Categorie: Phoebe Tonkin

Phoebe is te zien in de campagne #ELLEIsForLove waarin tijdschrift Elle laat weten voor het ‘homohuwelijk’ te zijn!

We stand together for diversity, respect and acceptance.

Starting from the 12th of September, and running all the way to the 7th of November, Australia is conducting one of the most important, and most highly-contested votes in its history: a postal vote to legalise same-sex marriage.

After a frustrating back-and-forth regarding plebiscites and impassioned floor speeches, Australian’s government decided that a postal survey—a non-compulsory, mail-in vote—would decide whether or not a private member’s bill would be introduced on the topic (which would legalise same-sex marriage, if passed, which it is expected to). The ballots have been mailed out, and every registered Aussie is being asked the very same question, one at a time, “Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?”

But despite the simplicity of the question, and the same simplicity in your choice of answers—“Yes,” or “No”—the vote isn’t so straightforward as we’d hoped it would be.

In between a vexing response from the ‘Vote No’ crowd, which has since spouted several public disavowals of the cause—skywriting ‘Vote NO’ across Sydney’s skyline recently might have been the most unabashed—and the fact that the vote itself is non-compulsory and not promising of any fines or reprimands like a state or federal election, and the end result is certainly not as promising as it could have been.

But luckily, for every ‘Vote No,’ voice there is an equal, and more hopeful, ‘Vote YES!’ Sydney’s Martin Place lit up with rainbow banners, and a heartening bulk of Australia’s biggest companies and brands have thrown their support behind marriage equality.

ELLE Australia is there alongside them. To show our support for same-sex marriage, we’ve asked some of Australia’s best and brightest to join in and encourage every voter to vote yes! For this special project, we tapped six incredible artists, including Luke Arnold, Ollie Henderson, Miranda Skoczek, Kitty Callaghan, Just Sayin’ Girl and Bassike to design their own slogan on white t-shirt. We then called upon some ELLE friends, including Phoebe Tonkin, Teresa Palmer, and Zoë Foster Blake (and more), to be photographed in the tees. These portraits are appearing in our October issue, on stands Monday.

And you, too, can get involved. Head over to our Instagram (make sure you’re following us), re-post one of the shots, tag it #ELLEisforLove, tell us why you’re voting, and you can go in the running to win one of the tees! Head over here for all the details, including terms and conditions.

Remember, guys, this is a hugely important vote, with wide-reaching consequences that will affect millions of Australians. Now’s the time to get involved and get it right.

Vote, vote, vote! Vote YES!

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Smythson, the legacy brand known for being the purveyors of chic passport covers and impeccable stationary for glamorous women of a certain age, wants millennials to know there’s more to them than meets the eye. And so begins Smythson’s journey to the wild side, the brand’s new travel campaign featuring the actress and model Phoebe Tonkin, playing Alice while venturing through London’s eclectic streets like a real-life Wonderland, as she makes her way to Buckingham Palace.

A “professional Cinderella,” as she describes herself on her Instagram bio to her 4.3 million followers, Tonkin’s life definitely has the touch of a fairy tale.“I’m such a visual person, I’m really drawn to photography and art and so I really use [Instagram] as a collage,” Tonkin tells Refinery29. “I was like the queen of collaging all my books and my bedroom walls and other people’s books at school. I kind-of see it as an extension, the grown up version of collaging.”

And when the The Vampire Diaries actress isn’t sharing paintings, artfully-staged selfies and the books that she’s reading, filtered through Juno or Lark (her favorite filters), it turns out, she’s just like the rest of us, using the app to score her latest clothing purchases. “There’s a couple of cool vintage places that I like: a New Zealand brand called Paris Georgia” that stocks curated vintage pieces, and a jeweler, Baga Tibi that Tonkin was inspired to shop after she noticed a bunch of people that she follows photographing it. Sigh, popular Instagrammers, they’re just like us! “I don’t really shop in the stores so it’s definitely my way to find out new brands and labels.”
“I’m really lucky, a lot of my best friends are really fashionable,” she continued, “my best friend, Ilona Hamer, is a stylist and is probably the most fashionable person I know so I always go to her Instagram for inspiration. Her and my other friend Alex [Nataf] have a magazine called Unconditional ,[and] they always feature really cool girls on their Instagram as well so I kind of get into a little vortex of clicking on someone and finding someone else.” Her Instagram also played a role in her latest turn in front of the Smythson camera.

“Funnily enough, I was following this stylist, Valentine Fillol Cordier, on Instagram for like a year or two because I just thought she was so beautiful, French and cool! [Then] they told me that she was the one styling the campaign I was like oh it’s cosmic, it’s meant to be.”

Watch the campaign video below and maybe, you’ll even feel inspired to find the magic in your next commute.