Vogue articles from June 2006

Vogue archives from June 2006

1 cathy pill; Her dresses, like her digitally mastered prints, are the stuff of daydreams.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Mower Pretty dresses fluttering with lime and china-blue butterflies are perhaps the least-expected thing to see floating from the mind of a Belgian designer. Especially for fall. But these pieces are the stereotype-defying...

6267; A prizewinning duo are the new darlings of Italian fashion.(Industry overview)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman About an hour and a half east of Milan, in Mantova, Tommaso Aquilano and Roberto Rimondi are sharpening the edges of Italy's fashion market with their splendid little label called 6267. Following last year's win at the...

2 Roksanda Ilincic; The Serbian beauty's partywear appeals to London celebutants and eccentrics alike.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Mower In avant-garde London fashion circles, it's rare for a designer with a flair for high-impact party dressing to stand up and be counted. But then again, the willowy Roksanda Ilincic (pronounced Ilin-chitch), all Snow...

Who's that girl? It may not see the light of day on the red carpet or the glossy gossip pages-and that's exactly why we want the little-known, but fabulous, Anonymous Dress.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman There's such a fragile chemistry between a woman and a dress," says Alice Ritter, the 35-year-old Brooklyn designer who won the hearts of girlish urban women this spring with her lace-embellished minifrock with a...

wind jammers.
June 1, 2006... Why does canvas say summer? Because it's a reminder of the mainsails and jibs that shade sailors from the sparkling Maine sun. Because it's the color of the sand on Nantucket. A white canvas tote is the ideal luggage for a spontaneous...

Man about town; In two new plays, Neil LaBute lets Eric McCormack show his inner heel and Richard Greenberg considers New York before the Crash, writes Adam Green.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Adam Green Much like opening day at Yankee Stadium, the arrival of a new play (or two) by Neil LaBute, our native chronicler of bare-knuckle sexual politics, has become an annual New York tradition. After last season's wounding...

World view; Jean Nouvel builds a French museum for the twenty-first century.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Kristin Hohenadel To each French president his own cultural legacy-Georges Pompidou had his Centre Pompidou, Francois Mitterrand his Grands Projets and namesake Bibliotheque Nationale. This month, Jacques Chirac inaugurates the...

Radio days; Robert Altman reveals the heartland- and a big heart-in A Prairie Home Companion.
June 1, 2006... Hollywood boasts countless famous names, but only a handful have inspired an adjective. If Robert Altman has a new film, you can be pretty sure it will feature an ensemble cast, overlapping dialogue, and a messy shambles of a plot. What you...

Feel the heat.(Davis Guggenheim's 'An Inconvenient Truth')(Ward Serrill's 'The Heart')(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: John Powers If you're like most people, you know that global warming matters, but you don't quite understand it. A superb primer is Davis Guggenheim's An Inconvenient Truth, which focuses on a riveting slide show on climate change...

Bathing beauties; Two new hotels get ready for the fashion set, reports Richard Alleman.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Richard Alleman The debut of the Tortuga Bay hotel, on the beach-blessed east coast of the Dominican Republic, is making waves in all the right places. Situated within the exclusive Puntacana Resort & Club, an ultraprivate compound...

Morality player; Catalina Sandino Moreno has a thing for roles that tweak our conscience.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman One wouldn't think that Catalina Sandino Moreno's nuanced portrayal of a pregnant drug smuggler in the 2004 film Maria Full of Grace, which won her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress, would lead to offers to play sexy...

Family feeling; Joan Juliet Buck watches a BBC mystery about a sticky boyfriend wreaking havoc, and meets a rowdy new clan on Showtime.(Secret Smile)(Brotherhood)(Television program review)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Secret Smile, a nice paranoid little mystery on BBC America, begins with a family in front of a plaque that says miranda jane cotton, 1974-2005. A dead heroine gives that extra torque to any story, and the show...

Twin peaks; Lori Lansens's second novel brings empathy, grace, and humor to the story of a pair of conjoined sisters.(The Girls)(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Eve Macsweeney A novel sprang fully formed in Lori Lansens's mind after she read about the Bijani sisters, Iranian craniopagus twins who underwent failed separation surgery three years ago, as they were turning 30. Conjoined at the...

true colors.(Valerie Martin)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Margaret Johnson Orange Prize winner Valerie Martin has a gift for claiming familiar literary ground as her own. Consider her 1990 best-seller, Mary Reilly, which retold Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde novella from an...

A HOUSEHOLD NAME.(Kathryn Hughes's 'The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton' )(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Bess Rattray Long before Martha Stewart, a striving young English-woman named Isabella Beeton burst from the shadows of the Victorian pantry to become world famous as a dispenser of advice on household management in all its...

magical mystery tour; The season's hottest reads combine the twists and turns of personal fate with edge-of-one's-chair suspense.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Megan O'grady No summer reading list would be complete without a good whodunit. Set in France during World War I, Philippe Claudel's By a Slow River (Knopf) evokes, with Poe-like mastery, the fog of apprehension that seeps into a...

old spice; In the far reaches of south India, Jeffrey Steingarten discovers that the best ingredients are simple, local, and ancient.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten The billboard said it was the world's biggest varpu, and we had no reason to doubt that. Some varpu somewhere has got to be the world's largest. Why not right here in the ancient city of Cochin, heart of the...

the indoor picnic; Broadway beauty Kelli O'Hara treats costar Harry Connick, Jr.
June 1, 2006... Byline: William Norwich The food is just on the picnic table, and Harry Connick, Jr., is ready with the spice: a jazzy medley of mirth and banter. "It is in our contracts," Connick says, his handsome drawl attracting all attention. "...

sunny side up; There's a new tan in town.(Estee Lauder Inc.'s Azuree)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Shin Park Back in 1969, Estee Lauder created a woodsy floral fragrance she called Azuree-the combination of her own name and Cote d'Azur, the late-sixties epicenter of seaside glamour. The Azuree woman was, in Lauder's own...

frederic on fifth; Lalique windows, Fauchon croissants-and a cut with one of beauty's brightest stars.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Brown Frederic Fekkai-iconic hairstylist, international charmer, purveyor of the shampoos and conditioners found in the chicest showers in town-is remarkably calm considering all he's got going on at the moment. In one week...

courting fashion; Ralph Lauren is serving up sporting new uniforms to Wimbledon's officials.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Florence Kane The most recent racket on pro tennis courts has less to do with players' throwing temper tantrums or wearing shocking outfits and more to do, surprisingly, with the game's officials. The decision to use instant replay...

the detox workout; Could 30 days without alcohol lead to faster-and better-results at the gym.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Veronica Chambers In order to reconnect with my inner athlete and ramp up my yawning workouts, I recently decided to abstain from alcohol for a month. I assumed the hardest part would be to last four weeks virtuously sipping...

escape artists.(backpacks)(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... So soon and it's summertime, and wanderlust catches our imagination, carrying us (in daydreams, at least) to the farthest reaches of the globe. For our annual Escapes issue, we asked seven of the world's most stylish women for their packing...

numero uma; Who knew that latter-day Garbo Uma Thurman is at her happiest playing needy/nerdy roles, bubbly blondes, and broad comedy.(Interview)
June 1, 2006... My meeting with Uma Thurman takes place in the Blvd, the restaurant in the Regent Beverly Wilshire hotel, a fact that comes as a vast relief to me, not just because I love the hotel and I happen to be staying there but because the...

maine attraction; From Gibson-girl ghosts to Grandmother's wallpaper, the family place by the sea is truly special, writes Marina Rust.
June 1, 2006... The gutters need replacing, the wallpaper is peeling, and how many are coming for dinner tonight? How is this an "escape"? My great-great-grandmother Mrs. George Bird loved American history and modeled the house after Mount Vernon. Bird...

the house of high spirits; The dynamic art consultant Brooke de Ocampo escapes her high-octane world for the gaucho life on her husband's family farm on the pampas.
June 1, 2006... In second grade, Brooke Douglass had "a total schoolgirl crush on a little boy from Argentina," as she playfully recalls. "We were all asked to do our first project: Pick a country and write about it. He did Argentina, and I wanted to do it,...

fierce creatures; Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu has brought her fresh and vividly energetic vision to figurative art-spinning fantastical tales of folklore and modernity.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian The women in Wangechi Mutu's paintings are a strange and disturbing breed. Beautiful but grotesque, powerful yet maimed, they perch in trees or cavort in the tall grass, their hair erupting in wild shapes and...

the good life; A house is not a home-not until, that is, it's been graced with one of these fabulous finds.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... How do you turn your dream home into a reality? Are you a nester-developing a cozy hideaway of luxurious creature comforts like newlyweds Jemma Kidd and Arthur Mornington (right)? Do you plant flowers and succulents, a la Zac Posen,...

FAMILY AFFAIR.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Anna Wintour This year's Escapes issue-in which we celebrate the pleasures of summer and leisure-makes me feel oddly nostalgic. It occurred to me, as we finally assembled Vogue's monthly jigsaw, that so many of the wonderful women...

goody two-shoes.(Karolina Kurkova)
June 1, 2006... She had her first Vogue cover at sixteen. Now she's 22 and ready to give back. One night in April, Karolina Kurkova, the long, lanky model from Decin, Czech Republic, went to the United Nations to receive something called the New Generation...

walk on air.(Manolo Blahnik's shoes )(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Frankly," Manolo Blahnik opines, "I deplore the current craze for platforms!" Hence: his titanium "heelless shoe" (left), which has already been ordered by 60-odd Blahnik fans in London. Suzanne Levine, M.D.,...

girls of the moment here come the brides.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... FROM THE TUSCAN ESTATE WHERE DERMA_tologist Lisa Airan will celebrate her big day in J. Mendel to the South of France, where makeup artist Gucci Westman plans to say "I do" in Claire Pettibone, no distance is too great-and no dress too...

trend of the moment lean machines.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... NOT SINCE THE 1960s HAVE SKINny jeans-then called "stovepipes"-been so popular. Cropped, cuffed, tucked into boots-the slim, legging-like cut goes from rock concerts to the red carpet without skipping a beat. Elle Macpherson's supernarrow black...

april showers, may flowers; The spring social season blossomed forth with parties from Manhattan to Miami.
June 1, 2006... Byline: William Norwich The world may be going to Bellevue in a handbasket, but we will always have the spring social season, won't we? Of course we will. Not that our cast of characters exactly hibernates in burlap in winter-but...

sugar-coated; Former Gucci designer Alessandra Facchinetti whips up delicate down jackets for Moncler.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Florence Kane The restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York is very cozy on St. Patrick's Day. Outside it is cool and bright, with temperatures in the low 40s, a good day for a down parka-which is what Alessandra Facchinetti...

hard-core sole; Fierce shoes from a fourth-generation cobbler hit the streets . . . strutting.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman I put a lot of love into that shoe," says 32-year-old Alejandro Ingelmo, pointing to a suede-and-snakeskin d'Orsay sandal with a very eighties spiked heel. Named after his aunt Rita, it is Ingelmo's favorite, and like...

overnight sensations; Christian Lacroix and Philip Treacy are the latest designers to check into the world of boutique hotels.
June 1, 2006... Byline: Lynn Yaeger Hotel du Petit Moulin, Paris Feeling like an ecstatic hummingbird winging in its gilded cage, I am swooping around my beet-red room at the Hotel du Petit Moulin in the Marais, marveling at the touches the hotel's...

tokens of affection; A free-spirited Los Angeles jewelry designer turns storybook notions into solid gold.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman Stuart England wasn't always a romantic. Working out of the very Dickensian basement workshop in his Chinatown home, he made his name over the past few years with unapologetically raw and minimalist jewelry:...

she sells seashells; The playful young designer of Prova finds treasure by the shore.(Brief article)
June 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Holgate Irini Arakas, a Vogue fashion reporter who now designs jewelry under the label Prova, tackled a tough task this year: how to follow up on the huge wave of success she crested last year with her charming necklaces of...