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The Design Files - Sydney Home of Garth Allan

Vogue Living Australia Photography by Prue Ruscoe

A detail shot of a Sydney home featuring ‘Love Is A Warm Bovine’ by Australian artist Angus McDonald.

Nicole Pollard x Bec Parsons for Camilla and Marc Resort 2012

For Camilla and Marc's Resort 2012 campaign, Bec Parsons shot Nicole Pollard at a swish private Sydney residence. 'The Radicals' is a collection inspired by the decadent architecture and interiors of Versailles, hence the pervasive jewel print, flashy metallics and sculptural peplum waists, styled for the campaign by Michelle Jank. The Haider Ackermann-esque eggshell blue satin suit is a highlight. Resort 2012 is in store now!

A Conversation With Saint Lou Lou

Double-threat Elektra and Miranda are the beautiful and talented twin sisters who have just released their first single as the group Saint Lou Lou. Raised between Stockholm and Sydney in a bohemian, musical family, their unique brand of ‘dream pop’ has a wonderful lightness of touch about it and a maturity that belies their young years (they are only just out of high school). Think Beach House meets Au Revoir Simone via Joni Mitchell and you are about there. They look the part too of course, with an image that is both understated-sexy and studious and wouldn’t look out of place in a Sofia Coppola movie.

Their debut single ‘Maybe You’ is about to drop on Kitsune, the pioneering Paris-based electronic label who are famous for being able to spot the hottest, freshest talent out there. Kitsune always know who to suggest for their artists to collaborate with and in this case they chose Lauer to do the remix; a truly excellent interpretation it is too. We don’t doubt that everything will run like clockwork and people are going to lap them up.

We fired off these questions to the busy girls ahead of their debut gig in London at Gold Dust next week.

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Exclusive: Behind-The-Scenes with Shenay Carey & Rene Vaile for Adidas Originals

A printmaker and an artist conserve their country home in the New South Wales village of Hill End.

Writers, poets, painters, artists (and the rest of us) spend lifetimes exploring the nature of living spaces. Most of us can only wonder at the places where artists live and work, in the knowledge that we must remain outside their apparently sanguine and engaged worlds. In the ongoing conservation of this Hill End home in country New South Wales, it seems that small is not only beautiful in the hands of the owners – artist Genevieve Carroll and photographer and printmaker Bill Moseley – but that it can be more advantageous to the imagination.

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Interiors stylist Megan Morton opens the doors to her Sydney home.

Megan Morton is a voyeur. She has observed how countless people live, scoped their spaces, rifled through and rearranged their possessions. As one of Australia’s most talented and high-profile interior stylists, it’s par for the course. How we choose, build and feather our nests is Morton’s obsession and the source of her insatiable curiosity. It’s a trait that has served her well making some of the world’s most beautiful residences camera ready and dispensing pithy observations of decorator dos and don’ts, gleaned from years of house peeping and preening.

Interview: Derek Henderson

Derek Henderson spends his life flitting from fashion shoots with leading models to shooting Maori youth in regional New Zealand. His talent in creating equally compelling images from both scenarios is one of the reasons why he will be amongst fifteen other internationally esteemed creative professionals at Semi-Permanent Sydney 2012. This year the annual conference is celebrating its tenth birthday with its most impressive offering yet. We’ve already caught up with event speaker and leading Australian fashion photographer Bec Parsons (who told us Derek was number one on her “to stalk” list at the event), and now we’ve caught up with the Kiwi photographer himself. 

Tara Rivkin: Your portfolio reveals a mixture of documentary work and fashion photography — where would you say your heart lies artistically? Derek Henderson: My heart is an emotional creature and it wanders around a lot so I am always amazed at where it takes me…

What themes do you explore in your documentary work? Your past projects suggest an interest in the Maori experience (in particular Maori youth), travel, food production and slaughterhouses… I am part Maori so maybe that has inspired the interest in Maori youth. I would say I certainly have a fascination with youth and that might have something to do with their vibrance they show towards life… life on the road is hard to beat. What’s around the next corner, all that stuff… what’s it like to kill a beast then cut it up into small pieces?

Are you working on any particular projects at the moment? Yes, I am working on a few, as I always do, to stop me from going mad. I am not telling you what they are though, as I am always paranoid that someone will steal my brilliant ideas!

You moved into film when you joined Curious Film in 2007. What compelled you to expand your repertoire? Moving imagery has always fascinated me, so why not?

Which photographers drew you to the art form when you were starting out? Photographers such as Edward Weston and Alfred Stieglitz in the early days.

What advice would you give to young photographers trying to make their way? Be prepared for a life of struggle and poverty. It will make you a better photographer. And take lots and lots of pictures…