Vogue articles from May 2007

Vogue archives from May 2007

boy of the moment Olivier Theyskens.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich In this fairy tale called life, some of the happiest marriages we know are the unions of society and fashion. And so it was, as the best-dressed-with bells and baubles on-rushed to meet and greet Olivier Theyskens...

TREND of the month BRAVE HEART.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... THE LIFE OF THE PARTY FOR evening this spring: exuberant jewel-toned cocktail dresses. Whether they're vivid crimson or hot, hot pink, these pretty poufs are a tough act to follow. Take the Pop-era Luella Bartley look that Chloe Sevigny wore to...

TREND of the month HATS ON.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... WATCHING MIUCCIA Prada's leggy glamazons come down the spring '07 runway in Milan, one could only wonder: Who, come summer, will dare to wear her collection's signature turbans? Our guessing game ended when designer Rachel Roy rocked a scarlet...

tough gals.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... A HALLMARK OF 1940s HOLLYWOOD gangsters, the fedora is now favored by fashion's own, models Gemma Ward, Irina Lazareanu, and Shalom Harlow, who've all paired the boyish accessory with another classic: the smart white shirt.

green day; The private-jet set are not just cutting carbs, they're cutting their carbon footprints, says William Norwich.
May 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich From brunch to biodegradable bridal bouquet, dinner to disco, society's favorite color is green these days-save-the-planet green, I mean, not just the dye of money or those amusing numbers in Prada's fall...

attention, shoppers; If things go as planned, the latest bag craze will rid the world of the tired debate: paper or plastic.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower No loitering, girls. Today, let us go out and harness the power of fashion to change the way the nation shops. One stylish act of rebellion in supermarkets, delis, drugstores, and designer emporiums and at market stalls...

sans guilt; A New York design duo is making cool clothes we can all feel good about wearing.(Lika Volkova and Alessandro DeVito)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Florence Kane We're kind of getting tired of being called 'eco' now," says Alessandro DeVito. "But it's great that it's getting to the point where sustainable clothing is more acceptable, more than just fringe." DeVito and his...

earth to fashion; We're getting the message: The eco-friendly trend is good for the planet.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Robert Sullivan We are happy to report that as of right now the trend in fashion is-are you ready?-to do the right thing. We want to emphasize, first, that we are not making this up. This is really what a lot of fashion people are...

Jill Fehrenbacher; The founder of environmental-design site Inhabitat.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Alexandra Mack Check the Label My favorite shop is the eco-boutique Kaight, on New York's Lower East Side. They have innovative jewelry and organic jeans. Form and Function I'm dying for SANS's Bamboo dress. It's...

Terra Firma; Hip on hemp, L.A.-based Viridis Luxe offers up a mindful collection.(clothing collection made from hemp fibers)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Stephanie La Cava After two years of passionate global research on hemp production, Los Angeles-based writer and producer Amadea West and film costume designer Hala Bahmet are unveiling Viridis Luxe, a clothing collection created...

it's not easy being jeans; Our blues are far from being legitimately green.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman Imagine, for a moment, growing a garden with decomposed denim. "A truly sustainable blue jean would be so safe that if you put it in a compost pile, over time it'd turn back into nutrition for your tomato plants," says...

tabitha takes on_._._.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Tabitha Simmons Contrary to popular belief, not all stylists live and die by fashion trends. What always inspires me is seeing a designer take an idea and do it with such incredible confidence and imagination that in the end it has...

cheek to cheek; These fancy French swimsuits stay put so you can chill out and dive in.(bikinis made by fashion designer Andrea Fullenbach)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman We are obsessed with bathing-suit cuts and fit, and there never being enough to cover-do you use this word?-the tooshie." Designer Andrea Fullenbach is explaining in near-perfect En-glish, with a German-French accent,...

finders keepers; A huntress for fine jewelry-mod, disco, and Deco-will help you get your groove.(jewelry designer Robin Katz)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman At heart, I'm a collector," says New Yorker Robin Katz. A sprightly, stylish mother of three with a knack for bold mid-century jewelry, Katz makes wearing a fist-size pendant from Van Cleef & Arpels look easy. And she...

belle toujours.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... To this visionary dresses, designer Paul Poiret (see page 236) would add captivating details that he liked to say "sang out": a button here, a buckle there, or a luxe-looking tassel hanging from the bust that the liberated Belle Epoque women he...

great expectations; Broadway's newest import, Coram Boy evokes Dickens, writes Adam Green, by way of Sweeney Todd and the Brothers Grimm.(Theater review)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green As a high school senior in Durham, England, in the late seventies, Melly Still couldn't decide whether to apply to dance school, art school, or drama school. So she found a college in York that was all three and grew up...

blonde and blonder; Heather Hach writes, Nell Benjamin composes, and Laura Bell Bundy stars in this month's Legally Blonde.(Theater review)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green On a sunny New York afternoon, three great-looking blondes in little leg-baring numbers and high heels-models? stewardesses? foreign-exchange students?-are striding arm in arm through Madison Square Park, leaving a line...

love story.(Romeo and Juliet)(Theater review)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman By the time I hear my mother calling, I've almost forgotten that I am outside my balcony," says Callie Bachman, describing dancing the grand pas de deux in New York City Ballet's production of Romeo and Juliet. A...

husbands and wives; Three new films consider the intricacies of marriage.(Waitress; Away from Her; Jindabyne)(Movie review)
May 1, 2007... The recipe for a crowd-pleasing comedy could hardly be simpler: Take equal parts food and romance, then give them a gentle stir. That's the surefire formula followed by Waitress, Adrienne Shelly's upbeat charmer about a young woman seeking...

CITIES OF DREAMS.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Byline: John Powers Filmmakers have a soft spot for metropolitan life. This month, an omnibus of shorts about Paris and an animated portrait of Tokyo gone wild explore the teeming possibilities of the mean streets. tokyo Giddily received...

castles for hire; Antiques-filled rooms, glorious grounds, and sublime locations make these stately residences the perfect private escape.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Richard Alleman ch,teau des rois One of the Loire Valley's most historic ch,teaux and the setting for the 1952 Gina Lollobrigida swashbuckler Fanfan la Tulipe, this pre-Renaissance beauty has nine bedrooms, a Salon des...

pillow talk.(fabric store Ankasa's new store)(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Stephanie La Cava Providing textiles to designers like Oscar de la Renta, Ankasa is known for its exquisite handcrafted aesthetic. Now, Sachin and Babi Ahluwalia, the husband and wife behind the fabric house, are opening their...

that certain something; Ahmet Ertegun gave us jazz, R&B, and rock 'n' roll; Beau Brummell invented trousers.(In memoriam)
May 1, 2007... The supremely elegant Ahmet Ertegun, who founded Atlantic Records 60 years ago, was the improbable emperor of rock 'n' roll. Passionate about the blues since his childhood in Paris and London, where his father was the Turkish ambassador, at...

SPIN-OFF Doctor.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck When she turned up on Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Addison Montgomery Shepherd, the estranged wife of the heroine's love interest (to fans, as the wife of Meredith's McDreamy), Kate Walsh had everything going against her....

one and only; Miranda July's new story collection is a wry and affecting take on modern love.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Megan O'grady I think I pretty much tried to do everything else but be a writer," says Miranda July, the acclaimed performance artist and filmmaker, who now, with the publication of her astonishingly good collection of short...

REFLECTIONS OF GLORY.(A Mirror Garden)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Megan O'grady As a young Iranian art student, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian arrived in New York at the end of World War II and was instantly hanging out with the likes of Jackson Pollock (at the Cedar Tavern) and Andy Warhol (in...

Divine Shine; Is the tan passe? The prettiest summer skin just glows.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Brown It's more than a little telling that of the 22 spring shows where makeup artist Pat McGrath masterminded the look, at only one-Stella McCartney-did she create the illusion of bronzed skin. And she wouldn't even call it...

Water World; Just in time for summer, fitness classes-from kickboxing to Pilates-are heading for the pool.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Jancee Dunn Water workouts once conjured images of bathing-capped seniors wading through aqua-robics, but now a dizzying array of decidedly modern pool classes is attracting a younger, fitness-savvy crowd. Yoga, Tai Chi,...

sunscreen master class; Are you wearing SPF but still getting burned.(sun protection factor)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Catherine Piercy Here's an inconvenient truth: Most people purport to wear sunscreen-every day under makeup, certainly on ski slopes and at the beach-yet skin cancer rates are rising instead of falling, as is the number of women...

the hot shot; With rates of HPV on the rise and the controversy surrounding the cervical-cancer vaccine gaining force, Alexis Jetter talks with a maverick researcher who offers a bold new prescription.(human papillomavirus)(Interview)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Alexis Jetter Diane Harper had her first-and worst-pelvic exam at age eighteen. An ancient physician wielded his speculum like a can opener and never uttered a word. "That left an indelible mark," says Harper, a spear of a woman...

hit girls; Vogue's ten cover girls bring personality and attitude to spring's eye-popping prints.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Van Meter One Wednesday in February, in the middle of what is surely the coldest New York Fashion Week on record, I am sitting in a corner booth having lunch at Balthazar, the bistro in SoHo that crawls with fashion people...

fashioning the century; As the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute mounts an exhibition on Paul Poiret, today's designers reimagine the provocative world of fashion's first modernist.(Biography)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles In the years before World War I, Paul Poiret's star rose like a comet-as his contemporaries Picasso and Stravinsky were reimagining art and music with their iconoclastic brilliance, so he redesigned the...

poetic bohemia; Answering to no one, Dries Van Noten lets devotees find a look all their own.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles I'm in the mood for challenges," says Dries Van Noten, standing in the third-floor design studio of his 60,000-square-foot headquarters, built in the late nineteenth century as a warehouse serving the port of Antwerp....

creative chic; More invitation than imposition, Marni offers self-expression for a growing legion of fans.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Eve Macsweeney Stop by Marni in downtown Manhattan, a discreet, narrow storefront on Mercer Street, and a sociological tableau unfolds that says a lot about where this once-small, little-known, then better-known and now really...

thinking big; How do you give away $50 million a year.(Interview)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Julia Reed When I first met Susie Buffett, in the early eighties, in Washington, it was over the phone. She was the assistant to my friend Jim Glassman, then publisher of The New Republic, and she was so smart and so witty and so...

california dreaming; After a few challenging years in London, Alexandra von Furstenberg has embraced a sun-drenched white clapboard home-and a new life.(Interview)
May 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich Unless one of her children dashes into her immaculate white bedroom while she is still sleeping, the first face Alexandra von Furstenberg sees when she wakes up every morning in her California dream house is Marilyn...

easy riser; What's the secret to baking a foolproof, nearly labor-free loaf that tastes as delicious as anything from a bakery.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten This story may very well change your life. Since late November, I have baked about 100 loaves of nearly perfect bread. OK, possibly only 90 of them were nearly perfect. We baked them faster than we could eat...

criminally chic; Could you be guilty of crimes against beauty.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Marina Rust Beauty victim? What's that?" asks Erica over dinner. There are different kinds, I reply. First, there are literal victims, recipients of beauty services gone wrong: overprocessed hair, Botox droop, laser burns,...

dress me, kate; The whole world craves the contents of her closet.(Kate Moss)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Holgate Kate Moss is doing what she does best. Better than feeding the appetites of the tabloids. Better than playing rock royalty, a latter-day Marianne to boyfriend Pete Doherty's Mick. Far better, even, than being the...

magic & mass.(Editorial)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Anna Wintour I do not want all women to look and dress exactly alike. I want them to be as different in their dress as they are in their personalities." I love this pronouncement of Paul Poiret, the magical Parisian couturier who,...

The Greatest Show on Earth.(Paris Fashion Week; fashion shows by designers Alber Elbaz, John Galliano and Sophia Kokosalaki)
May 1, 2007... Fashion season is like a vicious scorpion dance: A potential brush with toxicity can happen at any time. And while there were deadly moments during Paris Fashion Week, I found myself on the edge of my seat at some brilliant runway...

spellbinding.(Brief article)
May 1, 2007... Silvia Venturini has come up with the must-have iconic bag for next fall/winter. "The bags are all made of wool or feathers, and I call them Voodoo," says the Fendi accessories creative director, who opted for huge bags anchored on logo frames...

heroine chic.(Editorial)
May 1, 2007... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Regarding my red-carpet debut for ABC's pre-show The Road to the Oscars: What a blast! Part of the joy of working with Laura Ziskin, producer of both the seventy-ninth Academy Awards and the Spider-Man films, was...

the royal we; A chance encounter with Queen Noor of Jordan helped Diana Abu-Jaber bridge the two-and often competing-parts of her cultural identity.
May 1, 2007... Byline: Diana Abu-jaber King Hussein always looked dashing-part Prince Rainier, part Cary Grant, just as handsome on a motorcycle as he was in his royal robes. I only saw the pictures. My father shared a soccer ball with him. Not friends,...