Vogue articles from June 2007

Vogue archives from June 2007

the rising; Sarah Mower reports on the London printmaker who's on everyone's must-have list with a breakthrough fall collection.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower No one really expects to see a contender for internationally intelligible sophistication coming out of London-original ideas or unwearable energy, maybe, but accomplished, sexy modernism of a grown-up order? Hardly. Yet...

open season; Ten of the best from the new pre-fall collections will send your spirits- and your closet-soaring.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Holgate It's June, it's summer, it's time for something new to wear, so you head to your nearest designer emporium, where you find . . . Balenciaga's twisted-preppy woolen blazer . . . weighty Miu Miu ankle boots in scarlet...

fold everything; Three packing pros teach Sarah Mower a lesson in traveling light.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower For a woman who has no option but to get on a plane (it's work) and face security lines, likely delays, and the fear of lost luggage, there is only one rational way to travel these days: strictly carry-on. Packing to...

the swell life.(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... After the film Gidget came out in 1959, hordes of wave-hungry teens hit the shores of Malibu in search of getting stoked, and the surfing craze rode well into the sixties. Wherever you are when you're lounging on one of summer's vibrant,...

malibu tales; A lively new miniseries starring Debra Messing gives the inside scoop on Hollywood life, reports Joan Juliet Buck.(The Starter Wife )(Television program review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Debra Messing once cut out an article by Gigi Levangie Grazer about being the invisible partner of a red-carpet power broker. "I was so taken by the writing, how funny and insightful and honest it was," she says....

sweet and lowdown; Knocked Up is a hilarious Hollywood blend of tawdriness and heart.(Movie review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Near the beginning of Judd Apatow's Knocked Up, Allison Scott (Katherine Heigl), an interviewer for E!, wakes from a drunken night in L.A. to find a naked stranger in her bed. His name is Ben Stone (Seth Rogen), and while he is thrilled by...

a life in song.(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Edith Piaf may have been born to sing, but her storied journey from street urchin to beloved international icon was destined for the big screen. Now comes Olivier Dahan's La Vie en Rose, starring Marion Cotillard as the legendary French...

L'AMOUR FOU.(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Byline: John Powers Winner of the 2007 Cesar for Best French Film, Pascale Ferran's sensuous and superb Lady Chatterley chronicles the erotically liberating affair between a crippled aristocrat's wife (Marina Hands) and an earthy...

best in show; As Broadway honors its own at the Tony Awards, Adam Green makes some predictions- and adds a few new categories.
June 1, 2007... Tom Stoppard's titanic The Coast of Utopia trilogy, despite stiff competition from Frost/Nixon, may be destined to win the Tony for Best Play, and Spring Awakening is probably the one to beat for Best Musical, but I'd like to hand out a few...

summer classics.(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green In 1980, Olivia Newton-John starred in the big-screen turkey Xanadu, about a Greek muse who inspires a struggling artist to open a roller disco/swing dance club, with the help of Gene Kelly and the music of ELO. Now it's...

stand by me; The Bravery's new album demands to be heard.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Byline: Liza Ghorbani You know you've arrived when you can count Kate Moss as a fan and the Killers as foes. For the Bravery, it happened the moment they released their self-titled debut in 2005, thanks in part to front man Sam Endicott's...

moderne love.(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Byline: Stephanie La Cava A historic horse stable is the setting for Smith & Mills, the new Art Deco-inspired Tribeca eatery from the Beatrice Inn's Matt Abramcyk and partner Kivi Elstein. A 1920s iron-cage elevator houses the bathroom,...

heat wave; The summer's best books sizzle with glamorous women, intrepid adventurers, and family secrets.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Megan O'grady When you're heading off to a friend's beach house, you need a gift book as stylish as she is. A gorgeous choice would be Lempicka: The Artist, the Woman, the Legend (Flammarion), by Emmanuel Breon, on the Polish-born...

escape artists; From massages in a Masai village to poolside pedicures in Provence, the most luxurious getaways to suit every personality.
June 1, 2007... the purist hotel indigo: Patagonia, chile Nestled among the snow-capped peaks of Patagonia and surrounded by crystalline waterfalls and glaciers, this sleek, Nordic-style mountaineer's lodge is sure to enchant-and relax-aesthetes and...

flight school; Stricken by a bad spell of airplane anxiety, Eve Conant takes a crash course in learning how to sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Eve Conant I'm not the anxious type-I remain calm whether I'm reporting in a war zone or getting a bikini wax. And yet my typically unflappable ways were tested a few months ago as my plane made its approach into Moscow. The pilot...

countdown to summer; How does the best-dressed helicopter-to-the-coast girl get ready for her days in the sun.(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Ten tiers of angel ruffles on her new drop-waist Daisy Buchanan dress. Nine varieties of Tahitian blossoms on her Gauguin-in-paradise prints. Eight killer swimsuits: cutaway maillot or lightning-bolt bikini? Seven earthy bracelets (gold or...

fresh heir.(Interview)
June 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich _Lapo Elkann, the Fiat heir turned independent entrepreneur, is racing on all cylinders. Having transported nearly his entire wardrobe to Brazil for Vogue so he could have some styling fun in the sun-channeling...

doutzen kroes; Totes her urban-glam Versace bag to the beach and longs to travel to Antarctica.(Interview)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Your favorite vacations? Iceland-if I hadn't already gone there for work, I would never have thought of it as a holiday destination. Kerry in Ireland-the nature there is incredible. And I would like to go to Antarctica before it...

the chronicles of Keira; On a much-needed spring break, Keira Knightley hops the green hills of Africa in fittingly romantic, feminine looks.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Plum Sykes Well, there you go. I've done my homework!" says actress Keira Knightley, handing over a leather-bound Louis Vuitton journal. Inside are pages and pages of immaculate, copperplate handwriting. Keira has taken her recent...

GEMMA WARD; Hits the great outdoors by surfing the waves of Costa Rica and playing soccer in Hawaii.(Interview)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Your favorite vacations? Costa Rica and Hawaii-I like to engage in whatever beach sport I can, whether it is volleyball, surfing, or soccer. Florence-touring a city on foot to explore always seems to be great exercise, too. Your next...

HILARY RHODA; Believes that there are only two necessities to really make a trip swing-sun and sand.(Interview)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Your favorite vacations? I am a beach-vacation girl, rather than a backpacking or a pitching-a-tent-in-the-middle-of-a-desert girl, so I like Anguilla and Costa Rica. Even though they are two very different places, they both give me a...

SASHA PIVOVAROVA; Documents her global escapades through her art.(Interview)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Your favorite vacations? Any expedition that takes me around the world in search of exotic places that are untouched by time-places like Hampi or Rishikesh in India; Kyoto, Japan; and Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Where do you dream of going?...

RAQUEL ZIMMERMANN; Retreats to her native Brazil to ride across the Serra Gaucha and strum her guitar in Cambara do Sul.(Interview)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Your favorite vacations? Horseback riding around the Fortaleza and Itaimbezinho canyons in southern Brazil; you can enjoy the lush scenery, country food, and the freedom of galloping through the underdeveloped wilderness. Where do you...

CAROLINE TRENTINI; Stuffs her suitcase with short, sweet looks to stroll around sun-kissed Santa Catarina.(Interview)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Your favorite vacation? Florianopolis and Santa Catarina in the south of Brazil. But the most precious trip I've ever taken was to a Brazilian city called Entre Rios. My father died when I was a year old, and my mother took me and my two...

COCO ROCHA; Looking for a life less ordinary, she loves to take trips that challenge her.(Interview)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Your favorite vacation? Kenya-I went on safari with my mom. I like taking trips that are off the beaten track. I'd rise at 5:30, see the animals, go back to the camp for breakfast, and then go out all day again. What do you pack? ...

live from baghdad; Fearless dispatches have made Lara Logan a commanding voice on the war.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Rebecca Johnson In a dark, windowless studio at the CBS News center on Manhattan's far West Side, Lara Logan fidgeted restlessly in her chair, tugging at a black, close-fitting sweater. "Do you want powder?" a woman wearing a...

power flowers; Who said still life was dead.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian The still life, a work of art depicting inanimate objects, did not emerge as an independent art form until the sixteenth century. Ever since Caravaggio and the seventeenth-century Dutch masters, though, it has...

mean greens; Toxic spinach, tainted tomatoes- the produce aisle is getting scarier and scarier.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Ginny Graves Thai food. For years even the words were enough to make me feel slightly queasy. My formative encounter with a bacteria-laced batch of leftovers began several hours after I devoured what remained of our Thai salad: a...

Nice place for a white wedding; How to plan the perfect big day when the world-and the aisle-is your oyster.(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... When it comes to the moment to say "I do," why not go all the way-to Venice or Marrakech or Buenos Aires? Our destination wedding guide has everything to get married in style on foreign shores-including a fabulous look for every far-flung...

rosebuds.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Anna Wintour I've long believed that the peculiar bliss of summer is connected to feelings of recurrence. Whether at the beach or wandering away from the office for a balmy lunchtime stroll, we are always in search of a lost time:...

It's A Man's Man's Man's World.
June 1, 2007... "I wanted it to feel residential, like my home in London," said Tom Ford once I got past his name set in brass in front of his new menswear emporium at 845 Madison Avenue the day after Easter Sunday. The three-story flagship, conceived and...

envelope, please.(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Roger Vivier has a star in its galaxy: the designer Bruno Frisoni, a quiet, unassuming man who races around Paris in a 1991 Saab two-seater convertible or weaves his way through traffic on his tangerine Suzuki Van Van motorbike. The creative...

steven robinson_1968-2007.(obituary)(Obituary)
June 1, 2007... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Steven Robinson, head of Dior and John Galliano design studios, died on April 1 in Paris. At the age of 38, Robinson was one of the unsung extraordinary talents of modern fashion history, Merlin-seer, adviser,...

paint it red; How Jerry Hall's cool attitude and sexy pout turned young Australian Poppy King into an international lipstick whiz.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Poppy King I wanted to be Jerry Hall before I knew she existed-before I knew about Studio 54, before I knew of the Rolling Stones, before I knew what it meant to be blonde, and even before I became obsessed with red lipstick. I was...

frame by frame; Growing up, Dani Shapiro always felt caught in her mother's viewfinder-until she found the strength to break free.
June 1, 2007... Byline: Dani Shapiro When I was six months old, my mother brought me from our suburban New Jersey home to a television studio in Manhattan. I was placed in a high chair, and an actress playing my mother spooned baby food into my mouth. My...

the hot list; Christian Lacroix haute couture.(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... That sound you're hearing? That's the collective rrriiippp that occurs when the fabulously attired women on our list decide that they are going to tear up the rule book on how to dress during the summer. Oh, they'll go casual all right (beat-up...

in with the inn crowd; William Norwich cozies up and dresses down in New York's current nightspots of choice.
June 1, 2007... This is just like my living room," documentarian Jamie Johnson is saying, maybe just a little tongue-in-cheek, before our conversation is interrupted by pounding drums. The show has begun: Handsome young Brazilians feverishly commence...

PAT BUCKLEY 1927-2007.(obituary)(Obituary)(Brief article)
June 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich As I write, this just in: word that Pat Buckley has died, age 80. Philanthropist, fashion plate, Vassar alumna, devoted wife, loving mother and grandmother, hostess, gin player, friend; madcap, vulnerable, stubborn,...