Vogue articles from March 2006

Vogue archives from March 2006

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March 1, 2006... Byline: Anna Wintour As we know from even the most benign transitions in our own lives, change is always disturbing. At the time of writing, the fashion industry is still shaking from the news that two of its youngest and brightest...

the envelope, please.(fashion in movies)
March 1, 2006... Movies can be fashion. You only have to watch Annie Hall or The Great Gatsby or Chinatown or Breathless to see the link between film costumes and real-world chic. It's a two-way street: Designers find inspiration in My Fair Lady or Memoirs...

THIS OLD house.(R.T. Facts)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Oscar and Annette de la Renta live in the small New England town of Kent, Connecticut, where, on the main square, you'll find a great antiques shop called R.T. Facts, run by Greg Randall and his wife, Natalie....

on the brink; Right before she released a best-selling album, met James Taylor, and became a singing sensation, Carly Simon did her first magazine shoot-for Vogue.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Carly Simon This picture was taken when I was about 25, just after my first album came out-which had been a surprise to me. I was supposed to be a songwriter, not a singer, which appealed to my sensibilities of being shy and...

living with a legend; How does Sophie Matisse, great-granddaughter of the glorious Henri, negotiate life as a painter.(Interview)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian I have less resistance to looking at a Matisse than I did before," Sophie Matisse says quietly. Sophie and I are at the Museum of Modern Art, in front of Plum Blossoms, Ochre Background, by Henri Matisse. Recently...

madame la presidente; Just as Chile's Michelle Bachelet and Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf did, France's Segolene Royal has her eye on the top job.(Interview)(Biography)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Elisabeth Franck-dumas It is the middle of November, and France seems to be in the throes of a Segolene Royal frenzy. A camera crew from the leading television channel TF1 is trailing her, a team from the best-selling weekly Le...

girl of the moment genevieve jones.(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... NOT ONLY does Genevieve Jones wear everything from vintage Valentino to Marc Jacobs and Paco Rabanne, but she's been showing up everywhere lately. At fundraising galas and Fashion Week after-parties, her signature look consists of a playful...

trend of the moment bright idea.(Emilio Pucci prints)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Once AGAIN, Pucci prints are finding their place in the sun. Favored by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and actress Marisa Berenson in the seventies, they were frequently spotted along the coasts of Capri and the South of France. Now the distinct...

bathing beauty.(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Jemima Khan looked stunning while vacationing recently on Sandy Beach Lane in Barbados, where she spent most of her time waterskiing and sunbathing on a private boat with her two children and beau, Hugh Grant. Often called a British version of...

charity begins at home; From Pakistan to New Orleans, global philanthropic dollars are stretched thin.(fund raising events)
March 1, 2006... Byline: William Norwich With spring ahead, that garden of blossoms and occasional thorns known as polite society shrugs off its winter wrappings. It rejoices yet again in the auspicious marriage of fashion and fund-raising (and the...

global shopping: extreme seasons the heat is on; As climate change continues apace, the world may be saying goodbye to the seasons as we knew them.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Robert Sullivan We're about to address the issue of global warming as it applies to fashion, a task that is, don't worry, not as boring as it sounds. Perhaps you are against global warming? If you are into fashion and human, then...

the sky's the limit; Vicki Woods checks out the ubermalls-and uberspenders-in the fast-expanding Mideast capital.(Dubai)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Vicki Woods Dubai is the shopping hot spot of the globe. It always had the best souks in the Middle East, but it suddenly turned into mall world. Right now, I am in the Mall of the Emirates, which is the size of Cincinnati and only...

going coastal; In Orange County, local girl Sally Singer reports, the eternal-summer weather keeps fashion eternally laid-back.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Sally Singer It's 10:00 p.m., and I'm drinking a Santa Barbara Chardonnay at the Montage in Laguna Beach, the place everyone has told me is the hot spot in the O.C. for style-setting and style-watching and style-verbing generally....

amazon grace; In steamy So Paulo, Hamish Bowles writes, the impossibly luxe boutique Daslu is more than just a store-it's a way of life.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Hamish Bowles So Paulo is an extraordinary city," pronounces Brazilophile actor Rupert Everett. "It's like all worlds in one-with Daslu as its White House!" A greige stucco neo_classical palazzo that resembles the Getty Villa...

cold case; Moscow winters seem to be getting warmer-but that doesn't stop a chic Muscovite from wearing sable or mink with her micromini.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Lynn Yaeger For years people thought Russian women wore nothing but babushkas, and then suddenly everyone decided we all looked like prostitutes," laughs Alla Verber, the VP of Mercury, a company that owns more than 40 stores in...

all grown up; Giambattista Valli transitions from ethnic-sexy party dresses (at Ungaro) to his own elegant, demure line.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Hamish Bowles Giambattista Valli's airy Paris studio is a creative jumble of vintage couture, ethnic costume, and images of his current passions-the iconic French writer Marguerite Yourcenar, the paintings of Francis Bacon, the...

killer cashmere; The pretty deb sweater meets punky junk-box jewels.(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Holgate A short list of things that shouldn't work together but somehow coexist in perfect harmony: minuscule Mary-Kate Olsen and her massive Balenciaga biker bags; Miuccia Prada's pretty pastoral dresses with her...

scaling new heights; Parisian cobbler Pierre Hardy is taking the art of shoe design to an elevated position.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Holgate ierre Hardy ticked off a long to-do list on his last visit to New York: the Museum of Modern Art-check; Iris Apfel at the Costume Institute-check; lunch at Cafe Gray, dinner at La Esquina, a Richard Avedon...

family style; It takes three generations of Missoni women to create a collection, with daughter Margherita acting as muse, fashion scout, and-for the first time-fragrance connoisseur.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Brown This is the dress," Margherita Missoni says with a smirk, gesturing to a lemony-yellow silk confection on the inspiration rack in her mother's design studio. It's a long 1960s party dress with a prominent,...

the case for lace; Forget dainty gloves and boxy purses.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Rita Konig After spending many years as an interior designer, I have developed an obsession with table and bed linen; the more cutwork, drawn threads, padded satin stitches, and heavy embroidery the better. When lace is sparklingly...

revival spirit; Spring's hypersexy looks have all of us thinking about vintage Alaia and Versace dresses.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Mower Question of the season: Why should anyone want to dress in ultra-short, curvy dresses, gold medallions, and hot, hot color-fifteen years after Gianni Versace and Azzedine Alaia first worked them? Fran Burns, a...

glamorama; Marios Schwab will dress you up to party like it's 1999 . . . again.(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Mower It was seeing the supermodels in Vogue that was the deciding point in my life," says Marios Schwab, the boy who has flashed onto the scene as London's leading exponent of the early-nineties revival. At his...

lipstick jungle.(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... It's almost a fashion proverb: One little daub of slick burgundy, cherry-red, lingerie-pink, or minimalist L.A.-nude can make a girl feel "instantly glamorous." The most smoldering heels this spring remind everyone who sees them of the...

making history; With paintings that look to the past, Rosson Crow is becoming one of the art world's newest stars.(Biography)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Elisabeth Franck-dumas On the afternoon of her sold-out show at Galerie Nathalie Obadia in Paris this fall, the painter Rosson Crow, wearing a demure little black dress and a strand of pearls, brings to mind a young Audrey...

ON WITH THE SHOW.(Berlin Biennial)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian Leave it to the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, who gave us a life-size sculpture of Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteor, among other memorable images, to shake up the whole notion of biennial art...

family portraits; "L'Enfant" turns the lens on a father who's still a child himself, while in "Winter Passing" a daughter confronts her parents' past.(Lady Vengeance)(Movie review)
March 1, 2006... Nothing scares me off faster these days than hearing a movie praised for its "realism," a term that too often means scruffy actors looking miserable in dingy apartments. But I do make an exception for the superb work of Jean-Pierre and Luc...

Eye on the prize.(Academy Awards)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Byline: John Powers Aside from Munich, Walk the Line, and the woefully underappreciated In Her Shoes, 2005 was an uninspired year for high-end Hollywood films. Then again, the big studios actually own the boutique companies that made the...

state of the union; A rousing musical burlesque and a sober neo-Shakespearean drama offer unsettling looks at our time, writes Adam Green.(The Threepenny Opera)(Stuff Happens)(Theater review)(Opera review)
March 1, 2006... scathing indictment of bourgeois morals set in Victorian London by way of Weimar Berlin, The Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's landmark 1928 collaboration, is a musical-_theater masterpiece. It was last seen on Broadway in 1989...

mommie dearest.(Lisa Kron's play Well)(Grey Gardens)(Theater review)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... What if you were performing an autobiographical show and your mother parked herself onstage and kept telling you that you were getting it all wrong? That's the premise of Lisa Kron's knockout play Well. Starring Kron as herself and Jayne...

siren call.(Cate Blanchett, Julia Roberts)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Adam Green It seems like you can't swing a dead cat by the tail these days without hitting an actress playing Hedda Gabler. This month, Cate Blanchett takes her turn at BAM, bringing her off-kilter beauty and luminous...

home on the range; Estancia living is the most intimate and luxurious way to take in the Argentine countryside.(El Colibri)(Hotel review)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Richard Alleman Just northwest of Buenos Aires, the province of Cordoba is known for its great natural beauty. Seduced by the region's wide-open spaces, French hotelier Raoul Fenestraz and his wife, Stephanie, recently acquired a...

difficult women; Joan Juliet Buck looks at the spring lineup and finds sympathy for the she-devils: multiple Mormon wives, Jean Harris, and Princess Margaret.(Big Love)(Mrs. Harris)(The Queen's Sister)(Gideon's Daughter)(Eugene O'Neill)(Television program review)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck On HBO, the new series Big Love zeroes in on the Mormons of Utah, specifically ones who practice polygamy. Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) has three wives and a hardware store called Home Plus. He's an urban...

by leaps and bounds; Mark Morris celebrates 25 years of glorious, groundbreaking work.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Liesl Schillinges Twenty-five years ago, a young choreographer named Mark Morris rented space in a Manhattan dance studio and presented his new company to the public. His dancers did not look like ethereal beings; they looked like...

calling mr. hitchcock; Emilie de Ravin is the new blonde for all screens.(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Emilie de Ravin, the feisty young Australian in ABC's hit Lost, will be seen this month in two movies: first as a kidnapping victim in Rian Johnson's Brick, which won the special jury prize at Sundance last...

russian icon; Amid grand love affairs, artistic fame, and political upheaval, poet Anna Akhmatova became the voice of a lost generation.(Biography)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Megan O'grady Rarely does poetic ambition cut so glamorous a figure as that of Anna Akhmatova. A shawl over her shoulders, a cigarette in one hand, she was barely in her 20s when she began reading at the Stray Dog, the watering...

in good faith.(Abide with Me)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Taylor Antrim Elizabeth Strout's 1998 debut, Amy and Isabelle, told the story of a daughter's awakening to sex one sultry New England summer. In her meditative second novel, Abide with Me (Random House), Strout has returned to...

bridge of sighs.(Brookland)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Florence Kane From Emily Barton, author of 2000's acclaimed The Testament of Yves Gundron, comes Brookland (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), the captivating tale of Prudence Winship, the eldest of three sisters, who has been groomed...

controlled experiment; With "Intuition", Allegra Goodman brings us a different kind of family saga.(Book review)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Jean Nathan Unlike the clans in The Family Markowitz or Kaaterskill Falls, the characters in Allegra Goodman's latest novel, Intuition (Dial Press), are related not by blood but by a sort of blood thirst-for the cure to cancer. ...

ladies who picnic; A glamorous L.A. house (and lawn) is the setting for a charity accessories sale and brown-bag lunch.(P.S. Arts fund raiser)
March 1, 2006... Over the mantel hangs a Picasso portrait; a baronial dining-room table is covered with rows of brown paper bags. Outside, on the lush green lawn, best-dressed ladies in high heels stroll as if barefoot, lunching picnic-style from the paper...

inspiration the green party.(picnics)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Byline: William Norwich 1) It may be a picnic, but the seating doesn't have to be uncomfortable. Nothing says festive like a burst of hot color on the soft green grass. Powder-coated steel folding chairs, $65 each; conran.com. ...

beans talk; On a quest for the elusive perfectly cooked bean, Jeffrey Steingarten makes three earthshaking discoveries.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten What a fiasco," I exclaimed under my breath, chuckling appreciatively. "What a fiasco," I repeated. I liked the sound of it. In Italy, a fiasco is, among other things, a flask, a wine bottle, often the type...

coming on strong; This season, punctuated features-the bold brow, the brave lip-make the case for confidence.(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Ying Chu There's a very fine line between a strong statement and a vulgar one," says the makeup artist Gucci Westman. "One wrong detail and you've crossed it, completely mussed it up." She is talking about the new power makeup, the...

straight talk; From surfer to style scribe, Suzanne Boyd was known for her wild and wonderful signature hairstyle.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Suzanne Boyd I was fourteen when my family moved to the South Point of Barbados. Happily situated on a surf break, it was a coastal enclave that beguiled with sea grapes and coral reefs, briny, crumbling cliffs, secret caves, and...

foot soldier; Globe-trotting pedi-prince Bastien Gonzalez branches out.(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Brown not long ago, to get a glimpse of Parisian power pedicurist Bastien Gonzalez-never mind an appointment-you had to either (a) have a membership to Soho House in New York (he moonlights at the Cowshed spa), (b) live in...

OVERHEARD.(L'Oreal contracts)(Anti-Oxidant Water Boosters)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Scarlett Johansson started a small revolution, sending tongues wagging, men drooling, and women running for their dermatologists when she innocently burst into the cultural consciousness-those lips!-in Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation. So,...

model tip.(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Brown If you really want to know what's in, where to find it, and how to wear it, ask a model. And when it comes to beauty, they've got all the answers-whiling away hours in the makeup chair with fashion's top talent, you...

gut reactions; More than 46 million women suffer from debilitating abdominal pain, yet no one wants to talk about it.(irritable bowel syndrome)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Van Boven Besides the pain, I never really minded having an ulcer. How embarrassed need you be by a stomach condition aggravated by such glamorous substances as coffee, alcohol, and cigarettes? When I was diagnosed, just...

THE HOT LIST; YOU'VE BEEN WARNED: the spring season's going to be BLAZING.
March 1, 2006... Smoldering and SULTRY in beautifully dressed-up-lady looks, model Daria Werbowy takes a dip-doing the tango-down in Argentina ("The Leading Lady," page 470). Lace, a RED-HOT trend right now, is very cooling on a WARM Salvador de Bahia...

the balenciaga mystique; A retrospective of the pioneering designs of Cristobal Balenciaga showcases the exquisite similarities-and the brilliant evolution-between the great man and his house's new creative genius, Nicolas Ghesquiere.(Biography)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Hamish Bowles Number twelve, calle Aldamar, a narrow medieval street in the Basque fishing village of Getaria, is a humble establishment of flint stone and flaking ocher plaster. Its upper floors command views across the beach and...

unshaven, not stirred; In the face of intense media scrutiny of his artistic and private life, Daniel Craig, the new James Bond, is as chic and elusive as . . . 007.(Interview)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Gaby Wood Since it was announced, in mid-_October, that Daniel Craig would become the sixth 007, his looks have been dissected with a fervor usually reserved for female stars: He is too short, it's said (he's five feet eleven); too...

in harm's way; As international concern mounts over the spread of bird flu, Gretchen Reynolds meets the pioneering scientist who could stand between us and a pandemic.(Elizabeth Halloran)(Biography)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Gretchen Reynolds Elizabeth Halloran gestures toward her laptop screen. A trim, blonde professor of biostatistics, she knows as much about the behavior of influenza as anyone on earth. "Watch the dots," she says, her voice bright...

titlehere; In a field dominated by men, surgeon Haideh Hirmand is redefining the plastic fantastic.(Interview)(Biography)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Julia Reed When Haideh Hirmand, M.D., was thirteen years old, she was walking down the street in Tehran when a concrete block fell from the fourth floor of a building, hit her in the back of the head, and slammed her, facedown,...

force of nature; Environmentalist Laurie David, wife of Larry, is campaigning against global warming like there's no tomorrow.(Interview)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Eve Macsweeney Las Vegas, with its hectares of neon, might be an unlikely center of operations from which to launch a global-warming-awareness campaign, but this is where Laurie David is hunkered down one November afternoon to put...

Faced with a dire diagnosis at age 25, Dawn Russell cobbled a path of conventional and alternative treatments.(melanoma)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Rebecca Johnson Melanoma is not for the modest. In an examination room at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in midtown Manhattan, Dawn Russell efficiently stripped off her street clothes, donned a flimsy hospital gown, and...

the bride wore purple; The nuptials of shock rocker Marilyn Manson and burlesque queen Dita Von Teese were never going to be conventional, but as Hamish Bowles discovered as he tracked the celebrations from Los Angeles to Tipperary, they were also filled with high drama and high style.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Hamish Bowles It is nightfall in suburban Los Angeles, and all is quiet. This Edward Scissorhands landscape, with its endless stretches of leafy streets set with prim, primped houses, churches, and malls, seems to be peopled with...

the butterfly effect; With her stark new haircut, Natalie Portman underwent a brave metamorphosis.(Interview)
March 1, 2006... Byline: Esther Selsdon As she walks into an upmarket tapas bar in Barcelona with her immaculately ruffled, close-cropped new hairstyle, Natalie Portman looks the spitting image of Jean Seberg's iconic waif in Godard's A Bout de Souffle-she...

loaves and fishes; The healthiest, most nourishing way to eat, Tamasin Day-Lewis writes, is by feeding your body what it craves- physically, emotionally, and seasonally.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Tamasin Day-lewis As a young child growing up in Greenwich by the Thames in London, I would go on Saturday mornings down to "Joan's Dad" and collect the bread. To this day, I have never discovered the proper name of the baker. My...

national interest; Discover how some of America's most stylish women plan to wear spring's best new buy.
March 1, 2006... From exquisitely worked lace in California to languid long evening gowns in the Lone Star State, we've put the season's newest dresses in the hands of chic style-setters right across the land. Our only request? Wear it your way. And, with...

high gloss.(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... Piled-on chains and delicate pendants have gone the way of Sienna Miller's locks: They've gotten the big chop. Now plastic-as in resin, vinyl, PVC-is fantastic again, and no doubt a harbinger of the kinds of kinky, synthetic adornments...

in stitches.(Ian Hundley quilts)(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... It's the only thing I've ever stolen," painter Ian Hundley says, apologizing, as he points to his contraband, the tome Europe in Maps. He swiped it from his ninth-grade geography class-but it's only recently come into its own, since Hundley...

Briefly . . . Lauren Davis tells us how to get spring's new teeny-tiny evening dresses right in a big, big way.(Brief article)
March 1, 2006... 1. NEVER wear short to anything remotely "establishment." 2. BEWARE looking like a flasher when choosing your coat. Match your lengths. 3. CONSIDER your shoes.Kirsten Dunst looks lovely in a minidress and flats, but I suggest...