Articles

  • 1 month ago | elle.com.au | Jessica Bailey

    Divya Bala Originally from Sydney, Paris-based writer Divya Bala began her career at Vogue in London. Her work has appeared in The Sunday Times Style, the Financial Times, Highsnobiety and Document Journal. She has a soft spot for river swimming and anything "birthday cake" coded. She still likes to handwrite and is definitely better on paper.

  • 1 month ago | elle.com.au | Jessica Bailey

    This Louis Vuitton Fall 2025 season, creative director Nicholas Ghesquière collaborated with the inimitable set designer Es Devlin to recreate a bustling and extremely stylish departure lounge at a Parisian train station. L’Étoile du Nord, a hidden station that preserves the excitement of 19th-century rail travel, became the stage for the comings and goings of people with places to be. “A place where fleeting moments are shared amongst strangers, weaving a tapestry of stories,” the Maison noted.

  • 1 month ago | elle.com.au | Jessica Bailey

    While I arrived in Milano ready for Milan Fashion Week, my suitcase did not. Day one was thus spent on the phone to the airline. Thankfully, it arrived by 5pm—phew! I had one hour before I got picked up and taken to the launch of the new OPPO Reno 13 Series. It was seriously so much fun learning about this phone; lightweight, fashion forward, a camera with exceptional quality.

  • 1 month ago | elle.com.au | Jessica Bailey

    A lone, barefoot model perched atop a swing set the theatrical tone for the five-part, 25-minute-long Dior Autumn/Winter 2025 show at the Tuileries garden in Paris on March 4. In a white shirt—replete with cascading frills and translucent sleeves—the model soon disappeared and a bellowing male voice filled the arena-style runway. “Once upon a time,” he said, cuing the beginning of another fascinating tale reimagined through the eyes of Dior’s deft creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri.

  • 1 month ago | elle.com.au | Jessica Bailey

    Make no mistake, an Oscars-night music performance is as highly anticipated as the respective recipients of Best Actor and Best Actress. So, when Lisa (of BlackPink fame), Doja Cat, Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo scored top billing at the 2025 Oscars, the excitement clicked into overdrive.