Vogue articles from August 2006

Vogue archives from August 2006

Rites of passage; In the painful aftermath of her husband's death, Shirley Lord confronts her feelings about love, loss, and moving on.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Shirley Lord I am grieving for my husband of nineteen years, A. M. Rosenthal, also known as Abe. He died on May 10, two weeks after suffering a stroke. He hadn't been well, in pain from spinal stenosis, an arthritic hip, and a...

Girl of the moment anh duong.(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... ANH'S LIFE IS LIKE a novel," says Christian Lacroix. "What I love most is her ability to design her own destiny." How perfect, then, that Duong had the designer make the stunning white-and-gold lace Empire dress with a cobalt-blue sash in which...

trend of the moment the white album.(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... A WHITE DRESS IS of_ten like a clean slate-simple, fresh, and full of potential. But this summer white's got a style all its own: Everything from shift dresses to cropped jackets and peasant skirts is being embellished with elegant texture and...

Fashionably late? Is it polite to arrive at 8:30 for an eight o'clock black tie.
August 1, 2006... Byline: William Norwich The invitation said cocktails at 6:30, dinner at 7:30. But at 6:45, as we stood, waited, watched from the top of the grand, white-tented steps of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, the jolly June venue for...

the big shift; After seasons of feminine frills, fall marks the return of the tunic-boxy, clean, strong, and perfect for work.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Mower Exactly four looks into the YSL fall show, my epiphany happened. It was a tunic, a gray double-face-cashmere tunic, furiously modeled-hands jammed in pockets, bangs in eyes-by Irina Lazareanu, that Canadian/Romanian...

Twinkle, twinkle; A new bijoux boutique in London is turning out to be a little star.(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Holgate Jayne Pickering was bedazzled by New York. Every time the British stylist came for a visit, fabulous jewelry sparkled across the city as far as her eye could see: uptown at Barneys, over on the West Side at Ten...

temple st. clair; The jeweler fills her closet with clothes that have staying power, from vintage heirlooms to modern classics.(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Florence Kane DUE SOUTH I come from a lineage of very independent, well-traveled, and educated Southern women. My mother had three sisters, and all their late-sixties and early-seventies Gucci and Pucci pieces have come to me....

jennifer meyer; When it comes to creating elegant, organic gold jewelry, this California girl's a natural.(Interview)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman EASY DOES IT I wanted to make things for people like me, who don't change their jewelry every day or with every outfit. L.A. is so casual. Usually I'm in cargo pants or peg-leg jeans-between Paige Premium and...

jennifer alfano; The handbag maker muses on the difference between It bags and forever bags-and what she'll no longer wear at her age.(Interview)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Holgate STRONG CASE Every bag has such an overt personality now: ladylike, vintage, rocker. At my age, they all make me feel like a victim. With my line, Jennifer Alfano, I wanted designs that are structured but not...

Jane cattani; This Brit in Paris pairs her own chic cashmere separates with big-time European labels.(Interview)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Mower THE SWEATER SET Iive just opened a small business selling cashmere knits with Emanuela Calvi, my lifelong friend. Itis sixteen pieces, and we call it E + J. Iive been around Parisian fashion all my life, first as a...

Storming arkansas; Are you ready, Little Rock.(trunk show by Brian Wolk and Claude Morais)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Robert Sullivan Fashion is a lot like air travel. There are the hubs, the big fashion places, where all the fashion is flying in and out 24/7, like New York and London (and this is one of the few ways that Atlanta can be said to be...

The alchemist; A jack of all fashion trades, jewelry designer Taher Chemirik has turned his personal history into some kind of wonderful.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Natasha Fraser-cavassoni Taher Chemirik's jewelry casts such a tactile spell that it's hard not to pick up a piece and absentmindedly play with it. A raw emerald or a polished crystal dangles from an 18K-gold necklace; encased...

Double take.(spectator shoes )(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Here's a bit of less-than-earth-shattering fashion trivia: The spectator shoe was first worn by men in the 1920s-men competing in or observing (hence the name spectator) a sporting match. OK. And here's a slightly more amusing tidbit: In...

Dark beauty; Mia Kirshner plays an ill-fated Hollywood starlet in The Black Dahlia.(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman For a city named after angels, Los Angeles has a surprising number of ghosts. One of the more fascinating is Elizabeth Short, the tragic young actress from Hyde Park, Massachusetts, who was murdered in January 1947 and...

Child's play; Gael Garcia Bernal is all innocence in Michel Gondry's psychedelic latest.(The Science of Sleep)(Movie review)
August 1, 2006... If Hollywood today has a patron saint, it's surely Peter Pan. Where our movies once celebrated men's men like John Wayne and Humphrey Bogart, they're now obsessed with overgrown boys like Leonardo diCaprio, Johnny Depp, and Adam Sandler. This...

REALITY BITES.(Quinceanera)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Byline: John Powers Crowd pleasers don't come more sweet-natured than Quinceanera, which took top prize at this year's Sundance. Set in L.A.'s Echo Park, it centers on Magdalena (Emily Rios), a Mexican-American girl who's approaching...

The lying game; This month, a legendary comedian and a fictional lounge act fake their way to Broadway, writes Adam Green.(Martin Short)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Adam Green You may know Martin Short as a brilliant physical comedian-a cast member of SCTV and the Tony-winning star of Little Me-but did you know that the Canadian-born Short is also a survivor of childhood abuse at the hands of...

best in show.(Jennifer Bartlett)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian After a ten-year hiatus, the artist Jennifer Bartlett is in the midst of a comeback. It started when Rhapsody (1975-76), her 153-foot-long painting made up of enamel-on-steel plates, was installed in May in...

Capture the castle; An eleventh-century estate finally opens its doors, writes Richard Alleman.(Castello di Segalari)
August 1, 2006... While the delights of northern Tuscany are well known, southern Tuscany is another story. South of Pisa, the medieval hill towns of Pisan Maremma are far from the often-maddening tourist circuit. Although it has few notable hotels, the area is...

Mountain high.(Caudalie Vinotherapie Spa )(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Richard Alleman Just as Frank Gehry put Bilbao on the map with his building for the Guggenheim, the uberarchitect prepares to do the same thing for Rioja, the southwestern corner of Spain's Basque country, with the...

Delicious shakespeare lite; Joan Juliet Buck applauds the BBC's masterly modern reworking of comedy and tragedy.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Modernized Shakespeare is most often an excruciating pageant wherein men and women in vaguely twentieth-century clothes improbably spout rhyme, and we the audience pretend to understand the absurd richness of...

New school; Marisha Pessl's debut masquerades as a memoir while putting the novel in novel.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Elizabeth Schmidt Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Viking) is a novel that defies categorization: Witty and exuberant, it is part coming-of-age story, part road-trip adventure, part idiosyncratic Great Books...

in good company; Invited for a late-summer weekend.(The Week-End Book from Overlook Press)
August 1, 2006... The perfect addition to anyone's country house (and guaranteed not to melt en route), The Week-End Book (The Overlook Press), first published in the U.K. in 1924, remains the bon vivant's go-to guide for making the most of one's leisure...

CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY.(Pamela Gien )(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Megan O'grady In 2001, Pamela Gien won an Obie-and left countless audiences in tears-with The Syringa Tree, her tour-de-force solo drama about growing up in apartheid-era South Africa. Now the Johannesburg-born actress and...

Blame it on rio; Jeffrey Steingarten is seduced by Brazil's potent national cocktail.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten What are you doing with a cocktail in your hand?" I asked myself peevishly. I am a malt Scotch man, straight up, no water. And yet this summer, the fabulous national cocktail of Brazil has become my fabulous...

Ocean drive; In Florida, the sunniest get-together is an offshore picnic for family and friends William Norwich climbs aboard.
August 1, 2006... Byline: William Norwich People never say no to a Magnum," says Alison Spear with a laugh. She's referring, of course, to the Lamborghini of pleasure craft, capable of seafaring speeds upwards of 70 mph. The Marchesa Katrin Theodoli,...

Gray's anatomy; What happens when a few (very) premature white hairs turn into a head of salt and pepper.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Eve Claxton The first gray hairs barely registered. I was eighteen. I wasn't worried about looking older; in fact, at that age, I craved it. A couple of silvery strands here and there weren't a problem-they were easy to find, wavy...

Raise the bar; Triple-milled in Provence or handcrafted in Florence, old-fashioned soaps bring panache to the powder room.(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Catherine Piercy What is elegance? Soap and water!" said Cecil Beaton. Wrapped like presents in old-fashioned paper, tucked inside elaborate boxes, and emitting the most delicious scents, the best new bars are as sophisticated and...

The wrinkles we keep; Now that science can wipe every line off your face, Dodie Kazanjian wonders if a few well- earned markers of age might make her look better, not worse.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian Well, wouldn't you know. Just as the miracle workers of plastic surgery, dermatology, and cosmetology are making it possible for you and me to get rid of every line, blemish, and facial imperfection, the word goes...

Couture concoction; Danielle Steel distills her love for high fashion and hefty jewels into a perfume.(Elizabeth Arden Co. to launch)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Catherine Piercy Best-selling author Danielle Steel has an enviable couture collection-vintage statement pieces from Balenciaga and Dior, recent runway showstoppers from Chanel and Lacroix-and an understandable soft spot for...

Oh, grow up! Do baby boomers need different makeup than their 20-something daughters.(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Shin Park Though 50 may be the new 30 (or so proclaimed Oprah on the occasion of her own mid-century marker two years ago), it's a fact that mature skin has different needs than younger complexions-and not just in terms of...

Big girls don't cry; This fall, the original supermodels are fashion's hottest stars.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Mower Linda Evangelista is on the phone. "It's really important for me to be honest," she says. "I don't look like I do in the pages of Vogue. I think it's OK to say I'm 41 and it's work being me. It's a lot of upkeep!" She...

the trailblazer; Robin Chandler Duke was a pioneer on Wall Street and Clinton's ambassador to Norway.(Biography)
August 1, 2006... Byline: William Norwich A visitor who arrives early for an appointment with Robin Chandler Duke waits quietly in the 82-year-old political activist's perfect living room. With spacious river views north, east, and south, the L-shaped...

Yoko rising; For Yoko Ono, age is just a state of mind.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Eve Macsweeney Yoko Ono slips quietly out of her apartment building and into Central Park for her morning constitutional, small and inconspicuous in her black clothes. Today she has on a white cotton hat against the sun, dipped at...

Siren song; You can't keep a good actress down.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Sally Singer Ellen Barkin is sitting in the dining room of Soho House in New York and living up to her reputation as one of the world's great sprawlers. (Her friend the decorator DD Allen says, "Her favorite pose is a sexy slouch...

Billion-dollar babies; Forget stylists.(Mary-Kate, Ashley Olsen)(Interview)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Robert Sullivan If you are meeting Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen for the first time, to have coffee and go shopping on a rare day off for the 20-year-olds, you may be nervous about whether you'll be able to tell them apart. You...

On point; In her new role as executive director of American Ballet Theatre, former dancer Rachel Moore is keeping the company on its toes.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Rebecca Johnson Two weeks before the opening-night gala of American Ballet Theatre's spring season, Rachel Moore needed a dress. A few parameters: It had to be designed by Isaac Mizrahi-a devoted fan of ABT and a cochair of the...

Lady liberty; Dior then, Levi's now.(Babs Simpson)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Holgate Babs Simpson-a sprightly, sharp, and superbly pithy 93 years old-maintains that the secret of life all comes down to a single, simple, straightforward belief: "I have always thought," she says with a clear, steady gaze...

a budding grove; Legendary tastemaker Marella Agnelli transformed an overgrown wilderness in Marrakech into an oasis of beauty and repose.(Interview)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Hamish Bowles In the palmery of Marrakech, outside that bewitching city's pink adobe walls, crimson bougainvillea clamber to the very tips of an ancient cypress allee at the sequestered entrance to a country house, as date-palm...

the supernatural; Smoother skin, better sex, an ageless body- Judith Newman investigates the highly controversial, but hotly coveted, human growth hormone.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Judith Newman By any measure, Catherine (not her real name) has lived an enviable life. Married to a Hall of Fame rocker, she spent much of her young-adult life gallivanting the world with her husband, their daughter in tow. Today...

the thin blue line; Nothing mars legs and ruins short-skirt season like varicose veins.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Sally Singer The first time I hear the words vascular surgeon, I'm sitting at DB, one of those midtown bistros where impossibly thin people eat foie gras hamburgers. I'm with an impossibly beautiful friend who looks amazing in...

Sole survival; As if your face, neck, and hands weren't enough to worry about, an unexpected body part has entered the anti-aging wars.(foot)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Betsy Berne As my feet settle into middle age, their unfortunate condition is such that public exposure is no longer an option. No more dainty peep-toe sandals, no slinky barely there stilettos, not even an innocent pair of...

60s judy kling; The decorator dresses up her minimal daily uniform with major accessories.(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Why is it that a 22-year-old craves a classically tailored tweed jacket (courtesy of Juicy Couture)? Or that a 56-year-old loves nothing more than to add a fledgling designer to her wardrobe every season (most recently, Giles and 6267)? As...

one and onlys.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Anna Wintour This year's Age Issue is a glorious opportunity to check in with women who've been a part of this magazine, and of our readers' lives, for decades. It's very meaningful for me, personally, to celebrate the renaissance...

seasons in the sun.
August 1, 2006... Resort, as all you good readers know by now, has become an increasingly significant season for retailers: It isn't just about vacation clothes; it's about forecasting what's to come for spring/summer and beyond. Which is why houses like...

colorforms.(Miuccia Prada)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... For resort, I wanted to abandon all embellishment and create excitement in shape, without embroidery," Miuccia Prada says. Since I have known her, she has had an obsession with the shapes and skills of haute couture, and that obsession...

starry nights.(fashion shows)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... It has been obvious for some time that stars need to find fresher ways to approach dressing for the red carpet. Well, we had several gulps of fresh air recently, as the prettiest young women stepped into the limelight in white: crisp, crackling...

heavenly trumpets.(Arman's exhibition)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Arman, the French-American deconstructionist sculptor, died last fall; in the spring, his wife, Corice, held a beautiful memorial in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. The Armans...

grunge & glory; How one young woman discovered her style in the early 1990s-with the help of Vogue, Madonna, thrift shops, and Contempo Casuals.
August 1, 2006... Byline: Amanda Brooks Iwas born in 1974 in Palm Beach, where the idea of elegance was chic, classic clothing worn in an individual way. My dad's best friend, Suzie Phipps Cochran, who had the biggest estate in town, would arrive at...

personal best; Age.(models)(Brief article)
August 1, 2006... Call them the Invincibles: The original supermodels, who made fashion so much fun a decade or two ago, have returned with a fanfare of trumpets. How do they continue to command attention in an industry of teen peers? Chalk it up to...