W articles from August 2002

W archives from August 2002

The month in fashion: if Donatella Versace's pushing realism, will it ruin the fantasy for everyone else? (News).
August 1, 2002... Designers come out swinging with collections both pugilistic and profane. Plus, a battle to become fashion's new captain of the high seas. * DONATELLA, THE MAGAZINE Donatella Versace is used to being defined by others. Even "Saturday...

The anniversary issue thirty something. (Letter From the Editors).
August 1, 2002... Perhaps it would have been easier to do what most 29-year-aids do when they see their next big birthday on the horizon: mention it to no one and pray that it passes unnoticed. But W has never been known for taking the dull or predictable path,...

Letters.
August 1, 2002... Readers React Star Crossed Your cover photo and story of Tom Cruise (July) were as boring as his recent movies. Do you remember what fashion-model covers look like? Tom Cruise is completely full of himself, and I'm sick of being...

Snap judgment. (Uncensored).
August 1, 2002... Who are the masters of color photography? William Eggleston, Andreas Gursky and...john Hinde? The late Hinde was a commercial photographer whose snaps from the Fifties and Sixties have been printed on 50 million postcards worldwide. According...

Vivienne and Verdi. (Uncensored).
August 1, 2002... Known for her whimsical, colorful fashions, British designer Vivienne Westwood finally has the perfect outlet for her dramatic designs: the opera house. A small theater outside the Italian city of Parma has tapped Westwood to design the...

Going native. (Uncensored).
August 1, 2002... L.A. fashionistas in search of south-of-the-border chic have been skipping pricy venues recently and heading directly to the source. Socialites like Jacqui Getty, Tracee Ellis Ross and Kirsty Hume have been sighted hunting down traditional...

Dancing queen. (Uncensored).
August 1, 2002... Nicole Kidman may have more in common with her Moulin Rouge character, Satine, than anyone suspected. The flame-haired Oscar nominee has been dancing up a storm all summer at club promoter Ivan Kane's tiny, racy new Hollywood boite Forty...

Food for thought. (Uncensored).
August 1, 2002... Nan Kempner's diet secrets are finally out. In "The Obvious Diet: You Personal Way to Lose Weight Fat-Without Changing Your Lifestyle" (Arcade), written by literary agent Ed Victor, the svelte socialite is among a handful of Victor's pals who...

Putting on the Hyatt. (Uncensored).
August 1, 2002... The name Hyatt is more closely associated with convenient airport access than world-class luxury, but this month, the company opens the Park Hyatt Vendome, the first new five-star "palace" in Paris since the George V opened in 1927. Ed Tuttle...

Interior motives. (Uncensored).
August 1, 2002... Does Rita Konig have designs on her mother Nina Campbell's interior decorating business? Next month, the 28-year-old Konig is coming out with a book, Domestic Bliss, about living in style on a lean budget. Konig suggests adding splashes of...

Palace chic. (Uncensored).
August 1, 2002... Prince Charles is moving into a new palace in London--but this one's a real fixer-upper. Clarence House, the former home of Charles' late grandmother, needs about $5 million of government-funded redecorating, since the Queen Mother hadn't spent...

Name that Spoon. (Uncensored).
August 1, 2002... Is Alain Ducasse slowly morphing into the jet set's Ray A. Kroc? His chain of Spoon restaurants has already spread from Paris to London, Mauritius and Saint-Tropez. This winter, sources say, the resort town of Gstaad will get its own outpost....

Bull market. (Uncensored).
August 1, 2002... Carolina Herrera Jr. is learning to run with the bulls--literally. Herrera, the stunning daughter of the Venezuelan-born designer, has been trying her hand at filmmaking in Spain: Along with director friend Victoria Clay (whose father was a...

Steamroller Stella. (Uncensored).
August 1, 2002... Designer Stella McCartney has just won approval from the Kensington and Chelsea council to do a major renovation on the 100-year-old church she bought near the Portobello Road. McCartney plans to transform the space into a shop and office. "To...

Pop stars. (Eye).
August 1, 2002... "I love Cannes because it's like the old days," said Joan Rivers, who was camped out at the Cannes Film Festival. "Half of the people look amazing and half of them just look like asses." Milla Jovovich, dubbed the queen of the festival by the...

Grape expectations. (Eye).
August 1, 2002... Taking his cue from Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Lynne, co-chairman of New Line Cinema and the owner of Bedell Cellars in Cutchogue, Long Island, says filmmaking and winemaking are simpatico. "Both allow creativity to flourish," he says, "but...

Making good: Zooey Deschanel, the daughter of a famed Hollyood cinematographer, is ready for her close-up. (Eye).
August 1, 2002... Movie star seems like the wrong occupation for Zooey Deschanel. Sitting up Emily Post-straight amid the blue and white Ming-style vases of Beverly Hills' La Conversation Bakery, dressed in a red trenchcoat with her cap of butterscotch-colored...

Grecian formula. (Eye).
August 1, 2002... "Nobody's allowed to take a picture of Pavlos in a toga," Rena Sindi announced at Diane Von Furstenberg's studio, the site of the last theme party for Sindi's upcoming book--thrown, appropriately, with the help of bubbly purveyor Taittinger. As...

Odd man in: audiences have Joaquin Phoenix peggy as deeply weird and lacking in humor. They're half wrong. (Eye).
August 1, 2002... Maybe I am the weird one," muses Joaquin Phoenix, sucking on a cigarette outside a TriBeCa cafe. "I don't know...." The way he sees it, somebody's got to be weird. It's either him or us--the rest of the world-and the bulk of the evidence...

Curtain call. (Eye).
August 1, 2002... She may not be the theater critics' darling, but Madonna is certainly the most popular girl in London. About 600 guests, including Tom Ford, Donatella Versace, Stella McCartney, Valentino and Jimmy Choo, squeezed into the St. Martin's Lane...

King of the sea. (Eye).
August 1, 2002... Caviar may be the one luxury good that's not synonymous with France. But with Pierre Berge at the helm of Prunier, the Parisian restaurant that serves caviar of all provenances (including eggs from Berge's own farm that rival the prestigious...

Angela's artworks: a new museum reflects a lifetime of close relationships with the 20th century's greatest artists. (Eye).
August 1, 2002... Anuschka Blommers Niels Schumm When Angela Rosengart stares with fresh wonder at an early Picasso drawing hanging on a museum wall, she looks like any cultivated pensioner on an outing to an exhibition. It just so happens, though,...

Circuit city. (Eye).
August 1, 2002... In the last weeks before New York's fete set split for the far corners of the earth, Salma Hayek hit Sotheby's for an auction of Latin American art, Lil' Kim turned up at the opening of Chanel's new jewelry store, and 600 of the city's...

Critical eye: model behavior...Manchester mania...and folk songs to die for. (Reviews).
August 1, 2002... BOOKS You know you're in trouble when John Belushi is giving you major life advice...and he's right. "You need to work on the dynamic, babe," he told model Janice Dickinson--the hard-partying, pillow-lipped brunette who shook up the scene...

Fantastic voyage: Donna Karan drew on jouneys both physical and spiritual to create her newest fragrance. (Beauty Flash).
August 1, 2002... As Donna Karan settles down at a conference table in her New York flagship store, she struggles slightly with a cane, which has recently replaced the crutches she referred to as her "chopsticks." She acquired the chopsticks on her first foray...

Miss understood: Amazed and appalled, one neophyte judge searches for beauty at the Miss Universe pageant.
August 1, 2002... Many astronomers believe that somewhere out in the twinkling darkness, there are universes apart from ours that teem with microscopic organisms, or little green people, or terrifying machines. As unsettling as such notions are, we can take some...

Unisex deluxe: at New York's newest Ritz-Canton, W's spa-going duo discovers that luxury plays no favorites. (Beauty Flash).
August 1, 2002... Nestled up against Central Park is the latest addition to New York's swanky-hotel zip code: the Ritz-Canton, which opened in May. The Ritz is one of the classic purveyors of luxurious accommodations, so it's fitting that--in this era of...

The best in day spas and skin care salons. (Advertisement).
August 1, 2002... East Coast: Elizabeth Grady Skin Care Salons 1-800-FACIALS 30 salons in 5 states: MA, CT, NH, RI & NY website: www.elizabethgrady.com "Where Beauty Meets Medicine[TM]" -- John P Walsh, President Elizabeth Grady skin-care products...

The Blass ceiling: getting close to Bill Blass meant accepting an embrace at arm's length. (Fashion Flash).
August 1, 2002... Last Christmas, a package arrived at Bill Blass' Connecticut estate from Shelby Marcus, the Texan daughter-in-law of Neiman Marcus founder Herbert Marcus. It was a basketful of stones, each inscribed with a message--Love, Success, Hope, Carpe...

Personal shopper. (Reader Service).
August 1, 2002... Need answers to your where-to-buy, what-to-wear or where-to-go in August questions? Contact me, W's Personal Shopper, at WPersonalShopper.com or call 1.800.428.1151. August -- that stress-free, relaxed month perfect for dinner parties...

Fashion front: to keep or not to keep--that's the dilemma for those with a fashion passion. Some are serious hoarders, while others find it easy to divest. (Fashion Flash).
August 1, 2002... That Juliet knew what she was talking about: Parting is such sweet sorrow--at least when it comes to clothes. Why else would we hang on to our designer lovelies long after time, trend and, all too often, dress size have transformed them into...

Lapis dance: the newest semiprecious stone to hit the fashion limelight is also one of the most venerable. (Accessories Flash).
August 1, 2002... In ancient Egypt, lapis lazuli was considered a magical stone," says jeweler Tito Pedrini, noting that gods were imagined to have lapis hair and beards to contrast with their golden bodies. In Tutankhamen's sarcophagus, circa 1336 BC, for...

Campion out. (Back to the Future).
August 1, 2002... Noted interior architect Campion Platt, whose celebrity clients have included Meg Ryan and Al Pacino, has launched his own furniture line, and he plans to bring it to the Campion showroom, in New York's SoHo, opening early next year. The...

Down East. (Back to the Future).
August 1, 2002... New York's Lower East Side isn't the first place you'd think to look for high-end antiques. But that's where Todd Merrill, Christie's former director of public relations, has chosen to set up shop, just down the street from Katz's...

Groovy chic. (Back to the Future).
August 1, 2002... The latest additions to Versace's home collection carry on the traditions of psychedelic color combinations and graphic exuberance that are the house's signature style. The new offerings, scheduled to debut this fall, include a china dinner...

Pushing boundaries. (Back to the Future).
August 1, 2002... After six years at the center of New York's SoHo Contemporary Art scene, the Lehmann Maupin Gallery is on the move. The gallery's new, larger site, in Chelsea, was designed by Rem Koolhaas and is scheduled to open September 21 with a Tracey...

Patio paradise. (Back to the Future).
August 1, 2002... The luxury-fabrics specialists at Scalamandre, usually associated with exquisite interiors, have created a new outdoor collection inspired by the islands. Named after such destinations as Guadeloupe, Antigua and the Seychelles, the fabrics will...

Time and again. (August).
August 1, 2002... Sure, our 11 cover girls look great in iconic looks from the past three decades, but on the following pages, dressed in clothes from the fall 2002 collections, they're no slouches, either. From the delicate, waifish Kate Moss to the Brazilian...

NaomiKatePattiGiseleNatalialmanClaudiaShalomCindyChristyStephanie.
August 1, 2002... Ten card-carrying members and one promising pledge to that most lampooned and envied of exclusive sororities, the Supermodel Set. Its a breed mocked far and wide, from the stage of the Oscars to "Saturday Night Live." Shalom Harlow even engaged...

Junior league: music class at 11... benefits screening at 4... then dinner with Shrekat the Plaza. For New York's children of privilege the fun never ever stop. (Profile).
August 1, 2002... Jennifer Livingston It's so heavy I can't pick it up!" groans five-year-old Serena Bancroft, hefting an overloaded shopping bag toward a waiting car idling just outside FAO Schwarz's Madison Avenue exit. It's a crisp evening in early...

Reflections: it's a shining moment in fashion, with sequined tops, satin dresses and sleek leggings.
August 1, 2002... Stella McCartney's embroidered silver cotton and silk jacket, at Neiman Marcus, Los Angeles; Bergdorf Goodman and Bagutta, New York; Demask's black rubber leggings, at Demask, New York. Roberto Cavalli's multicolored silk patchwork jacket,...

The age of Ralph: no other designer has created quite as complete a world. And, after three and a half decades, Ralph Lauron still has the vision thing in spadis. (Profile).
August 1, 2002... Whether despite its dramatically scaled-down size or because of it, this year's awards gala tossed by the Council of Fashion Designers of America in June was the most highly anticipated in years. Related party invitations that flooded fashiony...

Lady Lynn: when she remarried, New Jersey-born ceo Lynn Forester acquired a new title. But as Lady de Rothschild, she's still got the old entrepreneurial zeal.
August 1, 2002... Will the real Lynn Forester de Rothschild please stand up? A pretty blonde with flawless skin who looks younger than her 48 years, she radiates a bubbly charm that might make you think she's a miraculously preserved cheerleader, or frankly, a...

Moments.
August 1, 2002... THE ANNIVERSARY ISSUE THIRTY YEARS Don't trust anyone over 30--at least, that's what the counterculture used to say, right around the time when W first hit the nation's newsstands in 1972. In those early days, W was just an inky...

Horoscope. (Astrology).
August 1, 2002... Leo July 23--August 22 The first of August begins a yearlong cycle of growth and opportunity Initially some of what accompanies the arrival of the bountiful Jupiter in Leo isn't exactly welcome. But progress frequently involves letting go...