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Chanel’s 2025/2026 cruise collection at Lake Como’s Villa d’Este.

Need travel inspiration? Follow the fashion crowd

You cannot go wrong with the itineraries Dior, Gucci, Chanel and Louis Vuitton laid on for their guests at this year’s cruise collections.

This Month

Room service for your bedroom and Blue Crush-inspired fashion

Plus a horsey perfume, bougie caramels and a new salmon-dialled Baume & Mercier watch.

Jewels that cost millions – and the clients who buy them

We joined Cartier in Stockholm for a first look at its latest high jewellery collection, En Equilibre.

The best tips from a stylish high-flyer

British handbag designer and sky-high daydreamer Anya Hindmarch is a woman on the go.

Rachel Gilbert with a selection of her event gowns.

This elusive fashion designer is finally stepping into the spotlight

Rachel Gilbert doesn’t crave the limelight, but she’s found fans in Taylor Swift and Julie Bishop. For her 20th anniversary, she gives us a rare interview.

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Bacchanalian jugs and eco-blankets to make your home cosy

Plus a Merlot-coloured two piece, a Chanel face spritz and a checked travel bag.

Danielle de Niese at home in Glyndebourne, East Sussex.

From Young Talent Time to Carmen: opera star names her style favourites

At home in her English castle, Australian soprano Danielle de Niese is every inch the diva.

Matt Jensen, founder and CEO of MJ Bale, wearing the blazer made from the wool of sheep fed seaweed.

The next trend in menswear? This unusual jacket

The Australian company at the forefront of sustainable clothing has a new climate-conscious jacket made using seaweed – and the firm has global expansion plans.

May

Embrace the season with faux fur and a glam Italian coffee machine

Plus slippers for going out, a high-fashion collection inspired by King Charles’ garden, a new Aussie menswear brand and a well-priced covetable watch.

The colourful brooch of the Gioco di Forme e Colori watch detaches to reveal its dial.

Bulgari’s new high jewellery collection is more than just big rocks

The Roman house presented its latest colourful collection in Sicily, branching out to include accessories and scents with detachable brooches and pendants.

Holiday essentials including a Chanel handboard and a miracle serum

Plus a chic Hermès bicycle, a sturdy pair of sunnies and an easy, lightweight jacket.

Meet the new (ultrathin) champions of body positivity

A new cultural ideal for women is ultrathin but cloaked in the language of inclusivity and self-acceptance.

Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz at the Burberry winter 2025 show at the Tate Britain.

It’s going to take more than star power to save Burberry

It’s a tough period for fashion globally, with business and supply chain challenges amid a worldwide luxury slowdown.

The choices are pretty much exactly what you’d expect to find when you type in “party dress” to a search engine that doesn’t know you.

ChatGPT is coming for your shopping cart

Would you allow an AI assistant to pull together your wardrobe purchases?

Australian Fashion Week 2025.

The best (and worst) of Australian Fashion Week reborn

All eyes were on Carriageworks this week as the industry scrambled to create a new event after major sponsor IMG pulled out. Did it work?

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Make waves with an electric surfboard and a new Panerai Marina

Plus a kooky collection from Anya Hindmarch, fashion-forward mirrors, a chic air-fryer and a luminous new SPF from Emma Lewisham.

The luggage brand executive who avoids checking in at the airport

From athleisure to packing cubes, this is how Antler managing director Kirsty Glenne travels.

What Allegra Spender’s fashionista sister wants

On day three of Australian Fashion Week, established designers Bianca Spender and Aje made their case to make women feel floaty and free.

Eva Green on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024.

Cannes’ ban on red carpet nudity could spark protest

With the film festival outlawing sheer gowns, is the red carpet finally ready to move on from a trend both lauded and loathed?

Tiffany’s new Rope watches.

Tiffany gets serious about watchmaking

The launch of the Rope collection is part of the jewellery brand’s broader strategy to take on luxury competitors in the watchmaking space.

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