When fashion designers, as they often do, allude to women’s strength as an inspiration for the clothes they make, they tend to have in mind their customers’ emotional resilience rather than their bench-pressing prowess. But on the runway at the New York-based brand Collina Strada’s fall 2024 show last month, one model — dressed in a woven sleeveless top and lace-lined athletic shorts — proudly flexed her arms, and another, wearing a floral-print shorts set, did bicep curls with dumbbells made with kabocha squashes (a reference to a photograph of a woman in Nepal weight lifting with pumpkins ..read more

Celine Homme chain-embellished brushed-suede jacket, $10,666, mrporter.com. Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello oversized wool coat, $7,750, ysl.com. Bottega Veneta watch belt, $720, bottegaveneta.com. Rick Owens Rick D-frame acetate sunglasses, $1,008, mrporter.com. RM Williams Bunbury boots in Mid Brown, $699, rmwilliams.com.au. Bellroy Zip wallet in Deep Plum, $149, bellroy.com. Acne Studios Regular Fit 1996 jeans, $670, acnestudios.com. Dries Van Noten signet ring, $557, mytheresa.com. Merrell Moab Speed 2 shoes, $199.99, merrellaustralia.com.au. Levi’s Classi ..read more

and Bottega Veneta bag, price on request, bottegaveneta.com. Photographs by Kyoko Hamada. Set Design by Victoria Petro-Conroy. From top: Louis Vuitton bag, au.louisvuitton.com; and Ferragamo bag, ferragamo.com. Photographs by Kyoko Hamada. Set Design by Victoria Petro-Conroy. This is an extract from our latest issue. To view the full shoot, pick up a copy of our “Amour” issue in newsagents and Coles nationally or buy now to have T Australia delivered straight to your letterbox. The post The Season’s Best Bags Have Sculptural Silhouettes appeared first on T Australia ..read more

Above: Louis Vuitton coat, pants, hat and shoes, au.louisvuitton.com; and Good Art Hlywd rings, goodart.com. Above: Fendi coat, top and pants, fendi.com; and stylist’s own shoes. Above: Bottega Veneta jacket and trousers, bottegaveneta.com; Louis Vuitton tank top; and Martine Rose shoes, martine-rose.com. Above: Celine by Hedi Slimane coat, Similar styles at celine.com; Prada shirt, prada.com; Martine Rose shoes; and stylist’s own vintage pants. More expert fashion & beauty coverage from T Australia: Alessandro Michele Is the New Creative Director of Valentino Rick Owens, Fashion’s ..read more

Covet This: A Large-Scale, Smiling Canvas With a Trompe l’Oeil Illusion Step foot inside Sydney’s contemporary art gallery Piermarq and you’ll be met with a larger-than-life smiley face seemingly carved from the canvas. But as you approach, the rip reveals itself as a clever trompe l’oeil illusion. The creation is by the American artist Jeremy Shockley, showcased as part of the exhibition “Hollywood Don’t Need Us.” Alongside the smiling canvas, the exhibition presents a colourful body of paintings by Shockley and his longtime friend, the LA-based artist Preston Daniels. The two southern nativ ..read more

Alessandro Michele has been announced as the new creative director of Valentino, taking over from Pierpaolo Piccioli who announced his departure last week. “It’s an incredible honour for me to be welcomed at Maison Valentino,” the Italian designer said. “I feel the immense joy and the huge responsibility to join a Maison de Couture that has the word ‘beauty’ carved on a collective story, made of distinctive elegance, refinement and extreme grace.” Michele is the former creative director of Gucci, where he gained international fame with his maximalist and gender fluid designs, adored by perf ..read more

Alessandro Michele has been announced as the new creative director of Valentino, taking over from Pierpaolo Piccioli who announced his departure last week. “It’s an incredible honour for me to be welcomed at Maison Valentino,” the Italian designer said. “I feel the immense joy and the huge responsibility to join a Maison de Couture that has the word ‘beauty’ carved on a collective story, made of distinctive elegance, refinement and extreme grace.” Michele is the former creative director of Gucci, where he gained international fame with his maximalist and gender fluid designs, adored by perf ..read more

When it came to selecting key pieces from Valentino’s L’École collection for her dancers to twirl in Sydney’s Pitt Street Mall recently, dancer and choreographer Chloe Leong made sure to select shorter silhouettes and items “with more flow to them”. After all, the fusion of fashion and choreography only works if the fabric moves freely with the body.  Thankfully, creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli’s sensual collection, his last for the luxury Italian house after announcing his departure less than a week ago, was created with the idea of movement and the female form. “So it wasn’t real ..read more

Australian K-Pop musician Danielle, from the South Korean girl group NewJeans, has been named as the new Global Ambassador at CELINE. Danielle Marsh, 18, was born in Newcastle, Australia to an Australian father and a Korean mother. Last year she voiced the character Ariel in the Korean dubbed version of the live-action adaptation of “The Little Mermaid”.  She also signed on as a global ambassador for luxury brand Burberry and a brand ambassador for YSL Beauty. More expert Beauty coverage from T Australia: Summer Beauty in the Bag Discover the Luxury Fragrances Turning Rot into Romance ..read more

In our first ever “Amour” issue, we examine love in all its complicated glory, unpacking what it means to love and be loved in this day and age, when all the old rules have been abandoned. In our cover story (page 68), the writer Lance Richardson ponders the real meaning of love: is it comfort, compromise, collective fantasy — or all of the above? He also considers the dangers of dating apps, which force us to emphasise our looks and suppress the messy beauty of what makes us human. The photoshoot for “True Romance” expounds on these ideas of modern love. The model, Maria Baza, wears the sig ..read more