ELLE Next Gen Nominees

Australia’s most exciting up-and-coming creative talent will gather in Sydney on September 2 for this year’s ELLE Next Gen Awards. Introducing the class of 2026

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he ELLE Next Gen Awards are back for another year! A huge part of ELLE’s eight-decade legacy — and its future — is shining a spotlight on emerging, groundbreaking talent across fashion, film, music, beauty, art and literature.

On home soil, ELLE was the first major magazine to put Margot Robbie on its cover months before The Wolf of Wall Street sent her into the stratosphere. We put Milly Alcock on a cover a year before she soared in Supergirl, and in March this year, that baton was passed to fashion-muse-of-the-moment Sunday Rose Kidman Urban. The 2026 ELLE Next Gen Awards will take place this year on September 2 at The Press in Sydney. It’s a night where we will recognise and celebrate the extraordinary up-and-coming talent in this country, just as we've always done. The young, bold, fascinating creatives who are pushing boundaries, embracing authenticity and inspiring the next generation to see themselves as they are. So, who do you think should win each category?

SHABANA AZEEZ Shabana Azeez has been spending her days on American television as medical student Victoria Javadi on The Pitt, the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning HBO Max drama now shooting its third season. But this month, she comes home. From August 26, Azeez co-leads the SBS eight-part series The Airport Chaplain as Mira, a new young boss who takes one look at Hugo Weaving's fast-talking terminal fixer Tobias Wallace and files him under walking liability. The Adelaide-born actor has also appeared opposite Sarah Snook in Run Rabbit Run and voiced Saira in Lesbian Space Princess. Next, she’ll be returning to indie territory for Unrequited, in which she plays one half of a pair of former college roommates eating their way across California while her friend tries to talk her out of moving back to India.

CATHERINE LAGA'AIA Most of us sat our HSC trials in a school hall. Catherine Laga'aia sat hers on her first day on set, having beaten a reported 32,000 hopefuls to play Moana in Disney's live-action remake. The Sydney actor's paternal family hails from Samoa and her father is beloved Australian actor Jay Laga'aia, so the pull was never abstract. As she explains, the story of Moana was one she felt deeply compelled to tell, and it’s a role that she knows she’ll look back on in 10 years and still be proud of, such is her deep connection with the character. Next, she leads Crashout, a gen Z thriller from 19-year-old writer-director Nick Annas, in which a group of school leavers stage a found-footage film to cover up a death on a road trip, marking a distinct shift in genre for the actor.

TEAGAN CROFT Teagan Croft is on the cusp of household-name status after landing the role of Rapunzel in Disney's live-action Tangled. It was one of the most chased parts in Hollywood: Sabrina Carpenter was rumoured to have met with Disney, Florence Pugh was said to be in line and Gigi Hadid has confirmed she auditioned. Instead, Disney went with the 22-year-old Australian, who has been working towards this for a long time. Croft started on Home and Away and played Rachel Roth across DC's Titans from 2018 to 2023, before leading the 2023 Netflix film True Spirit as Jessica Watson, who at 16, sailed solo, non-stop and unassisted, around the world. Up next, she co-leads neo-noir thriller Override opposite Joe Cole, and stars with Juno Temple and Raffey Cassidy in This is Them.

Marlo Kelly Marlo Kelly's role in the Australian-French-produced horror TV series Patricia Moore put her on the film industry's radar in 2018, as did her turn as a rebellious cheerleading captain in Netflix's thriller series Dare Me. Today, the young Australian actor is based in Budapest, where she is filming season two of 3 Body Problem, a highly watchable, deeply complex science-fiction series that rose to number one on Netflix’s top 10 list when it debuted in March last year. The streaming giant will spend a whopping $411 million on season two, which sees Kelly’s character, Tatiana, take centrestage. Kelly also recently stepped behind the camera to direct a short film in Sydney called It Comes in Blue.

GERALDINE VISWANATHAN Geraldine Viswanathan came up on the Australian comedy scene while studying journalism, which goes some way to explaining a career that has never settled into one lane. She broke through in Blockers opposite John Cena and Leslie Mann, headlined The Broken Hearts Gallery and turned up in the MCU last year as an assistant-turned-whistleblower in Thunderbolts*. She voices Kallik in Paramount's animated Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender, and keeps one foot firmly in the realm of smaller projects, like Cat Person, an adaptation of a viral 2017 New York Times short story, and the indie comedy Oh, Hi!. In November, she joins Dig, a comedy from Amy Poehler and Mike Schur, as Dylan, who returns to an archaeological site in Greece after five years away to settle some unfinished business.

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Model

LATAHLIA HICKLING At just 19, Githabul and Bundjalung woman Latahlia Hickling has already walked on some of the most prestigious international runways. But it was her debut at Chanel in September 2025 that she says made her feel she’d finally, truly arrived in the modelling world. Since that debut, Hickling has become one of Matthieu Blazy’s favourites, which is a high honour, particularly for a girl from Casino, NSW, and given how monumental his short tenure at the house has already been. Now, with her star well and truly on the rise, her approach to the relentless pace of fashion month is still refreshingly unbothered, with the model taking it day-by-day. Next, Hickling will be taking on a full show circuit and has her eye on a move into acting in the future.

AUDREY LEES Audrey Lees didn’t grow up dreaming of walking the world’s biggest runways, though that’s exactly where she’s ended up. It was a chance conversation with her mum’s friend, who also happened to be a former international model, that floated the idea while Lees was, of all things, getting acupuncture. Her first show was Alix Higgins in Sydney in 2025, and by September she had made her worldwide debut at Prada in Milan, going on to walk 10 shows across the Paris circuit in her opening season. She’s since walked for Dior, Valentino, Saint Laurent, The Row, Loewe and Jean Paul Gaultier, among others, and fronted campaigns for Chloé and Victoria Beckham.

Estella Nolan Estella Nolan grew up in Melbourne and found her way into modelling early, thanks to a mother who already understood the inner workings of that world. At 16, she signed with Priscillas through a mutual connection — a turning point that has since seen her walk twice for Jonathan Anderson’s Dior in the past year. Both shows stand out as her career highlights so far, particularly the cruise 2027 presentation staged at the newly opened Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which was transformed into a movie stage lit by the headlights of vintage convertibles and old street lamps. She'll spend the rest of the year working between Europe and Australia.

Willow Jay A small town IGA is an unlikely place to be scouted as a model, but that's exactly what happened to Willow Jay. Born in North Queensland, she lived in the region for a few years before relocating to Woodford, where she spent her life working across a string of farms until makeup artist Stoj spotted her and sent her pictures to an agency. Walking for Louis Vuitton and shooting with David Sims are among her career highlights to date, as is a beauty campaign for Lady Gaga's Haus Labs. But she ranks travel just as highly, with the job allowing her to build a life, and a set of friendships, in every city she's landed in. She is currently based in New York City.

Fashion Designer

Rose Guiffre, Rose Guiffre You hear a Rose Guiffre dress before you see it. She adorns sculptural wool with 3D-printed PLA, a plant-based bioplastic, so the garment clatters as the wearer moves. "I began sewing when I was little, inspired by my mum, nonna and the fantastical world of ballet costumes," she says. "I have always been interested in the intersection between functional textiles and adornment and enjoy exploring how unlikely fabrications can be beneficial for the body, such as fibres like wool or through acupressure-like spikes." Accretion, the honours collection she built from embroidery, sculpting and 3D printing before graduating from UTS in 2025, won the National Graduate Showcase Award at Melbourne Fashion Festival in March. An invitation to create an entirely new collection for The Frontier at Australian Fashion Week arrived weeks later. All of this in her first year out.

Hannah TERESA,Haluminous Hannah Teresa describes herself as a translator between imagined and material worlds. She grew up between Korea and Australia and treats the gap between them as raw material. "One values symbolism, emotion and storytelling, the other embraces movement and a close relationship with the natural environment." What comes out is what she calls nocturnal resortwear: dark fairytales and Victorian gothic in fluid silhouettes and fabric you want to put your hands on. At Australian Fashion Week in May, she showed Petal Nocturnal on The Frontier runway, a collection built on the unlikely proposition that jersey could be sculptural rather than casual; all 3D rosettes, red structure and veiled eyes. "I still begin every collection with poetry, emotion and symbolism, but I'm interested in translating those feelings into clothing that people genuinely live in." A permanent jersey line, Second Skin, is next.

Frances Clifton, Alma Ines Frances Clifton designs for a woman who summers between Milan, New York and Mallorca, collects vintage on the way through and spends her afternoons in galleries. She may not exist, but her wardrobe does. The Australian-Italian designer, who has Milanese heritage, built Alma Ines on reimagined classics like double-breasted blazers in Italian wool, poplin shirts with deconstructed bralettes and bias-cut slips that land exactly where they should. Fabric comes from mills across Europe, Japan, Korea and China, including designer deadstock, and the runs are small and made in Sydney by local artisans. "Alma Ines is centred around refined ease and enduring design with a hint of flirtation," Clifton says. Edition 1 is out now.

ELLE Man

COSTA D'ANGELO Costa D'Angelo grew up in Melbourne watching movies with his dad, which is a fairly ordinary origin story, if not extremely relatable for Aussies. After small roles in Neighbours, Wog Boys Forever and The Deb, he broke out this year as Alex, a morally grey drug dealer with a foster-care past, in the third season of Tell Me Lies — a part he says changed his life overnight. Since then, he’s already shot a small role in Netflix's East of Eden opposite Florence Pugh (out this October) and just wrapped filming a Netflix hockey series titled Sticks, which deals with themes of grief and overcoming insurmountable hurdles. Now, he’s filming the second season of We Were Liars, playing Lawrence ‘Pheff’ Pfeffernan.

JOSH HEUSTON Though Heartbreak High and Dune: Prophecy made Josh Heuston a household name in Australia, it was his role as brooding musician Justin Kohl in Off Campus that catapulted him to international fandom this year, at a scale that took even the cast by surprise. Now, fresh off the back of a global press tour, Heuston has been spotted front row at Louis Vuitton as part of his decade-long relationship with the French fashion house, and in BOSS’ Made to Measure campaign thanks to his longstanding relationship with the brand. He’s also admitted that there are a few exciting roles in the pipeline … he just can’t speak about them yet.

BUDJERAH With 60 million career streams and a Platinum single in “Therapy”, Budjerah has spent five years honing his craft behind the scenes. This work has culminated in Gentleman, his 11-track debut album, which was produced by Grammy winner Om'Mas Keith and features a song from Diane Warren, whose work on Beyoncé's 2011 album 4 (Budjerah’s favourite album of all time) made his debut that much sweeter. The proud Coodjinburra man from the Bundjalung nation grew up in Fingal Head, NSW, on his family's traditional Country and describes the record as him becoming the man he wanted to be. The culmination is an album that’s equal parts soulful and honest.

JOSEPH ZADA Fans of twisty teen drama We Were Liars will already be well-acquainted with Australian actor Joseph Zada, but it's not an understatement to say the next year will see him hurtling towards global stardom. The Sydney-raised actor, who first attracted attention while leading Stan's Invisible Boys, will next be seen fronting the highly anticipated Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping as a young Haymitch Abernathy, joining the ranks of iconic actors like Jennifer Lawrence and fellow Aussie Liam Hemsworth, whose early careers were also underscored by roles in the Suzanne Collins series adaptations. He's also set to star in East of Eden alongside fellow ELLE Man nominee Costa D'Angelo, coming out this October.

Musician

PAMELA With a career spanning just about every corner of the entertainment industry, Sarah Ellen is the ultimate multi-disciplinary creative. She got her start on the internet as a teenager, before moving into modelling, acting and, as of last year, music. She now fronts Pamela, the Sydney duo she formed with Josh Kempen, and which has become one of Australia's most exciting new alternative acts. Their debut EP, It's Nice to See You Here, explores the contradictions of modern relationships, with opening song “Pandemonium” arriving with a self-directed video shot across Sydney, Athens and the black sands of Reynisfjara Beach in Iceland. The pair are performing headline shows across Australia through August.

Jacoténe Jacoténe has been tipped as one of Australia's most exciting emerging musicians following the release of her first EP, Untitled (Read My Mind), in 2025. But rather than the early recognition knocking her creative process off-course, she has explained that she finds a freedom in making music without expectation, and treats the attention, when it comes, as fuel rather than pressure. Where that EP was an inner dialogue, her newer songs reflect the growth she's experienced since, and it’s this evolution, in both emotion and her storytelling process, that continues to push her. Beyond her upcoming releases, she also has ambitions to collaborate, with British rapper Dave sitting at the top of her wish list.

Yorke Yorke's latest single, “Break Up Season”, was born out of a scenario most women can relate to. It began with a friend sharing juicy gossip about the wave of splits going through their friend group, with Yorke joking that she hoped she wouldn't be next. Hours later, she walked into the studio with the title in mind and worked backwards to create a modern pop anthem with a distinct 2010s vibe. The song was written and produced with Grammy winner Tommy Brown, who's also worked with Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, through the 2025 ARIA Collab program, and follows her 2025 EP Unfinished Business. Yorke has had 50 million global streams to date, with more music and tour dates coming this year.

RACHAEL FAHIM Rachael Fahim was the only Australian female artist to achieve a #1 Country Radio single last year, and the first female country artist in 22 years to break through on full-scale commercial radio in Australia. The recognition was a long time coming, having won the Toyota Star Maker Award back in 2017 and spent much of the past decade chipping away at a genre that often doesn't make enough space for women. Now it all seems to be paying off. Her debut album, Who You Are, landed at #1 on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart, its title track won her an APRA Award and her streams now top 20 million. And there’s more music on the way.

Lucy Knox Lucy Knox won Gold at this year's Cannes Young Director Award for Opal Fever, a short documentary on the outback towns where people arrive chasing opal and sometimes never leave. Her debut short, An Act of Love, was acquired by the Criterion Collection; her documentary, Last Man Standing, screened at MoMA and Sheffield DocFest; and Hot Mother premiered at the Berlinale with a Crystal Bear nomination. Then, in June, she was selected for Saatchi & Saatchi's New Creators' Showcase. Knox grew up on films like Animal Kingdom and Wake in Fright, and wants to sit in that gritty oeuvre that Australian cinema has never shied away from. She is currently developing her debut feature starring Toni Collette and Milly Alcock, an extension of Hot Mother about a mother and daughter whose trip to a remote wellness spa turns into a fight for survival.

CATHO D'SOUZA Catho D'Souza wrote, directed and edited I'm Still Here in less than a month, and it landed her among 15 finalists chosen from more than 700 entries at Tropfest's first outing in six years, with Margot Robbie as jury president. The film follows Avanya, a young woman who impersonates her dead sister to keep her memory alive, and it's a chilling study of denial and family. The Marrickville local came to film through theatre, where her debut play, The Games We Play, tackled the impact of drone warfare on civilians. Her first film, I'd Never Date An Indian Girl, premiered at the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne, and she has built an audience of almost 36k on TikTok. Now, she's in pre-production on the short Strangers and developing a body horror feature.

Filmmaker

Sisi Stringer Sisi Stringer spent February and March on the Wharf 1 stage as Aziza in Purpose, Sydney Theatre Company's Australian premiere of the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play and her mainstage debut. This is a pivot for an actor known mostly for genre and franchise work: Mileena in Mortal Kombat, the lead role of Rose in Peacock's Vampire Academy, and Beth in Force of Nature: The Dry 2 opposite Eric Bana and Anna Torv. She took leave from a directing masters at AFTRS to do it, but eventually, that degree produced Ring Around, her directorial debut and a Tropfest finalist this year, about a straitlaced family man in the early years of the AIDS epidemic. Stringer is now studying screenwriting, with an eye on producing her own scripts.

Muraya Moore Brisbane writer-director Muraya Moore folds horror and thriller into stories about girlhood. Blood Sisters, her 12-minute short about beauty-obsessed teenagers whose skincare rituals turn sinister, premiered at SXSW Sydney in 2024, took Best Narrative at the Underdog Film Festival and won the Audience Award at Berlin's Final Girls Film Festival this year. It also earned her a Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year nomination at the Byron Bay International Film Festival. In 2025, she finished two more shorts: Hafu, drawn from her childhood growing up half-Japanese, and Backbite, made with Bus Stop Films, alongside the Queensland Government-funded documentary series Power Nadeshiko. She's developing a feature version of Blood Sisters and is currently notetaker in the writers' room for Oombarra Productions' netball series, led by Leah Purcell.

Anne U Melbourne-based sculptor Anne U is a world-builder. Her ceramics, furniture, lighting and objects are simultaneously familiar, and yet not at all. Yes, that’s a stool with a function (a place to sit), but it’s also an object with a form that can hold its own as a work of art. Anne U experiments with shape and material — such as stainless steel, plaster, porcelain and even violin string — allowing her to manipulate and contort these playful artworks to her will. She also works with set designers for editorial photoshoots, lending her ‘sculptural anchors’ to their visual narratives. She is about to head overseas to immerse herself in different creative environments and experiments, so there’s much more to look forward to.

CAMILLE OLSEN-ORMANDY Camille Olsen-Ormandy may be Australian art world royalty (her grandfather is the late abstract landscape painter John Olsen, her uncle is the gallerist and art dealer Tim Olsen, and her parents are the artists who founded Dinosaur Designs, Stephen Ormandy and Louise Olsen) but she’s forging a style that’s distinctly her own, comprising paint, watercolour, ceramic, collage, resin and experiments in the digital realm. For years, Olsen-Ormandy has been steadily building her profile, working with brands such as Cartier, Chanel and Gucci, and appearing in high-fashion glossies, but this year she reached a new milestone when she became a first-time Archibald finalist with her portrait of Heartbreak High’s Gemma Chua-Tran. Up next is a yet-to-be-announced solo exhibition at Olsen Gallery, which represents her, and — hopefully — an artist residency somewhere amazing and inspirational.

Artist

JADE AKAMARRE At just 22 years old, Alyawarre/Anmatyerre artist Jade Akamarre opened her own First Nations art gallery, Pwerle, to provide a home for four generations of her family’s artistic traditions, including those of her grandmother, Barbara Weir, and great-grandmother, Minnie Pwerle. That was 15 years ago. Since then, Akamarre has become a leading force in Aboriginal representation in Australia’s contemporary art world, as well as a prolific artist in her own right. From being a little girl painting with her great-great-Aunty Emily Kame Kngwarreye to now working with collectors from her Adelaide-based gallery, Akamarre is continuing on a legacy that started well before she was born — and helping to preserve First Nations storytelling for generations to come.

Linda SOK An interdisciplinary artist whose work revolves around diaspora, cultural memory and ancestral histories, Cambodian-Australian Linda Sok uses weaving, sculpture and installation to explore personal and historical traumas and to recover lost Cambodian traditions. Her work is currently on display as part of Primavera 2026, the MCA’s annual exhibition of Australian artists aged 35 and under (until September 28), followed by a roster of exhibitions at a number of galleries across the country and in Vermont. She also features in Sophie Kai’s book, Loop, Hook, Loom: A Creative Collection of Textile Art Made with Yarn and Thread. Sok was awarded the Monash Room Emerging Artist Prize from the Australian Consulate in New York in 2024, and the Dorner Prize from the Rhode Island School of Design Museum the same year.

FLORENCE BAITIO Florence Baitio's love of beauty started with curiosity and a fascination with how self-expression transforms not just a face but the confidence people carry. Born in Africa and spending time in refugee camps before moving to Australia, she was introduced to beauty of all types, which she says shaped how she understands it now. Having shot for Chanel Beauty and developed relationships with L'Oréal Paris and Fenty Beauty, she also has Dior Beauty and Prada Beauty high on her wish list. Come September, Baitio is off to London and Paris Fashion Week and has said that her biggest driving force is to keep building on the space and community she’s created, so it continues to be a place where people feel inspired to be confident in themselves and experiment with beauty.

TATIANA ROSE Tatiana Rose was born and raised in the circus, which actually explains a lot about the trajectory of her career to date. The Sydney-based artist comes from a family of professional performers, and some of that theatricality carries into everything she makes. As she explains, her work, which spans predominantly photography and makeup artistry, blends colour, texture and light into images that are both cinematic and intimate at once, though always with an undercurrent of nostalgia. Rose has worked for luxury beauty brands like Dior Beauty, Gucci Beauty, Shiseido and Rae Morris, both in front of and behind the lens, and she says that no matter what the creative execution is, her priority is always keeping her work expressive, intimate and intentional.

Beauty

SORAYA BOULARAS Soraya Boularas is entirely self-taught, which is easy to believe once you learn her father is a painter and her grandmother, who she’s said is responsible for her earliest beauty memories, was one of her first inspirations. The Sydney-based artist first picked up a makeup brush when she was 16, and over the years, she has built a career spanning celebrity, fashion and editorial, as well as content creation. Her work has a modern, ethereal vibe, whether she’s creating dark feminine looks, making up colourful pop-art princesses or channelling ’80s glamour with velvety-smooth complexions. Working with people like Gemma Ward, Georgia Fowler and Te Manahou Mackay, she also counts Hourglass, YSL Beauty, Make Up For Ever and Prada Beauty as collaborators, and knows the particular chaos of working a fashion show backstage.

EVELYN ARALUEN Evelyn Araluen currently describes herself as a “former poet”, but does it ever really leave you? When Araluen, a Goorie and Koori writer, editor and researcher, released her debut poetry collection, Dropbear, it was shortlisted for three Premier’s literary prizes and won the 2022 Stella Prize (the first book of poetry to do so); for her second collection, The Rot, she won the 2026 Victorian Prize for Literature. Where Dropbear is a satirical skewering of Australiana and Biblical tropes, The Rot is continuation on the same themes, only building in its sorrow and anger at two centuries of colonisation — both in Australia and across the globe.

TIGEST GIRMA Ethiopia-born, Melbourne-based Tigest Girma was a New York Times bestselling author before she had even turned 27. Sick of the lack of diversity in the fantasy genre, Girma — who’s also a primary school teacher — decided to weave east African mythology into her Immortal Dark trilogy. The result? Dark, fantastical stories of an orphaned heiress looking for her abducted sister in a world where humans and Black vampires co-exist. The first instalment was released to rave reviews in 2024, the second in 2025, and the final instalment, Infernal Vow, is slated for release in January 2027, with an accompanying US book tour — and hopefully another #1 New York Times Best Seller status.

Writer

MADELEINE GRAY Among the fans of her debut novel, Green Dot, Madeleine Gray can count Nigella Lawson, Pandora Sykes and Gillian Anderson, and many others. The funny-but-heart-wrenching story of hot mess Hera and her older office crush (to put it lightly), Arthur, was a global hit when it came out in 2023, making appearances in many a book club. Gray shrugged off the sophomore slump this year to release her second novel, Chosen Family, a queer love story that follows two friends as they navigate romantic love and platonic co-parenting. Set across 18 years of their lives, it’s a sprawling epic that questions all accepted notions of queer and heteronormative love and family.

EMMA HARDY Emma Hardy is a bitch — sometimes. Or so she declares in her literary menstrual memoir, Periodic Bitch, which came out this year. Diving into the world of PMS and the less-discussed PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder) to raise awareness of how women have been let down by both physical and mental healthcare, the Melbourne-based writer uses personal stories and those of other women to dissect medical misogyny, stigma and taboo. Hardy’s insightful essays and features do the important work of interrogating gender, the environment and illness, and have appeared in a variety of publications including The Monthly, The Guardian, The Big Issue and Voiceworks.

The 2026 ELLE Next Gen Awards will take place on September 2 at The Press in Sydney.

XAVIER MOLYNEUX Xavier Molyneux is quickly establishing himself as one to watch, but before acting, he worked as an event paramedic in Sydney. A few years on, he's in Ireland playing one of history's most notorious Viking warriors, which proves just how quickly life can change. The Australian actor first found fame as Byron Stone in the Neighbours revival and appeared in the Disney+ production Last Days of the Space Age. He now holds the title role in Bloodaxe, Amazon MGM Studios' historical epic from Vikings creators Michael and Horatio Hirst, though we still have quite a wait until his season two appearance hits our screens (season one is coming in 2027). In the meantime, we’ll see Molyneux as the male lead in Lady Death.

KISHAMA MERIDIAN Kishama Meridian has built her digital presence on something most influencers shy away from: modesty. Raised on Sydney's northern beaches by a single mother, the beauty creator now splits her time between Sydney and Dubai, turning fashion, home and beauty content into something closer to a devotional practice. Her feed reads like a life both well-curated, exceedingly honest, and aspirational: perfume hauls, home and garden projects, Australian Fashion Week fits and beauty brand trips abroad, all threaded together by faith. It's a formula that has made Meridian one of the most recognisable voices in modest style, proof that glossy beauty content and quiet conviction aren't mutually exclusive.

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TANZYN CRAWFORD From Western Australia to Westeros, Tanzyn Crawford is the Perth-born actor you’ve probably seen all over your screens in SBS crime series Swift Street and the hugely popular Game of Thrones spin-off, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Before the series was released earlier this year, Crawford admitted in interviews that she loved the anonymity she still maintained, even after working on such a huge global project. Though we’re sure that’s now changed since the show beamed across the world on HBO Max, the 25-year-old’s star is continuing to rise. In January, it was announced Crawford had been cast as a series regular in the live-action adaptation of Assassin’s Creed, a video game franchise that has sold more than 250 million copies worldwide.

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