Vogue articles from April 2005

Vogue archives from April 2005

elegantly waisted.(fashion)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... With the departure of bumsters and the rise of high-rise trousers, fashion's gaze has lifted from the hipbone (so 1999) to the natural waist. Which is why you need a belt. And not just your basic inch-thick black belt with a modest brass...

a heavy heart; When other children's mothers gardened and played piano, Devon O'Brien's took to her bed and gained pound upon pound.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Devon O'brien' It was early on the opening night of my new play in Los Angeles, and I needed a moment of peace. I had survived "Hell Week" (the difficult days prior to opening; even small productions like this one have big...

girls of the moment the met dance committee.(fund raising events)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Byline: William Norwich From princesses to prizefighters, the holders of great titles understand that there's nothing like a little polish every once in a while to keep things glowing golden. So a new radiance will be applied this spring...

TREND OF THE MONTH busy bodies.(runway shows)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... There was never a more spirited crowd than the one that huddled close around Zac Posen's linen-white runway during New York Fashion Week. It seemed that all of the designer's truest friends and followers-from the impeccably stylish Sally...

survival of the fittest; Weight rooms and spinning classes today have become a Darwinian jungle where ill-behaved exercisers run amok.
April 1, 2005... Spring is here at last, thank goodness. I am exhausted by my friends' fitness regimens. In particular, their shock about what goes on in gyms and yoga rooms, the etiquette breaches, the spandex britches, the smell of the greasy . . . ahem. Half...

LET THEM EAT CAKE!(Dishing)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Byline: William Norwich For its high-calorie-without-the-calories effect I relished receiving an advance copy of Liz Smith's Dishing (Simon & Schuster). Here is everything high and low about food and entertaining, from Renee Zellweger's...

beautiful dreamers; At the Paris haute couture, designers spun magical reveries on the grand silhouettes of centuries past-and reveled in the arts of the petits mains.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Hamish Bowles Fashion is exploring new volumes and pneumatic effects, and Christian Lacroix-who debuted his pouf line with his first couture effort under the Lacroix label in 1987-is once again coming into his own. His spectacular...

at long last love; After enduring decades as the tabloids' favorite "other woman," Camilla Parker Bowles is finally getting her prince.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Hamish Bowles My great-grandmother was the mistress of your great-great grandfather-so how about it?" was apparently the irresistible opener posed by irresistible Camilla Shand, meeting Prince Charles for the first time at a polo...

erin daniels; The 32-year-old actress who plays a tennis player on The L Word serves up what does (and doesn't) look good on her muscular frame.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Irini Arakas FRENCH CONNECTION I was lucky enough to preview the Balenciaga fall collection in Paris and was blown away by a chocolate Empire-waisted floor-length dress. It took me off-guard because I tend to stay away...

holly phillips; This uptown M.D. (and former model) doctors her wardrobe around a lanky, five-eleven frame.(Brief Article)(Column)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Florence Kane WEARS THE PANTS I enjoy being tall and wearing clothes with long, lean lines to complement my height. I'm definitely a pants person, and absolutely could not live without my fitted, flared Gucci pantsuits in...

grace lamb; For the co-owner of four East Village hot spots (including Jewel Bako and Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar), "work clothes" means Hitchcock-era cocktail dresses and Marc Jacobs heels.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Jane Herman SHORT STORY Because I'm five feet tall, the challenge is to find clothes that fit my body's proportions in width. Often I will try on a dress and it will be perfect in length but too tight in the arms. Or I'll find...

natalia gottret; This Bolivian-born Wall Street trader makes all the right acquisitions for her lithe, lean limbs.(personal appearance)(Column)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Mark Holgate HITTING THE FLOOR I work at Merrill Lynch, so the dress code for work is pretty conservative: suits, with either pants or skirts, and shirts. Finding clothes that fit is always an issue. I'm five-nine and take...

amy fleetwood; An L.A. photographer accents an anti-frump maternity wardrobe with cool old standbys and bright new hues.(Los Angeles)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Florence Kane GREAT EXPECTATIONS Most maternity clothes are horrible, and I don't want to spend lots of money on things I can wear for only a little while. After all, when you're pregnant, a good outfit will last only for about two...

gabriela lanardonne; The 27-year-old philanthropist favors quirky, luxurious basics and thigh-flattering denim.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Irini Arakas SEASONS CHANGE Some fuller-figured women think they need to cover up, so they look forward to winter clothes. But I look my best in the summer. I love my flirty Missoni skirts. I wear them with my white Marni or Thomas...

come together; It takes five to tango this spring.(Fashion design)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Lynn Yaeger The only time it seemed like a lot of people were in the room was when we all got excited," says Kate Spade, describing the seamlessness of her collaboration with As Four, the design collective al-so known as Gabi, Kai,...

the simple life; Time for a time-out from the ladylike trend, with its lacy flourishes, jangling charms, and fancy furbelows.(personal appearance)(Column)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Sarah Mower Sometimes a change in what you want to wear comes over you not as the mild, meandering fancy of the ordinary order but a drastic physical reaction. An attack of claustrophobia and raging impatience finished me and...

titlehere; On her way to Broadway in a Tennessee Williams classic, Natasha Richardson talks to Adam Green about the role of a lifetime.(Interview)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Adam Green Blanche DuBois, the doomed heroine of Tennessee Williams's 1947 masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire, is often considered the female Hamlet-ubiquitous but notoriously difficult to play. By turns flighty, genteel,...

women on the verge; The Upside of Anger unleashes Joan Allen as a wronged wife in all her fury, while Palindromes has eight people playing the same thirteen-year-old girl.
April 1, 2005... From Mary Tyler Moore's crushingly uptight mom in Ordinary People to Marcia Cross's steel pixie on Desperate Housewives, American pop culture never tires of turning out the brittle, kabuki-faced homemaker who can't let herself admit what...

couture club.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Byline: John Powers There may be no more elegant 40 minutes of moviemaking this year than Wong Kar Wai's "The Hand," the opening episode of the new three-part film Eros. (The other segments are by Steven Soderbergh and Michelangelo...

bright ideas; Sophie von Hellermann brings her wry paintings to New York.
April 1, 2005... Sophie von Hellermann came out of the gate running. The same year she graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2001, she had three shows of her own-one of them at the famed Saatchi Gallery, no less. Next came the Pompidou's...

larger than life.(sculpture)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian While they may be in keeping with spring's gypsy, hand-crafted spirit, Peter Schlesinger's new ceramics are a long way from arts and crafts. If anything, these six-and-a-half-feet-tall, totem-like sculptures, with...

a vision in white; Spain's pueblos blancos offer charming cobbled streets, wonderful vistas, authentic cuisine, and private villas.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Richard Alleman Mention Andalusia and most travelers think of Granada, Cordoba, and Seville-or perhaps the well-trafficked Costa del Sol. But there is also another Andalusia-a secret, unspoiled world of stony mountains, giant fir...

place your bets.(musical theater show)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Eve Macsweeney Hugh Jackman wasn't kidding when he declared his love of musical theater by dancing on the piano in The Boy from Oz, his year-long smash with audiences-if not always with critics-on Broadway. "It ignited my passion...

strange times; From near-apocalypse to a rough and rowdy British family, Joan Juliet Buck finds mayhem on tv.
April 1, 2005... The flavor of the month, I regret to say, is the End of the World, the ultimate battle between good and evil. Our president would be the first to tell you that Armageddon is just around the corner, and he's not the only one. In your bookstore...

RETURN OF THE WARRIOR; When Candice Bergen plays a Murphy or a Shirley, women rule.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck The only ray of hope on TV right now is a terrifying lawyer named Shirley Schmidt, who has just joined the cast of David E. Kelley's Boston Legal. Overdressed and overbearing, unafraid to check out the men's...

now we are six; Flora Fraser's Princesses is a fascinating look at the claustrophobic upbringing of George III's daughters.(book)(Book Review)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Hamish Bowles With the flamboyant prince of Wales at their head, the sons of King George III were a famously disreputable lot who proved a sore disappointment to him. But the king and his wife, Queen Charlotte, doted on their...

RECKLESS.(books)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Adena Spingarn Sue Miller has been shaking up our notions of right and wrong ever since her best-selling 1986 debut novel, The Good Mother, which explored the lax sexual boundaries between a woman, her lover, and her young...

great grains; Jeffrey Steingarten discovers a secret recipe that turns rice into a dish of true delight.(Column)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten There we were at Bombay Talkie on Ninth Avenue in New York City, several long hibernal blocks from my house, munching on Bombay street food and other dishes by the light of a plasma screen flickering with the...

a place in the sun; The best beaches, the chicest people St.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Jane Shin Park Picture yourself standing on a shore surrounded by eight square miles of kaleidoscopic colors that rival those on your Pucci bikini: peaceful cerulean water so clear you can make out the shade of Chanel polish on...

feast and famine.(Red Mountain Spa)(Fermes de Marie)(Column)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Vicki Woods A friend just got back from a spa. The regimen was punishing, the food spare. One meal was almonds-"Eight!"-and three dried apricots. She lost nine pounds in one week. Question: Was this in (A) America or (B) Europe?...

becoming a yogini.(Column)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Sally Singer This past year I developed an oxymoronic and slightly base ambition: to acquire a Yoga Body. Yoga, a philosophy that obliterates all Cartesian distinctions between the physical and the mental, is notoriously not about...

swimming to manhattan.(weight loss)(Column)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Jennifer Senior For as long as I can remember, I have always loved to swim. I love the gear, love the tangy smell of chlorine, love that it's a way to travel-a literal change in milieu-without leaving the confines of a gym. As a...

hoop dreams.(Column)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Eve Macsweeney There seem to be two alternatives when it comes to the gym: complete obsession or complete noncompliance. And I can understand why. Pounding away on the various calorie-burners-cross trainers, treadmills,...

fats & figures; A new scale brings another dimension to the weight equation.(Column)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Adena Spingarn There are two camps when it comes to women and scales: avoiders and obsessers. I'm a scale avoider, preferring to gauge my body by the fit of my favorite jeans. So it was with great trepidation that I stepped onto...

the shape issue.
April 1, 2005... Who knew that quarter-size polka dots are the best punctuation for a pint-size body? Or that scarlet might be just as slimming on a curvy figure as boring black? When it comes to fashion, size obviously does matter-and this issue is devoted to...

beauty & the beast; Drew Barrymore is a natural as the heart-strong heroine in Vogue's vision of the classic fairy tale.(Biography)
April 1, 2005... Byline: John Powers It's a lazy Sunday evening, and Drew Barrymore and I are sitting in Mel's Drive-In, a hangout on the Sunset Strip. I know I should be asking about her upcoming romantic comedy Fever Pitch, or how she's flying off to...

height of the party; Standing six-feet-one-inches tall ever since age fourteen, Amy Sacco is used to the view from above.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Plum Sykes I'm large and in charge," declares Amy Sacco. It's a freezing December morning, and the vibe at the construction site of Amy's new restaurant, Bette, is very Girl Power. Amy is wearing floor-skimming jeans, a gigantic...

living large; She has a magnificent, full-size body and a giant voice.(Interview)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Van Meter It's not easy being Queen. For one thing, there is the not-insignificant matter of her name, which is actually Dana Owens. A perfectly lovely name, certainly, but nearly 20 years ago, when she was a teenager, she...

full poise; Ballerina Irina Dvorovenko is celebrating her transforming body and pirouetting straight through to the ninth month.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Gaby Wood On a Saturday morning in downtown Manhattan, the American Ballet Theatre's dancers are warming up. "Plie, releve, arabesque . . . " a Russian man instructs swiftly from beside the piano in rehearsal studio five. The...

golden year; Museum director and curator Thelma Golden is a diminutive powerhouse, shaking up the cultural agenda and turning heads with her punchy style.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Eve Macsweeney When you're five foot nothing on a good day and your dress size is "less than zero," it helps to have a big personality. Thelma Golden, the newly appointed director of the Studio Museum in Harlem (she served as its...

lithe spirit; With her uniquely whimsical sense of style, the oh-so-slim taste- and moviemaker Daphne Guinness is a fashion designer's dream.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Hamish Bowles Daphne Guinness has laid waste to her fitting room at Christian Lacroix's Parisian haute couture salon, as befits a woman whose latest style icon is Lord Nelson. "I have such a uniform fetish-isn't it terrible?"...

tuscan treat; Lord Lambton and Claire Ward have preserved the mystery and magic of this seventeenth-century villa, made its gardens bloom, and created a favorite haven for friends.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Catherine Fitz-gerald Set among ilex woods and olive groves, ten miles southwest of Siena, Villa Cetinale and its once famous gardens were slipping into decline when they were discovered by two English travelers renting a farmhouse...

edible education; Alice Waters, champion of organic produce and regional cooking, is fighting obesity by teaching kids the pleasures of eating, starting with lunch.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Katrina Heron It begins with a dense aroma of orange blossoms. "We're planting citrus trees in an outdoor enclosure that leads to the front door of the building, so you'll have this rich sensory preview, and then you'll be on the...

just add water; Get ready to suit up for the sun and surf in style with Vogue's haute list of the 53 best swim looks.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2005... The sultry heat of even the most glamorous getaway-whether sailing the Red Sea under the searing Egyptian sky or lounging postswim on Punta del Este's sandy beaches-can threaten a style meltdown if you're not completely prepared. And with...

directory.(Buyers Guide)
April 1, 2005... Talking fashion 141: From left: On Safra: Chanel black tulle embroidered dress. $20,110. Chanel, NYC. Stephen Russell earrings. Fred Leighton bracelets. On Wilhelm: Chanel printed-mousseline dress with pearl embroidery, $12,255. Chanel, NYC,...

our daily bread.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Anna Wintour This is our annual shape issue, which as ever celebrates the beautiful variety of our female forms. But we're particularly proud this year to bring you a story that concerns itself with the shape of our children and,...

graceful loser.(losing weight)(Column)
April 1, 2005... Byline: Andre Leon Talley In my favorite photograph of myself, taken by Arthur Elgort when I was 39, I walk proud and thin down Fifth Avenue in my best Huntsman suit and crocodile shoes. I keep that photograph on my mantel. Not long...

lone star; As a teenage Wranglerette, Rene Steinke wore big hair, fringe, and short skirts, all the while wondering if outsize Texas glamour couldn't be a tad more subtle.
April 1, 2005... Byline: Rene Steinke When I was sixteen, I was a Wranglerette-one of 40 lithe girls who would dance in synchronicity on the high school football field at halftime, high kicking, Rockette-style, white boots aligned. In Friendswood, Texas, a...