Vogue articles from October 2005

Vogue archives from October 2005

the feminine mystique; Sophisticated, covered-up looks from the seventies formed Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni's fashion aesthetic.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Natasha Fraser-cavassoni Left hand in pocket, bag flipped over her right shoulder, this woman could hit the ground running-even if she does have a purring limo in tow. She's covered from neck to ankles, but sensual, direct, with a...

pretty hands at home; In the wake of Jude Law's affair with his children's baby-sitter, some mothers are rethinking the risks involved when the hand that rocks the cradle is young and lovely.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Rene Steinke After the birth of my son last winter, I was mostly confined to the house. With snow banking the streets and the biting cold, I was reluctant to take a newborn outside. Before I became a mother, there had been nights...

girl of the moment Jennifer Connelly.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... FROM NEW YORK TO ROME TO MADRID, Jennifer Connelly has been going nonstop lately, and so has her impeccable style. To promote her newest film, the actress walked the red carpet in a crimson Viktor & Rolf dress one night, then went a few days...

trend of the moment Narciso Rodriguez.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... FANS OF NARCISO RODRIGUEZ are a loyal bunch, and lately they've been showing up in his sleek, chic dresses at movie premieres and museum parties alike. Celebrities such as Salma Hayek, Scarlett Johansson, and Claire Danes frequently choose...

trend of the moment flower show.(floral prints)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Roses, pansies, and other floral prints have been breaking out all over town. Bold blooms on dresses with cinched waists and capped sleeves have a distinct fifties feel. At a recent book party, Genevieve Jones was lovely in mint-green and...

dress codes; Deciphering "festive," "business casual," or "fancy dress" can be a nerve-racking business.
October 1, 2005... Byline: William Norwich For the non-allergic, this is a great time of the year. The weather in most parts of the country has cooled down, new fall clothes are begging to be worn, and since it is not a holiday season of family...

fantasia; A fairy-tale spirit touched the haute couture collections this season, from the ghostly garden party at Dior to the swirling jet-black witches' cloaks at Chanel.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Hamish Bowles Chez Dior, John Galliano set his collection in the enchanted, overgrown gardens-complete with cobwebbed statuary and ivy-twined wrought-iron gates-of a castle out of Sleeping Beauty. Galliano's collection, his richest...

sky's the limit; For two well-traveled jewelry designers, the world is their retail space.(Fruzsina Keehn, Tracey Hejailan)(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Jane Herman Fruzsina Keehn and Tracey Hejailan are always, always, always wearing jewelry from their collection, KH Designs. "Tracey goes to yoga in our double-circle diamond bracelets," says Keehn. "Well, you never know...

the huntress; In her new film "Going Shopping", Victoria Foyt explores the reasons we splash out on pretty things.(Interview)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Gaby Woods I shop like a general," Victoria Foyt tells me as we drive the few short blocks between her favorite boutiques in Santa Monica. "I know what I like; I know what I'll wear a lot; I can't be persuaded to buy anything."...

2005 Italian fashion fund bravissimo; Italy's fashion competition Who Is on Next was set up to find the country's best new talent.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Mark Holgate Year in, year out, those who visit Milan to view the designer collections hope that someone unheard of, and unbelievably talented, is ripe for discovery. It did happen once: It was 1985, when Domenico Dolce and Stefano...

all the right cords; A thinking hipster's denim line strikes some pretty new notes in pale pinwale.(Serfontaine)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Sally Singer One of the nicest developments in the cutthroat, fad-centric world of premium jeans has been the slow rise to power of Serfontaine, an ethically inclined company from Los Angeles founded in 2000. Serfontaine jeans are...

gifted class; A Blue Tree grows on the Upper East Side.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Irini Arakas Not so long ago, New York schoolgirls lazed about in a toy store called Penny Whistle at Ninety-second Street and Madison Avenue. In checked pinafores or plaid pleats, they sat reading and coloring as their mothers...

ask mrs.exeter; Can a mature woman wear ornamented sweaters without looking like Ethel Mertz.
October 1, 2005... Question: How do you feel about jeweled cashmere sweaters as an evening option? Surely any woman of a certain age who is less than skinny-thin can do better, Mrs. Exeter, than these novelty tops that look as dowdy as Aunt Bee in Mayberry? ...

Donald Brooks 1928-2005; Isaac Mizrahi remembers the thoroughly modern master of witty, unexpected color and cut.(Obituary)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Isaac Mizrahi of Blass, Beene, and Brooks-the BBB triumvirate that dominated American fashion in the sixties and early seventies-Donald Brooks was the third and most obscure. He died this August at 77, and though he was the most...

la bella vita; With a design pedigree that's as good as it gets, Melissa Loyd Maish is creating luxury handbags in Italy.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Florence Kane When Melissa Loyd Maish accepted a job at Ferragamo sixteen years ago, she left New York with only three weeks' notice and the idea that she'd live abroad for three years. "I thought buon giorno was French," the Miami...

see spot run.(Marchesa Casati)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The Marchesa Casati, one of Italy's wealthiest heiresses in the early twentieth-century, scandalized European society with her eccentric but wholly glamorous pursuits, like walking pet cheetahs on diamond-encrusted leashes while naked beneath...

the shining; Jason Schwartzman turns on his signature slacker charm in "Shopgirl".(Movie Review)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Sally Singer Jason Schwartzman has quickly established himself in the niche that Hollywood reserves for the awkward, existentially fraught but ultimately likable young man. Dustin Hoffman was once there; so, too, John Cusack. In...

seeing red; George Clooney portrays Edward R. Murrow's fight against McCarthyism in "Good Night, and Good Luck", while Julian Fellowes's "Separate Lies" chronicles an unlikely love triangle.(Movie Review)
October 1, 2005... Does any other movie star take as many chances as George Clooney? While the guy comes off as an easygoing throwback to Old Hollywood-a handsome romantic lead who's also a man's man-he's actually possessed of a rare daring. Clooney has...

hit men.(A History of Violence)(Capote)(Movie Review)
October 1, 2005... Byline: John Powers During the premiere screening of A History of Violence in Cannes this May, an Austrian critic began to berate the audience: "Stop laughing, you idiots," he shrieked. "Can't you take anything seriously?" There was only...

stepping out; Judy Greer is affecting as Orlando Bloom's sister in this month's "Elizabethtown".(Brief Article)(Interview)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Caroline Palmer Whether playing Jennifer Garner's backstabbing sidekick in 13 Going on 30 or stealing the scene with smaller roles in big-budget fare like M. Night Shyamalan's The Village, Judy Greer has been making an impact on...

paradise regained; Overcoming last winter's devastating tsunami, Sri Lanka is taking off as one of the season's coolest tropical getaways.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Richard Alleman In the historic-and surprisingly hip-port city of Galle, on Sri Lanka's south coast, the town's vast seventeenth-century Portuguese- and Dutch-built fort is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here, Amanresorts has...

master class; With "The Odd Couple"'s arrival on Broadway, director Joe Mantello proves he's one of a kind.(Interview)
October 1, 2005... Coming off three incredible seasons and two Tony awards, Joe Mantello, at 42, has emerged as the most protean, accomplished theater director of his generation, heir to a line descended from Elia Kazan and Mike Nichols. During his fifteen-year...

HEART OF DARKNESS.(Isabelle Huppert)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Adam Green October is National Isabelle Huppert Awareness Month. The marvelous French actress, a knockout at 52, is the subject of a book of portraits from Abrams and an accompanying exhibit at P.S. 1 ("It's the history of...

the return of laughter; Joan Juliet Buck interviews Jason Bateman and welcomes back Larry David and Ricky Gervais.(Interview)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Outside the Mercer Hotel, Jason Bateman was smoking a cigarette on a bench while a reporter scribbled his every word in a book. A pretty young Saudi woman sat down for her own cigarette, took note of what was going...

desert queen; Andrea Zittel's high-impact domestic experiments go on view this month.(Andrea Zittel: Critical Space)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Leslie Camhi If I were stuck on an island with a herd of sheep and no tools," Andrea Zittel mused recently, "how could I make a really good-looking dress?" She was driving with her boyfriend and baby from L.A. to her house and...

LIFE IN VENICE.(The City of Falling Angels)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Jane Herman It's been eleven years since John Berendt excavated Savannah's dirtiest secrets in his best-selling Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Now, in The City of Falling Angels (Penguin Press), he turns his gaze to...

amours fous; Frenchwomen may not get fat, but as two new books attest, they're not immune to mishaps of the heart.(Nothing Serious)(Tete a Tete)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Megan O'grady After novelist Justine Levy's husband left her for model turned singer Carla Bruni-to the delight of French tabloids-Levy wrote a searing roman a clef that shot to the top of European best-seller lists. Nothing...

what becomes a legend most; "Wild Swans" author Jung Chang brings her pioneering biography of Mao, co-written with her husband, Jon Halliday, stateside this month.(Biography)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Isabel Hilton The writer Jung Chang sits in the elegant first-floor sitting room in the roomy house in London's Notting Hill that she shares with her husband and coauthor, Jon Halliday. Now 53, she wears a simple beige dress set...

air fare; Smoke and vapor are the year's hottest ingredients.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten Have you tasted the incredible smoked mashed potatoes at Perry Street?" my colleague at Vogue (whom we will call Rhonda) asked. Perry Street is Jean-Georges Vongerichten's hot new Manhattan restaurant in the way...

instant gratification; Until now, dark circles and hollow under-eyes were a cruel twist of fate.
October 1, 2005... Behind the pink frosted-glass doors of examining room 1 in the Manhattan office of dermatologist Lisa Airan, M.D., Alison* is comfortably arranged in a plush white leather reclining chair. "Look at these pictures," says Alison, a pretty Upper...

Bottling a Best-Seller.(Danielle Steel fragrance)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Sarah Brown With a staggering 530 million copies of her books in print-distributed in 47 countries and translated into 28 languages-Danielle Steel is the most popular author writing today. She collects canary diamonds, has an...

midnight miracles; With head-to-toe treatments that promise to multitask by moonlight, Ying Chu discovers the ultimate reason to sleep soundly.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Ying Chu Hermes's bedside water carafes have been out of stock across the country. Christian Louboutin is selling cashmere slippers alongside stilettos in his Paris and New York ateliers. Frette's linen sheets run $2,400 a set, and...

personal treatment; Can your genes reveal the best way to beat breast cancer.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Rebecca Johnson It began with a small, hard ball under the skin of her left breast. "It felt like a frozen pea," says Eli Selden. She pointed it out to her gynecologist during a routine exam. The doctor felt it, reassured her that...

strong hold; Used as a strength-training method in czarist Russia, kettlebells are swinging into the modern exercise world.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Lynn Snowden Picket You will learn to do this," said Pat Manocchia, owner of La Palestra, the beautifully appointed, exclusive gym off Central Park on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He picked up a kettlebell-a globular chunk of cast...

turn, turn, turn.(Autumn fashion)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... The first weeks of autumn cue a return to texture: Remember the crunch of dry leaves beneath the sole of a supple leather boot? Or the feeling of cool air sneaking through your thickest cashmere sweater? This October, the super-bohemian is...

Gwyneth takes paris! Whether sitting in the front row at the Valentino show or having lunch on the Avenue Montaigne, Gwyneth Paltrow, writes Jonathan Van Meter, has never been more radiant.(Interview)(Biography)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Jonathan Van Meter To be perched on a spindly chair behind Gwyneth Paltrow at a fashion show-elevated just slightly above her pretty blonde head, knees nearly touching her back-is about as close as one can get to being able to view...

Plum Sykes ever after; The novelist and Vogue contributor headed home to her family's estate in Yorkshire for a picture-perfect English wedding (even if they did forget the cake.
October 1, 2005... It is two days before the wedding, and Plum is hugely calm. A shoe crisis has been averted: I've delivered white satin Manolos from New York. We sit amid perfectly aged chintz in Plum's suite at Middlethorpe Hall, a historic-house hotel in...

Eleanor Lembo something new; This high-society girl knew she wanted an old-fashioned Palm Beach wedding.(Interview)
October 1, 2005... What happens when a hip, 28-year-old sophisticated city chick who favors fashion-forward Balenciaga tops and cool Earnest Sewn jeans is to be married in a traditional, high-Palm Beach church and grand country-club wedding? At best, the...

Vanessa von Bismarck the princess bride; A busy fashion PR executive briefly trades Manhattan for her family's storybook German Schloss, dirndls, beer, and all the trimmings.
October 1, 2005... ine days before her wedding, Vanessa von Bismarck explodes into Derek Lam's downtown studio, hair flying, car keys in one hand, cell in the other. She throws down her bag, kicks off her scuffed Tod's, and disappears behind a curtain. A...

rapunzel calling; Long hair is in the air.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Julie Grau I was sitting in a meeting with a woman I'd never met before. She was in the music industry, and about my age. Though the meeting was strictly business-I was publishing a book about her superstar client; she was checking...

flight plan; Finally.(packing tips)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2005... Whether your boarding pass jets you to Charles de Gaulle or John F. Kennedy, the challenge is always the same: What's perfect to pack for a weekend away? The trick is hitting the right mix of the deeply practical (a wild-fur vest for Aspen,...

cool conviction.
October 1, 2005... Byline: Anna Wintour Vogue is often concerned with exteriors and the choices that go with them: which dress to wear, which lipstick, and, this month, how long to grow your hair (page 374). But this issue shows that we're just as often the...

working girl.(Claire Danes)
October 1, 2005... Byline: Andre Leon Talley What happens when the star of a movie called Shopgirl decides to turn her film role into reality? On a sultry, humid August day, Claire Danes-who stars this month as Mirabelle Buttersfield, a department-store...