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Marie Claire Australia

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POWER PLAY • Lift your sartorial game this season by letting bags, boots, belts and bling steal the show

BOLD FACE • Give traditional tailoring an edge by teaming classic pearls and gold accessories with knee-high boots and chunky sunglasses.

FRENCH DRESSING • Amp up the 1960s vibes by adding a little leather and lace, aka Parisian polish.

SOFT TOUCH • Pair a butter-soft bag and gloves with a casual cape and boots for some low-key drama.

In full BLOOM • Van Cleef & Arpels’ Frivole collection features intricate floral designs that celebrate nature’s beauty. Discover the dazzling new additions to the collection, artfully blending rose and white gold with sparkling diamonds.

LAURA JONES • It was despair, hope and love for the environment that brought together this artist, the writer Tim Winton, and Australia’s most prestigious art prize

ARTISTIC INFLUENCE • Four Australian artists who have changed the game

Public Criticism • Best-selling author Roxane Gay shares her tales of public vilification, which come with being a prolific thought-disrupter

FASHION taking flight • The Paris autumn/winter 2024 haute couture runways saw designers salute the Olympics, as well as operatic theatricality, flowers in bloom and all manner of winged creatures.

MY PAYOT • For an even more radiant complexion

PAIN and PREJUDICE • Women are more likely to suffer chronic pain but less likely to seek medical help. When they do, they are often dismissed. Now, a number of organisations are working to close the gender pain gap.

FAME & FORTUNES • From TikTok tarot readings to ChatGPT predictions, the future is trending. Amy Molloy asks, why are psychics so hot right now?

PRACTICAL MAGIC • Four tips for seeing a psychic

The business of BARBER • Celeste Barber knows how to make Aussie women her business. With a hit television series and her Backup Dancer tour in full swing, the entertainer is accepting a new challenge: launching a beauty brand. Here she talks to her co-founder Claire Greaves about raising boys, ageism and defining success

THE HAPPINESS RESET • We’re obsessed with being happy but the struggle is real. To turn our frowns upside down, we have to forget everything we know about happiness, says Amy Molloy

RUN for YOUR LIFE • For Grace Tame, running and healing are intertwined, and “peace rests somewhere on the road between inertia and obsession”. Here, she leads us through the beauty and suffering of her worlds

The TRUE COST of CARING • The Royal Commission revealed a sobering 3 million informal carers powering an undervalued and underpaid silent workforce. Here, award-winning poet and advocate Sarah Holland-Batt, whose father was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease when she was a teenager, shares the reality of Australia’s care crisis

The JENNIFER EFFECT • Human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson and author Kathy Lette know each other’s deepest secrets. We ask them to share some here

“choke me daddy” • Once reserved for a very small subset of the BDSM community, sexual strangulation has become so mainstream among young adults that many now consider it vanilla. Alexandra English reports on the troubling trend

LEIGH-ANNE • The English singer on colourism, freedom and reuniting Little Mix

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