Vogue articles from February 2005

Vogue archives from February 2005

TREND of the moment gray gardens.
February 1, 2005... The invitation to the Winter Wonderland Ball at New York's Botanical Garden called for women to wear blue, white, and silver to complement the wintry decor of the venue's famous "Glass House" entrance. The evening brought out the best of the...

trend of the momentart nouveau.
February 1, 2005... Fine art and fashion collided at the Neue Galerie's annual Winter Gala (sponsored by Akris), where guests spiritedly donned designs that echoed the museum's signature collection of early-twentieth-century German and Austrian art. Klimt-like...

Trend of the month dreamscapes.(fashion)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Not a season goes by without a certain Prada look stealing the show. This fall, it was unquestionably the computerized landscape prints-inspired by the dramatic oil paintings of the nineteenth-century German Romantic painter Caspar David...

on a winter's night; From a Hollywood disco ball to frisky business in London, theme parties heated up the chilly season.
February 1, 2005... Byline: William Norwich Hibernating in wintertime will not be the topic of this column. They think they will, they wish they might, but for the bejeweled bears in this neck of the woods there is nary a silent night. Here's your...

hidden charms; Time to ditch those purses that jingle and jangle with junk.
February 1, 2005... Byline: Namehere With a quick glance, they don't look like much to get excited about: Simple and unadorned, spring's chicest new bags-courtesy of, among others, Bottega Veneta, Jil Sander, and Fendi-are a study in understatement. But watch...

soft opening; Neal Sperling makes tees of uncompromising, uncomplicated beauty.(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 1, 2005... So what does it take to launch a must-have fashion label? For Neal Sperling, a mere eleven items of fine Italian cotton jersey. During the spring collections in Paris, the 36-year-old from Philadelphia showed his gauzy designs-scrumptious...

get outta town; New Englanders make their way to Petria for hard-to-find vintage delights.(Norfolk, Connecticut)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Byline: Irini Arakas Fashion girls can now get their kicks on Route 44. Petria Boutiq, the latest treasure chest of exquisite vintage offerings, has opened in the most surprising of places, the town of Norfolk, Connecticut. The store owner...

anahita vessier; This Iranian-Austrian designer scours the world's flea markets, then gives her finds the couture treatment.(Brief Article)(Interview)
February 1, 2005... Byline: Tina Isaac AT THE SOUK My next collection will center on the fabrics I bought last summer at the bazaar in Shiraz, in southern Iran. I love folkloric pieces-it's my oriental side, which is balanced out by occidental craziness...

secret service.(useful watches)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... At the end of Live and Let Die, James Bond, played by Roger Moore, and his current girl, Solitaire (a young Jane Seymour), are slowly lowered into a shark pit by the evil drug lord Kananga. Fortunately for Bond, MI6's gizmo wizard, Q, has...

men at work; In Good Company finds Dennis Quaid with a boss half his age who's dating his daughter.(Movie Review)
February 1, 2005... These days, our multiplex screens are crawling with men who've never grown up, from the lovelorn Spider-Man and overgrown adolescents in Sideways to Finding Neverland's J. M. Barrie, himself the prototype of Peter Pan. Now comes In Good...

eye on the prize.(Academy award)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Byline: John Powers When it comes to Oscar, Hollywood made several terrific pictures in 2004-including Sideways, The Incredibles, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-but most of them lack the glamour it takes to win Best Picture....

the sound of music; Composer Adam Guettel follows his family's footsteps onto the Broadway stage.(grandfather was Richard Rodgers)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Byline: Adam Green Adam Guettel, whose mother, Mary Rodgers, composed the score for the musical Once upon a Mattress and whose grandfather Richard Rodgers had a hand in a few Broadway hits, too, once swore that he would never go into the...

NOBLESSE OBLIGE.(Snobs)(Book Review)
February 1, 2005... Byline: Florence Kane As the Oscar-winning screenwriter of such films as Gosford Park and Vanity Fair, Julian Fellowes knows a thing or two about British society and those who dare to infiltrate it. His Becky Sharp in Snobs (St. Martin's...

hollywood ending.(Sarah Morris's short film)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian On view at New York's Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Los Angeles is British-born artist Sarah Morris's fifth short film about an American city. Shot on an old-fashioned 35mm CinemaScope, it documents the week leading up...

the food of love; What's your heart's desire for Valentine's Day.
February 1, 2005... Byline: William Norwich Just in time for Valentine's Day, some of the most romantic thinkers of my acquaintance, myself included, have come to the conclusion that there is no love, just acts of love. The rest is theoretical, like a check...

invisible touch; Makeup was conspicuously absent from spring runways-or was it.
February 1, 2005... Byline: Sarah Brown Fashion-and by its close association, beauty-is a study in extremes: Each season, the pendulum swings as far as it possibly can, and then shoots back, full speed ahead, in the opposite direction. Circle skirts give way...

american pie; New research suggests pizza is poised to shake up the health-food market.
February 1, 2005... Following closely on the heels of the French paradox-the perplexing phenomenon whereby Parisian women can regularly breakfast on buttery croissants and still remain enviably svelte-comes the Italian enigma: The more pizza you eat, the better...

FOOD FOR HEART.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2005... Byline: Adena Spingarn 1/4 cup white wine 3/4 cup warm water 1 pkt. active dry yeast 1 T honey 1 tsp. kosher salt 1 T extra-virgin olive oil 3 cups all-purpose flour 11/2 cups tomato sauce 10 oz. bufala...

the rites of spring.
February 1, 2005... Trundling to Starbucks on a dark afternoon, we dream about the moment when we'll shed our heavy cocoon of a winter coat and breathe in that delicious, crocus-scented air. In "Adding It All Up" (page 180) we've pulled together the best lighter...

how to marry a billionaire; Melania Knauss, the next Mrs.
February 1, 2005... Byline: Sally Singer We're on the Trump jet (Palm Beach-New York), and we're debating whether or not Donald Trump and his fiancee, Melania Knauss, should accept NBC's offer to broadcast their wedding live, in prime time. It's late...

adding it all up; Who wears one designer head-to-toe these days.
February 1, 2005... Byline: Mark Holgate An entirely nonscientific poll of some of America's best designers (from Donna Karan to Derek Lam, Michael Kors to Behnaz Sarafpour) regarding the concept of combining high with low revealed the following: (1)...

the new guard; Every generation, a cadre of young beauties rises in New York to reinvent high society.
February 1, 2005... Byline: William Norwich Every neighborhood has its heroes. So when on a recent gray day a certain quartet of young women, namely Lauren Davis, Eleanor Lembo, Tinsley Mortimer, and Marielle Safra, sailed up Madison Avenue and ducked into...

fighting spirit; From feminine to androgynous and back, Hilary Swank is a queen of transformation.(Interview)
February 1, 2005... Byline: Vicki Woods She bites," says Chad Lowe softly. And Hilary Swank, his wife of eight years, nods and grins. Mr. and Mrs. Lowe are standing head to head in the pretty, open lounge of their New York town house. Each has a parrot...

small wonders; With an ever-expanding menu of age-defying treatments and tweaks, full-on facelifts are becoming a thing of the past.
February 1, 2005... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian I'm doing it at last. After ten years of thinking and writing about plastic surgery and all the latest advances in cosmetic alternatives, after dithering on the brink of taking the plunge myself and then not doing...

head games; Robotic shampoo chairs.
February 1, 2005... Byline: Maggie Bullock The image on the laptop screen-a cratered, black-and-white landscape covered in clusters of thick, jutting stalks-looks as if it could have been captured by one of the Mars rovers. In fact it's something much closer...

to each her own; Here's something to smile about: Spring's best accessories are big on personality.
February 1, 2005... Piling on plenty of polished wooden bangles . . . donning a dazzling jeweled necklace to wear from dawn to dusk . . . using the brim of a beaded bucket hat to shade your eyes when the sun finally shines again. . . . It's time to seek out those...

horoscope.
February 1, 2005... Byline: By Athena Starwoman february Don't test your luck this month, for you could find it has gone on holiday! With Jupiter, the planet of good fortune, out of phase, February is likely to be a time when business falls flat, phone...

IN THIS ISSUE.
February 1, 2005... Page 62 (cover look): Manicure, Gina Viviano for artistsbytimothypriano.com. View 119: Purple bag at Fendi boutiques. Orange bag at Jil Sander, NYC. 120: Flesh bag at Barneys New York. 122: Top: tee at Maxfield, Los Angeles. Skirt at Barneys...

directory.(Brief Article)(Directory)
February 1, 2005... ADIDAS www.adidas.com ALEX AND ANI (800) 964-6581 www.alexandani.com ANAHITA www.anahita.tv ASPREY (800) 883-2777 BANANA REPUBLIC www.banana- republic.com BELL & ROSS (888) 307-7887...

THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL.(Donald Trump's generous nature)
February 1, 2005... Byline: Anna Wintour This month, we're very proud to bring you a corrective yet glamorous counternarrative of the marriage of Melania Knauss and Donald Trump. As Sally Singer reports, she and Andre Leon Talley had a wonderful time helping...

TOKYO POP.
February 1, 2005... "When we met 30 years ago, would you ever have thought we'd end up here?" Karl Lagerfeld screamed across the whirling masses of Japanese citizens who created a vortex around him as he arrived at the famous Shibuya crossing in Tokyo, on my first...

maharani's jewels.
February 1, 2005... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Sarah Giles, who spends half the year traveling around India looking for precious stones (and who once lived in a treehouse with her Bengal-tiger-expert boyfriend), will be selling a new jewelry collection called...