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Photography: Steven Chee. Styling: Mikey Ayoubi. Hair: Gavin Anesbury. Make-up: Filomena Natoli

SAMARA WEAVING WEARS

CHRISTIAN DIOR DRESS, CHRISTIAN DIOR DRESS,

$8200 SARAH & SEBASTIAN $8200 SARAH & SEBASTIAN

“DIMENSION” GOLD “DIMENSION” GOLD

EARRINGS , $850, AND EARRINGS , $850, AND

“FOCUS” GOLD AND “FOCUS” GOLD AND

SAPPHIRE CUFF, $895 SAPPHIRE CUFF, $895

BREITLING “GALACTIC 36” BREITLING “GALACTIC 36”

WATCH, $4680. SEE WATCH, $4680. SEE

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TALENT POOL

MAX MARA “NARO” DRESS,

$1145 DINOSAUR DESIGNS

“MINERAL” GOLD EARRINGS,

$250 HERMÈS “CHARNIERE

FIN LIZARD” BRACELET (TOP),

$975 SARAH & SEBASTIAN

“FOCUS” SAPPHIRE AND

GOLD CUFF, $895

OPPOSITE PAGE SALVATORE

FERRAGAMO DRESS, $2390,

AND WEDGES, $1290

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GUCCI JUMPSUIT, $4275

PASPALEY “ROCKPOOL” GOLD, PASPALEY “ROCKPOOL” GOLD,

DIAMOND AND AUSTRALIAN DIAMOND AND AUSTRALIAN

SOUTH SEA PEARL EARRINGS, SOUTH SEA PEARL EARRINGS,

$29,800 SARAH & SEBASTIAN $29,800 SARAH & SEBASTIAN

GOLD AND VIOLET RING GOLD AND VIOLET RING

(LEFT), $195, AND “PRISM” (LEFT), $195, AND “PRISM”

GOLD AND SEMIPRECIOUS GOLD AND SEMIPRECIOUS

STONE RING, $595STONE RING, $595

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CHRISTOPHER ESBER TOP, CHRISTOPHER ESBER TOP,

$450 EMPORIO ARMANI

PANTS, $920 SARAH PANTS, $920 SARAH

& SEBASTIAN “TIDAL” & SEBASTIAN “TIDAL”

SILVER EARRINGS, $495 SILVER EARRINGS, $495

STUART WEITZMAN STUART WEITZMAN

“CHICSTER” HEELS, $695“CHICSTER” HEELS, $695

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PROENZA SCHOULER DRESS,

$3995, FROM PARLOUR X $3995, FROM PARLOUR X

VAN CLEEF & ARPELS “PERLÉE VAN CLEEF & ARPELS “PERLÉE

COULEURS” GOLD RINGS, $2750 COULEURS” GOLD RINGS, $2750

EACH, “PERLÉE PEARLS OF EACH, “PERLÉE PEARLS OF

GOLD” BRACELET, $11,350, AND GOLD” BRACELET, $11,350, AND

“VINTAGE ALHAMBRA” GOLD “VINTAGE ALHAMBRA” GOLD

AND ONYX PENDANT, $7350AND ONYX PENDANT, $7350

PARIS GEORGIA TOP,

APPROXIMATELY $320,

FROM THE MERCANTILE FROM THE MERCANTILE

BOTTEGA VENETA SKIRT, BOTTEGA VENETA SKIRT,

$4830 CÉLINE HEELS, $1400$4830 CÉLINE HEELS, $1400

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BREITLING BREITLING.COM

CÉLINE CELINE.COM

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CHRISTOPHER ESBER CHRISTOPHERESBER.COM.AU

DINOSAUR DESIGNS DINOSAURDESIGNS.COM.AU

EMPORIO ARMANI ARMANI.COM

GUCCI GUCCI.COM

HERMÈS AUSTRALIA.HERMES.COM

KACEY DEVLIN KACEYDEVLIN.COM

MANNING CARTELL MANNINGCARTELL.COM.AU

MAX MARA WORLD.MAXMARA.COM

MICHAEL LO SORDO MICHAELLOSORDO.COM

PARLOUR X PARLOURX.COM

PASPALEY PASPALEY.COM

PRADA PRADA.COM

SALVATORE FERRAGAMO FERRAGAMO.COM

SARAH & SEBASTIAN SARAHANDSEBASTIAN.COM

STUART WEITZMAN STUARTWEITZMAN.COM

THE MERCANTILE THEMERCANTILEONLINESTORE.COM

TIFFANY & CO. TIFFANY.COM.AU

VAN CLEEF & ARPELS VANCLEEFARPELS.COM

KACEY DEVLIN “FLUID”

COAT, $995, “DUO” DRESS

(DETAIL BELOW), $559,

AND “DECON” SKIRT, $545

PRADA HEELS, $1460

PARIS GEORGIA “GIA” TOP,

APPROXIMATELY $1040,

FROM THE MERCANTILE FROM THE MERCANTILE

MANNING CARTELL MANNING CARTELL

“RED ALERT” SKIRT, $499 “RED ALERT” SKIRT, $499

TIFFANY & CO. “TIFFANY TIFFANY & CO. “TIFFANY

HARDWEAR” EARRINGS, $495HARDWEAR” EARRINGS, $495

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CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC

DRESS, $1585, FROM PARLOUR X

SARAH & SEBASTIAN GOLD

AND BLUE CERAMIC

EARRINGS, $280

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You’ve become very visible very quickly…

Once I’d booked The Babysitter – which was on The Black List [a list of the most hyped but as-yet-unproduced scripts in Hollywood] for years – it felt like I finally had my foot in the door. I’ve been in the industry for 10 years and not having to jump through as many hoops when it comes to auditions is really refreshing.

What’s the hardest part about the path

you’ve chosen?

An actor is a professional auditioner in a sense, constantly waiting for a “promotion”. I’ve seen so many talented people try to break through but for some reason, whether it’s bad luck or timing, never do. I’m so grateful that hasn’t been the case for me.

You’ve played a satanic babysitter, trophy

girlfriend and high-schooler in the past

year. How do you pivot between such

different roles?

For a couple of weeks after I finish a job, my boyfriend will say, “Can you stop being so weird?” and I’m like, “I’m sorry, I’ve just spent four months playing an oppressed 16-year-old from the early 1900s [for Picnic at Hanging Rock]!” You really take on a character and I’m still learning how to shake it off afterwards. I call it the actor’s hangover.

Travelling as much as you do, what’s your

best tip for beating jet lag?

The secret is an ice-cold ocean dip as soon as you get off the plane. It’s the first thing I do when I land in Australia. And never have caffeine on a flight, only water.

WEAVING HER MAGIC

The Adelaide-born actress is attracting the kind of buzz most expats only dream of. Here, she talks about living

up to the hype and her adopted home of Los Angeles.

If you could take anything from Sydney

back to LA, what would it be?

The beaches. I live in West Hollywood, which is about an hour away from the nearest beach when you take traffic into account. The trick is to make friends with people who have pools.

And if you could bring one thing from LA

back to Sydney?

The night-life, because I love that you can walk around at midnight or after 2 o’clock in the morning and some of the best bars in town are still open.

What’s your favourite thing to do in LA?

See a film. This company [Cinespia] holds screenings at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. You pack a picnic and some drinks and watch a movie surrounded by gravestones, which is creepy but cool. They do all-night marathons, too.

And what would you recommend to

a first-time visitor?

A visit to LACMA [the Los Angeles County Museum of Art] or The Getty Center, followed by an afternoon at Venice Beach. Riding the merry-go-round on the pier is too much fun.

Does LA feel like home now?

It does but I try to come back [to Australia] at least once or twice a year, otherwise I miss it. Once an Aussie, always an Aussie.

Season 1 of SMILF is available to stream

exclusively on Stan. Picnic at Hanging Rock

will premiere on Foxtel later this year.

Samara Weaving is the type of person who’d bristle at the word “journey”. But if anyone’s been on one, it’s her. The 26-year-old niece of acclaimed Australian actor Hugo Weaving was born in Adelaide and raised all over Asia and Europe by her academic parents before spending four years on the fictional streets of Home and Away’s Summer Bay (like Isla Fisher and Chris Hemsworth before her). Since then she’s ping-ponged between Australia and the United States, officially relocating to Los Angeles after landing the lead role (of a murderous babysitter) in Netflix’s 2017 horror-comedy smash The Babysitter.

A buzz has trailed Weaving ever since, growing louder after her small but memorable part in the awards-season steamroller Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri opposite Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. Then there was her on-point portrayal of an irritatingly perfect girlfriend in the breakout hit SMILF (the second season is currently in production), a raw and honest dramedy about a twentysomething single mum.

Later this year, Weaving will star as ill-fated schoolgirl Irma Leopold in the television adaptation of Australian classic Picnic at Hanging Rock alongside Game of Thrones alum Natalie Dormer – a series so hotly anticipated that it sparked a network bidding war in the US. On an increasingly rare visit home, Weaving took time out to dress up and talk shop.

INTERVIEW BY VANESSA LAWRENCE

Compiled by Alison Boleyn

Homewares and furniture by Chi Wing Lo

If you were to collect the work of one Chinese designer, you’d make it Chi Wing Lo (chiwing lo.it), says Wang, who describes the former art director of Italian luxury furniture maker Giorgetti as “striving for a synthesis of past and present”.

CJW “ZODIAC” CUSHION FROM LANE CRAWFORD“You can’t have too many cushions,”

says Wang, who admires her cousin,

Christina Wang, for her works in

ink on silk. Applying her craft to silk

cushions (top; lanecrawford.com),

the artist and designer injects

a little fun into the Chinese zodiac.

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The contrast of refined and raw draws Wang to these The contrast of refined and raw draws Wang to these canvas bags with “climbing rope” handles (molton.co) canvas bags with “climbing rope” handles (molton.co)

by Hong Kong-based duo Michael Leung and Rony Chan.by Hong Kong-based duo Michael Leung and Rony Chan.

HARD-TO-FIND HARD-TO-FIND TITLES FROM LOK TITLES FROM LOK STITLES FROM LOK OMTITLES FROM LOK OTITLES FROM LOK MAN RARE BOOKS Wang confesses she spends hours in

this “secret gem” of a store (lokman

books.com), perusing first editions

and rare tomes that offer unique

perspectives on the city’s history.

“SQ38 PLANO” WATCH FROM SQUARESTREETA combination of industrial detailing

and natural materials, the “SQ38

Plano” watch speaks to Wang’s

aesthetic. Squarestreet (15square

street.com) is a shop packed with

accessories designed by local talent

yet “it’s anything but ‘crafty’”, says

Wang. “The designs are refined,

chic, edgy and affordable.”

PYE SHIRTThe classic white shirt is a “travel

essential” for Wang, whose

personal style tends towards the

androgynous. Pye (pyeshirts.com)

is a shirt maker that combines

traditional Hong Kong tailoring

with modern detailing.

Design Passport

Hong KHong KongJoyce Wang, the inteJoyce Wang, the interior designer behind The Landmabehind The Landmark Mandarin Oriental in Hong KoOriental in Hong Kong and The Hollywood RooseveHollywood Roosevelt in Los Angeles, is in the final stages ois in the final stages of renovating the Mandarin Orienthe Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park in London. The archin London. The architect-designer nominates the best snominates the best shopping finds in the Chinese city shin the Chinese city she calls home.

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Mind your chakrasWhether you’re after a luxury spin on ’70s spirituality or a high-tech approach to tradition, the biggest wellness trends require an open mind and a healthy dose of scepticism, writes Anne Fullerton.

“Wellness” is a divisive concept. Is it a much-needed escape hatch from an age of constant digital noise or, as American actress Hari Nef quipped, “a thing that upper-class white women in their 30s invented in order to battle invisible demons that don’t exist”? Whatever your position, the world of wellness is a very visible $US3.7 trillion global industry, with wellness tourism growing more than twice as fast as tourism in general. According to industry body the Global Wellness Institute, a great deal of that expansion is happening in alternative therapies. “Things that felt so hippie-ish and ’70s are now absolutely the No.1 wellness trend in the West,” says the institute’s director of research and PR, Beth McGroarty. “The more kooky or wacky the treatment, the bigger it is.” Here’s a teaser.

According to Modrn Sanctuary

(modrnsanctuary.com), a luxury

wellness centre in Manhattan

that specialises in the practice,

the crystals “shine on/off in healing

rhythms to cleanse, balance and

align your energies”.

If nothing else, they’ll look

great on your Instagram feed.

Infra-red saunasThe oldest known sauna is just

a pit of stones in Finland but over

the past two millennia, this ancient

tradition has undergone multiple

face lifts. The latest and trendiest

incarnation uses infra-red light

waves to create heat in the body

instead of in the air. The lower

temperatures mean you can stay

in there for longer – all the better

for treating everything from high

blood pressure to arthritis, if you

believe its devotees.

Model Miranda Kerr has an

infra-red sauna in her guesthouse

but the rest of us can sweat in

style at Nimbus & Co. (nimbusco.

com.au) at Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

Cult fitnessThe latest status workouts are

about more than rock-hard abs

– they’re about spirituality and

rock-hard abs. In New York and Los

Angeles, The Class by Taryn Toomey

(taryntoomey.com) combines a

vigorous workout with “clearing

your space” (read: burpees with

a side of cathartic screaming).

But for the real new-wave

experience, spend a day in LA’s

Runyon Canyon, hiking and

breathing heavily with The Wildfire

Initiative (thewildfireinitiative.

com), a fitness club led by four

gym bros who offer “cutting-edge

presence training to usher in a new

era of awareness and to manifest

the great reality”. Meet-ups are

free to attend and happen every

Sunday so there’s no need to feel

intimidated. Remember, they’re

just your average collection of

actors, models and Olympians

getting outdoors, enjoying one

another’s company and fine-

tuning their perfect torsos.

Vinotherapy“The old model of excess, the party

mentality, is not as affordable for

people any more,” says McGroarty,

citing a new, health-conscious

breed of millennial traveller as

an emerging force in the industry.

That said, excess always finds

a way and it doesn’t get more

wonderfully excessive than sipping

a glass of wine while soaking in a

bath of wine – you know, for the

anti-ageing properties.

French beauty brand Caudalie

was the first to spruik the skin-

softening properties of grape seed

polyphenols but today you can

soak in a vat of vino everywhere

from Italy to Japan.

Salt therapyLet’s get this out of the way:

there’s no scientific evidence that

sitting in a room built from salt

blocks will improve the symptoms

of asthma, arthritis, eczema or any

other ailment – except, perhaps, an

electrolyte deficiency (in which case,

licking the walls may help). Then

again, one look at the salt chamber

in the luxurious spa at Sirene Luxury

Hotel Bodrum (hotel.qantas.com.

au/sirenebodrum), on Turkey’s idyllic

Aegean coast, will see you checking

any reservations at the door.

Sound bathingBizarre name aside, sound bathing,

which involves relaxing to the

sounds of Tibetan singing bowls

or bowls made of quartz crystal,

may serve as a useful meditation

technique for novices who

struggle to reach nirvana through

breathwork alone. Think of it as

meditating to a soundtrack.

In Southern California’s Mojave

Desert, taking a sound bath in

the Integratron (integratron.com)

– a domed structure described

by its creator as “a time machine

for basic research on rejuvenation,

anti-gravity and time travel” – will

transport you to another world

before you even close your eyes.

Crystal light bed therapyForget a balanced diet. These days

it’s all about balanced chakras – or

is that energy fields? Don’t get too

hung up on the details because

everyone from Adele to Victoria

Beckham is embracing the pleasing

aesthetic and purported healing

properties of precious stones.

Crystal light bed therapy, which

involves lying on a massage table

beneath seven rainbow-coloured

Vogel-cut quartz crystals (one

for each chakra), first emerged

in Brazil’s John of God healing

community. More recently, it

has captured the attention

of SoCal yogis and East Coast

fashionistas, who will gladly

shell out $US120 (about $150)

a pop for a restorative session.

Wellness

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