Vogue articles from March 2007

Vogue archives from March 2007

confidence women.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Anna Wintour When we considered which face belonged on this month's cover-this is our annual Power Issue-the name on the lips of my editors was Jennifer Hudson. There is no more inspiring example of the power of talent and tenacity...

SOMETHING GOLD, SOMETHING NEW.
March 1, 2007... Vintage may have faded into the background for a season or two on the red carpet, but it didn't burn out in Hollywood for the year's first major awards show. At least not for Renee Zellweger, the only A-list star who, in my opinion, is...

nesting.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Welcome spring with a beautifully designed birdhouse, like this one from Treillage, the fabulous antique emporium and garden-ornament shop in Manhattan owned by interior designers Bunny Williams and John...

the actor among us; John Burnham Schwartz recalls the summer when his parents' divorce, through Dustin Hoffman's uncanny tenacity, became fodder for Kramer vs.
March 1, 2007... Byline: John Burnham Schwartz It was a rainy night in an old beach house on the Atlantic coast; I was fourteen years old. John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men was on my summer reading list for boarding school, and after dinner, as my family...

a fine balance; New York's newly installed first lady, Silda Wall Spitzer, opens up to Rebecca Johnson about what's at stake when a mother becomes a politician's wife.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Rebecca Johnson There are three stages in a mother's life: Pre-children. Children. Children in school. Before Silda Wall Spitzer had children, her life looked like this-work, work, and work. "One year," says the pretty blonde wife...

girl of the moment ANNA NETREBKO.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... CELEBRATED SOPRANO ANNA Netrebko has been hailed as the century's most spectacular voice. With extraordinary beauty to match her natural-born talent, the award-winning 35-year-old recently stole the hearts of critics and opera lovers alike...

in the swim; William Norwich takes a refresher course in cool blue with Kelly Klein, whose classic coffee-table book Pools is being republished this spring.
March 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich Pools are great for the soul," said Kelly Klein, driving through pristine Palm Beach on a sunny afternoon. "They represent the good life, nostalgia, feelings of health and youth." Who could resist an invitation...

jewel of india; Marie-Helene de Taillac celebrates a decade of design with a fantastical New Year's Eve ball in a historic fortress above Jaipur, the city she calls home.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles Jeweler Marie-Helene de Taillac first came to Jaipur, the fabled pink city in the heart of Rajasthan, a decade ago. The worldly de Taillac-born in Paris, raised in Beirut, lived in London-had exhibited a taste for...

hey, big spenders; They wield considerable clout with their checkbooks to keep their customers satisfied and stylish.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Holgate Sarah Rutson is shaking with excitement, so much so that she can barely speak. Rutson, fashion director of Lane Crawford in Hong Kong, has been collared by a film crew outside the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris as she...

2 new york via london.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Lynn Yaeger Talk to Jason Broderick, Harrods's designer-fashion buyer, for five minutes, and one thing becomes crystal clear: His client is no shrinking violet. "Whatever I buy for Harrods has to be beautiful, ornate, exquisite!...

3 london via new york.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower Among buyers, Julie Gilhart is a rock star. At first glance, you might tag her as a low-key fashion-_indie chick: long, loose parted hair, default-expression smile, soft Texan voice, edgy clothes-the absolute reverse of...

4 milan via canada.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer Our customers want sexy suits," says Barbara Atkin, fashion director of the Canadian department-store chain Holt Renfrew. "We want to get some little sexy suits. Sexy suits." She is considering the lust-inducing...

a new altitude; Towering platforms have been replaced by faceted heels, sporty sneakers, and ironic pointy-toed flats.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower There's a problem. The paramedics are here." I think this was the moment-a desperate, overheard whisper from a designer to his assistant backstage in Milan-when I realized, with a little reluctant droop of the neck,...

piece love; As patchwork hits the runways, Hamish Bowles looks at the quilting queen bees who inspired the trend.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles Enduring style maven Gloria Vanderbilt and the legendary outfits, environments, and collages that she concocted from antique quilts and fabric scraps in the sixties have proved a bit of a muse this season for...

magpie a la mode; The Metropolitan Museum's celebration of an American fashion original comes to Palm Beach.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer This month the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach will house "Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel" (until May 27). The exhibit, which debuted at New York's Metropolitan Museum in 2005, is a tribute to...

first blush; Designer Carine Gilson brings chic elegance to a risque business.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Megan O'grady I love silk, I love lace, I love luxe," says Carine Gilson, leading the way through her Brussels atelier, a factory of sensual pleasures to rival Willy Wonka's: Dove-gray and lapis silks puddle on the tables, a rack...

meet the presse.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Irini Arakas Little wonder that Renee Roman Klein and Zoe Schaeffer, both of whom have dedicated their young-adult lives to fashion journalism, named their Los Angeles boutique Presse. Between them they worked at eight fashion...

All this time; When a cell phone is your source for the hour, the watch on your wrist is more ornamental than elemental.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Florence Kane Something the CEO of Hermes USA said made me realize that my longtime state of watchlessness was not a good thing. "I think everyone reaches a point where all of a sudden you look at something," Robert Chavez told me,...

fitting; That Giles Deacon is designing for Britain's quintessential luxury line, DAKS, is positively spot on.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower The most British designer alive today is surely Giles Deacon, a man who bicycles to work (just as the rising, eco-friendly leader of the Conservatives, David Cameron, pedals to Parliament) and uses " rather jolly" as a...

small world; Opening Ceremony is the intellectual's source for obscure international labels.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman Once again, necessity proved the mother of invention. Humberto Leon and Carol Lim, co-owners of the culty downtown New York shop Opening Ceremony, started designing clothes because the countries they were spotlighting...

black magic; A London designer uses history to spin an ever-current classic.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Sara Moonves I don't like to use the word timeless," says the soft-spoken Osman Yousefzada. "But the clothes I make do have that quality." Because his influences range from Chinese wedding robes to Roman pageboys to the modern...

a hold on me; A husband-and-wife furniture-design duo now has a great grasp of handbags.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Sara Moonves Collaborators in one way or another for 21 years, the duo behind R&Y Augousti cannot help finishing each other's sentences. "You find your soul mate, and it is a formula that works. . . . " says Yiouri Augousti. "... ..

polly morgan; An up-and-coming London artist mixes indie names with big British labels.(Interview)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Florence Kane ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL My artwork is centered on animals I taxidermy, and I incorporate fauna into my wardrobe, too. I pin enamel bird brooches to my short gray Paul Smith blazer. And I'm thinking of...

The life exotic; Waris Ahluwalia reinvents his illustrious house with a collection straight out of India.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman The dagger was just one chapter in the book," says Waris Ahluwalia. "This is a new one." The story, thus far, goes like this: About four years ago, Ahluwalia designed a collection featuring Goth-lite pendants and...

Oh, rio, rio!(platform shoes)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Olhem para mim e digam-me se eu no tenho o Brasil em cada curva do meu corpo. Translation from the Portuguese: "Look at me and tell me if I don't have Brazil in every curve of my body." Now look at the latest platform shoes (which Carmen...

Cook for hire; Jeffrey Steingarten yields control of his kitchen to a world-class personal chef.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten A few years back, I jetted out to the Coast to interview a dozen young chefs whom I had identified as personal cooks for really famous Hollywood stars. A few of them prepared their Hollywood-star food for...

Where the heart is; Mira Nair brings pathos and pageantry to Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake.
March 1, 2007... Byline: John Powers Early in The Namesake, Mira Nair's colorful, heartfelt adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's best-selling novel, a Bengali student named Ashoke Ganguli (Irr_fan Khan) is reading in a crowded train when a stranger utters words...

EYE CANDY.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman From the aerodynamic sheet-metal suits that open photographer William Klein's cult sixties flick Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? to the spectacular expressions of drag that filmmaker Jennie Livingston captured in the 1990...

Best opening scene.(Eric Bana)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: John Powers We first meet Huck (Eric Bana) in a Vegas pawnshop where he's trying to sweet-talk the owner (Phyllis Somerville) into overpaying him. After listening to his brilliant spiel, she purrs, "You're good." So is this...

WINNING COMBINATION.(Kate Mara)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Robert Sullivan After mesmerizing fans of 24 with just a few minutes' face time (remember the sexual-harassment psycho in season five?), Kate Mara is beginning to do the same in film, showing up first in Brokeback Mountain (Alma...

The far side of the world; Richard Alleman tells you everything you need to know to explore five of the most gloriously remote places on Earth.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Richard Alleman Namibia why to go: The untamed "Skeleton Coast" and the spectacular Namib Desert. when to go: May through October. how to go: Uncharted Outposts' flying safaris have all the right stops...

Pas de deux.(Nicolas Godin and Jean-BenoIt Dunckel)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Liza Ghorbani Seated at a discreet corner table overlooking the Hudson at Craftsteak restaurant and layered in Agnes B., Prada, Dior Homme, and A.P.C., Nicolas Godin and Jean-BenoIt Dunckel, who collectively make up the two-man...

London diary; Adam Green spends a showstopping week on the West End.
March 1, 2007... Monday fter a long flight, my girlfriend, Elizabeth, and I arrived at our hotel, Hazlitt's, in a state of Byronic dishevelment, which could also describe the hotel. I was soon summoned to meet Vanessa Redgrave for an interview about her...

_THE THIN MAN; David Hyde Pierce plays a musical-loving gumshoe in Curtains.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green Two years ago, sitcom prince David Hyde Pierce reinvented himself as a song-and-dance man, giving a hilarious turn in Spamalot as the poltroonish Sir Robin. This month, he returns to Broadway in Curtains, a breezy hybrid...

The poet of lost things; Hugo Boss prizewinner Tacita Dean makes thoughtful, romantic films that capture life in transition.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian Tacita Dean, the winner of the 2006 Hugo Boss Prize, has found an hour for me in her whirlwind New York schedule. The award, a closely guarded secret, will be announced tonight in a gala ceremony at the Guggenheim...

Heavenly creatures.(George Stubbs )(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Leslie Camhi George Stubbs produced the expression of terror that convulses the white stallion in his celebrated 1770 canvas A Horse Frightened by a Lion by having a groom push a broom toward his model, a high-strung Hanoverian...

Beautiful young things; Joan Juliet Buck follows the fate and fortune of models, athletes, and troubled youth in this spring's liveliest shows.
March 1, 2007... The opening salvo in VH1's new guilty-pleasure reality series The Agency is a staccato hurled at aspiring models who've come to the Wilhelmina agency's open call. "You're too short! You're way too old! You're too big! Your eyes are too close...

Lights! Action! nature!(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck The Discovery Channel/BBC's Planet Earth is the ultimate nature film: It whips you around the world to places higher, deeper, farther, colder, warmer, wetter, and stranger than you have ever seen before. Planet...

TWIST OF FATE.(The Post-Birthday World)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Megan O'grady One woman, two chances at love: Such is the premise of Lionel Shriver's huge and hugely entertaining The Post-Birthday World (HarperCollins), which explores, in Sliding Doors-style parallel narratives, its heroine's...

Home on the ranch; Aryn Kyle's stunning debut is a wry and moving look at a disappearing way of life.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Megan O'grady No one understands better than Aryn Kyle the pitfalls of penning a book about a young girl coming of age on a horse farm in the West. "When I was looking for a title, my friends joked that I should call it Horses. The...

I'll Take Manhattan.(Kurt Andersen)(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Taylor Antrim Eight years after his incisive novel of post-millennium New York, Turn of the Century, Kurt Andersen has delivered another lavish, wide-angled portrait. In Heyday (Random House), the year is 1848, and America is a...

Punk polish; An original and surprising beauty gets a bold new look.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer I don't want to cut a haircut that's a hat," says Garren, flipping through pictures of skinny young dudes with shaggy, spiky, asymmetrical bottle-black dos at underground dance nights in Manhattan. "I want it to be her...

Second coming; Marcia Kilgore has always approached beauty with a combination of science, humor, and savvy.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Brown Where in the world has Marcia Kilgore-the tireless entrepreneur, Miss Bliss to her fans-been hiding? In London, where she moved last year, shortly after opening a Bliss outpost on Sloane Avenue. Since then, the onetime...

Showing skin; Discreet yet disarming.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Julia Reed On the front cover of my old Bantam edition of Anna Karenina, there is a portrait of a woman named S. M. Botkina wearing a choker of several strands of pearls and holding a small black dog. It is meant to evoke the...

Best in show; Luxury grooming products for the poshest pups.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Catherine Piercy Does your Labradoodle's fur need fluffing? Could your bichon frise's coat use more shine? A new wave of high-end, vet-approved grooming products is offering doted-upon dogs everything from lavender-scented...

Back in style; Twisted and contorted from hunching over a keyboard and lugging a massive tote, Heidi Julavits looks to a modern take on a sixties-era technique to perfect her posture.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Heidi Julavits This past year has been, for me, a period of intense personal searching. I asked myself the hard questions: What kind of person am I? How do I want others to perceive me? And will my computer fit inside? For months,...

Green peace; New eco-friendly studios, clothes, and props let yogis inhale and exhale in spaces that are as pure as the practice itself.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Laurie Drake where to pose_At Truyoga in Santa Monica, everything is "green" from the ground up: The floor is planked with sustainable-harvest mahogany from Brazil, the walls are covered in low-emission paint, and the "shredded...

SUPERNOVA.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... _Star_ It's time to be the heroine of your own life story. Raise your hemlines. Kick out the jams with your glam- rock heels. Bare your collarbones in business meetings. _shine_ Let yourself glow. Literally and...

Natalia's playground.(Natalia Vodianova)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Robert Sullivan Fashion is fickle, as we all know. What's in one season, our year-end credit-card statements often remind us, is out the next, due back in some new permutation in a decade (or, lately, sooner). And yet, hemline...

Her lucky number.(Agyness Deyn)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Holgate So is your name Dutch?, I ask her. Or Belgian? Or does it hail from Scandinavia, where the collision of vowels and consonants can appear to be some particularly perplexing anagram? "Actually, my mother, who is a Reiki...

The a-team; Cristiano Ronaldo, the world's most creative and charismatic young soccer player, teams up with Daria Werbowy, in shapely, energetic dresses that score major glamour points.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Tim Adams Cristiano Ronaldo has plenty to celebrate. Earlier today he scored the winning goal for his soccer team, Manchester United, against their bitterest local rival. Later he watched a postmatch analysis in which he was...

Bringing down the house; With a Golden Globe for her showstopping performance in Dreamgirls, Jennifer Hudson now has a strong shot at Oscar.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Jennifer Hudson's ascent, in the words of poet Langston Hughes, has not been made on a crystal stair. In fact, the life of this daughter of a bus driver in many ways parallels that of Effie White, her character in...

The nighy way; Bill Nighy's astonishing comic gifts and understated acting style have made him the toast of Broadway.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Eve Macsweeney The first thing you notice about Bill Nighy is his stillness. As he sits across a table at Manhattan's Cafe des Artistes, his very long legs folded with some difficulty beneath it, the body language that at times can...

Head for figures; What's the real financial toll of balancing a high-powered career with a full home life.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Holgate She would be the last person ever, ever to do this, but Jenny Just should consider writing a self-help guide on how to get the most out of life. It would be a phenomenal success. As much of a success as Peak6, the...

House proud; Once wary of the limelight, Speaker Nancy Pelosi steps into her historic role ready for action.
March 1, 2007... Byline: John Powers If you became aware of Nancy Pelosi only during the splashy three-day celebration of her becoming Speaker of the House, you might think she's always loved the limelight. She had a Baltimore street named after her, held...

Shades of success; On the brink of superstardom, Michelle Williams talks about her big-sky childhood, life with Heath, and the thrill of playing a glamorous femme fatale.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Gaby Wood As the escalator descends into Times Square subway station on a Friday night, a curious sight comes into view. A large area has been cordoned off with yellow tape, as if to mark a crime scene or a bomb scare, but no one...

The emperor's daughter; Riding a crane, taking her family company global, hiking at 20,000 feet-it's all in a day's work for the surprisingly grounded Ivanka Trump.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Van Meter Ivanka Trump-tall, bosomy, husky-voiced-is standing right up at the edge of a floor-to-ceiling window on the twentieth floor of the IBM building in Chicago. She is looking out over the construction site of the...

Flying solo; On the eve of her return to Broadway in Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, Vanessa Redgrave talks to Adam Green about learning to let go.(Interview)
March 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green On a winter evening, I am sitting in a noisy Italian cafe in London across the table from Vanessa Redgrave, who, at almost 70, continues to radiate supernal allure. Her silver hair is pulled back into a ponytail, framing...

A very long night; At Nina Ricci, Olivier Theyskens crafts evening dresses that swizzle around the body like swirled glass.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer On the night before he was to show his debut pre-fall collection for Nina Ricci to press and buyers in New York, Olivier Theyskens could be found in a West Side studio giving a final tweak to skinny twisted trousers,...

A tout de suit; For centuries, the suit has been a staple in a woman's wardrobe, from an aristocrat's hunting dress to the modern professional's powerhouse.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman Gone are the days when unknowing women would just walk into a store and ask for these expensive two-piece suits to go to work in." Isaac Mizrahi is remembering a time not that long ago, in August 1997, when his suit-a...

Crash test; When your social life is going at full speed, why not hire a trainer to drive your diet to the straight and narrow.
March 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer To partake or not to partake of dinner? That is the question gnawing at me one November night at Sant Ambroeus, the West Village's prettiest Milanese trattoria. On the face of it, not to would be madness. My plate...

Worth every penny; With these fantastic finds, there is no fear of suffering from sticker shock.(Brief article)
March 1, 2007... Devalued dollar be darned! We set ourselves the challenge to see just how far $100 can go. To say we were impressed by what we found would be putting it mildly. Model Jessica Stam, a savvy shopper extraordinaire, shows off the best spring looks...