W articles from February 2006

W archives from February 2006

Anglo philo.(The month in Fashion)
February 1, 2006... Beat February's chills with heartwarming toddler clothes, a fashionable night at the theater and a shopping trip to the Far East. In mid-November, the fashion industry collectively gasped when rumors surfaced that Chloe's creative director,...

Eastern exposure.(The month in Fashion)(Hong Kong, a shopping destination)(Brief article)
February 1, 2006... Home to legendary tailors, Hong Kong has long been a shopping destination for those in search of custom-made finery. These days, however, the city appears to be experiencing a designer ready-to-wear boom, with an influx of flagships to rival...

Little Gio.(The month in Fashion)(Giorgio Armani plans to bring his new collection)(Brief article)
February 1, 2006... In November Giorgio Armani unveiled plans to bring a touch of beige to the land of pale pink and powder blue with his newest collection, Armani Baby The line targets fashion-conscious infants to four-year-olds with clothing and accessories in...

Regards to Broadway.(News)
February 1, 2006... Isaac Mizrahi might just be the busiest man in the fashion industry. On top of his talk show on the Style network, his more than successful line for Target and the small made-to-order business he runs out of Bergdorf Goodman, the designer and...

Sure Bette.(Flashback)(Brief article)
February 1, 2006... Even in the twilight of her career, when she was working alongside younger, firmer, fresher-faced actresses, Bette Davis was the star of any production in which she was cast. Her secret: a legendary sense of self-confidence. In October...

The soprano.(Fast Forward)
February 1, 2006... The first time Isabel Bayrakdarian heard an opera, she was 17 years old. That night, snuggled into her seat in the audience of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, she had a revelation. "I thought, I could be there," says the 31-year-old...

Grade A.(Letter From the Editors)(Editorial)
February 1, 2006... February Serf-parody has always come in two distinct flavors: There's the unintentional, end-of-career lapse from a creative genius like Hemingway, Monet or Pacino. Then there's the winking, deliciously knowing satire that has come out of...

School spirit.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2006... Thank you for your lively photo shoot of Penn State and its students ("Penn State," January). Penn State is typically known for its football, but your extensive portfolio captured its diverse student body and kinetic atmosphere vividly. My only...

Domestic dispute.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2006... It's ridiculous that colleagues of Michael Smith regard the decorator's work as "Crate & Barrel for billionaires" ("The House Whisperer," November). While I've never met Mr. Smith, I have seen a great deal of his interiors and they are beyond...

Ford fanatic.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2006... When I saw the Tom Ford profile ("Fordbidden," November), all I could think was, Wow! The Q & A session with the designer was wonderful, and Steven Klein's photos were absolutely incredible. In my opinion, the pictures totally surpassed Klein's...

The beat goes on.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2006... Your November issue was superb. I especially enjoyed the article about legendary music impresario Quincy Jones ("Keeping Up With Jones"). It's great to know that, at 72, Quincy is still at it. The photo of him pawing at this year's MTV Video...

Velvet-rope rage.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2006... Your article about L.A. club owner Amanda Scheer Demme ("Making the List," December) shows just how much you are willing to pander to Hollywood's so-called elite. You should be ashamed for honestly thinking your readers care about who Ms. Demme...

Sole man.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2006... I really enjoyed reading your recent article about the shoe designer Kenneth Cole ("The Causes of Kenneth Cole," November). I have always admired the way in which he uses his company's advertising as a platform to address serious social...

Allied front.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2006... I disagree with the letter writer who complained in December's Readers React about W's growing "inane obsession" with celebrities. Fashion and Hollywood have always gone hand in hand--now more so than ever. Top labels like Louis Vuitton,...

New love.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
February 1, 2006... Having subscribed to W without knowing much about it, I was delighted by the big, glossy, full-on fashion magazine that arrived in my mailbox, The articles are well written and thoughtful. The photography, exceptional. I particularly enjoyed...

Sample size.(UNCENSORED)
February 1, 2006... In the new movie Friends With Money, which opens this year's Sundance Film Festival, Jennifer Aniston's character, the only singleton among her rich, married friends, offers a technique for scoring expensive beauty products when you can't quite...

Mummy's Mars bars.(UNCENSORED)(Brief article)
February 1, 2006... Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, is becoming known for her fuss-free approach to royal life, and her contribution to a recent charity cookbook is no exception. Camilla's recipe for a Mars Fridge Cake consists of diced Mars bars combined with...

Arts and letters.(UNCENSORED)
February 1, 2006... They my net exactly be starving, but artists Grayson Perry and Tracey Emin are moonlighting as weekly contributors to two British newspapers. In his column for The Times, Perry, a married transvestite potter who depicts death and child abuse in...

Secret ingredients.(UNCENSORED)
February 1, 2006... As any good cook knows, a tasty dish needs a little spice. That's the idea behind Hollywood Dish, a gossipy health-food cookbook from Los Angeles private chef Akasha Richmond, whose celebrity clientele ranges from Barbra Streisand to Balthazar...

Ice Palace.(UNCENSORED)(Plaza Athenes)(Brief article)
February 1, 2006... The very chic Plaza Athenes hotel in Paris has come up with a cool way to please its guests this winter, stocking eighty pairs of ice skates and freezing over a central courtyard to create a rink, which will remain open through the...

Fashion advertising.(UNCENSORED)
February 1, 2006... A Cadillac at the couture? That's the concept behind an ad for the newly redesigned 2007 Escalade. The spot, which will debut during the Super Bowl, shows the flashy SUV on the runway as a model stomps down the catwalk in a look by costume...

The loved coat: this spring the trench comes in more than the proverbial 31 flavors. Sorry, no free samples.(trench coats)
February 1, 2006... I'm trench obsessive," Michael Kors says in his trademark deadpan way. "It's like great pizza or the perfect hamburger. You think, I couldn't find a better hamburger than this one, and all of a sudden you have one and it's like, This is a whole...

Juicy goes couture: Juicy Coutures upscale Couture Couture line brings hand-sewn details to the tracksuit set.(Fashion Flash)
February 1, 2006... The Juicy girls are not laughing and, as any Juicy Couture aficionada knows, Juicy girls love to laugh. It's a Monday night in Los Angeles and Juicy Couture founders Gela Nash-Taylor and Pam Skaist-Levy, the brand geniuses who made velour...

Portrait of a lady: artist Alex Katz faces his latest subject--Christy Turlington Burns--for a Nuala ad campaign.(Fashion Flash)
February 1, 2006... Fashion ads straddle a myriad of themes, be it sex, androgyny, glamour, haughtiness, insouciance. Images of tangled nubile limbs, honeyed expanses of flesh, sultry gazes from beneath kohl-rimmed eyes prevail. But artist Alex Katz finds it all...

In memoriam: Kal Ruttenstein was a larger-than-life figure with an enormous passion for fashion.(Fashion Flash)
February 1, 2006... In fashion, designers and models make the most obvious superstars--the Calvins and Kates, the Giorgios and Giseles renowned the world over. But fashion, at its core a small, insular, even intimate universe, also produces rare superstars of...

Rocky road: Balenciaga hits its stride with forward-thinking, even futuristic, footwear.(Accessories Flash)
February 1, 2006... Had Barbarella gone shoe shopping, her search would have ended here. Nicolas Ghesquiere has taken space-age style to the height of chic with what is sure to shape up as the iconic shoe of the season. For Balenciaga's Meteorite sandal, he worked...

Defying gravity: new tourbillon watches are for those eager to mind the hands of time.(Accessories Flash)(Brief article)
February 1, 2006... For most of the world, telling time is a battery-operated affair. But for the rarefied ranks of collectors and horologists, only a mechanical watch will do. And at the apex of the category lies the tourbillon, a mechanism straight out of a...

Family affair.(Beauty Buzz)
February 1, 2006... When Celine Ellena says she inherited her dad's nose, she's not talking" about a bump on the bridge or an upturned tip. Her father, famed perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena, is the man behind such best-selling scents as Bulgari Eau Parfumee and First...

Naked ambition.(Beauty Buzz)
February 1, 2006... Among well-kept Manhattan ladies, Botox injections and Thermage sessions are nothing to be ashamed of. Removing mustaches and lasering off mannish sideburns? That's another story. "These women are so scared of bumping into their friends," says...

Catching the bouquet.(Beauty Buzz)
February 1, 2006... What does love smell like? According to Jonathan Ward, the flagrance auteur behind the Rave de Vivre line of scented candles, the answer is a wedding bouquet. Ward's newest collection, he says, "pays homage to beautiful women and the...

Heal the burn.(Beauty Buzz)
February 1, 2006... Someday soon, DNA damage from sunburn may be reversible with a lotion. Dimericine, a cream that speeds up repair of shattered DNA in skin cells, is now in the clinical trial phase of the FDA approval process. Created by biologist Daniel B....

Knead to know.(Beauty Buzz)
February 1, 2006... Anglophile beauty buffs will be pleased as punch that the Elemis spa and skincare line, long a favorite of posh Brits, is finally being sold on our shores. Previously available only at the brand's eponymous London day spa and a handful of...

Stone age: sassier and more honest than ever, Sharon Stone is now the face of Dior's new skincare line.(Beauty Flash)
February 1, 2006... Sharon Stone is many things: outspoken, fiercely passionate about her charity work and, on occasion, wildly intuitive about fashion. She is also beautiful. And with her modern-day Grace Kelly looks, the 47-year-old actress continues to get...

Circuit cities.(analysis of social life)(Brief article)
February 1, 2006... These days in New York, party-going (and big spending) starts at an early age. At a shopping event at Hogan's SoHo store, Ashley Olsen lugged a Birkin big enough to tote a new pair of boots and her twin, Mary-Kate, while other...

Sex in the boardroom: instead of a business memoir, tycoon Tom Perkins has penned a racy romp.(works of Tom Perkins)
February 1, 2006... Tom Perkins is a 73-year-old business titan who cofounded one of the world's most prominent venture capital funds; a yachtsman who has won, he says, "everything on the classic racing circuit"; an amateur physicist who changed the way that...

Grey days: Big Edie and Little Edie toe-tap their way to the stage in a new musical.(EYE)
February 1, 2006... Despite their recent surge in popularity, documentaries don't regularly inspire cultlike devotion or the runway collections of fashion designers such as Peter Sore and John Bartlett, let alone an actual off-Broadway musical. But Grey Gardens,...

Life at the bar: Eddie Hayes, the tough-talking attorney to New York's bigwigs, spills the beans on his past and his clients in a new tell-all.(EYE)
February 1, 2006... If refined understatement and a sense of serenity are what you're after in a lawyer, Edward Hayes is probably not your guy. For one thing, there's his manner of speaking. He drops his r's ("undastand?), conjoins his words ("I gottanotha...

The A-list: a new guard is taking over in Hollywood (and not a moment too soon): There's one hungry studio chief, one preteen megastar and a fresh crew of rappers-turned-actors. They all star in W's annual A-list section along with a few old pros--and the comic who makes fun of them all.(HOLLYWOOD)
February 1, 2006... In New York City photo studio one November afternoon, a blond two-year-old in a Gap polo shirt, cargo pants and scuffed white sneakers leans over a coffee table littered with fashion magazines. One of the glossies is lying open to a beaming,...

The Studio Chief: at Paramount, Brad Grey stages a quiet resolution.(a list: Power Player)
February 1, 2006... Early last year, when Viacom honcho Tom Freston named manager-producer Brad Grey as the new chief of ailing Paramount Pictures, much was made of the fact that Grey was a relative stranger to the studio lot, a man with little experience as a...

Hip hop in the house: the biggest stars in Rap (and R&B) are now also the hottest names in film.(a list: Hitting the Beat)
February 1, 2006... Rap, more than any other music genre, is rooted in theatrical performance: the sexy snarls, flailing arms and overall grandstanding. So it only makes sense that rap's biggest stars would be natural crossovers into film. Last year, Ludacris,...

The ingenue and the old pro: Dakota Fanning and Shirley MacLaine Talk Hollywood.(discussion)(Discussion)
February 1, 2006... It's always risky to set up two movie stars on a blind date, particularly when one of them is the indomitable Shirley MacLaine, and the other is an ingenue 60 years her junior. But we had a feeling that MacLaine, 71, and Dakota Fanning, 11,...

The joker: Kathy Griffin milks Hollywood's sacred cows for laughs.(a list: Meanwhile, on the D-list)
February 1, 2006... Red headed comedian Kathy Griffin bounds onto the stage of a dingy San Diego concert hall, where 1,200 fans--mostly wide-hipped women and primped gay men--spring from their plastic seats to shower their diva with noisy adulation. It's Griffin's...

Sue Mengers: what makes an agent run.(a list: Art of the Deal)
February 1, 2006... Where would today's 10-percenters be without Sue Mengers? A New York-reared mouth-that-roared, she was Hollywood's first female superagent in the Seventies, becoming nearly as famous as her clients, who included Barbra Streisand, Burt Reynolds,...

That's iconic.(February)
February 1, 2006... Talk about gods and sirens. There are plenty of them this month. First, there's no question that Kate Moss is a fashion deity, and this issue salutes her divinity in the form of the feature "Goddess," which showcases her beauty in...

Kate Moss is Venus rising from the waves, channeling the young Ursula Andress in draped Grecian dresses, a dramatic ponytail and sandals.
February 1, 2006... Vivienne Westwood Gold Label's cotton dress, www.vivienwestwood.com. Vivienne Westwood belt; Balenciaga shoes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Alexander McQueen's silk top and skirt, to order at Alexander McQueen, New York, Alexander McQueen...

Glory days: looks that are full of grace capture a sense of wonder with their dramatic lines.
February 1, 2006... Calvin Klein Collection's cotton voile dress, at Calvin Klein, New York : Boss Black Label's cotton and elastane shirt, at Hugo Boss, New York, 800, HUGOBOSS; Norma Kamali Everlast's Tyvek jacket, at Norma Kamali, New York, 800.8 KAMALI,...

The renegades: ambitious, unafraid and often subvervive, a new pack of New York artists is doing things their own way--and attracting no small amount of attention in the process. Bruce Weber captures this wild bunch and their friends on the beaches of Miami during Art Basel and in the streets of Chinatown, a neighborhood that many of them call home.(Profile)
February 1, 2006... Dash Snow As a teenager growing up in New York's East Village, Snow (below) documented his evenings out with a Polaroid camera. He snapped his friends watching porn, posing in the nude and having their way with public property--all with...

Stella & Twiggy.
February 1, 2006... This features styled by Camilla Nickerson. Hair by Yannick D'Is for Management Artist; makeup by Aaron DeMey for streeters. Model: Stella Tennant/DNA. Talent: Ryan McGinley, Leo Fitzpatrick, Mirabelle Marden, Aaron Young, Adi, Dash Snow, Dan...

Louise's Happy New Year: in lieu of those dreaded resolutions, the Countess offers enough observations and entreaties to last until 2007.(Last Laugh)
February 1, 2006... No New Year's resolutions this time round. Just a Happy New Year with a twist and a tease. So here are my teasers for '06. * Fashion designers: Do they want to be designers or something else? Social butterflies? Bankers? TV stars? What happened...