Vogue articles from February 2007

Vogue archives from February 2007

"What do you wear to work?".(DKNY leopard-print Habotai dress )(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... When Vogue's senior editors returned from their annual trip to Paris to preview the spring collections, they were seeing spots (and it wasn't from their seven-hour Air France flight). The DKNY leopard-print Habotai dress turned up-in myriad...

girl of the moment CATE BLANCHETT.(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... MORE THAN having her moment, Cate Blanchett is having a remarkable year. Not only does she elevate every screen scene, she's also lighting up red carpets around the world-from Geneva to Sydney-in look after impeccable look. Choosing sporty...

trend of the moment GARDEN PARTY.(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... FEELING ROMANTIC this month? Turning their thoughts to love, some of fashion's best dressed are stepping out in breathtaking looks with flower-like embellishments and giant corsages of fresh blooms. Prim floral prints are sweet nothings...

strike a match; After a sparkling New York engagement party, assorted romantics debate the virtues of playing Cupid.
February 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich Matters of the heart have become as problematic these days as attaining world peace. Finding a Saturday-night date is hard enough-let alone a soul mate. But all was right in the world the other night at Carolyne...

the future is now; Sleek cyborg uniforms, technometallics, and sci-fi robo-looks-forget everything you imagined about fashion arriving in 50, 60, 100 years.
February 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower It's been called Futurism, but that's wrong. Whatever it is that's exploding from the brains of our best designers at the moment is as hard to capture as the shards of a digital sci-fi sequence spinning into computer...

my funny valentine; Sweet-nothing keepsakes and tongue-in-cheek charms even a tough girl could love.(jewelry designer Anna Sheffield)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman At first glance, Brooklyn designer Anna Sheffield's chain-link charm necklaces recall the sort of indestructible been-around-the-block-and-back look of loose change. They're shiny but not too shiny. They could be...

new school; On London's runways, four gallant young designers showed four very promising collections.(Todd Lynn)(Erdem Moralioglu)(Gareth Pugh)(Danielle Scutt)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower To get the point of Todd Lynn, all you need to imagine is the crowd-parting power of a pack of elegant rockers strutting into a black-tie event. "Everyone wants to be a rock star," asserts this gently spoken...

mesi jilly; This Austrian-born, New York-based jewelry designer makes waves with her seashell baubles-and her wardrobe.(Interview)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Florence Kane LOBAL CHIC My father is a diplomat, so I grew up all over the world. My family moved every four years, which made me very open-minded toward different cultures and different ways of dressing. I like to explore new...

strong suit; An artful Italian label attests that opposites do, indeed, attract.(Mina Lee)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman I love working with contrast. I cannot emphasize that enough," says Mina Lee, the Korean-born designer behind the made- in-Milan label Derercuny. Now at Neiman Marcus and Dover Street Market in London, certain...

ask mrs. exeter; Will more room make a man swoon.
February 1, 2007... Question: I am a recently divorced mother of two, with good work and some means. I am dating again and need a wardrobe that is sexy but not tawdry, that shows curves rather than throws ironic curveballs that only fashionistas understand. For...

case work.(briefcase)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... What's exciting about a briefcase? Not much. Even the word itself evokes the boring, black, boxy attaches sold in cheerless office-supply warehouses. The chic woman who means business wouldn't carry one of those clunky cases as a sign of her...

set to pop; With his platinum album arriving Stateside, Brit sensation Paolo Nutini gets ready to take over the airwaves.(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Lauren Waterman Ask him to locate his place in the pop-music landscape and singer/songwriter Paolo Nutini-who's been compared to everyone from James Blunt to Joe Cocker-will willfully misinterpret the question, offering an answer...

made in paris; Avenue Montaigne follows a young woman searching for fame in the City of Light.(The Lives of Others )(Movie review)
February 1, 2007... There is but one Paris," exulted van Gogh in one of his cheerier moods. The city's magic shines brightly in Avenue Montaigne, a good-humored fairy tale about life waltzing with art. French star Cecile de France plays Jessica, a young arrival...

golden dreams.(Academy Awards)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Byline: John Powers After a decade in which good roles for actresses were as hard to find as the snow leopard, the Academy suddenly found itself in a blizzard of Oscar-worthy female performances, from Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada...

life with father.(Kevin Kline in King Lear)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green February is the month of lovers and groundhogs, but this season dear old Dad takes center stage. Kevin Kline, whose matinee-idol looks and comic panache first knocked out audiences nearly three decades ago, is finally...

two for the road; Justine Kurland, son in tow, shifts her lens from girlhood to maternity.(Interview)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Anne Stringfield Photographer Justine Kurland first drew notice with her images of fierce, feral girls on the loose in raw landscapes that evoke Church and Cole reveries as easily as they do Victorian fairy paintings. The...

good and evil; Joan Juliet Buck is riveted by HBO's great film Longford.(Television program review)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck No screenwriter has ever managed to impose his take on power as clearly as Peter Morgan. He wrote The Queen, pairing Elizabeth II and Tony Blair, and The Last King of Scotland-Idi Amin and a young Scottish doctor....

raising the bar.(interior designer Nina Campbell)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Who: Renowned British interior designer Nina Campbell. What: Redoing the Campbell Apartment, Grand Central's storied bar, once the private office of New York tycoon John W. Campbell (no relation). Why: "For me, Grand Central is...

grand vistas; Richard Alleman combs the globe for the most romantic destinations.
February 1, 2007... Byline: Richard Alleman magical morocco An hour's drive south of bustling Marrakech, Kasbah Tamadot, Richard Branson's fantasy fortress in the shadow of the High Atlas Mountains, is a tranquil oasis of Moorish courtyards, fragrant...

perfect opposites; In Starter for 10, Alice Eve plays blonde bombshell to Rebecca Hall's brainy brunette.(Interview)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Esther Selsdon Alice Eve and Rebecca Hall were clearly destined to become performers. Despite the fact that people keep wandering into their karaoke booth with playlist suggestions and boxes of sushi, and Alice confesses that "the...

objects of desire.(Charlotte Moss's flagship store)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... This spring, interior designer Charlotte Moss opens her flagship store in a five-story Upper East Side town house, in which every room will showcase how objects and furniture can be displayed and enjoyed. "I wanted to create a sense of...

dark star; A gripping new biography chronicles the life of Assia Wevill, the woman Ted Hughes tried to hide.
February 1, 2007... Byline: Megan O'grady Assia Wevill was Sylvia Plath's polar opposite: raven-haired, magnetic, cosmopolitan-and, though multilingual and brilliantly well read, unambitious as a poet. But the women have one thing in common: Each killed...

passage to india; On an idyllic Bahamian island, India Hicks lives the life less ordinary.(Interview)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Catherine Piercy I've been standing on Hibiscus Hill not 60 seconds when India Hicks comes striding toward me, hands clasped around a jar of fresh-picked frangipani blossoms, honey-colored hair swept off her face, sun-kissed...

britain's best-kept secret; How do English roses stay so rosy.(Liz Earle's organic beauty products)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Brown There is something about a beauty secret that women-even those who claim not to wear makeup or engage in fervent age-fighting-cannot resist. What's the best eye cream? The reason certain people are suddenly looking so...

destination diets; The latest batch of weight-loss books steals secrets from luxe locales around the world.(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Jancee Dunn We've lived (and lost) through diets based on food groups, blood types, and carb quotients. This year, it's all about location, location, location: A sensible quartet of books takes cues from St.-Tropez, Switzerland,...

organic chemistry; Introducing the beauty lab, where spa guests custom-blend creams and scrubs.(Ojai Valley Inn & Spa)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Laurie Drake Nestled among picturesque mountains, the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa draws the harried and the hurried from all over, especially L.A., 90 minutes south. And while some guests come just for the world-famous 31,000-square-foot...

room service; The chicest new signature scents are for your home-not your neck.(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Brown Just as fashion has stretched from the way we outfit ourselves to the way we dress our homes, so has fragrance. And we've moved well beyond the expected candle-and-room-spray formula-though, of course, we still love a...

survival of the fittest; Based on the theory of chaos, the latest exercise craze shakes up the average gym routine.
February 1, 2007... Byline: Betsy Berne The idea of taking an exercise class called Chaos is not exactly enticing. As a single parent who harbors a young daughter who is a cross between a stubborn mule and a human cyclone, I already have enough in my life....

taking control of your look & life.(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... If the nineties concept of feminine strength focused on sexuality and body politics (and naked navels), women today are taking power by getting the job done. From Capitol Hill to the Internet, the American female is an economic and political...

parka avenue; Respun with ultraluxe threads, the old-school anorak graduates from geek to street chic-a supersmart shortcut to achieving volume without looking studied.
February 1, 2007... Byline: Lynn Yaeger Trainspotters! OK, how is this? The boys who work in our computer department are all such . . . anoraks." In England at least, I'm beginning to see, an anorak isn't just a jacket. It also functions as a nickname,...

down to a fine art; Renee Zellweger plays Beatrix Potter, the beloved children's-book author and illustrator, in the upcoming film Miss Potter.(Interview)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Kennedy Fraser Renee Zellweger is great as Beatrix Potter, creator of The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, and a score of other children's classics. But in person, across the table in a restaurant in Beverly...

the unbeliever; An outspoken critic of Islam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali lives in fear for her life-and refuses to be silenced.
February 1, 2007... Byline: Rebecca Johnson After I'd met Ayaan Hirsi Ali, former Dutch parliamentarian, author of the forthcoming autobiography Infidel, and a woman who would be dead if certain Muslim extremists were to have their way, Ali slipped off her...

reluctant romeo; Hugh Grant's mastery of romantic comedy is matched only by his ambivalence about acting, celebrity, and much more besides.(Interview)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Eve Macsweeney When Hugh Grant, he of the debonair wit and raffish charm, answers the door of a rarely used office he keeps in London, he is surprisingly tense. An affable smile is locked onto his face, as if he's acting (on a bad...

memory artist; Celebrated for abstract canvases that mine the past, Philip Taaffe brings layers of meaning to a landmark Chelsea Hotel apartment.
February 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles I try to draw parallels between different geographical and historical structures. . . . I like telling stories that way," declares artist Philip Taaffe, who spins his visual narratives both in his dynamic canvases,...

dark victory; What makes a perfect bonbon.
February 1, 2007... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten Unlikely as it may sound, I find myself in the top centile of chocolate consumption in America. Only one person in 140 eats chocolate every day, and I am he. I never realized quite how alone I am. More than half...

behind the seams; Five designers reveal how their lives inspire the very individual looks of their dresses.(samantha sung)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... the designer: samantha sung of s-sung her signature dress style: Painterly prints the inspiration: "I create each print by hand-painting it first. But the real starting point is always wherever I have just visited; I can't...

the designer: alice ritter.(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... her signature dress style: Sixties graphic her inspiration: "I'm from France but live in the U.S., so I think of both places when I'm working. From Europe, I've been fascinated by 1960s movie directors-Truffaut, Godard, Antonioni,...

the designer: katy rodriguez.(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... her signature dress style: Architectural volume the inspiration: "If you saw my home, you would completely understand my approach to the dresses I make! I live in a Richard Neutra house in Los Angeles, and I appreciate his aesthetic. It's...

the designer: gaby basora of tucker.(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... her signature dress style: Pretty urban her inspiration: "It comes from the sights that I see when I am cycling around my neighborhood, New York's East Village: the 99-cent store, the hairdresser at the local salon, girls walking to school...

the designer: katie nehra of simone.(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... her signature dress style: Party perfect her inspiration: "I was looking at a lot of photographs of Brigitte Bardot in St.-Tropez, and [the French singer] Francoise Hardy. I like girls with attitude. I've always said that whoever is...

Strong motion.(Editorial)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Anna Wintour In the fall, the business pages of The New York Times led with a story about the growing strength of women in the consumer marketplace. Women are buying their own homes, cars, and vacations in ever greater numbers, and...

Oscar & me.(Made for Each Other)(Book review)
February 1, 2007... If you are interested in the high-stakes interaction between the Academy Awards and fashion, you should really read a new book by Bronwyn Cosgrave, called Made for Each Other. I read it in first galleys just before the Christmas rush, and...

WARDRObE!(Jeffrey Costello, Robert Tagliapietra)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra met on the set of Madonna's "Bedtime Story" video in 1994 and have lived together ever since (today, with a cosseted bulldog named Sam and a passel of antique Singer sewing machines). They are a very...

Ladies pursed.(Fred Leighton accessories exhibit)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Fred Leighton, heralded red-carpet jeweler, has put together an exhibit of rare vintage evening handbags, compacts, minaudieres, and necessaires, dating back to a Tiffany beaded reticule from 1890. Go to see a green enamel Van Cleef & Arpels...

United we stand.(PBS releases Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement on DVD)(Brief article)
February 1, 2007... Byline: Andre Leon Talley PBS has issued a new DVD boxed set of Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, the extraordinary fourteen-hour documentary that first aired in 1987 and 1990. For more than a decade, this intense and...