Vogue articles from January 2007

Vogue archives from January 2007

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007.(Audra McDonald )(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green The ravishing Audra McDonald continues to show her range, first as a hard-bitten prostitute in Brecht and Weill's The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, at the Los Angeles Opera in February, and then, come April, as...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS.(Jean-Baptiste Oudry)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Alexandra Mack After being unearthed from the basement of a German museum, Jean-Baptiste Oudry's ornate life-size portraits of a lion and a rhinoceros go on view for the first time in 150 years as the Getty Museum unveils "Oudry's...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007.(Atonement, The Nanny Diaries)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Byline: John Powers Hollywood loves turning popular books into even more popular movies. This year, Keira Knightley and James McAvoy (right) star in Atonement, based on Ian McEwan's fine World War II-era novel about love, loss, and...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS.(My Father's Secret War, Notebooks, The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Megan O'grady The year's most hotly anticipated non_fiction tells the story behind the story. Edited by Margaret Thornton, Tennessee Williams's Notebooks (Yale University Press) reads like a gossipy self-portrait of one of...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Anne Stringfield Karen Kilimnik's jewellike portraits of celebrities explore adolescent ardor without any of the winking irony one would expect from an art-world darling. Now comes a mid-career retrospective, at Philadelphia's...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007.(Olafur Eliasson)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Leslie Camhi Though his installations mimic the effects of passing clouds and rainbows, Scandinavian artist Olafur Eliasson is more interested in the mysteries of perception. He's currently creating two new works for his first...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007.(Skylark Farm, The Saffron Kitchen, Zoli )(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Megan O'grady The year's most gripping fiction makes the political personal. Antonia Arslan shows the private fallout of the Armenian genocide in her elegiac Skylark Farm (Knopf); Yasmin Crowther sets her mother-daughter saga The...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS.(Castello di Vicarello)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Richard Alleman Travel like royalty this season. Dating back to the early twelfth century, southern Tuscany's Castello di Vicarello has six guest rooms with thick stone walls and beams, furnished with antiques from the owners'...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS.(Eugene Onegin)(Opera review)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green Opera dives into the mainstream with a splash. The Met borrows a page from the World Wrestling Federation as its lavish production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, starring Renee Fleming and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, is...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS.(Paul Poiret)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman During the Belle poque, Parisian women threw over their corsets and wan Edwardian palettes in favor of Paul Poiret's revolutionary brassieres and vividly colored, draping Art Deco dresses. This May, the...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Joan Juliette Buck Prepare to be stirred by feisty teachers in long skirts. Charlotte Bronte's shy, brave, and virtuous governess must have been filmed more often than any other heroine. This year PBS airs a new two-part version...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007.(Bloc Party)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Lauren Waterman Along with albums from British dance-punk revivalists Bloc Party, Canadian indie rockers the Arcade Fire, and the Shins, who found sudden stardom when their music appeared in 2004's Garden State, the New Year kicks...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007.(Fernando de Noronha)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Richard Alleman These days, it's all about the dramatic beaches of South America. Off Brazil's northeast coast, the island of Fernando de Noronha is a natural paradise. The place to stay is Pousada Maravilha, with eight sleek...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green New York theater, to borrow from the old MGM publicity department, brings us "more stars than there are in Heaven." In February, Kevin Kline climbs Shakespeare's Mount Everest in King Lear, Liev Schreiber speaks a less...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007.(Diana Vishneva )(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman In 2006, Russian-born principal dancer Diana Vishneva stunned audiences and critics alike with her rapturous portrayal of Juliet in American Ballet Theatre's Romeo and Juliet. In June, she'll dance the part of Princess...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007.(Miss Potter, The Assassination)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: John Powers After the Oscar-winning Ray, Capote, and Walk the Line, Hollywood has gotten hooked on real-life tales of the troubled and talented. This year finds Renee Zellweger (right) channeling Peter Rabbit's creator in Miss...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007.(John Singer Sargent)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Leslie Camhi Perched in a rocking gondola, John Singer Sargent recorded the watery pathways of Venice, a city suspended between myth and history. "Sargent's Venice," a sumptuous exhibition opening this month at New York's Adelson...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS.(House of Meetings, On Chesil Beach, Arlington Park)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Megan O'grady The British are coming in a big way, with a number of the U.K.'s literary heavyweights wielding major new novels. Leading the charge: Martin Amis's masterly House of Meetings (Knopf), the story of two brothers,...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007.(Norah Jones )(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green Five years and eight Grammy Awards after her chart-breaking debut, Come Away with Me, the gifted, exotically beautiful Norah Jones returns with her third album, Not Too Late, a mix of self-penned jazz-, folk-, and...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007.(Revolutionary Chinese Cookbook)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten Authentic Chinese cooking continues to make its Great Leap Forward in the West, with the opening of serious restaurants in New York, London, and Las Vegas, and now with the publication of Fuchsia Dunlop's...

the VOGUE 25 THE CULTURAL HIGHLIGHTS OF 2007.(Cristina Iglesias)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Leslie Camhi Spanish sculptor Cristina Iglesias understands the art of making an entrance. The bronze doors she designed for architect Rafael Moneo's new expansion of the Prado-opening in February with a Thomas Struth show-stand...

smart moves; The spring collections did not change fashion history.
January 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer Was it when the ninth silver minidress appeared on a spring 2007 catwalk that onlookers shut their notebooks and uttered a collective groan? Whatever the moment, a sense of fatigue and irrelevance hovered over much of...

the bold and the beautiful; Fresh from filming The Good Shepherd, Angelina Jolie opens up for the first time about falling for Brad, life as a mother of three, and why she doesn't need a shoulder to cry on.(Interview)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Van Meter It's official: "The middle of nowhere" is about halfway between L.A. and Las Vegas, just off Route 40, at a dusty old airstrip in the desert called the Barstow-Daggett Airport-airport being something of a...

Camilla Belle.(fashion model)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles With the heavy-browed looks of a young Elizabeth Taylor, actress Camilla Belle (who Bruce Weber photographed for Teen Vogue in an homage to National Velvet) was a natural choice to embody campaigns for Vera Wang and...

Alexia Kondylis.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles I'm always after a good basic so I don't look too cuckoo-and then I add in all the junk," says the ravishing half-Greek, half-German/Austrian interior designer Alexia Kondylis. Accentuating her statuesque figure, she...

Ivanka Trump.(fashion models)(Brief biography)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles Ivanka Trump has been aware of fashion "I think my whole life," she says. "I was born in 1981, when, for better or worse, people were definitely conscious of it. Then it was a very done look. I personally am more of a...

Natalia Vodianova.(Biography)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles Russian-born model Natalia Vodianova says her childhood in grim downtown Nizhniy Novgorod "was more about survival, about very basic things" than it was about fashion. Yet even then she was fascinated by her...

Rachel Roy.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles I get dressed with the goal of wanting to look refined and sophisticated," says designer Rachel Roy, "but I don't want to look unapproachable." She cites such immaculately turned-out ladies as Jacqueline Kennedy,...

Doo-Ri Chung.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles Black is my armor," says designer Doo-Ri Chung. "Color definitely takes more premeditative thought." It's a kind of thinking, though, that Chung is often game to do, hitting the strongest hues-hot pink, vivid blues,...

Leigh Lezark.
January 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles My style's more black and white," says Leigh Lezark of the MisShapes, explaining why she painted her golden Tory ballet flats black to match her nails. The handbag of the downtown deejay princess-whom The New York...

Maria Sharapova.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles In the twenties, the brilliant and temperamental tennis player Suzanne Lenglen defined the sporty chic of the modern garconne in clothes designed by the great couturier Jean Patou. Today, Maria Sharapova has helped...

Amalia Dayan.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles I'm not a formal person," says art gallerist Amalia Dayan. "Not a 'proper' person. Bohemian is too strong a word, but my style is eclectic, a little bit hippie. It has to have some imagination and a sense of humor."...

Barbara Wilhelm.
January 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles Fashion is about romance," says art maven Barbara Wilhelm. "I like clothes best when they have a bit of a soul." Viennese by birth, the cool, scrubbed, honeyed-blonde beauty spent ten formative years in London and...

bohemian reverie; Jacqueline Schnabel transformed an all-American Hamptons house into an exotic family home that showcases her eclectic brilliance.
January 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles We're in the middle of this thing that gets bigger every day," Jacqueline Schnabel told Vogue in the early eighties, speaking of living in the eye of the storm created by her husband, Julian's, "cyclonic success" in...

the science of looking good; Stem-cell creams, DNA-based workouts, $50,000 checkups-Judith Newman writes the prescription for twenty-first-century beauty.(Bianca Pratt)
January 1, 2007... Byline: Judith Newman With her rope of wheat-blonde hair, tawny skin, and huge, searching eyes, Bianca Pratt is the kind of woman who elicits the I'll-have-what-she's-having response in lesser mortals-which, of course, is why she's a...

natural selection; Raised on a farm by rock-'n'-roll activists, Stella McCartney has always bucked convention.
January 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower Stella McCartney is sitting at a table in her "inspiration room," a long moss-green-carpeted studio in London's multicultural Westbourne Grove, in which she does her fittings. She's shown up in a variant of her daily...

down to a tee; As this spring's anything-but- basic T-shirts show, big fashion impact can come in the smallest of packages.(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Softly draped jersey that slides off the shoulder . . . shrunk to fit tight and all set to be partnered with the skinniest of pants . . . slinkily shaped and slicked with a liberal dose of shimmering sequins. . . . The tee might have...