CONTRIBUTORS

Linda Marigliano

As our guest music editor for this issue, Sydney-based musician, podcaster, TV host and radio presenter Linda Marigliano proved an invaluable and effervescent resource. She penned Vogue Voice (page 57), curated the line-up of local talent in ‘The sound of now’ (page 160) and also spoke to 18-year-old singer-songwriter Ruel (page 172). “I love interviewing, so sitting down and chatting in depth with Ruel was lovely. I was delighted to work with Vogue, plus music is my passion so it’s a damn perfect fit,” she says. “Australian music is thriving with creativity, but also suffering in the captivity of a pandemic. I hope people listen and support our local scene so that we can all dance at clubs, venues and festivals again soon!”

James J. Robinson

Tasked with photographing a portfolio of young Australian musicians remotely from his home deep in the Californian desert for ‘The sound of now’ (page 160), creative James J. Robinson shares that while he guided the artists through the unique process, everyone prepared their own spaces and the environments they wanted to be captured within. For Robinson, “watching the artists’ parents and partners try to offer them encouragement or creative ideas” was his favourite part of the whole experience. “There’s a comfort in those relationships that gets lost when you’re on physical sets and there are big crews. I’m really lucky that people let me into their homes with such sincerity.”

Elizabeth Day

“I get to say ‘I’m in Vogue’ and it’s now a literal fact,” says award-winning journalist, author and podcaster Elizabeth Day when quizzed on her keenness to share the inspiration behind her chilling new novel, Magpie, in the essay ‘Home truths’ (page 98). “From the heart,” is how Day best describes the book that works to unpack the concepts of failure, fertility and motherhood. “Failure is data acquisition. When you fail at something, it doesn’t need to define you,” she says. “Instead, it can give you necessary knowledge about what to do differently next time.”

Drew Jarrett

Two decades after capturing model Annie Morton for Vogue Australia in the 1990s, New York-based photographer Drew Jarrett returned to the magazine’s pages for the fashion feature ‘Outward bound’, from page 146.

“I have to say this was one of my favourite shoots,” he says of photographing SudaneseAmerican model Achenrin Madit in Montauk. “Achenrin was just incredible, a really special young lady. I showed her a mood board and she just took it and ran with it and made it her own. Her energy was amazing, which makes my job so much easier. Combined with dope styling, [you] can’t go wrong.”