Since 1947, when Monsieur Dior introduced his transformative New Look, his vision has radiated through time: structured waists, sculpted jackets, and the belief that clothing can shift the way a woman moves through the world. And for the pages of our November UNITY! issue, one of the final collections from Maria Grazia Chiuri carries that spirit forward with conviction, weaving heritage into the rhythms of modern life.

Photographed by Michael Brunt, the collection breathes differently in the open air. Dresses catch the sun and flare like signals; tailored jackets assert their form against the vast horizon; bras, briefs and layered silhouettes reveal the interplay between strength and sensuality. Rachael Fair’s styling leans into contrast – precision against wildness, craft amid the raw expanse – while Masayoshi Fujita’s hair and Isabella Schimid’s makeup amplify the models’ presence, anchoring them firmly within the landscape.

Among these looks, Dior’s icons take on new meaning. The Lady Dior bag, born in 1995 and long cherished as a symbol of the House’s craftsmanship, appears almost jewel-like against the field. Its Cannage stitching and signature charms echo a lineage shaped by artistry and devotion. The Dior Voyage bag, carried by Fu, feels made for a scene like this – a piece designed for movement, transition, and the unfolding of new paths.

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PHOTOGRAPHY Michael Brunt

FASHION Rachael Fair

MODELS Tinka Carleton-Smith @ The Hive Management and Fu Zhuocheng @ Milk Management

HAIR Masayoshi Fujita

MAKEUP Isabella Schimid

PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANT Shannan Stewart

CASTING Shannan Stewart

Feature image (left): CHRISTIAN DIOR dress, bra, briefs and shoes. Feature image (right): CHRISTIAN DIOR jacket, top, skirt, shoes and Dior Voyage bag. 

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Prada’s mastery of contrast – strength and delicacy, structure and ease – feels especially resonant in these domestic spaces. On the left: the sharp line of a jacket, the grounding weight of polished shoes. On the right: a skirt that sways as someone reaches for a glass, a belt cinched as though preparing for a day unfolding behind closed doors. The collection reveals itself not through spectacle, but through the poetry of the ordinary – where the home becomes a stage for quiet elegance.

Within these scenes, the accessories speak with particular intimacy. The Prada Petit Sac Noir, compact and sculptural, feels like a secret kept close – a small monument to modern refinement sitting lightly on a countertop. The Prada Mini Galleria Top-Handle Bag, with its iconic Saffiano finish, becomes a talisman of heritage, grounding the contemporary silhouettes in a lineage of craftsmanship. These pieces don’t merely accompany the clothes; they inhabit the rooms, becoming part of the domestic narrative.

Captured through Sam Armstrong’s attentive lens and styled with Hannah Cooper’s discerning eye, the story becomes a testament to togetherness. A celebration of the spaces where our lives overlap. In these apartments, in the RUSSH kitchen, unity is not an idea but a lived-in feeling.

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PHOTOGRAPHY Sam Armstrong

FASHION Hannah Cooper

MODEL Grace Cameron and Mandy Wang @ Priscillas, Sophie Turnbull and Holly Magson @ Chadwick Models, Kiara Masella @ The Scouted

HAIR Kyye @ AP—REPS

MAKEUP Sean Brady @ AP—REPS

PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANT Remy Mitchell James

STYLIST’S ASSISTANT Koby Dulac-Daley

PRODUCTION Olivia Repaci

Feature image (left): PRADA sweater, top, shorts and bag. Feature image (right): PRADA top, trousers, shoes and bag.

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The styling by Rachael Fair leans into a modern minimalism that feels intimate rather than distant. Vintage pieces sit beside sharply tailored APC and Husbands Paris trousers, while Balenciaga, Celine, and Emilia Seitz introduce sculptural notes – coats with architectural weight, sweaters that fold like soft architecture, dresses that float with breath-like ease. On the page, contrasts meet: the grounded warmth of knits next to the clean precision of suiting, the polished restraint of The Row countering the quiet statements from Alain Paul and Max Mara.

As the narrative progresses, outerwear becomes a kind of armour of alignment. Acne Studios, Hermès, and Loewe arrive not as bold declarations, but as meditative layers – pieces that speak in tone rather than volume. Accessories from 20age Archive punctuate the story with archival character, bridging nostalgia with a renewed sense of purpose. Each look reads like a shared language: distinct phrases, common cadence.

Hair by Joel Phillips and makeup by Isabella Schimid keep the focus on presence – fresh, clean, and elemental. The story is not about transformation, but revelation. There is beauty in the in-between moments: the way Daniella’s gaze meets the frame, the way Chidera holds a silhouette, the way light softens the edges between them.

Unity, here, is not sameness. It is the electricity of coexistence—two figures, many moods, one story woven from contrast, harmony, and the enduring allure of clothes built to last.

Experience the UNITY! issue in its entirety this November, available on newsstands from Monday 17 November 2025, and through our online shop. Find a stockist near you.

PHOTOGRAPHY Conrad Aleksander

FASHION Rachael Fair

MODEL Daniella Hottz @ The Face and Chidera Anokwuru @ Oui Management

HAIR Joel Phillips

MAKEUP Isabella Schimid

PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANTS Nick Shaw and Josh Carr-Hummerston

STYLIST’S ASSISTANT Breno Vasquez

CASTING DIRECTOR Bronte Molyneux

Feature image (left): Chidera wears ALAIN PAUL sweater. Daniella wears SPORTMAX dress.  Feature image (right): Daniella wears LOULOU DE SAISON sweaters; CHRISITAN DIOR shoes. Chidera wears LOULOU DE SAISON sweaters; CHRISTIAN DIOR shoes. 

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First conceived in 1969 by Aldo Cipullo, the original oval bracelet – with its iconic screw motif – signalled a radical shift in how love could be expressed: not through ceremony, but through a gesture bold enough to defy tradition.

Now, more than fifty years later, Love evolves again. As Olivia moves – measured, poised, deliberate – in front of the lens of photographer Olivia Frølich, the LOVE Unlimited bracelets follow her with fluidity that feels almost instinctive.

Flexible and tactile, its second-skin design mirrors the way modern devotion bends and expands. Over two hundred engineering-precise components work seamlessly together, erasing the rigidity of the past while faithfully preserving every beloved code: the polished screws, the subtle gadroons, the perfect sense of proportion. Even the clasp – a patent-pending innovation hidden ingeniously within the design – reminds us that icons can still surprise.

Each piece curves around wrists and fingers like ribbons of white, rose, and yellow gold. And watching Olivia, one feels the collection’s purpose unfurl. A perfect unison for our UNITY! issue – a coming together as one.

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PHOTOGRAPHY Olivia Frølich @ Link Details

FASHION Hannah Cooper

MODEL Olivia Petronella Palermo @ NEXT Paris

HAIR Phillip Fohlin @ Link Details

MAKEUP Kamila Vay

PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANTS Jacob Carbuhn

DIGITAL OPERATOR Martin Simonic

LIGHTING Jacob Carbuhn

STYLIST’S ASSISTANT Hayley Clutterbuck

CASTING DIRECTOR Neill Seeto @ IMA Casting

Feature image (left): Feature image (right): ALIX HIGGINS top; CHRISTIAN DIOR shoes; CARTIER bracelets and rings.

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Maria Grazia Chiuri, the first woman to hold the French luxury House’s creative helm, continued her dialogue between past and present with garments that speak as much of liberation as they do of elegance. For the September issue of RUSSH, Dior womenswear finds itself in a liminal space – where rave becomes reverie, and revelry a form of resistance.

Christian Dior’s name is etched in fashion mythology: his 1947 New Look redefined femininity in postwar Paris, sculpting silhouettes into symbols of hope. Decades later, the house’s codes remain intact yet forever in flux, reshaped by Chiuri’s modern gaze. Her vision, tender and defiant, champions women as both muses and makers, reclaiming fashion as a field of autonomy. She laces each collection with feminist undertones – embroidery as manifesto, tulle as armour, chiffon as declaration.

And of course, there’s the Lady Dior bag – first created in 1995 and christened by Princess Diana herself – which becomes the hero here, still, all of these years later, a symbol of grace and resilience. Its cannage stitching and architectural form embody the dualities that have always defined Dior: strength and softness, majesty and intimacy. Here, through Ellen Virgona’s lens, the House icon takes on new life, suspended between rave light and quiet reflection, much like Diana’s own legacy – timeless, unshaken, endlessly renewed.

Model Louise Galan, swathed in Chiuri’s tailoring and made up in Dior Beauty, embodies this generational shift: a woman untethered, moving between shadows and strobes, her silhouette sharp and her presence commanding.

Experience the Rave & Revel issue in its entirety this September, available on newsstands from Monday 8 September 2025, and through our online shop. Find a stockist near you.

PHOTOGRAPHY Ellen Virgona

FASHION Rachael Fair

MODEL Louise Galan @ Premium Models

HAIR AND MAKEUP Joel Phillips using Dior Beauty

PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANT Lachlan Ryan

STYLIST’S ASSISTANT Ginevra Pesenti

CASTING Bronte Molyneux 

Feature image (left): CHRISTIAN DIOR coat and sweater. Feature images (right): CHRISTIAN DIOR dress and collar.

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Modelled by Sophie Scott, and lensed by Sly Morikawa, the Softbit shoulder bag anchors the narrative, its gleaming hardware a translation of equestrian roots into modern architecture. Worn against tailored jumpsuits and cinched belts, it is less accessory than emblem – a signal that Gucci’s spirit has always been defined by precision and command.

The GG Marmont, a creation steeped in the seventies, carries its quilted arcs with sculptural force. Its double G, both archive and icon, transforms in the frame into a refrain of excess and glamour. The Giglio tote towers in scale, a study in structure, while the Beatrix shoulder bag and Staffa necklace conjure the grandeur of history – their very names recalling dynasties and courts, now refracted through the prism of modern rebellion.

The Siena shoulder bag speaks with restraint, its lines pared back yet charged with intention, offering a counterpoint to the exuberant play of tights, leather, and layered silhouettes. And the Horsebit 1955 – eternal, elemental – stands as a motif of continuity, its double ring and bar design an unbroken thread pulled from the archive into the present moment.

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PHOTOGRAPHY Sly Morikawa @ Stone Street Agency

FASHION Hannah Cooper

MODEL Sophie Scott @ Priscillas

HAIR AND MAKEUP Chelsea Johnson

PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANT Holly Blanshard

STYLIST’S ASSISTANT Koby Dulac-Daley

CREATIVE STUDIO & CAMPAIGNS MANAGER Olivia Repaci

Feature image (left): GUCCI dress, tights, Horsebit 1955 Aura shoulder bag and scarf. Feature image (right): GUCCI bodysuit, skirt, tights, shoes, GG Marmont bag and Staffa necklace.

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Presented in Milan this February, the show opened not with spectacle but with intimacy: Silvia Venturini Fendi’s grandsons flinging wide monumental Roman doors. The gesture was symbolic — an invocation of heritage and inheritance, a reminder that fashion’s future is always woven through its past. That same thread runs through the garments, reimagined in print. A lacquered coat or cardigan set echoes the quiet majesty of Rome; a crystalline hemline splinters light like the city after nightfall. The Roma bag asserts itself front and centre; a modern emblem of sophistication, reimagined in a supple, twisted leather.

There is a lived-in authority to this collection — “the knowledge of self,” as Venturini Fendi called it — and Lloyd channels that spirit. Her silhouettes exude assurance without ostentation: a cardigan grazing the waist, trousers cinched with a clean belt, dresses tailored to both veil and unveil. Jewellery flickers as emphasis rather than adornment. Each ensemble is complete, but never over-laboured.

True to our ‘Rave & Revel’ sensibilities, a pulse of nocturnal decadence thrums beneath. Sequins spill from a neckline like champagne at 2am; hemlines pull into something more flirtatious. Yet the palette – creamy pinks pierced with flashes of deep blue, camel, and metallic gleam — anchors the collection firmly in the present.

A century on, Fendi is not enshrining its legacy so much as animating it. Venturini Fendi has composed a wardrobe for the act of living: revelry not as diversion, but as expression. Garments at once at home in a palazzo’s threshold and on a dance floor at dawn.

The doors have swung open; the celebration has only begun.

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PHOTOGRAPHY Alex Wall

FASHION Thomas Townsend

MODEL Annaliese Lloyd @ Priscillas

HAIR Kyye Reed @ AP—REPS

MAKEUP Sean Brady @ AP—REPS

PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANT Lachie Starling, Shae Low

PRODUCTION Olivia Repaci

Feature image: FENDI jacket, top and trousers. 

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The bags – sculptures wrought from silence and intention, woven with the gravitas of heritage – seem less placed than fated. They recline against a throne of just-polished glassware, hover in the arm of a twinkling chandelier, or catch the eye on a passing wine shelf, distilled in a glance. Against stone, beneath light, they command, carving their own architecture into the fleeting theatre of night.

Paradise does not merely frame them; it converses. Its layered textures breathe in tandem with the brand’s artistry: the Intrecciato weave instantly recognisable for its heritage, geometry sharp and elemental strikes a note of purity, reverberating into space. Here, intimacy and spectacle entwine, revelry and restraint dissolve into one another, like smoke circling a flame.

Through Kitty Callaghan’s lens and Hannah Cooper’s gaze, each image becomes a shard of dream: a nocturne of design and desire, unfolding frame by frame. The bags do not embellish the story – they become its pulse, companions to the mysteries of the hour, talismans of beauty consecrated to the rituals of night.

This is the vision of revelling. It is not merely an unveiling, but an invitation: to enter Paradise, to dwell in its glow, and to emerge transformed.

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PHOTOGRAPHY Kitty Callaghan

FASHION Hannah Cooper

Feature image (left): Bottega Veneta bag. Feature image (right): Bottega Veneta bag.

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She apologises at the outset – “Sorry, it couldn’t be a video call, I’m in Europe at the moment, and we’re hopping around a lot. I’ve literally had to do a self-tape at the beach because we’ve got no set up.” She laughs at the absurdity of it, but in the same breath, you sense her adaptability – an artist always ready to fold life’s messiness into her craft.

This fluidity feels fitting as Maggi graces the pages of our September Rave & Revel issue, dressed in Louis Vuitton. On set with RUSSH back in July, beneath Sydney’s rare winter sun, she slipped effortlessly into Nicolas Ghesquière’s sharp tailoring and soft drapery.

Each look was punctuated with an almost childlike glee. “It was so fun! But it was also like torture, because every single outfit and bag I swear I was like, ‘Oh, I absolutely love that, and I need to have that!’” Maggi tells me. Then, with the ardour of a true fashion obsessive, she rattles off references. “I love Nicolas Ghesquière, especially his debut show for Louis Vuitton – I think it was the Fall 2014 show from the House? Also, I don’t know if you’ve seen the new Louis Vuitton Express PM bag, but I loved that campaign with Emma Stone.”

Fashion, she admits, might have been her alternate path. “I’m really into fashion. I gravitate towards the whole 90s minimalism thing, but with a very slight Japanese influence. I like outfits that appear simple at first glance, but when you look a bit deeper, they have that element of craftsmanship.”

But acting, as she tells it, was always inevitable. “I’ve always loved being on stage. I danced when I was quite young, but then it got to a point where I wasn’t coordinated enough to continue doing that professionally,” she recalls with a laugh. What came next was a steady immersion in cinema.

“My Dad has been incredible in showing me a lot of really solid film and TV growing up. From a very young age he showed me a lot of 70s and 90s influences – like Ice Storm. Sigourney Weaver in that film made me want to pursue acting.”

The revelation sharpened years later, when she saw Greta Gerwig’s Little Women (starring none other than Saorise Ronan – yet another Louis Vuitton devotee). “The screenwriting just completely touched something in me that I didn’t really know I had. The subtleties, the acting, that sort of natural, nuanced way of performing… it was something that I felt like I really connected with and wanted to dive deeper into.”

By Year 12, Maggi had landed her first show – juggling ATAR exams with self-tapes – and from there, the momentum hasn’t slowed. “There’s definitely never been a plan B. I have to do this,” she says with striking conviction.

When it comes to preparation, her process is deeply musical. “Music has been such an integral part of growing up in my life, and that influence comes from, again, my Mum and Dad. I’m definitely a playlist person. I make a playlist for every single character – the songs that I feel like they would listen to – and I put myself in that headspace by playing those songs over and over again.”

Her latest project, the soon-to-be-released film The Run, demanded even more. “It has some really heavy subject matter, and I’m lucky enough to have had it pretty good growing up. But this young girl in the film had gone through an immense amount of trauma. For that character specifically I had to do a lot of research on like, kidnappings, to put myself in those shoes. She’s also a young mother, so I spoke to a lot of teen mums to prepare.”

That curiosity – the willingness to lean into discomfort – appears to be a guiding principle. She recalls advice from Julian McMahon on The Surfer: “He told me, ‘Just raise your hand for everything. It doesn’t matter. And stop trying to pitch yourself to people. Just be yourself, because everyone else is trying to be something that they obviously aren’t.’” Maggi pauses, then continues. “Things will naturally start happening to you when you’re being authentic and truthful to who you are. And if you don’t know who you are at the moment, you will find yourself.”

When pressed on dream roles, her references flow fast. “What comes to mind always is Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I want to play headstrong women who’re also very complicated. Helena Bonham Carter too – I love her because she is so eccentric and she plays those kinds of characters so well.” Her cinematic pantheon also includes Wes Anderson, whose aesthetic imprinted early. “Wes Anderson is kind of the blueprint for me. He’s always been a part of my growing up. Margot Tenenbaum is such a great character – I would love to play something like that.”

Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom remains her favourite, “and also, Fantastic Mr. Fox,” she tells me. “I also recently watched Tootsie… and I loved Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I watched that recently with my Dad.”

Her own filmography already boasts milestones: a premiere at Cannes (The Surfer), Zack Snyder’s space epic (Rebel Moon), and the upcoming The Run. She describes Rebel Moon as transformative.

“I think going to the Rebel Moon premiere with my Mum and my Dad and my sister – that was my first-ever premiere in L.A., and working with Zack Snyder was such an incredible experience. He is the most generous, sincere, hard-working person, and he makes everyone feel incredibly comfortable and safe and warm around him. I felt very lucky… I would definitely say that was the most insane unicorn moment of my career so far.”

But beyond cinema, Maggi’s life is charmingly ordinary. “I actually just started knitting. At the moment, it is just like, scarves, but the goal is to learn how to do a raglan-style sweater with cool stripes. When I’m not acting, I’m literally knitting and reading and listening to music.”

Her playlists swing from 70s soul to 90s funk. “I’ve always had a healthy respect for the 70s R&B, and soul. It’s sometimes referred to as ‘Quiet Storm’ – like George Benson, Smokey Robinson, Randy Crawford. Also, I refuse to call it ‘Yacht Rock’, but I do love that genre. Steely Dan is amazing. The Doobie Brothers are great. And by the same token, 90s bands like Jamiroquai or Brand New. They also ring my bell.”

It’s a fitting soundtrack for someone who thrives in motion – whether self-taping at the beach, leaping between roles, or folding threads of music, architecture, and fashion into her artistry. Whether wrapped in Louis Vuitton on our set or knitting quietly in Perth, Charlotte Maggi seems propelled by an unshakable curiosity. She is, above all, a young woman revelling in her own creative unfolding.

Experience the Rave & Revel issue in its entirety this September, available on newsstands from Monday 8 September 2025, and through our online shop. Find a stockist near you.

PHOTOGRAPHY Brett Clarke

FASHION Hannah Cooper

TALENT Charlotte Maggi

HAIR Cherry Cheung @ Vivien’s Creative

PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANT Otis Hodge

STYLIST’S ASSISTANT Charlie Jackson

Feature image: LOUIS VUITTON coat, shoes and socks.

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The HardWear collection, with its sculptural chains and subversive industrial codes, transcends ornament to become a language of self-possession. In the hands of stylist Hannah Cooper, each piece assumes a dual role: at once an accent of refinement and an emblem of defiance. Woven through silhouettes from the likes of Dior, Balenciaga, Miu Miu, and Ferragamo, the jewellery anchors the shoot in a dialogue between permanence and transience, discipline and abandon.

Model Emmi Freeman inhabits this space with enigmatic poise, her presence sharpened by the artistry of Levi Monarch’s hair design and Rei Tajima’s makeup. Together, they conjure images charged with rhythm and intimacy – suggesting the pulse of a rave distilled into stillness, the revelry of adornment recast as armour.

Experience the Rave & Revel issue in its entirety this September, available on newsstands from Monday 8 September 2025, and through our online shop. Find a stockist near you.

PHOTOGRAPHY Coni Tarallo 

FASHION Hannah Cooper

MODEL Emmi Freeman @ Next Models

HAIR Levi Monarch @ Frank Reps

MAKEUP Rei Tajima @ Bridge Artists

NAILS Danielle Terry

PHOTOGRAPHER’S ASSISTANTS Asa Lory and Michael Alexandre

STYLIST’S ASSISTANT Danielle Terry

CASTING DIRECTOR Neill Seeto

Feature image (left): PRADA dress and shoes; TIFFANY & CO. earrings, necklaces and bracelets. Feature image (right): BALENCIAGA dress, tights and shoes; TIFFANY & CO. earrings and necklaces.

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