Vogue articles from April 2006

Vogue archives from April 2006

girl of the moment amanda brooks.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... NO ONE DID FASHION WEEK WITH as much style and grace as Amanda Brooks. Catching nearly a dozen shows-Zac Posen, Carolina Herrera, and Proenza Schouler among them-Brooks (who's currently penning a book on personal style and inspiration) looked...

trend of the moment it's a cinch.(belts)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... BIG, STATEMENT-MAKING BELTS ARE a must this season, as could be seen during New York Fashion Week. Cinched over dresses, coats, and fitted jackets, too, these bold accessories, which are showing up in everything from sleek black satin to...

sunshine states; Haute preppies (and strict dress codes) still rule on Florida's gold coast.
April 1, 2006... Byline: William Norwich What better way to cure the wintertime blues than drinks and dinner with the always-sunny Michael Kors in Palm Beach? In his capacity as a prince of American fashion, Michael was here to be enthroned at Saks...

making it big; Katie Price's fame in Britain is paramount- and so are her 32DD breasts.(Interview)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Vicki Woods At his London studio, David Bailey shouts (and not for the last time): "Put those tits down!" He is photographing one of the biggest celebrities in Britain, 28-year-old Katie Price, also known as Jordan or (to men) as...

curvy keely shaye smith; An environmental fund-raiser-and Pierce Brosnan's wife-she loves Valentino bags and a clean fifties silhouette.(Interview)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman BOLD MOVES I never shy away from color or my curves. I wear a lot of lavender and green because they look good with my dark eyes and my gold-toned skin, and I like to play up my neckline and shoulders. Fit is key,...

tall jennifer gray; This architectural historian makes the most of her height by keeping a careful balance between top and bottom.(Interview)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman LEGS UP TO THERE I can wear almost any shirt right off the rack, but when it comes to pants, if they're long enough, I usually have to take them in at the waist. I have yet to find a pair that's too long! Certain...

Thin Ferebee Bishop; As a publicist for Calvin Klein, she helps the red-carpet crowd find the perfect look-and dresses herself in cashmere and serious stilettos.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman LESSON NUMBER 1 When I first moved to New York, I was a fit model for Tracy Reese. Her clothes are so playful and feminine, and the dresses-I love fun dresses-are perfect for my lean body type. Working with...

short kristen bell; The 25-year-old Veronica Mars star merges high heels and high comfort.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Florence Kane RELAX, GO TO IT! As much as I love fashion, I like comfort, which applies to everything I live in when I'm on set. I wear dark Juicy Couture jeans almost every day. They're not Kate Moss-style, but they don't...

pregnant marysol castro; The Good Morning America correspondent gives the scoop on her urban-chic mother-to-be mode.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Florence Kane THAT'S A WRAP 've been very lucky: I only started to show at five months into my pregnancy, so I was getting away with wearing a lot of my regular clothes. One dress I've been able to carry over...

totally waisted; Belts-in tons of shapes, sizes, and styles-are today's smartest quick fix.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Mower It's quite obvious that we need only two things to change the way we look this season: a belt and a pair of platforms. Voila, a new silhouette. That's the kind of clarity I go for in fashion, those rare seasons when all...

slim pickings; J Brand jeans leads the rebellion against overfancy, overdesigned denim.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Florence Kane Distressed, dirty-washed, ripped, jeweled, flared. . . .This is the kind of jean jargon that will soon be banished from our denim vocabulary if the creators of J Brand have anything to do with it. Jeff Rudes...

adult content; The fashion world is blazing, once again, with sexy clothes and images of provocation.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Holgate You'll be facing a stark fashion decision this fall, if the recent run of New York shows is anything to go by. You can choose to follow in the footsteps of Marc Jacobs and load as many layers as possibly onto your...

old boys' network; After more than a decade in the sharp-men's-suit business, Alexandre Plokhov is finally giving women what they want, too.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Aimee Cho Alexandre Plokhov's first female client was a commodities trader named Jennifer Fan. Jennifer happened to go with a friend to the Cloak boutique opening on Greene Street in SoHo last fall and thought that the Cloak...

the star treatment; How would Nicole Richie's stylist change the way a Vogue writer dresses.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Marina Rust Tina calls from London. Do I know a stylist for Sarah? A stylist? Tina's sister is not an actress, just a nice girl from D.C. "I want to surprise her for her birthday," explains Tina. "There's a good one here...

a cut above; The smart design team behind Be & D has high expectations for their cool, handcrafted handbags . . . and every intention of exceeding them.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman It's love at first sight: A woman sees a bag she likes, and seconds later she's examining every inch of it from the inside out, as if her most personal belongings were already tucked precisely into its many...

losing her buttons; What's to be done when your most expensive coats continually fail you with a single simple and totally disappointing technical malfunction: the disappearing button.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Plum Sykes Darling," said my husband back in the fall of 2005, "if avian flu comes here, we need to start thinking about where we are going to go. It could really finish me off." He had a grim look on his face. A few weeks...

natural selection.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Sometimes Mother Nature knows best. And her fashion insight is obvious in the 100 percent-organic look of some of spring's best day bags-the Prada seaside purse with its rope handle; the soft, undyed look of the Ferragamo; the Yves Saint...

life lessons; Adam Green talks to Alan Bennett about his riveting new memoir and The History Boys, the play that could be his first American hit.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Adam Green During his brief career as a medieval historian at Oxford, in the late fifties and early sixties, Alan Bennett once gave a lecture on Richard II, after which he asked the audience if it had any questions. "Could you tell...

significant others.(Shining City)(Theater review)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Adam Green Conor McPherson, who explored the loneliness and fear of the rural Irish soul in The Weir, returns to the New York stage this month with his exhilarating new play Shining City, in which he shows that his urban-dwelling...

enchanted island; France's ele de Re has all the natural beauty and insider glamour of the Hamptons--without the crowds.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Richard Alleman Just offshore from the port of La Rochelle, halfway down France's Atlantic coast, ele de Re is an eighteen-mile-long island of dune-backed beaches, pristine pine forests, lush vineyards, and sweeping wildflower...

risky business; The Notorious Bettie Page remembers a bygone era, while Thank You for Smoking lampoons the tobacco industry.
April 1, 2006... Is there anything more quaint than yesterday's scandals? Back in the 1950s, the pinup model Bettie Page became infamous for racy photos that were reckoned a grave danger to American society. Today, she's a pop-culture icon. Magazine spreads...

shop talk.(The Beauty Academy of Kabul)(Movie review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: John Powers Once the Taliban were ousted in 2001, most Afghan people wanted to get back to a normal life, be it watching TV or getting their hair done. The Beauty Academy of Kabul follows a handful of American hairdressers who went...

queen of the nile; This month, the Met pays homage to Hatshepsut, the woman who dared to call herself Pharaoh.
April 1, 2006... Cleopatra might have learned a thing or two from Hatshepsut, her glorious predecessor. Born an Egyptian royal princess around 1500 b.c., she remade herself as Daughter of Re, the sun god, ruling the lands of Upper and Lower Egypt, whose...

paper trail.("Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980-1994" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Leslie Camhi Born in New York City but raised and educated mostly in Europe, Peter Blum began publishing artists' prints back in 1980, when he still had no fixed address. "The idea was to make a portfolio like a small suitcase,...

dream weave.(Geoffrey Orley and Bahram Shabahang create rugs)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Aimee Cho After 30 years of selling world-class antique rugs, Geoffrey Orley and Bahram Shabahang decided the time had come to create carpets of their own. Reviving traditional nineteenth-century techniques, Orley & Shabahang's new...

woman in white; In Water, actress Lisa Ray proves she's not just another pretty face.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Daphne Beal As the child of a Bengali father and a Polish mother in Toronto, Lisa Ray wasn't sure which culture she belonged to. So when, as a teenager on vacation in India, she was asked by an acquaintance if she wanted to model,...

all aboard; From Moses at the Pharaoh's court to cool Rodeo Drive thieves to critters on Corfu, Joan Juliet Buck travels from B.C. to A.D. for the great new spring shows.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck In last month's column I made an error in loosely describing the polygamist Utah families in the HBO series Big Love as Mormons. The Mormon church condemns polygamy and has banned its practice since 1890. Big Love...

unfinished symphony; Discovered 60 years after her death, Suite Francaise is Irene Nemirovsky's brilliant portrait of the Nazi occupation.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Alice Truax Several chapters into Irene Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise (Knopf), Madame Pericand is fleeing Paris with her household when the Nazis bomb the refugee-flooded village in which they have stopped for the night. After...

divine comedy; Lara Vapnyar's new novel captures the tribulations of an aspiring muse.
April 1, 2006... These days, a muse is more of an ana_chronism than a viable career option. But not for Tanya, the Russian emigre who narrates Lara Vapnyar's hilarious first novel, Memoirs of a Muse (Pantheon). Casting herself as a modern-day Apollinaria...

inspired choices.(inspiration of influences of fictional and real characters on creativity of others)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Megan O'grady In fiction, being a muse carries with it a certain luster. Consider Daisy, the ebullient flapper who inspires Gatsby's self-invention in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, or the eponymous nymphet of Vladimir...

zen splendor; What do you get when you pair a Japanese master chef with an award-winning architect.(Morimoto)(Restaurant review)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten Walking up Tenth Avenue, about to enter the sizzling new Manhattan restaurant Morimoto, we knew precisely what it would look like inside. That's because it was designed by one of Japan's greatest architects,...

dare to bare; In the wake of weight loss, stretch marks leave a lasting impression.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Laurie Drake I didn't even know what they were called when I first noticed them. I was in the shower, back in the tenth grade, when I looked down and saw these little squiggly red things on my breasts and hips. My stretch marks, or...

she's the one.(Isabeli Fontana)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Shin Park With its early mornings and late, late nights, New York Fashion Week is a whirlwind for any model, but for 22-year-old Brazilian beauty Isabeli Fontana, this season was crazier-and more exciting-than ever. Fontana...

to the max; Pat McGrath breathes new life into beauty's original blockbuster.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Brown How much fun is this?" says the makeup artist Pat McGrath, sliding a fingertip across a square cake of black/silver/icy white-striped eye shadow. "You've got your whole three-way eye here. This is your color [she points...

secret service; From Aspen to Manhattan, Beverly Hills to Palm Beach, beauty's inside addresses and top new talent.
April 1, 2006... haute hair >> Andre Rodman By appointment, NYC; (646) 509-0713 Stroll by the graffiti-streaked, blue-brick building on the corner of Houston and Suffolk, and you may spot a couple of pretty young things standing outside with wet...

the sebagh secret; The European youth guru famous for "surgery with a syringe" brings his magic to the U.S. with an innovative new skin-care line.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Harris What is it with this place?" asks the taxi driver en route to 25 Wimpole Street in London. "I drop off and pick up here all the time. They tell me there's a miracle doctor inside." Cosmetic surgeon Jean-Louis...

marrakech express; Head for the hammam.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Brown Somewhere in the Majorelle Gardens, beneath a canopy of fragrant bougainvillea, retired couturier Yves Saint Laurent is lounging. Perhaps he's draped in a colorful caftan; maybe he's sipping mint tea from an elegant...

waist watchers; One promises to block fat, another claims to control your appetite-Rebecca Johnson reports on the next generation of diet drugs.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Rebecca Johnson The drug has no official name, it hasn't yet been approved by the FDA, and it won't be available for months, but already rimonabant (its generic name) has been a plot point on the television show Boston Legal. Every...

green-plate club; Could a plant from South Africa hold the key to all-natural weight loss.(hoodia)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Rebecca Johnson I first heard about hoodia when whippet-thin 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl traveled to South Africa to report on the plant's reputation as a natural appetite suppressant. Stahl gamely ate the plant,...

fashion that fits; To each her own- truer words have never been spoken, especially when it comes to women's bodies.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... CURVY: You've heard the news that belts are big; the even better news (after years of unsightly midriffs) is that they're just the thing to carve out a sexy hourglass. PREGNANT: Fashion's been good to moms-to-be: Baby dolls and Empire waists...

golden girl; At seven months pregnant, Melania Trump can still knock 'em dead in her strapless party dresses-and in a teeny bikini, for that matter, writes Eve MacSweeney.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Eve Macsweeney When you're Melania Trump and you're having your first baby, people want to throw you showers right and left. First, there was the "white shower," held soon after New Year's by Audrey Gruss and Andrea Stark, at which...

measure of success; As J.Crew's fashion visionary, Jenna Lyons has dressed millions of American women by appreciating the value of proportions.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Holgate Early in December, while New York is still deep in a post-_Thanksgiving daze, the J.Crew design team is feverishly thinking about the future. It is their big day to unveil their vision of fall 2006 to J.Crew's Mr. Big,...

a woman in full; As curvaceous as she is talented, opera singer Anna Netrebko is poised to become the Met's biggest draw.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Matthew Gurewitsch Once upon a time, opera was the royal road to fame and fortune. But that time is long gone-except conceivably for Anna Netrebko, 34, a shapely, dark-eyed soprano from the industrial hub Krasnodar, in the south of...

soaring spirit; As trapeze artist Chelsea Bacon mysteriously started to lose her mind, her body gave her the strength to survive.
April 1, 2006... The night before I had brain surgery, the telephone rang and my friend Bennett handed it to me. I looked at the phone and I said, "What is it?" "It's a phone, Chelsea," he said. "What do I do with it?" "Talk into it." This...

the tastemaker; How is it that celebrated chef Suzanne Goin can surround herself with the most flavorful foods and still have an Audrey Hepburn-like figure; can care so little for trends and always look cool.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Sally Singer On most Wednesday mornings, the chef Suzanne Goin-you pronounce it as an imperative, "Go in"-prowls through the green market in downtown Santa Monica, looking for something intriguing. I met her there one day last...

concentrated force; Chantal Sutherland stands just 5'2", but her fierce ambition, natural talent, and stealth strength give her an aura of greater stature.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Smiley When I first meet Chantal Sutherland at Belmont Park on a gloomy, cold morning, she is dressed in all white: white corduroy boot-cut pants, white turtleneck sweater, and a shiny white helmet. After galloping four...

the hitmaker; He's made gold for Britney and Justin.(Pharrell Williams)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Liza Ghorbani Most days, Pharrell Williams certainly looks the part of a self-professed "big kid"_ with a penchant for skateboarding, White Chocolate Reese's, and SpongeBob SquarePants. Standing among racks of colorful clothes and...

an exceptional talent; After dark years of addiction, rehab, and prison, Robert Downey, Jr.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck We are in a culture of salvation, where all crimes are annulled by confession and apology, and narcotic substances are washed away by spells of rehab. Robert Downey, Jr., as famous for the abuse of drugs as he is...

a profile in courage; Jennifer Aniston emerges from the maelstrom with two new films-and her sense of humor intact.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Van Meter The Polo Lounge at the Beverly Hills Hotel is just about as old as old Hollywood gets. Though it is still a place where power breakfasts are played out and celebrities meet their agents for lunch, it is also...

incredible shrinking genius; Frank Gehry and Tiffany's are making beautiful jewelry together.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Sally Singer The problem with being me," said the architect Frank Gehry, "is that you inevitably start repeating yourself. People want Bilbao, and I don't want to do it." He was sitting at a table in his glass-walled office,...

fighting BACK; Plagued by persistent pain and unable to bend over without wincing, Jancee Dunn turns to exercise for relief and, along the way, unveils a strong and sexy back.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Jancee Dunn It happened slowly, insidiously, when a dull ache crept between my shoulder blades and stayed there. At first it didn't bother me. Then I noticed that turning my neck too quickly produced a sharp twinge. My day of...

disappearing act; How did Portia de Rossi withstand the pressures of Hollywood.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Jonathan Van Meter This is how it goes: Your father dies when you are nine, and your mother struggles to raise you and your brother alone, putting the two of you through boarding school on a secretary's salary. You start modeling...

taking the plunge; The print swimsuit is set to be summer's splash hit.(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Ever dream of slipping into a classic Pucci swimsuit (left) and then dipping into some far-flung sparkling azure sea? Take it from us, you are not alone. These splashly, swirly suits really are the ultimate statement of pleasure and leisure....

FORM AND FUNCTION.
April 1, 2006... Byline: Anna Wintour Recently I was asked to give a speech at a business meeting about Vogue as a brand-superbrand was the term the conference organizers used-and my role in its very special history. When I thought about what I was going...

less is more.(reducing diets)
April 1, 2006... A year ago I climbed off a plane in North Carolina and-breathing heavily, dragging my feet-started a new life at the Duke Diet & Fitness Center. I was 355 pounds, a bombastic bundle of denial, a wreck who-though suffering no serious...

On your marc . . .(Marc Jacob)(Brief article)
April 1, 2006... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Marc Jacobs's fall line, in my opinion, springs from the mind of a genius. (Before we get to the praise, however: Marc, you have got to cease and desist with your late shows! Thank you for warning us that the...