Vogue articles from October 2006

Vogue archives from October 2006

Unruffled.(Sandra Bullock)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Anna Wintour This month, Sandra Bullock makes her fourth appearance on our cover. It's been fascinating for me to observe her trajectory over the years from comedic girl next door to the searching, darkly nuanced artist who plays...

cinderella story.(Column)
October 1, 2006... One night in late spring, I sat with the photographer, writer, and artist Peter Beard at a dinner for Lee Radziwill. I'd known both Beard and Radziwill since the seventies. My first knowledge of the dashing lensman, I recall, came in the...

a couture christmas.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Jacques Fath was a crucial designer in postwar France-blazing bright at that moment, just after World War II, when high fashion suddenly became important again, not just because rationing had ended but because...

Dance of the muse; Allegra Kent recalls a time when her playful form was the inspiration for her husband's-and the great ballet master Balanchine's-art.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Allegra Kent I had forgotten about this photograph-when I see it again, thoughts come tumbling into my head. It appeared 45 years ago, in the November 15, 1961, issue of Vogue, and was the first of nine pages of photos shot by Bert...

the end begins; As high-society doyenne Brooke Astor unwittingly became the public face of elder abuse, Daphne Merkin confronted the challenges of caring for her own mother in her last days.(Column)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Daphne Merkin I was, as fate would have it, worlds away from the goings-on of upper-crust New York when I first heard the disturbing news about Brooke Astor. The contested specifics-whether the 104-year-old philanthropist and...

Girl of the moment, Jacquetta Wheeler.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... WITH HER LEGGY FIGURE, CROPPED haircut, and striking features, model Jacquetta Wheeler makes mixing elegance and edginess look easy. Often spotted in dresses by designers from her native Britain (Alexander McQueen, Alice Temperley), Wheeler...

Trends of the moment big ideas.(summer clothing)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... THE SUMMER'S hits were supersize embellishments: giant bows, blooming flowers, and balloon-like sleeves. Such dramatic accents instantly elevate a simple silhouette to a show_stopping statement piece. Decorated dresses have been seen on...

Trend of the moment earth angels.(pale gray in demand)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... SOFTER THAN STARK WHITE, PALE gray is a charming option for any formal affair. Recently, Kirsten Dunst and Joan Allen were spotted in demure Rochas (perhaps some of designer Olivier Theyskens's last creations for the French fashion house),...

Shine on.(metallic dress in demand)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... An electrifying metallic dress is the best way to step into the spotlight this season. Glamour girls like Tatiana Santo Domingo, Los Angeles interior designer Kelly Wearstler, and actress Jennifer Aniston, who dazzled fans at a recent premiere...

Can we talk? In this era of cell yell, "over-sharing," and pandemic gossip, cultured conversation is a lost art.(Column)
October 1, 2006... Byline: William Norwich According to the latest anecdotal research (mine), many of this column's constituents are of the opinion that the art of conversation is endangered. Is it? Well, it depends whom you talk to. "Can you...

Ode to joy; Christian Lacroix: His name is on everyone's lips.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Mower In 1987, in the courtyard of the Louvre, I heard a fashion row break out between two rival journalists as we all filed into a show. They were arguing over Christian Lacroix, man of the moment, whose puffball-skirted,...

Christine Lee; With a fine-tooth comb, the creative director of the chic New York emporium Esthete seeks out lesser-known labels and artful accessories.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman YOU ARE WHAT YOU SELL I pretty much wear every line in the store. I love the Kristensen du Nord T-shirts; they're great for layering. And I wear Golden Goose button-downs when I want more structure. Rick Owens...

Before night falls; Autumn offers great options for formalwear: from short and sweet to a seriously tailored pantsuit.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman When Mary Quant introduced the mini in the sixties, it was not about new length, it was about freedom," says Alber Elbaz by way of explaining the flirtatious but strictly formal tuxedo-minis that he designed for Lanvin....

Stepping Up; Cool shoes for a cool cause: Buy one, and someone in need gets one free.(Blake Mycoskie)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman Blake Mycoskie had an epiphany during a three-week visit to Argentina: The 30-year-old designer noticed that everyone, from farmers to polo players, was wearing simple rope-soled shoes called alpargatas, and that in...

cloaked in mystery; The season's most obscure object of desire.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Florence Kane Ask a handful of designers just how many coats a woman should own and you get the following: "That's such a funny question, because I own a lot of coats," says Tory Burch. "A woman can own many, although I know...

Cold comfort; Are you ready to be swathed in head-to-toe sweater dressing.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Holgate They have box-stitched, moss-stitched, chevron- stitched, garter-stitched, and seed-stitched. They have conjured up pointelle so delicate it looks as though it would disintegrate if you breathed on it. They have...

hungry like the wolf; A New York jewelry designer heeds the call of the wild.(Ryan Kearney )(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman Almost on a whim, photographer and designer Ryan Kearney launched into jewelry-making after a ring he received as a gift started getting massive amounts of attention. It was an ordinary gold costume piece, shaped like a...

souvenirs de paris; In jeweled miniature, Van Cleef & Arpels creates a fantasy vision of the City of Light.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Lynn Yaeger Josephine Baker walking a leopard with a diamond collar; Jackie and Lee enjoying one special summer; Kiki de Montparnasse entrancing Hemingway with her cancan; Rick and Ilsa soaring down the Champs- lysees in an open...

ask mrs. exeter; How mini is too mini when it comes to the new leggy looks.
October 1, 2006... Question: I know there are more important things in the world these days than hemlines, but I must say I was rather surprised to find so many short lengths in the resortwear collections. Two to three inches above the knee-what are these...

the color of money.
October 1, 2006... Dollar-bill green and polished gold: Fall's most on-the-money timepieces are reminiscent of the old-school men's watches you'd see on the Hong Kong-tailored wrist of a Wall Street banker or a railroad baron (the kind of mogul who ...

the most private star; The only child of the iconic couple Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte Gainsbourg has made her mark as a serious actress and a unique presence on the French scene.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck She's been an actress since she was twelve, when she also recorded "Lemon Incest," a duet with her father, Serge Gainsbourg, in which the chorus goes "pa-papa-pa." The child voice that sang the lyrics translated as...

the parent trap; Kate Winslet plays an ambivalent mother in suburbia in Todd Field's adaptation of Little Children.(Movie review)
October 1, 2006... About halfway through the funny, unsettling Little Children, an unfaithful suburban wife, Sarah Pierce (Kate Winslet), attends a women's reading group discussing, of all things, Madame Bovary. When the local supermom calls Flaubert's notorious...

BOYS IN THE 'HOOD.(Movie review)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Byline: John Powers A transplanted reworking of a sly 1960 English comedy, School for Scoundrels stars Jon Heder (of Napoleon Dynamite fame) as Roger, a nebbishy parking-meter cop with a crush on his cute next-door neighbor (Jacinda...

the flying scot; Playing a Narnia faun or an eighties solipsist, James McAvoy steps effortlessly into character.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman It's this fantastic, fantastic, vibrant, just absolutely violent-beautiful place." In a charming Scottish accent, James McAvoy is talking about Uganda, where he spent two and half months filming Kevin Macdonald's The...

super nanny; Adam Green meets the Southern girl starring in Mary Poppins.
October 1, 2006... When Ashley Brown, an aspiring singer and actress from Gulf Breeze, Florida, blew into New York in 2004, she was, she says, "totally prepared to wait tables for a few years." She never got the chance. Within weeks, Brown was cast in On the...

HISTORY GIRLS.(works of Cynthia Nixon is described)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Adam Green After her Tony-winning turn in Rabbit Hole, Cynthia Nixon returns to the New York stage in Scott Elliott's production of Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Nixon plays the iconoclastic girls'-school teacher in...

lovers and killers; A dazzling new Casanova delights Joan Juliet Buck and proves there's more than one way to tell an old story.(Movie review)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Sydney Pollack, in his thoughtful documentary about Frank Gehry, quotes one of his teachers, who said, "Talent is liquefied trouble." By that measure, there's a lot of trouble on TV this month. Sketches of Frank...

the ambassadors.(works of Mary Cassatt)(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Kristin Hohenadel In 1865, a 21-year-old Pennsylvanian named Mary Cassatt set sail for Paris, to study painting in the art center of the world. She took private classes and copied works in the Louvre, eventually becoming the only...

spellbound.(The Uses of Enchantment)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Taylor Antrim In Heidi Julavits's provocative new novel The Uses of Enchantment (Doubleday), sixteen-year-old Mary Veal vanishes from her West Salem, Massachusetts, prep school, Semmering Academy, one gloomy day in November 1985....

the elements of style; This month Rizzoli publishes the first book ever to examine the history of Vogue.(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Megan O'grady Lisa Fonssagrives in a harlequin dress and hat. A luxuriantly dishabille Charlotte Rampling. A constellation of eighties supermodels in Chanel biker jackets. These images and more can be found in the voluminous pages...

amazing graces; Women who took matters into their own hands dominate the season's notable nonfiction.(The Letters of Jessica Mitford)(Book review)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Megan O'grady Of all the storied Mitfords, Jessica was the renegade, eloping at nineteen and becoming an activist. Edited by Peter Y. Sussman, Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford (Knopf) captures history's most charming...

going green; Organic products have come a long way from their crunchy, farm-stand origins.(Column)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Christine Lennon The most memorable fight I've had with my husband (then boyfriend) was about natural toothpaste. I'll deliver the highlights: Andrew-an NRDC-_supporting, hybrid-car-driving environmentalist of the first order-was...

toxic overload; Teflon, pesticides on golf courses, plastic bottles-an explosion of research is investigating environmental links to breast cancer.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Jancee Dunn The reports made international headlines: Women in two of the country's wealthiest ZIP codes had some of the highest rates of breast cancer not only in United States but in the world. The first account, in...

paradise found; Hopscotch, fly-fishing, and a midnight snack.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Marina Rust Above and Beyond," promises the Web site, which my friend Schuyler and I check out before agreeing to a spa retreat in the Connecticut countryside. Between the two of us, we've fled six well-known spas. "A vacation's...

sweet charity; A frequent flier makes a beneficent beauty proposition.(Brief article)
October 1, 2006... Sipping masala chai in Marrakech or perusing copper scrolls at Khan el-Khalili market in Cairo, 30-year-old Manuela Testolini Nelson finds inspiration wherever she goes. This month she's mixing business with pleasure with Altru, a new line of...

passage to india; Beauty fit for a maharani makes its way Stateside.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Shin Park In 1928, the maharaja of Patiala gave jeweler Louis Boucheron the mighty task of fashioning his cache of loose gems-7,571 white, yellow, and blue diamonds; 1,432 emeralds; countless sapphires-into an elaborate...

THE BIG CHILL.
October 1, 2006... We always enjoy fashion the most at the changing of the seasons-but in autumn those sense-memory-charged pleasures are even more intense. You draw a pair of opaque tights (black or maple-red or apple-green) from the package and...

sandy gets serious; In a new film, Sandra Bullock channels the famously reclusive Harper Lee-and learns the value of living on your own terms.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Robert Sullivan In a quiet corner of a SoHo tavern, Sandra Bullock is sitting back, relaxing, ordering up a late breakfast (or early brunch, depending on how you look at it) of bacon and eggs. By relaxing, we don't mean...

the real thing; As his star continues its heady rise, Eric Bana remains winningly down-to-earth.
October 1, 2006... Byline: John Powers Because of his brooding good looks and a penchant for playing reluctantly violent heroes, it's easy to think that Eric Bana must be a very serious guy. But in fact the 38-year-old Australian star originally made his...

the quest for peace; Israel's brief history has been fraught with violence, fear, and unrest-not least in this summer's war with Hezbollah.
October 1, 2006... Byline: Janine Di Giovanni Hiding underground while an aerial assault is taking place is a terrible experience. You crouch into a ball, trying to protect yourself. You might hear the scream of planes high above or the gasps of people...

a grand tour; Carolina Irving transformed a classic prewar apartment into a dramatic setting for whimsical treasures.(Biography)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Hamish Bowles h! But you don't know the beauty!" exclaims Carolina Irving, sloe eyes flashing with passion. In fact, she says it often-one moment over the ruby stars of a Rosa glauca's blooms, threaded "like an Elizabethan enamel"...

cooking in the void; Chefs all over America are learning how to cook sous vide-in a vacuum, at precise temperatures, for days at a time.(Column)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten It took me only 36 hours to get dinner on the table. The first thing I did was walk two blocks to the Union Square Greenmarket and find the goat lady. She makes goat cheese with milk from the females in her...

the story of n; Nancy Jarecki's approach to benevolence, business, and one's "betty" is wildly and wonderfully original.(Biography)
October 1, 2006... Byline: Sally Singer Last spring, a very rich and beautiful woman named Nancy Jarecki visited the Vogue offices. She wore a lacy Marc Jacobs jacket and True Religion Brand Jeans and carried a Bottega Veneta tote. After a breakfast of...

global warmth; Embark on a whirlwind world trip to discover the best of this winter's sweater dressing.
October 1, 2006... Chunky cable sweaters that protect against the chilliest Scottish moorland winds . . . sweet woolen coats to cosset and comfort while you're crossing the Place de la Concorde in Paris on a crisp November morning . . . sharp striped...