W articles from March 2005

W archives from March 2005

Pattern play.(DKNY)
March 1, 2005... Open your map to the city and what you see are graphic patterns, bold shapes and endless texture. Spring's patterns are as dynamic as the landscape, and are meant to be mixed and matched and then mixed, again. Always changing depending on your...

Growing Gucci.(The Month in Fashion)
March 1, 2005... Financial analysts--not to mention fashion fanatics--had been anxiously waiting several months for Gucci Group's new CEO, Robert Polet, to reveal his plans for the luxury conglomerate. But when he addressed shareholders at a meeting in London...

Birds of a feather.(The Month in Fashion)
March 1, 2005... There was bound to be a fashion angle to the plight of Pale Male, the red-tailed hawk whose hasty eviction from the facade of a Manhattan co-op at 927 Fifth Avenue made headlines around the world. It turns out that among the building's owners,...

if the Choo fits.(The Month in Fashion)
March 1, 2005... Less than a month after announcing that it was looking for strategic options, Jimmy Choo was sold last November to a European private equity investment firm, Hicks Muse, in a deal that valued the company at about $187 million. Tamara Mellon,...

Mindless fun.(The Month in Fashion)
March 1, 2005... After conquering the indie music scene, opening a vegetarian card and launching his own brand of bottled iced tea, techno rocker and New York society regular Moby has set his sights on the fashion industry. His recently opened Lower East Side...

Grape expectations.(The Month in Fashion)
March 1, 2005... It makes sense, somehow, that the man who cultivated a craze for Italian designer jeans in the U.S.--the home of denim--would pour his resources into an Italian vineyard and plant it with French grapes. Renzo Rosso, CEO of Diesel, is...

In development.(The Month in Fashion)
March 1, 2005... Designer David Cardona's career is taking a happier turn after a year of disappointments. Milan company Fin.part had hired him as head designer for Cerruti's women's collections, but the company quickly crumbled after defaulting on its bonds....

Dance fever.(The Month in Fashion)
March 1, 2005... First, Vogue editor at large Andre Leon Talley served as narrator for the Martha Graham Dance Company's production of The Owl and the Pussycat. Now, Oscar de la Renta will appear on the company's stage, or at least his dresses will. De la Renta...

Strip tease.(The Month in Fashion)
March 1, 2005... In the late Sixties, when Sonia Rykiel urged women to stop wearing bras under her tight poor-boy sweaters, she caused a minor sensation. Now, however, the designer thinks it's au courant to wear--and show--a little lingerie. Rykiel, who said it...

Jean scene.(The Month in Fashion)
March 1, 2005... When Generra was relaunched in 2003, its creative director, Tony Melillo, and Dan Shamdasani, CEO of the brand's parent firm, Public Clothing, knew that denim was in the label's future. "When we created Generra we filled a mood," Melillo said....

Hicksville.(Flashback)
March 1, 2005... David Hicks, the interior designer who looked like a matinee idol and lived like a king, was the antithesis of a chintz-loving English decorator. At his prime in the Sixties and Seventies, he pushed bold colors and geometric prints that...

Hot scots.(Fast Forward)
March 1, 2005... Cast as hell-raising, wheelchair-bound best friends in the new Irish tragicomedy Rory O'Shea Was Here, Scottish actors James McAvoy and Steven Robertson make one of cinema's more unusual rebel pairs. "It's not a film about disabled people, it's...

Foreign affairs.(Letter From the Editors)
March 1, 2005... March At least since the days of Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War, the foreign correspondent has held a romantic place in the popular imagination: dodging bullets on the front, drinking till all hours, having affairs with mysterious...

Gray matter.(Readers React)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... Your photo shoot featuring elephants in couture was genius ("Trunk Show," January). The models really show how the fabrics drape when there's so much territory to cover. Of particular note are the Chanel suits, Balenciaga chain mail and Louis...

Savoir Blair.(Readers React)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... Frankly, Deeda Blair's put-downs concerting her husband's ability to earn a living, her dismissal of her son's depression and her scorn for housewives and the suburbs show her to be a cranky old lady ("Deeda Moves On," January). She may have...

Taylor made.(Readers React)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... Your article featuring Elizabeth Taylor was superb ("La Liz," December 2004). Miss Taylor remains an enigmatic woman: part glamour goddess, part earth mother, but always a consummate artist and activist. There has never been--and never will be...

Twice as nice.(Readers React)(Letter to the Editor)
March 1, 2005... Thank you so much for the wonderful photos of the Masai tribe ("On Safari," January). I was delighted to see something of substance in your publication. My second surprise in the new issue was the fashion shoot of the elephants. Terrific! I was...

Spoiled rotten.(Uncensored)
March 1, 2005... The world's most expensive white truffle, unearthed last summer in the Tuscan village of San Miniato, got nothing like the culinary send-off it deserved. Andy Needham, chef at the posh London restaurant Zafferano, put in the winning bid of...

Hot wheels.(Uncensored)
March 1, 2005... Even when he's not on the clock, Lapo Elkann, Gianni Agnelli's dashing 27-year-old grandson and the head of marketing for Fiat Motors, is on the job. Lately Italy's most eligible bachelor has been seen racing through the streets of Rome in his...

Kissing cousins.(Uncensored)
March 1, 2005... While the international social set has been busy whispering about the breakup of Princess Olga of Greece and playboy Johnny Pigozzi, Olga has been enjoying a new romance--a bit closer to home. The beautiful, free-spirited princess has taken up...

The iceman cometh.(Uncensored)
March 1, 2005... Hollywood has found a new status symbol: jewels by JAR. While a few L.A. cognoscenti, including Elizabeth Taylor and balletomane Liane Weintraub, have collected work by the uber exclusive Paris designer for years, a copy of JAR's 2003...

Sweet and stylish.(Uncensored)
March 1, 2005... The fashionable few who refuse to ruin their high heels on the cobblestones of the Meatpacking District can take comfort at the Carlyle during February's New York Fashion Week. Every afternoon, the venerable hotel's gallery is offering pastries...

Hollywood subtle.(Uncensored)
March 1, 2005... Can flashy Sunset Boulevard handle an injection of understated chic? Peter Famulari (Ian Schrager's partner in Sky Bar) has recruited decorator Greg Jordan, a favorite of Blaine Trump's, to do up a new nightclub in the landmark Hollywood...

Marine streak: set sail on the high seas of style with spring's nautical offerings, from classic to cool.(Trend)
March 1, 2005... In sifting through the multitude of spring's nautically themed clothes and accessories, one thing becomes glaringly obvious: The motif is the Energizer Bunny, the Ironman, if you will, of trends. There are few inspirations that boast such...

Girls gone wild: catfights, crowds and queuing up at dawn--the things fashion lovers will endure for a sample sale.(Fashion Flash)
March 1, 2005... Two dogs fighting over a bone. It's not the most elegant analogy, but often, that's what it looks like when two women argue over the last pair of size 38 d'Orsay pumps at the Manolo Blahnik sample sale. This is fashion--a world of calculated...

The PR machine: Paco Rabanne's new designer, Patrick Robinson, gets in touch with his sexy side.(Fashion Flash)
March 1, 2005... In Paris, a little arrogance can be a good thing. Just ask Patrick Robinson, who landed at the Paco Rabanne atelier in January with only two months to prepare his first runway collection and turn everything on its head. "I didn't look at the...

Red alert: got ringside seats to a show at one of Moscow's dueling Fashion Weeks? Don't forget your raincoat.(Fashion Flash)
March 1, 2005... Outside Moscow's ramshackle Hermitage Theater, a fur-clad crowd in painted-on Roberto Cavalli jeans and Stephane Kelian boots jostles in the arctic air. They're lining up for Nina Donis, the collection by design duo Nina Neretina and Donis...

Mommies dearest: with a trunkful of Fendi, the electropop duo Mother, Inc., takes its show on the road.(Fashion Flash)
March 1, 2005... The two construction workers, standing on wobbly looking scaffolding, can't bear to move from their seemingly precarious perch. They're transfixed by a most unusual scene playing out across the street in a loft with floor-to-ceiling windows in...

Women in uniform: talk about timeless style. For some women, consistency is the ideal answer to fashion's vagaries.(Fashion Flash)
March 1, 2005... Most fashion followers spend days--weeks, even--in head-scratching bemusement wondering how to boil down a new season of fashion trends. They've watched fad after fad come and go, from newsboy caps to chandelier earrings to the ubiquitous Ugg...

3 alternatives to a facelift: face it. We all want to stay young-looking.(special advertising section)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... Face lifts aren't the only answer. Thanks to the miraculous breakthroughs of modern science, there are now alternatives--and they're far less costly and less drastic than surgery. The Dior Innovation Center at St. Jean de Braye, France, is...

Starting the course: meet three gifted women who are attracting retail attention with intriguing new collections.(Fashion Flash)
March 1, 2005... JASMIN SHOKRIAN "Accidentally Yours," began the ad tucked in the classified section of a local Los Angeles newspaper, The LA Weekly. The listing provided a phone number and cryptically asked for nothing more than messages--from anyone. ...

A yen for style: in Tokyo, fashion is always in fashion. Pack your bags and get ready for a fabulous shopping trip.(Fashion Flash)
March 1, 2005... Some cities are great for vintage shopping, while others seem ideal for a splurge at a luminous megaboutique; then there are those that have an infinite variety of unexpectedly well-designed offerings at bargain-basement prices, perfect for...

It's personal: make fashion your own this season with designers' most glamorous whims for spring.(Accessories Flash)
March 1, 2005... Fashion loves a label: hipster, tomboy, uptown girl. But this season, the magic is in the mix. The spring runways screamed eclecticism, from graphic and colorful retro at Prada to Indian embellishments at Gucci and Oscar de la Renta to a...

Neck and neck: ornate collar necklaces, with gobs of pearls and gems, set off a woman's loveliest bones.(Accessories Flash)
March 1, 2005... In India, where pink and gold are the country's favorite colors and Bollywood productions employ everything under the sun for their lavish costumes and sets, minimalist design is tantamount to treason. When it comes to Western jewelry with an...

Joie de Vivier: designer Bruno Frisoni is breathing new life into the legendary Parisian house that Roger Vivier built.(Accessories Flash)
March 1, 2005... The similarities are striking: In his retro nerd glasses, Bruno Frisoni, who serves as creative director at the luxe accessories house of Roger Vivier, could almost pass for a younger version of the brand's legendary namesake, another tall,...

Blue mood: it's all in the jeans these days, as accessories designers unveil an array of lavish denim bags.(Accessories Flash)
March 1, 2005... From the California gold miners of the 19th century to Brooke Shields's famous Calvin Klein ad that ushered in the Eighties, jeans have long been a staple of America's fashion diet. In fact, denim is one of the few constants in the fickle world...

Deep impact: wrested from the bottom of the ocean, these noble emeralds may be the ultimate buried treasure.(Accessories Flash)
March 1, 2005... On a summer day in 1715, a dozen Spanish ships sailed from Havana laden with silver, gold and jewels. The voyage was at the behest of King Philip V, whose new bride, Isabella Farnese, the Duchess of Parma, refused to consummate the marriage...

Bolognese sauce: Furla's Giovanna Furlanetto is putting a little practical magic into her family's classic Italian bags.(Accessories Flash)
March 1, 2005... These days, fashionable women don't waste much time fretting over how to match their gloves with their suits. According to Giovanna Furlanetto, the chairman and chief executive officer of her family's 78-year-old accessories house, Furla, a...

Excess baggage: spring's hottest carryall may be called the hobo, but nothing looks more extravagant. Fill 'er up.(Accessories Flash)
March 1, 2005... An air of luxurious calm has replaced the ladylike rigor of the past few seasons' important bags, and nothing expresses the new ease more eloquently than the reinvented hobo. Slouchy and oversize, these bigger-is-better bags are dressed up with...

Special agents.(Accessories Flash)
March 1, 2005... What girl hasn't dreamed of throwing on a trenchcoat, donning a pair of dark glasses and heading out for some glamorous detective work? From Nancy Drew to Miss Marple, lady sleuths of every stripe will love this season's spy-inspired bags. John...

True bloom.(Accessories Flash)
March 1, 2005... As scientists across the globe vie to create the first blue rose, Italian jeweler Bulgari has come up with something even more dazzling: the Sapphire Flower Collection of exquisite petaled pieces that feature the gem in varying hues of yellow,...

Feet smart.(Accessories Flash)
March 1, 2005... When it comes to shoes, women like to define themselves as heel lovers or flat fanatics. But leave it to the shoe gurus at Bruno Magli to step things up with the foot-friendly but very chic Nisako, which stands somewhere between the classic...

Custom-iced.(Accessories Flash)
March 1, 2005... From a diamond and ruby necklace that looks like a zipper to a gem-covered button clasp with a pink diamond thread woven through it, each piece in Van Cleef & Arpels's new Couture Collection is as technically impressive as it is exclusive....

Finding a Neverland: whimsy is the word for spring, with fruit, florals and feather or two to spread the wonder.(Shopping)
March 1, 2005... 1 Louis Vuitton White gold, sapphire, emerald and diamond pendant, $14,300, at select Louis Vuitton stores; 866.VUITTON, www.vuitton.com 2 Bottega Veneta Leather and Plexiglas bag, $1,850, at Bottega Veneta nationwide;...

Mane attraction: new deep treatments for tresses promise stronger, more luxuriant hair.(Beauty Flash)
March 1, 2005... Sabina Anibas's recipes for healthy hair are so top secret that she won t even let her own son in the room when she's mixing her concoctions. A stylist at Aurbeautica, a tiny salon in New York's SoHo frequented by Ford and Wilhelmina models,...

Derm warfare: there's an epidemic of doctors inking deals for beauty brands. Is there enough skin to go around?(Beauty Flash)
March 1, 2005... Move over Drs. Brandt, Murad and Perricone--there's a new generation of M.D.'s launching skincare lines, and they've got their lasers trained on your demographic. Ava Shamban, the sane dermatologist amid the scalpel-happy surgeons on Extreme...

The best in Day spas and skin care salons.(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... East Coast: Elizabeth Grady Skin Care Salons (800) FACIALS 40 salons in 5 states: CT, MA, NH, NY & NC website: www.elizabethgrady.com "Business is beautiful[R]"--John P. Walsh, President Word of mouth, that's how we got to be...

World champion: from its neighboring Alps to far-flung Indonesia, La Prairie takes a global approach for its new scent.(Beauty Flash)
March 1, 2005... Swiss skincare house La Prairie has never been one to skimp. The company that brought caviar to moisturizer and foundation has now t focused its no-holds-barred luxury mind-set on fragrance. Its latest creation, Silver Rain, borrows its...

Better than Botox[R] *?[TM]: "who would have thought a stretch mark reducer would turn out to be the anti-wrinkle breakthrough of the decade!".(Anti-Aging Breakthrough)(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... In a remarkable turn of events, arguably one of the strangest in the history of cosmetics, women across the country are putting a stretch-mark reducing emulsion called StriVectin-SD[R] on their face to diminish the appearance of fine lines,...

Dark victory: black orchids and gooseberries are the bright ideas behind By Terry's new skin line.(Beauty Flash)
March 1, 2005... In a boutique in Paris's elegant Palais Royal, a middle-aged woman is poring over rows of eye shadows when a petite, Prada-clad brunette walks through the door. The shopper notices the woman and elbows her companion, who looks up as well. "Are...

The skinny.(Beauty Flash)
March 1, 2005... Wondering why French women look so svelte? Besides great genes and the mysterious powers of red wine, it might have something to do with L'Oreal Paris Sublime Slim system, Europe's reigning anticellulite product. Just introduced in the United...

Soft curls.(Beauty Flash)
March 1, 2005... Makeup artist Mally Roncal is known for making sexy seem wholesome--clients from Maggie Gyllenhaal to Beyonce flock to her when it's time to amp it up. So it's only fitting that Roncal would be the one to transform the notoriously intimidating...

Taking notes.(Beauty Flash)
March 1, 2005... Pairing a brooch with a cardigan no longer earns points for ingenuity, so Gap has figured out another way to champion personal style. Scent Editions, a Crayola-like assortment of a dozen different single-note oils like Crushed Peony, Silk Yuzu...

Let there be light.(Beauty Flash)
March 1, 2005... Turns out there is such a thing as being too rich. When Chantecaille launched its Biodynamic Lifting Cream, the dry-skinned among Its jetset clientele were thrilled. But those with shiny and acne-prone complexions were reluctant to indulge in...

Lining up.(Beauty Flash)
March 1, 2005... It's a sad thing, what happened to lip liner. Thanks to women overzealously applyinq dark pencil around their lighter-hued mouths, it was written off as hopelessly outdated. Happily, Cle de Peau Beaute understands that a subtly contoured pout...

Venice, anyone? Three wellborn women are the creative forces behind some of the city's chicest design lines.(Home Flash)
March 1, 2005... With its Byzantine architecture and whimsical glassware, Venice has a legendary aesthetic heritage--though you might never know it visiting the gift shops stocked with plastic gondolas and San Marco snow globes. Valiantly combatting the flood...

Charles in charge: for New York foodies, there's big news on the horizon: the arrival of Chicago's legendary Charlie Trotter.(Going Out)
March 1, 2005... In the office above his eponymous Chicago restaurant, Charlie Trotter has hung photos of the Dalai Lama, and French chef Fredy Girardet. But Miles Davis, he says, is his supreme hero. "Now Miles," begins Trotter, whose father played trumpet in...

Gold standard.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... Forget DiCaprio and Eastwood: The most powerful man at the Golden Globes was the Beverly Hills fire marshal, who, with a wave of his hand, temporarily shut down all four post-parties at the Beverly Hilton just minutes after they started. That...

She's a super chic.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... Living in the spotlight may be glamorous, but it isn't easy, especially when one's every evening out is captured by a phalanx of photographers. Yet night after night this season's stylish standouts make their way to black-tie affairs, movie...

Free radical: brash English director John Maybury goes Hollywood, indie credentials still intact.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... John Maybury is feeling a bit queasy, but he couldn't be happier. The hangover comes courtesy of a night caroming at London's notoriously debauched Colony Room. The twinkle in his eye, however, is a symptom of another condition: The avant-garde...

Spoils to the Victor: Miami's reinvented Hotel Victor aims to win over the South Beach set with its very high style.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... There's a jellyfish tank in the lobby of the newly renovated Hotel Victor in South Beach, courtesy of interior designer Jacques Garcia. It may not provide quite the coup de theatre that the models-behind-glass do at Andre Balazs's Hollywood...

Major league.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... In the weeks before Christmas, Diane von Furstenberg's West Village studio played host to two major parties. First, the designer welcomed Christian Louboutin to the neighborhood--his boutique just opened nearby--with a lasagna dinner for Maggie...

Higher learning: after decades in the shadows, Columbia is becoming the top choice for artists on the rise.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... The corner of 133rd Street and 12th Avenue is the last place one would expect to find a burgeoning New York art scene. But it's there, in a ram! shackle former warehouse nestled between a sewage treatment plant, the famous Fairway grocery store...

A snob's tour: Gosford Park's Julian Fellowes stokes England's class war with his first novel.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... Julian Fellowes, a decidedly unbuttoned-up Englishman, walks into the dimly lit downstairs bar at London's Blake's Hotel. "Please excuse me," says the actor, screenwriter and now novelist, slipping both hands inside the back of his trousers and...

L'Age Dior.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... In a crowd that included Chloe Sevigny, Maria Bello, Delphine Arnault, Heather Graham and Gretchen Mol, former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson stuck out like a sore thumb. It was early into the Artist's Ball at the Guggenheim Museum last...

Tried & tested: AmorePacific delivers results.(Advertisement)
March 1, 2005... For six decades, AmorePacific has introduced millions of women to the benefits of skincare products that blend cutting-edge technology, the best of Asia's age-defying botanicals and ancient beauty wisdom. AmorePacific goes a step beyond to...

The Threepenny Opera: they may perform on a tiny budget, but the top brass at Gotham Chamber Opera are thinking big.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... In the winter of 2000, Neal Goren, an opera conductor, took a tour of the Harry de Jur Playhouse, a newly renovated jewel-box theater on New York's Lower East Side. "It was this gorgeous theater, teeny, with 350 seas and a pit," he says. Goren...

History lesson: newly minted biographer Leonie Frieda has been a model, a music bigwig and a drug addict.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... An invitation to dinner by Leonie Frieda is not one to be turned down lightly. On any given night, the blond, polished London fixture and her boyfriend, historian Andrew Roberts, might be hosting Conrad and Barbara Black, Flora Fraser, Nancy...

Whatever happened to Baby Dave? Once a fashion wunderkind, David Cameron is home in California, with no nostalgia for the runway.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... The year was 1986, and Manhattan pulsated with a new energy that gathered force at its downtown epicenter, Danceteria, and radiated north through the city. Up on Seventh Avenue, Bill Blass and Geoffrey Beene were the grandees of American...

War of the words: London mogul Naim Attallah blasts off at the woman who says she was his longtime ghostwriter.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... The legendary London publisher, businessman and dandy Naim Attallah has always adored--and been adored by--women. His office in London's Shepherd Market, with its white orchids, ivory tusks and tiger skins, is filled with nude marble sculptures...

The cold and the beautiful.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... Zani Gugelmann, Alexis Bryan and Sloan Barnett were just a few of New York's fur-clad finest who trekked to the New York Botanical Garden to celebrate the annual Winter Wonderland Ball. "It's my favorite party of the year," confided Ann Caruso....

Dealer's choice.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... As of last year art dealer Emmanuel Perrotin was working out of a cramped gallery in the grimy 13th arrondissement in Paris. But last month, Perrotin, one of the first to show Damien Hirst and a regular supporter of Maurizio Cattelan, unveiled...

Out of Africa: her married lover's murder still unsolved, a big-game hunter jolts London with her tell-all.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... Their secret affair had been going on for just five months when Natasha IllumBerg's married lover was murdered outside the gates of her home, in a Nairobi suburb. Tonio Trzebinski, a white Kenyan artist and father of two who had recently...

I drive, therefore I am: how to choose a car in L.A.? Very carefully, as our writer learned the hard way.(Eye)
March 1, 2005... If the automobile in Los Angeles is like an overcoat, the outermost of a persona you show the world, then the unwritten code of the freeway is like Renaissance sumptuary law: a clear indication of rank in the city's power structure. You are...

Sunlight and shadow.(Fashion)
March 1, 2005... Like spring itself, this issue offers a mixture of darkness and light. In our first feature, "Industrial Strength," the killer looks of an anime action girl contrast with the detritus of a postindustrial environment. Then comes "Madame...

Industrial strength: graphic tops and vivid ballgowns have a revved-up glamour a la Chinese action films and anime.(Fashion)
March 1, 2005... Christian Lacroix's silk organza coat, christian-lacroix.com; OMO Norma Kamali's nylon and Lycra spandex leggings, at Norma Kamali, New York, 800.8KAMALI, normakamalicollection.com. Viktor & Rolf shoes. H Hilfiqer's cotton jersey dress, at...

Madame Butterfly: it's a question of contrasts--brunette and blond, black and white, spots and stripes--as two young fashion butterflies may dress-up in flirtatious clothes.(Fashion)
March 1, 2005... Etro's cotton and linen top and linen Skirt, at Etro. New York, Miami and Los Angeles; Saks Jandel, Washington, D.C. Yves Saint Laurent belt; Emilio Cavallini hosiery; Vivienne Westwood shoes, Carolina Herrera's beaded and appliqued silk...

Glamazon: never underestimate the power of a woman--especially one in sensual clothes that are cut to curve. For looks such as steamy, strappy swimsuits, tight ruffled blouses and hourglass black dresses, the watchwords are "decadent" and "stylized.".(Fashion)(Cover Story)
March 1, 2005... Gucci's black silk jersey bathing suit, at select Gucci stores, 800.234.8224, gucci.com. Chanel gloves. Fendi's black viscose and elastin jersey bodysuit, at Fendi nationwide, 800.FENDI.NY. Fendi belt; Jimmy Choo shoes. Yves Saint...

Sky high: art-world heavies Tobias Meyer and Mark Fletcher make a striking statement with their new 66th-floor apartment.(At Home)
March 1, 2005... Despite their reputation as one of the art world's most glamorous power couples, Tobias Meyer and Mark Fletcher turn out to be highly domesticated creatures. On a recent evening, the Viennese-born Meyer, Sotheby's worldwide head of contemporary...

Dollhouse: oh, you beautiful thing! Brief, frilly and frothy looks that could have come from a doll's wardrobe exude girlishness, fragility and vulnerability.(Fashion)
March 1, 2005... Ralph Lauren's angora cardigan, cotton shirt and silk shantung skirt, at select Ralph Lauren stores, runway.polo.com. Early Halloween flower; La Crasia gloves. Marc Jacobs's silk and cotton shirt and cotton poplin and grosgrain-ribbon...

Garden state: in little more than a decade, Guanock House has become one of England's most sublime gardens and has propelled its creator, designer Arne Maynard, to horticultural stardom.
March 1, 2005... To visit garden designer Arne Maynard in a remote corner of Lincolnshire, northeast of London, one must drive across endless miles of flat fenland, under skies dotted with huge cumulus clouds as far as the eye can see. A feeling of being in...