The May edition of Vogue Australia is on sale May 1 with a cover that should generate sales and online buzz.
The cover feature was written by Sydney-based freelance writer Hannah-Rose Yee. She reveals that the star of Daisy Jones & The Six, Riley Keough, is not only married to an Aussie, but has ambitions to split her time between the US and Australia.
The Vogue Australia magazine and digital brand is licensed to News Corp by Conde Nast. Since Edwina McCann was promoted upstairs, the title is in the capable hands of editor-in-chief Christine Centenera.
Vogue Australia is part of the News Prestige Network at News Corp Australia. It’s a business that is a quiet achiever for News Corp with a monthly print and digital reach of close to 5.5 million readers. In addition to Vogue Australia, the group also includes print and digital brands Vogue Living, delicious, GQ, Wish and Mansion.
A quiet achiever, yes, but not a secret to the agencies and brands that line up each month to feature their products in the glossy pages of the print products. Or to load their messages in the digital offerings.
The May edition reveals the actress is in production on Under The Bridge, a true-crime miniseries in which she plays a novelist investigating the gruesome death of a teenage girl. Keough, the daughter of Lisa Marie Presley, has been working six or seven days a week to finish it.
As part of the compelling cover feature, Yee details what she labels Work and Life Stuff about the actress many of us know best as Daisy Jones.
Work Stuff: She is the star of one of the biggest television shows in the world, the rock’n’roll romance Daisy Jones & The Six. She directed her debut film War Pony, which was awarded the Camera d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival last year, the same prize that launched the filmmaking careers of Steve McQueen and Miranda July.
Life Stuff: Keough is a new mother – “I have a half-Australian baby,” she beams – with husband of eight years Ben Smith-Petersen, the boy from Byron Bay she met while making 2015’s Mad Max: Fury Road. And it is also still barely a few months since the tragic death of her mother, Lisa Marie Presley, in January.
She’s currently planning her family’s first trip to Australia since 2019. “We’re going to try and come this summer … that’s what we used to do every year,” Keough tells Vogue Australia.
Australia is a second home. “I’m just really happy when I’m there. I have certain countries and places that I just feel so free in, and I think Australia’s one of them. And I fell in love there. I think that when you fall in love in a place, it’s always got that memory to it.”
Yee also reveals Keough has been scouring real estate websites, dreaming of a place of her own one day. “If it wasn’t so far, I would live there in a heartbeat. We talk about it all the time. I would love to have a house there. I love being in Australia.”
Vogue Australia photo credits
Talent: Riley Keough
Stylist: Christine Centenera
Photographer: Emma Summerton
Hair: Teddy Charles
Make-up: Romy Soleimani
Manicure: Kim Truong
Set design: Robert Doran
Production: GE Projects, Charlotte Rose & Jade Carp