Vogue articles from October 2007

Vogue archives from October 2007

peripheral vision.
October 1, 2007... Byline: Anna Wintour I was recently in London for the memorial service of Isabella Blow, who died in June, at age 49. Issie, as everybody knew her, was my assistant in 1984, when I was this magazine's Creative Director. Fresh from a...

_slither thou goest.(Victoria Beckham)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Victoria Beckham's arrival in Los Angeles has been one fashion frenzy. For her official launch party, hosted by her L.A. friends and neighbors Will and Jada Pinkett Smith and Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, she...

total exposure; Decades after Richard Avedon snapped a portrait of her nineteen-year-old heartbroken self, Joyce Maynard stumbled upon the image and saw the true picture.
October 1, 2007... Byline: Joyce Maynard I was eighteen when I learned the power of a photograph to change a person's life. That spring, a picture of me had appeared on the cover of The New York Times Magazine, along with an article I'd written called "An...

blended family, separate expectations; When her marriage fell apart, Maggie McGuane found romance with a firefighter.
October 1, 2007... Byline: Maggie Mcguane In the early, most vitriolic stages of my divorce, when it felt as if the life I'd built with my husband of nearly a decade was burning to the ground and I was desperately in need of rescuing, I walked into the local...

girl of the moment agyness deyn.(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... She once described her looK AS "Jackie O crossed with Debbie Harry meets Stevie Nicks and 1920s punk." Just like these great fashion icons, Agyness Deyn, the 21-year-old British model and muse (to designer Henry Holland), has her own...

trend of the moment all wound up.(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... FALL IS FINALLY UPON US, AND fashion's best dressers are easing into the cooler climate by accessorizing with an eclectic mix of eye-popping scarves. Some, like those that Lauren duPont and Jessica Joffe chose, come attached to blouses and can...

big-bash birthdays; _These days, even those out of _single digits are celebrating on a grand scale.
October 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich Lately it has been one big birthday bash after another, from the Olsen twins' twenty-first at their home in Los Angeles, with friends such as Kirsten Dunst and Joaquin Phoenix, to Marella Agnelli's high-society...

a fine balance; At Phi, a designer makes clothes with equal measures of dazzling innovation and everyday desirability.(Andreas Melbostad)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer Some fashion labels steer clear of noisy self-promotion, preferring to dawn quietly on their public. Phi, the New York-based collection helmed by Susan Dell and designed by Andreas Melbostad, is three years old, but...

found in translation; How Kirna Zabete, the hip little store that could, has conquered the East.
October 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Holgate When Sarah Easley and Beth Buccini flew to Tokyo for a whirlwind 72 hours to inaugurate their newly opened Japanese outpost of Kirna Zabete, nothing could faze them. Not being chased by armed guards for taking an...

youth of japan; The next wave of visionary Asian designers is about to hit our shores.
October 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Holgate New, when it comes to this quartet of names, is an entirely relative term. They may be unknown in America, but in Japan they are, if not exactly big, then certainly on the radar, having been in business anywhere from a...

here, there & everywhere; With the latest best dresses, ubiquity beats anonymity.
October 1, 2007... Byline: Florence Kane There's a certain Chanel dress that kept popping up everywhere this summer. You know the one: white cotton with slim red, blue, and green horizontal stripes, square neckline, and fluted sleeves. Princess Caroline of...

tailored maids; A new exhibition at the V & A Museum reveals the triumph of mid-century couture in London and Paris.(The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957," at London's Victoria and Albert Museum)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Hamish Bowles The Golden Age of Couture: Paris and London 1947-1957," at London's Victoria and Albert Museum (September 22, 2007-January 6, 2008), uncovers the unexpected dialogues between the two fashion capitals during a period...

mary charteris; This British-born Sorbonne student with eclectic style learned from one of fashion's true originals.(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Sara Moonves UNDER THE INFLUENCE Isabella Blow was a good friend of mine who taught me not to be scared to wear something outrageous or to care what people think. I would never be caught wearing jeans with her, because she was...

balmain nouveau; The storied Parisian house lands a bold young designer.(Pierre Balmain, Christophe Decarnin )
October 1, 2007... Byline: Lynn Yaeger It is nice to know the young man when he is just a young man and nobody knows, and now well I guess very soon now anybody will know," the inimitable Gertrude Stein wrote of her early friendship with Pierre Balmain in...

hidden gems; Mixing vintage and contemporary pieces with a curator's eye defines a new breed of jewelry boutique.(Erie Basin, In God We Trust, Doyle and Doyle)
October 1, 2007... One of Michelle Williams's favorite places in New York is a jewelry boutique called Erie Basin, nestled in Brooklyn's waterfront-and-warehouse Red Hook neighborhood. "It's a strange oasis in the city in the middle of nowhere," she says. "There...

where it shines; Here, a rock-solid directory for the best bauble buying.(Directory)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Alexandra Mack Berkeley ca Tail of the Yak 2632 Ashby Avenue (510) 841-9891 Stepping into this well-established shop feels like falling through the looking glass and waking up in another world where unusual Victorian and Georgian...

laws of abstraction; This London jewelry designer does everything differently.(Alexandra Jefford )(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman In one half hour, Alexandra Jefford uses the word weird in reference to her work a total of eleven times. Take her description of the first gold piece she ever made: "It's sort of a weird white gold ring, but it's not...

east meets west; A Danish sibling duo are naturals at creating Buddhist-inspired bijous.(Mads and Mikkel Kornerup )(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Genevieve Bahrenburg Buddhism may seem incongruous with pave diamonds, but brothers Mads and Mikkel Kornerup have harmoniously blended the spiritual and the opulent in a line called Shamballa Jewels. The "enlightened baubles"-think...

tabitha takes on . . . shimmer and shine; She may have a magpie eye for glittery glamour, but Tabitha Simmons prefers her sparkle with an element of surprise.(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Tabitha Simmons Ask any of my friends, and they'll tell you: I wear sequins about as often as a Folies Bergere showgirl flits about in feathers. I can't remember a time when I haven't answered the call for something that glitters,...

ask mrs. exeter; At what age do you give ankle boots the boot.
October 1, 2007... Question: Ankle boots? Are designers kidding? Although I understand intellectually that they can give a kick to a simple day dress this fall, a change of proportions that makes everything old look new again, I fail to see why anyone who was of...

not child's play.(Jonathan Kelsey)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman The soles of Jonathan Kelsey's shoes are a very deliberate color that he calls "conker," which refers to a children's game and is also British-speak for chestnut, "a rich, rich, rich red-brown," Kelsey says, similar to...

clip art.(belts)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Belts with decorated plaques have the air of traditionally masculine occupations; think of cowboys with their large brass buckles (maybe stamped with the Texas Lone Star), or a soldier wearing an emblem of his country. So autumn's most...

magical mystery tour; Three motley brothers embark on a spirited romp through India in Wes Anderson's latest.(The Darjeeling Limited )(Sound recording review)
October 1, 2007... One eye sees," said Paul Klee, "the other feels." He could almost be describing Wes Anderson, whose lively comedy, The Darjeeling Limited, finds the director lighting out for new territory-geographical and emotional. Set almost wholly in...

words to live by.(The Jane Austen Book Club)(Movie review)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: John Powers Based on the best-seller by Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club centers on five Sacramento women and one oddball bachelor who read Austen's work, discuss its fantasies and failings, and see their own lives...

camera lucida.(Edward Steichen )(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Jean Nathan Edward Steichen (1879-1973) was photography's first household name. This month, "Steichen: Lives in Photography," the most comprehensive show of his work-and the first in Europe since his death-opens in Paris at the Jeu...

rare find; Broadway's newest darling, Alison Pill, squares off against Bobby Cannavale in Mauritius, writes Adam Green.
October 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green I am sitting across the table at a theater hangout from the lovely-OK, adorable-21-year-old actress Alison Pill, who is explaining her knack for getting under a character's skin. "I always think that I'm just like my...

STRING THEORY; Fiddle in hand, Janine Jansen gets ready to dazzle New York.(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green When Janine Jansen, the extravagantly gifted 29-year-old Dutch violinist, makes her New York Philharmonic debut this month, playing Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto under the baton of Lorin Maazel, she won't be wearing...

secret safari; Two new properties combine the ultimate in private luxury with a forward-thinking philanthropic spirit.( Jan Bonde Nielsen's Oldonyo Laro)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Richard Alleman Encompassing 60,000 acres within the Nguruman Wildlife Sanctuary of Southern Kenya's Great Rift Valley, Oldonyo Laro is the spectacular ranch of Danish tycoon Jan Bonde Nielsen, whose guests have included George...

sheer money; Joan Juliet Buck is awed by three new shows about the inner workings of powerful clans, dynasties, and a group of crime-fighting women.(Dirty Sexy Money )(Television program review)
October 1, 2007... We love to watch rich people misbehave and we love to watch Peter Krause suffer, and in the new series Dirty Sexy Money (ABC) we can do both. The Darlings are the nastiest, richest, boldfacest family in New York, and they have been torturing...

Sugar and Spice.(Cane)(Television program review)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Down in Florida, the sun is hot, the cane grows high, and the Duque family makes rum. In Cane (CBS), Jimmy Smits stars as Alex Vega, the adopted son of Pancho Duque (Hector Elizondo), rum patriarch. Rita Moreno is...

THE DINNER PARTY.(Smith's)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Alexandra Mack The idea was to do something reminiscent of the small cafes of Germany or Austria," says Mark Zeff, the designer of Smith's, which comes to Greenwich Village this month from the Mermaid Inn's Danny Abrams and Raoul's...

a family affair; The stylishly insouciant duo behind the Fiery Furnaces return with their best album yet.(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Lauren Waterman When I was little, I used to pretend to play the guitar," remembers Eleanor Friedberger, the lead singer of the Fiery Furnaces. "I liked to pour myself a glass of 7Up, pretend it was vodka, and sing and play along...

fabled fortress; Liza Campbell writes of life behind the drawbridge of a legendary Scottish castle.(Book review)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Eve Macsweeney Cawdor Castle, writes Liza Campbell in A Charmed Life: Growing Up in Macbeth's Castle (Thomas Dunne), "has the romantic cachet of being one of the few addresses featured in a Shakespeare play that can also be found...

bull's-eye! With his latest polo shirt, Ralph Lauren shoots to support the fight against breast cancer.(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Florence Kane I saw firsthand the devastating effects of breast cancer," remembers Ralph Lauren about his friend Nina Hyde's death from the disease in 1990. "Not only to women but also to the men in their lives, their families and...

fighting chance; After testing positive for the breast cancer gene, Amy Cohen grapples with a radical decision that could save her life and, in the process, unearths a strength she never knew existed.
October 1, 2007... Byline: Amy Cohen I have always been a fearful person. As a child I wore a life preserver to dangle my feet in the shallow end. As a teenager, I worried that African killer bees might find their way to America. And as an adult, I once...

lab report; Eva Marer investigates the most promising new directions in breast cancer prevention, screening, and treatment.
October 1, 2007... Byline: Eva Marer 1 BEYOND THE MAMMOGRAM The Advance: MRI beats mammo alone in detecting the most aggressive forms of breast cancer, according to several recent trials. Who it's For: High-risk women, including those with family...

it's elemental; Sapphires, citrines, diamonds, and gold will certainly make a woman smile, but can they erase wrinkles and energize your cells, too.
October 1, 2007... Tucked between the southwestern tip of Sicily and the sprawling African coast, the tiny volcanic island of Pantelleria, known as the Black Pearl of the Mediterranean, is quite literally a hotbed of (mineral) activity. From miles above, those...

beauty's latest buzz: stem-cell creams.(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Catherine Piercy Are stem cells-famous for their ability to replenish worn-out, damaged tissue-ready to take on your wrinkles, too? Steering clear of the controversy associated with harvested stem cells (those taken from sources...

see me, feel me.(winter fashion)(Brief article)
October 1, 2007... What do our senses-TOUCH, SOUND, AND SMELL-tell us about fashion? Liberated girls in 1966 thrilled to the sticky feel of patent boots on naked calves and the airy swing of a houndstooth micro-mini shifting over bare thighs. In 1998, the...

alighting; Paris haute couture is a timeless exemplar of dizzying craftsmanship and beauty.
October 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer It was raining heavily in Paris, the pebbled paths of the Parc de Saint-Cloud were turning to mud, and my Dior snakeskin gladiators were sinking into the ground. Like every other guest come to see Chanel's fall couture...

at home on the range; Despite a penchant for heavy dramatic roles, Charlize Theron approaches life with true irreverence.(Interview)
October 1, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Van Meter I suppose it had to come to this: the writer and the movie star lying next to each other, half naked. It was her idea, getting a "couple's" massage, though I don't think either of us was prepared for how goofy we...

the real thing; Sean Penn's bruising talent and raucous personal life have long kept Hollywood in his thrall.
October 1, 2007... Byline: John Powers On a lazy summer afternoon in Santa Monica, the notorious Hollywood bad boy Sean Penn seems to be right in character. The man whom countless young actors consider their Marlon Brando or James Dean is standing near the...

on a roll; A perfect burger, Jeffrey Steingarten discovers, largely depends on one thing-how you mix your meat.
October 1, 2007... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten National Hamburger Month came early this year, or so it seemed. Maybe it always occupies the month of May. I've dreaded National Hamburger Month for most of my adult life. When it ends, on the last day of May,...

a new curve; Roland Mouret, the French designer whose dresses once made women swoon, returns from a two-year hiatus with another brilliant collection.
October 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower At 10:30 a.m., on the fourth of July in Paris, Roland Mouret's comeback collection-21 easy-chic, geometrically engineered looks-was filing off a gallery runway in black-and-white Christian Louboutin ankle boots, ready...

time on his mind; At 73, the artist James Rosenquist has never been busier.
October 1, 2007... Byline: Judith Goldman Seen from a distance, waiting to board a plane, James Rosenquist, painter of monumental pictures and Pop Art's dark horse, could be any Florida-bound tourist. He has the all-American looks one associates with airline...

status roots; There's no longer any reason to stress between color appointments.
October 1, 2007... Byline: Julia Reed Not long ago I was in a well-known Manhattan hair salon getting my nails done. It was a slow summer afternoon and none of the top colorists were on the premises, so I watched and listened as a young staffer consulted...