Australia Resort 2024

To the keening tune of A-ha’s “Summer Moved On,” Albus Lumen’s Marina Afonina returned to the runway for the first time in four years. With melancholic lyrics like “In the morning light/ I found out / Seasons can’t last,” soundtracking the…

Alix Higgins was thinking about earthquakes and an animal feeling. The visceral, elemental mood of Lars Von Trier films (Dogville, Antichrist) and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” resonated with something pent-up in him after spending many…

Less conventional collection than creative cosmos, Sydney wunderkind Jordan Gogos’s Tuesday-night show made for a lot to take in. Happily Vogue Australia’s Alice Birrell had put in the hard yards in advance to contextualize his…

A long, low keening rumble stretched the PA’s bass bins, just as the oval light above a tightly packed Carriageworks audience flickered into illumination over the sand-edged runway. Said Bianca Spender of this installation plus the…

Aje co-founders Edwina Forest and Adrian Norris invited their considerable local fanbase free entry to the new SANAA-designed, $344 million Sydney Modern Project gallery bright and early this morning. Well before the first art lovers rolled…

Ferries and hydrofoils in their green and gold livery traversed the harbor below as the usual mobs of seagulls circled and shared their guttural groggy awk-awk call signs above. When you’re a Sydney-based brand it makes perfect sense to…

Presented around the corrugated iron clubhouse of the Royal Australian Navy Sailing Association in Rushcutters Bay, this show opened to Van Morrison. Guests noshed hot and salty fish and chips washed down with reportedly potent gimlets.…

To be handed the opening slot of a fashion week for your first-ever solo runway show represents a powerful vote of confidence. This morning in Sydney the powers that be behind Australia Fashion Week placed that faith in Lesleigh Jermanus,…