Vogue articles from June 2005

Vogue archives from June 2005

he's got game; Dodie Kazanjian catches up with the fastest big man in tennis.(Marat Safin)(Biography)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian Marat Safin is tennis's reigning enigma, the most mercurial talent since John McEnroe. At 20, he came out of nowhere to win the 2000 U. S. Open, crushing Pete Sampras in straight sets. He didn't win another...

the heat is on; A Merchant Ivory protege dives into romantic entanglements, New York-style, while French filmmaker Francois Ozon unwinds a turbulent marriage.(Movie Review)
June 1, 2005... Glenn Close has the imperious gaze and fierce impatience of a swooping falcon, which makes her just perfect for playing scheming aristocrats, villainous dognappers, and demanding divas. She stars as the last in Heights, a zippy new comedy about...

COOL CUSTOMERS.(Tony Takitani.)(Movie Review)
June 1, 2005... Byline: John Powers Haruki Murakami possesses one of the most peculiarly seductive voices in modern fiction-cool, reassuring, and almost deliberately bland, even when describing bizarre events. I thought it was impossible to capture his...

THE INSIDE GUIDE.
June 1, 2005... FOOD SYDNEY INGLE-FINCH always orders the freshly chopped conch salad from the QUEEN CONCH seafood shack on Bay Street-but be warned, it shuts at 3:00 p.m. DIANE VON FURSTENBERG, who has had a house on the island for ten years, returns again...

fashion newsflash the tulip bubble; Yves Saint Laurent's curvy little skirts are springing up like bulbs everywhere.(product details of Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Sally Singer Fashion's lingering obsession with "volume" has led women everywhere to get a little loose below the waist. But the difficulty with most full skirts-the peasant, the gypsy, the swing-out circle-is that, although they...

dress by anonymous; A chic little number from Who Can Guess Who is what we all want now.(works of Duro Olowu)
June 1, 2005... About a year ago, when Duro Olowu dreamed up a floaty, free-spirited silk dress referencing both louche seventies London and his Lagos heritage, little did he know what would follow in its wake. The dress went global, literally: A British...

fashion newsflash here's to you, miss robinson; Two Los Angeles stylists turned designers bring movie magic to their maiden line.(works of Cristina Ehrlich and Estee Stanley)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Jane Herman Think of Hollywood's most incendiary on-screen seductresses, and the demurely dressed Mrs. Robinson will probably come to mind. With the iconic character played by Anne Bancroft in The Graduate as muse, Cristina Ehrlich...

globe trotters.(usage of turquoise)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... As you cruise the Nile in a houseboat, imagine the Egyptian queen Zar, perhaps one of the earliest women to wear turquoise. Think of the Native Americans who believed that the stone was a piece of sky fallen to Earth while you explore Arizona's...

alive & kicking; After one of the best Broadway seasons in recent memory, Adam Green predicts the winners of this month's Tony Awards.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Adam Green Early in act one of Monty Python's Spamalot, the raucous musical entertainment at the Shubert, a medieval-peasant type wheels out a cart piled with the corpses of plague victims and shouts, "Bring out your dead!" One...

dream jobs; Joan Juliet Buck tracks those intrepid souls who seek the truth.(Xiara's Song and The Closer)(Movie Review)(Television Program Review)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck I got rid of the flies, maggots, and ants," says the coroner. The body on the floor of the bedroom is a bloody battered mess, the home owner is on holiday in Hawaii, the cops are grim, the secretary's in shock, the...

man in black; In his most surprising career move yet, Christian Bale dons Batman's wings.
June 1, 2005... Byline: John Powers Millions of boys have dreamed of growing up to be Batman, but Christian Bale wasn't one of them. "It's weird," he says about playing the Caped Crusader. "I never read the comic when I was young, and now I have...

The Maine event.(beauty of Maine, painting exhibition)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Leslie Camhi Picturesque, heroic Maine-its lobster fishermen, pine forests, and rocky coastline-has furnished material for artists from Winslow Homer to Marsden Hartley. But when Alex Katz purchased a yellow clapboard farmhouse a...

palm beach story; At a seaside wedding in Florida, William Norwich reports, Gold Coast tradition and New York City chic were a match made in heaven.
June 1, 2005... Byline: William Norwich After the diamond, a girl's best friend, especially when she is getting married, is her party planner, the brighter the better. Happily for Celerie Kemble, the interior decorator, one of her very best friends is...

oh, the places you'll go; From flight-friendly face masks to haute hotel bath treats, Vogue's guide to taking off-and touching down-in style.(personal appearance management of Donna Karan, Lisa Airan and Bobbi Brown)
June 1, 2005... Whether you travel with a stack of customized Goyard trunks (like Karl Lagerfeld) or nothing but hand luggage (like Sally Albemarle), beauty is a key part of packing. After all, a portable yet practical skin-care regimen can make the difference...

the VIP face; Putting the $200-and even $500-skin creams to shame, the latest record-shattering miracle in a bottle is available strictly by invitation.(product information of La Mer)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Sarah Brown The invitation came by messenger. Inside a shagreen-embossed box, engraved on stiff, sage-green card stock, was an appealing proposition: It was addressed simply-mysteriously-to "The Discerning Few" and trumpeted,...

celebrity skin; L.A.'s most famous facial lands in New York City.(Face Place)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Julia Chaplin Known for its no-frills, tough-love approach to clean pores and radiant complexions, the Face Place has been the only place to go for truly glowing, ready-for-your-close-up skin since it first opened in the seventies...

home cooking; Garden-fresh skin care, made in a Brooklyn kitchen.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Maggie Bullock For native New Yorker Winifred Burkeman, the kitchen has always been about much more than just cooking: It was the source of her Irish mother's old-world remedies-potato compresses for burns; buttermilk-and-oatmeal...

saving soles; Tired of hobbling in heels, Marina Rust steps up to an exercise routine that promises stilettos without pain-in just ten minutes.
June 1, 2005... The stand-up parties are the worst. Especially arty ones on concrete floors. But the dress needed heels, and I was paying for vanity. On the way out the door, I pass my editor. "I'm leaving," I tell her. "My feet are killing me." "Then...

the next step; Snake oil or deliverance.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Marina Rust SOFTEN YOUR LANDING Tippy Toes, the "high-heel miracle cream," promises to prevent blisters and irritation. I try it with a pair of heels; left foot with cream, right foot without. The left foot feels better, a more...

packing for paradise.
June 1, 2005... Wanderlust has gotten the better of us again. This summer, we're heading for the rolling blue hills of Spain ("Seville Liberties," page 208). We're shell-hunting on the soft sands of Harbour Island in the Bahamas ("Treasure Island," page 200)....

free spirit; Trailblazing actress Salma Hayek cuts loose in fall's romantic, Spanish-inflected looks.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Robert Sullivan It's not easy playing a serial killer. It takes a lot out of you, psychically speaking. And in Salma Hayek's case, to play the serial killer you have to fly to Florida and live out of a hotel and run from location...

finding shangri-la; The doors to the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan have slowly opened to Western visitors.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Jane Mayle My friend Miranda Brooks called me as I was in a taxi laden with so many bags of half-finished designs that I seemed more mule than woman. How was I? Burdened. Was my collection finished? No. Did I want to go with her to...

THE INSIDE GUIDE.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... FOOD In Paro, designer TARA MATTHEWS, who lived in Bhutan for four years, recommends BHUTAN KITCHEN (011-975-2-331919) for momo dumplings, red rice, and the curries made with fiddlehead ferns; and the HOTEL DRUK's Indian cuisine...

fabric of life; Collector extraordinaire Alistair McAlpine and his glamorous Greek wife, Athena, have transformed a fourteenth-century convent in Italy's forgotten south into a haven of bohemian high style.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Hamish Bowles To be frank, I probably was the girl least likely to end up in a convent when I was at school!" laughs Athena McAlpine, the stylish chatelaine of the Convento di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli in Puglia, the starkly...

THE INSIDE GUIDE.
June 1, 2005... FOOD Hotelier ATHENA McALPINE loves these local eateries: ARIA CORTE (011-39-0836-920-272) in Marittima for herbed chicken baked in a wood oven; DA JOLANDA (011-39-0833-784-164) in Lucugnano for steak cooked on coals and fava-bean puree; and...

treasure island; David Flint-Wood reveals how his life changed forever when he discovered a quirky Bahamian isle.(Harbour Island)
June 1, 2005... Byline: David Flint-wood Twenty years ago, I first came to Harbour Island in an open boat from Nassau with friends. The passage took us about two and a half hours, and as we rounded the Devil's Backbone from Spanish Wells and entered the...

seville liberties; Arrive at Trasierra, a small hotel on lavish grounds in Andalusia, Spain, and you'll never want to leave.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Julia Reed A few years ago, I took my parents and another couple on a tour of some of my favorite haunts in Spain. We went to the bullfights in Madrid and spent hours at the Prado. We toured the Alcazar in Seville and visited...

THE INSIDE GUIDE.
June 1, 2005... FOOD CHARLOTTE SCOTT sends her guests to restaurants that are authentic-and absolutely off the beaten track. The best is just outside Seville: LA PANOLETA (011-34-954390812), a tavern that serves iberico pork, langoustines, and goat cheese...

Making a splash; The latest trend in spas is 5,000 years old.(Great Jones Spa, New York)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Sarah Brown Until you've been beaten senseless with oak branches and flung into a pool of mind-numbing arctic water, you don't know what it's really like to go to a spa. I do know, as I found myself on the receiving end of such...

In the flesh; Stripped bare of wasabi and soy sauce, crudo is the Italian answer to sushi.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten A stone's throw from the glimmering Adriatic, lunch began with the local scampi and glasses of a local white wine. The scampi had been shelled but left raw, then sliced, flavored with olive oil and drops of...

season in the sun; What better way to spend the summer than to while away the hours in a glorious garden.(design and construction of plots)(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Days of endless sunshine . . . a chance to laze on the lawn after lunch . . . pottering about the planters, then a dip in the pool. . . . You must be thinking what we're thinking: It's time to live a little in the great outdoors. For pointers...

directory.
June 1, 2005... Page 32 (cover look): Top, $3,582. Skirt, $21,516. For more information, call 011-331-5311-2060. Editor's letter 44: On Salma Hayek: Yves Saint Laurent blouse, $895. Oscar de la Renta skirt, $3,700. Bergdorf Goodman. Neil Lane and Lang Antiques...

open-door policy.(Column)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Anna Wintour In this, our fourth annual escapes issue, we bring you four fabulous destinations that are united by a common dedication to the personal aesthetic of their owners. How lovely, for example, to go to Puglia, Italy, as...

Stage beauty.(fashion in theater)
June 1, 2005... "I don't want realism, I want magic! Yes, yes, magic!" cries Blanche DuBois in the Tennessee Williams masterpiece A Streetcar Named Desire. From a fashion hound's perspective, truer words were never spoken on the stage. For a full week...

ET TU, DENZEL?(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Like Natasha Richardson, Denzel Washington is proving his star quality on Broadway. I took in a matinee on the final Sunday of my theater marathon in April, catching him as Marcus Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius...

Style in a suitcase; Compelled to condense her wardrobe into a single carry-on case, Katherine Mosby found her sense of fashion expanded.
June 1, 2005... Byline: Katherine Mosby Born at the end of the fifties, I fused in my mind that decade and the notion of high style. As a young girl, I had chafed under the tyranny of its rules. Patent leather only after dusk; white shoes after Memorial...

whose life is it anyway? From the personal to the political, having a relative on life support presents a thorny tangle of issues.(personal narratives)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Julia Reed About a year after my grandmother entered what is now widely known as a "persistent vegetative state," my parents attended a dinner party in Washington. The host, a newspaper columnist who was also a close friend, asked...

Girl of the moment Samantha Boardman.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... All social eyes were on Samantha Boardman this winter when she announced her intention to marry real-estate developer and art collector Aby Rosen. Samantha is the real deal: a great American style icon in the making, a cross between Babe Paley...

trend of the month empire rising.
June 1, 2005... As winter gave way to a glorious spring, Empire dresses began showing up everywhere-from gala benefits to a royal fete in Monte Carlo, where a demure Princess Caroline arrived in Chanel Couture. Gisele Bundchen and Melania Trump donned John...

the weekenders; A summer getaway to a friend's place in the country can be a social minefield.(management of parties)
June 1, 2005... Byline: William Norwich Parties are a lot like surfing. You ride the waves and see where you go, wading in the waters, floating in some glamorous din, talking about. . . . Well, one particular night not long ago, talking about...

your i.d., please; This fall the best designers are forgoing trends for luxurious statements that reflect their essential aesthetics.(identity)(management of Phoebe Philo)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Sally Singer The most suspenseful show of the fall 2005 collections was that of Chloe. The designer, Phoebe Philo, had been on maternity leave for much of the season and had given her team carte blanche to execute her vision-she...

Fashion newsflash it's all in the wrist; How "disco chicken in midnight" became this year's must-have evening bag.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... They look like the handiwork of Scheherazade: vintage plumes, tiny rows of wooden balls, turquoise drops dripping and swaying from gem-dusted bracelets. These are the spectacularly imaginative beaded bags by new designer Beatrice Valdes. "I...

Closet case Brigette Romanek; The designer of croc clutches snaps up vintage jewelry, Japanese tees, and Chloe frocks.(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Irini Arakas MY BAG I make crocodile clutches. When I first envisioned the bags, I knew they had to be made out of croc. All of the meat goes to developing nations, so there is no waste. I own a couple of reptilian bags: a lovely...

canvasing the country; Radiantly reinvented preppy totes are summer-weekend standouts.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2005... Byline: Florence Kane The boxy canvas tote has come a long way since L.L. Bean introduced the original in a fall 1944 catalog. Believe it or not, Bean's Ice Carrier was built to carry blocks of ice from car to ice chest (and cost $3...