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EDITOR’S LETTER

EFFORTLESS ARMOUR • Ensure your wardrobe works as hard as you do with these chic trans-seasonal essentials

JEWELLED VOYAGE • Van Cleef & Arpels sets sail with a new high jewellery collection entitled Treasure Island

Veiled FREEDOM • A passionate designer has turned headscarves from Iranian women into a powerful protest for female empowerment

THE POWER OF RED • Upcycled cashew nuts have proved to be a groundbreaking winner at the 2024 Red Club x Cartier Young Leader Award

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT… Women in Science • Females are collaborative, creative, supportive and empathetic, and should have equal representation in every field. So why are we still lagging behind in STEM, asks scientist Laura Wells

THE OCEAN IS DROWNING • It’s no secret our beaches and waterways are suffocating in a plague of plastic. As microplastics litter our shorelines and a garbage patch the size of a small country cruises the coast, it’s time to critically rethink our consumption habits. Here, a series of photographers expose the ugly truth about where our waste ends up

ARE THE WELLNESS BROS OK? • Self-professed wellness gurus have amassed millions of followers by proselytising a brand of hyper-masculinity that’s all about extreme fitness, discipline, deprivation, bio-hacking and optimisation. As allegations of domestic violence and sexual misconduct emerge against them, some experts are not surprised

Your identity is… FOR SALE • Sydney-based crime writer Ashley Kalagian Blunt was working on her latest psychological thriller about the dark web when she was forced to enter it herself to solve a real-life mystery

WELCOME TO THE WORLD’S MOST FEMINIST CITY • In Umeå, in northern Sweden, gender equality has become a reality, thanks in part to the activists who fought for the cause, as well as the local government, which integrated gender into its urban planning. Words by Catherine Durand

In her element • In the erotic thriller Babygirl, Nicole Kidman plays a woman on “an emotional and sexual odyssey”. It’s entirely new territory for the legendary actor, and her bravest role yet

TURN ON, TUNE IN, DROP OUT • At 55, Sarah Napthali considered herself too old to try psychedelics. But was she? With a little encouragement from her sons, she spent a year travelling Europe and South America, exploring a whole new – and altered – reality

Is it LOVE …or is it ADDICTION? • Love should be all-consuming, passionate and never-ending – or so countless fairytales and love songs tell us. But sometimes that kind of attachment is as destructive as drug addiction. Harriet Sim investigates

HELP ME, FATHER • Luigi Ciotti is no ordinary priest. The 79-year-old has dedicated his life to helping women and children escape their Mafia families. Peter Conradi meets the man who is single-handedly re-shaping Italy

HAVING A MOMENT Monica Barbaro

What’s on… • Mark your calendars, these enticing entertainment events are coming to a theatre, gallery or living room near you

SCROLL OF CONSCIOUSNESS • On platforms synonymous with brain rot and doom scrolling, these social media curators, cultural critics and thought-provokers provide the perfect antidote

BOOK SMART • The chick-lit genre might have been hijacked by sappy romance novels, but 2025 will see a radical reclaiming of female stories. To kick off, we’ve...