Writer & Communications Consultant. Australia-based, working globally.
About
Hilary Bourke is an Australian writer and communications consultant working across fashion, design, and brand-led businesses.
Her practice spans brand storytelling, editorial, and strategic communications — helping brands develop language that feels confident, considered, and distinctly their own. She works fluidly between commercial and long-form contexts, bringing a narrative sensibility to brand language and communications.
Hilary has contributed to publications including i-D, What-Else, and Union Magazine, and has held roles such as Features Editor at LOVE WANT and Lead Copywriter at David Jones.
Today, she collaborates with brands, studios, and agencies on projects ranging from brand voice development and campaign copy to essays and features writing.
Collaborators
Chanel, Gucci, Base Design, i-D, LOVE WANT, David Jones, Union Magazine, ESSĒN, Henne, Belle Anna, DIRT, and more.
Editorial
Union Magazine: Formafantasma on memory, meaning and making home
What-Else: Born to do it: Elliot Cowen on modelling, his mother and what the future holds
What-Else: Kim Russell of @thekimbino on the fashion industry, her following and finding motivation
LOVE WANT: Rebirth with Gemma Ward, Issue 22
LOVE WANT: Closer to me, Issue 21
LOVE WANT: We are family, Issue 16
LOVE WANT: What remains with Mariah Parker, Issue 15
LOVE WANT: Age appropriate, Issue 13
i-D: Anandia Putri makes modest wear about fashion, not politics
i-D: Tear_net and the value of the crying selfies
i-D: Par Femme might be the internet’s most fashionable sex shop
i-D: Post-punk, high art and social critique: the makings of Mike Kelley
I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands and waters across Australia, where much of my work takes place, and pay respect to Elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded.