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When it comes to her wardrobe, the New York-based stylist and Australian expat, Ilona Hamer, has always steered towards menswear-inspired tailoring and sharp-shouldered silhouettes. Here, she makes a case for the power of a confidence-boosting suit.
Photographs by Alexandra Nataf | Interview Natasha Inchley
If there is one thing that has always excited me about working in fashion, and with fashion stylists in particular, it is the storytelling that comes from combining words with pictures. I’m fortunate to have worked with the gorgeous stylist Ilona Hamer for more than seven years during our time together at Vogue Australia. I have always loved her strong style and twist on a trend. And so when it came to appointing a stylist to road-test Country Road’s winter tailoring for its online journal, Live With Us, the answer was obvious. Ilona’s freestyle approach to fashion these days is unabashedly New York, yet the effect still tends towards feeling somewhat Australian – fuss-free and undone. In this story, she wears a Country Road suit on the rooftop of her apartment. The back story is her inspiration: a kind of American Gigolo homage, in which boyfriend dressing gets an even sexier update.
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