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CURATED BY • We’ve selected the best pieces, trends and events to light up your every day

WORTH IT • For maximum impact, you’ve got to go mini. As temperatures rise and hemlines lift, here’s how to keep it chic

Architectural elegance • Georg Jensen’s latest seasonal campaign explores the enduring dialogue between jewellery and architecture

ABOUT TIME • Inspired by Melbourne, Naarm, the new Swatch collaboration tells a timeless story of people and place

Wish upon a star • What if good fortune could be carried close to the heart? Chanel Fine Jewellery’s Chance de Chanel collection brings together five timeless symbols and turns them into treasures to keep near and dear

FOR THE FRILL OF IT • The sun is shining, the air is fresh! All you need now is the perfect spring dress

HOW TO WEAR SPRING SHIRTS • A crisp shirt is a wardrobe staple. Here, the marie claire team shares how to style it for the office this season

STRAW HATS • Nothing says warm, sunny days like a straw hat. Lightweight and breathable, you can opt for either a pop of colour or a neutral tone that will go with literally anything.

SANDALS • The hardest working item in your wardrobe this season is the humble sandal. Perfect for the beach, the office and the bar, you can’t go wrong with any of these.

FEATURES • This issue, we visit a secluded Moroccan valley where local women are enjoying a rose boom; investigate Australia’s fake orphan scandal, which displaced countless South Korean children; hear cyclist Saya Sakakibara’s story behind her brother’s tragic accident; and unpack why the world is obsessed with women who kill

Valley of the Roses • In a secluded Moroccan valley in the Atlas Mountains, a global rose boom is empowering local women and boosting tourism

STOLEN. ADOPTED. FIGHTING BACK. INSIDE SOUTH KOREA’S ADOPTION SCAM • In the 1980s, many Australian couples bringing children home from South Korea thought they were saving abandoned or orphaned babies. Now adults, these adopted children and their families are discovering it was all a lie. With evidence of fraud and human rights breaches, a reckoning is afoot, writes Kathryn Madden

MUSHROOMS, MURDER… & THE MEDIA • Nothing grabs the headlines like a woman accused of murder. Yet while the media delights in feverishly feeding the public’s insatiable appetite for female killers, its reporting often crosses an ethical line

TOO GIRLY TO BE GAY • Roxy Bourdillon is an invisible lesbian. Not because she’s in the closet, but because, as a feminine-presenting woman, no-one believes she is gay. Here, she explains why femme invisibility is a feminist issue and asks when society will stop judging women based on their appearance

At ground ZERO • Over the past two years, Tess Ingram, 35, has been working in Gaza with UNICEF as it delivers aid and medically evacuates children. Though a ceasefire has been announced, the danger continues – and so does her determination to let the world know what’s happening on the ground

Lights, camera, action • Tracey Corbin-Matchett, the CEO of Bus Stop Films, is dedicated to disrupting filmmaking to achieve human rights outcomes for people with disability

WHEN TWO BECAME ONE • Saya Sakakibara and her brother, Kai, had a shared dream to compete in BMX at the Olympics. After a devastating accident, Saya had to make the decision to go on without him – and...