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Julia Trybala's Exhibition, New Paintings, Solves Her Endless Puzzle
Themes of longing and detachment intertwine throughout Julia Trybala’s recent exhibition, New Paintings, currently on view at STATION Gallery. Intensified by the Melbourne-based artist’s distinctive motifs of the side-eye and the slouched figures, her ensemble of gazes and aversions conjures sensations that are hard to identify.
The Meditative Art of Jewellery-Making With ASTERISK
ASTERISK is a Berlin-based jewellery brand specialising in organic shapes and sculptural forms. Browsing through the website, you can find pieces ranging from fluid curves in 935 silver, as seen in their most personal series, OMYO, to natural, almost geological forms incorporating stone elements, such as the Spiral Jetty necklace crafted in pewter. Across necklaces, rings, ear cuffs, and studs, each piece stands out in its own way, sitting somewhere between ornament and small sculpture.
Like Water, We Will Find A Way:
Olafur Eliasson’s art confronts the very real and the urgent. Never hopeless, his expansive practice reminds us of a few critical caveats Infinite people standing in the same place, looking at the same thing, will perceive it in infinite ways. It’s art that transmutes the doom of critical situations into infinite perspectives, collaboration, and hope for solutions, just as it can transplant subpolar Icelandic landscapes into subtropical Australia. Art will save us, they say. It has that power.
Yohji Yamamoto’s Tribute to Giorgio Armani
0 $0.00 0 items “Let the moment, the movement, and the clothing speak to you. They are meant to be felt with your senses, not merely digitally recorded,” read Yohji Yamamoto’s seasonal show card. Part manifesto and part prelude, it set the tone for a meditation on presence and absence, realised through volumes of fabric and calligraphic lines.
At Loewe, Jack and Lazaro Cover Us In Colour
0 $0.00 0 items If Jonathan Anderson restored the aura of craft to Loewe, then new designers Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez (of Proenza Schouler) began their tenure at the 180-year-old Spanish house with colour.
Jonathan Anderson’s Dior Evolution
0 $0.00 0 items There was an entrance, a debut, a collection, and yes, a standing ovation. That’s what we were all expecting for Jonathan Anderson’s first Dior women's collection, and the Irish designer did not disappoint. The show was staged in a big white tent in the Tuileries, a setting that, though temporary, felt monumental.
Glen Luchford Atlas Opens at 10·Corso·Como
During Milano Women’s Fashion Week, 10·Corso·Como presents Glen Luchford. Atlas, the first solo exhibition dedicated to the British photographer. Curated by Alessio de’ Navasques, the show spans over thirty years of work, from iconic Prada campaigns and editorial collaborations to portraits, Polaroids, and personal archives.
Romancing the Rural: Jacquemus’ Le Paysan
Simon Porte Jacquemus leaves no detail unattended. His collections unfold with quiet complexity, the kind that rewards a lingering gaze. Known most for staging shows in cinematic collections (think of the salt mounds in Camargue France and the lavender fields in Provence), Jacquemus set his Fall/Winter ‘25 ready-to-wear show at l’Orangie de Versailles, an ironic staging for a collection titled Le Paysan (The Peasant).
Walter Van Beirendonck Winks With Starry Eyes
Walter Van Beirendonck has long championed a spirit of irreverent joy, infusing his collections with boisterous colours, bold patterns and theatrical flair. His spring/summer 2026 collection, Wink with Starry Eyes, was no exception. Staged at the historic Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris’ 6th arrondissement, the show delved into the naïve optimism of childhood, drawing directly from Van Beirendonck’s own early memories and imaginative inner world.
Spring Undone: Auralee’s Subtle Unraveling
For its fourth Paris Fashion Week show, Auralee’s Spring ’26 collection, led by creative director Ryota Iwai, took inspiration from Haru Ichiban, the initial spring winds in Japan. These first warm gusts invite a sartorial metamorphosis as winter's grip loosens and a new season emerges. Iwai expressed this seasonal shift through oversized dark suits, once a form of protection against the cold, now unbuttoned to reveal swimwear-inspired layers beneath.
Joshua Serafin Lets the Inner Demon Dance In All Of Us
“Fear is infinite, and so is love.
Nora Turato's pool7 Exhibition Opens at the ICA: A Conversation with Curator Andrea Nitsche-Krupp
Nora Turato’s pool7, the latest in her ongoing “pool” series, will transform the ICA gallery into an intimate space of chaos. pool7 is a continuation of Turato’s acclaimed “pool” series and, in many ways, a rupture. Described as the Croatian artist’s most personal iteration yet, this exhibition steps away from the densely sampled cultural debris of earlier works and turns inward.
Kimberley Moulton - Game Changer
Kimberley Moulton – Game Changer Image credit: Kimberley Moulton, 2023. Photo: Eugene Hyland How did you come to be working in art? What sparked your passion in the beginning? I guess I was always really fascinated with culture and history and art and leant into it as a child. I grew up in Shepparton, in country Victoria. My dad was really into history, so we grew up going to our Country, going up the river to Burma, to Cummeragunja, and going to old colonial homesteads.
Sophie Hur: From The Other Side, Looking In
Sophie Hur wants you to know that Australia, despite its geographic isolation, is the place to be. She understands the irony, though. Hur is a photographer who has chosen the city of New York as her subject and muse, an act that situates her in a lineage of expat photographers such as Emma Summerton and Lachlan Bailey. But she told me recently, when we finally sat down after five months of coordination, that if the right opportunity comes, she’s heading home.
Lisa Lerkenfeldt's 'The Folded Page'
Australian composer and performer Lisa Lerkenfeldt investigates electroacoustic music through piano, tape loops and digital processing. Her work combines traditional instrumentation with experimental techniques, emphasising sound’s physicality and cyclical structures. At her residencies in Paris and Melbourne, the latter At The Above, she integrates historical and contemporary influences, working with restored pianos, analogue hardware, and modern technology.
Smaller is Stronger at Comme des Garçons
Rei Kawakubo believes that smaller is stronger. The challenges of today have revealed that “big culture, global systems, and world structures may not be so great after all. There is also strong value in small—small can be mighty.” Her Smaller is Stronger collection is something of a contradiction. Given her own titanic influence in the fashion world, it’s clear that the Comme des Garçons Fall/Winter 2025 collection is an allegory in more ways than one.
Daniel Roseberry Vies for Fluctuant Femininity at Schiaparelli
0 $0.00 0 items A lone star is a luminary. For Daniel Roseberry, it is also a descent into the months ahead. On top of that, it is the title of his second Schiaparelli ready-to-wear offering—a roving collection of ochres, gold, ostrich fur, and cowboy paraphernalia. Roseberry was led by the tensions around how women dress. The modes of dressing presented did not start and end with one reference, even as concerned with work, play, and leisure.
Getting Serious with Georgia Morgan
Images of Georgia Morgan’s ceramics show P.L.U.R. (Peace Love Unity Respect) captivated fellow artist Mark Bo Chu for their levity, formal nuance and material integrity. Mark was sad to miss the show but was struck by Georgia’s low-key shenanigans around the opening, which she posted online. When Mark had the pleasure of meeting Georgia at his own pop-up a few weeks later, he asked for a longer chat, artist to artist.
Vault · Issue 49 · Rose Wylie
Rose Wylie Image credit: Rose Wylie, Singing Life Model, 2017, oil on canvas, 169 × 182 cm. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner © Rose Wylie “I don’t have a theme. Something arrives from somewhere … I see it. If it’s really, really visually exciting, well, I get excited.” That’s how Rose Wylie describes the conception of her paintings: organic, disparate, responsive. “It can be a bird outside the window or somebody’s hat. The way somebody’s mouth slips when they smile.
Ok Computer: Rebooting Couture at Viktor & Rolf
It was Karl Lagerfeld, creative director of Chanel for thirty-six years, who quipped that he designed in a manner of a computer, his methods like an Intel processor extraordinaire, as if he was ‘plugged into’ Chanel mode. Lagerfeld’s codifying of Chanel informed Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren’s designs for their Viktor & Rolf couture show. The pair mused that artificial intelligence could reinterpret the house’s archive, namely their use of bows and frills, trims, and notions.
Patchwork Meets Plaid at Junya Watanabe
0 $0.00 0 items Set in an industrial garage lined with Filson posters, Junya Watanabe’s menswear show opened with a nod to tradition: hunting jackets, blue-striped shirts, and a beige wide-brimmed fedora that was rugged yet formal. This restraint didn’t last long. Watanabe’s signature subversive tailoring emerged, dismantling American staples with patchwork and jolts of unexpected colour.
Rick Owens Maps Out Concordia
The town of Concordia, Italy, where Rick Owens has been producing his garments for two decades, informed his latest menswear collection, 'Concordians'. Departing from the grandeur of last season’s cinematic spectacle, Concordians focused on the essential. “I want to depend on fewer things, but make them as supernatural as possible," he determined post-show. At the all-familiar Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Owens leant into his signature strength: proportion.
Julie Rrap's Past is Continuous
However much you try to avert your eyes, Julie Rrap forces you to look back. Past Continuous, Rrap’s exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, challenges the matrix of female representation in art by turning the viewer’s gaze back on itself. Over several decades, Rrap has employed a multidisciplinary approach to redirect conversations on ageing, desire, and beauty—many of which collide in this retrospective. Born in Lismore in 1950, Rrap's life was non-traditional from the outset.
Rae Klein's Uncanny Paradise
Rae Klein’s paintings comprise of suspended figurative elements set against cloudy skies or nebulous colour fields. The paintings, delicately and meticulously rendered, are feminine in perspective, illustrating the eternal folly of man and his perpetual attempt to assert control over the natural and feral.
Graduate Designers Carys Norwood, Georgia Brookes, Laura Heron and Oliver Layton Resist Individualism
0 $0.00 0 items Hardly a job description (and it hardly pays), the self-imposed title of ‘multidisciplinary’ has come to represent a solo ‘can do’ attitude, creating a highly individualised sentiment that sees everyone off on their own, doing their thing. This tendency to lone-soldier (verb) was abandoned last month as rapturous applause rang out through the streets of North Melbourne for a collective student runway.
Scotty So Enters His Twink-Death Era
“Jack of all trades, master of none,” warns the adage. Yet for Melbourne-based artist Scotty So, the caution hardly applies, for versatility is the very foundation of his mastery. From performance to sculpture, video to photography, So’s practice encompasses a variety of mediums, each serving as a lens to examine themes of authenticity, legacy, and the passage of time. In an art world that often prizes specialisation, So prefers the infinite, at times unexpected, possibilities of range.
Vault · Issue 48 · Olga de Amaral
Miguel Aquilizan Image credit: Miguel Aquilizan, Mutagenesis No. 3, 2024, plastic flowers, plaster, pearls, Installation view, Platform, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2024. Photo: Joe Rukali These days everything is sculpture, so every young artist can consider themself a sculptor. And yet, few think sculpturally, spatially – that’d be formalism, old school. Paradoxically, this makes Miguel Aquilizan a breath of fresh air.
Kimberley Moulton
Kimberley Moulton Image credit: Michael Cook, Invasion (giant birds), 2017, inkjet print, 81 × 120 cm. Courtesy and © the artist How did you come to be working in art? What sparked your passion in the beginning? I guess I was always really fascinated with culture and history and art and leant into it as a child. I grew up in Shepparton, in country Victoria.
The Mimic
photography Photographer Shannan Stewart and stylist Yuzhen Wang explore how fashion and body language can be used to mask or project a chosen identity and shape others' perceptions of the self.
Vault · Issue 48 · Olga de Amaral
Olga de Amaral Image credit: Installation view, Olga de Amaral, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, October 12, 2024 to March 16, 2025. Photo: Marc Domage. Courtesy Lisson Gallery Olga de Amaral is an alchemist; she paints shapes in space with thread. Her art is a triumph of geometry, spiritualism and the phenomenology of colour, rooted in the centuries-old Andean traditions of weaving and handicrafts dating back to the pre-Columbian era.
Big Boys Cry
0 $0.00 0 items photographer ROB TENNENT stylist ROSALIND SEEHUSEN grooming CHRISTOPER BYRNE models KWESI, RAF, HUGO Related Articles Transformative Podcasts and Resources for Educating & Healing By Annabel Blue Jenni Large on Choreographing Femme with WET HARD LONG By Laura Tooby Sean Keenan: Acting, Impenetrable Punk Groups and Everlasting Bonds By Annabel Blue Folklore and Fancy Over at McQueen By Grace Sandles to Be Issue 02 By Annabel Blue Social Commentary and Killing The Cop Inside...
Nadege Vanhee-Cybulski's Triumvirate
If there’s one thing Hermes does well, it’s leather. Buttery and soft, Hermes’ leather is in a league of its own, and always takes a prominent position in their ready-to-wear collections. These were clothes for the discerning-of-taste and, above-all, for the practically-minded. Most looks combined the Hermes icon with either silk, cashmere, and a light, nearly unrecognisable denim.
Folklore and Fancy Over at McQueen
We may all now breathe a collective sigh of relief. While a new creative director’s first show gives us an idea of how they step into the shoes of their new role, it is the sophomore collection that tells us how they’ve learnt to walk in them. And after Saturday, it might be said that Seán McGirr has found his stride in the top job at McQueen.
Demna Swaps Exaggerated for Erotica
0 $0.00 0 items Balenciaga began with what appeared to be the most unabashedly sexy collection that they had ever shown. It was a detour from the oversized streetwear and even more oversized couture that creative director Demna Gvaslia has produced for the house. The first seven looks featured garter belts, suspenders, brassieres, 30 denier hosier, a peignoir that was actually a lace-collared onesie, and black stilettos.
Fundamental Geometries: An Interview with Moksha Richards
Moksha Richards is an artist working in illustration, painting, sculpture and mixed media. Hailing from the Northern Rivers, NSW, Richards lived in Melbourne for several years before relocating to Berlin in July 2023. Soon after we became friends, I was immediately impressed by the accuracy and depth of her interrogative work. Several weeks ago, Richards and I spoke extensively over the phone, and this interview is a concision (of sorts) of our dialogue.
to Be Issue 07 Launch
0 $0.00 0 items On Friday night, to Be Magazine celebrated the launch of Issue 07 with a party at Monphell House. Thank you to Unico Zelo, Love Shack Brewing, Drink Almighty, and Sopra Seltzer for supporting the night.
J.Kim debuts her first Runway Collection in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
0 $0.00 0 items photography In the heart of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Jenia Kim unveiled her debut runway show for J.Kim, celebrating a decade since the brand’s inception. Set against the backdrop of the historic Abul Kasim Madrasa, a male-orientated site renowned for its delicate artistry of local handicrafts, the show also marked J.Kim’s inaugural venture into men’s fashion.
Dior’s Playbook for an Elegant Summer
0 $0.00 0 items Dior’s Spring/Summer 2025 menswear collection captures the blissful insouciance of a summer well spent. On Friday, in the grounds of Paris’ Val-de-Grâce, models bounced down the runway in airy, spring silhouettes, soundtracked by a rapturous live recording of Kate Bush’s ‘Cloudbusting’.
Maria (Grazia Chiuri), Queen of Scots
0 $0.00 0 items I’ve sat enthralled throughout the Resort 2025 season thus far. From Chanel’s showcase atop Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse in Marseille, to Louis Vuitton’s presentation beneath the Doric columns of Antoni Gaudi’s Park Güell, the shows have been a sheer triumph of far-flung locales and luxury.
Ciao! Manhattan: Grazia Chiuri takes Dior to America
0 $0.00 0 items photography Dior’s pre-fall 2024 collection, shown in New York on the 16th of April, is a continuation of Maria Grazia Chiuri’s fascination with all things America, a country that first captivated her when she was 18 years old. A trench coat draped over the shoulders of a two-piece relaxed suit references the balance of street and casual that is true for both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts (bicoastal, if you will) as well as having the distinctly ‘American Look’ of sportswear.
Fashion Freak Show : Stripes, Sex and Scandal on Stage, in True Gaultier Style
Freak out! An eruption of stripes, sailor hats and cone bras packs a punch on the stage of the Fashion Freak Show, the part-fashion parade, part-pop concert and part-autobiographical whirlwind that narrates the life and legacy of fashion’s ‘enfant terribile’ Jean Paul Gaultier. Milestones and hallmarks defining the designer’s ‘universe’ were reimagined through a sassy surge of costumes, choreography, videos and even transgender teddy bears.
Highlights From Milan Autumn/Winter 2024
0 $0.00 0 items DAY ONE: DIESEL If I were making a high-fashion reboot of Monster High (bear with me here), I would be dressing the character Clawdeen Wolf exclusively in Diesel. Milan Day One was off roaring with Diesel’s bigger-is-better silhouettes, eerily coloured contacts, subtle plaids giving way to sheer panelling, floral and leopard print scrapping, distressing, and of course, plenty of leather and denim.
JW Anderson Lets Bygones Be Bygones For Fall / Winter 2024
0 $0.00 0 items Beginning his fashion career in 2008, Jonathan Anderson has gone on to make a name for himself with his contemporary twist on classics and lack of gender-specific clothing. The JW Anderson label was first pioneered through a collection of avant-garde accessories, swiftly moving into men and womenswear shortly thereafter.
High Relief at Valentino L’École Spring/Summer 2024
0 $0.00 0 items The Valentino SS24 show was, in many ways, centered around the concept of return. Set beneath the centuries-old statues of the Maison’s founder Valentino Garavani’s alma mater, the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts’ atrium, models floated in pieces designed to celebrate and reclaim the natural order of female freedom, relieved from the sexualising force of the male gaze.
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