VA50

Vogue’s 50th Anniversary would easily be one of my ultimate career highlights to date. Working on an event of this esteem, was absolutely mind blowing…in more ways than one. When working on Vogue everything is, (and should be) the best of the best.
The months, weeks, days and hours of work behind this event was phenomenal. There were multiple breaking points when we wanted to tear out our hair. However, in the end it was the adrenalin feeling that made it all worth it.
After an event like this, when your team have goose bumps and are grinning from ear to ear, that you realise why you really love what you do.







September Issue cover reveal - Cate Blanchett - drawings by artist David Downton






Kirstie Clements, Vogue Australia Editor-in-Chief + Cate Blanchett



Helmut Newton image on arrival






Australian beauties Abbey Lee



and Elyse Taylor






“And Audrey Wilder Sang” Truman Capote wrote, letting people in the know, know that this was the sign of a good party. “And Jenny Kee twirled” is the best way to sum up Vogue Australia’s opulent 50th anniversary. The iconic designer took to the stage in a swirl of colour signalling that the festivities had started.

Before the impromptu podium dancing, 700 guests arrived at Fox Studio’s soundstage to be greeted by a testosterone charged line-up of male models and News Limited CEO John Hartigan and Vogue Australia’s editor-in-chief Kirstie Clements.

Inside a Belvedere vodka martini bar heaved beneath Swarovski crystals, guests lounged in King Furniture beneath social snapper Robert Rosen’s photo wall and the Moet & Chandon flowed.

When Cate Blanchett arrived on the heels of Miranda Otto, Megan Gale, Collette Dinnigan and a who’s who of Australian fashion, murmurs swept the room before the grand unveiling of the September issue covers. After moving speeches by Vogue Australia founder Bernard Leser and Clements, spontaneous applause erupted as a screen displayed Blanchett artfully illustrated by David Downton.

And then Jenny Kee twirled, people stared at cover girls Abbey Lee in Max Azria and Nicole Trunfio in Louis Vuitton, Jayson Brundson looked fighting fit, Kit Willow smiled at a room filled with her dresses and Lydia Pearson stole the crown of best dance floor designer from Nicky Zimmermann.

By the time Kee had stopped twirling Vogue Australia was 50 and 1 day old, all the more reason to continue celebrating at Hemmesphere.

words: voue.com.au