W articles from July 2004

W archives from July 2004

Bad boy meets pretty boy.(The Month in Fashion)
July 1, 2004... If politics makes strange bedfellows, try rap stars, designer brands and frozen fish sticks. It's been the dream of many a neophyte designer to land financing from a big company, and fashion's latest pairing shows that even those with...

Outside chances.(The Month in Fashion)
July 1, 2004... The newest craze in executive recruitment appears to be... hiring unknowns. Gucci Group dropped yet another shocker in April when it found a replacement for outgoing CEO Domenico De Sole in Robert Polet, former president of Unilever's $7.8...

Who's Sari now?(The month in Fashion)
July 1, 2004... Celebrating its 10th anniversary in business, the girly sportswear house Tocca is returning to its roots by reissuing one of its early knockout styles--a sundress embroidered with a sari motif--with exclusive distribution at Stefani...

Vintage flashback.(The Month in Fashion)
July 1, 2004... When Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquiere, who has yet to directly interpret the house's history in his collections, announced his plans to restore the company archives, no one could have expected the venture would lead to such a literal...

Mary happy returns.(The Month in Fashion)
July 1, 2004... She may have closed her signature collection under cloudy circumstances two years ago--gutting the place without a word--but Mary McFadden is now planning to give her career a more appropriate send-off with a retrospective at the Allentown Art...

Party lines.(Flashback)
July 1, 2004... Arriving at a National Gallery dinner in 1996, Teresa Heinz Kerry made a small confession. "This is the first time I've been really dressed up in three months," she told W's sister publication, Women's Wear Daily. The famous political...

True grit.(Letter From the Editors)
July 1, 2004... July An ingenue may hold a certain excitement--full of promise for what's yet to be--but there's something irresistible about a more mature woman, one whose experiences give her a complexity, a grit and an allure that no innocent can...

Inner beauty.(Readers React)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... Brilliant idea choosing Uma Thurman to grace the cover of your May issue ("Uma Cum Laude"). One of the reasons the exquisitely beautiful Ms. Thurman is so lovely is that she exudes a down-to-earth quality and obvious inner strength. She's...

Ground control.(Readers React)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... I enjoyed the Countess's column about the Tune Warner Center ("Louise's Tall Tales," April), where she thoroughly examined the gigantic new towers. She lives in New York and I live in Missouri, but we both like fresh air and not falling out of...

Star quality.(Readers React)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... The March issue that promised "21 Grams, 448 Pages and One New Star" was the best you have ever done! It is anew coffee table book for my gemutliche living room in Deutschland. We all love the big, fat, heavy March W, and we am still reading...

Spring forward.(Readers React)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... For the first time in my many years of reading fashion magazines, I was happily surprised and elated to see "Spring Break" (April) by Bruce Weber. I am a 24-year-old black female who has never, up until now, seen a photo spread featuring women...

Kate state.(Readers React)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... Thank you so much for being one of the only magazines to continually use Kate Moss ("Tanzania," May). I never thanked you for the 40-page spread you did a few months back ("OK!," September 2003). It was simply amazing and a dream come true for...

A guy thing.(Readers React)(Letter to the Editor)
July 1, 2004... I was pleasantly surprised to find an article ("Male Order," April) about men's fashion in your magazine. It was especially interesting for me to read about fashion that I can actually buy and wear. Hopefully this will encourage you to include...

Too close to home.(Uncensored)
July 1, 2004... Now that Madonna and Guy Ritchie have lost the ugly and highly public legal battle to keep wanderers off their 1,200-acre Ashcombe estate, the former home of Cecil Beaton--for which the couple paid $16.2 million--may well be landing back on the...

Slumming it.(Uncensored)
July 1, 2004... One of San Francisco's most dangerous neighborhoods might soon get some new (blue) blood: Mayor Gavin Newsom. Since Newsom and his wife, Kimberly, sold their Pacific Heights manse a few months ago, Gavin has been camping out in an apartment...

Haute out of the oven.(Uncensored)
July 1, 2004... Jean Paul Gaultier will cement his status as a pillar of haute couture this summer when he opens a grand six-story salon on the rue Saint Martin, just in time for his fall couture presentation. But while Gaultier is serious about the comfort of...

Guest appearance.(Uncensored)
July 1, 2004... Cornelia Guest has set her heart on the silver screen--again. The former Deb of the Decade and daughter of the late style icon C.Z. Guest made a flying pass through Hollywood back in her Sylvester Stallone days. But this time around she's off...

Code read.(Uncensored)
July 1, 2004... The guides at the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, home to Leonardo's The Last Supper, are boning up on Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code-the better to field questions from a new wave of visitors well-versed in the best-selling...

Bottled blonds.(Uncensored)
July 1, 2004... For cynics who can't imagine a more delicious spectacle than a Britney Spears--Paris Hilton catfight, here's the next best thing: The woozy blond party babes will battle it out at the cosmetics counter this fall. Hilton has signed with Parlux...

Party girl: Estonia's most famous export leads her country to the European Union.(Fashion Flash)
July 1, 2004... Circling the bleak one-room airport in Tartu, Estonia, a tiny plane angles down over a neighboring farm and its picturesque clothesline before depositing Carmen Kass, one of the world's most famous models, smack in the middle of nowhere. ...

Printed matters: in a prints and color moment, the house of Etro is staying true to its roots--and it's never been hotter.(Fashion Flash)
July 1, 2004... In the sometimes cold world of high glamour, the tradition of the close-knit Italian fashion family offers a surprising burst of heart and soul. Fendi, Missoni and Trussardi are among the names that resonate, each at its own pitch, with the...

The family jeans: Shaul Nakash picks up where his father and uncles left off, reworking those famous Jordaches.(Fashion Flash)
July 1, 2004... Anyone over the age of 25 with any sort of respectable pop-culture literacy remembers the fanatical rush surrounding Jordache in the early Eighties. Slipping into the company's notoriously tight, high-waisted jeans I turned into something of a...

Blinde ambition.(Specialties dela Mode)
July 1, 2004... When space is as restricted as it is in Manhattan, a sunglass shop--cum--skateboard ramp seems like an impossible preposition. But Richard Walker of Blinde. Design eyewear likes a challenge. In his new store and showroom, at 13 Crosby Street,...

The haute hand.(Specialties de la Mode)
July 1, 2004... Remember when a proper lady wouldn't leave home without them? Gloves, that is. And with the fall collections awash in femininity, it's the perfect time to welcome them back. Enter Venexiana by Kati Stern, a collection with an emphasis on...

Big ideas.(Specialties de la Mode)
July 1, 2004... Texas designer Nancey Chapman likes jewelry to be dramatic and big--just like her home state. But her inspirations aren't limited to Southfork. Chapman's youthful fascination with Old Hollywood informs her work, as does the rich exotica of...

Only in New York.(Specialties de la Mode)
July 1, 2004... The Big Apple has long been an inspiration for creative types like George Gershwin and Woody Allen. The newest tributes to Manhattan are showing up at Bottega Veneta. To celebrate the company's North American flagship in New York, opening in...

Beauty queen: an epoch has ended. W remembers Estee Lauder, the first lady of American cosmetics, who made the entire world feel more beautiful, one woman at a time.
July 1, 2004... There are three ways to communicate a message," Estee Lauder proclaimed to a group of beauty editors gathered at her Upper East Side mansion in the summer of 1991. "Telephone, telegraph and tell-a-woman." A wave of appreciative laughter at...

A new New York state of mind: a sublime subterranean spa in NoHo provides a serene antidote to urban bustle.(Beauty Flash)
July 1, 2004... In the city that never sleeps, it's not surprising that New York has a dearth of truly tranquil escapes. While Manhattan is home to a few formidable day spas, the most stylish ones suffer from overpopulation, making solitude--not to mention...

Natural born fillers: say goodbye to synthetics. The answer to looking younger just may be found in your very own cells.(Beauty Flash)
July 1, 2004... London's tony Hurlingham Clinic and Spa used to be a quiet practice, the province of ladies of a certain age seeking a little nip or tuck and Sloane Rangers dropping by for some prevacation liposuction. Quiet, that is, until sought-after...

The best in day spas and skin care salons.(Advertisement)
July 1, 2004... East Coast: Elizabeth Grady Skin Care Salons (800) FACIALS 30 salons in 5 states: CT, MA, NH, NY & RI website: www.elizabethgrady.com "The perfect gift for all occasions."--John P. Walsh, President Elizabeth Grady skin-care products and...

Stan the man: actor, director and screenwriter Stanley Tucci adds an unlikely new line to his resume: sex symbol.(Eye)
July 1, 2004... It's not clear exactly when Stanley Tucci became an object of desire. Did it happen with the sleeper hit Big Night, which had him flirting with Isabella Rossellini and Minnie Driver between, forkfuls of risotto? Was it that adaptation of A...

Dangerous curves.(Eye)
July 1, 2004... It has long been called the crown jewel of the New York social season, and this spring's Asprey-sponsored Costume Institute gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art certainly lived up to its billing. Though guests were asked to dress in...

Morton and son: Peter Morton wants to keep the Hard Rock cool--and he's brought in son Harry to help.(Eye)
July 1, 2004... Harry Morton is happy with the new variety show at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino featuring a cross-dressing Russian sword swallower, and he loves the idea of the "mini VIP" suite, custom-built for dwarves. But rules are rules, and he won't allow...

The magic touch: David Heyman, who struck gold with Harry Potter, is gearing up for his next wave of blockbusters.(Eye)
July 1, 2004... It's early evening and already dark in London, and in an office above a cold film studio stuffed with ersatz stone staircases and towering Gothic arches, the man who made Harry Potter a Hollywood star is talking about life after Hogwarts. David...

Power play.
July 1, 2004... Just because fashion is full-on feminine doesn't mean it lacks a backbone. This month's potent punch is delivered by some unapologetically strong women. In "Blast," the attitude is in-your-face, with slick, futuristic wraps, rough-and-tumble...

Blast: the future is black, white and electric. Fashion takes off in a high tech revolution marked by strangely beautiful shapes.
July 1, 2004... JUNYA WATANABE COMME COMME DES GARCONS' SILK TAFFETA JACKET, AT COMME DES GARCONS, NEW YORK; H. LORENZO, LOS ANGELES. SYREN LATEX LEGGINGS. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] luxury BEAUTY NOTE: A SLICK, FIRE ENGINE-RED POUT AND INKY LASHES SOUND...

Brown's eye: Cecily Brown managed to survive the It girl label she got stuck with in the late nineties. Will her potluck style of painting--a little Goya, a little Bacon, a little porn--keep her on art's most-wanted list?(Profile)
July 1, 2004... Cecily Brown's studio is up three steep, narrow flights of stairs in New York's Meatpacking District. Inside, more than a dozen paintings in varying states of completion hang on the walls or rest against them and one another. On the desk, a...

Wanderlust: lost and lonely? Then find great comfort in woolen capes and weighty coats.
July 1, 2004... Rick Owens's cream wool jacket, gray cotton and rayon jersey top and cotton, rayon and leather skirt, at Henri Bendel and Barneys, New York; Maxfield, Los Angeles. Donna Karan's camel cashmere coat, at Donna Karan, 866.240.4700; Preen's...

The showgirl: the always outspoken Catherine Zeta-Jones has been an entertainer as long as she can remember--which is why she's so completely at home in the public eye. Just don't push your luck.(Cover Story)
July 1, 2004... D'yah like lookin' at me? On the bank of a country stream, in a lush, sun-dappled glen, Catherine Zeta-Jones perches on a rock, throws back her poofy plaits of raven-colored hair, and basks in the breeze, her shapely figure all but...

Diane's domain: Diane von Furstenberg continues her lifelong love affair with Paris in her new haute bohemian pied-a-terre.(At Home)
July 1, 2004... In the bustling lives of generations of jetsetters, Paris has often provided some calm in the social storm. And so it's hardly surprising that Diane von Furstenberg, woman of the world that she is, has long maintained a quiet refuge in the...

Soul sister: most eighties music icons have turned into Behind the Music casualties or simply faded away. But Annie Lennox, who just won an Oscar and tours with Sting this summer, is still going strong.(Profile)
July 1, 2004... She may have a stack of Grammys, a brand new Oscar and the power to move men to tears with her music, but a phone call from Sting can still send Annie Lennox soaring. The former Police man had a serious purpose: inviting Lennox, whose...