Vogue articles from July 2007

Vogue archives from July 2007

cloud atlas; This fall, designers are listening to Mother Nature, with surprising and elegant results.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer When the fall collections were shown last February and March, the great subplot concerned that most banal of phenomena, the weather: New York was bone-chillingly cold, Milan was weirdly hot and wet, and only Paris,...

the mighty penn; At 90, legendary artist and photographer Irving Penn is as inspired and prolific as ever.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Kennedy Fraser "Many years ago, I started to work for Vogue," said Irving Penn, beginning the tale of the bedside lamp that is the subject of this radiant image. "I was coming to work at the old Vogue studio, and I passed a junk...

fine and brandy; Jeffrey Steingarten tests the ideal method for distilling artisanal apple spirits.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten Apples, apples everywhere. Apples have taken over the kitchen and the borderlands around it. This is not unusual in my business, except that I can't figure out what to do next. I am frozen to the spot or, more...

it's a wrap; To save her skin from the sun, Joan Juliet Buck has shunned the decks of boats, hidden on the beach under lengths of cloth, and been privy to the secrets of strangers.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck I look young, considering how much I remember, but you wouldn't know what I look like if you met me on the beach, because you wouldn't see me. You would see fabric. I wrap myself from head to toes before I venture...

majesty; What transpires when three artistic rulers join forces.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer "When you walk into the studio, your blood slows. I understood the rich, full meaning of still life." It's rare for a flesh-and-blood Hollywood beauty to compare herself to a bowl of fruit, but then again, it's rare...

staying the course; Elizabeth Edwards is indignant that anyone should second-guess her decision to campaign with cancer.(Interview)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Julia Reed When I visit Elizabeth Edwards at her family's spacious new house in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she has just returned from the obligatory-and, in this case, exhausting-trek through New Hampshire. In a single day she...

a grand affair; Hollywood and fashion luminaries pay festive tribute to Paul Poiret's indelible style at the Met.(Metropolitan Museum)
July 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich Tonight the hundreds of paparazzi erupting on the red-carpeted stairs of the Metropolitan Museum are screaming so loudly, even the Met's most hallowed distant halls are echoing: "Salma! Stop! MICK! Kirsten, who's...

siren song; Crimson lips, high-maintenance hair, and a wardrobe to match: Catherine Piercy makes a case for the season's grown-up glamour.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Catherine Piercy This is bourgeois beauty," declared hairstylist Guido Palau as he frantically arranged a wide-brimmed hat over model Olga Sherer's dramatically arched brow backstage at Marc Jacobs's fall runway show. Moments...

arden wohl; A young filmmaker brings her eclectic eye and highly original spirit to dressing for work and pleasure.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Eve Macsweeney Arden Wohl was born to customize. The 24-year-old filmmaker and increasingly visible girl-about-town answers the door to her West Village apartment one sunny afternoon dressed in a short egg-yolk-yellow sequined...

natalie massenet; This Internet entrepreneur likes her style just like her online shopping-speedy and chic.(Interview)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Holgate Click, click, click-that's how quickly Natalie Massenet shops online. The 42-year-old L.A.-born, London-based founder of Net-a-porter dubs herself "the poster child for dot-com shopping." Her B&B Italia sofas, her...

Emma Jane Pilkington Goergen; Ease is paramount for this interior designer, who relies on classic pieces for business, then lets go with vibrant bohemian looks at play.(Interview)
July 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich In the great fashion equation called life, you would think it was simple math. Work from home and travel constantly, and it adds up to wearing whatever you want, right? "Wrong," says interior designer Emma Jane...

all eyes on her; Model Irina Lazareanu's style is as bewitching as anything she wears on the runway.(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Meet the femme whom Karl and Nicolas and Marc have all fallen for, as she tries three of fall's new trends her way, drawing on her oh-so-Parisian references to Chanel, chanteuse Francoise Hardy, and les beats who made sixties St.-Germain...

PENN'S MAJESTY.(photographer Irving Penn)(Editorial)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Anna Wintour This issue is a surprise birthday party for Irving Penn, who turns 90 this month. I mean this quite literally: Mr. Penn loathes personal publicity, and any knowledge that we were planning a birthday homage would have...

Blithe spirit.(of Isabella Blow)(Obituary)
July 1, 2007... "Her antennae were fine-tuned for talent," says Michael Roberts, who inherited Isabella Blow as a fashion assistant at Tatler magazine in 1986 upon her return to London after completing her American Vogue experience as my assistant. Blow,...

gilded age.(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Andre Leon Talley The Duchess of Windsor was an avid couture client (her Mainbocher wedding dress was haute couture in its purest form), and she was equally passionate about her solid-gold accessories by Van Cleef & Arpels. The...

disco fever; As a teenager in small-town Virginia, Darcey Steinke dressed for the velvet ropes of Studio 54, much to her mother's dismay.
July 1, 2007... Byline: Darcey Steinke I was all dressed up, but in Roanoke there was literally no place to go. The one disco on the highway was in a steel warehouse, but I was too young to get in. On Friday nights my girlfriends and I would drive to...

Night at the museum.(Metropolitan Museum of Art)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Seduced by Paul Poiret's visionary 1915 collection, Vogue wrote, "All this combines to create a fearsome air of luxury in which the most prudent female minds lose the sense of economy and yield themselves to the sheer intoxication of elegance."...

hot tickets; From Italy to Laos to Glastonbury, William Norwich catches up with the hectic summer schedule of the globe-trotting social set.
July 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich It was the height of the spring season, a fortnight of frivolity that would have exhausted mere mortals, but our social Olympians showed no signs of fatigue. Do they ever? In fact, at a party for the writer Bob...

fall forward; Come autumn, these are the three rising labels to watch and wear.(Boy, Avion feminin, Jeremy Laing)
July 1, 2007... 1. boy Scott Sternberg makes change look easy, having forayed from menswear to womenswear as seamlessly as he did from film to fashion. After a stint as a CAA agent in 1997, the 32-year-old began designing his preppy-cool men's line, Band...

tabitha takes on_._._. how to borrow from the boys; Tabitha Simmons tries on fall's most masculine looks for size-and finds that they fit just fine.(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Byline: Tabitha Simmons Balenciaga's blazers and Proenza Schouler's slouchy pants have got my husband, Craig [McDean], worried. Not because I'll wear them-on the contrary, he knows I have loved buying menswear-inspired pieces for years....

Southwest passage.(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Perhaps the reason singular society swan Millicent Rogers was so inimitably chic was that she always matched her look to her surroundings. At her Austrian chalet, Rogers effortlessly mixed Schiaparelli skirts with Tyrolean embroidered vests,...