YOU DON'T OWN ME BY BRETT CLARKE AND EMMA KALFUS
To mark a decade of elevated staples, Elka Collective has released a 10-piece capsule that embodies its signature take on soft tailoring.
CHANEL IN HONG KONG – CRUISE 2024/2025 COLLECTION SHOW
From the beaming show lights erected throughout the ninth floor podium of the Hong Kong Design Institute, to the glistening backdrop of Hong Kong’s cityscape, it was hard to imagine a collection in any other context.
THE FIRST TIME BY CLAUDIA SMITH AND KARLA CLARKE
In 1987, CHANEL created its first watch: the Première. This year the evolution continues with the release of three new icons – the Première Sound Watch, Première Cuff Watch and Première Sautoir-Belt Watch.
YOU USED TO BE SO AMUSED BY ROCKET WEIJERS AND NICHHIA WIPPELL
Inspired by the Psychedelic Geometrics of the '60s French of Art Movement, Gherardo Felloni presents Roger Vivier's Fall/Winter '24 Collection.
SUSPICIOUS MINDS BY EDWARD MULVIHILL AND EMMA KALFUS
Celine’s Fall/Winter ’24 collection – an expression of the founding spirit of the house and an homage to the 1960s.
ICONS ONLY BY BLAKE AZAR AND EMMA KALFUS
In its 57-year history, Ralph Lauren has never gone out of style. These are the pieces that have stood the test of time.
ON OTTO BY OTTO, BY BIANKA FARMAKIS
You do not need to understand the legacy of Barry Otto to understand why the documentary exploring his life is so important. In a heart-breaking depiction of her father’s battle with Alzheimer’s, director Gracie Otto captures the incredible power of creativity to preserving a man’s memory.
TROYE BY TROYE – BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE COVER SHOOT
Double-denim Balenciaga, leather Gucci and Celine, oversized Prada, skin-baring Ottolinger and Şener Besim. In what has become something of a model tradition, we asked Troye to document the looks, the day and everything in between. Take a look at Troye for SIDE-NOTE by Troye for SIDE-NOTE.
PEOPLE OF NOTE: LYNA TY AND MELVIN TANAYA ON SONG FOR THE MUTE
The Australian label Song for the Mute, founded by Lyna Ty and Melvin Tanaya, weaves narratives of the disenfranchised and down-on-their-luck into their garments. Their influences spring from sound, material, people, and the ethereal cadence of untold stories.
PEOPLE OF NOTE: SEAN VENTURI – ON VENROY BY OLIVER BEGG AND DIVYA VENKATARAMAN
Sean Venturi is the man behind the Australian label Venroy, known for its well-made basics and nonchalant take on vacation-ready luxury. Here, Venturi treads over the brand’s winding journey, how it’s evolved alongside its hometown of Bondi, and just how calculated that easy breezy holiday feeling really is.
LOST IN THE MOMENT BY JESS RUBY JAMES AND EMMA KALFUS
Lost in the Moment featuring Chanel Spring 2024 Makeup, Coco Crush Jewellery Collection, and Chanel Premiere Watch Collection by Jess Ruby James and Emma Kalfus.
WE HAVEN’T MET BEFORE BY ELLEN VIRGONA AND EMMA KALFUS
Cartier marks 100 years of its Trinity collection, and a century of celebrating infinite love in WE HAVEN'T MET BEFORE by Ellen Virgona and Emma Kalfus.
PEOPLE OF NOTE: NICK WARD BY JAKE TERREY
“Nick Ward grew up playing classical piano and recording albums in his bedroom. He’d wait for the weekend to release anything to avoid schoolyard criticism. Now rising to acclaim, he has been labelled a ‘true music-lifer’ and a darling of the emo-pop revival scene.” - Bianca Farmakis
INTERFACE BY ORSON HEIDRICH AND THOMAS MCCAMMON
Mixed-media artist Orson Heidrich presents his first solo exhibition ‘Interpreter’ - a body works produced by large-scale manufacturing systems.
AT THE HIP BY JOE BRENNAN AND TABATHA TURNER
Late nights spent talking in the dark. Days spent borrowing each other’s things, and only rarely giving them back. It’s something like sibling rivalry.
HUMAN FORM BY LEWIS STEVENSON AND BIANCA FARMAKIS
Every day we find ourselves moulding - at times, physically, it’s to bend and break to meet expectations. Other times, it’s an expression of emotional architecture, constructing our personalities around an evolving landscape of social interactions.
THE BECOMING OF A MOTHER FT. POLINA SOVA BY ADRIAN PRICE AND MARIELA SUMMERHAYS
It’s an alchemy that has occurred billions of times before, the becoming of a mother –an indiscernible compounding of the minutes spent being responsible for another human – yet it never happens the exact same way twice.
HUMAN STORY BY DAN ROBERTS AND BIANCA FARMAKIS
ENTJ? Type A or B? Aquarius rising, cancer moon, virgo sun: classifying a personality adopts numerous forms, online quizzes and associations with Sex and the City characters. Battles are drawn along the lines of nature vs nurture, and fortunes for our lives are sought out in multiple-choice questionnaires.
STUMBLING INTO EXCELLENCE – JAPAN BY JAKE TERREY
Just keep moving until the inexplicable reveals itself through its own inertia. In Japan, it's a lot more like fumbling into excellence.
THE AGE OF AUTHENTICITY BY KELLY GEDDES AND MARIELA SUMMERHAYS
There are those who stopped coming by the altar, and instead, took the ability to be one’s most genuine or essential self as their prevailing moral compass. Steph Carta found the altar worth visiting is in the stillness, in the centremost of your soul.
UNFRAMED – SARAH ELLEN BY PIERRE TOUSSAINT AND BIANCA FARMAKIS
Sarah Ellen, a multi-hyphenate of multiple artistic pursuits, with a presence that has carved out the public space for over a decade now, speaks to SIDE-NOTE about the human condition and the recasting of a character inherent to ageing, developing and immersing oneself in life’s experiences.
TYPECAST BY OLIVER BEGG AND BIANCA FARMAKIS
Typecasting; where boundaries boundaries are broken, images are regenerated and individuals mould the new look of the location, the locals and the lives they lead.
AMERICAN HERO BY MICHAEL COMNINUS
American Hero. Delving into the complex and often misunderstood world of dissociative identity disorder, each image represents this in a subtle cue or a clever innuendo.
EVERY MORNING – A PROJECT WITH SIMONE PERELE BY ELLIE COKER AND BIANCA FARMAKIS
It’s an intimate act, an unsung one of self- preservation, and one of the rare moments the female form can find comfort in nudity without being scrutinised or sexualised.
EVERYTHING LEFT UNSAID BY LEVON BAIRD AND MARIELA SUMMERHAYS
Whether self-imposed or forced upon us, censorship shapes all our realities. Mitchell Smolkin, a psychotherapist whose work focuses on the dignity of suffering, details the consequences of this suppression — and possible silver linings.
MIND THE GAP BY NATASHA KILLEEN AND MARIELA SUMMERHAYS
In that everlasting battle between our private and public selves, our public self — and her allies— is who will secure our livelihood, and will build the bridges to our future prosperity.
BODY TALK BY MANOLO CAMPION AND MARIELA SUMMERHAYS
Words deceive; in art and in life, attraction, hatred and love are best known through the physical... Welcome to EDITION N°18, INNUENDO.
THE ALTER AND THE EGO BY MAX PAPENDIECK AND BIANCA FARMAKIS
The advent of the ego – how one assesses themselves, their self-esteem, their place in the world – and the alternative of it – has always been a focal point in culture, but a rebirth of the figures we once assumed to “know” is breaking waves, rippling across the world.
AUSTRALIAN SUMMER BY JOSHUA BENTLEY AND BIANCA FARMAKIS
It’s memorialised as a sunburnt country, popularised as a must-go tourist destination and consumed each year with fondness- Few places are as universally recognisable by a single season as Australia is for its summer.