Vogue articles from May 2008

Vogue archives from May 2008

Fashion Goes Pow!
May 1, 2008... On May 5, the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be aswarm with batgirls and fly guys, catwomen and aquamen for the gala opening of "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy." It's an extraordinary show that explores the influence...

Letters From Readers.
May 1, 2008... STRIKE A POSE From luminous ingenue to smoldering sexpot to femme fatale, Kate Bosworth portrayed each designer's vision in the "Seven Dates with Kate" pictorial [photographed by Mario Testino, February] with undeniably intriguing charm....

Family Value.
May 1, 2008... After losing her mother and becoming estranged from her father, Margot Livesey found a new home--and the unexpected privileges of adopting one's parents. On a wet July Sunday last year, seventeen people, aged fourteen to 85, assembled on...

VOGUE.(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... MAY Shimmer & Shine Wonder-Womanly Looks for Night Brave New Suits for Day Electrifying Accessories "I SIMPLIFY EVERYTHING" Gwyneth Paltrow On Juggling Her Kids, Career, and Chris Decoding Your DNA Can You...

I Love Saks.(Saks Fifth Avenue)
May 1, 2008... Byline: Amy Ephron Amy Ephron describes a life spent seeking sparks and solace at the fabled counters of a New York department store. The smell of fresh pressed powder (or the memory of the smell of fresh pressed powder), French...

Flash.(Jenna Bush's wedding decoration plans)
May 1, 2008... Byline: Julia Reed. EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR FOR HER BIG DAY, JENNA BUSH OPTS FOR AN INTIMATE WEDDING AT THE FAMILY RANCH. J enna Bush, First Daughter, author, teacher, and bride-to-be, is sitting at a table at Da Silvano in downtown...

Home Sweet Home.(on Claire Bernard)
May 1, 2008... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR William Norwich trails Claire Bernard in a momentary respite from efforts both altruistic and academic around the globe. Not all days are created equal. Some are way more auspicious. So when the young...

Talking Fashion Mug Shots.(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR Fashionable faces clad in fashionable faces are springing up like tulips as the weather warms. Diane Kruger went sweet and simple with a winking bow-tied Lanvin shell paired with relaxed culottes....

Natural Selection.(American Museum of Natural History Winter Dance)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR New York's finest display their plumage at the American Museum of Natural History Winter Dance. Night at the Museum CAPTION(S): MARGHERITA MISSONI, IN MISSONI, AND MARY-KATE OLSEN, IN CHLO. ...

State Of Grace.(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR Statuesque and stylish New Yorker Lauren Remington Platt embodies old-world elegance in a decidedly modern way. With sophistication and a soupcon of insouciance, 23-year-old Lauren Remington Platt is...

Out On The Town.
May 1, 2008... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR CAPTION(S): MARCH 2008 IN A YSL SKIRT. MARCH 2008 IN 3.1 PHILLIP LIM. MARCH 2008 IN CHLO. MARCH 2008 IN OSCAR DE LA RENTA.

Argentina.(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: BY SHIRIN VON WULFFEN EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR The original plan was to spend spring break in Majorca, then St. Barth's, but after Frederic [Fekkai, von Wulffen's husband] and I had dinner with our friends Sandy Hill and Tom Dittmer,...

Naked Ambition.(Richard Dupont's sculptures)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR "THERE HAS DEFINITELY BEEN A LOT OF CURIOSITY" All artistic endeavors require "putting oneself out there" to some degree. But Richard Dupont took things to an entirely new level with his "Terminal...

Talking Fashion Strap Happy.(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR The look is a study in glorious contrasts: straps that don't match the dress--all the better to draw attention to sexy shoulders. At a media party in Paris, Rachel Bilson' s jolt of black punctuated the...

Hello-Bent.
May 1, 2008... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR William Norwich navigates the fraught world of social greetings. All greetings in social life are like a dance, an exercise in timing. Consider the dilemma of social kissing, once a cozy, comme il...

Overheard.(fashion)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: EDITOR: ALEXANDRA KOTUR Psychic therapy is the hot appointment among New York's fashion set, who flock to guru Judi Hoffman for a monthly mind-healing fix. If client Gisele Bundchen' s charmed life is any indication of the end...

"L.A. Times".
May 1, 2008... Byline: --ANDR�% LEON TALLEY "We wanted to sweep up before you came," exclaimed Kate and Laura Mulleavy, greeting me in their penthouse-floor atelier in downtown Los Angeles. On the polished concrete floor, large industrial brooms...

Child's Play.(Playing with the Grown-ups)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker MEGAN O'GRADY In Playing with the Grown-ups, Sophie Dahl transforms a glamorous and unusual upbringing into a sparkling work of fiction. S ophie Dahl isn't afraid of the dark. "That was the school of my...

What Women Want.(Then She Found Me)(Movie review)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker Helen Hunt stars in--and directs--an adult romantic comedy. John Powers reviews. It's a Hollywood cliche that male movie stars go on to become directors (even Ben Affleck has gotten into the act) while...

Flying High.(upcoming works of actor Jamie Bell's)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker CAROLINE PALMER Jamie Bell's latest role has him leaping over rooftops. It's cringe-worthy. It's like looking back at yearbook photos," Jamie Bell groans of his star-making turn at the age of fourteen as...

The Shape Of Things.(Rachel Feinstein's abstract sculpture )
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker LESLIE CAMHI Rachel Feinstein unleashes a Baroque fantasy at Marianne Boesky Gallery. R achel Feinstein has certainly put in her time as a muse, having inspired everyone from Marc Jacobs to her husband,...

The Agony And The Ecstasy.(exhibition of sculptor Camille Claudel's works)(Brief biography)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker ELISABETH FRANCK-DUMAS A s doomed artists/muses go, French sculptress CAMILLE CLAUDEL cuts a mesmerizing figure. Born into a conservative provincial French family at the end of the nineteenth century, she...

Power Trip.(Top Girls)(Theater review)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker Caryl Churchill's groundbreaking Top Girls arrives on Broadway with a top-notch cast, writes Adam Green . With such time-and gender-bending plays as Cloud Nine and Mad Forest, the brilliant English...

Prints Charming.(The Highgrove Florilegium)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker STEPHANIE LaCAVA A collection of 120 delicate watercolors by more than 50 botanical artists, THE HIGHGROVE FLORILEGIUM (Addison Publications) is the sort of book one would hope to find tucked away in the...

High Road To China.(description and travel)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker Just in time for the Summer Olympics, Richard Alleman scouts out the top spots from Beijing to the Great Wall. CAPITAL IDEAS In Beijing, on a quiet street across from the Imperial Palace, lies the...

Still Counting.(Recount)(Movie review)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker Who won Florida? Joan Juliet Buck watches a re-creation of the 2000 election so gripping that you forget you knew the outcome. R ecount, on HBO on May 8, is a horror movie about the 2000 presidential...

An American Original.(Virginia Lee Burton)(Biography)
May 1, 2008... Byline: Jean Nathan. editor: Valerie Steiker Few know that iconic children's-book author Virginia Lee Burton also created a design collective. For more than 70 years, the classic children's books of Virginia Lee Burton --among them...

Taking Root.(Jakob Dylan's solo album called Seeing Things)
May 1, 2008... Byline: LAUREN WATERMAN editor: Valerie Steiker In a nod to his legendary father, Jakob Dylan branches out on his own. Most musicians have a moment when they feel like they've arrived," says the second-generation rock star Jakob Dylan....

House Of Wonder.(exhibition of furniture company Leleu's works)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: STEPHANIE LaCAVA editor: Valerie Steiker with its lush lacquered surfaces and elegant lines, the furniture of the French design house LELEU couldn't be more of the moment. This month, New York's Maison Gerard unveils 40...

Crimes Of The Heart.(fiction books)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker This month's best fiction solves the mystery of what to read this spring. In Isabel Fonseca's fearless first novel, Attachment (Knopf), an American writer on a tropical sabbatical...

Manhattan Transfer.(Netherland)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Byline: MATTHEW LANE editor: Valerie Steiker It is truly a terrible thing when questions of love and family and home are no longer answerable." So says Hans van den Broek, the Dutch-born equities-analyst narrator of Joseph O'Neill's...

French Toast.(French manicure)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Sarah Brown With a few crucial tweaks, an '80s classic makes a thoroughly modern comeback. Sally Singer wears the new French manicure. How could something so terrifically tacky feel so chic? This was the question as I...

Into Thin Air.(tracking down perfumes)(Travel narrative)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Sarah Brown When a perfume is discontinued, is it lost forever? Erika Kawalek goes on a journey to replace her favorite scents. The Osmotheque perfume conservatory in Versailles, as you might expect, is a delightful...

Mediterranean Miracle.(use of olives in beauty products)
May 1, 2008... Byline: CHRISTINA HAN editor: Sarah Brown The little green fruit revered by Greek gods steals the beauty spotlight as a main ingredient in everything from bubble bath to body oil. On the Acropolis stands a tree whose branches are full...

Breaking The Code.
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Abigail Walch Can a genetic test calculate your risk of cancer or heart disease? Rebecca Johnson talks to the pioneering founders of a Silicon Valley start-up about deciphering medical blueprints one strand of DNA at a...

Spring Awakening.(seasonal allergic rhinitis)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Abigail Walch Sneezing, sniffling, itchy eyes--it's allergy season, and more and more adults are suffering the consequences. Ginny Graves talks with leading scientists about the rush to find answers. Environmental...

Shine On.(lipstick called Shine made by Poppy King's company)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Abigail Walch SARAH BROWN Poppy King, self-professed Lipstick Queen, caused a sensation when she launched Shine, the first ubergloss, in 1995. Inspired by the 1970s (the decade that saw the birth of gloss and, not...

Enduring Love.
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Sally Singer Farewell, fleeting encounters with It bags. This summer, says Mark Holgate, there are plenty worth getting to know on a long-term basis. Well, it was fun while it lasted, wasn't it? Those happy, carefree...

Donna's Got A Brand-New Bag.(Donna Karan)
May 1, 2008... Byline: FLORENCE KANE editor: Sally Singer Karan carries out an addition to her lifestyle superlabel. Donna Karan has toted the same Hermes backpack for "I'm embarrassed to say how many years," admits the designer. And she does love a...

Everyday Couture.
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Sally Singer Sound like an oxymoron? Sarah Mower follows Jennifer Woo on a spree among the season's wearable wonders. Jennifer Woo wants to get one thing straight. "I'm not a society girl," she says, smiling, over...

Erin Mathews.
May 1, 2008... Byline: AS TOLD TO JANE HERMAN editor: Sally Singer This Dallas real estate executive turns a keen selection of hardworking separates into a single striking look. So much of what I buy is career oriented, and I tend to favor sportswear...

Reform Cool.
May 1, 2008... Byline: JANE HERMAN editor: Sally Singer Girls in boys' clothing? Two New York designers break a few rules. Daughters by Obedient Sons premieres softly this spring and launches more formally in the fall as the sister label of the...

Love & Hisses.(Captain America's supervillain Diamondback)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Filipa Fino In the comic-book world, any serpent-themed character is usually a supervillain. That was the case with Diamondback, the poison-tipped-spike-throwing underworld criminal who ultimately left her wicked ways...

Everyday Heroes.(clothing designs influenced by superhero costumes)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Wonder Woman had her bullet-deflecting cuffs, and librarian Babs Gordon needed only to slip into her rubbery black body armor to BE TRANSFORMED into that crime-fighting feminist Batgirl: What better metaphor for the power of fashion to give us...

Daring Do.
May 1, 2008... Byline: Photographed by Craig McDean. The Costume Institute's spring blockbuster celebrates the power and the glory of superhero style. Hamish Bowles is awestruck by the feats of imagination. The superhero is really the ultimate...

Light Bright.(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: Photographed by Patrick Demarchelier. A shimmering flash from the dynamic duo of satin and statement jewels . . . the flutter of a fluid silhouette like a crusader's cape--summer's supercharged looks befit any radiant heroine. ...

Making Headlines.(Buyers guide)
May 1, 2008... Byline: Photographed by Steven Meisel Actor Tom Welling is a cunning newspaper editor. His top reporter, model Maryna Linchuk, is a superwoman in disguise. Wearing day looks that are as ladylike as they are efficient, she almost has him...

Gwyneth's Guide To Life.(Gwyneth Paltrow)
May 1, 2008... Byline: Photographed by Mario Testino. How does Gwyneth Paltrow--movie star, rock wife, and supermom--make it all look so easy? Plum Sykes investigates. These are the clothes I went to bed in! I'm so untogether," says Gwyneth Paltrow,...

Hard Wired.(Gwyneth Paltrow's come back movie)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: Photographed by Steven Klein Gywneth returns to movies in spring's comic-book extravaganza Iron Man. Here, the actress flexes her form in heavy-metal looks worthy of a superheroine. CAPTION(S): TRANSFORMER Director Jon...

The Art Of Persuasion.
May 1, 2008... Byline: Photographed by Francois Halard Michael Govan plans to turn Los Angeles into the contemporary-art capital of the world. Dodie Kazanjian meets the Pied Piper at his self-styled home. Michael Govan and Katherine Ross have been...

Minding The Gap.(Gap Inc.'s new head of design Patrick Robinson)
May 1, 2008... Byline: Photographed by Norman Jean Roy. With designer Patrick Robinson at its helm, America's most iconic megafashion brand has the highest hopes of becoming something to believe in again. Sarah Mower reports. When Patrick Robinson,...

Risky Business.(plastic surgery)
May 1, 2008... Byline: Photographed by Steven Klein Lumps, bumps, bruises, and worse: Cosmetic procedures don't always go exactly as planned. Jenny Bailly talks with the pros about temporary side effects, permanent problems--and how to fix them. ...

Keep It Short.(Buyers guide)
May 1, 2008... Byline: Photographed by Craig McDean. After a long winter, things are finally looking up (and up and up). Paired with precise jackets and foulard scarf-tied blouses, spring's abbreviated hemlines don't skimp on elegance. "Wearing pants...

Let's Get Digital.(Buyers guide)
May 1, 2008... Byline: Photographed by Raymond Meier. Fashion and function converge in accessories for spring: Bags, shoes, and hardware in electrifyingly glossy finishes are technically brilliant. CAPTION(S): DRIVE, SHE SAID The cyberage calls...

Designers' Showcase.
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Meredith Melling Burke Four fresh faces from around the globe draw on their inimitable style to make their mark on the world of interiors. Denise Porcaro floral designer Owner of the New York shop-within-a-shop...

Insider Edition.(List)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Meredith Melling Burke It was no easy feat to pry these decorating sources out of our tastemakers. Happily, they finally revealed their top five so anyone can decorate like a pro. Denise Porcaro Dawn Hill Antiques,...

In This Issue.
May 1, 2008... Page 38 (cover look): Dress, $14,950; Neiman Marcus; Oscar de la Renta boutiques. Sterling-silver Classic long cuffs, $750 each; the Robert Lee Morris Gallery, NYC; robertleemorris.com. Manicure, Jin Soon for Jin Soon Natural Hand & Foot Spa....

Last Look.(fire opal)(Brief article)
May 1, 2008... Byline: editor: Virginia Smith PHOTOGRAPHED BY RAYMOND MEIER. Fire opal, commonly formed in the volcanic rock of Mexico, was once called quetza-litzi-pyollitli, or "stone of the bird of paradise," by the native Aztecs. Now regarded as the...