W articles from August 2006

W archives from August 2006

Clarification.(Correction notice)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... In our May 2006 issue, in the cover story "Bosom Buddies: Meryl Streep and Lindsay Lohan Emerge as Hollywood's Hottest Odd Couple," we reported that "As for the ongoing drama with her father, Lohan acknowledges that she hasn't spoken to him,...

Karl kaput.(The Month in Fashion)(Karl Lagerfeld )(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Since selling his name to Tommy Hilfiger for an estimated $30 million in January 2005, Karl Lagerfeld has spent much time in New York working on his newest pet project--the contemporary-priced Karl Lagerfeld line that was slated for a fall...

Bergdorf's gamble.(The Month in Fashion)
August 1, 2006... Could Bergdorf Goodman be setting up shop in Las Vegas? That was the retail rumor swirling in May, though Burt Tansky, president and CEO of Bergdorf parent Neiman Marcus Group, would only say, "We are evaluating the possibility." The Neiman...

Small pleasures.(The Month in Fashion)(Marc Jacobs )(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... When Marc Jacobs introduced a selection of cashmere waffle-weave thermals for toddlers under the Little Marc label last year, he received such a phenomenal response that he quickly expanded into baby jeans and T-shirts. Those, too, were a hit,...

Bargain bonanza.(The Month in Fashion)(clothing stores launch clothing collections)
August 1, 2006... Fall will be a titillating season for budget-conscious fashionistas. Following on the heels of Karl Lagerfeld's and Isaac Mizrahi's successful collaborations with H&M and Target, respectively, Nine West revealed its own cheap-chic collections...

A touch of Callas.(Flashback)(Maria Callas)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... In the 1950s and early 1960s, Maria Callas won international acclaim portraying opera's lovelorn heroines, her voice trilling the precarious heights of their anguished arias. So it was a case of life imitating art when, in 1968, the 44-year-old...

Rising Phoenix.(Fast Forward)(Paris-based music band Phoenix)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... While many 10-year-old boys dream of rock stardom, few actually achieve it. Even fewer arrive alongside their grammar-school bandmates. "The reality is even better than the dream," says the sweetly scruffy singer Thomas Mars, 29. Back in 1986...

If the shoe fits.(Letter From the Editors)
August 1, 2006... Imelda Marcos's notorious shoe collection--which she indignantly pointed out numbered not the widely reported 3,000 pairs but a mere 1,060--may have scandalized the world, but if many fashionistas were forced to fess up, they'd admit her...

Golden girl.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
August 1, 2006... I was ecstatic to open the pages of W and see a feature article on Kate Bosworth ("Flying High," July). With her all-American beauty and elegant screen presence, she has what it takes to make it as a star. I also admire Kate for the charity...

For the record.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
August 1, 2006... The introduction to your interview with Lee Radziwill (EyeView, June) refers to Radziwill's late sister, Jacqueline Onassis, as "a Vassar grad." In fact, she left Vassar after having had a very unhappy time there, moved to Washington, D.C., and...

One-trick Pony.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
August 1, 2006... The only thing special about your photographs of Madonna (June) are the spectacular horses. I love W and look forward to its fabulous fashion shoots featuring interesting and beautiful models. But 58 pages of the Material Girl re-creating an...

Thinking globally.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
August 1, 2006... The jewelry showcased in "Jewels of the Aisle" (June) was striking, and the article itself was very informative. I enjoyed reading about the wedding ceremonies and customs of different cultures. In particular, I commend Selda Bensusan for...

Smoke and mirrors.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
August 1, 2006... I disagree wholeheartedly with the readers who complained about your recent pictures of models and celebrities smoking. Saying models and celebs have that much influence on our children is giving the youth of today too little credit. For the...

Camera ready.(UNCENSORED)(Home Box Office Inc.'s new reality show)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Two years after saying goodbye to Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw and her pals, HBO is attempting to find a few of her real-life counterparts. The network has been contacting many of New York's finest fashion girls for an as-yet-untitled...

Piece of cake.(UNCENSORED)
August 1, 2006... "Haute couture is over," proclaims Paco Rabanne. So instead of dresses, the retired designer has turned his attention toward projects he finds more relevant-and sweeter. Rabanne designed a new cake for Paris's Cafe de la Paix: a mosaic of...

Hyde and seek.(UNCENSORED)(VIP club "Hyde")(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Can one tiny club rewrite the rules of L.A. nightlife? Hyde, the new VIP-only venture from power duo Sam Nazarian and Brent Bolthouse, is giving it a shot. The 47-seat lounge, located a block east of the Chateau Marmont, is so small that it...

Neighborhood watch.(UNCENSORED)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... FOR JOHNNY DEPP, CHECK FARTHER UP THE STREET, reads a sign, in French, posted on the door of a house in an elegant neighborhood of Meudon, France. It's a deterrent to the paparazzi in this posh Paris suburb where Johnny Depp and Vanessa Paradis...

He goes to Rio.(UNCENSORED)(Matti Anttila)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Matti Anttila, a 27-year-old Amherst College graduate with a foot in his family's California real-estate business, is using his social contacts to introduce a little bit of Brazil to the rich and hollow-legged. With two business partners he's...

Language barrier.(UNCENSORED)(Jason Rhoades's latest work )(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... When Los Angeles artist Jason Rhoades's latest work comes to New York this fall, will anyone dare speak its name? The piece, a room-size installation in which Rhoades stages raucous musical happenings, has an intentionally provocative though...

House of flax: the fall collections literally glowed with warm, sumptuous gold.(Trend)
August 1, 2006... Gold is opulence and beauty. To me, it's also mystery," muses Dries Van Noten, who made ample use of the stuff in every part of his fall show. Very ample. The invitation hinted at the designer's obsession of the moment, accompanied as it was by...

All access.(Fashion Flash)
August 1, 2006... It's time to pay attention to detail because fall's accessories are anything but discreet. W reveals the season's best and or brightest, whether studded to perfection, dripping with jewels or sizzling with sequins on top. Prada's metal...

The House that Fred Built: with the sale of vintage jeweler Fred Leighton to uber collector Ralph Esmerian, a new jewelry powerhouse takes shape.(Accessories Flash)
August 1, 2006... For Ralph Esmerian, building a world-class jewelry collection would appear to come naturally. His late father, legendary gem dealer Raphael Esmerian, not only supplied stones to Boucheron and Van Cleef & Arpels, but he personally amassed one of...

Saddle up: the horsey set rides again with plenty of chic fare.(Shopping)
August 1, 2006... Bottega Veneta Wool hat,, $550; bottegaveneta.com Mulberry Sheepskin and leather jacket, $3,795, to order; mulberry.tom Demner Enamel 18k gold sapphire and diamond brooch, $7,700, at Demner, New York Ralph Lauren Cashmere coat,...

Fresh from the lab: welcome to Le Labo, where the scents never, ever sit on the shelf.(Beauty Flash)(perfume store)
August 1, 2006... At Le Labo, a tiny storefront nestled in New York's NoLIta district, the walls are lined with antique tin, and Serge Gainsbourg is playing on the stereo. The tables are adorned with glass bottles, and there's a long bar along one wall. Upon...

Cutting loose: more and more top hairstylists are giving up big salon life for the freedom of working from home--and their clients couldn't be happier.(Beauty Flash)
August 1, 2006... One day this past winter, when the usual well-kept women teetered into New York's Werren-Tricomi salon, they encountered a gaggle of production assistants and a flock of microphones. If any of them had hopes of relaxing in the Moroccan-style...

What a mouthful.(Beauty Buzz: Jane Larkworthy shares the latest news in looking good)(lip injections lead to teeth lengthening)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Some people who've indulged in lip injectables such as collagen or Restylane are finding that their new pillowy pouts are out of proportion with their front teeth. "I'm seeing more and more patients asking to have their teeth lengthened to...

Sleeper hit.(Beauty Buzz: Jane Larkworthy shares the latest news in looking good)
August 1, 2006... When it was introduced 25 years ago, Estee Lauder's Night Repair (in the iconic little brown bottle) became the must-have antiaging serum on the market. Later, the company rolled out an improved version, Advanced Night Repair. Now there's...

Vacation package.(Beauty Buzz: Jane Larkworthy shares the latest news in looking good)
August 1, 2006... Oh, the many pitfalls of travel--lost luggage, high gas prices, food poisoning, jet lag. Fortunately, one company has at least the beauty crises covered. A suitcase-friendly kit from new company By142 contains six items that address skin...

Dance-off!(Beauty Buzz: Jane Larkworthy shares the latest news in looking good)
August 1, 2006... When the legendary dance-inspired Lotte Berk Method studio shuttered its lair on New York's Upper East Side last spring, many clients sashayed over to Exhale spa, where former Berk instructors had created the Berk-based Core Fusion. Now comes...

A step toward world peace?(Beauty Buzz: Jane Larkworthy shares the latest news in looking good)
August 1, 2006... The spas at the Mandarin Oriental hotels have become a veritable United Nations of beauty. A new range of body scrub treatments--called Taste of Traditions--employs oils and creams from the skincare company Comfort Zone that draw from the...

Hay fever: every May, a small town in Wales (pop. 1,500) hosts the rowdiest star-studded literary bash in the world.(Travel Flash)
August 1, 2006... Seamus Heaney, rock star? There are only a handful of places where a 67-year-old Nobd Prize-winning poet in desperate need of a haircut can get the hero worship he deserves, and the Guardian Hay Festival is at the top of that list. In...

Coming to America: London's saltiest star chef, Gordon Ramsay, aims for New York.(Going Out)
August 1, 2006... The biggest hurdle facing British chef Gordon Ramsay as he readies his first New York restaurant this fall won't be the rival cooks who have taken to anonymously e-mailing him threatening missives. Nor will it be trying to secure the perfect...

Taste test: designers and architects respond to those age-old questions: what's in ... and what's out?(Home Flash)
August 1, 2006... Victoria Hagan, New York WHAT'S IN: "Francisco Costa at Calvin Klein had these very graphic, large-scale patterns for spring. That translates over to interiors." WHAT'S OUT: "This return to old-Hollywood glamour. Shiny black...

American idols.(fashion industry gatherings)
August 1, 2006... Luminaries of American fashion and the big screen tried to keep their cool as they piled into the New York Public Library for the 2006 Council of Fashion Designers of America awards. Inside the hallowed rooms, temperatures were high--literally...

The Iceman cometh: Norwegian adventurer Erling Kagge steps in from the cold.(EYE)
August 1, 2006... According to the Bible, Adam and Eve were banished from the garden. "Or just possibly," adventurer Erling Kagge proposes in his newly translated book Philosophy for Polar Explorers (Pushkin Press), "they left of their own free will because they...

Ladies in waiting: do William's and Harry's girlfriends have what it takes to be royals?(EYE)(girlfriends of Princes of the United Kingdom, Kate Middleton and Chelsy Davy)
August 1, 2006... With all that went on afterward, it's easy to forget that when Prince Charles wed Lady Diana, she was the royal family's dream bride. The shy, 20-year-old daughter of one of England's oldest families, Diana Spencer had no higher education, zero...

Eat drink man woman.(EYE)
August 1, 2006... The fashion crowd loves to christen new eateries with elaborate fetes, and the opening of Mr. Chow in New York's TriBeCa was no exception. Chanel hosted a dinner there that drew Robert De Niro, Julian Schnabel and Lou Reed. Mia Maestro and Josh...

Back in a snap: in her new photo book, a princess captures a history of the jetset.(EYE)
August 1, 2006... Princess Marianne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn is an honest-to-goodness character. Tall and stately, she bustles through her pied-a-terre in Munich, Germany, a modest place decorated with silk flowers, an imposing portrait of Empress Maria Theresa...

See it.(Film)(Quinceanera)(Movie review)
August 1, 2006... [QUINCEANERA] A warm, picante tang of authentic local flavor suffuses Quinceanera, a delightful movie from writer-directors Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmorland. (Indie hero Todd Haynes is executive producer.) The film is set in the Latino...

Skip it.(Factotum)(Movie review)
August 1, 2006... [FACTOTUM] Film as a medium favors action, which is just one reason that writing and drinking, the two main pursuits of Matt Dillon's latest character, Henry Chinaski, make for such dull and disagreeable moviegoing in Factotum, written and...

Stage politics.(Theater)(Sir David Frost's legendary interview with Richard Nixon)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Sir David Frost's legendary interview with Richard Nixon, televised in 1977, gave America one of its most enduring impressions of the disgraced former president. But few remember that Frost was facing his own career crisis at the time and that...

Fowl play.(DVD)
August 1, 2006... Make way for (gay) ducklings! Four years after the final installment of the cult Showtime cartoon Queer Duck the fabulously feathered hero returns (along with his crocodile boyfriend, Openly Gaytor) in a hilarious new feature DVD.

Yo, Adrian, pass the geritol!(FIRST LOOK)(Rocky Balboa movie)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... IF YOU THOUGHT THE ODDS H/ERE STACKED AGAINST ROCKY DURING HIS FIRST ONSCREEN CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT IN 1976, IMAGINE HOW TOUGH IT'LL BE IN THE RING 30 YEARS LATER BUT THAT'S NOT STOPPING SYLVESTER STALLONE FROM DIRECTING HIMSELF IN THE SERIES'...

A moveable feast.
August 1, 2006... From Natalia Vodianova showing an hourglass shape in corsets to artist Not Vital's extraordinary dwellings in the Swiss Alps, this issue is nothing if not visually arresting. And that's the idea. The "Call of the Wild" feature is intended to...

Call of the wild: slightly sinister, the racy new corsets are ideal for Natalia Vodianova's dangerous curves.
August 1, 2006... Alexander McQueen headpiece. Maggie Norris Couture's beige cotton corset, at Bergdorf Goodman, New York; Maggie Norris Couture, New York, maggienorris couture.com. Yohji Yamamoto gloves. Viktor & Rolf's silver-dipped silk corset, to...

City Slickers: talk about high gloss. The must-have accessories of the moment star bold shapes and lacquered surfaces.
August 1, 2006... Anna Molinari's patent-leather shoes, by Rosella Tarabini, at Anna Molinari, Milan; House of Harlot's latex stockings, at House of Harlot, London, house-of-harlot-com. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Giorgio Armani's silk satin bag, at Giorgio...

Be bold: uptown girls show a little luxe eccentricity, going in for geometrically patterned coats and wild hats.
August 1, 2006... Louis Vuitton's red and black silk dress and scarf, at Louis Vuitton, 866. VUITTON louisvuitton.com. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [this page] Balenciaga's beige and black brushed-wool jacket and skirt and gray silk and black wool pique...

Vital Signs: in a remote Swiss valley where his family has lived for centuries, iconoclastic artist not vital has created a new world of startling beauty.(PROFILE)
August 1, 2006... LIKE A MODERN-DAY WIZARD, NOT VITAL PRESIDES OVER an enchanted, wintry world. The Narnia he has created is a collection of astonishing properties nestled within the remote heights of Switzerland s Engadine Valley. Isolated for millenia by...

Golden Gosling: thanks to the notebook women swoon at the mention of his name, but Ryan Gosling wants nothing to do with Hunkdom. Instead, he's working on--and succeeding at--becoming the best actor of his generation.
August 1, 2006... "IS IT TOO EARLY FOR A MILKSHAKE?" ASKS ACTOR RYAN GOSLING AS HE SLIDES ONTO A COUNTER STOOL AT HIS FAVORITE greasy spoon in Manhattan. It's just 10 a.m. on an overcast Saturday--for most New Yorkers, too early for anything but a cup of...

Louise's Paris match: bored with bland American culture, the countess alights on the City of Light, where they're feuding over flowers and fish eggs.(Last Laugh)
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