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SAMARA WEAVING WEARS CHRISTIAN DIOR DRESS, $8200 SARAH & SEBASTIAN “DIMENSION” GOLD EARRINGS , $850, AND “FOCUS” GOLD AND SAPPHIRE CUFF, $895 BREITLING “GALACTIC 36” WATCH, $4680. SEE PAGE 132 FOR STOCKISTS Photography: Steven Chee. Styling: Mikey Ayoubi. Hair: Gavin Anesbury. Make-up: Filomena Natoli QSTYLE.

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Actress Samara Weaving makes a splash in figure-hugging frocks and statement separates.

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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CHRISTOPHER ESBER TOP, $450 EMPORIO ARMANI PANTS, $920 SARAH & SEBASTIAN “TIDAL” SILVER EARRINGS, $495 STUART WEITZMAN “CHICSTER” HEELS, $695

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PROENZA SCHOULER DRESS, $3995, FROM PARLOUR X VAN CLEEF & ARPELS “PERLÉE COULEURS” GOLD RINGS, $2750 EACH, “PERLÉE PEARLS OF GOLD” BRACELET, $11,350, AND “VINTAGE ALHAMBRA” GOLD AND ONYX PENDANT, $7350

130 travelinsider.qantas.com.au PARIS GEORGIA TOP, APPROXIMATELY $320, FROM THE MERCANTILE BOTTEGA VENETA SKIRT, $4830 CÉLINE HEELS, $1400 KACEY DEVLIN “FLUID” COAT, $995, “DUO” DRESS (DETAIL BELOW), $559, AND “DECON” SKIRT, $545 PRADA HEELS, $1460

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CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC DRESS, $1585, FROM PARLOUR X SARAH & SEBASTIAN GOLD AND BLUE CERAMIC EARRINGS, $280

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WEAVING HER MAGIC The -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.

Samara Weaving is the type of person If you could take anything from Sydney who’d bristle at the word “journey”. back to LA, what would it be? But if anyone’s been on one, it’s her. The The beaches. I live in West Hollywood, 26-year-old niece of acclaimed Australian which is about an hour away from the actor was born in Adelaide nearest beach when you take traffic and raised all over Asia and Europe by her into account. The trick is to make academic parents before spending four friends with people who have pools. years on the fictional streets of Home and You’ve become very visible very quickly… And if you could bring one thing from LA Away’s Summer Bay (like Isla Fisher and Once I’d booked The Babysitter back to Sydney? Chris Hemsworth before her). Since then – which was on The Black List The night-life, because I love that you she’s ping-ponged between Australia and [a list of the most hyped but as-yet- can walk around at midnight or after the United States, officially relocating to unproduced scripts in Hollywood] 2 o’clock in the morning and some of Los Angeles after landing the lead role for years – it felt like I finally had the best bars in town are still open. (of a murderous babysitter) in Netflix’s my foot in the door. I’ve been in the What’s your favourite thing to do in LA? 2017 horror-comedy smash The Babysitter. industry for 10 years and not having to See a film. This company [Cinespia] A buzz has trailed Weaving ever since, jump through as many hoops when it holds screenings at the Hollywood growing louder after her small but comes to auditions is really refreshing. Forever Cemetery. You pack a picnic memorable part in the awards-season What’s the hardest part about the path and some drinks and watch a movie steamroller Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, you’ve chosen? surrounded by gravestones, which Missouri opposite Frances McDormand, An actor is a professional auditioner is creepy but cool. They do all-night Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell. Then in a sense, constantly waiting for marathons, too. there was her on-point portrayal of an a “promotion”. I’ve seen so many And what would you recommend to irritatingly perfect girlfriend in the breakout talented people try to break through a first-time visitor? hit SMILF (the second season is currently but for some reason, whether it’s bad A visit to LACMA [the Los Angeles in production), a raw and honest dramedy luck or timing, never do. I’m so grateful County Museum of Art] or The Getty about a twentysomething single mum. that hasn’t been the case for me. Center, followed by an afternoon at Later this year, Weaving will star as You’ve played a satanic babysitter, trophy Venice Beach. Riding the merry-go- ill-fated schoolgirl Irma Leopold in the girlfriend and high-schooler in the past round on the pier is too much fun. television adaptation of Australian classic year. How do you pivot between such Does LA feel like home now? Picnic at Hanging Rock alongside Game of different roles? It does but I try to come back [to Thrones alum Natalie Dormer – a series so For a couple of weeks after I finish Australia] at least once or twice hotly anticipated that it sparked a network a job, my boyfriend will say, “Can you a year, otherwise I miss it. Once bidding war in the US. On an increasingly stop being so weird?” and I’m like, an Aussie, always an Aussie. rare visit home, Weaving took time out to “I’m sorry, I’ve just spent four months dress up and talk shop. playing an oppressed 16-year-old Season 1 of SMILF is available to stream from the early 1900s [for Picnic at exclusively on Stan. Picnic at Hanging Rock Hanging Rock]!” You really take on will premiere on Foxtel later this year. 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 INTERVIEW BY VANESSA LAWRENCE on a flight, only water.

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Wellness Mind your chakras Whether 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 blood pressure to arthritis, if you wonderfully excessive than sipping escape hatch from an age of constant digital noise or, believe its devotees. a glass of wine while soaking in a as American actress Hari Nef quipped, “a thing that Model Miranda Kerr has an bath of wine – you know, for the upper-class white women in their 30s invented in order infra-red sauna in her guesthouse anti-ageing properties. to battle invisible demons that don’t exist”? Whatever but the rest of us can sweat in French beauty brand Caudalie your position, the world of wellness is a very visible style at Nimbus & Co. (nimbusco. was the first to spruik the skin- $US3.7 trillion global industry, with wellness tourism com.au) at Sydney’s Bondi Beach. softening properties of grape seed growing more than twice as fast as tourism in general. polyphenols but today you can According to industry body the Global Wellness Cult fitness soak in a vat of vino everywhere Institute, a great deal of that expansion is happening The latest status workouts are from Italy to Japan. in alternative therapies. “Things that felt so hippie-ish about more than rock-hard abs and ’70s are now absolutely the No.1 wellness trend – they’re about spirituality and Salt therapy in the West,” says the institute’s director of research rock-hard abs. In New York and Los Let’s get this out of the way: and PR, Beth McGroarty. “The more kooky or wacky Angeles, The Class by Taryn Toomey there’s no scientific evidence that the treatment, the bigger it is.” Here’s a teaser. (taryntoomey.com) combines a sitting in a room built from salt vigorous workout with “clearing blocks will improve the symptoms your space” (read: burpees with of asthma, arthritis, eczema or any a side of cathartic screaming). other ailment – except, perhaps, an But for the real new-wave electrolyte deficiency (in which case, Crystal light bed According to Modrn Sanctuary experience, spend a day in LA’s licking the walls may help). Then therapy (modrnsanctuary.com), a luxury Runyon Canyon, hiking and again, one look at the salt chamber Forget a balanced diet. These days wellness centre in Manhattan breathing heavily with The Wildfire in the luxurious spa at Sirene Luxury it’s all about balanced chakras – or that specialises in the practice, Initiative (thewildfireinitiative. Hotel Bodrum (hotel.qantas.com. is that energy fields? Don’t get too the crystals “shine on/off in healing com), a fitness club led by four au/sirenebodrum), on Turkey’s idyllic hung up on the details because rhythms to cleanse, balance and gym bros who offer “cutting-edge Aegean coast, will see you checking everyone from Adele to Victoria align your energies”. presence training to usher in a new any reservations at the door. Beckham is embracing the pleasing If nothing else, they’ll look era of awareness and to manifest aesthetic and purported healing great on your Instagram feed. the great reality”. Meet-ups are Sound bathing properties of precious stones. free to attend and happen every Bizarre name aside, sound bathing, Crystal light bed therapy, which Infra-red saunas Sunday so there’s no need to feel which involves relaxing to the involves lying on a massage table The oldest known sauna is just intimidated. Remember, they’re sounds of Tibetan singing bowls beneath seven rainbow-coloured a pit of stones in Finland but over just your average collection of or bowls made of quartz crystal, Vogel-cut quartz crystals (one the past two millennia, this ancient actors, models and Olympians may serve as a useful meditation for each chakra), first emerged tradition has undergone multiple getting outdoors, enjoying one technique for novices who in Brazil’s John of God healing face lifts. The latest and trendiest another’s company and fine- struggle to reach nirvana through community. More recently, it incarnation uses infra-red light tuning their perfect torsos. breathwork alone. Think of it as has captured the attention waves to create heat in the body meditating to a soundtrack. of SoCal yogis and East Coast instead of in the air. The lower Vinotherapy In Southern California’s Mojave fashionistas, who will gladly temperatures mean you can stay “The old model of excess, the party Desert, taking a sound bath in shell out $US120 (about $150) in there for longer – all the better mentality, is not as affordable for the Integratron (integratron.com) a pop for a restorative session. for treating everything from high people any more,” says McGroarty, – a domed structure described citing a new, health-conscious by its creator as “a time machine breed of millennial traveller as for basic research on rejuvenation, an emerging force in the industry. anti-gravity and time travel” – will That said, excess always finds transport you to another world illustration by ROHAN CAIN a way and it doesn’t get more before you even close your eyes.

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