OH, ALICE - BY ELLIE COKER AND BIANCA FARMAKIS
At 29, Alice Englert has already had a decorated screen career – feature film roles, TV series leads, a directorial debut last year with Bad Behaviour starring Jennifer Connelly. Englert discusses her latest role in the Stan Original series, Exposure with SIDE-NOTE's Bianca Farmakis.
KAPA BY GEORGES ANTONI AND NATALIE PETREVSKI
A body of work that celebrates the diversity, individuality, and enduring allure of adornment. Created by Georges Antoni and Natalie Petrevski, Kapa invites viewers to contemplate the significance and symbolism of headwear beyond its aesthetic appeal.
THE KEY INGREDIENTS – SIDE-NOTE X CHARLES AND KEITH BY ROB TENNENT
Boasting a vibrant mix of reference points, with influences including the femme fatale super heroines and mecha robots of Japanese Anime, the Charles and Keith fall 2024 collection was the perfect compliment to a smorgasbord of key ingredients from the menu of the SIDE-NOTE x CHARLES AND KEITH SUPPER CLUB.
TROYE BY TROYE – BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE COVER SHOOT
Double-denim Balenciaga, leather Gucci and Celine, oversized Prada, skin-baring Ottolinger and Şener Besim. In what has become something of a model tradition, we asked Troye to document the looks, the day and everything in between. Take a look at Troye for SIDE-NOTE by Troye for SIDE-NOTE.
SIDE NOTE VOLUME 1 LAUNCH PARTY
On Wednesday 20th March friends and contributors joined at Odd Culture’s Pleasure Club in Newtown, for the SIDE-NOTE x Belvedere Vodka launch party, to celebrate SIDE-NOTE Volume 1; a 350-page hardcover publication, printed in Australia and covered by Troye Sivan.
PEOPLE OF NOTE: LYNA TY AND MELVIN TANAYA ON SONG FOR THE MUTE
The Australian label Song for the Mute, founded by Lyna Ty and Melvin Tanaya, weaves narratives of the disenfranchised and down-on-their-luck into their garments. Their influences spring from sound, material, people, and the ethereal cadence of untold stories.
PEOPLE OF NOTE: SEAN VENTURI – ON VENROY BY OLIVER BEGG AND DIVYA VENKATARAMAN
Sean Venturi is the man behind the Australian label Venroy, known for its well-made basics and nonchalant take on vacation-ready luxury. Here, Venturi treads over the brand’s winding journey, how it’s evolved alongside its hometown of Bondi, and just how calculated that easy breezy holiday feeling really is.
SIDE-NOTE X CHARLES AND KEITH SUPPER CLUB
On Wednesday 15th May, friends and collaborators of SIDE-NOTE and Charles & Keith gathered for an intimate Supper Club at Busby's in Paddington. The off schedule event marked the contribution of designers, models, stylists and creators to another successful Australian Fashion Week.
LOST IN THE MOMENT BY JESS RUBY JAMES AND EMMA KALFUS
Lost in the Moment featuring Chanel Spring 2024 Makeup, Coco Crush Jewellery Collection, and Chanel Premiere Watch Collection by Jess Ruby James and Emma Kalfus.
WE HAVEN’T MET BEFORE BY ELLEN VIRGONA AND EMMA KALFUS
Cartier marks 100 years of its Trinity collection, and a century of celebrating infinite love in WE HAVEN'T MET BEFORE by Ellen Virgona and Emma Kalfus.
SOME THINGS ARE FOR US BY DANIEL GOODE
Sabato De Sarno's first collection for Gucci photographed by Daniel Goode.
A BARELY LIT PATH BY PIERRE TOUSSAINT
Chanel's spring/summer 2024 collection, photographed by Pierre Toussaint.
PEOPLE OF NOTE: NICK WARD BY JAKE TERREY
“Nick Ward grew up playing classical piano and recording albums in his bedroom. He’d wait for the weekend to release anything to avoid schoolyard criticism. Now rising to acclaim, he has been labelled a ‘true music-lifer’ and a darling of the emo-pop revival scene.” - Bianca Farmakis
INTERFACE BY ORSON HEIDRICH AND THOMAS MCCAMMON
Mixed-media artist Orson Heidrich presents his first solo exhibition ‘Interpreter’ - a body works produced by large-scale manufacturing systems.
AT THE HIP BY JOE BRENNAN AND TABATHA TURNER
Late nights spent talking in the dark. Days spent borrowing each other’s things, and only rarely giving them back. It’s something like sibling rivalry.
HUMAN FORM BY LEWIS STEVENSON AND BIANCA FARMAKIS
Every day we find ourselves moulding - at times, physically, it’s to bend and break to meet expectations. Other times, it’s an expression of emotional architecture, constructing our personalities around an evolving landscape of social interactions.
THE BECOMING OF A MOTHER FT. POLINA SOVA BY ADRIAN PRICE AND MARIELA SUMMERHAYS
It’s an alchemy that has occurred billions of times before, the becoming of a mother –an indiscernible compounding of the minutes spent being responsible for another human – yet it never happens the exact same way twice.
HUMAN STORY BY DAN ROBERTS AND BIANCA FARMAKIS
ENTJ? Type A or B? Aquarius rising, cancer moon, virgo sun: classifying a personality adopts numerous forms, online quizzes and associations with Sex and the City characters. Battles are drawn along the lines of nature vs nurture, and fortunes for our lives are sought out in multiple-choice questionnaires.
STUMBLING INTO EXCELLENCE – JAPAN BY JAKE TERREY
Just keep moving until the inexplicable reveals itself through its own inertia. In Japan, it's a lot more like fumbling into excellence.
THE AGE OF AUTHENTICITY BY KELLY GEDDES AND MARIELA SUMMERHAYS
There are those who stopped coming by the altar, and instead, took the ability to be one’s most genuine or essential self as their prevailing moral compass. Steph Carta found the altar worth visiting is in the stillness, in the centremost of your soul.
UNFRAMED – SARAH ELLEN BY PIERRE TOUSSAINT AND BIANCA FARMAKIS
Sarah Ellen, a multi-hyphenate of multiple artistic pursuits, with a presence that has carved out the public space for over a decade now, speaks to SIDE-NOTE about the human condition and the recasting of a character inherent to ageing, developing and immersing oneself in life’s experiences.
TYPECAST BY OLIVER BEGG AND BIANCA FARMAKIS
Typecasting; where boundaries boundaries are broken, images are regenerated and individuals mould the new look of the location, the locals and the lives they lead.
AMERICAN HERO BY MICHAEL COMNINUS
American Hero. Delving into the complex and often misunderstood world of dissociative identity disorder, each image represents this in a subtle cue or a clever innuendo.
EVERY MORNING – A PROJECT WITH SIMONE PERELE BY ELLIE COKER AND BIANCA FARMAKIS
It’s an intimate act, an unsung one of self- preservation, and one of the rare moments the female form can find comfort in nudity without being scrutinised or sexualised.
EVERYTHING LEFT UNSAID BY LEVON BAIRD AND MARIELA SUMMERHAYS
Whether self-imposed or forced upon us, censorship shapes all our realities. Mitchell Smolkin, a psychotherapist whose work focuses on the dignity of suffering, details the consequences of this suppression — and possible silver linings.