Vogue articles from April 2007

Vogue archives from April 2007

la vie en rose.
April 1, 2007... What motivated me, after having already taken up squash, to pick up a Prince tennis racket? Being in Paris for the couture shows and the idea of new tennis gear! I left the Ritz at 6:30 a.m., grabbed my LV monogram gym bag, towels, and water,...

past, present, future.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Like Virginia Woolf, Rita Watnick is a late bloomer. After 27 years of working with vintage haute couture, the Lily et Cie proprietor has designed her second ready-to-wear collection. Jada Pinkett Smith comes for Madame Gres and Jennifer Lopez...

enchanted evening.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Marchesa's Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig got it just right with a focused and incredibly beautiful fourth collection, inspired by Marlene Dietrich and the Duchess of Windsor. The installation, which could have veered into a debacle of...

best-case scenario.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Marc Jacobs first launched the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami's line of multicolored monogram accessories in his spring/summer 2003 collection for Louis Vuitton. This spring, he introduces the new Monogram...

the one who smiled; Mary Blume recalls her friendship with Balenciaga's premier vendeuse, who gave her the confidence to wear the designer's curiously demanding clothes.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Mary Blume Certainly I had no right to be in the house of Balenciaga and was there only because of the jam made by my friend George, an English remittance man paid a small allowance to stay away from the family bank in Hong Kong. I...

girl of the moment CAMILLA BELLE.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Sitting front row at the shows during New York Fashion Week, actress Camilla Belle proved herself to be a true sophisticate time and again. Whether in a fresh contemporary dress from 3.1. Phillip Lim, or more grown-up and elegant creations by...

TREND OF THE MOMENT platinum finish.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... WE LOVE A SILVER lining, so what a delight it's been to see all of these shimmery metallic dresses show up on everyone from model Amber Valletta to actresses Sienna Miller and Jennifer Connelly. Fringed or ruffled, shift-shaped or toga-like, a...

it girls at the white house? _William Norwich votes for sending a host of British style-setters to juice up the queen's state visit next month.
April 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich At a party in New York for Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig, the British designers of Marchesa, a certain Hollywood potentate extolled the virtues of Sienna Miller. Even though he was preaching to the choir-Marchesa...

1. CURVY Ashley Graham; Stop the clock.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer Size 46 at Barneys? You have to grab it." And so Ashley Graham, the nineteen-year-old plus-size model, plucks from a sale rack a pair of Dolce & Gabbana twill trousers inspired by perhaps the most iconic undersize...

2. pregnant devi kroell; The award-winning accessories designer, who's due this month-it's a girl.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman DIFFERENT_ _STROKES_ I wouldn't have expected to change the way that I dress as radically as I have, but I had to! Usually I like to wear basic things and accessorize them in crazy ways. But being pregnant, I'm going...

3. tall jesse kamm; At five feet eleven, this Los Angeles designer of artisanal hipster clothing prefers her hems brief, her waists high, and her boots "smoking.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer It's mutual, miuccia_ When I wear short, it's a high-waisted short-short, which I do very librarian with a long-sleeved blouse and a tie around my neck. At night I put on stockings and heels to dress it up a bit. _JEAN...

4. short Wen Zhou; This fashion entrepreneur has a head for business- and the white dresses and dainty flats that flatter her five-foot-three-inch frame.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Florence Kane SMALL _WONDERS_ Because I'm so petite, dressing is all about proportion. I know my shape and wear silhouettes that enhance my body rather than overpower it. Anything that's oversize and slouchy does not work for me. I...

5. thin Victoria di Giacinto; A long and lean creative force at Moschino, she mixes high volume with tailored trousers.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Florence Kane LOVE ME SLENDER_ Because I am thin and not voluptuous, it seems out of place for me to wear something very revealing. I just don't have that body, so I go for more tailored things, even for evening, when you typically...

paddington laid bare; Chloe bags a new creative director from Marni.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer Could there be harder, more round-toed and girlish shoes to fill than those vacated by Phoebe Philo and, before her, Stella McCartney at Chloe? Both Philo and McCartney had the knack, in addition to designing...

layer it on me; VPL, formerly an underwear-only line, is bringing fashion to tiers.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Florence Kane In a very understated way, Victoria Bartlett has always been ahead of her time. She's not one to talk about it, though. Back in her studio in December, when she shows me her spring collection, the former stylist never...

what lies beneath; A lingerie design duo's debut line has a Victorian name-but it's anything but buttoned up.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Genevieve Bahrenburg Manhattan-based lingerie designers Nikki Dekker (a platinum blonde with an edgy street-chic vibe) and Maayan Zilberman (a raven-haired romantic) bring a little wit to the boudoir this spring with their launch...

following the band; The clingy waist-making mini is back on the runway and the red carpet, courtesy of vintage Herve Leger.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Tim Blanks The Leger Effect was an unnatural fashion phenomenon of the late eighties/early nineties, brought on by a young Parisian designer who was able to lend the wearers of his dresses a bombshell silhouette that quite...

the history girl; Centuries collide on an L.A. designer's artifact-laden necklaces.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Florence Kane Suzanne Donegan's home and studio in a 1920s Hollywood apartment villa is more like a museum. There the former interior designer "curates" her curios, the watch chains, lockets, and charms that she finds on her...

Shrug it on; Brace yourself: The big, broad shoulder is back.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower When I stood in Martin Margiela's studio, trepidatiously shrugging on a new pair of shoulders, I didn't anticipate for one second it was about to change everything I want to wear. But that, amazingly, is how it's turned...

Cause for celebration; With many designers touting the anniversary of their tenure, Paris haute couture was a momentous occasion filled with crystalline visions of every house's inimitable grandeur.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower Can couture last? As much as one hates to admit it . . . it can't." This is a dispatch from the fashion editor of the International Herald Tribune. Not to panic-she wrote it 35 years ago. In 1972, Hebe Dorsey was...

It's all in the numbers; What do you get when you apply the Golden Ratio to dark, skinny jeans.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Robert Sullivan The universe, while chaotic and filled with forces that clutter physical matter as well as our closets, is governed by a mathematical principle of harmony and proportion that has been celebrated by philosophers,...

Sea creatures.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... An aqua stone plainly suggests ocean waters. But peer more closely at these green-and-gold rings, and you'll see an otherworldly marine menagerie: A gilt octopus grasps its turquoise prize; a cluster of emerald barnacles clings to its golden...

Head to head; Frank Langella and Michael Sheen take off the gloves in Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon, which arrives on Broadway this month, writes Adam Green.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green With his beady eyes, sweaty upper lip, and perpetual five-o'clock shadow, Richard Nixon may have been the least telegenic American politician. In a cringe-making succession of on-air fiascos-from the Kennedy debate to...

FACE-OFFS.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green This month, bare-knuckle brawls and theatrical smackdowns promise to give New York audiences a kick in the pants.-a.g. inherit the wind Brian Dennehy & Christopher Plummer Two masterful lions in winter play out William...

While she was sleeping; Sandra Bullock is a wife who tries to change fate in Premonition.
April 1, 2007... Whether it's in Groundhog Day, Memento, or Minority Report, filmmakers today enjoy few things more than taking the normal flow of time and cutting it into disorienting pieces. That's the crisis confronting Linda Hanson (Sandra Bullock), the...

The good thief.(Matthew Goode)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Last seen as the tennis-racket-toting fellow who ditched Scarlett Johansson in Woody Allen's Match Point, Matthew Goode has made a career of playing elegant Brits. But in this month's The Lookout, which marks screenwriter Scott Frank's...

Funniest import.(Movie review)
April 1, 2007... Jafar Panahi's wonderful Iranian comedy Offside could hardly sound simpler. Defying a ban on women attending soccer matches, a pair of headstrong teenage girls dress up as boys and sneak into a Tehran stadium to watch a World Cup qualifying...

best cinematography.(Movie review)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: John Powers Luc Besson's Angel-A is a romantic fable about a gorgeous guardian angel (Rie Rasmussen) who saves a feckless small-time crook (Jamel Debbouze). Working in black-and-white, cinematographer Thierry Arbogast elevates a...

the cult device.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck The Helio Heat is the size of a compact, the color and texture of a piece of jewelry, and the latest mighty warrior of the invisible airwaves. The child of EarthLink and SK Telecom, and launching this month, the...

jewel of india; A pearl necklace recalls the glamorous life of a jet-setting maharani.(Sita Devi)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Stephanie La Cava Dubbed the Indian Wallis Simpson in 1943, when the Maharaja Pratapsingh Gaekwar of Baroda left his first wife to marry her, Sita Devi was as famous for her jewels as she was for her flamboyant personality. After...

The secret mediterranean; Richard Alleman uncovers the best beaches, hot spots, and hotels you've never heard of.(Geographic overview)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Richard Alleman Byzantine Beauty Turkey's Lycian coast has some of the most beautiful waters in the Mediterranean-plus ancient temples, pristine mountain villages, and an increasing number of elegant hideaways. In the village of...

The dazzle; Teresita Fernandez makes art that is structurally elegant, thoughtfully compelling, and absolutely luminous.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Anne Stringfield Dividing her time between a cement-floored Brooklyn studio and the cozier house next door that she shares with her husband and two children, the sculptor Teresita Fernandez has never been one to court publicity....

Renaissance man.(Keith McNally)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Who: Brasserie baron Keith McNally. What: Morandi-"the sort of rustic-looking place one always hopes to find in the Italian countryside." Story behind the name: "I very much like the Bolognese painter Giorgio Morandi. His name is somewhat more...

Man power; Joan Juliet Buck follows the legends of alpha men Helmut Newton and Marlon Brando and is spooked by a supernatural cop series.
April 1, 2007... June Newton's intimate video portrait of her late husband, Helmut (Helmut by June, Cinemax), documents some of the 56 years they shared, much of it spent in white bathrobes in hotel rooms between shoots. Newton on the phone to editors: "No more...

Comedy Cutie.(Katrina Bowden)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Long, lean, blonde, and eighteen, Katrina Bowden brings a lovely ditziness to Cerie, the brainless hottie assistant in 30 Rock. In Tina Fey's cheeky-and steadily improving-satire of television, Cerie's wardrobe constitutes a whole subplot,...

Invisible friends.(Jeff Goldblum)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Did he kill you?" is one of the best impossible lines going, and in the new NBC series Raines, Jeff Goldblum gets to ask murder victims just that question. If Raines weren't a world-class neurotic, there would be...

The ambassadress; A stunning new biography reveals the passionate side of Edith Wharton, who found freedom in the expat life.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Few figures are as luminous in American letters as Edith Wharton. One of the twen_tieth century's most important novelists-the author of more than 40 books, she was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction-she is synonymous with New...

The age of innocence.(The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... With all the dramatic sweep of a Wharton novel, Juliet Nicolson's upcoming The Perfect Summer: England 1911, Just Before the Storm (Grove) recalls a season of change-four record-breakingly hot months in which everything from labor rights to...

Sweet child of mine; In her lyrical new novel, Maxine Swann describes the highs and lows of a hippie childhood.(Flower Children)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Megan O'grady Whatever happened to those girls and boys who grew up in the wake of the counterculture movement, glimpsed on the shoulders of their parents in footage of Woodstock and civil-rights marches? An answer can be found in...

BEAUTY WITHOUT BORDERS.(Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Megan Conway Kabul is a city of armored compounds and clouds of dust. But for Deborah Rodriguez, author of the big-hearted Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil (Random House), it's rare and arresting bursts...

A PLACE IN THE SUN.(When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Genevieve Bahrenburg Out of Africa come two gripping accounts of young girls growing up on a continent in conflict. In When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race (Hyperion), journalist Judith Stone chronicles...

Untamed heart; From the prim lawns of Eton to the wild grasses of Africa, Denys Finch Hatton always sought the next adventure, in life as in love.(Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Jean Nathan If English aristocrat, soldier, athlete, aviator, nonconformist, and lover extraordinaire Denys Finch Hatton (1887-1931) is known at all in our era, it's thanks to the 1985 film Out of Africa, the tale of his...

leg envy; Can fabulous legs be created, and fast.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian News from the front lines of fashion usually takes a while to reach me, but the sudden rebirth of the miniskirt is inescapable, and has mobilized all my latent Leg Envy. For me, the world is divided between those of...

garden fresh; From the cabbage patch to the rosebush, beauty is in bloom.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Brown In the foreword to First Garden (Rizzoli), C. Z. Guest's classic 1976 gardening primer (with charming illustrations by Cecil Beaton), Truman Capote writes of the author's strolling from the greenhouses at Templeton, her...

night & day; Spring's chicest essentials make sharp statements in boldest black and brightest white.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Catherine Piercy Crisp and clean, classic yet modern-there's something about the simple, straightforward combination of black and white that always works. This spring, beauty goes back to basics with products as covetable for their...

The fat face; Injectable fillers are designed to restore youthful volume invisibly-so what happens when a friend's face starts looking a little too full.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Tatiana Boncompagni It had been a tough year for Michelle.* Her marriage fell apart, one of her parents became ill, and the stresses of her job as a high-paid Los Angeles lawyer started taking their toll. One day she looked in the...

1. Autour de Christophe Robin; Paris's most sought-after beauty gurus-all under one roof.
April 1, 2007... Imagine sitting next to Sophie Marceau the next time you get your hair cut, with Ludivine Sagnier seated nearby (reading a magazine, perhaps), as Lou Doillon and Audrey Tautou breeze by on their way to the pedicure station. If you're at...

2. garren NEW YORK; Precision cuts and supermodel makeovers by fashion's favorite stylist.
April 1, 2007... With more than 100 Vogue covers to his name and a client list more typical of a Hollywood power agent, hairstylist Garren has been influencing the world of haute hair for decades. Known for precision cuts and a sharp, editorial aesthetic, he...

3. frederic fekkai soho; Pre-party prep, and a dose of downtown cool.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Up a discreet flight of stairs in a loft building on busy West Broadway is Frederic Fekkai SoHo. More studio than salon, the airy atelier is just what downtown needed: a chic, Madison Avenue-caliber salon with a relaxed, south-of-Fourteenth...

OVERHEARD.(book 'Bobbi Brown Living Beauty')(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Everywhere I go, someone's complaining about the way they look," says Bobbi Brown. Not her. It's the eve of her fiftieth birthday, and as a present to herself-and, really, to other women-the makeup artist, yoga addict, downhill skier, NBA...

Totally Tom.(Tom Ford)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Brown Sex-or rather sexy-sells, and no one knows this better than designer/provocateur Tom Ford, who, in a turn as perfumer extraordinaire, recently reimagined Estee Lauder's Youth Dew as the sultry Amber Nude and launched...

sweet lowdown; Candy queen Jancee Dunn investigates the link between our insatiable hunger for sugar and the soaring rates of diabetes.
April 1, 2007... All I ever really want is sugar," wrote Andy Warhol, who was known to stash sweets in a "candy room" in his Upper East Side apartment. "The rest is strictly for appearances." I understand. I live for sugar. I've probably never gone a day...

Sugar Buzz.(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Jancee Dunn The Glycemic Index (GI) is an easy tool to help you sift through the sweet stuff. High-GI foods-those that trigger a rapid spike in blood sugar-raise your risk for glucose intolerance, a precursor for type-2 diabetes,...

scarlett letters; To celebrate women's diverse shapes, there's no better figure to open this issue than a young star who is very comfortable in her skin.(Scarlett Johansson)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Alessandra Stanley Creole? Really? How fascinating. So is there still that whole voodoo thing?" The young waiter from the island of Mauritius stood tongue-tied in the dining room of the Spa Hotel in Kent, England, baffled by the...

long tall stories; Eighties supermodel Paulina Porizkova has lived several lives already.(Interview)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Eve Macsweeney Paulina Porizkova, the Czech-born former supermodel, sometime actress, and, as of this month, published novelist, doesn't hold back where food is concerned. "I'm starving!" swiftly follows "Hello" when you sit down...

little miss big time; Fearless taste and persistent curiosity have made Allison Shearmur a formidable Hollywood character.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer On a chilly Friday afternoon in December, Allison Shearmur is sitting in her BMW SUV and looking out at her new Los Feliz home. It's a stunning fairy-tale pile and former German consular residence from 1927 with...

quantum leap; Whether designing a Manhattan apartment building or an African spa, six-foot-tall, South African-born architect Lindy Roy has made a reputation as an original thinker who is not afraid to take risks.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Julia Reed In the late nineties, when Lindy Roy lived in Houston and taught at the Rice School of Architecture, she drove a pickup truck, a 1986 black Chevrolet Silverado she had bought off a guy who had kitted it out with extra...

the illusionist; Powered by superhuman legs and the drive of an Olympic gold medalist, Dwana Smallwood leaps into the spotlight with unearthly grace.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Gaby Wood Oh, God, that was awful!" says Dwana Smallwood after what seems to me a breathtaking rehearsal. We are in an upstairs studio at New York City Center, where the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has just begun its annual...

silicone valleys; The average woman getting breast implants isn't who you think she is.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Brown My friend Petra* turned 38 in January, but she has the breasts of a sixteen-year-old. They're just the right size-not too big, not too small. They look perfect in a T-shirt, great in a dress, even better with nothing...

spin cycle; A full-body workout in less than ten minutes.(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Jancee Dunn It's daunting. It looks peculiar. But I can attest that the GyroGym, a nine-foot-high contraption that turns you into a spinning human gyroscope, provides a demanding workout. Patterned after a NASA design to train...

the fat and the furious; Jeffrey Steingarten takes aim at America's war on trans fats.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten Last December, when the board of health here in New York City banned trans fats from all 24,000 of our restaurants, food carts, and caterers, I became apoplectic. That's what I always become when somebody tries...

walking a thin line; As the average runway sample dropped from a size 6 to a size 2 over the past decade, models were expected to shrink to fit.
April 1, 2007... Byline: Rebecca Johnson As job interviews go, the model casting call has to be the world's quickest. "Can I see you walk?" James Scully, a 20-year industry veteran, asked the tall, thin brunette standing in the foyer of designer Derek...

weighing in.(Editorial)
April 1, 2007... Byline: Anna Wintour April is the month in which we annually celebrate how fashion can be worn and loved by women with beautiful and diverse bodies. This year, the issue is of particular importance and timeliness because there has been so...