W articles from July 2008

W archives from July 2008

Comeback kid.(The Month in Fashion)(Miguel Adrover)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Just a few years ago, Miguel Adrover was being hailed as either fashion's wunderkind or its enfant terrible, depending on whom you asked. The boundary-pushing Spaniard made clothes from Quentin Crisp's old mattress,...

Art house.(The Month in Fashion)(Salone Internazionale del Mobile)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... In April Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli announced plans to give their hometown of Milan a shrine to contemporary art. During the Salone Internazionale del Mobile design fair, the pair unveiled Rem Koolhaas's scheme for a new Fondazione...

Hair and now.(The Month in Fashion)(Theory's bohemian performance)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Highlighted by neat tailoring and sleek silhouettes, the Theory aesthetic is a far cry from hippie dippy. But this summer the label is having a bohemian moment. On July 9 the brand will host a free 45-minute mini...

Superpower dressing.(The Month in Fashion)(Diane von Furstenberg's collection)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Diane von Furstenberg and Diana Prince (better known as Wonder Woman) have a few things in common. Not only do the designer and the superhero share brunette manes, smoldering features and similar first names, but...

The Tao of Helene.(Flashback)(Helene Rochas)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "I have no rules," Helene Rochas told a W reporter in 1977, when asked about her fashion philosophy. "It's not that thought out." Amusingly, however, the Parisian grande dame spent the rest of the interview...

One for the ages.(Letter From the Editors)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] July It's easy to be swept away by youth. The vitality, the promise of what might be, the absence of jowls and pronounced nasolabial folds. Then again, age holds a certain fascination. What's more riveting than...

Old Orleans.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] How sad that the talented lens of Bruce Weber found only the same recent cliches of poverty and eccentricity in New Orleans ('Come on Down to Nawlins," April). Had he ventured to Longue Vue gardens just across the...

The new vulgarity.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2008... Louise I. Esterhazy's May column, "Louise's Fashion Faux Pas," resonated with my own opinion of the lack of refinement in today's fashion world. Looking at the average Beverly Hills woman these days, one cannot feel anything but revulsion at...

Cairo conflict.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2008... Thank you for the lovely "Cairo," styled by Camilla Nickerson and photographed by Philip-Lorca diCorcia (May). it captured the beauty, the grit and some authenticity of the area, without thrusting nearly naked, thin people at us, and we could...

In defense of W.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2008... I often wonder who reads this magazine. Month after month, I read these negative letters and think, Are these people for real? I read W for the same reasons other readers chastise it. Each month I look forward to its innovative,...

Imperial implications.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2008... I feel compelled to point out the imperial undertones in some of your May issue's stories. The De Beers article ('Fire and Ice') could easily be transported to an 18th-century British publication, and in the "Time Bandits" article you actually...

Network (dis)pleasures.(Uncensored)(CBS Broadcasting's 'Swingtown')(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... When producers MIKE KELLEY and ALAN POUL learned that CBS was interested in SWINGTOWN, their drama about swinging Seventies suburban couples, they thought it was a joke. The show, whose June premiere opens with a pilot taking a stewardess home...

Art matchup.(Uncensored)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In June the Marylebone High Street location of chic London boutique chain Matches is staging the first of a series of buzzy art shows. Brit artist Abigail Lane--a contemporary of Damien Hirst's--was commissioned to...

Gastronomy gone wild.(Uncensored)(International Foundation for Research on Alzheimer's Disease's benefit dinner)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If you're going to spend $34,000 per person to attend a charity dinner, it helps to know that you're going to eat well. That's the idea behind a September gala in France for the International Foundation for Research...

Dwindling sin.(Uncensored)
July 1, 2008... You know the eco-trend has reached saturation point when even Las Vegas is going green. The Harmon Hotel, Spa & Residences, opening in fall 2009 as part of MGM Mirage's $8 billion-plus environmentally friendly development, will feature...

Things will be great.(Uncensored)(Nobu Hotel and Residences)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... Manhattan's financial district has yet to take off as the trendy neighborhood investors had hoped it would become several years back, but sushi hot spot Nobu isn't deterred. In 2010 it will open the 62-story, all-glass Nobu Hotel and Residences...

The trends: rich rewards: W distills a diverse fall season to its essential moods--structure, embellishment, guys and dolls--each with its own aura of dressed-up chic.(Fashion Flash)(Buyers guide)
July 1, 2008... Deja Frou STATELY ORNAMENTATION RETURNS, IN MILE-LONG FEATHERS AND SEMIPRECIOUS STONES. ALEXANDER McQUEEN'S SILK TULLE DRESS WITH SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL AND RUBY DETAIL AND SILK SATIN BOLERO, AT ALEXANDER McQUEEN. [ILLUSTRATION...

I'll fly away: for the seasoned traveler, fashion has never fit so well into a carry-on.(Fashion Flash)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Select versatile garments in simple styles." Seek out "compact, easily maintained fabrics," and take advantage of "the new breed of wrinkle-resistant, quick-dry materials." Packing tips for the savvy traveler...

Party time: political figures are the newest models for top designers--stirring a fashion debate.(Fashion Flash)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] On Bastille Day, July 14, French citizens watching the giant , parade on Paris's Champs-Elysees will surely marvel at the taut precision of marching cadets, the rumble of the passing tanks and the daring flying...

Beauty buzz: Jane Larkworthy finds softer cleansing, innovative mascara and hip hotel salons.(Beauty Flash)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] 1| BACK TO NATURE Status-conscious consumers are increasingly wary of potentially harmful chemicals, so a host of luxe beauty brands are being reformulated to get rid of such ingredients. Renata Helfman, owner of...

Left to your own devices: self-service beauty gadgets bring doctors' high-tech weapons home.(Beauty Flash)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Until very recently, a typical evening of at-home beauty maintenance involved nothing more complicated than a bottle of nail polish, a jar of face mask and last week's episode of Gossip Girl on TiVo. Relaxing? Maybe....

Caped crusaders.(EYE)(Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy)(Brief article)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] While no one was leaping tall buildings in a single bound, the crowd at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for its Costume Institute's "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" gala was hardly made up of mere mortals....

Commercial success: as a suave advertising exec on Mad Men, Jon Hamm is finally hitting it big.(EYE)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jon Harem shows up at a cafe near his home in L.A.'s Los Feliz neighborhood in jeans, a T-shirt that reads ESTAR GUARS (Star Wars in Mexican street slang) and a St. Louis Browns baseball cap. It's an ensemble Don...

Change of course: across the Channel from Michelin-obsessed France, Paris's leading female chef stakes a claim in London.(EYE)
July 1, 2008... Whenever anyone used to ask Helene Darroze, Paris's most acclaimed female chef, if she had any plans to open a restaurant outside of France, she always replied with a "non." Darroze's eponymous eatery on the Left Bank, with its two Michelin...

Wonder boys: the campy duo behind cult films like The Eyes of Tammy Faye aim their lens at Heidi Fleiss.(EYE)
July 1, 2008... The Shane Building, erected in 1930, is a relic of Hollywood Boulevard's first heyday. Its green concrete facade is covered with stone and wrought-iron details. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, makers of the pornography documentary Inside Deep...

Money honeys: it's become impossible to ignore: most hedge fund marketing executives share some key assets.(EYE)
July 1, 2008... When Stanford University released a recent study saying that men are more prone to taking financial risks when faced with erotic images, it was no surprise to the carshow marketers who drape models over their vehicles or to the Hollywood studio...

Hot tea: forget lattes and Jamba Juice. These days Hollywood types are all guzzling kombucha.(EYE)(GT's Organic Raw Kombucha)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The first thing you notice upon entering the headquarters of Millennium Products, the maker of a trendy health-food drink called GT's Organic Raw Kombucha, is the smell. It's a sharp odor akin to alder...

Master class.
July 1, 2008... Experience counts. There's nothing quite like giving a new group of designers the opportunity to work with a master. And this issue showcases just such a phenomenon in SUMMER CAMP, as photographer Bruce Weber travels to Miami with Kate and...

Summer camp: school's out, and the livin' is easy. The latest flock of new designers hits the road with some top models and friends for a little fun--dressed or not--under the Miami Sun.(Cover story)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ALEXANDER WANG Alexander Wang is known for a number of things: his wonderfully languid knits, the easy street attitude that underscores his collections and, perhaps most famously, his ongoing inspiration, a muse...

Dr. Ivo: the world's most famous plastic surgeon offers a tour of his fabled clinic in Rio and his lush private island, his inner sanctum.(Profile)
July 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ivo Pitanguy is famous throughout the world, but in his native Brazil he's a legend, eclipsed in public recognition only by Pele, the soccer god. That a plastic surgeon could reach this level of renown says something...