Vogue articles from June 2009

Vogue archives from June 2009

Human Kind.
June 1, 2009... Byline: ANNA WINTOUR As we were putting this issue together, two buzzwords conscious and conscience kept ringing in our ears. We spoke of them in our discussions of United Nations ambassador Susan Rice and the work she has ahead of her in...

Letters From Readers.
June 1, 2009... AMERICAN ICON Many thanks for the March 2009 cover. Having a strong, educated black woman wearing a young, Taiwan-born American designer's dress celebrates what I have always believed about America: that it is a country of opportunity,...

Gaby Wood.
June 1, 2009... The New York based London Observer staff writer interviewed the world's number-one-ranked men's tennis player, Rafael Nadal, in Miami for "Waiting for Rafa," page 128. After biding her time for five days before speaking with the Majorcan...

Battles Of The Heart.
June 1, 2009... While her husband was reporting in Iraq, Ana MenA[c]ndez received a letter that sent her marriage into turmoil. I no longer remember the exact date I received the letter. I only remember the month and the yearJune 2004and that my sister and...

Perfect Match.
June 1, 2009... Byline: WILLIAM NORWICH EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR ROGER FEDERER WEDS MIRKA VAVRINEC IN AN INTIMATE BASEL CEREMONY. The secret to making a small wedding feel like a big occasion is ingenuity and personal touches. Fashion is a good place to...

Tour De Force.
June 1, 2009... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR THE EVER-ELECTRIFYING SIENNA MILLER ARRIVES STATESIDE. When Sienna Miller blows into town, you feel the winds shift. In Las Vegas for an industry awards show, she collected a...

Talking Fashion Taking The High Road.
June 1, 2009... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR While Wall Street finds its footing, High Streethome to reasonably priced labelsis sending tastemakers' style stock soaring. First Lady Michelle Obama swapped continents but kept thrift a cultural medium...

Dispatch Accra, Ghana.
June 1, 2009... Byline: BY RACHEL ROY EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR Asked by the United Nations to participate in a fashion show benefiting their World Food Program in Accra, I immediately knew I wanted to take my daughter Ava. Her eyes lit up as we rode in the...

Overheard.
June 1, 2009... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR After deejaying at Tokyo's Le Baron, fashion illustrator Blue Logan (whose mother was a milliner for Ossie Clark and whose uncle is artist Andew Logan ) is headed this month to New York, where he plans to...

French Accents.
June 1, 2009... Byline: ANDRA LEON TALLEY EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR Amanda Brooks took to the recessionary shift to intimate parties when she hosted Amanda Brooks took to the recessionary shift to intimate parties when she hosted a small dinner for...

Pick Of The Glitter.
June 1, 2009... Byline: ANDRA LEON TALLEY EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR "It's always inspired by something in my closet or my mind," says Vera Wang of her stunning seventeen-piece faux-jewelry collection, which she showed with her exquisite fall/winter line. The...

Double Edged.
June 1, 2009... Byline: MARK HOLGATE editor: Sally Singer The London duo Meadham Kirchhoff has come up with a razor-sharp, richly inventive look for fall. When we met, we immediately sparked," Edward Meadham says of his first encounter with design...

Style Ethics.
June 1, 2009... Byline: JANE HERMAN editor: Tonne Goodman What is a low-impact dye, exactly? "One that's a lot less chemical intensive, which is better for the environment and the people who have to work with it," says designer Jenny Hwa. "Also, cotton...

Danielle Corona.
June 1, 2009... Byline: AS TOLD TO JANE HERMAN editor: Tonne Goodman This handbag designer's motto: If it works, wear it hard. What's in my weekender when I travel? Lightweight Rick Owens skirts that I've been mixing with T-shirts from the Row and...

Try It!
June 1, 2009... Byline: SARAH MOWER editor: Tonne Goodman Is it a top, a tunic, or a dress? According to Roland Mouret, who designed the TTD, the brief, asymmetrically draped piece is all three in one. "It has multiple functions," he says. "We have that...

Grab It!
June 1, 2009... Byline: JANE HERMAN editor: Tonne Goodman Back in 1994, "when the punk-music scene was all Doc Martens and Creepers," shoe designer George Esquivel created his first pairs of men's spectators. "They were very fifties, with leather soles,"...

Sea Stars.
June 1, 2009... Byline: editor: editor: Tonne Goodman The best beach baubles, finds Lynn Yaeger, are those that really make a splash. Some people admire their fellow passengers on the Fire Island ferry for their stunning physiques, their glistening...

Cross Country.
June 1, 2009... Byline: editor: Sarah Brown Rest and relaxation meet high-intensity fitness at America's best get-in-shape getaways. THE OUTDOORSY YOGI Charym Built on the grounds of a historic 1898 lumberyard in Litchfield, Connecticut,...

Fantastic Voyage.
June 1, 2009... Byline: CATHERINE PIERCY editor: Sarah Brown A new generation of stylish airport spas and dial-in hotel beauty services is putting the fun (and function) back in your travel plans. airport overhauls Nothing about BUTTER LONDON' s...

Have A Fling.
June 1, 2009... Byline: ADAM GREEN editor: Valerie Steiker These days, $0 doesn't go as far as it used to, except at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where tickets are free and the New York skyline can't be bought. This month, the Public kicks off...

Keep In Touch.
June 1, 2009... Byline: LESLIE CAMHI editor: Valerie Steiker You wouldn't expect images of alpine rivers or elephants bathing to turn up on postcards of Venice, Italy. But for this year's Venice Biennale, artist Aleksandra Mir is distributing a million...

Hit The Road.
June 1, 2009... Byline: JOHN POWERS editor: Valerie Steiker A Juno for 30-somethings, Sam Mendes's sweet-natured Away We Go tells the story of soon-to-be parents Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph), who are trying to figure out "how to live."...

Stay Cool.
June 1, 2009... Byline: ELISABETH FRANCK-DUMAS editor: Valerie Steiker A stylish quartet gives rock 'n' roll a French twist. Friends since childhood, the four 30-something members of Phoenix are endearingly well mannered for a French pop sensation, but...

Drink It In.
June 1, 2009... Byline: GENEVIEVE BAHRENBURG editor: Valerie Steiker Named after AndrA[c] Balazs's two daughters, his youngest baby, Ayabel, opens this month at the Standard in Manhattan, offering vintage drinks titled after New York City poolsthe Betsy...

Take Care.
June 1, 2009... Byline: JOAN JULIET BUCK editor: Valerie Steiker Edie Falco stars in the darkly comic Nurse Jackie (Showtime) as a tough emergency-room nurse in a Manhattan hospital who's smarter than the callow doctors, even though she's usually high on...

Be Transported.
June 1, 2009... Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker Colm Toibin's masterly latest, Brooklyn (Scribner), captures the wonderment of an Irish girl in 1950s New York. A more ambivalent take on the American dream, Aleksandar Hemon's collection of...

Buy American.
June 1, 2009... Byline: RICHARD ALLEMAN editor: Valerie Steiker A landmark 1854 Italianate mansion in the historic village of Little Compton, Rhode Island's newly restored Stone House boasts a private beach, a Hinckley yacht, a full-service spa, and two...

Get Happy.
June 1, 2009... We haven't felt this energized in ages: Summer brings a blaze of unclouded whites, punchy brights, and all-around good vibrations. (Danger: It could be catching.) So it's not exactly cool to skip around Times Square with a CHIRPY-CHEERFUL...

Sunshine Superwoman.
June 1, 2009... Byline: Photographed by Mario Testino. On a road trip to the desert, Cameron Diaz opens up to Robert Sullivan about being Hollywood's green queen, enduring heartbreaks, and taking on unexpected roles. The main thing you need to know...

VOGUE.
June 1, 2009... JUN NEW! Fashion Steal of the Month Carefree Hair Taming the Frizz MULTITASKING SUMMER WARDROBE 21 Hot Pieces to Wear Every Which Way Poison Pen The Letter That Destroyed a Marriage QUEEN OF GREEN ...

Pieced Together.
June 1, 2009... Byline: Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier. Twenty-one multitasking separates go from day to night, work to weekend. (Some assembly required; instructions provided.) "A T-shirt in lace with the signature shoulders of the season can...

Takin' It To The Streets.
June 1, 2009... Byline: JOHN POWERS Photographed by Bruce Weber. Set to portray Nelson Mandela in a new Hollywood film, Morgan Freeman first touches down in Miami with Dutch model Lara Stone. At 71, Morgan Freeman is Hollywood's reigning icon of...

She's Got Game.
June 1, 2009... Byline: Photographed by Annie Leibovitz. From nuclear proliferation to genocide in Darfur, Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice has more than a few balls to juggle. Jonathan Van Meter sees her in action. It is a cold, rainy night in...

Waiting For Rafa.
June 1, 2009... Byline: Gaby Wood. Photographed by Bruce Weber. After fighting his way to tennis's number-one spot, Rafael Nadal is discovering in his own time that it can be lonely at the top. Vamos, Rafa!" The crowd roars as a dashing floodlit figure...

Divine Opulence.
June 1, 2009... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian. Meet Rosson Crowa flamboyant, Texas-born artist whose paintings of history-steeped interiors are as exuberant as their creator. I'm very impatient," says Rosson Crow, whose bravura, oversize, history-drenched...

Spread The News.
June 1, 2009... What's the most delicious flavor? Jeffrey Steingarten finds the answer in the unforgettable taste of brown butter. Sitting in the fridge or slathered on a slice of industrial white bread, butter does not brag about its fantastic potential....

Fat Chances.
June 1, 2009... Byline: Photographed by Steven Klein. Will body perfection one day be possible? From skin-tightening lasers to fat-dissolving ultrasound, Catherine Piercy discovers a new world way beyond lipo. When I arrive at Nancy Trent's airy SoHo...

Hot Fuzz.
June 1, 2009... Byline: Photographed by Craig McDean. For years we've been straightening unwanted frizz into submission. But, as Sally Singer discovers, the messy mane is making a comeback. It's a rainy spring New York day, one most people believe is...

The Wedding Party.
June 1, 2009... Byline: Photographed by Arthur Elgort. Model Sasha Pivovarova, in the season's full-of-romance frocks, and her husband, Igor Vishnyakov, reenact their "I do's" in the dreamiest of June nuptials. "We met at the airport in Moscow while...

Back To The Beach.
June 1, 2009... Byline: Photographed by Norman Jean Roy. FLORENCE KANE For sand or surf, a cool swim look can be had at a swell price. Except for the cherry-red convertible Smart car, every item in this photofrom the bikini top to the fringed bag to...

Brighten Up.
June 1, 2009... Byline: Photographed by Raymond Meier. Accessories make a clean break from neutrals, popping in an eighties Day-Glo palette that signals what's on tap for fall. Find more of our favorite accessories at vogue.com. CAPTION(S): ...

Modest Proposals.
June 1, 2009... Byline: editor: Meredith Melling Burke What's happening in fashionmixing the aspirational with the attainable has filtered into the utterly inspired plans of three VOGUE brides for their Big Days. We're talking about thoughtful...

In This Issue.
June 1, 2009... Page 36 (cover look): Blouse, $695; Stella Mc-Cartney, NYC; (212) 255-1556. Linen, cotton, and spandex pants, $240; Curve, NYC, Miami, Los Angeles. Bracelets, $160 each; surevolution.com. Bovine leather belt, $235; Maison Martin Margiela, NYC....

Last Look.
June 1, 2009... Byline: editor: Virginia Smith Girls, go tell the groom that we've found the gift of all gifts to give his bride on the big day. (He does know that one's in order, right?) The Abici Amante Donna city bike now comes fitted with Fendi's...