W articles from January 2007

W archives from January 2007

The month in fashion: Prada hits the slopes ... Chic, chicer, Chiquet ... Gucci's big buildup.(News)
January 1, 2007... The major brands--from Gucci to Gap--make New Year's resolutions. * POWDER DRESSING This season bunny-slope pupils in Saint Moritz are admiring their instructors for more than just their triple-black-diamond skills. Teachers at three...

Domestic affairs.(fashion trends of Nancy Reagan)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... For more than two decades, Nancy Reagan had a ringside seat to American politics, but to hear her tell it, all she ever wanted was to stand by her man. "The best thing about being first lady of California is being married to Ronald Reagan--no...

Social studies: January.(letters from the editor)
January 1, 2007... Maybe it began, for better or worse, when celebrities started unseating socialites in the front rows of fashion shows. Maybe the tide turned when Puffy or Diddy or whatever his name was in 1998 threw himself a birthday bash and everyone, from...

Dynamite Diaz.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... Christopher Bagley's profile of Cameron Diaz (December) has inspired me to run for president of her fan club. Diaz appears to be an authentic individual who has not let stardom compromise her honesty. Bagley refers to her reputation with the...

The Truman Show.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... I enjoyed reading "Truman's Treasures" in the October issue. I've always admired Truman Capote's work, and I'm fascinated by his life. Despite his social exile, he managed to remain a literary icon. I think it's fantastic that his good friend...

Crazy for Koons.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... Thank you for the production of W's first-ever Art Issue and for the insightful profile of artist Jeff Koons ("Koons World," November). Koons manages to infuse high art with a pop-culture sensibility that is reminiscent of the late great Andy...

Ulterior motives.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... I found your report on the art world phenomenon of fast-track, Hollywood-style stardom interesting and incisive ("Star Search," November). But while you point out the power shift from art critics to gallerists, you fail to acknowledge the fact...

Art appreciation.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... The amount of nudity in the November Art Issue was entirely too much for me. In fact, some of the pictures were quite pornographic. If you continue to print such material, you should be advertised as an adult magazine--not a fashion one. The...

Strokes of genius.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
January 1, 2007... I always keep my eyes peeled for news on the amazing painter Lisa Yuskavage, so I was doubly grateful for your November Art Issue, which featured the article "Lisa's Women." Yuskavage's style inspires my own artistic vision. I am in awe of her...

Uncensored.
January 1, 2007... Oscar Worthy The pressure to win an Oscar elicits wildly different reactions in Hollywood. Penelope Cruz is hardly hiding out. Among other conveniently timed activities, the actress, much admired for her performance in Volver, is...

Bare essentials: there's nothing rushed or tricky about the season's easy, chic pieces.(Fashion Flash)
January 1, 2007... [this page] Giorgio Armani's crystal-encrusted rayon cardigan, at select Giorgio Armani stores, giorgioarmani.com. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [opposite] Chanel's silk and cotton jacket and dress, at select Neiman Marcus and Chanel stores,...

L'Wren takes flight: L'Wren Scott morphs from stylist to designer.
January 1, 2007... L'Wren Scott stands before the windows in her luxe suite at New York's Carlyle Hotel, her willowy black-clad figure a stark contrast to the plush, gilt French furniture around her. "Look at that," she says, pulling back the curtains in order to...

Table manners: designers are wooing brides with new tabletop offerings.(Bridal Flash)
January 1, 2007... When Rebekah McCabe, a senior vice president at Chanel in New York, tied the knot in 2005, she made a point of planning the festivities to be more like a chic party than a traditional wedding. The affair took place at Skylight Studios gallery...

Wedding blossom: with a simple, streamlined sensibility, Lela Rose dives into the world of bridal wear.
January 1, 2007... If I were to get married today, I'd do it in burlap or muslin, says Lela Rose. So it's not surprising that, for her new wedding collection (she hates the word "bridal"), the Dallas-bred designer worked in muslin as well as other unfussy fabrics...

Water world: at his new spa in southern Japan, cosmetics guru Shu Uemura plumbs the depths of the ocean for hidden beauty secrets.(Beauty Flash)
January 1, 2007... Tell anyone in Tokyo that you're heading off to Cape Muroto, a craggy, storm-blasted peninsula on Japan's Shikoku island, and you'll likely get one of two reactions: a blank stare or a litany of safety warnings. The remote agricultural region...

Close encounters.(eye)(Event overview)
January 1, 2007... Art is the party lure du jour, as the Whitney Museum's fall gala demonstrated. The fete drew urea Thurman, Chuck Close, Michelle Williams, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Piper Perabo and even Shirley MacLaine. Leelee Sobieski cornered Close, gushing,...

Spanish rose: actress Paz Vega is ready to bloom in Hollywood.(EYE)
January 1, 2007... Having just begun to learn English while shooting her first American film, 2004's Spanglish, Paz Vega came upon one of her favorite new expressions: "fashionably late." "We don't have a word for this in Spain," says Vega, the dazzling and...

Book smart: publishers Prosper and Martine Assouline move beyond the page.(EYE)
January 1, 2007... A typical book publisher might be insulted if a decorator called his office asking for, say, 700 feet worth of pretty shelf filler. But Prosper and Martine Assouline, the French husband-and-wife team behind the hyperstylish house of the same...

Chic charade.
January 1, 2007... Members of London's social set proved themselves to be masters of disguise at the masked ball that Moet & Chandon threw for photographer Nick Knight. "I can't see a thing in this," said Roland Mouret of his white Zorro mask. Other partygoers,...

Cultivated palette: art scion Marc de Montebello forges his own path.(Biography)
January 1, 2007... Marc de Montebello spent much of this past autumn moving house--literally. The 42-year-old artist had his summer home--a 19th-century farmhouse in Hancock, Maine--picked up from its foundation, hooked to a truck and pulled 600 feet farther from...

Glam slam.(w.01)
January 1, 2007... There's more than one definition of glamour, and this issue offers several. First up, Sienna Miller, who stars as Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl, shows her stylish long-legged look to maximum advantage in MILLER LITE. Next, in...

Miller Lite: with a star turn as Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl, wildly spirited--and refreshingly candid--Sienna Miller reveals that there's a lot more of her to see than the fashionable on-and-off girlfriend of Jude Law.(Profile)
January 1, 2007... SIENNA MILLER has unfastened the safety pin holding her short Zara skirt closed and is squeezing the tummy fat around her belly button into the shape of a bagel. "Press it," she says, giggling goofily. "You can really squish it in!" It...

Masculine/feminine: they're more than a little wild--the boy-meets-girl looks, replete with chopped-off hair, and the dress, skirt and coat silhouettes with unexpected volume.(Profile)
January 1, 2007... Maison Martin Margiela's nude and black polyester and nylon bodysuit, at Linda Dresner and Maison Martin Margiela, New York. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Balenciaga ring. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jean Paul Gaultier's black silk and...

A+: Doug Aitken's groundbreaking video projects have portrayed "electric earths" and "new oceans." Now he's ready to turn the Museum of Modern Art inside out with sleepwalkers, a 127-foot-high video installation that wraps around the museum's facades.(Profile)
January 1, 2007... DOUG AITKEN doesn't act like a man rushing to meet the biggest deadline of his career. As the 38-year-old artist settles onto a sofa in his Venice, California, studio, he moves with the lanky grace of a surfer and speaks with the unhurried...

Pacific Heights: high society isn't dead after all. It has a new home in San Francisco's wealthiest enclave. But watch out: there's a lot of drama behind those Golden Gates.
January 1, 2007... Ann Getty is in the kitchen, rattling the pots and pans. It's Sunday night on San Francisco's outer Broadway--a stretch known locally as the Gold Coast, thanks to such billionaire residents as the Gettys and neighbor Larry Ellison--and while...