126 NEW-SEASON FASHION QSTYLE. 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. TALENT POOL 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 photography by STEVEN CHEE styling by MIKEY AYOUBI hair by GAVIN ANESBURY make-up by FILOMENA NATOLI QSTYLE. 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TIFFANY.COM.AU VAN CLEEF & ARPELS VANCLEEFARPELS.COM 132 travelinsider.qantas.com.au PARIS GEORGIA “GIA” TOP, APPROXIMATELY $1040, FROM THE MERCANTILE MANNING CARTELL “RED ALERT” SKIRT, $499 TIFFANY & CO. “TIFFANY HARDWEAR” EARRINGS, $495 QSTYLE. CALVIN KLEIN 205W39NYC DRESS, $1585, FROM PARLOUR X SARAH & SEBASTIAN GOLD AND BLUE CERAMIC EARRINGS, $280 134 travelinsider.qantas.com.au QSTYLE. 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. 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 Hugo Weaving 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. travelinsider.qantas.com.au 135 QSTYLE. Molton tote by Miro The contrast of refined and raw draws Wang to these canvas bags with “climbing rope” handles (molton.co) by Hong Kong-based duo Michael Leung and Rony Chan. Design Passport Hong KongK Joyce Wang, the interiorinte designer behind The LandmarkLandma Mandarin Oriental in Hong KongKo and The Hollywood RooseveltRooseve in Los Angeles, is in the final stages of renovating the Mandarin OrientalOrien Hyde Park in London. The architect-designerarch nominates the best shopps ing finds in the Chinese city shesh calls home. HARD-TO-FIND TITLESS FROMOM LOKO MAN RARE BOOKS CJW “ZODIAC” CUSHION Wang confesses she spends hours in FROM LANE CRAWFORD this “secret gem” of a store (lokman “You can’t have too many cushions,” books.com), perusing first editions says Wang, who admires her cousin, and rare tomes that offer unique Christina Wang, for her works in perspectives on the city’s history. ink on silk. Applying her craft to silk cushions (top; lanecrawford.com), “SQ38 PLANO” WATCH the artist and designer injects FROM SQUARESTREET a little fun into the Chinese zodiac. A 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 Homewares yet “it’s anything but ‘crafty’”, says and furniture Wang. “The designs are refined, by Chi Wing Lo chic, edgy and affordable.” If you were to collect the work PYE SHIRT of one Chinese designer, you’d The classic white shirt is a “travel make it Chi Wing Lo (chiwing essential” for Wang, whose lo.it), says Wang, who describes personal style tends towards the the former art director of androgynous. Pye (pyeshirts.com) Italian luxury furniture maker is a shirt maker that combines Giorgetti as “striving for a traditional Hong Kong tailoring synthesis of past and present”. with modern detailing. Compiled by Alison Boleyn 138 travelinsider.qantas.com.au QSTYLE. 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.