Vogue articles from August 2008

Vogue archives from August 2008

Peerless.(fearless friends)(Editorial)
August 1, 2008... For our annual Age Issue, we thought it would be fun to turn the spotlight on five of our editors--Grace Coddington, Tonne Goodman, Elissa Santisi, Marie-Amelie Sauve, and Tabitha Simmons--whose ages span the decades and whose approaches to...

Letters From Readers.(Letter to the editor)
August 1, 2008... A LIFE LESS ORDINARY There has yet to be an article on Gwyneth Paltrow ["Gwyneth's Guide to Life," by Plum Sykes, photographed by Mario Testino, May] that I haven't found enthralling--whether it's on her organic Earth Mama image or her...

The Other Woman At 75.(Jane Juska)
August 1, 2008... Old enough to know better, Jane Juska reveals the perils and pleasures of becoming a mistress. I never planned to be the Other Woman. I came of age in the early fifties, so naturally I expected to be a faithful wife and an exemplary...

It Girl.(Caroline Sieber)(Brief article)
August 1, 2008... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR SHE LEADS A MODEST LIFESTYLE, BUT CAROLINE SIEBER 'S SOPHISTICATED FASHION CHOICES SPEAK VOLUMES. The Vienna-born stylist has the rapt attention of fashion watchers everywhere, but Caroline Sieber would...

VOGUE.
August 1, 2008... CLOSET CONFIDENTIAL Our Editors Reveal Their Shopping Secrets AUG THE AGE(LESS) ISSUE VOGUE's Guide to Looking Amazing AT EVERY DECADE, ON ANY BUDGET, THROUGH EVERY SEASON Kate Moss How the Supermodel Rose from Bad Girl to Business...

It Girl Out On The Town.
August 1, 2008... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR CAPTION(S): MAY 2008 IN PRADA. JANUARY 2008 IN BURBERRY PRORSUM. JUNE 2008 IN CHANEL. MAY 2008 IN PRADA.

Shape Of Things To Come.
August 1, 2008... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR Designers and models join forces at an open forum supporting healthful practices in the fashion industry. William Norwich takes a front-row seat. On a boiling-hot afternoon, Michael Kors and Coco Rocha...

Le Smoking Section.(Brief article)
August 1, 2008... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR Liberated female empowerment is what le smoking, introduced by Yves Saint Laurent in 1966 as a three-button dinner jacket and mannish trousers, celebrates. In a salute to the late grand master, fashion's...

Dispatch Thailand.(Brief article)
August 1, 2008... Byline: BY GENEVIEVE JONES EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR At least twice a year, I go to Thailand to work on my jewelry and handbag collections. The Oriental is where I always stay, for their massages and afternoon yoga. People ask me, "Why...

Overheard.(Brief article)
August 1, 2008... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR And they're off! It's August, and the jet set scatters far and wide: Ivanka Trump plans on dove- and duck-hunting in Entre Ros and Crdoba, Argentina; Barbara Wilhelm' s itinerary runs hot and cool in Turkey...

"Forward, March".(military influence on fashion)
August 1, 2008... Byline: --ANDR�% LEON TALLEY "A very dressed-up, sporty, military idea," said Miuccia Prada , describing her season-defining collection of 26 astonishing looks, which took olive drab and khaki to new heights of refined femininity....

As Years Go By.
August 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Sally Singer Four models at different stages of life reveal how their personal styles have evolved over time. elaine irwin A wardrobe of crisp white shirts and classic jeans perfectly suits this 38-year-old...

Timeless.(Norma Kamali)(Interview)
August 1, 2008... For two decades, Norma Kamali has been creating chic sweatshirt separates, body-conscious jersey dresses, and, of course, writes Lynn Yaeger, those singular swimsuits. Along time ago, I attended a professional conference with a close...

Space Walk.(Brief article)
August 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Filipa Fino PHOTOGRAPHED BY RAYMOND MEIER The anthropologist Margaret Mead once wrote that "space means greater well-being for our children and adventure, an outlet for all the things we thought there wasn't any outlet for,...

A Star Is Born.(Peter Philips)(Interview)
August 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Sarah Brown Collaborating with Karl. Dreaming up the next Vamp. Sarah Brown meets the makeup master who nabbed the most coveted job in cosmetics. W impers ," says Peter Philips, reading the neat capital letters on a...

Ring Leader.
August 1, 2008... Byline: Sally Singer. editor: Abigail Walch At age 41, fitness phenom Leila Fazel proves you can look and feel like a million-dollar baby. One evening in May, Leila Fazel, a 41-year-old mother of two, threw 796 punches in three...

In A White Room.(Brief article)
August 1, 2008... Byline: BRONWYN GARRITY editor: Abigail Walch Serious spa-ing from L.A.'s star skin specialist. Kate Somerville, L.A.'s premier facialist, appears at the top of the grand staircase of 8428 Melrose like a hippie Mary Poppins: precise...

Open House.(water color paintings of the rooms of nineteenth century public figures )(Brief article)
August 1, 2008... Byline: GENEVIEVE BAHRENBURG editor: Valerie Steiker The chance to peek into the private quarters of some of the nineteenth century's most public figures comes courtesy of the Cooper-Hewitt in New York this month. From Czarina Alexandra...

Wild At Heart.(Tamy Ben-Tor )(Interview)
August 1, 2008... Byline: DODIE KAZANJIAN editor: Valerie Steiker Artist Tamy Ben-Tor keeps the art world guessing. Ever since her provocative debut at the Zach Feuer Gallery in Chelsea in 2005, Tamy Ben-Tor has been taking performance art to new...

Desiring Women.(Elegy)(Towelhead)(Movie review)
August 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker From Elegy' s Penelope Cruz to newcomer Summer Bishil in Towelhead, this month's heroines aren't afraid to love. John Powers reviews. Beautiful women are invisible," declares an aging poet in Elegy, a...

Twist Of Faith.(actor Hayley Atwell)(Brief article)
August 1, 2008... Byline: ADAM GREEN editor: Valerie Steiker Hayley Atwell embraces the divine and the sensual in two contrasting roles. For fans of the languorous 1981 television serial Brideshead Revisited, based on Evelyn Waugh's novel about...

Americans Abroad.('This Must Be the Place' and 'In the Land of No Right Angles')(Movie review)
August 1, 2008... Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker Destination and destiny align in two winning debuts. Hope, the melancholy protagonist of Anna Winger's This Must Be the Place (Riverhead), follows her estranged filmmaker husband to Berlin...

Anglomania.(Brief article)
August 1, 2008... Byline: LIESL SCHILLINGER editor: Valerie Steiker What better way to study a foreign culture than to marry into it? In 1995, New York Times reporter Sarah Lyall wed a "fascinating domestic specimen" of the late-twentieth-century English...

The Marrying Kind.(The 9th Wife)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 1, 2008... Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker Rarely has a work of fiction seemed more timely than David Ebershoff's THE 19TH WIFE (Random House), a page-turning epic set amid a polygamous Utah sect eerily similar to those recently...

The Dreamer.(Elsa Morante )(Interview)
August 1, 2008... Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker Glamorous and sharp-witted, the Italian novelist Elsa Morante lived as tempestuously as she wrote. The brilliant yet undeservedly little-known Italian writer Elsa Morante thought people...

Desert Crystal.('Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal')(Television program review)
August 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker Joan Juliet Buck watches Heidi Fleiss in Nevada and is uplifted by the candor of The Black List. H eidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal, on HBO, is a boldly original, beautifully made documentary....

In The Heights.(Brief article)
August 1, 2008... Byline: RICHARD ALLEMAN editor: Valerie Steiker Topping the medieval Tuscan hill town of Castagneto Carducci, the eleventh-century Castello di Castagneto is the seat of one of Italy's most legendary families, the Gherardescas. Available for...

The New Age.(fashion)(Brief article)
August 1, 2008... Fifty is the new 40. Forty is the new 30. Or, wait, 20 is the new 30 . . . was that it? Well, forget all that fudging of numbers. Because today, decade-denial just isn't chic. Owning your look is. A strong sense of self: That's the hard-earned...

View From The Top.(Kate Moss )(Interview)
August 1, 2008... Byline: Plum Sykes. Photographed by Mario Testino. A clothing line, her own scent, beauty products . . . how the headline-grabbing Kate Moss has transformed herself from supermodel to supermogul. Kate Moss, like all tycoons in the...

A Shining Moment.(Chris Evert to marry Greg Norman)
August 1, 2008... Byline: Julia Reed. Photographed by Norman Jean Roy. Tennis champion Chris Evert has won eighteen Grand Slam titles. But her best is yet to come--as a bride-to-be at 53. Chris Evert joined the women's professional tennis tour at...

Grand Gestures.(Diahann Carroll )(Interview)
August 1, 2008... Byline: Jonathan Van Meter. Photographed by Norman Jean Roy After nearly six decades in show business, Diahann Carroll knows a thing or two about style and staying power. The elevator doors of her Los Angeles apartment building ding,...

Mamma Mia.(Mia Farrow)
August 1, 2008... Byline: Photographed by Jonathan Becker Joan Juliet Buck reports. Screen icon turned Earth Mother turned unstoppable activist, Mia Farrow is pouring her passions into saving Darfur. Mia Farrow is 63 but seems unaware of it. Her literary...

Food For Thought.(Betty Fussell )(Interview)
August 1, 2008... Byline: Photographed by Norman Jean Roy At 81, the writer Betty Fussell has cooked up a singular American life. Sally Singer shares five meals with a national treasure. Greenwich Village, New York. Chez Fussell. I love nasturtiums....

Gold Rush.(Zhang Ziyi)
August 1, 2008... Byline: John Powers. Photographed by Steven Meisel. Whether bearing the torch for this month's Olympics or lighting up the big screen, Chinese actress Ziyi Zhang is redefining global stardom. Things are getting crazy in the ancient...

The Firecracker.(Roberta McCain )(Interview)
August 1, 2008... Byline: Photographed by Jonathan Becker. At 96, she travels the world, speaks her mind, and drives a red BMW like it's nobody's business. Julia Reed meets political mom Roberta McCain. It is a gorgeous spring day in Washington, and I...

Yves Saint Laurent 1936-2008.(Obituary)
August 1, 2008... Byline: ANDR�% LEON TALLEY Photographed by Irving Penn Yves Saint Laurent died at the age of 71 on June 1 in his Paris home after a long battle with brain cancer. "He died in my arms," said longtime friend and muse Betty Catroux....

Up In Arms.(armpits)
August 1, 2008... Byline: Photographs by Steven Klein. With all the body parts we've grown to obsess over as we age, should armpits, too, be on the list? Dodie Kazanjian battles a new bulge. I first noticed it one hot day in August 1999 on my way to a...

Without A Trace.(cosmetic surgery; )
August 1, 2008... Julia Reed investigates the tiny tweaks--minor changes that make a major difference--that have thoroughly modernized how we stay young. The last time I had my brows plucked by the fabulous Mercedes Shapiro at Manhattan's John Barrett Salon,...

Graceful Elegance: 60s.(Buyers guide)
August 1, 2008... Byline: GRACE CODDINGTON Photographed by Steven Meisel. They spend their lives thinking about clothes . . . but given their different ages, what do they choose to wear? VOGUE' s editors--starting with GRACE CODDINGTON and her classically...

Forever Cool: 40s.(Buyers guide)
August 1, 2008... Byline: ELISSA SANTISI Photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Elissa Santisi strives for the perfect balance between youthful attitude and grown-up glamour. Mornings are always a problem for me, especially finding the...

On The Edge: 30s.(fashion)(Buyers guide)
August 1, 2008... Byline: MARIE-AM�%LIE SAUV�% Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier. Sportif sequins? Oui! The nouveau little black dress? Absolument! For the Parisienne MARIE-AM%LIE SAUV%, it is her era of avant-garde labels and bold...

Free -Spirited: 20s.(fashion)(Buyers guide)
August 1, 2008... Byline: TABITHA SIMMONS Photographed by Craig McDean. As far as TABITHA SIMMONS is concerned, the only rule in your 20s is that there are no rules. It's the time to mix it up and make dressing personal. When I was in my early 20s, I...

Clean Conscience: 50s.(classic fashion)(Buyers guide)
August 1, 2008... Byline: TONNE GOODMAN Photographed by Steven Meisel. You are what you wear, believes TONNE GOODMAN. For her that means clothes that will last an eternity and follow the maxim less is always more. Once you are comfortable in your own...

Bright Young Things.(periodical staffs' fashion)(Buyers guide)
August 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Meredith Melling Burke They do everything from vetting manuscripts to choreographing a sea of clothing racks as gracefully as a ballet. And while VOGUE assistants are tasked with duties that might seem daunting (ever try to...

In This Issue.(Buyers guide)
August 1, 2008... Page 56 (cover look): Dress, $2,985; (866) VUITTON; louisvuitton.com. Strass necklace, $795; Neiman Marcus. Diamond-stud earrings set in platinum, $20,300; De Beers stores; (800) 929-0889; debeers.com. Manicure, Lorraine Griffin using Creative...

Last Look.(Loewe bag)
August 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Virginia Smith So long, structure. This fall, bags have more in common with the haute-to-tote reusable grocery sack than with the proper purse. At Loewe, creative director Stuart Vevers brilliantly executes the new...