W articles from May 2009

W archives from May 2009

The Month In Fashion.
May 1, 2009... Byline: Marc Karimzadeh Sander's return... grazie, Giorgio...the best of Stella. Even during the recession, everyone wants to be part of the fashion circus. BIG IN JAPAN Ever since Jil Sander left her namesake label for a...

Good Sport.
May 1, 2009... Byline: SARAH HAIGHT One designer who is not taking any chances in these tricky times? That would be Alexander McQueen, who has added yet another undertaking to his already hefty workload. In addition to his ready-to-wear and diffusion...

Scents And Sensibility.
May 1, 2009... Byline: JANE LARKWORTHY Some people hold on to treasured moments by taking photographs or writing in journals. DelRae Roth preserves her memories by making perfumes. A graphic designer by tradeshe was an art director for Esprit before...

Page Turner.
May 1, 2009... Byline: DANIELLE STEIN Photograph by LISA VOSPER With the publication of her first novel, Gilding Lily, last September, Tatiana Boncompagni thought she was finally fulfilling the social aspirations she'd harbored since marrying vacuum heir...

Cartier's American Century.
May 1, 2009... Byline: BRIDGET FOLEY After trading a pearl necklace for a town house, Cartier USA was off and running. Red-carpet photos, Weber says, do not represent "what I felt Cartier was really about." Would you barter the very roof over...

Cocktail Hour.
May 1, 2009... Byline: PRIYA RAO PHOTO BY SPENCER HIGGINS; STYLED BY TALYA COUSINS Cast in dusky colors, gutsy rings pack a powerful punch. Just in time for summer, fine jewelers have conjured an array of showstoppers to complement sun-kissed skin....

Jewel Disclosure.
May 1, 2009... Byline: Still lifes by DOUG ROSA VENESSA LAU The house of Bulgari commemorates its 125th anniversary with a first-ever retrospective. For Amanda Triossi and her team, the project was a treasure hunt of sorts. Amanda Triossi...

Neon Signs.
May 1, 2009... Byline: Photographs by GEORGE CHINSEE They're baaack. We're talking about Day-Glo colors, those bold and cheerful hues that topped the fashion charts in the Eighties. Two decades may have gone by, but girls still just wanna have fun. ...

Artful Celebrations.
May 1, 2009... Thanks to the economy (or no thanks, depending on how you look at it), frivolous affairs all but disappeared from the social schedule this winter, leaving only the stalwart events hosted by big arts organizations. The Frick Collection held...

From Here To Eternity.
May 1, 2009... Byline: PHOTOGRAPHED BY INEZ VAN LAMSWEERDE. VINOODH MATADIN STYLED BY ALEX WHITE BLACK, BOWS AND BRIGITTE BARDOT LOOKS: TAILORED SUITS AND DRESSES WITH MORE THAN A SOUPCON OF THE EARLY SIXTIES TAKE ON A CERTAIN RACINESS IN THE INCONGRUOUS...

Papa, don't preach.(The Month in Fashion)(Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana dressed as priests in cameo role in "Nine")(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana have no qualms about flaunting their ultrasexy designs in ads that are even steamier, so when paparazzi spotted the two on the streets of Romein February, dad in long, black ecclesiastical robes, it raised a...

Watch this space.(The Month in Fashion)(Omega's Stockdale-inspired watch)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... At has 1961 inauguration, President John F. Kennedy sported an Omega timepiece that he referred to as the Stockdale watch, because his friend Grant Stockdale gave it to him. The accessory-normally on display at the Omega Museum in Biel,...

Cyber dancer.(Fast Forward)(Daniil Simkin's website and Twitter keep people posted of his dancing career)
May 1, 2009... Few dancers can boast of a bigger following online than in the theater, but Daniil Simkin can. As fluent in Twitter as he is in Russian, German and English, the Siberian-born wunderkind, 21, hopes to demystify the world of ballet for a new...

Wilde at heart: May.(Letter from the Editors)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sometimes it takes a history refresher to realize how far we've come. Yet, oddly enough, that same little tutorial can also point up what meager progress we've made. Reading this month's "The Private Life of Oscar...

Commander in chic.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2009... Was it Shakespeare who said, "Wear the right costume, and the part plays itself"? I agree with the good Countess, who wrote in March's Last Laugh column ("Louise's D.C. Dictum") that our country's politicians, including our current president,...

Cover drama.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2009... Regardless of whether a celebrity or a model is on the cover of W, the magazine has never failed to promote high fashion and art. Readers who throw a tantrum over cover choices baffle me--yet such discussions have themselves become an art form...

Lady lovely.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
May 1, 2009... Thank you for introducing us to Lindy, the Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, and for inviting us into her spectacular Northern Ireland estate, Clandeboye, in your February issue ('The Marchioness"). The photograph of the Clandeboye library...

Love, recession style.(Uncensored)(trends and rates of divorce in London)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... Whoever said that breaking up is hard to do hasn't paid a visit to postcrash London, where the divorce rate has soared in recent months. And the breakups are particularly rampant among high-flying social types. Sandra Davis, a family lawyer...

Arterati canteen.(Uncensored)(Atria)(Brief article)
May 1, 2009... While the folks at New York's Museum of Modern Art have a pretty impressive built-in watering hole in Danny Meyer's The Modern, they nevertheless have turned Atria, across West 54th Street, into a second unofficial cafeteria. Among the MoMA...

Gwyneth, Madonna and me: can you really chance your God-given shape? Celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson says yes. Sixty-three hours of sweat equity later, I'm a believer.(Beauty Flash)
May 1, 2009... When Tracy Anderson tries to convince me to do something--say, give up yogurt or kick my leg over a metal bar that's almost as tall as I am--she invokes her two most famous clients as though they were the gospel. "Madonna would never do dairy,"...

Artful celebrations.(EYE)
May 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Thanks to the economy (or no thanks, depending on how you look at it),...

Surprise endings.
May 1, 2009... In FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, little black dresses that could have been worn by the young Brigitte Bardot unaccountably turn up on a windswept beach. Next is PERFORMANCE, a photo feature on performance artist Theo Adams, showcasing cocktail and...

The private life of Oscar Wilde: before gifting a long-lost batch of Oscar Wilde's intimate letters and manuscripts to the Morgan Library, the late Lucia Moreira Salles, a Brazilian philanthropist, had them painstakingly re-created for her dearest friends.
May 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] LAST FALL, New York's Morgan Library & Museum received an astonishing present: a handsome album bound in red Morocco leather with a coat of arms stamped in gilt....