Vogue articles from October 2004

Vogue archives from October 2004

broken bread; America is in the grip of an Atkins fixation, and an industry has grown up to service it.(Column)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Jack Hitt Prowling the Vermont- Canada border, I am off to explore the dark underbelly of America's current low-carb mania. My five associates-all girls under the age of twelve, two daughters and three friends-seem uninterested in...

HURRAY FOR BOLLYWOOD.(Bride & Prejudice)
October 1, 2004... It's bold, it's ebullient, it's all about optimism. In the winter of our discontent-when all are on edge, wondering when the next Orange Alert will be announced-Miramax is banking on a buoyant Bollywood picture to lift America's spirits....

maharaja's treasures.(Brief Article)(Column)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Andre Leon Talley I recently stopped by the Costume Institute of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art-where my fashion career began in the seventies-to see the Indian royal costumes I had glimpsed once upon a time, when I worked...

an exotic tale; From the land of Genghis Khan to a favored perch in Irving Penn's studio, Siberian model Irina Pantaeva tells her story.
October 1, 2004... I was born and raised in Communist Russia, in Ulan- Ude, Siberia. I come from an ancient tribe, the Buryat; we are descendants of Genghis Khan, who, like me, was born beside Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world. During Soviet times, our...

female matters; Women will decide the race for the presidency-that is, if they bother to go to the polls.(Column)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Mimi Swartz When I was young, my mother used to take me with her to the polls. There was always something magical and mysterious about Election Day, something both wildly public and devoutly private. We waited in long lines...

girl of the moment ivanka trump.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Surely it's no surprise that Ivanka Trump's natural head for business has landed her back in Manhattan after her graduation from the Wharton School. Wearing Oscar de la Renta, Catherine Malandrino, and Chaiken and favoring bold colors and clean...

trend of the month lighter than air.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Some women just love an ethereal look for evening. Aerin Lauder couldn't resist bringing out one of her favorite vintage Gucci dresses for a party at the Guggenheim, while Renee Rockefeller sparkled in an emerald-green Yves Saint Laurent at a...

trends of the moment synchronicity.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Just as Marina Rust appeared front-row at a fashion show in a beaded tunic, Queen Noor wore a bejeweled caftan to a family wedding in Jordan. Meanwhile, in L.A., Liv Tyler posed for photographers in one of Marc Jacobs's Grecian looks, while...

sweet charity; In the race to Election Day, the party calendar is jammed with fund-raisers, political and otherwise.
October 1, 2004... Byline: William Norwich Did the save-the-date cards go out?" They did. "Because people are all leaving on holiday." Going, going, gone out of town, for sure. It was already the first Thursday afternoon in August, after all....

all tomorrow's muses; Ever wonder who will inspire what you'll wear in the coming years.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Irini Arakas And Sally Singer The question of where fashion originates has never been more deliciously amusing. Take this season's brooched-and-buttoned sexiness, all those luxe layers of chiffon and tweed and fur and beaded...

sexual revolution; A new book about the Tom Ford years chronicles how fashion found its G-spot.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Mark Holgate Flicking through Tom Ford (Rizzoli), you realize that skin-as in bronzed and beautiful bodies-had as much to do with Ford's success as did skin of the exotic, reptilian variety. No other designer gave the simple...

down these chic streets; Tina Isaac, an American in Paris, was never much of a consumer-that is, until she was asked to turn pro.
October 1, 2004... Byline: Tina Isaac Some of us are born to shop, and a dedicated few raise it to a championship sport. Others-rattled by sensory overload or wary of crowds- procrastinate, then charge out, strike, and run. Mine is a split personality: When...

couture folklore; Lithuanian designer Josef Statkus's romantic creations find their way to Hollywood.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Irini Arakas Josef Statkus, who was born Juozas Statkevicius, has always dreamed of designing clothes that would find their way into the closets of Hollywood starlets. "When I was a child, I used to look at photos of famous...

sweet dreams . . . . . . are made by Miss Ruby, a smart line of affordable underpinnings.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Irini Arakas Amit and Banu Khurana, the brother-sister design duo famous for their luxurious French lace camisoles, introduce Miss Ruby, a new line of lingerie. "She's Khurana's younger sister," says Banu. "It's a new, less...

the gifted; Chanel issues a limited-edition jacket, blouse, and bag to celebrate the reopening of its Fifty-seventh Street boutique.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Irini Arakas Karl Lagerfeld has big news for girls who live in the Big Apple. To celebrate the October reopening of its midtown boutique, Chanel has launched an exclusive tweed jacket, blouse, and bag: the holy trinity that makes...

rock of ages; Rebecca Lau spins a youthful remix on fine jewelry.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Lynn Yaeger Rebecca Lau, 24, who has been designing dazzlingly bold jewelry for two years, exclaims, "I love anything shiny!" She describes her work as "very sculptural and geometric"; recent creations are based on deconstructed...

1. superwomen; London's smart, sophisticated Superfines are a cut above their hip-hugging competition.(jeans)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Home of the ironic art school haircut, birthplace of the slouchy pirate boot, stomping ground of mix-match master Kate Moss-in fashion terms, London is street style. So when two of the city's hippest tastemakers, fashion stylist Lucy Pinter and...

2. giving notice; A veteran of the denim wars introduces Notify, the almost-bespoke jean.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... As a boy in Morocco and Paris, Maurice Ohayon raptly watched his mother stitch custom suiting. Today he carries on the family tailoring tradition-searching for "the best cuts, the best materials, the best manufacturing"-but he isn't making...

3. tall tale; For legs too long for average jeans, Hudson introduces the Super Model inseam.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... A few months ago, I was in Vera Wang's office when the conversation turned to jeans. My complaint? Being five feet nine and a half inches, I can't find jeans that cover my shoes, especially heels. Hearing my plight, one of Vera's publicists...

painted ladies; A new book celebrates the rebirth of fashion illustration.(Fashion Illustration Next )(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Fashion illustration is like clothing design itself: It can bowl you over with the intense glare of glamour (Rene Habermacher and Jannis Tsipoulanis's sleek portraits of Kate and Linda) or it can be sublimely understated (David Remfry's...

it takes two, baby; Or three.(London fashion)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Mark Holgate Quietly, without a whole lot of fuss, there's a fashion revolution afoot in Mayfair. The elaborately art-directed windows are the only hint at what's going on behind the austere Georgian-London facade of the Dover...

closet case cecilia de bucourt; The ex-model from Argentina (now a shawl and dress designer) flamencos to her own beat.(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Florence Kane BEHIND THE MUSIC I like to wear clothes that I can dance in-like the blue beaded party dress from my Oceanliner collection. It's important for a dress to have a sexy back because when you turn away from...

no regrets; Sometimes the chicest accessory is a two-letter turndown.
October 1, 2004... Byline: Marina Rust No. Why is a word that comes so easily to my two-year-old so difficult for me? Moms are used to saying yes. That's what got us into this situation in the first place. Once, we were in touch with our immediate wants and...

time zoning; What if wearing a watch could bring inner peace.(Philip Stein Teslar watch)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Robert Sullivan Remember when watches used to tell the time? Well, for the Philip Stein Teslar watch, time is like a thing out of the distant past-the past that preceded cell phones and personal electronics and jet-setting. This is...

the hours; With the current craze for estate jewelry, vintage watches have become fashion's latest prey.(narrative)(Column)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Tim Blanks On a crowded flight from Nice to London, a fellow passenger leaned across the aisle and eyeballed my wrist in amazement. "I've never seen another like it," he said as he offered his own wrist, with a watch identical to...

on the ropes.(espadrilles)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Just how the humble espadrille, a shoe worn by brawling eighteenth-century Marseilles sailors for the noble sport of "street kicking," was to eventually become preppy Connecticut moms' seaside staple in the 1970s is one of life's great...

the real thing; With coveted roles in two upcoming films, Jacinda Barrett is an overnight star-ten years in the making.(actors)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Sarah Haight This is the true story of seven strangers, picked to live in a house. . . ." If you recognize those words, you probably remember Jacinda Barrett, the free-spirited Australian who streaked naked through a London...

what might have been; Joan Juliet Buck finds that the frisson of destiny and the lure of hindsight make fictional and historic politics on TV irresistible.
October 1, 2004... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Presidential greatness. Roll of drums, cheers of crowds, martial music, a nation's hopes focused on one man. It must be autumn. "Was it clear already, in the boy growing up, the struggle to take place between...

faces in the jungle; In a new show, Irving Penn's images of a vanished god can be seen at last.(photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Jay Fielden First it was Cuzco, then Extremadura, Cameroon, New Guinea, and Dahomey (now Benin), the west African kingdom once protected by thousands of Amazon warriors. In 1967, on one of his yearly voyages, Penn traveled there...

perfect polish; Natasha Law's glossy nudes.("Natasha Law: Stills" paintings exhibition at Diane von Furstenberg's Manhattan studio)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Leslie Camhi Natasha Law is sitting in the Park Avenue salon of Blair Voltz Clarke, a young art impresario and the curator of "Natasha Law: Stills," an exhibition opening this month at Diane von Furstenberg's Manhattan studio....

fair game; It's Party Central in London as the Frieze Art Fair reopens this month.(Britain)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Jerry Saltz Few things in the art world elicit more mixed reactions than art fairs. New York gallerist Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn says wistfully, "They're shopping malls-but I always hope to bring kernels of ideas home." Fellow...

where the heart is; Mary-Louise Parker returns to Broadway, and, as Adam Green discovers, she's glad to be back.('Reckless')
October 1, 2004... Since the dawn of storytelling, heroes have been leaving home and then struggling against perilous odds to find their way back: a Greek warrior in The Odyssey, a Kansas farm girl in The Wizard of Oz, a very bright collie in Lassie Come Home....

child's play.('Haroun and the Sea of Stories' by Salman Rushdie at the New York City Opera, New York)(Brief Article)(Opera Review)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Adam Green Alice in Wonderland was born out of Lewis Carroll's misery over his impossible love for a prepubescent girl. The circumstances that led Salman Rushdie to pen his own modern classic of children's literature were more...

eye on the prize; An inimitable decorator opens a store in Williamsburg.(Saved Gallery of Art & Craft by Ricky Clifton)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Sally Singer For certain members of the artistic and fashion communities-folks with a yen for romantic eclecticism-there is no greater treat than to have Ricky Clifton pay a visit to their homes. Clifton, a downbeat artist/...

desert bloom; In the oases and foothills beyond Marrakech, a handful of Berber kasbahs have been converted into the latest luxury adventure.(hotels)(Hotel Review)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Richard Alleman Kasbahs, the towering mud-walled fortresses that stud the desert landscape of Southern Morocco and were once home to Berber chieftains, have begun to be turned into some of Morocco's most exotic and luxurious...

living doll; Behind a much-loved children's book lies a tale stranger than fiction.('The Lonely Doll')(Children's Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Stacey D'erasmo Entrance to the magical kingdom apparently comes at quite a price. When journalist Jean Nathan began, a bit casually, her search for the writer of The Lonely Doll, the best-selling children's book, she discovered a...

a love adrift; In a lyrical memoir of her Hawaiian childhood, Tara Bray Smith searches for a mother who is all but lost to her.('West of Then')(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Susanna Moore West of Then is a daughter's memoir both appalling and inspiring, in which Tara Bray Smith tells the story of her mother's addiction to drugs. Returning home to Hawaii from Manhattan, where she has gone to university...

A BEAUTIFUL MIND.(fashion and design book series from Coach and Assouline)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... For the Bergdorf Blonde in your life, the perfect holiday gift: Coach has teamed up with the style-minded French publisher Assouline to produce a portable library dressed in white leather and lined in tomato-red suede. Cherry-pick your reading...

a heart in exile; A wry Irish-born writer's stories rediscovered.('Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker' by Angela Bourke)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The mid-century writer Maeve Brennan was outwardly glamorous and refined-"To be around her was to see style being invented," her dear friend William Maxwell once remembered. But at heart Brennan was a lifelong itinerant, in her own words a...

true lies.('The Plot Against America' by Philip Roth)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Philip Roth's new novel, The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin), may be his most daringly autobiographical to date-a devourable tale that reads like a family memoir gone frighteningly off the rails. It's about the Roths of Newark, New...

dangerous dreams.('About Grace' by Anthony Doerr)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Once a talented young novelist emerges from obscurity into the white-hot glare of literary success, the pressure to publish a second, even more riveting read than the first is often overwhelming (think Zadie Smith or Jonathan Safran Foer)....

noise in the library; William Norwich attends a star-studded reading at the New York Public Library to unlock the secret of an un-boring book party.
October 1, 2004... Byline: William Norwich Some people entertain by the book-there is an endless supply each season from experts who will tell you how to do it-but entertaining with books is a different matter. Book parties, per se, have gotten a bad rap...

follow your bliss; The world's most famous day spa rolls out around the country.(Bliss Spa)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Sarah Brown Bliss Spa's plans for world domination are finally coming together: In addition to the wildly popular, perennially booked locations in Manhattan and London, this fall they are beginning to open chic outposts in W hotels...

the royal treatment; Palm Beach meets its match with Frederic Fekkai's chic new Brazilian Court salon and spa.(Florida)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Maggie Bullock Unlike other, distinctively chilly locales-say, New York, Chicago, or Boston-Palm Beach enjoys autumn at a balmy 80 degrees under cloudless blue skies. It's the beginning of a major social season, distinguished by...

great lengths; Flurries of false lashes are the secret to eyes with impact.(fashion)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Sarah Brown Along with glitter and blue eye shadow, false lashes have a bit of an image problem. Showgirls come to mind-snapping on thick, glittery strips before affixing their feather headdresses-but makeup artists insist that...

risky business; When Rebecca Johnson developed pre-eclampsia, her first baby didn't make it.
October 1, 2004... Byline: Rebecca Johnson When you are pregnant, there are three questions you constantly hear: When are you due? What's the sex? Is this your first? I had no problem with the first two-I was having a boy; he was due in early September. It...

bronzed bombshell; As Charlize Theron handles life after Oscar, Jonathan Van Meter catches up with her in Berlin and finds her in the best shape of her life.(Interview)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Jonathan Van Meter It is a Saturday night in late July, and I am sitting at the bar at the Adlon Hotel in Berlin, reading the paper and drinking a glass of wine. Charlize Theron suddenly appears next to me, and I almost don't...

dressed to shanghai; A new generation of Chinese women have grabbed cutting-edge style and made it their own.
October 1, 2004... Byline: Sarah Mower Meet Ziyi Zhang. Twenty-five-years old and a fiercely talented actress, she's hot property as a leading figure in one of China's new emerging classes: that of the visible, style-conscious celebrity. Z (as she likes to...

making his case; John Edwards discovered his calling as a trial lawyer, then gave it up to become an overnight success in politics, Julia Reed writes.
October 1, 2004... Byline: Julia Reed At the tiny depot in Sedalia, Missouri, a few hundred of its 20,000 citizens have gathered to meet the train that is currently bearing John Kerry, John Edwards, and their families through this battleground state. Though...

bold & beautiful; A Manhattan social dynamo brings her flair for color and form to play in both a dazzling new apartment and her own fashion line.(Tory Burch)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Hamish Bowles In the mossy velvet drawing room of Tory Burch's new apartment, high above Manhattan's madding crowds, an old-master painting depicts stately peacocks preening before humbler fowl in a seventeenth-century Dutch...

peyton's place; Painting rock stars and other idols with an obsessive admiration, Elizabeth Peyton has made a hopelessly out-of-date style of art cutting-edge.(Interview)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian Elizabeth Peyton paints in the basement. It's a very ordinary basement, in an ordinary house in a small town on the North Fork of Long Island. A narrow window near the ceiling lets in a dim, watery light. "I like...

vision quest; Are we entering an age where glasses and contact lenses will be extinct, where mere 20/20 vision just isn't good enough.
October 1, 2004... Byline: Meghan Daum Explaining what it's like not to be able to see your hand six inches from your face is like trying to describe the properties of silence. Language is rarely sufficient for describing what is absent, and myopics...

escape plans; Satisfy your wanderlust with Vogue's guide to what's good-to-go for the greatest weekend getaways.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2004... Whether you're taking tea at Laduree in Paris or watching the waves sweep onto the beach at Montauk, there's only one thing you need to remember about packing for a weekend away: Take nothing that looks nine-to-five. It's your chance to fill...

HUES & VIEWS.(Column)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Anna Wintour In the weeks before the Republican convention, America is obsessed with color-specifically the spectrum of vibrant shades that our government employs to indicate the level of potential peril to our security posed by Al...

super natural; Do you suffer from foundation-phobia-avoiding makeup out of fear it will make your face look fake.(Column)
October 1, 2004... Byline: Ivy Tomkins There are two types of women in the world: those who wear foundation and those who don't. I have always been an emphatic don't. Foundation-the idea of covering one's face in base-has always baffled me. Would Katharine...