From Miranda Kerr To Cara Delevingne, These Are RUSSH’s Greatest Hits


It’s with heads hanging a little lower than usual that today we give thanks for ten years of RUSSH magazine, who last night fêted their first full decade documenting the Australian fashion industry through an international lens with a chic-as-balls soiree at the National Art School in Sydney made unforgettable by the presence of ample champagne, a killer spread and their favourite band, The Preatures. 
In occasion of that major milestone, we asked the impossibly talented RUSSH masthead to take a look back through their archives and select what they think are their greatest hits from the last ten years. 
From Miranda, Freja and Cara, to Patti, Courtney and Kim, you’ll find those legends and more below and in RUSSH #60, which is on sale now IRL and online


Raquel Zimmerman photographed by Juergen Teller for RUSSH #36.

“People say to me, ‘You can’t do that’ and ‘This is too much’ and, you know what, fuck it. You should really do what you want to do.”


Caroline de Maigret photographed by Nick Hudson for RUSSH #49.

“I could finally live my own life and be who I wanted to be – no family, no background. I think that’s what happens to a lot of people in New York. You can start over there. There’s this freshness about it.”


Pharrell photographed by Tim Barber for RUSSH #58

“I shield myself in humility. I consume myself in it because I never want to fall asleep and pretend that these things are my doing. There are a lot of people who look at things and say, ‘Yeah that’s my song look how big it is, I did that’ and then when it stops they wonder why it stops, because they don’t realise that the carousel is powered by something other than you. You’re just enjoying the what? The ride.”


Cara Delevingne photographed by Tung Walsh for RUSSH #47
“I always wanted to be a superhero so I could save people and be the centre of attention. I also had this weird passion for dentistry and loved looking inside my mouth. Weird. 

When I was about eight-years-old, I was at a New Year’s Eve party with my family and lots of our friends, and Andrew Lloyd Webber was there, and everyone encouraged him to play his new melody on the piano. So he agreed and he started playing, and everyone was stunned into silence because it was so beautiful. And apparently I went and sat next to him at the piano and started smashing the piano keys.  I ruined Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beautiful piano recital.”


Courtney Love photographed by Ke Mazur for RUSSH #34.
“You can’t do the same shit you used to do… I can’t do drugs anymore… although I do drink rosé.”


Freja Beha Erichsen photographed by Benny Horne for RUSSH #58
“To unwind after a hard day’s work I like to… Have a good dinner with people I love. Right now, I’m listening to… Led Zeppelin III on the record player.”


Marilyn Monroe and Bert Stern from The Last Sitting shoot, 1962, as featured in RUSSH #50.
On Stanley Kubrick: “He’s the one who told me I should go out with a ballet dancer. He took me to Lincoln Center for the first time; we looked down on the stage from the mezzanine at the dancers. I thought ballet dancers were not for me because they didn’t talk very much, they were too quiet, and I ended up marrying one (he laughs). Actually he introduced me to all my wives!”


Kim Gordon [via Getty] as featured in RUSSH #45.
“I have that annoying habit that most women have… Trying to please. But I also have a problem with rules and authority.”


Kindness (Adam Bainbridge) photographed by Robin Bell for RUSSH #43.
“Will this article appear on the internet? I’d prefer if it didn’t.”


Miranda Kerr photographed by Hugh Lippe for RUSSH #48
Favourite Australian phrase? “She’ll be right mate.”

My dream day back at home is… “A day at the beach and a BBQ with my family.”
The best story I’ve ever heard… “My nan sang on stage for the World War II soldiers, while her mother played the piano. They sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Everyone threw roses on stage.”


Theophilus London photographed by James Nelson for RUSSH #51

“I think anything that’s God-like shouldn’t take more than five minutes. Really good songs that you write? They don’t take more than five, ten minutes to get it down.”

On Karl Lagerfeld: “Every time he opens his mouth I just want to take down notes. I was there to do a shoot for a magazine, I didn’t know we were going to collaborate together and he walked in the room. I was almost frozen, I was like WOAH! He came up to me and said ‘hey’. It was like HEY and WOAH. It took me a little while to get over it.”


Patti Smith [via Corbis Images] as featured in RUSSH #17
“I think that artists can inspire people, whether it’s Neil Young or Michael Stipe or Bob Dylan, but I think more important than that is a whole new generation who to me, are the real inspiration. They have the internet, they have ways of communicating very quickly with each other, they have potentially a very powerful voice. Artists don’t make change, people make change.

“I love art and books and nature and there’s so much to live for, so I find that I understand despair and I understand loneliness, but on the other side of that there’s so much to be joyful about so I guess we just have to strike a balance.”

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