Lauren Sams

3 days ago | afr.com | Lauren Sams

May 12, 2025 – 4.45am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? ‍My style signature is …Colourful, feminine and elegant with a touch of bohemian spirit. I love the ease of a dress and often gravitate to patterns. And Chloé is my favourite brand for bags. Wearing colour is my thing – I find it affects my moods so it is rare for me to wear black. I’m never going to be a Melburnian.

1 week ago | afr.com | Lauren Sams

It’s billed as the Superbowl of fashion and seen as more influential than the Oscars, where celebrities from realms as diverse as sport, fashion, film, television, business, music and politics coalesce for the world’s most popular costume party. Welcome to the Met Gala. This year’s theme, superfine: tailoring black style, is understood to be a nod to the late Vogue editor-at-large André Leon Talley, and celebrated 300 years of black dandy style. Loading...

1 week ago | afr.com | Lauren Sams

May 6, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Kellie Hush is a former magazine editor and fashion brand strategist, and the CEO of Australian Fashion Week. In the lead-up to the 2025 event, she shares her weekend routine. Loading...  or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.

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May 5, 2025 – 3.35pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Next Monday, Australia’s fashion industry will gather for Australian Fashion Week at Sydney’s Carriageworks. More than 30 local designers will present their resort collections to an audience of buyers and media, hoping to wholesale to international and Australian department stores and boutiques. Loading...

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Apr 30, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? If you’ve read Grown Ups, Marian Keyes’ 17th novel, you’ll know exactly where the bestselling author is when I speak to her over Zoom one sunny April morning. “In the first chapter of that book they’re all away at a hotel,” she says excitedly, when I tell her I’m a huge fan of hers, and that book in particular.