Vogue articles from November 2007

Vogue archives from November 2007

lightness of being.(Duke Diet & Fitness Center's Immersion program)
November 1, 2007... I had returned to the Duke Diet & Fitness Center (DFC) in Durham, North Carolina, in late July, having regained all the weight I had lost. But on August 21, during a three-day personalized health program called Immersion at the newly...

american beauty.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... After sixteen seasons, Zac Posen has found his way through fifties couture conceits-Mainbocher's simplicity for day, Charles James's dramatic volume for night-for a 46-look magnum opus of a collection based on "American optimism." In the spirit...

hit parade.
November 1, 2007... We worked so hard on this one. It's the first summer we didn't take a vacation," said Lazaro Hernandez, the cool Latin fire of the brilliant design duo Proenza Schouler. In their tenth collection during a short but extraordinary ascension to...

aces high.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Andre Leon Talley This image of Venus Williams's victory moment after defeating Jelena Jankovic at the U.S. Open was the highlight of Fashion Week for me. Watching her from center court in Flushing Meadows was one of the most...

invitation to the dance; An internship at the Costume Institute under the oracular Diana Vreeland introduced the author to the art of extravagant gestures.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Andrew Solomon When I graduated from high school in 1981, the Metropolitan Museum of Art hired me for an internship. A few days after I began, I was in the office of the woman who had selected me, and saw the note I had sent her...

top chef; When her husband decided to perfect his culinary skills-artichoke ragout, cardoon fritters-Elizabeth Weil discovered that marriage to an uberchef is not all it's cooked up to be.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Elizabeth Weil I knew things were escalating when, a few months ago, after setting a bowl of homemade turnip-greens soup with fresh croutons on my desk for lunch, Dan said, "Honey, I have to tell you something" in that way that...

girl of the moment Kate Bosworth.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... She may be many, many incarnations beyond her Blue Crush board-shorts-sporting days, but Kate Bosworth's style continues to make major waves. The now-seasoned starlet showed off her signature blend of edgy downtown cool meets Hollywood high...

trend of the moment art de vivre.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Oscar Wilde's aphorism that "life imitates art far more than art imitates life" has never rung more true than now: Soigne stars and sophisticates are painting the town in arty dresses that look as if they were conceived on a canvas rather than...

PARTY of the Month tennis, anyone?(Roger Federer's victory party)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Oscar De la Renta, Diane von Furstenberg, and Aerin Lauder were among the guests at the intimate dinner at Wakiya, Ian Schrager's new haute Chinese eatery, in honor of tennis virtuoso and Men's Vogue cover boy Roger Federer. Lily Cole and...

visual aide; As the fall art season gets under way, William Norwich navigates the gallery world under the discriminating eye of dealer Amy Greenspon.
November 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich Amid a fallen Western outpost, bandits, vast mountain landscapes, and one taxidermied buffalo, Amy Greenspon and Lauren Davis greeted each other like sisters. Best friends since they were roommates at the Kent...

hill country; Julia Reed picks up a few tricks from world-class hostess Sandy Hill at her Santa Ynez Valley ranch.(Interview)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Julia Reed Before I went out to California's Santa Ynez Valley to visit Sandy Hill at the ranch and vineyard near Los Olivos where she and her husband, Tom Ditt_mer, spend much of their time, she sent me an E-mail: "Do you ride? Do...

going to extremes; Can two opposing fashion forces- the long, linear column and the curvy, big-skirted silhouette-peacefully coexist.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower I've always thought that if you have a small, tight shoulder and long, skinny arms, it sets the head off really gracefully," says Rick Owens. "Once you have that, it gets the eye fixed, and then you get an impression of...

why less is more; Feel the pace of fashion is too fast.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Holgate Aleksandra Woroniecka rummages around the closet in her West Village walk-up apartment and produces her beloved navy Chanel cardigan jacket. The Paris-born, New York-based stylist treasures this piece because it does...

Lauren Hassey; This 22-year-old London jewelry designer is partial to all things English.(Interview)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Florence Kane LITTLE BRITAIN My style is a combination, really, of Nancy Mitford and Brideshead Revisited. I try not to wear too much black, so my main colors for fall and winter are chocolate-brown and gray. Then I add...

1. THE SHIRT GOLDEN GOOSE.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman A collared shirt is quite possibly the most predictable piece of clothing one can own, yet Italian designers Alessandro and Francesca Gallo succeed in turning each and every one they make for their label, Golden Goose,...

3. THE BIKINI HAVERHILL.(Haverhill Leach )(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman Designer Haverhill Leach has a very good point about the bottom line of bathing-suit shopping: "Aesthetics aside, if it was the most flattering one you tried on, you're going to buy it." Which means, Leach says, "I...

2. The Leather Jacket MIKE&CHRIS.(Mike Gonzalez and Christine Park-Gonzalez)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer Mike Gonzalez and Christine Park-Gonzalez, the married talents behind Mike&Chris, first crossed paths in junior high in the slackery-glamorous Los Feliz Village of Los Angeles. When they met again, they were 20 (Mike)...

4. THE BALLET FLATS REPETTO.(Rose Repetto )(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman Rose Repetto made the very first pair of Repetto pointe shoes for her son, a dancer, in 1947, and a lot has happened since: Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov and countless more performers, male and female, have...

5. THE SPORT GEAR FREECITY.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Fly to Tulum or Ibiza or Malibu or Montauk and you will see, at the baggage claim or staring out at the shifting waters, tee- and sweats-clad backs (and even bums) announcing artists wanted or inmusicinlove or, most commonly, freecity. These...

6. THE TEE JAMES PERSE.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer It's the fine line: how to upgrade a basic," says James Perse. That line is one the Los Angeles-based designer has walked for a decade since launching his self-titled collection of other resolutely low-key essentials....

7. THE JEANS J BRAND.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer In the matter of women's jeans, it's counterintuitive to speak of classics. In the transitory realm of denim, J Brand, the line founded three years ago by Susie Crippen and Jeff Rudes, stands out from the pack for its...

grand statements; On the occasion of a sumptuous new book, William Norwich considers the portrait's cherished place in society.(Gabriel Badea-Pffiun's 'The Society Portrait: From David to Warhol')
November 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich For centuries, commissioning one's portrait was practically a social obligation. The idea was to reflect not "the minute breaks and peculiarities in the face," as Sir Joshua Reynolds observed, but "a general idea"...

soaring high; Azzaro's avian-inspired jewelry collaboration with Eugenie Niarchos takes flight.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Holgate When Astrid Munoz introduced Vanessa Seward to Eugenie Niarchos in the Parisian bar Le Mathis two years ago, Seward had only one thought: Who is this girl?! Azzaro's creative director explains the fascination. "Eugenie...

bought for a song; More than ever, fashion and music exist in sweet harmony.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Robert Sullivan When we are shopping, it is possible to experience two cutting edges at the same time, the fashion one and the music one. The two are linked-a fact we know in our bones, and not just in the tiny ones that doctors...

she's so my style; Model Erin Wasson puts the spring in Alexander Wang's first show.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman Here's how it happened: Eight months ago, 23-year-old designer Alexander Wang started working on the spring collection for his self-titled line. He was playing with combinations of "business basics" and "mix-matchy...

third time's a charm; First there was Trovata, then Trovata minus one.(clothing company)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman Not too long ago, designers Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos left their beloved Southern California and their just-as-loved maiden label, Trovata, for New York City. Their objective: to launch another collection of men's and...

only you; A young couple turn their Hollywood bungalow into a dreamy vintage store.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer Here's a tale for lovers of classic Hollywood screwball comedy. A young writer from Oklahoma moves to Los Angeles with his actress girlfriend to write the Great American Novel. When she spills a glass of water on his...

northern exposure; Alaska's native art traditions and ancient ivories surface in a new jewelry line.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Florence Kane Jewelry designer Monique Pean's bracelets almost look like they're made of sliced agates. But the bluish-gray pieces rimmed in gold are something much more special: ivory from fossilized walrus, caribou, and even...

high trek.(boots)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... The message designers are sending with their fall boots is loud and clear: Take a hike. And they've suitably transported us to some of the world's most breathtaking terrain. At Balenciaga, Nicolas Ghesquiere paired his rugged-soled calf leather...

my generation; Rufus Sewell gets ready to play Tom Stoppard's alter ego in Rock 'n' Roll, as the playwright's most dazzlingly personal work yet arrives on Broadway, writes Adam Green.
November 1, 2007... Tom Stoppard long ago put to rest the shibboleth that he was all head and no heart, but with his latest play, Rock 'n' Roll, which opens on Broadway this month after smash Royal Court and West End runs, he really kicks out the jams. Rock 'n'...

drama department.(Theater review)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green Forget dancing monsters and singing mermaids. The big news this month is the much-welcome arrival, on and off Broadway, of some decidedly nonmusical new plays by a talented pack of American writers- plus one Irishman...

big shots; November's best films are wicked, star-studded-and guaranteed to get Oscar's attention.('American Gangster' and 'No Country for Old Men')(Movie review)
November 1, 2007... Movie villains come in two kinds: those who want something, like money or world domination, and those who are wicked just for the hell of it. A terrifying version of the latter dominates No Country for Old Men, which haunted my dreams after I...

patriot games.(Movie review)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... While the tabloids bubbled on about their romance, Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal were busy making a valuable expose of the War on Terror's darker secrets. In Rendition, she plays an ordinary American housewife whose Egyptian-born...

all in the family.(Interview)
November 1, 2007... Byline: John Powers Nothing can get to you like your family," Noah Baumbach says drily, and his funny, piercing new movie shows he's not kidding. Margot at the Wedding opens with the title character, played by Nicole Kidman, taking her...

the power pack; A new show about the friendship between four alpha women executives plays out in the boardroom, the bedroom, and over martinis.('Cashmere Mafia')(Television program review)
November 1, 2007... The four women of the Cashmere Mafia (ABC) stride toward the camera implacable and defiant, like yuppie versions of Helmut Newton's "Big Nudes." Yuppie versions because Zoe, Caitlin, Juliet, and Mia aren't vixens or vamps, they're prissy...

between friends.(Gordon Brown and Tony Blair)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Directed with a wonderful urgent pace by Stephen Frears, The Deal, which airs on HBO this month, is probably the best little film about big power ever made. It begins with the sentence "Much of what follows is...

PAS DE DEUX; Star siblings Megan and Robert Fairchild light up New York City Ballet.(Interview)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Gia Kourlas New York City Ballet's Megan and Robert Fairchild have risen through the company's ranks so swiftly that Andrew Veyette, a principal dancer (and Megan's boyfriend), has coined a new phrase to describe them. "He calls us...

the master and his muses; In his latest, biographer John Richardson captures a post-Cubist Picasso making new conquests-in life as in art.('With A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932')(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Matthew Price With A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (Knopf), the third volume of his dazzling, epic, decades-in-the-making biography, John Richardson drops us in on the artist's life at a crucial moment as the...

set pieces.(Herme's Ballets Russes collection)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Lacava Yves Saint Laurent, whose seminal 1976 collection is known as Ballets Russes, may be the Parisian designer most readily associated with the Russian ballet of Picasso's era. Now another storied French fashion house...

royal treatment.(When Versailles Was Furnished in Silver)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Genevieve Bahrenburg This month, Jacques Garcia re-creates the Baroque argent magnificence of Louis XIV's fabled court with an exhibition at Versailles of 150 pieces of silver state furniture borrowed from such storied castles as...

green acres; A spectacular new lodge in New Zealand offers everything from out-of-this-world landscapes and an award-winning golf course to wine-tasting and hot-air balloons.(Cape Kidnappers)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Richard Alleman About a decade ago, New Zealand welcomed a handful of small, ultraluxurious resorts that quickly became known as Super Lodges. Of these, none was as super as Kauri Cliffs, which opened in 2001 on 5,000 pristine...

OUTSIDE THE BOX; A new exhibition celebrates the pioneering taste of Giuseppe Panza.(The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Leslie Camhi It was a long way from the Baroque villa in Varese, Italy, where Count Giuseppe Panza DI biumo spent much of his childhood, to the drafty artists' lofts of Lower Manhattan. But that's where, on visits to studios since...

boys on stage; The band that defined eighties glamour returns with a new sound- and a stint on Broadway.(Duran Duran)(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Liza Ghorbani We use the analogy of Tom Ford and Gucci," says Duran Duran's John Taylor, dressed the part in striped Gucci pants and a Bur-berry Prorsum jacket. "You're not supposed to say it, but Duran Duran is a brand. So, are...

the pursuit of love; The letters of the Mitford sisters offer a fascinating study of six dramatically different women.(Book review)
November 1, 2007... The inspiration for Evelyn Waugh's Bright Young Things, the Mitford sisters ruled the British tabloids of the 1930s and 1940s with their irreverent wit, extreme politics, and total disregard for feminine restraint. There was Nancy, the author,...

the marrying kind.(the books, A Free Life : A Novel and The Fall of Troy)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... For better or for worse is the subject of two new standout novels. Ha Jin's first book set in this country, A Free Life (Pantheon), finds a Chinese dissident, haunted by a past heartbreak, in pursuit of the American dream with his beautiful,...

fantasy island.(The Pirate's Daughter)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Megan O'grady In 1946, Errol Flynn was nearly shipwrecked off the Jamaican coast; once ashore, the scandal-tainted swashbuckler saw no reason to leave. Margaret Cezair-Thompson's novel The Pirate's Daughter (Unbridled Books)...

seasons in the sun; A little UV exposure is inevitable.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Julia Chaplin Out in Montauk, where I spend each July and August, my friends tease that they can spot me down the beach from the birdlike silhouette of the giant straw hat that's become my summer trademark. And when I'm back in...

going dotty; Sick of the sun spots speckling her hands (and arms, ankles, knees, and-yikes-face), Susan Lehman plans her attack.(lentigos)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Susan Lehman Spots. I have them on my hands. Little spots. Big spots. Fish-shaped spots, plum-shaped spots, spots that look like dirty little moons. They cropped up during the summer. (Or was it before?) I hate them. My...

sweet tart; From grapefruits to kumquats, lemons to limes, the freshest fall beauty has a crisp citrus kick.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Christina Han Throughout Greek mythology, a "golden apple" was heralded as the fruit of the gods. Grown in an orchard protected by mystical nymphs and a hundred-headed dragon, this ethereal fruit was desired by all, particularly...

mother knows best; For her second child, Daphne Beal made an unconventional decision-and joined a growing group of women choosing the joys and risks of home birth.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Daphne Beal There's the heartbeat. Do you want to hear it?" Cara said, handing me the stethoscope. She knelt beside me and positioned the chest piece low on my nearly seven-months-pregnant belly. Even when I concentrated it sounded...

Fashion Phrase Book.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... You might not be voyaging any farther than Central Park in your resort chic-but you still need to bone up on a new language. Resort, as runway hawks know by now, isn't so much about St. Barth's cover-ups as it is about getting an inside tip on...

dark victory; Oscar winner, fashion muse, Brooklyn mom-Jennifer Connelly plays many roles.(Interview)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Van Meter Jennifer Connelly is about to get . . . carded? It is 9:00 p.m. on a Thursday night, and she is on her way into Union Hall, a cavernous, crowded bar with indoor bocce courts in her neighborhood in Brooklyn. Just...

starter for ten; Which designer on the verge will be the next to score the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund's coveted cash prize and priceless industry advice.
November 1, 2007... Byline: Robert Sullivan PART I: THE COMPETITION It would be impossible to summarize all of the emotions the ten finalists for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Award go through, because they go through many emotions, including but not...

temptation island; At a luxurious ecoresort in the Maldives, Jeffrey Steingarten feasts on a surprisingly inventive variety of beach cuisine.(Country overview)(Travel narrative)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten The last time my wife and I traveled somewhere that offered nothing good to eat was in the seventies, when we went trekking in the Himalayas, from the Nepalese town of Pokhara to the Annapurna base camp. Despite...

the kid stays in the picture; With his third movie, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Julian Schnabel has definitively proved himself a lyrical film director.(Interview)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian Julian Schnabel's life is a three-ring circus, and once again it's showtime. He's just back from Europe, where three exhibitions of his powerful paintings and sculptures are on view in Spain, Italy, and Germany. The...

all about eyes; Most women worry about their eyes-even if they aren't "old.( )
November 1, 2007... Byline: Cara Birnbaum Karen Fellows is tired of looking tired. Hardly a surprise, considering the energetic 37-year-old interior decorator is the type of woman who takes regular scouting trips to India and Morocco, hops planes to Capri to...

give as good as you get; Flex your purchasing power (and feel great about it) by joining the front lines of the fashion industry's battle against HIV and AIDS.(Brief article)
November 1, 2007... You don't have to be a fashion insider to get tickets for the sample sale to end all sample sales. Here's the deal: You buy designer goods-everything from fuchsia Louboutins to a saffron YSL ostrich tote-and 100 percent of the proceeds will go...

move on fashion.(Editorial)
November 1, 2007... Byline: Anna Wintour At some point during the recent spring collections in New York, it struck me that the city was buzzing with unprecedented energy. Retailers and editors were flying in from every part of the globe in search of new...