
YOUR LEGS
There are important lymph nodes in your
groin area and crossing your legs can
slow down their vital detoxification and
circulation function. Make a mental note
to uncross and straighten up when sitting
for an instant blood-flow boost.

NETFLIX AND CHILL

THE FINNISH WAY
Scandinavia continues to be lifestyle
Words: Janna Johnson O’Toole. Photography: Sevak Babakhani (still-life)

inspiration (The interiors! The fashion!

The parental leave!) and the latest trend
to emerge from its neighbour Finland
follows suit. Their version of self-care?
Pantsdrunk: relaxing on the couch with
a drink in hand, wearing nothing but
underwear. The author of Pantsdrunk
(Kalsarikanni): The Finnish Path To
Relaxation says it’s “the path to recovery
and self-empowerment”. Without having
read a page, we’re on board. E

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TECHNICALLY
SPEAKING
OUR DEVICES SHOULD REALLY
BE HELPING US LIVE MORE
FREELY, NOT TYING US DOWN.
HERE ARE FIVE WAYS TO USE
TECH TO FEEL GOOD
GET SERIOUS
ABOUT SLEEP
If you only do one thing this year, be
sure to prioritise a good night’s rest — it’ll
create a monumental domino effect and
everything else (mood, weight, sex
drive, digestion…) will reap the benefits.
Bose’s noise-masking sleepbuds are
designed for a singular thing:
delivering soothing sounds to help
you fall and stay asleep. Trade music
and podcasts for gentle waterfalls
or the hypnotic buzz of white noise,
which can be controlled (volume,
duration, etc) from a simple phone app.
1. Noise-Masking Sleepbuds, $380,
BOSE, bose.comm.au
au
1.
OWN YOUR
DIGITAL
DEPENDENCY
Track when and how you’re using your
phone with Apple’s Screen Time function
and Google’s Android Dashboard. The
iPhone and Pixel 3 also help cut back on
mindless scrolling. Want to only devote
an hour to Instagram? Set that up using
Apple’s App Limits or with Google’s
Digital Wellbeing app timer. You’ll get
a warning to say it’s time for a break.
2. iPhone XS Max, $1,799, APPLE,
apple.com/au 3. Pixel 3, from $1,199,
GOOGLE, store.google.com.au
IGNORE
DISTRACTIONS
Google’s created features that eliminate
the buzzing we’ve come to expect from
our phones. Placing the screen face
down will put it in quiet mode, and you
can set the device so it slips into Do Not
Disturb when in the charging Pixel Stand.
4. Pixel Stand,, $
$119,, GOOGLE,,
store google.com.au
store.g
2.
Hair: Candice Kelly.
Makeup: Andrew Colvin.
Styling: Sheyna Imm.
Casting and production:
Roberto Sosa. Model:
Renee Wilkins
at Elite NYC
WORK OUT WITH
A BUDDY
(even when you’re alone)
Besides being a fitness tracker, the
Apple Watch Series 4 is now a legit
lifesaver. The new model can monitor
heart rate, alerting you if it exceeds or
falls below a threshold. It also has fall
detection, so if it thinks you’ve fallen
and are immobile for 60 seconds, it
will call emergency services. It gives
a little piece of mind for solo runs.
Apple Watch Series 4, $599,
APPLE, apple.com/au
GO
CORDLESS
Stop wasting the first five minutes
of your workout detangling cords. 4.
Try Audiofly wireless headphones,
which fit comfortably in the ear and
stay secure while you’re moving
and jumping about. They’re
affordable too, at less than $100.
AF33W MK2 in-ear headphones,
$59.99, AUDIOFLY, audiofly.com
3.
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 ANSWERING
ONLY TO
MYSELF
BETH DITTO I DIDN’T ENTERTAIN the idea of sport as a child – not because I
hated sport, but because I hated the heat. I’m an indoor person,

ON BEING always have been. You want to know why? Because that’s where the
air conditioning is: indoors. I hate the heat more than I hate tornadoes,

FAT, FIT and I’m deathly afraid of tornadoes. Growing up in Tornado Alley in
the US state of Arkansas was less than ideal – if there was ever a hint of

AND NOT a dark cloud in a blue sky, I would freak out and refuse to leave the
house. But the heat? That’s another level of hate.

AFRAID My first and only ever series of exercise classes took place when
I was four years old. In the ’80s, my mom and Aunt Janey used to go

OF THE GYM to the local leisure centre for aerobics classes and I would tag along
in my burgundy and pink hand-me-down leotard. I would go for it,
harder than everyone else in the class. I would try to follow what the

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 adults were doing, but I had ADD and I was four, so I actually
had no idea what was going on – I would just dance like crazy
in front of the mirror. I didn’t like being given instructions or told
how to do things. I still don’t; I like to do things my own way. The
culture around sports at school was jock-like, aggressive and
sexist. My family didn’t have the money to indulge in team sports,
but even if we had, I was told I wouldn’t be good at it – not by
anyone in particular, but by the culture: fat kids aren’t meant to be
good at sports, right? Sometimes I think those who weren’t cut
out for a life of running laps in PE lessons should have just been
left alone. Let us draw, let us dance, but for the love of God, do
not make us run. The voices in my head – my mom, who was
struggling with her own weight; society; my teachers – made me
believe I was too big to run, that the kids would laugh and that
trying wasn’t even worth it because I wouldn’t be able to climb
the hill or run the damn laps.
But I had a eureka moment when it dawned on me that I liked
what was happening: I was getting better at running, I was getting
better at moving. PE wasn’t about me – no-one was even looking
at me, they were all just running their own race. So I ran. I may
have been at the back of the pack, running in socks, but I moved,
and moving was good, moving made me feel fucking great.
Exercise, whether it was running, softball or balloon toss (throwing
a balloon filled with water – I was Olympic-level good at that) –
wasn’t about anything other than showing myself I could do
something no-one else thought I could, and that made me
competitive. I suddenly became the girl who
muttered under her breath, “For the love of
God, she’s batting again,” when we weren’t
winning; who shouted “Goddamit, Becky!” “I go to the
when my classmate shied away from a spike gym looking
in volleyball. I wanted to win. like a frump.
I started going to the gym when I was
I’ll go in
a redhead, aged 28. I chronicle my life by the
hair I had at the time. My dad was diagnosed pyjama
with rheumatoid arthritis in his forties, and it bottoms…
ultimately rendered him wheelchair-bound. I do brush
I was pushing 30 and didn’t want the same
my teeth,
fate. I wanted to keep moving, but, more
importantly, I wanted to continue performing, though”
As told to Billie Bhatia. Photography: Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello.
so I needed to keep moving.
So I got a personal trainer, but as soon as
he started to boss me around, I stopped using him. I don’t like
being told what to wear either, so I go to the gym looking like a
frump. I’ll go in pyjama bottoms. I don’t wear makeup to the
gym, I don’t even brush my hair. I brush my teeth, though,
because that would be gross otherwise. This is why I think the
gym is so great – it’s one of the only places I feel free from any
Styling: Donna Wallace
kind of “look”. I can give zero fucks and just go for it. And by “go
for it”, I mean go batshit crazy on the cross trainer – it’s the only
machine I use. I wasn’t worried about people thinking I was fat
at the gym; I was worried I wasn’t going to know what I was
doing on the machines and would look like an idiot. I tried the
rowing machine but I wasn’t coordinated enough – I just slid
back and forth and I’m pretty sure that’s not how it works. I tried
the treadmill but the fear of falling off was too great. So the
internet became my personal trainer. If I felt like I was doing
something wrong, I’d google to find the right way. I’m really
strong, like, bull-in-a-china-shop strong – I hug too tightly, shake
hands too firmly – so there’s a lot of muscle under here, but
I don’t do weights. The one time I did I started to look like The
Hulk. The gym is like a sewing machine: you have to learn how it
do it right to get the best results. You can’t just shove a piece of
fabric in there and expect to make a dress. But best of all, there’s
air conditioning.
I’m not a fan of group classes. I thought a HIIT class was
punching, but then I found out what it really was and decided
there was no way I wanted to do that. Zumba is a “Hell, no!”
I don’t want to be on anyone else’s page, I want to be on my own.
The gym is my time; it’s a sacred, meditative place where I can just
be. I am such a people person, and Lord knows I can talk, but
sometimes I need my own headspace. The gym is the only place
I listen to music I’m working on, but for the most part, I like listening
to someone like Tori Amos. I like going double-time to slow songs.
Have you ever listened to “Heartbeats” by The Knife on the cross
trainer? Do it now. That is my ultimate gym jam.
When it comes to other people in the gym, occasionally you
will have that fat-girl moment where you clock another fat girl
and you have this nod of acknowledgement
like, “We both know why we’re here and we
can do this.” If you’re fat, I think you have the
fear – not of the gym, but of other fat people
thinking you’re selling out; that you’re trying to
change yourself, that you’re trying to get rid of
a label. Thank God the body-positive
movement came in and affirmed that, actually,
you can be fat and take care of your body.
That is all I am trying to do.
The only time I have ever been strict with
myself in terms of diet and exercise was in the
run-up to marrying my wife, Kristin. I wasn’t
shedding weight for the wedding so much as
maintaining my weight for the wedding, and
that was hard. Jean Paul Gaultier made my
dress (that is the most chi-chi thing I have ever said) and once he
has taken your measurements, you can’t mess with that – it’s
Gaultier! And it got me thinking: is this what people do all the
time? Is this how people live their lives? Because I certainly will
not. Eat whatever you want and exercise whenever you want to
exercise. I haven’t been to the gym in months because I got hair
extensions and that shit’s expensive. I can’t risk sweating them
out! When you do exercise, do it to feel good about yourself
and good in your own body, not conform to someone else’s
standards! E
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 WORLD
CLASS WELCOME TO THE 2019
EDITION OF THE
ELLE INTERNATIONAL
BEAUTY AWARDS:
THE ULTIMATE GLOBAL
EDIT OF THE TOP PRODUCT
LAUNCHES, AS VOTED BY
THE (45- EDITION!)
ELLE SISTERHOOD

BEST
FOUNDATION
Backstage Face & Body Foundation,
$70, DIOR, davidjones.com
“Absolutely amazing texture
– very natural but buildable if
needed, giving made-to-measure,
perfect coverage. Even if it’s built
up layer by layer on the skin
it ffeels
l weightless
h l and d
stays looking natural.”
— KRISZTINA GURICS,
ELLE HUNGARY

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BEST
MOISTURISER
The Moisturizing Cool Gel Cream, $445,
LA MER, cremedelamer.com.au
“The luxurious gel consistency
feels light, yet refreshing and
moisturising, leaving skin
glowing all day. And a little
goes a long way.”
— MARTHE EGGUM JAKOBSEN,
ELLE NORWAY
BEST
FRAGRANCE
Nomade EDP, $180 for 75ml,
CHLOÈ, 1800 812 663
“This flora-citrus fragrance is
a complex work of art filled with
beautiful layers, but the purpose
is simple: wear it and enjoy it.”
— ANNE PEDERSEN,
ELLE DENMARK
BEST
ECO-FRIENDLY
FACE
PRODUCT
Clarifying Cleanser, $68,
TATA HARPER, sephora.com.au
“Tata Harper is a trusted
skincare authority and this
cleanser saves my skin
whenever I’m a little run down.
It’s amazing not to have
to compromise between
natural skincare and
effective skincare.” >
— SOPHIE BERESINER, ELLE UK
 BEST
HAIR TREATMENT
Hair Rituel Regenerating Hair Care Mask,
$120, SISLEY, sisley-paris.com
“It targets both the scalp and the hair,
improving all-round quality. Packed
with botanical ingredients, proteins,
minerals and vitamins, it calms down
irritated scalps and strengthens hair
BEST
shafts. Immediately after use, you will
appreciate the softness and shine of ANTI - AGEING
your hair. And after a couple of weeks, PRODUCT
you will be able to feel that your Platinum Rare Cellular Night Elixir, $1,615,
whole chevelure [hair] is more LA PRAIRIE, laprairie.com.au
resistant and revitalised.” “A magical and revolutionary
— ANGÉLIQUE MARTEL, anti-ageing product that
ELLE QUÉBEC contributes to the four essential
functions of skin regeneration,
helping it to purify, nourish, breathe
and reinforce its own immunity.
The result is extraordinary.”
— ARLETTE BARRIONUEVO,
ELLE ARGENTINA

BEST
LIP COLOUR
Rouge G Lipstick, $49, and Case, $26, both
GUERLAIN, davidjones.com
“This is like a fine piece
of jewellery… and it’s amazing
that you can create your own
customised lipstick! Its smooth
texture and intense colour
are splendid.” >
— YUMIKO MURATA, ELLE JAPAN

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 BEST
BODY
MOISTURISER
Almond Milk Body Yogurt, $16,
THE BODY SHOP, thebodyshop.com
“If the jar were any bigger, I’d take
a bath in it! The light gel-like formula
feels soft and hydrates the skin for
48 hours. It’s also a great budget
buy and 100 per cent vegan.”
— LAURE VANDENDAELE,
ELLE BELGIUM

BEST
BEST MASCARA
MASK Le Volume Révolution, $56,
CHANEL, 1300 242 635
Advanced Génifique Hydrogel Melting Mask,
$29, LANCÔME, lancome.com.au “Welcome to the future! The
“This amazing luxurious mask first 3D printed mascara brush
Photography: Thiemo Sander; Sevak Babakhani (still-life)

contains Advanced Génifique is really a major innovation.

serum’s bifidus extract, which The result: next level volume
repairs and plumps the skin with zero clumping.” E
instantly. It’s definitely a saviour — BARBARA HUBER,
when your skin is irritated!” ELLE GERMANY
— YUMIKO MURATA, ELLE JAPAN

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HOME
ON
THE
RANGE
 Emma Lane’s farmhouse-turned-family
home has character, cosy quirks and incredible
Byron Bay hinterland views
PHOT OGR APHY B Y

J E SSIE PRINCE

S TY LI NG B Y

SARAH EL LISON

W OR DS B Y

KATE LA NCASTER
 The sunken lounge (Lane’s
favourite hangout spot) was
designed in collaboration
with Sarah Ellison

STANDING ON ONE OF THE HIGHEST POINTS

within the Byron Bay hinterland sits The Range,
a sprawling 120-acre ridge-top property that offers
sweeping 180-degree views across the hills and
beyond to the sea. For owner Emma Lane and her
husband Tom Lane, founders of sustainable multi-site
community space The Farm Byron Bay, an extensive,
decade-long search came to an end when they
stumbled upon their now home. “Our brief was 15
minutes to Byron, five minutes to Bangalow and
10 minutes to the beach, with privacy, that sat on a hill
looking over the hinterland – and the icing on the cake
would be a distant view of the ocean,” says Lane.
“Finally we found all the elements in this one property.”
At the centre of the land is a stately farmhouse,
which acts as the main abode for Emma, Tom and
their children Charlie, 14, George, 11, Matilda, 9,
and Lulu, 7, plus Ranger their beloved Hungarian
vizsla. Beyond the farmhouse sit two restored farm >

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“The earthy colour
palette disguises
muddy footprints The decor is a mix of

that are inevitable European and Australian

influences in warm neutrals

with pets and

children”
 sheds, known as The Barn and The Cabin, which
have been reimagined into separate external living
spaces and play into the couple’s love of Spanish-
style finca houses. “A finca is a country estate or ranch,
usually farming-orientated and often with a plantation,
and a collection of buildings,” says Lane. “With the
farmhouse, barn and cabin, and 4,500 macadamia
trees, it seemed an appropriate theme for The Range.”
The three-bedroom main house, modelled on the
farmhouse that once stood in its place, blends the old
and new by retaining unique features from the original
home. Lane, whose business ethos of sustainability
extends into her home, repurposed several features
from the original house such as beams and door
frames to create an authentic ode to the heritage
of the property. “The main shelves in the living area
are from the old roof trusses,” she says. Pre-existing
outdoor features have also been kept and given new
life, including a rustic industrial bath outside the main
bedroom that was once an old wine storage vessel.
With their business roots firmly planted in the soil
and sand of Byron, the Lanes were able to commission
custom pieces with local makers to continue the
“There’s a barefoot
sophistication that
I love – relaxed yet
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 unique Europe-meets-Australia motif of the estate.
Their most recent venture, a renovated two-acre
beachside property south of Byron called The Beach
House East Coast, also embraces the same laidback
theme but with a coastal feel. “There’s a barefoot
sophistication that I love to adopt in my lifestyle –
relaxed yet curated,” says Lane. It’s an aesthetic that
seeps into every aspect of the house, from the raw
timber fittings and soft natural renders, right down to the
muted earthy colour palette of the terracotta tiles and
linen furniture, which disguise the marks and muddy
footprints that are inevitable with children and pets.
With such an expansive property, you’d presume
choosing a favourite corner would be difficult. But Lane
points to the sunken lounge, designed in collaboration
Pre-existing features have
with interior designer Sarah Ellison and situated at the
been given new life – like heart of the property, as the space her family inhabit
this wine storage barrel
that’s now a bathtub
the most, along with the outdoor entertaining area.
“Tom often cooks dinner over the coals of the fire pit
while we gather around to look out over the view.” E

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 LAKE ST CLAIR
THE RETREAT AT
PUMPHOUSE POINT
You’d be hard-pressed to find a travel
bucket list that doesn’t include the
instantly recognisable Pumphouse
Point, which juts out incredulously over
the vast Lake St Clair (Australia’s
deepest) in central Tasmania. If you
haven’t yet crossed it off yours, the
opening of the property’s luxe new
bolthole, The Retreat, might just be
the calling card to get you there.
Set on shore, the self-contained
Retreat’s floor-to-ceiling windows look
over the lake, the Pumphouse building
(which dates back to 1940 and has
a series of suites, most fully booked on
any given weekend) and a set of epic
snowcapped mountains. Despite the
view, you’ll find it’s tucked behind just
enough trees to retain your privacy
– especially important when taking to
the outdoor tub with wine in hand.
Dreamed up by one of the original
developers of Pumphouse and JAWS
Architects (also responsible for the
sustainable cabin stays peppered
along another Tasmanian wonder, the
Three Capes Track), the Retreat has
quickly become one of the most
enviable stays on the island. Inside,
you’ll find all the contemporary finishes
you’d expect a city apartment to have
(copper sinks, a freestanding bath,
rain shower and clever lighting panels)
married with wares resulting from
a mindful approach that’s typical of the
area and those who inhabit it. Think
twin Jardan armchairs made of
Tasmanian timber and Australian
merino upholstery perched in front of
a fireplace, a bed you could swim in
custom-made by Launceston-based
furniture designer Simon Ancher, and
a myriad of other locally-sourced,
ethically-produced pieces – all the
way down to face masks sourced
from local apothecary Fig + Elm.
That careful consideration extends
to the edible, with delicacies from the
island, hand-picked by staff, and a list
of local wine, beers and spirits. If you
can bear to leave your room, guests
congregate nightly for shared dinners
in front of the fire. Heaven. >
pumphousepoint.com.au/the-retreat
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 BRISBANE
THE CALILE HOTEL
On the buzzy James Street strip sits
the brand new The Calile Hotel, an
“urban resort” designed by architects
Richards and Spence, who have
been responsible for much of the
surrounding dining and shopping
precinct (where you can shop
Bassike, Dion Lee, Zimmermann
and Lee Mathews). This time they
took cues from warm-weather
locales Miami, Palm Springs,
Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City,
bringing an international feel to the
property and its 175 rooms.
If you can’t nab a table at nearby
foodie favourite Gerard’s Bistro, or
at the on-site Hellenika (an outpost of
the much-loved Gold Coast eatery),
pull up a cabana on the pool’s deck
and order from the menu. Once you
eventually retreat from the perpetual
sunshine to your room, you’ll find day
beds and linen robes to help keep
the poolside spirit alive.
thecalilehotel.com
 MELBOURNE
UNITED PLACES
BOTANIC GARDENS
Tucked between bustling cafes and
foodie hotspot Matilda, and on the
edge of Melbourne’s iconic Royal
Botanic Gardens, is the new United
Places. With just 12 suites, it feels like
a set of chic serviced apartments,
with all the comforts of a hotel (like
Netflix and a butler service), but
without the clunky conventional
check-in desk. Instead you’re
whisked up to your room on arrival.
Our pick: one of the two-bedroom
suites, with a bathtub overlooking
the gardens below, though there’s
still plenty to love in the other rooms
– not least the Santal 33-scented
Le Labo toiletries.
The silver lining of a stay at United
Places? A hand with nabbing a table
at the aforementioned Matilda –
and being close enough to climb
into bed minutes after your meal.
unitedplaces.com.au
PERTH
QT
If you’re after a stay that marries
Perth’s CBD bustle with some classic
WA chill, the newly-opened QT is it.
Designed by architect Nic Graham,
the property is half modern oasis,
half love letter to Western Australia.
In typical QT style, each detail is
carefully considered, with homages
to the state’s most beloved icons
– printed black cockatoos line the
wallpaper, aerial shots of salt mines
adorn bathroom benchtops, green-
and-purple bedrooms are modelled
after the region’s vineyards and the
lobby emulates the coastline, with
ocean-turquoise and Pindan-rust
hues. Head up to the rooftop bar,
down to restaurant Santini Grill, or
submerge in the cavernous bathtub. >
qthotelsandresorts.com/perth
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 SYDNEY
PARAMOUNT HOUSE
HOTEL
A stay at one of Sydney’s most stylish
new openings puts you in good
company – you’ll barely have to
stretch your legs to reach Paramount
Coffee Project (ensuring you beat its
weekend brunch queues), the Golden
Age Cinema and its dimly lit, under-the-
radar bar, Chin Chin Sydney and wine
bar Poly (an Ester restaurant spin-off
offering some 160 drops).
Inside, there’s a focus on luxe
touches sourced close by, like locally
produced wine, Yulli’s Brews beers
and LP’s Quality Meats, Aesop
toiletries and Seljak Brand blankets
(made in Tasmania from recycled
and offcut wool). In the hallways,
you’ll find artwork from China
Heights gallery around the corner.
The rooms themselves have
a homey feel – if your home is a
well-styled city apartment, that is –
with bang-on-trend exposed brick
(it’s the former Paramount Pictures
Studios HQ, after all), terrazzo-tiled
showers and luxe Jardan furniture
pared back with specially sourced
vintage pieces. Once you peel
yourself out of the Japanese-style
timber bath, you’ll find the bed lined
with linen sheets, a departure from
typical crisp, cold hotel bedding.
paramounthousehotel.com

WAIHEKE ISLAND,
NEW ZEALAND
VILLAS WAIHEKE
A world away from Auckland (yet
only 35 minutes by ferry), is NZ’s
staycation spot of choice, Waiheke
Words: Elle McClure. Additional words: Amy Starr, Mahalia Chang.
Island, beloved for its vineyards
(read: all-day wine tasting), olive
groves (read: olive oil worthy of
a spot in the most discerning foodie’s
Photography: Adam Gibson, Jason Futrill
pantry) and postcard-worthy
beaches with their white sands and
(relatively) balmy waters. It’s the
preferred weekender destination for
savvy Aucklanders, so do as they do
and make a beeline for the famed
Ostend Market for gourmet local
fare and take-home treats you’ll
pray are customs-friendly.
With five private residences and
views over both the island and the
surrounding Hauraki Gulf, Villas
Waiheke serves as a picturesque
home base, with local favourites
Batch Winery and Peacock Sky
Vineyard both less than a 15-minute
walk away. There’s also a gym
and 12-metre mineral pool in case
you’re tempted to work off all that
wine – but we dare say you’ll forego
the former and shortcut to the latter
with a holiday read in hand.
villaswaiheke.com
PORT STEPHENS
BANNISTERS
The latest addition to a growing
collection of beautiful properties
is Bannisters’ gleaming white
Port Stephens address, boasting
glimmering bay views and housed
inside an immaculately-renovated
building that had a former life as
a motel. With 78 rooms, it’s bigger
in scale than the boutique-sized
Bannisters’ Mollymook, but
manages to retain the magic.
If you bother to tear yourself away
from the infinity pool that overlooks
the sandy shores of Soldiers Point
or the stellar in-house dining options,
there’s a beach and a jetty only
a few steps away. If you don’t catch
your own dinner, book a table at the
famed Rick Stein at Bannisters, which
serves local oysters and rock lobster
among an array of seafood, like fish
pie and Singapore chilli crab. E
bannisters.com.au/port-stephens
WELLINGTON
With a coffee scene to rival
Melbourne’s and an impressive
amount of foodie spots for a city
of just over 200,000 people,
“The Windy City” is the
weekender for those in-the-
know. Check into hotel-cum-art-
hub QT (qthotelsandresorts.
com/wellington), grab a pastry
from French bakery La Cloche
(lacloche.co.nz/terrace)
and coffee from Nikau Cafe
(nikaucafe.co.nz), followed
by an arty fix at the
City Gallery Wellington.
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ALL-STAR
GUIDE
TO 2019

HOROSCOPES 2019
A SHINY NEW YEAR IS
UNFOLDING, GIVING
YOU A BLANK SLATE
ON WHICH TO WRITE
ANOTHER EXCITING
CHAPTER OF YOUR
LIFE’S STORY. WILL THIS Much of last year was about
reflection and lessons, but 2019
YEAR BE BETTER, is the time to make progress.
BRIGHTER AND EASIER Happily, Venus and Mars won’t
go into retrograde at all, ensuring
THAN THE PAST ONE? a productive year full of energy.
IN MANY WAYS, A big feature of 2019 (and
THE ANSWER IS YES 2020) is that Saturn and Pluto dock
and become “Siamese twins” in
W ORD S BY
February, something that happens
SU SAN M ILL ER every 35 to 38 years, creating
a formidable force that can bring
frustrations and tough love.
Uranus will move into Taurus
for the first time since 1942 and will
sit there for seven years, adding
innovation to anything to do with
wealth. Neptune will add a spiritual
quality to creativity, while Jupiter
IL LU STR A TIO NS B Y
promises to give outstanding
JANN A Y OTT E
golden luck that benefits all signs. >

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 YOU WILL LOVE the coming year.
Jupiter, giver of gifts and luck, will
be in Sagittarius all the way to
December 2, 2019, broadening
your outlook and bringing not only
opportunities but also the means
to take advantage of them. Like
Aries, Sagittarius is a fire sign,
so you will absorb the goodness
of Jupiter effortlessly. If your usual
approach is to view new projects
within their specific parameters,
you’ll now view them in their
largest, most successful
panoramic manifestations.
W O RK
Jupiter is currently in your
intellectual ninth house until
early December 2019, so all
year you will be coaxed to
learn, grow and share your
knowledge. The ninth house
is closely associated with
international travel, meaning
you might work abroad or at
home while collaborating with
companies based overseas.
Travel on January 22, as this
is when Venus joins Jupiter,
so whether you go for love
or business, the results will
be sensational.
January is also the best
time for you to take on a new
endeavour because your
ruler, Mars, is in your sign.
You’ll likely display a rare
level of determination,
meaning you will more easily
push forward with your plans.
Jupiter will move into your
career sector in December,
bringing you honours and
applause and perhaps
a prestigious new position.
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MONE Y
Your earning power is about
to undergo important change.
Sometimes in life, as we make
the ascent to higher influence,
compensation can lag, but this
won’t be your problem. Your
finances are poised to do
exceedingly well, and a lot
of it has to do with Uranus.
When the planet moves into
Taurus on March 6, it will stay
for seven years, bringing vast
changes to your income. You
will likely be paid more than
you ever have, but you will be
beset with larger expenses,
possibly because of taxes or
standard-of-living upgrades.
You will learn to manage
money in a more sophisticated
way and find ways to avoid
the extremes of Uranus by
setting up contingency plans.
If you want to ask for a pay
rise, do it with the new moon
on May 4. All new moons
open up a 10-day portal of
opportunity, so the sooner you
act within that period, the
stronger the moon’s influence.
This is also the time to ask
about other benefits, such as
leave. Be patient and you
should have answers by the
May 18 full moon. If you are
self-employed, this is the time
to go after that dream client.
MAR 21 — APR 20
ARIES
L I FE
Get your diary out because
you have some key dates to
note down. First, Mercury
will retrograde three times in
2019 (March 5-28, July 7-31
and October 31 – November
20). These periods are not
favourable for making legal
commitments or buying LOVE
expensive electronics Romance and possibly even
— they won’t turn out as you a baby could be part of the
expected. Also take note of picture in 2019, especially on
the eclipses: the first four (on or close to January 20, when
January 5 and 20, and July a full moon lunar eclipse will
2 and 16) will clear out the occur in Leo in your fifth house
cobwebs and put you on the of love, pregnancy and birth.
right path for a new life. If you are single, you may meet
You might start thinking someone quite special at this
about making home-related time. Eclipses bring life-altering
changes when Mars moves events in the blink of an eye,
through Cancer (May 15 so if you are looking for
– June 30), but they have the a relationship with someone
best chance for success when you can build a life with, this is
you act around the July 2 a good time to start dating.
lunar eclipse with Cancer
in your home sector.
REMEMBER… YOUR YEAR WILL BE THRILLING,
WITH LEARNING, CAREER SUCCESS AND AN
INCREASE IN INDUSTRY PRESTIGE, ALONG WITH
BREATHTAKING TRAVEL AND GROWTH IN YOUR
ROMANTIC, FRIENDSHIP AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS.

YOU ARE ENTERING AN
EXCITING period in your life.
Uranus, the planet of innovation,
disruption, creativity, rebellion,
independence and sudden
change, enters Taurus on March
6, 2019, and remains there for
seven years. Uranus takes 84
years to circle the Sun, spending
seven years in each sign it visits, so
this could be the first and last time
in your life that you will experience
Uranus in Taurus. The planet last
toured your sign in 1946.
WO RK
In 2019, you will be on the
cutting edge of all that is
innovative and fresh. Uranus is
the natural ruler of your tenth
house of career, so you may
start to shift your work life in
a new direction. Your job
is likely to be powerfully
influenced by changes in
technology, and if it has
always been your dream to be
famous, now’s your chance.
Three heavenly bodies in
Aquarius congregating in your
tenth house in early February
suggest the best time to forge
ahead in your career will be
around the 14th of the month,
10 days after the new moon.
This new moon suggests there
will be strong competition for
the job you want, but you may
be lulled into assuming you
have no competitors at all.
They’ll be right under your
nose, so you need to be
organised and polished.
A full moon lunar eclipse
in Capricorn on July 16 sees
Saturn placing undue pressure
on you, but other planets in
Capricorn and Cancer are
friendly to Taurus, so you’ll
get through it.
TAURUS
MONEY
The outlook for the full moon
eclipse in Leo on January 20
is mixed. On one hand,
Uranus, the planet of sudden
news, will be at sharp odds
with the sun and new moon,
which is a disruptive, jarring
aspect. On the other hand,
Venus will arrive arm-in-arm
with Jupiter, the planet of gifts
and luck. This is a glittering,
five-star aspect that will likely
save the day. As your ruler,
Venus carries greater weight
for you than any other sign
with the exception of Libra,
with whom you share Venus’
rulership. If you find yourself
in a financial fix at this time,
Venus and Jupiter will provide
an answer that works
perfectly, so stay optimistic.
Jupiter entered Sagittarius
last year on November 8,
2018 to stay 13 months, so
this will be a fantastic year to
see your savings multiply.
REMEMBER… DEAR TAURUS, YOUR YEAR AHEAD HAS SO MANY
ELEMENTS, TWISTS AND TURNS, AND PLENTY OF SURPRISES. MORE MONEY,
CAREER PROGRESS, FOREIGN TRAVEL AND AN EMPHASIS ON LEARNING
AND THE MEDIA, AS WELL AS OVER-THE-TOP LOVE, CAN ALL BE YOURS.
APR 21 — MAY 21
L I FE
Now and in the coming seven
years of Uranus in Taurus, you
will be more determined than
ever to make a contribution to
the world and make your time
on earth count for something.
Uranus rules humanitarian
causes, charities and helps
marginalised or overlooked
segments of society, so you
may be moved to protect
the environment, care for
animals, or dedicate time to
underprivileged children.
A key date for home and
family matters is July 31,
when the new moon is in
Leo but this might not be
entirely positive. Unexpected
housing disputes may arise,
so be prepared and make
sure agreements with your
landlords and housemates
are airtight. Avoid signing
papers between July 31 and
August 10. Instead, make big
decisions on August 31, when
the ruler of your home sector,
the sun, will be beautifully
conversant with Uranus.
International relationships
and exciting travel plans will
also be an important theme
for you this year.
LOVE
Your romantic prospects glow
brilliantly for 2019 and your
HOROSCOPES 2019
love life will be best when
passionate Mars moves
thorough your true love sector
between August 17 and
October 3. At the same time,
Venus, the goddess of love,
will tour the same sector from
August 21 to September 14,
giving you a rare and
wonderful overlap mid-year.
Of these dates, the evenings
of August 23-25 deserve
a gold star for finding love or
for celebrating your love for
someone. Venus will conjoin
Mars on that heavenly
weekend and it doesn’t get
any better than this! Plan
something special with the
one you love or, if you’re
single, go out and see what
the world has to offer. Cupid
will be watching over you. >
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 AS YOU BEGIN 2019, you
will find that working in
collaboration with others
will bring you your greatest
personal growth, along with
profits. Jupiter, the planet
of happiness and good fortune,
recently moved into your
seventh house of serious,
committed relationships on
November 8, 2018, and
is now settled there and
ready to bring you rewards.
WO RK
Geminis, as twins, often like
to work one-on-one, so if you
are in a field where you are
represented by someone else
— an agent, for instance – you
HOROSCOPES 2019
will likely benefit enormously
from the alliance. Similarly, if
you are an agent or manager,
you’ll find one of the talents
in your stable will become
a star from your efforts, and
together you can go far.
Your best career moment
of 2019 will be within 10
days of the March 6 new
moon. In March you can
expand your authority and
influence and the new moon
will open up new career
opportunities that you must
take advantage of.
If you’re looking to reach
closure on a business deal of
some kind, you should have
your answer by September
14, and it’s looking positive
thanks to Neptune and a full
moon. If you work for others,
you might change jobs, or
if you are self-employed, you
might land new clients and
exciting projects. In 2019,
collaboration is the golden
key to your success, so don’t
try to do everything yourself.
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MAY 22 — JUN 21
M ON E Y
Your finances are becoming
a major focus of your life,
even if you already feel
well-versed in money matters.
When Saturn left your
partnership sector last year, it
headed to your eighth house
of other people’s money.
Saturn is the stern taskmaster
who teaches life lessons, and
these could concern any sort
of loan, debt or payment due
to someone else, such as
court costs or taxes. You will
need to remain practical and
conservative about money
all year (find a by-the-book
accountant who takes no
risks with your tax return) and
set up a plan so that you
have funds in place should
you run short.
In January, news may
come about someone who
has betrayed you financially,
or an unexpected expense
might come up. The July 2 full
moon solar eclipse puts the
focus on your salary, savings
and spending, while Neptune
comes to the rescue with
a creative project that could
reap financial rewards.
GE INI
LI FE
June is your lucky month,
when a new moon in Gemini
on the 3rd is a cosmic gift
certificate to direct in any way
you please. Venus enters your
sign on June 8, amplifying
your confidence. Now’s the
time to socialise and pamper
yourself. The eighth house
rules transformational
experiences and indicates
there might be a need for
surgery. When the part of you
that is hurting is no longer
there, you are transformed
with vibrant health. This house
also rules insurance, so you
may be on the phone with
your health insurance
company to make sure your
procedure is covered.
REMEMBER… YOU HAVE SO MUCH
TO LOOK FORWARD TO! MAGNIFICENT
COLLABORATIONS, MORE MONEY,
CAREER GROWTH, ROMANTIC FUN
AND SHORT-DISTANCE TRAVEL WILL
MAKE 2019 YOUR YEAR TO SHINE .
LOVE
Various points of the year
will be extra special for you
whether you’re single, dating
or happily married. The first
special romantic period of the
year will span March 31 to
May 15, when Mars tours
your sign, amping up your
magnetism. Gemini rules
short-distance travel, so if you
are attached, flirt with your
partner and make plans for
a weekend away “just us
two”. You could gain much this
year from taking private time
together to strengthen the
bonds you share.
Another dazzling time for
romance starts on the new
moon in Libra, on September
28 (and for 10 days after),
filling your fifth house of true
love. If you have already met
The One, this period will add
sparkling notes of passion
to your relationship. Venus and
your ruler, Mercury, will be
in your love sector, which is
a good sign you’ll be ready to
give your heart fully to the one
you love. Venus and Jupiter will
be signalling sweet messages
to each other (the planets will
be 60 degrees apart at the
September 28 new moon),
an aspect indicating
opportunity. There’s no doubt
this new moon could be very
special for your love life.

SATURN, THE TASKMASTER
planet that tests all things
— health, relationships and
business endeavours — is your
friend, but it might not always
feel that way. The planet’s
influence may have you under
strain, but you are always
stronger for having gone
through a Saturn cycle. 2019
has a powerful emphasis on
partnerships and health.
W OR K
Jupiter, the good-fortune
planet, is ready to serve
you from its perch in your
sixth house of work
projects. The planet’s new
placement is an indication
that your career is about to
get more interesting. If you
are self-employed, you will
not have to look far to
generate new business. Be
determined to network at
professional events and
keep an ear out for job or
business opportunities that
aren’t being advertised.
You’ve had more than
your share of career ups
and downs over the past
seven years thanks to
Uranus putting you through
cosmic tests of your flexibility
and resourcefulness. In
2019, Uranus leaves you
alone and your professional
life will seem much more
settled, but don’t become
complacent as the July 16
lunar full moon might see
a trusted business colleague
leave. Mercury will be
retrograde, so be careful
with communications — it’s
all too easy to pick up the
wrong message or give
someone the wrong
impression at this time.
MONE Y
The sun is the natural ruler of
your second house of earned
income, so you may have to
work harder than usual in 2019
to reach your financial goals.
This is true no matter where you
work. You may have higher-
than-usual expenses this year
and paying them may press on
you. Now Saturn is opposed to
the sun, you may find it hard to
get a generous pay rise, but
this situation will be temporary.
Stick to the program and things
will improve in time. Saturn
changes our status and makes
us feel more grown up after we
take on more responsibility,
no matter what age we are.
In January, your motivation
in business is financial growth
and stability. Saturn rules the
concept of time, so you will be
motivated to make your time
count for something more.
The July 2 solar eclipse
opens a door for collaboration
with someone you’ve known
for a long time, and it could
pay generously.
REMEMBER… THE SIXTH HOUSE, WHERE JUPITER WILL BE VISITING IN
2019, ALSO RULES THE POSITIVE STEPS YOU NEED TO TAKE TO STAY HEALTHY.
NOW JUPITER IS IN SAGITTARIUS, YOU WILL HAVE THE BEST YEAR YOU’VE HAD
IN MORE THAN A DECADE TO FOCUS ON GETTING FIT AND STRONG.
JUN 22 — JUL 23
LI F E
The good news is Uranus will
enter Taurus on March 6 and
jazz up your social life, for
Uranus is the planet that
rules electricity, giving you
magnetism to spare. Taurus
is an earth sign that blends
beautifully with your water
sign element. As Uranus
moves to your friendship/
events/new people sector
(eleventh house), you will
enjoy the new life the planet
has in store for you.
Uranus will remain in
Taurus, and at a friendly angle
to your sun, for seven years,
bringing many new people
into your life. The majority of
these friends may be younger
than you, with motivation to do
humanitarian projects. You will
also be increasingly sensitive
to those who need a voice to
champion their cause and
become inspired to help.
It’s also a good idea to join
a social or professional club.
CANCER
LOVE
If you are smitten with
someone who you are serious
about marrying, don’t be
hasty. Meet that person’s
friends and family to get
a well-rounded view of their
life. If you are dating and
your partner is not ready to
become engaged, it will be
because Saturn’s position
creates a need to focus on
a singular goal, and not to
take on too many life changes
at once. Be patient. Your
partner’s state of mind shows
up in your chart, too, as we
are all linked to each other.
If you are already married,
you may hit a rocky patch in
January or July due to Saturn’s
position in your marriage
sector, but if love is present,
you will iron out any difficulties
and grow closer. If you are
happy, you may find that your
partner is going through a
difficult patch at work, or with
health, in which case you will
want to be of assistance. If you
have been unhappy in your
marriage, Saturn’s visit to your
seventh house of contractual
relationships may bring the
realisation that you must leave.
There is no predestination
here — you will make the final
decision. In this house, Saturn
will ask for your answer. >
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YOU WILL LIKELY FIND 2019
to be one of your best years in
recent memory and, if you are
open to the idea, you will be the
celestial favourite for finding
genuine romance. Jupiter, the
giver of gifts and luck, entered
Sagittarius and your fifth house
of true love late last year on
November 8, 2018, and is set
to direct its golden rays there
until December 2, 2019. The
universe is poised to give you
great happiness, dear Leo.
WO RK
You will have a major
development with Uranus,
planet of all things
unexpected, moving to
Taurus on March 6 and
staying in your tenth house
of honours, awards and
achievement for seven years.
You have never hosted
Uranus in Taurus in this part
of your chart before, and
when this trend ends in April
2026, it won’t appear here
again until 2102. For this
reason, you need to make
the most of this outstanding
trend for your career.
Uranus will bring sudden
breakthroughs but also an
occasional setback. This is
common when you reach for
the stars, but the bigger the
goal, the greater the chance
for issues to arise.
The payoff from having
Uranus in this part of your
chart is a gift from a loving
universe. Take note of the
10-day new-moon portal
from May 15, you will have
a crown of stars at the top of
your horoscope, indicating
that there will be no
obstacles between you and
the influential people you
want to meet or work with.
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LEO
JUL 24 — AUG 23
MON EY
Saturn will be at a fine angle
to Neptune all year, and in
exact aspect on January 31
and June 18. This suggests that
if you are creative and work
in the arts (as many Leos do),
you stand to make a
handsome profit. The weeks
near your birthday will be
a vital time for you. Mars will
enter Leo for the first time
in two years, and set off a new
two-year chapter. However,
when Mars enters Leo on July
1, Mercury will be retrograde,
making it an unfavourable
time to launch big projects.
The period between August 1
and August 17 is the time to
make announcements.
Happily, Venus will be in
Leo from July 27 until August
21, increasing your charm and
making your ideas irresistible.
It may take more time and
money to get a new project
off the ground than you first
assumed, so build elasticity into
your estimate. The actions you
take during the May 15 new
moon period have the power
to shape your professional
(and financial) life forever.
The full moon on November 12
will bring news about your
career and job offers should
be taken seriously.
LOVE
If you are single and hoping to
find lasting love, this year you
will need to do your part by
LIFE circulating socially, for the
Saturn in the sixth house may universe is on a mission to
have an effect on your health. couple you up with the perfect
Saturn rules bones and teeth, person. This is the first time in
so you may need to check more than a decade that you
with your doctor about taking have had the great planet
a supplement for your calcium Jupiter’s powerful help in
intake. Also ask your doctor matters of the heart. Don’t be
if you should work on too set in your mind about your
strengthening your bones by qualifications for your ideal
lifting weights or by taking partner, but rather be open
other measures. Step up to a wide variety of types.
visits with your dentist, too. If you have already found
When things in our lives true love, you will be able
stagnate, the universe sends to make exciting future plans
an eclipse to bring about together. The January 20 lunar
a change in conditions. eclipse in Leo will bring up
The full moon lunar eclipse major life decisions. It will also
on January 20 will ask you focus your attention on your
to re-evaluate your goals. own desires for the future,
Do some need to be taken possibly concerning your
off the list? Are there any you feelings about children, or,
should add? Think about all if you already have them,
your achievements in the past special plans you may
two years and give yourself want to make for them.
a pat on the back.
REMEMBER… DEAR LEO, SO MUCH CHANGE
AND GROWTH IN YOUR CHART GUARANTEES THAT
YOU WILL HAVE AN EXCITING YEAR. YOU ARE ALMOST
ASSURED A POWERFUL EXPERIENCE IN MATTERS OF THE
HEART. YOU CAN EXPECT FUN, LEISURE AND FOREIGN
TRAVEL WITH THE ONE YOU LOVE. YOUR CAREER WILL
BE ON FIRE, WITH PLENTY OF WAYS TO PUT YOUR
INDIVIDUAL STAMP ON HIGHLY CREATIVE PROJECTS.

THIS WILL BE A BIG YEAR
to find a sensational bargain
if you’re buying, selling or
leasing property. If you want to
renovate your kitchen or
bathroom or do extensive
repairs, 2019 will be your year
to get it done. If you simply want
to refresh your decor, and
change the colours of your
walls, furniture or floors, again,
you’ll have the very best time to
do so in the coming 12 months.
W OR K
Take special note of the time
when Mars tours Gemini,
(March 30 – May 15), for
you will have no problem
getting in the door of
influential people. If you are
self-employed, this is the time
to do a publicity campaign.
Watch for the professional
opportunities the June 3 new
moon brings. However, that
new moon will be at a hard
angle to Neptune, so be sure
you and your prospective
employer are on the same
page. Go that extra mile and
spell it out in an email so you
can have peace of mind if
there is a miscommunication
along the line. If you are
creative, add more time and
money to your estimates so
you can take your time with
a particularly important
project (you will be incredibly
proud that you did).
You will be at your best
this year, so keep thinking
of projects to embark on.
The best time to launch an
initiative close to your heart
is when Mars tours Virgo
(August 17 – October 3).
This is the beginning of a new
two-year cycle that puts you
in full control of your career
and miles ahead of the other
signs. This is the perfect time
to put plans in motion.
AUG 24 — SEP 23
VIRGO
LI FE
Jupiter, the giver of gifts and
luck, recently entered
Sagittarius and your fourth
house of home, and will
stay almost all year, until
December 2. This is the first
time you have hosted Jupiter in
your house of home and
family since December 2007.
Under this rare trend, if you
want to make changes, don’t
settle for anything less than
finding and creating your
M ON EY dream living space. If the first
The fourth house of your few options don’t excite you,
horoscope, where all your keep looking. This is meant to
fortunate golden nuggets lie be your big reward in 2019,
in 2019, also governs your not to come again until
parents. You may receive October 2030.
generous financial help from If you decide to move, you
your mother or father. can now find a space that is
This year, your home can large, with plenty of sunshine,
generate income, so buy or situated in your ideal
sell property, or do some neighbourhood. Jupiter’s
major renovations. If you influence is known to add light,
have a beautiful apartment, expansiveness and happiness
rent it out to holidaymakers to all that it touches. If you
or location scouts for have already found your ideal
photoshoots or movies. home, then think about leasing
or buying a holiday bolthole.
REMEMBER… YOU WILL END THE YEAR IN A HEAVENLY STATE.
ON DECEMBER 27, JUPITER WILL CONJUNCT THE SUN, MAKING IT THE
LUCKIEST DAY OF 2019. BY DECEMBER, YOUR LOVE LIFE WILL BE
SHOWING ENORMOUS GROWTH, FOR JUPITER WILL ENTER YOUR
TRUE LOVE SECTOR FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN A DECADE.
LOVE
It is clear that you will be
focused more on your private
life than career in 2019 as
Saturn, the teacher planet, is
moving through your fifth
house of love and children.
January will be an important
month to watch for your love
life, especially around the time
of the new moon solar eclipse
on January 5 when a build up
of five heavenly bodies in
Capricorn will gather in your
fifth house. A relationship with
someone a bit older than you
— say eight years or so — or
with someone whose soul
age is older than their
HOROSCOPES 2019
chronological age would
work quite well. You may
already be with this person.
Saturn often enforces
separations to test the strength
of a relationship. Sometimes
the test is simply to show you
that there are times when you
must put your own needs first.
Saturn won’t leave your house
of love until December 2020,
but hang in there. What you
achieve with Saturn, you keep
forever. This could prove to be
your one true love.
If you have a baby in 2019,
Saturn’s presence suggests
you may find parenthood the
hardest work you will ever do,
with the greatest happiness you
will ever experience, but as a
Virgo, you are a master juggler
and known to be exceptionally
flexible and adaptable. >
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 LIBRA
SEP 24 — OCT 23

AS YOU BEGIN 2019, Jupiter, LOVE

the giver of gifts and luck, will
be in Sagittarius, the zodiac
sign it rules. The planet will be
in an exceptionally strong
condition to help you sharpen
your talents in communication.
You will also have a strong
emphasis on home, property
and your family, these parts of
your life will be emphasised by
several eclipses and by Saturn.
WO RK
This year is all about
developing as an effective
communicator and then
HOROSCOPES 2019
M ON E Y
Saturn is the taskmaster planet
that teaches with tough love.
Its job is to get us to think about
the long road ahead and to
plan for the future. It also
encourages us to take on
more responsibility, and often
asks for a measure of sacrifice.
LI F E
Jupiter has eased into its new
role in Sagittarius where it
will remain until December
2. As a Libra you are an air
When it comes to love, you
have two periods that will be
special. If you are single,
your best time to find your
true love will be in early
February. Watch for the
new moon in Aquarius on
February 4 — the only new
moon in your house of true
love. Indeed, February will
be a wonderful month for
finding a genuine and
potentially long-term
relationship. That new moon
will receive lovely vibrations
from Jupiter in your short-
distance travel house, so you

reaping the rewards. For
major career advancement,
you should start to interview
for a new position from May
15 to July 1, when Mars will
light your tenth house of
honours, awards and
achievement. This will be the
first time in two years that you
have had Mars’ help in
taking such a major step, so
you will need to be ready to
move forward at this time.
Keep your phone powered
up: you won’t see this flurry
of career activity coming!
To improve a current role,
expand your horizons. Do
business with out-of-town
clients face-to-face instead of
via phone or email. They’ll
appreciate the extra effort
and it will pay off. If you need
extra training or want to
study, take advantage of
Jupiter’s move into
Sagittarius. You can make
enormous strides now if you
strike at the perfect moment.
Beware competition from
friends, though.
For example, you may have sign, and Jupiter will be may need to be out of town
been giving up dinners out sitting in a fire sign — two at a party or wedding. If
with friends so you could save compatible elements — so invited, by all means go.
for your first house faster. you will easily absorb the If you are attached,
If the presence of Saturn good fortune the planet has February will be a
translates into difficulty paying in store for you. Now that sensational month, too. Plan
your mortgage, keep your Jupiter is in your third house super-romantic date nights
spirits up — the situation will for the first time in 12 years, or a weekend away. The
ease noticeably by year’s you will likely travel more other big day in 2019 will
end. It is possible that repairs than you have in recent be August 15, an important
or renovations will cost more years. While the emphasis full moon in Aquarius, which
than you anticipated, but will be on short travel, you is very likely to mark an
again, you will regain balance could go abroad in April, enchanting moment in your
by year’s end. If you are trying when Mars will be zooming timeline. Single or married,
to sell property, you’ll need to through Gemini and your this full moon will be as big
be patient. This is not a year ninth house. Go in the first 10 as a pizza pie in the sky
you will likely make a killing in days of April and stay far and perfect for you.
real estate, unless your birth away from the full moon on
chart has Virgo rising. the 19th, when Uranus will
challenge that moon.
REMEMBER… EACH YEAR, WE HAVE THE LUCKIEST DAY OF THE
YEAR, AND IN 2019 IT WILL BE DECEMBER 27. THIS IS WHEN THE SUN WILL
ALIGN PRECISELY WITH JUPITER. ONCE A YEAR, THESE TWO DAZZLING
LUMINARIES CHOOSE TO MEET A DIFFERENT SIGN AND PART OF YOUR
CHART TO MEET. WHILE EVERY SIGN WILL FEEL HAPPINESS ON DECEMBER
27, EACH SIGN WILL SEE LUCK IN VARYING WAYS. FOR YOU, DEAR LIBRA,
HAPPINESS WILL COME FROM HOME AND FAMILY, ENSUING A
SPECTACULAR END TO 2019. IT LOOKS AS THOUGH YOU WILL BE HAPPIER
AND MORE CONTENT THAN YOU HAVE BEEN IN A VERY LONG TIME.

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LAST YEAR WAS YOUR
WONDER YEAR, when
good-fortune planet Jupiter
toured Scorpio from October
2017 to November 2018 and
gave you a chance to make
several fresh starts. You were
so busy taking advantage of
new opportunities, you may
not have noticed you were
planting seeds for your future.
These efforts are about to give
your days new life in 2019,
with quite a financial harvest
due to you in months ahead.
WO RK
If you did not seed a new
venture or receive acclaim for
your work last year, you may
still get a chance during the
January 5 solar eclipse.
From July 1 to August 16,
Mars, your ruler, will journey
through Leo to light your tenth
house of honours, awards
and achievement to make
your working life very busy.
However, Mercury will
retrograde from July 7 to 31,
so your puzzle pieces may
not fall into place – plan
a holiday for July instead.
Saturn, the teacher planet,
and Pluto, the transformation
planet, are touring your third
house of communication. You
appear to be working on a lot
of new contractual deals in
2019, but it will take time
and attention to detail to
get them all just right.
REMEMBER… GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT.
AN ECLIPSE ON DECEMBER 25, 2019, MEANS THE MOST EXCITING
GIFT SANTA WILL LEAVE YOU WILL BE GLORIOUS PROFESSIONAL
APPLAUSE AND THE PROMISE OF AN EXCITING 2020 AHEAD.
OCT 24 — NOV 22
MONE Y
Jupiter is now in Sagittarius,
the sign it rules, and so it
is comfortable in this sign.
Since November 7, 2018,
Jupiter has been in your
second house of earned
income, and will remain
there until December 2,
2019. Now that Jupiter has
set up shop here, it will bring
you the opportunity to create
the greatest financial bounty
you have seen in 12 years,
and very possibly your entire
life. Many of the sources of
income you will see spouting
up in the coming year will
revert to conversations you
started and presentations you
made in 2018. In short, you
are about to develop an
entirely new pipeline of cash.
Take note of the new
moon of June 16. This is a
strong new moon for you as it
could see more money flow
into your bank account. If you
work on a performance basis,
such as on a bonus structure
or on commission, it seems
you will do well that way, too.
LI F E
Are you thinking of moving to
a larger apartment or house?
The new moon on February 4
has you finding the ideal
space, so be ready to browse
spaces with your real estate
agent in the 10 days that
follow. The actions you take
then can affect you for a year
or more, possibly forever.
Early or mid February will
be the most important point
of the year to move or make
other home-related decisions,
and lots of options will come
up in this period. The glitch of
that new moon is that Jupiter
will be at a hard angle to
Neptune, so be sure you
understand all the terms of
a loan or mortgage. Also
make sure you pay particular
attention to finding out if there
are parts of the property you
will need to fix or address. The
appraiser would likely pick
those areas to fix in his report,
but with Neptune going
rogue, the appraiser may miss
one or two, or the seller might
not give you full disclosure.
SCORPIO
L O VE
December 6 to 31, 2018,
was a lively and vibrant
period for romance. Mars
was boosting your true love
sector, and you may have
had more than one exciting
romantic episode that you
are still holding in your heart.
If you met someone new
over the holidays, you had
perfect timing.
In 2019, when it comes
to romance, your biggest,
brightest period will come
after the new moon of March
6, which could be quite lyrical
and poetic for you. If you are
single, be sure to circulate in
the 10 days that follows this
new moon (the very best new
moon of 2019 to help you
enjoy romance) – it could
easily bring a meeting with
your one true love.
If you are attached, you
may decide to try for a baby
in March, with success.
March will be all about
making efforts to make your
personal life softer, sweeter
and all you dreamt it to be. >
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 YOU HAVE WORKED LONG
and hard, and now you are
entering a glorious year of
reward in just about every
area of your life. You are
about to see growth in love,
romance, in regard to children NOV 23 – DEC 22
and relationships, as well as
impressive career progress,
health and travel opportunities.

WO RK
In your Emerald Year [a rare
and fortuitous time as the
celestial favourite], you will
t successful people from
alks of life, including
from business, media,
publishers and agents, or
SA I ARIU
MONE Y
Saturn, the stern taskmaster
planet, is currently giving you
a cosmic financial MBA and
won’t leave your second house
L O VE
Ancient astrologers wrote that
when someone single has
Jupiter in their sign, as you do
LI FE now and through 2019, it is the
Every 12 years, when Jupiter, very sweetest time to meet your

people who work in virtual of earned income until the planet of good fortune, true love. You must do your
worlds and research. You December 2020. During this visits you, the other planets part to circulate socially, as
may befriend a professor, time, you may find clients, surrounding Jupiter are in you will have until December
ambassador, government management and prospective different places, and so the 2, 2019, to make that first
official or political leader. employers to be tight-fisted or effect is different each time. connection. Mars, the ruler of
One or two may take special unable to meet your salary On November 8, 2018, your fifth house of love, will be
interest in helping you to get requirements. You can get Jupiter entered Sagittarius for in Aries, lighting your romantic
ahead. When asked, a prestigious new position in the first time since November sector from January 1 through
“How can I help?” have March or end-of-August/first 24, 2006, through December February 14, so you’ll start the
an answer ready. half of September, but the 18, 2007, and won’t leave year off with a wonderful
Mars will light your tenth compensation will need to be until December 2, 2019, boost. Remember, you won’t
se of career achievement revisited later, after you’ve meaning this year should be need Mars to help you as
e first time in two years proven your worth. one of your best of your life Jupiter is doing all the heavy
August 18 to October 4. On December 2, 2019, the as you enjoy all the goodies lifting, but it sure is nice to know
This is an important moment good fortune planet, Jupiter, Jupiter has to give. you also have this sexy planet
owcase your talents to will move into your second With Jupiter in your sign, of action working for you as
pective employers. house of earned income. your health will improve 2019 takes off.
A promotion opportunity at This sensational outlook for and you’ll feel strong and International travel is likely
your current company substantially increasing your optimistic. You may take up to occur this year, and you may
also arise. earned income will stretch until a new sport or start to eat take at least one visit to an
you have your own December 18, 2020. This is more nutritious foods. exotic city or paradise island
ness, start an advertising why you need to stay upbeat Sagittarius is closely aligned you always hoped to visit but
ublicity campaign, and – the money to solve your cash with the idea of strong mind, had assumed was slightly out
you’ll see results. Put a star on flow problems is on the way. body and spirit. If you treat of reach. This year, you need
August 30 when a powerful yourself to a package of to dream big, for all kinds
new moon will come by – the training sessions from of good things you never
most important one of 2019 a personal trainer, you’ll imagined possible could
for your career. see noticeable results. happen. If you are attached,
you will be able to take an
REMEMBER… DECEMBER 27 WILL BE THE LUCKIEST DAY OF 2019 FOR awe-inspiring trip together.
ALL THE SIGNS, WHEN GOOD FORTUNE JUPITER WILL MEET WITH THE MIGHTY You can weave a memory
SUN. FOR YOU, THIS CHANGE WILL BE PURELY FINANCIAL AND YOU WILL FIND in 2019 that you will share
YOURSELF AT THE RIGHT PLACE AT PRECISELY THE RIGHT TIME TO REAP THE forever and travelling with your
BENEFITS. YOU WILL ENTER 2020 WITH RENEWED CONFIDENCE, AND MUCH partner will bond you closer.
TO SHOW IN TERMS OF GROWTH IN JUST ABOUT EVERY CORNER OF YOUR LIFE.

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THE PAST YEAR HASN’T
BEEN EASY FOR YOU, with
taskmaster Saturn teaching
tough love by imparting
a series of tests and challenges
that seemed daunting at
times. Have faith that the
improvements and rebuilding
of your life will be well worth
the effort. The changes you are
implementing will bring growth
and security for decades.
W OR K
Saturn will stay in your sign
until December 16, 2020,
and, because it’s your ruling
planet, you’ll absorb its
lessons and wisdom more
easily than most. The planet
gets a bad name, but it’s
really your best friend – a
high-priced tutor to help build
structure in your life. Saturn is
currently asking you to devote
your time to one big life event,
such as taking on a powerful
position at work, getting
married or having a baby.
Or, you might publish your first
book, start your own business,
buy or renovate your first
house or go back to uni.
You may have been
working long hours with
Saturn on your sun, as you
have now. You must try to
get rest, for if you run short
continually, the demands of
Saturn could make you feel
overwhelmed or sad.
Uranus’ move to fellow
earth sign Taurus will turn you
into a virtual ideas factory
starting March 2019, a trend
that will continue for seven
glorious years.
CAPRICORN
DEC 23 – JAN 20
M ON EY
In terms of overall career
progress, notice what
happens at the full moon,
April 19, plus or minus
three days. You may get
exceptional praise or
publicity, a promotion or a
new job offer. Your income
appears to be poised for an
upswing then too, especially
if you work on a commission,
bonus or royalty basis.
This same house of your
horoscope also rules
company perks of all kinds,
including health insurance, so
speak up for those, too. If you
have your own business, you
may be approved for a loan
or bank line of credit. If you
receive a cheque at this time,
it is due to be generous.
L O VE
Your love life is due for
sparkling rejuvenation as
Uranus, planet of surprise,
L I FE moves into compatible earth
Saturn in Capricorn can be sign Taurus on March 6 for the
a draining influence. Ask your first time since 1934 to 1942.
doctor if you have sufficient Uranus takes 84 years to
HOROSCOPES 2019
bone density and if you should revolve around the sun and
make dietary changes. You spends seven years in each
may also lose weight under sign it visits. It provides surprise
this influence. and stimulation in the house
Sometimes Saturn makes it visits, and for you in the
life seem out of balance, so coming seven years, the
do something fun once a excitement in your life will be
week. It could be as simple supplied by love, children
as going to a movie or and creative efforts.
having dinner with a friend. If you’re single, you may
Your twelfth house, discover to your amazement
activated through most of that Cupid and his fleet of
2019, also rules healing, so angels is hiding behind every
it’s a good time to consult tree and pot plant, so look your
a professional therapist if you best even if you go to the
have been troubled by a supermarket . Uranus’ method
matter. You may also want to is swift and without warning,
investigate how meditation but the planet is associated
can make you calmer and with technology, suggesting
more productive. you may meet through
a dating app or website. >
REMEMBER… YOU HAVE YOUR MOMENT
TO STEP INTO THE SPOTLIGHT AND ONTO THE
WORLD STAGE. THE AUDIENCE WILL BE WAITING
AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY CLAPPING HANDS FOR
YOU — WHAT WILL YOU SAY, DEAR CAPRICORN?
IT WILL BE TIME TO SING THE SONG IN YOUR
HEART, FOR YOU WILL HAVE THE FORCE OF THE
UNIVERSE BEHIND YOU TO MAKE A DREAM
THAT’S DEAR TO YOU COME TRUE.
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Q RIUS YOU MADE A NUMBER
of savvy career moves last year
JAN 21 – FEB 19

while Jupiter, giver of gifts and

luck, toured your solar tenth
house of fame and honours.
The majority of the decisions
you made were precisely on
et. Happily, you will see
ruth of this in the coming
as events unfold.
worked hard last year,
019 will be easier
more fun-filled.
W OR K
If you want others to know
about your new app, novel,
screenplay or other
eavour, get started
ediately. This year you
have a powerful ability
to magnetise others to you
and become a star.
The first date for your
career progress will be May
17, the full moon in your
prestigious tenth house of
professional reputation. You
may get excellent publicity or
praise from a VIP, or a job
offer from a competing firm.
Next, you may get a new
job or promotion around the
new moon of October 27.
Mercury will be retrograde,
so you shouldn’t sign a
contract or accept an offer
during this period, unless it’s
an employer you used to
work with – in this case you
wouldn’t be starting a new
relationship but continuing
a good one. This could be
very lucrative for you.
This coming year finds
you out and about more
often, meeting and greeting
new people. Keep in mind
that in 2019, it won’t be what
you know but who you know
that will get you ahead.
MON E Y
If you are dividing property
assets at the end of a
marriage or business, this
could become a point of
contention between you and
a soon-to-be ex on or near
July 12 when Mars is at sharp
odds with Uranus, plus on
October 27 and November
24. Try not to negotiate on or
near those dates – words
may get heated and it will
be hard to find accord.
One of your best days to
have any kind of real-estate
discussion is August 29, when
you will find great harmony
with others in regard to
property and family matters.
Five friendly heavenly bodies,
(Mercury, Mars, Venus, the
new moon and the sun in
Virgo) will beam golden vibes
to Uranus in Taurus. If you
need money to fulfil a
property-related dream and
need a home loan with
attractive rates, this would
be the day to apply.
Year’s end will be lucky for
property and home-related
matters. There will be a
Christmas Day solar eclipse,
with four planets in perfect
angle to Uranus, so Santa
could bring the keys to a new
property. Someone behind the
scenes will go all-out to help
you, but won’t want credit
— know that someone,
somewhere, believes in you.
LI F E
This year you will realise
a dream dear to you. Jupiter
moved to Sagittarius on
November 7, 2018, and will
stay in your eleventh house of
friendship, a house that also
rules your hopes and wishes,
until December 2, 2019.
In Sagittarius, Jupiter will
light your eleventh house
of friendship and events.
Fascinating new people will
pour into your life at a rapid
rate. One or two of those will
likely become close friends.
Send in an application to
a club that interests you and
make it a point to participate
in member events. This might
be an international inner-city
club, like Soho House,
or you could zero in on
a special interest that you
have, such as a book club
or creative writing group.
REMEMBER… AN ALIGNMENT BETWEEN
MERCURY AND JUPITER FROM DECEMBER 31, 2018
AND JANUARY 2, 2020, COULD PRODUCE A DAZZLING
ENGAGEMENT OR WEDDING UNDER THE FIREWORKS
TO WELCOME 2020. KEEP THE DREAM IN YOUR
LOVE
If you hope to find new, lasting
love, you will have possibilities
that could thrill you in 2019.
Your eleventh house of
platonic friendship is pinging its
energy 180 degrees across
the sky to the opposite house
on the horoscope wheel, your
fifth house of romantic love.
This is the strongest outlook
you’ve had for finding love in
years. The caveat is you must
leave the house – nothing will
happen if you stay home.
In 2019 if you are single,
you’ll make the acquaintance
of a like-minded person with
whom you share excellent
chemistry. Volunteering is
a great way to meet a new
romantic interest — the person
would likely have the same
good heart as you.
This year, it you want a real
relationship that can lead to
a warm and happy committed
life together, you have all the
right stars twinkling above to
help you. If you are already
attached you can expect to
have more time this year to
spend with your spouse, and
you will include the warmth of
friends in your celebrations.
Aquarians have many friends,
but you allow few to get close
to you. This year you will
make exciting acquaintances,
and perhaps allow a select
number into your inner circle.

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YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER
the most dazzling year for
career opportunity and
advancement you have seen
in more than a decade, thanks
to the rare visit of Jupiter, the
good fortune planet, setting
up shop in your tenth house
of honours, awards and
achievement. If you continue to
work hard and smart, Jupiter
will help you put your name
in lights on the big marquee.
Many people will buzz your
name for all the right reasons
— you have earned the lofty
role you are about to assume.
W OR K
In the coming year, you will
have uncanny timing, in the
right place at the right time to
take advantage of sparkling
opportunities that Jupiter will
send you. You will be offered
an array of choices, so have
your professional priorities in
order so you can make wise
decisions when they arise.
You might be tempted to
accept them all, but to do
that will stretch you too thin,
and not allow you the time
or energy to create the
stunning results you will
want to achieve. When
considering the offers,
choose one or two that have
the greatest long-term
potential and that will allow
you to be truly happy and
utilise your talents well.
VIPs will also seek you out
and want to give you more
responsibility and power.
Of course, to those who are
given much, much will be
expected. Still, instead of
feeling pressured, you will
find you are well prepared
to assume your new role.
PISCES
FEB 20 – MAR 20
MONE Y
Your financial situation is due
for a happy upturn. Take
special note of January 22,
when Venus will align with
Jupiter and Mars will also be in
the ideal position to support
something excellent bubbling
up financially. You may
receive a large bonus,
commission or valuable gift.
Remarkably, this aspect will be L O VE
repeated on November 24, If you are single, a new moon
2019. This time Uranus, rather solar lunar eclipse in Cancer
than Mars, will bring gifts, on July 2 could bring a new
straight from its perch in your romantic interest. This eclipse
third house of communication. will emphasise your love life
HOROSCOPES 2019
It looks like a lucrative, and, if you’re attached,
prestigious assignment will your arrangements for your
come to you as a wonderful LI FE children or possibilities
surprise. At the same time, Pisces is considered one of the for a pregnancy.
Neptune will be involved with most imaginative of all signs. A full moon lunar eclipse in
Saturn, indicating an artistic Your subconscious is always Capricorn will arrive on July
idea you come up with could active and you’re known to 16, and bring your attention
have staying power. take in information about the back a friend or to a group
Your recent financial past world through the visual right that you belong to now.
may have given you more than brain, the part of the brain that In some of the eclipses,
a few sleepless nights. While deals with symbols and Saturn will take a prominent
you may have earned more gestures, music and the arts. role, suggesting one of several
money than you ever imagined Don’t be concerned that possibilities. Saturn teaches
possible, you also likely 2019 will be all work and no us to become mature and
experienced some monstrous play. You will have enormous enlightened, and as the
financial expenses. Luckily, emphasis on romance and January 5 and July 16 eclipses
your finances are about to friendship, thanks to the coming emphasise friends, you may be
calm down and to generate four eclipses. New eclipses in asked to help someone close
a more predictable, yet Cancer and Capricorn will to you who is going through
generous, flow. ping their energy 180 degrees a difficult time. As part of your
back and forth across the sky, personal growth, you will
enlivening your love life and want to be at her side. E
your social circle.
REMEMBER… ASK YOURSELF, WHAT DO YOU TRULY WANT TO HAPPEN
IN THE COMING YEAR, PROFESSIONALLY AND FOR YOUR PRIVATE EMOTIONAL
LIFE? YOU MAY HAVE A MATERIAL WISH (BUYING YOUR FIRST HOUSE), AN
EXPERIENTIAL DESIRE (TO VISIT JAPAN) OR IT MAY BE SPIRITUAL (GETTING MARRIED
OR HAVING A BABY). TAKE TIME TO DO SOME DEEP THINKING, AS IN ORDER
TO SEE YOUR DREAM MATERIALISE, YOU MUST KNOW WHAT YOU WANT AND
TAKE THE STEPS TO GET THERE. THE UNIVERSE WANTS YOU TO EXAMINE YOUR
PRIORITIES AND CHOOSE THE DREAMS THAT MEAN THE MOST TO YOU.
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e jean
TORMENTED?
DRIVEN WITLESS?
FEAR NOT,
HELP IS JUST
A SHORT
LETTER AWAY
HAND GRENADE
I have a crush on my best friend’s man.
I’ve tried to behave myself, but one night
the three of us got drunk at a charity
event and my friend’s boyfriend insisted
I stay the night with them. Not only did
we all sleep in the same bed, he initiated
some “handcraft”, which I then stupidly
followed. Did I mention my best friend
was in the same bed?
This situation has been repeated
many times and I don’t know how to
stop it! How do I redirect my relationship
with him before it’s too late? I am aware
he is a complete asshole.
– CONSUMED WITH GUILT
Miss Guilty: For 25 years, Aunty Eeee
has been filling the very air with
a hurricane of tender-hearted, godlike
mercy. But I have a few words for you,
my darling: Get the hell out of that bed!
If you don’t, Aunty will commence some
“handcraft” upside your head! Stop
blubbering about “redirecting your
relationship” with the man; show your
friend the respect she deserves, tell her
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everything, and let her decide what to
do with him.
But this can’t have happened that
“many times” without her knowing, can
it? Either way, do not expect that your
friend will forgive you. Instead, draw up
a list of your personal standards, take
control of your moral life and end this
squalid little bed game.
FUTURE PERFECT?
I am 30. At 13, I fell in love from afar with
an extremely handsome man. He is
successful, good-natured, funny, rich, kind
and so successful he’s almost a celebrity.
I’ve never met him, but trust me: I love him.
– HOW DO I MEET MR PERFECT?
Conquer, my kumquat: My inbox is filled
with long letters from women who live with
guys who are perfect. And 99.99 per cent
of my correspondents are sick of them!
Get a real chap with some flaws. They are
less dipshitty.
WORKING GIRL
My boss hates me! I just can’t please
her. She favours the men in the office.
When they do something wrong, she
says nothing. If I make the slightest
mistake, she storms around and
reprimands me. She says I don’t follow
directions but I think she misconstrues
my initiative as insubordination. Does
she hate me so much that, despite the
time and effort I’ve been putting in, she
will hinder my chances for promotion?
– ENTRY LEVEL FOREVER?
Entry, my eaglet: Of course your boss
hates you. Depending on the hour, the
day and the situation, your boss hates
everyone on her staff, in her department,
in her building and in her city who dares
thwart her rise to the top.
Here’s your plan:
1. Don’t flatter. Don’t cajole. And for
gawd sakes, don’t be inventive. Follow
her instructions and finish your assignments
in a smart, swift manner that makes her
look good.
2. Tell her superiors that she is a very
passionate, wily leader. (And if you don’t
let management know this in such a way
that it gets back to her, you are not the
woman I take you for.)
PS: Read Robin Green’s bad-arse book
The Only Girl: My Life And Time On The
Masthead Of Rolling Stone. It’s chock-full
of excellent advice!
MUMMY DEAREST
My mother, who I adore, can’t hold a job
and is a totally charming freeloader. For as
long as I can remember, it’s always been
just the two of us, but now she has a male
“friend” who has no job, no money and no
car – and is 26. (PS: I am 26.) My mother
and I share an apartment. I don’t make
a huge salary, but I keep us afloat. What
gets me is that this male “friend” stays at our
apartment for free, eats free and drives our
cars free. She’s blind to this man! E. Jean!
I’m tried! Please help!
– TOO NICE
Miss Too, darling: The kindest thing you
can do is force your mother – a magnificent
woman I deeply respect for getting away
with this BS all these years – to stand on
her own two feet. She’ll hate it, but it will
help her plan for the future. As for her
choice in men? That we can’t control. So:
move to a chic studio apartment of your
own, let your mother stay put and help her
with the rent for the first few months. Then
cease. Your new life is gonna be fabulous!
Ask a question: tweet @ejeancarroll
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Off-White
WHAT
IS IT?
SWOOSH 2.0

WHO’S RESPONSIBLE?

Virgil Abloh, Off-White’s creative

director. After dressing Serena

Williams for the US Open, he

decided to try his hand at “crashing

THE

together active performance

apparel and fashion fashion”

for his SS19 collection, Track

and Field, a collab with Nike.

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE:

We know you’d live in sportsgear

if you could, but there are moments

in life when leggings and a hoodie

Photography: Jason Lloyd-Evans

just won’t cut it. This is aestheticism

for the outgoing. Just do it. E

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