Vogue articles from June 2004

Vogue archives from June 2004

daphne guinness; For the trip of a lifetime, this movie producer packs exotic feather capes, estate jewelry, and silk tops for after sundown.
June 1, 2004... Why Egypt? The colors, the light, the liquid gold of the Nile. And I've always liked Egyptian art-I find it mysterious and spooky. I like modern Egypt, too, especially Cairo. It's like Blade Runner, with its mix of skyscrapers and camels....

go with the flow.
June 1, 2004... Both Tom Ford and Stella McCartney know that there's no better way to lighten things up after a long winter than with a bright, billowy evening dress. Ford's twenties-inspired silhouette for Yves Saint Laurent comes with soft satin...

rise and shine.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Namehere They flickered luminously in a sea of staid creams and blacks, reminding us that winter had finally fled: From Aerin Lauder's aubergine twinkler by Tuleh to Celerie Kemble's ruby-red Lela Rose, coats with a hint of...

fun and frippery; Fall's richly eclectic looks cry out for that extra personalized flourish.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Sally Singer At a time when trends have never been more transitory and self-immolating-a bag can be in and out and then vintage in the space of a month-here comes a stroke of genius from the Tuleh catwalk: the fresh-flower corsage,...

the swimmer; Abaete's preppy-chic bathing suits are more Ralph than Rio.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Irini Arakas Beach-before-school is how I remember my childhood in Ipanema," says swimsuit designer Laura Poretzky. "Classes didn't start until 11:00 a.m., so my brothers and I would wake up early and head for the water. They...

tangled up in chains; A new band of jewelers makes a fine mess of luxury.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Irini Arakas There is an accessory uprising among us, and Tom Binns is the one to thank. For the past five years, the prickly Northern Irish designer has created jewelry that flies in the face of conservative chic and overall good...

closet case; caterina zangrando A 24-year-old Italian Powerpuff is taking over the fashion world with her cartoon-chic necklaces.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Irini Arakas Adults Only I find my charms in toy stores in London, Paris, and Milan. My jewelry, at first glance, may look childlike, but in fact the pieces look best on women who have a very grown-up sense of style. Just ask...

a cut above; David Szeto sharpens his act with some of the snappiest looks around.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Mark Holgate This took more than 20 fittings to get right," says David Szeto, holding up a cream dress strewn with a shoal of brick-red lobsters. "I'm always looking for new ways to construct clothes. I once spent a year trying to...

fashion newsflash Ill Take Manhattan; New York, New York-so good Bottega Veneta named five bags after it.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Mark Holgate According to Tomas Maier of Bottega Veneta, the Mondrian print on Bottega's new Manhattan bag (about $3,300) evokes the lights of Times Square, while the black crocodile trim is reminiscent of "Park Avenue on a rainy...

ground control; The otherworldly kicks that once decked the feet of David Bowie are back for a reprise.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Sarah Mower Terry de Havilland, the man who made the most outrageous early-seventies glitter platforms ever to totter along the King's Road, is back. Multicolored de Havillands are suddenly in hot demand among the 24-hour party...

needle on the record; Groovy, glam-rock hand-knits enter the charts.
June 1, 2004... David Mushegain is six-two, a floppy-haired surfer with matinee-idol looks-and he's making a name for himself with a knitting needle. His handmade sequined scarves are so glam, so rock star, that Keith Richards has been spotted with a silvery...

the hook up; With the launch of its shopping service, Style.
June 1, 2004... How does rising, but often underfunded, talent connect with the fashion public between the coasts? More and more, the answer is the Internet. Now Style.com, the online home of Vogue and W, has launched TheShop, an E-store offering the best and...

beach club bingo; High season approaches in Southampton-and Carleen Ligozio is ready with sunny, modern-classic summerwear.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Bess Rattray Just like most Hamptons style-peddlers, she is a refugee from Seventh Avenue: Before opening Carleen Ligozio, the Job's Lane boutique, she was Carleen Ligozio, the high-profile buyer for Henri Bendel and Saks. "To be...

light show.
June 1, 2004... What makes the parrot-blue water off Santorini so alluring? Or the cloudless skies of Turks and Caicos? It's their transparency. When the sun's rays shoot through something so clear, so bottomless, you can't help falling into a mesmerized,...

winning ways; This month, tennis champ Roger Federer returns to Wimbledon to defend his title.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Joanne Chen In a rare quiet moment not long after his spectacular triumph at the Australian Open, Roger Federer is being his unassuming self-a startling trait considering he's currently ranked the world's best tennis player, and is...

independence day; Richard Linklater proves he's as passionate and original as ever, while a pair of Sundance favorites finds new ways to make us think and laugh.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Sarah Kerr When last we saw Jesse and Celine, they had come to the end of a magical night in Vienna. Trading kisses and tearful goodbyes, the jaded but good-hearted Yankee and the idealistic jeune fille agreed to return to their...

over the top.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Sarah Kerr Once upon a time, a stunning young lady married a shrewd, ambitious man and rose to rule over the land. Her mission, as she saw it, was to bring beauty to the people. So she went about dressed to the nines. She erected...

this side of paradise; Once there was Pollock and de Kooning.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Nico Israel Long before Grubman, Hilton, and Combs ever alighted there, the east end of Long Island was beckoning generations of visual artists to its shores, from William Merritt Chase, who lived and worked in the area in the...

house call.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Richard Alleman What if you could have the best of two worlds-an estate in the Hamptons without the headaches of ownership and all the amenities of a five-star hotel? Now you can. Hampton Retreats offers glamorous East End houses...

happy day; Bryce Dallas Howard was discovered the good old-fashioned way.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Sarah Kerr You want making movies to be magical." So answers director M. Night Shyamalan when asked how he chose 23-year-old Bryce Dallas Howard, an unknown with five minutes' screen time in a negligible indie under her belt,...

sex, god and jury duty; Joan Juliet Buck watches dissolute party girls and tortured mystics search for the perfect union; supermodel Shalom Harlow, in a new incarnation, defends a cop.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Profane and sacred love are addressed in the correct formats this month: casual sex in a new sitcom from Caryn Mandabach (whose company produces That 70's Show and Whoopi, among many others) and total surrender...

beach reads.
June 1, 2004... Things change overnight for the young English banker in Peter Mayle's A Good Year (Knopf) when he inherits a Provencal estate surrounded by vineyards, beautiful women, and mystery, while the Upper East Side wife in Kate Lehrer's breathless...

short takes. . .
June 1, 2004... In her Little Black Book of Stories (Knopf) A. S. Byatt offers five mystical tales, one or two of which are guaranteed to send a chill up your spine. For lighter fare, David Sedaris's latest essay collection, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and...

grand romances. . .
June 1, 2004... Following her best-selling Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller's Scribbling the Cat (Penguin Press) continues the author's love affair with Africa through the story of K, a veteran of the Rhodesian War. Jane Smiley also returns...

extraordinary people. . .
June 1, 2004... Rosemary Dinnage captures the spirits of such unforgettable figures as Isak Dinesen and Simone Weil in Alone! Alone! Lives of Some Outsider Women (NYRB). From his youth in Fascist Italy to his reign as the unoffical captain of New York society,...

second time around. . .
June 1, 2004... Open City reprints the late Steve Tesich's Hollywood satire Karoo, which became a cult classic shortly after it was published. Offering her signature wry melancholy, Lorrie Moore's Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? has also...

not fade away; Imagine nails that stay perfectly polished-all summer long.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Plum Sykes When I heard that there was a new absolutely unchippable, 100 percent bombproof mani-pedi, I thought, no way. I also thought, This could change my life, nail-wise. The idea that I could get through summer with...

beauty news; Luxury lives: $500 facials and skin care fit for a countess.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Sarah Brown overheard Sally Hershberger's record-breaking $600 haircut was not enough. In yet another example of off-the-charts, late 1990s-style excess, the $500 facial has arrived in New York. Offered at the smooth, lineless...

shopping for surgery; From extreme makeovers to subtle nips and tucks, plastic surgery is the new cultural obsession.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Ariel Levy We have always known that plastic surgery carries with it inherent risks. But until recently this was a fuzzy sort of recognition, a distant concern. Cosmetic procedures seemed dangerous the way sushi seemed...

great getaways.
June 1, 2004... Everyone dreams of their own private Eden, a chic nook where they can let their hair down. Vogue meets a lucky few who have discovered what personal space really means. Here, an insider's guide to summer's best hideaways-plus, what to wear when...

Marina Rust; Vogue's contributing editor makes a pilgrimage for lobster rolls, ice cream at the local fountain, and antique-hunting at the fairs.
June 1, 2004... Why Maine? It's a little farther away than everywhere else. Where do you stay? A house that my great-great-grandparents built in 1899. Great-Great-Grandmother was a George Washington buff, and the house is modeled after Mount Vernon-a...

David Netto and Ione Skye; The interior designer and actress treasure Down East traditions.
June 1, 2004... Why Maine? The light lasts long into the evenings because it's so far north-a dreamy, golden-hour quality. In that light, you might have tea with an old person and tell them all your secrets. Where do you stay? We rent a beautiful...

renee rockefeller; The Manhattan mom hikes en famille in Acadia National Park.
June 1, 2004... Why Maine? The smell of Maine is what I think of-a combination of pines and the sea. Where do you stay? In Seal Harbor, in one of the oldest houses on the island. What do you pack? Michael Kors jersey dresses and sweaters...

sasha lazard.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Namehere Where do you stay? At my family home. My brother and I now own the house, so we often end up having overlapping trips. I also love to go up there with a big group of friends, especially over the July Fourth weekend....

fertile ground; Visionary sixties decorator David Hicks created landscaping majesty from humble Oxfordshire farmland.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Ashley Hicks The first time I took Allegra to the Grove, my parents' home in Oxfordshire, was not entirely successful. She was instantly seduced, as is everyone, by the splendor of the garden that my father had spent the previous...

Allegra Hicks; The British designer loves the romance of a country rose garden.
June 1, 2004... Why England? I was raised in Italy, and England was always the epitome of what we thought of as the countryside. I've never seen anywhere so green. Your luggage? From a company in Turin called Laurence: cream canvas with tan...

phoebe philo; The Chloe designer relaxes by riding-and striding-across the South Downs.
June 1, 2004... What do you pack? I don't. I leave London or Paris just as I am, and when I arrive in West Sussex, I change into my country wardrobe, which is always there. I like to be as comfy as possible, which means cotton tanks by Hanro or Petit...

victoria fernandez; The Colombian fashion consultant is enchanted by rural Britannia.
June 1, 2004... Why England? It's so green-just like emeralds from Colombia. Where do you stay? At friends' houses. What do you pack? Jodhpurs; cashmere polo-necks by N. Peal in the Burlington Arcade; scarves; riding jackets; tweeds;...

style on the nile; Shoe maestro Christian Louboutin built his very own Love Boat to cruise the Nile.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Hamish Bowles Every French schoolchild should be familiar with the resonant words that Napoleon delivered at the triumphant height of his Egyptian campaign in 1798 to his troops gathered beneath the Sphinx: "From the top of this...

melita toscan du plantier; The film-festival director adores exploring Egyptian culture.
June 1, 2004... Why Egypt? When one thinks about the history of the country, with its temples and pyramids, it's incredible. You'll see a painting on a wall, and the colors are still so bright and beautiful, you can't believe it's so old. To see it up...

sydney ingle-finch; This girl-about-town chills out in the Moroccan heat.
June 1, 2004... Where do you stay? The Gazelle d'Or in Taroudant. You fly into Agadir and then drive over the Atlas Mountains. You stay in these little cottages- very traditional Moorish architecture and furniture. It's how I would imagine the Orient...

dreaming eire; Seduced by the mysticism of Ireland, London-based antiques dealer Gordon Watson reminisces about his discovery of an old thatched cottage in County Waterford.
June 1, 2004... Byline: -as Told To Hamish Bowles As a boy, I was always taken to places like the Lido in Venice and other salubrious watering holes for holidays, and as a young man-about-town I went to villas in the South of France or urbane country...

pierce brosnan & keely shaye smith; Double-Oh and wife make an annual trip home to the Emerald Isle.
June 1, 2004... Why Ireland? Keely: The charm of its people, the spectacular landscape, the seaside thatched cottages, the artists, poets, and writers. Where do you stay? Pierce: Wherever they'll let me. From Ashford Castle to...

jasmine guinness; The sporty model revels in the great outdoors-and a great pint of Guinness.
June 1, 2004... Where do you stay? Always at Leixlip Castle, which is owned by my grandfather Desmond Guinness. Who comes along? My son, Elwood Rainey, and my boyfriend, Gawain Rainey. What do you pack? Practical things: Carhartt coats....

bay garnett; For this hip stylist, it's about windblown walks-and winding down in Dublin pubs.
June 1, 2004... Why Ireland? Irish people have this spark and humor and complete lack of pretension. They are incredibly down to earth and are so not easily impressed. They're the complete opposite of someone like . . . a French fashionista! What...

susan gutfreund; The interior decorator relishes seafood lunches and secret gardens.
June 1, 2004... Why Ireland? One compelling reason is to escape the noise and stress of the city. New York is like a bottle of champagne: You want to drink it at one go so as not to lose all the bubbles. While Ireland is like a glass of claret...

rio grandeur; In the epically beautiful countryside above Rio, Carlos de Souza has created an idyllic refuge from his frenetic fashion life.
June 1, 2004... Rio for me was always the place to have fun," says Carlos de Souza, who grew up in the very different city of So Paulo, Brazil's work-oriented business center, where the high-rises stretch as far as the eye can see and the moneyed classes...

andrea dellal; The London-based socialite gets back to her Brazilian roots.
June 1, 2004... Why Brazil? The natural beauty, the beaches, the people, the music, the food-and football, of course. Where do you stay? In my flat on Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro. And I always rent a house for a week somewhere like Angra dos...

gisele bundchen; Sambas her days-and nights-down Rio way.
June 1, 2004... Why Brazil? Because I'm from there, and my family is there. But, also, everyone is so free-spirited and friendly. Maybe it's because it's always so warm and sunny. What do you pack? Brazilians aren't obsessed with labels. Everyone...

all together now; Kate Hudson has a newborn to feed, a rocker husband who's about to go on tour, and 20 pounds to lose.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Sally Singer Milestone!" squeals Kate Hudson. "I feel like I need to call everyone in my family." The momentous occasion is the actress's first postnatal self-insertion into a pair of size 28 jeans (from James, boot cut, with...

chain game; Somewhere among Orlando's 4,500 food courts, fast-food outlets, theme restaurants, and multi-unit concept chains, Jeffrey Steingarten discovers the tastes of the future.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten Our plane touched down at Orlando International Airport. My fellow passengers stampeded out of the cabin, grateful to have reached Orlando and their winter vacations. Me, I was not yet ready to be grateful. This...

divine comedy; Nathan Lane and Chris Kattan put on tunics, sing Sondheim, and hop through Hades in the Greek musical farce The Frogs.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Adam Green Great theater often begins with the collision of two apparently unrelated elements. In the case of Burt Shevelove's original production of The Frogs, those elements were a 405 b.c. Greek comedy and the 1941 Yale swim...

pool sharks; The coolest bags and sandals for post-lap lolling.
June 1, 2004... "This is the perfect poolside tote. It opens really wide, so you can dip in and out for your shades or your book" -Tomas Maier, Bottega Veneta

a bigger splash; Vogue plunges in and surfaces with the 52 best swimsuits for a long haute summer.
June 1, 2004... The modest maillot: always a safe bet when you're sunning. But really, where's the fashion thrill in that? Not when there's a tsunami of terrific swimsuits, each cresting the wave of the season's hottest trends, be it Pucci's pop-print...

away games.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Anna Wintour n June we celebrate the notion of escape and, specifically, the pleasures of private familial retreats. Of course, everyone enjoys a night or two at a fabulous hotel, but isn't it always more relaxing to visit a...

philo facts.
June 1, 2004... "Keep it simple, keep it gorgeous!" That's what Phoebe Philo says every time I see her: "Keep it simple, keep it gorgeous!" The 30-year-old Londoner shuttles constantly back and forth on the Eurostar to Paris, where she designs Chloe. She...

I could have danced all night.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Oscar de la Renta remembers Truman Capote's famous Black and White Ball of 1966, which everyone who was anyone considered the Party of the Century-but in his opinion, the season-opening benefit for...

rear window; When Thisbe Nissen and her family moved, they found Vladimir Horowitz and Wanda Toscanini right next door.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Thisbe Nissen I often scour thrift and antiques shops for vintage magazines and have collected an enviable pile of old National Geographics and House Beautifuls. I once bought a stack of seventies Playboys at a farm auction,...

talking back.
June 1, 2004... tres jolie Now that I've just finished "Learning to Fly" [by Jonathan Van Meter, photographed by Mario Testino] in the March issue of VOGUE, my heart swells and I'm inspired by Angelina Jolie to do my part to change the world. The article...

I Love Lucy; For 20 years, Ann Patchett and Lucy Grealy were writers, coconspirators, and best friends.
June 1, 2004... Byline: Ann Patchett About three weeks after Lucy Grealy died, people started asking if I was feeling better. "Your voice sounds a little better today," they would say. "Are you feeling a little better?" By sounding better I suppose...

Vogue Girl of the Moment Rachel Feinstein.
June 1, 2004... One of the telltale signs of a muse is her seemingly effortless way of being chic and completely charismatic all at once. Sculptor and new mother Rachel Feinstein seems to have the role down pat: Whether sitting for her husband John Currin's...

wonderful town.
June 1, 2004... April showers couldn't keep the city's most stylish denizens from two glittering-albeit far-flung-parties. Downtown, artist Hope Atherton, in Elise Overland's ruched-leather skirt, opened a loft to a wild crowd clad in distressed shirts and...