No. 11October 2026Priceless
Inside the
Rise of
the Undead
This Season's
Must-Have:
An Alibi
11 Looks to Die For
The Guest List, Vetted
31 OCT
The Invitation

Eleven years of
this nonsense

“Look in the mirror before you leave, and take one thing off. A glove. A ring. A face.”

— after Coco Chanel

Somewhere below street level, the presses are running again. They run one night a year, printing a magazine no newsstand will carry: HELLE, the journal of record for the fashionable dead. Its editors never sleep, its models never age, and its October Issue always closes the same way — with a party, and with you in it.

The brief is elegance first, horror in the details. Come as couture's answer to the undead — a widow on her second act, a vampire between castings, an heiress recently deceased — or take anything glamorous and let one thing go beautifully wrong. Full editorial guidance under The Looks.

Beneath the gloss, the occasion is the usual one: eleven years now of celebrating Halloween and my birthday in a single costume, and I'd love nothing more than to see you in the pages. The room votes on the night — The Cover Star, The Avant-Garde, The Method — and the issue closes 28 October. Confirm below.

Issue date
Sat 31 October, 8pm
Address
Wolfhound on Brunswick
386-388 Brunswick St, Fitzroy — tap for directions.
Food & drinks
The bar's affair, not BYO
The bar pours all night. The kitchen offers a little; Brunswick Street provides the rest.
Dress
Red Carpet Gala from Hell
Contents
Issue XI
Department · The Guest List

Confirm your attendance

Two questions and a favour. The editors will be watching.

Arriving with an entourage of
1
One companion.
RSVP closes 28 October, or when the room is full.
Confirmed
Department · The Looks

11 Looks
to Die For

The house does not enforce a dress code. It simply keeps a record of who understood the assignment.

“If you can dance in it, you have not committed.”
— The Editors
Department · The Details

Masthead & House Rules

Issue date
Saturday, 31 October
Doors
8pm until it ends
Arrive before 11pm if you wish to be photographed.
Address
Wolfhound on Brunswick
386-388 Brunswick St, Fitzroy VIC 3065 — tap for directions.
House rules
I
A concept is encouraged to the point of legend, never required. The editors would rather have you out of costume than out of the room. Precedents, for the ambitious: ten years of evidence.
II
Your entourage is pre-approved. A friend, a partner, ten strangers in matching veils — the list stretches.
III
Photographs are taken all night and published without mercy. Arrive prepared to be documented.
IV
The bar is the venue's — order freely, all night. The kitchen is modest; Brunswick Street is not.
Editor-in-chief Gus Jacquier
Photography Gus Jacquier
Model Lars Wannop
Printed once a year, in the dark
An XXXI production · No. 11
Live · The Awards

Now playing
at HELLE

One vote per category — tap a portrait to cast it. Change your mind as often as the night allows.

One · Choose a category
0 of 3 cast
Two · Tap a guest
your look
Enter yourself for the awards
Optional. Add a photo of your look and you join the ballot; skip it and nobody votes on you.
Your ballot
No selections yet. Three categories await you.
Nobody sees who you picked — not the room, not the nominees. Only totals, and only once the polls shut.
The AwardsPublished live on the night

The
Winners

Counted from the ballots cast in the room. Announced aloud first, published here a minute later.

Night shots stand in until the photographer delivers · each plate swaps for the final frame
Letter from the editors

Thank you for
the spectacle

Ninety-one of you came dressed as your worst impulse. The floor held. One veil did not. We have the photographs, and we are not returning them.

See you next October, under a different name.

The Album · Photographs to Follow
An XXXI production · No. 11