W articles from November 2006

W archives from November 2006

Wang in there.(The Month in Fashion)
November 1, 2006... Vera Wang has been juggling potential deals for nearly two years now, with St. John, Liz Claiborne and Jones Apparel Group. Finally, in August, she said yes to something: a collaboration with Kohl's. Wang is teaming up with the budget...

Rock on.(The Month in Fashion)(Royal Underground)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... It's only rock 'n' roll, but Kelly Gray certainly seems to like it. After stepping down from St. John in 2005, where she not only was creative director but also starred in the brand's ads surrounded by half-naked men, Gray struck up a...

Big in Japan.(The Month in Fashion)(Fast Retailing Company Ltd.)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Uniqlo, Japan's low-priced fashion chain, is entering the U.S. market with gusto. In June, the company opened a temporary outpost on Broadway in SoHo, and in November, Uniqlo will debut its largest store in the world (36,000 square feet) just...

Climbing Everest.(The Month in Fashion)(fasion designer Timothy Everest)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... It's not unusual to leave a salon weighed down by a few bottles of shampoo and pomade--even a headband or two. Bumble and Bumble, however, is offering its clients the opportunity to peruse more rarefied merch en route to a blowout. The salon's...

Mall rats.(The Month in Fashion)
November 1, 2006... Bravo's reality hit Project Runway has yet to produce the next Karl Lagerfeld, but it sure has made a household name out of judge Michael Kors, whose snappy quips have struck a chord with Middle America. With his mainstream appeal at an...

Bag education.(The Month in Fashion)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... In recent years, as more old-world craftsmen retire and fewer youngsters express interest in picking up their leatherworking tools, luxury fashion houses have become increasingly concerned about the dearth of available artisans. In August,...

Designer driven.(The Month in Fashion)
November 1, 2006... In Italy, where fashion is as much a part of la dolce vita as cappuccino and vino, designers are superstars. Proof: In September, car manufacturer Lancia unveiled the ads for its latest car, the New Ypsilon. The star? Stefano Gabbana. The...

Pretty patrons.(The Month in Fashion)
November 1, 2006... Giving new meaning to the phrase "paint your face," MAC is commissioning contemporary artists to create work inspired by the company's cosmetics colors. The collaborations began quietly this past spring, with London-based artist Stuart Haygarth...

Peggy's playhouse.(Flashback)
November 1, 2006... Peggy Guggenheim had two great passions: art and men. Throughout her lifetime, she collected plenty of both. A bohemian wild child who was left with a sizable inheritance when her father went down with the Titanic, Guggenheim spent the decades...

The Chinese revolution.(Olyvia Oriental)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Winding her way among the troy brass cats strategically placed on the floor of her London gallery, Olyvia Kwok giggles. "I'm really superstitious, and these help to circulate the energy," says the 25-year-old, referring to the perpetually...

Art effect.(Letter From the Editors)
November 1, 2006... One need look no further than the tarmac in Miami the first week in December--when the private jets ferrying collectors to Art Basel Miami Beach form a gridlock worthy of midtown Manhattan--to know that contemporary art is white hot. But if you...

Veni, vidi, Ricci.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2006... Kudos for finally putting Christina Ricci, my favorite indie star, on your cover ("Christina's World," September). Ms. Ricci looked fabulous, and the article was great too. Keep up the good work. AUDREY GERSON-RUBIN EVANSTON, ILL. ...

Return to sender.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2006... I had allowed my subscription to lapse after becoming frustrated by too many covers featuring the vapid, tabloid princess du jour: Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan, Katie Holmes. How boring! What torture for your poor writers to try to tease some...

No-frills fashion.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2006... I absolutely loved your photo spread "The Daily Show" (September), which featured looks from the resort collections. Though I appreciate the artistry of photographic visionaries, it was refreshing to see the clothes presented in a simple and...

Style over substance.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2006... I am writing in reaction to your September feature about cocaine ("White Nights"). While I realize this article was intended to report a trend, I resent the manner in which it does so. The writer's claim that "cocaine is fast regaining its...

Posers.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2006... Juergen Teller's fashion shoot "Cover Girls" (September) was a provocative and mesmerizing portfolio of legendary beauties. The raw lighting and ascetic background fantastically highlighted the fabulous colors and proportions of the season. The...

Autumn bounty.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2006... I could not read the exceptional October issue fast enough. It was chock-full of superb fashion designs, informative articles and delicious dish! James Reginato's peek into the life of Scotland's Marquess of Bute ("Bute Force") was a...

Civic pride.(Readers React)(Letter to the editor)
November 1, 2006... I joyously perused the pages of your Detroit photo shoot ('Welcome to the Motor City," September). I even showed them off at the salon while I was getting a pedicure. Your magazine offers not only the best in fashion but in pop culture as well....

High profile.(Uncensored)
November 1, 2006... To inaugurate the opening of his Upper East Side boutique, Amedeo Scognamiglio, whose family business manufactures more cameos than any other company in the world, spent days hand-carving the likeness of Olivia Chantecaille. "Olivia has perfect...

Hot wheels.(Uncensored)
November 1, 2006... Even the smallest guests at the Carlyle, a Rosewood hotel, can now get five-star treatment. The legendary hotel on Manhattan's Upper East Side is lending families with infants world-renowned Balmoral prams from Silver Cross, monogrammed with...

Reindeer games.(Uncensored)
November 1, 2006... At Harrods, a singing reindeer is as in demand as a Marc Jacobs quilted Stam. Big Buck is a wall-mounted reindeer head that looks just like a hunting trophy and sings a repertoire of country and rock "n" roll tunes, including "Sweet Home...

Royal blush.(Uncensored)
November 1, 2006... For decades Italy was deprived of its royals and all the great gossip that comes with them. But this past summer, deposed prince Vittorio Emanuele, the son of Italy's last king, found himself at the center of a prostitution-ring scandal. No...

For the birds.(Uncensored)
November 1, 2006... As we all know, MADONNA and controversy go together like cookies and milk. Her latest HULLABALOO started in September, when animal welfare groups got angry at the singer because she imported 1,000 pheasants from France--to be shot on her...

Bravo, Rosemary: maternal angst, the antichrist and adorable shift dresses--Rosemary's Baby had it all.(Trend)
November 1, 2006... It wasn't too long ago that Mia Farrow references ruled the runways, with designers smitten with her Seventies take on Great Gatsby gal Daisy Buchanan. Now Mia is back as muse, but this time the inspiration comes from the role that made her a...

Vision quest: greater volume, languid draping and elegant understatement were among the directional elements in the New York spring collections.(Fashion Flash)
November 1, 2006... As a fleet of daring new buildings goes up, and the local skyline morphs all around them, New York's designers reflected the changing look of the city during the spring collections. Subtle experimentation with fuller volumes combined with a...

A fine balance: Thakoon Panichgul merges conceptual fashion with a love of both romance and minimalism.(Fashion Flash)
November 1, 2006... This past March, when the Council of Fashion Designers of America announced that Thakoon Panichgul was among those nominated for its Swarovski Perry Ellis award, deliverymen from the city's top florists were soon dispatched by industry...

The Boston pops: director Malcolm Rogers opens the first new fashion show in 20 years at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.(Fashion Flash)
November 1, 2006... Malcolm Rogers, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is reviewing the layout for "Fashion Show: Paris Collections 2006," the institution's first major fashion exhibit in nearly two decades. "Okay," he instructs department of textile and...

A touch of the poet: after reinventing Rochas, Oliver Theyskens is set to bring his beguiling fashion sensibility to Nina Ricci.(Fashion Flash)
November 1, 2006... Early in his career, fashion wunderkind Olivier Theyskens was anointed a goth hero. The tag still sticks sometimes, perhaps because of his long raven hair and the frequent use of black--and, on more than one occasion, dead birds--in his...

Pretty little things: a range of offerings from Italy's finest jewelry houses.(Accessories Flash)
November 1, 2006... When it comes to jewelry design, Italy is the belle of the bauble. But then, design innovation is a national hallmark. Case in point: the way jewelers manipulate offbeat materials into statement-making pieces, as in Sanalitro's arresting...

Dark times statement watches with a shadowy streak.(Accessories Flash)
November 1, 2006... Chunky, sporty and oh so mysterious, the new crop of black watches is fashionable day and night. Take Tag Heuer's chronograph, which is tricked out with stainless steel details and an inky rubber band. Gucci's sleek G Chrono Black model has a...

Haute Kotur: a society fixture in Hong Kong steps out on her own with a new handbag fine.(Accessories Flash)
November 1, 2006... Fiona Kotur looks every bit the Park Avenue princess--all patrician cool with her alabaster skin, flaxen coiffure and rangy, equestrian build. But this transplanted New York social, whose CV boasts private-school creds, a moneyed bloodline and...

Substance matters: hearty jewels in warm tones get their moment.(Accessories Flash)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Style over substance? When it comes to jewelry, the two are intrinsically linked. Now, many designers are using strong, even plain-looking materials to earthy effect. Mark Davis fashioned his coolly exotic cuff from polished, tortoise-toned...

Gem class: opulent jewels that make a statement.(Accessories Flash)
November 1, 2006... There's nothing subtle about piling on gigantic gems, and sometimes that's exactly the point. This dark fall season, defined by a muted palette of blacks and neutrals, may find you coveting a touch (or more) of glitz. So why not get a little...

Shady characters: designers offer fresh takes on vintage sunglasses.(Accessories Flash)
November 1, 2006... Young Hollywood's paparazzi protection of choice--see tired specimen of Olsen twin, OC starlet or Simpson sister wearing a pair of oversize, XXL retro-glam sunglasses--has given way this season to a new wave of vintage-inspired angular eyewear,...

Turkish delights: meet the brothers who have brought their jewelry from a Near East bazaar to New York's Fifth Avenue.(Accessories Flash)
November 1, 2006... Twenty-five years ago, when brothers Ferhan and Muharrem Geylan were operating a small jewelry business out of a booth in a Turkish bazaar, they couldn't have imagined their future success. "It was one and a half square meters," says Ferhan....

Hands down: get a grip on stylish gloves.(Accessories Flash)
November 1, 2006... Gloves are often a forgotten accessory. But given the current craze for bundling up, designers are lavishing attention on the cold-weather basic with a host of offerings that bridge the cozy-chic divide. Louis Vuitton makes an edgy statement...

Glam geometry: bold designs feature diamonds at the right angle.(Accessories Flash)
November 1, 2006... High school geometry was never this much fun. Two of Paris's leading jewelry houses have designed striking pieces featuring a whole lot of diamonds. At Cartier, nearly 80 carats make up this crisscross-pattern necklace, each brilliant-cut stone...

New wave: the latest in jewelry--from a star-shaped diamond to an architectural silver cuff.(Accessories Flash)
November 1, 2006... Starring Role Diamonds come in all shapes and sizes--hearts, kites and tulips among them--but the star has yet to secure a permanent place in the world of cut stones. This month H. Stern introduces a starshaped, asymmetrically cut diamond...

The chill factor: take to the slopes oh-so-stylishly in these sporty, cold-comfort finds.(Shopping)
November 1, 2006... Moncler Nylon jacket, $795, at Neiman Marcus; neimanmarcus.com [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Dior Plastic goggles, by John Galliano, $240, at Dior; 800.929.DIOR [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ralph Lauren Blue Label Cotton and...

Male pattern badness: shags, spikes, feathers, flips--an epidemic of bad haircuts is afflicting modern men.(Beauty Flash)
November 1, 2006... My husband shaves his head, and the reason this pleases me goes beyond what we save on I shampoo and the fact that I think bald men radiate sexy confidence. The real appeal: With no hair on his head, he won't shock me by returning from the...

A winter's tale: braving the elements calls for an arsenal of potent products.(Beauty Flash)
November 1, 2006... 1 Royal Treatment Once reserved solely for emperors and high-ranking dignitaries in ancient China, Ganoderma lucidum has been referred to by those lucky enough to ingest it as the "mushroom of immortality." Making use of the fabled fungus,...

The brittle truth: think you're too young to worry about osteoporosis? Researchers say that extreme dieting and exercise--even in one's 20s--can be bad for bones.(Beauty Flash)
November 1, 2006... This past March Angela Severson was executing a series of jumps in her tae kwon do class when she heard a clunking sound in her back followed by what felt like a jolt of electricity running through her spine. "I thought I pulled a muscle or...

Hair apparent: Leonor Greyl's hair-care line, now helmed by daughter Caroline, is French understatement at its best.(Beauty Flash)(Leonor Greyl Institute)(Company overview)
November 1, 2006... Legend has it that Marie Antoinette was a bubbly blond until the eve of her execution. It was only upon learning of her dire fate, the story goes, that her hair turned dusty gray--and it did so literally overnight. It may sound far-fetched, but...

Tres moderne.(Hotel Fouquet's Barriere)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... The Hotel Fouquet's Barriere is the Champs-Elysees' newest luxury auberge. Designed by Jacques Garcia, the hotel features all the swanky amenities one would expect (like personal butler service), with an emphasis on cutting-edge technology. All...

Sweets and tarts.(Bakery)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... PARISIANS ARE SNOBS ABOUT THEIR CROISSANTS AND MILLE-FEUILLES, BUT THAT'S NOT TO SAY THEY CAN'T ALSO APPRECIATE A CLASSIC BRITISH SCONE. SINCE 2002 THE BAKERY HAS DRAWN LOCALS AND EXPATS ALIKE FOR ITS FAMOUS CARROT CAKE, ONION TARTS AND FULL...

The Athenee, uncorked.(Wine Tour)(Hotel Plaza Athenee)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Gerard Margeon, the head sommelier at the Hotel Plaza Athenee, is now offering tours of the hotel's famed wine cellar. Visitors enter through a door hidden in one of the hotel's hallways and are greeted with a glass of champagne. Margeon then...

Luxury living.(Maisons)
November 1, 2006... For well-heeled visitors in need of long-term lodgings--or simply something homier than a five-star hotel--Cedric Reversade and Paul Maxime Koskas are the men to know. As cofounders of home-rental service Unique Properties, they hold the keys...

Decor delights.(Museum)(The Musiee Des Arts)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... AFTER 10 YEARS AND A $46 MILLION MAKEOVER, THE MUSIEE DES ARTS DECORATIFS---A MAJOR INSTITUTION DEVOTED TO FRENCH FURNITURE, PORCELAIN, TEXTILES AND JEWELRY--HAS FINALLY REOPENED. "IT'S NOT A MUSEUM OF KINGS, LIKE THE LOUVRE. IT'S NOT EVEN A...

Ski school: how to navigate the moguls--both off the slopes and on.(Travel Flash)(Geographic overview)
November 1, 2006... SUN VALLEY, ID Who Goes: Demi Moore, Clint Eastwood, Arie and Coco Kopelman, Donna Karan, J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler, Jann Wenner and anyone hoping to avoid the hoi polloi. (There is no major commercial airport nearby, so private jets...

Two of a kind: a new book captures the whimsy of artists Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne.(Home Flash)
November 1, 2006... A life-size, cast-iron baboon that hides a fireplace in its belly... a bronze bench with crocodiles slithering through its legs... garden chairs shaped like giant turtledoves. Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne's creations mix art with...

Museum Maverick: art-world visionary Michael Covan takes on Los Angeles.(Art Flash)
November 1, 2006... In years past, when Michael Govan was director of the Dia Center, one of the country's most innovative contemporary-art organizations, perhaps his greatest pleasure I was walking into the space in upstate New York that housed the Warhols,...

Family values: charged with the daunting task of preserving their father's work in perpetuity, Donald Judd's children discover that where there's a will, there's a way.(Art Flash)
November 1, 2006... WDJD is a familiar acronym to anyone who has spent time in Marfa, the once sleepy West Texas town that, beginning in the Seventies, Donald Judd transformed into a minimalist-art mecca. The initials, which stand for What Would Donald Judd Do?...

Star search: for artists today, the path from emerging to blue chip is short but perilous.(Art Flash)
November 1, 2006... Five years ago, Dana Schutz was just another talented painter working toward an M.F.A. at Columbia University. Since then, her career has been the stuff of starry-eyed fantasy. In 2001, though Schutz was still in her final year of school,...

Talent show: introducing five up-and-coming artists, from painters to printmakers, who are already well on their way to becoming the next generation of stars.(Art Flash)
November 1, 2006... AYA UEKAWA Dressed in layered silk-screen T-shirts and chunky glasses, Aya Uekawa, in person, looks more like an art student than the enigmatic, ultrafashionable girls who haunt disconcertingly traquil spaces in her paintings. "My work is...

At his own pace: PaceWildenstein's Marc Climcher masters the deal.(Art Flash)
November 1, 2006... Marc Glimcher's first forays into the art world were nothing short of petrifying. As a child, the now 43-year-old president of PaceWildenstein gallery traveled with his father, Pace founder Arne Glimcher. on his business trips, visiting some of...

Buying and the boom: with through-the-roof prices and wait lists galore, starting an art collection takes more money and moxie than ever.(Art Flash)
November 1, 2006... Thirty million bucks ain't what it used to be. There was a time, not all that long ago, when a serious art collector could reasonably expect to spend a million dollars over 20 or 30 years and end up with a perfectly respectable representation...

Three's company: for the Acquavella siblings, buying and selling art is truly a family affair.(Art Flash)(Acquavella Galleries)
November 1, 2006... There isn't a whole lot of "alone time" in the Acquavella clan. In the five-story town house on East 79th Street that has been home to the Acquavella Galleries since 1967, every phone conversation conducted by Eleanor, 33, can be overheard by...

Edifice complex: museums spend fortunes on trophy buildings, but are they really worth it?(Art Flash)
November 1, 2006... The expansive grassy mall in downtown Denver that today goes by the name Civic Center was first proposed by Mayor Robert Speer in 1904, after he caught wind of an architectural reform movement called City Beautiful, which proposed, in the...

Beach clubber: an Eton and Oxford graduate is hoping to add a little sophistication to Miami nightlife.(Going Out)
November 1, 2006... Having spent much of his 20s working as a doorman and a party promoter in New York at short-lived hot spots like NV, Spa, Plaid and Life, Reinaldo "Bibs" Bibolini is getting to the point where he can take or leave going out. Since moving to...

Spin doctors.(EYE)
November 1, 2006... "You can actually feel the building shaking," said Francisco Costa at a Calvin Klein soiree downtown celebrating his spring collection. It was an apt comment because the party shot a bolt of energy through New York Fashion Week. Drew Barrymore,...

Hot to trot: it takes more than Daddy's millions to make it as a junior horse jumper.(EYE)
November 1, 2006... On a Sunday in May at Old Salem Farm, a rolling, 100-acre Westchester County, New York, horse farm once owned by Patti Newman, Daisy Johnson is literally risking her neck. Astride her new gray steed, V.D.L. Oscar, the teenage daughter of New...

The big top.(EYE)(Marc Jacobs spring 2007 show)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... "Don't be a liar, liar, pants on fire," Demi Moore groused to the horde of photographers crowding her and Ashton Kutcher at the Marc Jacobs spring 2007 show in September. "I heard you say, 'Just give me one shot,' and I gave it to you." It's...

Bourne supremacy: Matthew Bourne brings Edward Scissorhands to the stage.(EYE)
November 1, 2006... Even though his past productions include versions of the Nutcracker (albeit reset in an orphanage) and Swan Lake (famously with an all-male cast), British dancer and choreographer Matthew Bourne doesn't consider work ballet. "I always flinch at...

Cyber snobs: the Web community Smallworld is where the elite meet.(EYE)(asmallworld.net)(Website overview)
November 1, 2006... For those who thought popularity contests ended in high school, think again. When members log on to asmallworld.net, an exclusive online community catering to the rich and frequent-flying, they can pull up a list of the Web site's 40 "most...

Dying to be thin: in a chilling new documentary, photographer Lauren Greenfield explores the all-too-real world inside an eating-disorders clinic.(EYE)
November 1, 2006... There was Shelly (84 pounds), an anorexic whose meals were administered through an intestinal tube. There was 15-year-old Brittany (97 pounds), whose mother taught her how to binge; together they liked to buy jumbo-size bags of candy and play a...

Different strokes.(EYE)
November 1, 2006... For Cecilia Dean, Amanda Brooks and Amanda Hearst, New York Fashion Week kicked off at the Core Club with a screening of Signe Chanel, a Sundance reality series about Karl Lagerfeld putting together a couture show. Daria Werbowy munched on...

The history boy: American architect Erich Theophile is a man on a mission to preserve Nepal's ancient wonders.(EYE)
November 1, 2006... Erich Theophile has no particular affinity for bullwhips and fedoras, but it wouldn't be off base to call him the Indiana Jones of architecture: The dashing 48-year-old loves nothing more than rescuing historical treasures in far-flung locales....

Healing, Hollywood style: a skeptic surrenders himself to L.A.'s gurus of alternative medicine.(EYE)
November 1, 2006... I am standing in the Bodhi Tree Bookstore, a New Age emporium in West Hollywood, trying to draw healing earth energy up through the soles of my feet. "Feel it rise through your legs and into your torso and let it shine out through your...

Star Wars.(EYE)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Los Angeles nightlife must have been very sleepy, considering the veritable Hollywoodland that invaded a slew of New York Fashion Week parties. An endless stream of big names including Kirsten Dunst, Zooey Deschanel, Eva Mends, MaryKate Olsen...

See it.(EYE View: This month in the arts: Spanish ghosts and Kazakh sausages)(movie director Pedro Almodovar)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... [VOLVER] No one can do soap opera like Pedro Almodovar. His brilliant career-toppers All About My Mother and Talk to Her have the zany, heightened reality of television melodrama. But over the years, Almodovar's movies have also started to...

Skip it.(Film)(Bobby)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... [BOBBY] November is cinema's fat season, packed with ambitious movies for Oscar consideration, so audiences can afford to be picky. By these tough standards, Bobby, which back in August might have seemed like a meaty alternative to lightweight...

Best-dressed buildings.(Art)
November 1, 2006... WHEN IS A SKYSCRAPER LIKE A DRESS? MORE OFTEN THAN YOU MIGHT IMAGINE, ACCORDING TO THE UPCOMING EXHIBITION "SKIN + BONES: PARALLEL PRACTICES IN FASHION AND ARCHITECTURE," AT THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN LOS ANGELES. THE SHOW ARGUES THAT...

Cuerpo perfecto.(Film)
November 1, 2006... Penelope Cruz's look in Volver is the sum of many parts--the parts of various women in Pedro Almodovar's fantasy life. Here, the director explains his inspirations, 1. Eyes: Claudia Cardinale 2. Hairstyle: "A young Sophia Loren" 3. Cleavage:...

Lily Allen.(Music)(pop singer)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... Lily Allen looks and sounds innocent enough, with her big doe eyes, Anita Pallenberg bangs and a voice that reaches into choir-girl territory. But listen closely to the lyrics of her new album, Alright, Still (Capitol), and you'll realize that...

Crazy for Kazakhstan.(Travel)
November 1, 2006... "Women [in Kazakhstan] are not kept in cages. Wine is not made from fermented horse urine." So spoke a Kazakh representative in September, defending his country against slanderous references in Sacha Baron Cohen's caustic new comedy, Borat, in...

Show stoppers.(Books)(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... THE ALLURE OF THE SHOWGIRL TAKES CENTER STAGE IN THREE NEW BOOKS THAT CELEBRATE SMOKY-EYED BEAUTIES CLAD IN SPANGLES AND SEQUINS. IN PRETTY THINGS (REGAN BOOKS), LIZ GOLDWYN'S PRINT VERSION OF HER 2005 HBO DOCUMENTARY, THE ART OF BURLESQUE IS...

Art w.
November 1, 2006... Jeff Koons Brice Marden Adam McEwen Bruce Nauman Richard Prince Stephen Shore Mario Sorrenti Juersen Teller Richard Tuttle Andro Wekua Lisa Yuskavage This month marks W's first Art Issue, devoted to new and previously unpublished work....

Eden: a collaboration by Richard Tuttle & Mario Sorrenti.(Cover story)
November 1, 2006... Etro's black silk top with metal chains, at Saks Fifth Avenue; select Neiman Marcus and Etro stores; Missoni's black cashmere and silk top and skirt, and wool leggings, at Missoni, New York. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Donna Karan's violet...

Koons world: how does a baby-faced former salesman from small-town Pennsylvania climb to the highest ranks of the art establishment? In the case of Jeff Koons--arguably the most important contemporary artist today--by throwing anxiety out the window and doing as he pleases every step of the way.
November 1, 2006... HIS PERMA-GRIN, SHIPSHAPE HAIR AND SHARP, ELFIN NOSE MAKE JEFF KOONS SEEM LIKE A 1950s HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK PICTURE COME TO LIFE. HE'S THE ARCHETYPAL SMALL-TOWN, SQUEAKY-CLEAN BOY WHO LOOKS YOU STRAIGHT IN THE EYE AND SHAKES YOUR HAND WITH THE...

Lisa's women: these aren't your father's nudes. Painter Lisa Yuskavage has tarted up the classical genre--and has had a rip-roaring good time doing it.
November 1, 2006... Lisa Yuskavage, an endearing jumble of earthy and motherly, feminine and bawdy, voluptuous and stout, is sitting in a cafe not far from her painting studio in downtown Manhattan and remembering the first time she was invited to lecture at her...

Out of the past: a former refugee from war-torn Georgia, Andro Wekua creates exquisitely haunting tableaux and works on paper that speak of strife, displacement and vanished innocence. Just don't ask the artist how much he's drawn from his personal history.
November 1, 2006... Andro Wekua does not like to talk much about his past. But if pushed, he will recount his carefree days as a young boy in Sukhumi, a spa town and beach resort on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, in Georgia. It was the mid-Eighties, the...

Marden Manor: abstract painter Brice Marden--the latest in a long line of great artists who have called the Hudson River Valley home--balances the restoration of a grand old estate with preparations for a major retrospective.(Frederic Edwin Church)
November 1, 2006... The banks of New York's Hudson River have long been associated with big-name artists and divine houses, in the 19th century, Frederic Edwin Church. Thomas Cole and Albert Bierstadt were among the painters who found inspiration in the region's...

Unseen: Bruce Nauman.(Brief article)
November 1, 2006... DURING THE FOUR DECADES THAT HE'S BEEN MAKING ART, Bruce Nauman has cast molds of his own body parts, shot videos of a clown balancing goldfish bowls, and built a gallery installation titled Get Out of My Mind, Get Out of This Room, in which...

Richard Prince: artist whose plundered mythology turned the tragi-comic landscape of America into high art.(Obituary)
November 1, 2006... RICHARD PRINCE, who has died aged 57, was the most influential artist of his generation and a restless connoisseur of the underbelly of the American Dream. He was best known for his grainy photographs of Stetsoned cowboys lifted directly...