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Wet Leg's Rhian Teasedale talks new album 'moisturizer'

When Wet Dream, Chaise Longue and Ur Mum came out, my best friend and I would dance and sing around to them while we got ready for university parties. If you weren’t early adopters like us, you doubtless fell in love with Wet Leg when they rocketed up to the stratosphere and into everyone’s ‘On Repeat’ playlists while they accompanied fellow It-Brit Harry Styles on tour.

Three years later, Rhian Teasedale, lead singer and songwriter of the band, sat down with me to tell me about their highly-a...
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OBJECT: KLÁRA HOSNEDLOVÁ

Klára Hosnedlová hails from the Czech Republic and now lives and works in Berlin. In embroidery, she found freedom and superimposed the technique onto her ubiquitous process – never mind that it was considered part of the ‘applied’ school in her male-dominated fine art education. Triumphantly erecting corporeal, sculptural installations of deconstructed sci-fi landscapes, and performing within them, Hosnedlová enacts her visions of the future and possible utopias, exploring home and its meaning under different political systems.
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"Memory is the Seamstress" Calls Dior

Maria Grazia Chiuri loves to name a muse. For this women’s collection, that muse was literary icon Virginia Woolf and her 1920 novel Orlando. For the uninitiated, Orlando follows the namesake character, Orlando, across three centuries. It begins with Orlando as a young nobleman in Elizabeth’s England, then progresses at midpoint to Orlando awakening as a woman and surviving until the novel’s end in the 1920s, a pivotal point in women’s suffrage.
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KIMBERLEY MOULTON — GAME CHANGER

VAULT sat down with First Nations curator and self-proclaimed “conduit for community” Kimberley Moulton to discuss the significant moments that have shaped her stellar career. A Yorta Yorta woman, Moulton has over 15 years of experience curating and writing across historical collections and contemporary artistic practice. She has been appointed Adjunct Curator specialising in First Nations and Indigenous Art at the Tate in London.
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A Portrait of Colette

Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel’s circle included many famous artistic names—Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, and Salvador Dali, to name a few. Among these, the French literary giant Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, known by the mononym of her surname, is perhaps the only female icon of the nation at the time on par with Chanel herself. She was honoured by the most recent CHANEL Les Rendez-vous Litteraires Rue Cambon, an ongoing series convened by Charlotte Casiraghi, this past October.
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Chanel’s Birds of Paradis

In the first half of the 20th century, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel famously mused, “People have always wanted to put me in cages: cages with cushions stuffed with promises, gilded cages, cages that I’ve touched looking away from. I never wanted any other than the one I would build myself.” Fittingly, one of her seamstresses reportedly gifted her a birdcage, which she kept in her apartment at 31 rue Cambon, Paris. In 1991, Vanessa Paradis starred in a campaign film for the COCO fragrance centred on t...
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Folklore and Fancy Over at McQueen

We may all now breathe a collective sigh of relief. While a new creative director’s first show gives us an idea of how they step into the shoes of their new role, it is the sophomore collection that tells us how they’ve learnt to walk in them. And after Saturday, it might be said that Seán McGirr has found his stride in the top job at McQueen. With the recent news of previous creative director Sarah Burton’s move to the top job at Givenchy, it’s reassuring to see that McGirr is up to the task of...
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CATALYST: CECILIA VICUÑA

The 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, curated by Cecilia Alemani, was titled The Milk of Dreams, drawing its name from British-Mexican Surrealist Leonora Carrington’s eponymous book. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement went to Cecilia Vicuña, whose 1977 Bendígame Mamita was quite literally the poster work for the world’s oldest and most prestigious art festival. VAULT looks at the life and art of the groundbreaking, multi-disciplinary artist.
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CHANEL Bids Farewell to the Impresario and says Hello to the Opera!

Greek American soprano Maria Callas once said, “An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down.” Her idea affirms that the baroque Palais Garnier was an apt venue for CHANEL’s first runway show following the unexpected announcement of Virginie Viard’s departure. Viard, who had been with the French luxury house for 37 years, leaves behind a significant legacy. Although her departure is a great loss, the Fashion Creation Studio Team's creation of this collecti...
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ANNA PARK GOES PUBLIC

With a sellout debut solo show at Half Gallery in 2021, Daegu-born, New York-based artist Anna Park’s star is on the rise. Her first museum exhibition outside of the United States – Look, look. Anna Park at Art Gallery of Western Australia – continues the artist’s explorations of contemporary culture with her trademark dark humour. While her largescale black and white compositions went up around us, we spoke about growing up and opening out.
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COLLECTOR PROFILE: BÉRENGÈRE PRIMAT

Bérengère Primat has one of the largest collections of Australian Indigenous art in Europe, yet considers herself more ‘enthusiast’ or ‘advocate’ than traditional collector. Fondation Opale, established in 2018, is based on Primat’s collection of over 1,500 works by nearly 350 artists, making it one of the world’s largest collections of contemporary Aboriginal artists in private ownership – and the sole foundation in Europe dedicated to promoting Australian Indigenous art.
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