Vogue articles from September 2006

Vogue archives from September 2006

intelligence gathering.(fall season in clothing)
September 1, 2006... The September issue is always a challenge and an inspiration for all of us at Vogue. Our assignment this year was to understand and dramatize the new mood that has taken hold of fashion: a much darker, more aggressive, and more intellectual...

on our radar.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Anna Wintour Every season my staff and I, of course, keep a constant eye on fashion, which is very often a matter of keeping an eye on what's happening off the catwalk. Currently, we're most taken by the influence of the following...

ROMAN HOLIDAY.(Who Is On Next? competition in Rome)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Andre Leon Talley I hadn't been in Rome for two decades when I stepped off the plane on a July morning, summoned by Franca Sozzani, Vogue Italia's editor in chief, to be one of eleven international jurors sitting in judgment on the...

the untouchable; As a starry-eyed college girl, Amy Wilentz had a brush with Beatty.(Warren Beatty)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Amy Wilentz Oh, Warren: His sex appeal is eternal. Even now, well past his Lothario period, he's still magnetic. This enduring appeal is a part of what Irving Penn captured when he photographed Beatty for Vogue in 1962. That cherry...

tokyo drift.(Rei Kawakubo's design exhibited)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Photographer Irving Penn probed the relationship between eroticism and disguise by masking four of the runway's freshest faces in the radically irreverent creations of Comme des Garcons designer Rei Kawakubo's Japanese proteges for "Fight...

higher ground? A year after Katrina hit, some things got better in New Orleans, some got worse.(Hurricane Katrina, 2005)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Julia Reed A few weeks ago, I was in a gas station in uptown New Orleans trying to get to the bottom of why the first mechanic who said he'd fixed my car had replaced my perfectly good fuel pump with a new one that cost $1,000,...

The moguls of mumbai; As India's economy goes ever more global, Daphne Beal meets three young tycoons who are leading the way.(Schauna Chauhan Saluja, Ekta Kapoor, Pooja Shetty)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Daphne Beal It's a little after midnight, and Ekta Kapoor, India's biggest soap-opera producer, is in the middle of her workday. Seated at the center of her luxuriously minimalist living room in her triplex in the Mumbai suburb of...

Girl of the moment georgina chapman.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... MARCHESA DESIGNER Georgina Chapman was all charm and sophistication at the recent couture in Paris. With her superproducer beau, Harvey Weinstein, at her side, she went from one glamorous show to the next in dresses from her own collections....

trend of the moment primary colors.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Wherever WE LOOK, there are dresses done in cool, contrasting color blocks. Buttoned up, belted, or barely embellished, they pack a bright punch. Marni's Consuelo Castiglioni used a palette of hearty earth tones and paler hues to turn shifts...

Trend of the moment spot on.(polka dotted dress are in trend)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... POLKA DOTS, THE SPOTTED pattern of party dresses and timeless youth, are making a comeback. Everywhere, women of style and humor are choosing bold black and white, from Sarah Jessica Parker in tiered Blumarine to Sofia Coppola in ruffled Alaia...

better to give; A warm-fuzzy mood is sweeping the blessed-by-fortune set: Ostentation is out; charity is in.
September 1, 2006... Byline: William Norwich bserving the social world, or counting stars in the celebrity galaxy, you perhaps have noticed a change in mood lately. Bling is out; philanthropy is in. The evidence was detectable this summer from Malibu to...

what's your shape? The fall runways revealed a whole new fashion geometry: silhouettes of radically different form and function.
September 1, 2006... 1. the exclamation point 2. the X 3. the shrink fit 4. the triangle 5. the hourglass 6. the popsicle

1. the exclamation point; French stylist Marie-Amelie Sauve wears long, tight pants-punctuated with weighty shoes or sharp shoulders.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Holgate Marie-Amelie Sauve is pondering the question of when, exactly, she became enamored of her signature way of dressing. Sauve is a Parisian stylist who works for French Vogue and is also a collaborator and confidante of...

3. the shrink fit; With the highest hems and miles of leg, Italian fashion editor Giovanna Battaglia flashes skin without sacrificing style.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Tim Blanks Giovanna Battaglia waves the shortest skirt I've ever seen under my nose. Its six inches of gold-lined aquamarine silk aren't much more than a glorified belt. "So many fights with so many boyfriends," she sighs,...

4. the triangle; With wide-leg Hepburn trousers under slight blouses, Susan Fales-Hill cuts a crisp 1940s figure.
September 1, 2006... Byline: William Norwich Susan Fales-Hill sails into the Cafe Carlyle and takes her seat at a table near the stage just in time for a bite of dinner before Eartha Kitt, a longtime family friend, enters purring and singing, magnificent as...

5. the hourglass; As a model, Honor Fraser learned to show off her wasp waist.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Mark Holgate Honor Fraser faced a dilemma recently. The onetime model had been invited to a friend's birthday party. Should she, she wondered, lace herself into her Mr. Pearl corset for old times' sake? An incredible construction...

6. the popsicle; A squared-off tunic and leggings create a geometric shape.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Florence Kane My predicament started in March, soon after all those leggings walked down the fall runways, peeping out from under tunics and little dresses. This was long before I thought I'd have to consider buying some-or so I...

excessive behavior; When belts have their own purses and notebooks get their own belts, where, asks Robert Sullivan, does the accessorization of accessories end.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Robert Sullivan A question that fashion correspondents find themselves asking from time to time is, What kind of a world do we live in? This question has become especially relevant of late due to the fact that accessories have...

divine comedy; Legge & Braine stirs up trouble with wickedly whimsical jewelry.(Kate Braine, Charlotte Legge )(Company overview)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Stephanie Lacava Legge & Braine began innocently enough five years ago, when Kate Braine moved next door to Charlotte Legge in London's Chelsea neighborhood and their two young sons, Vladimir and Tancredi, respectively, became fast...

mood indigo; The skinny jean is a tricky little trend: difficult to wear, almost impossible to ignore.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman At an early Sunday dinner in Los Angeles last March, my family and I were engaged in a particularly fiery debate. The subject: skinny jeans. My youngest sister, Kimberly, was convinced. "I have to wear them, but...

going for broke; Crazy-chic jeans for well under 100 bucks.(Weekday managed by Rjan Andersson and Adam Friberg )
September 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman How's this for back story: A Swedish denim expert named rjan Andersson and his friend Adam Friberg once owned a vintage store outside Stockholm, frequented by hard-core jeans addicts. It was called Weekend, and it was...

twinset; Lutz & Patmos knits cool, Cashin-worthy cashmeres for Coach.(Reed Krakoff signs)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Sally Singer Call it synergy, call it synchronicity, but when Reed Krakoff, the creative director of Coach, served as a judge for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, he certainly wasn't expecting to emerge from the experience with a new...

coming clean; The care tag reads dry-clean only.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Herman You are familiar with this scenario. A favorite blouse or dress or skirt has come back from the dry cleaner looking totally thrashed and lackluster. Lifting the plastic wrapper, you gasp: It smells of chemicals; it's...

the color: purple; In a palette of fine wines, Sergio Rossi boots are stamping hot.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Irini Arakas This one has it!" says Edmundo Castillo, plunking down a $13,000 glam-rock grape-colored crocodile riding boot. "A woman walked into the Paris store, bought the boot and the $12,000 bag to match. She just had to have...

one for all; A downtown New York store redefines transparency.(Nili Lotan's store )(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Sally Singer At Nili Lotan's first-ever store in Tribeca, you get to pick up a skinny peacoat and simultaneously take a peek at the creative process behind it: Underfoot, glass panels reveal Lotan's team toiling away at the cutting...

ask mrs. exeter; At a certain age, are poet sleeves poetry-or poor taste.
September 1, 2006... Question: While shopping for fall, I noticed the preponderance of some very extraordinary shirts, with sleeves way beyond the puffed and romantic. Huge gothic things. Generally speaking, at my age some sleeve is always better than no sleeve,...

a long way, baby.(women's hosiery)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... A crucial development concerning women's legs occurred in 1940: The nylon stocking appeared in stores. Millions of pairs were sold . . . but then the U.S. entered the war, and the new material was commandeered for military purposes only. GI's...

mighty aphrodite; With a string of subtle performances, the radiant Robin Wright Penn has emerged as an actor's actor, writes John Powers.(Biography)
September 1, 2006... Byline: John Powers Hollywood people are notoriously hard to shock, but early in her career, Robin Wright Penn found a way to do it: She turned away from stardom. After making herself a hot property in the 1987 hit The Princess Bride, she...

l.a. confidential; Starring Ben Affleck as the original Superman, Hollywoodland is a film noir look at the price of celebrity.(Movie review)
September 1, 2006... Fame is a fickle food," wrote Emily Dickinson, "upon a shifting plate." Nowhere does the plate shift faster than in Holly_wood, where stars appear and vanish at the speed of fireflies. The evanescence of celebrity lies at the heart of...

companion pieces.(Old Joy)(Movie review)
September 1, 2006... Byline: John Powers The best film I saw at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy has a radiant Zen simplicity. Two longtime buddies, one (Daniel London) a bit yuppified, the other (Will Oldham) something of a...

MATERIAL WORLD.(Kelly Wearstler introduces his collection)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Stephanie Lacava Los Angeles interior decorator Kelly Wearstler's high-gloss style has long been a favorite with the Hollywood set. Now, just in time for the season's fascination with animal prints, comes her boldly designed...

up at the old hotel; Ian Schrager teams up with Julian Schnabel to reinvent a New York legend.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Eve Macsweeney On a warm July day, the hard hats are still on outside the Gramercy Park Hotel, Ian Schra_ger's much-anticipated makeover of the New York landmark. But inside, jackhammers of another variety are going full tilt,...

taking flight; Anthony Minghella's lush production of Madama Butterfly ushers in a new era at the Met.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Adam Green In recent decades, opening nights at the Metropolitan Opera have become what the Met's new general manager Peter Gelb calls "mixed-bag galas"-dinner-and-a-show combos of operatic favorites, with all the trimmings. But...

titlehere; Sleeping beneath the stars has never been easier, thanks to the new luxury tented resorts, reports Richard Alleman.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Richard Alleman The jungly Golden Triangle of Northern Thailand is making news as the site of one of the most sumptuous and unusual properties in Southeast Asia. Reachable only by boat, the Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle...

into the wood; Alison Elizabeth Taylor plays out postmodern conflicts in a Renaissance art form.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Leslie Camhi The master artisan who paneled with sumptuous trompe l'oeil detail the Italian Renaissance aristocrat's study that is now a period room at the Metropolitan Museum could hardly have imagined the uses Alison Elizabeth...

revolutionary spirit; New York gets ready for Tom Stoppard's monumental The Coast of Utopia- three plays, nine hours, and an all-star cast, writes Adam Green.(Theater review)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Adam Green Audiences in London have been lining up like teenagers to see Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll, a journey through late-twentieth-century Czech politics, set to the beat of Pink Floyd and the Rolling Stones. But, of course,...

on the edge; Diller and Scofidio build Boston its first new art museum in 100 years.(Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio open Institute of Contemporary Art )
September 1, 2006... Byline: Rowan Moore Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio may not have a string of skyscrapers and museums to their name, but their subtle and witty installations in museums and found spaces have nonetheless attracted a loyal following....

NEW DEAL.(Marianne Boesky opens new gallery at Chelsea)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian Marianne Boesky has built herself a new gallery in Chelsea, on West Twenty-fourth Street, which happens to be the art world's current power block. In her case, building didn't mean renovating a former...

Big threats and big fun; Joan Juliet Buck previews a powerful season of great new shows that bring us the ultimate in survival and cool.(Saturday Night Live, Studio 60, Jericho. )
September 1, 2006... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck Saturday Night Live, born 31 years ago this fall, has in its old age become deified as the apogee of freewheeling, truth-telling TV. Last winter's NBC film Live from New York about the show's first five years...

the children's hour.(Madeline Maciver's When Madeline Was Young (Doubleday))(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Ruth Davis Konigsberg A young newlywed named Madeline Maciver has a bike accident, and a reconfigured family rises from the wreckage in Jane Hamilton's marvelous new novel, When Madeline Was Young (Doubleday). After Madeline's...

SISTER ACT.(Rise and Shine)(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Margaret Johnson In her latest novel, Rise and Shine (Random House), Anna Quindlen offers us a tale of two sisters, Meghan Fitzmaurice, the charismatic host of America's most-watched morning show, and her younger sister,...

the age of innocence; Claire Messud's new novel is a wry look at ambitious young New Yorkers.(The Emperor's Children )(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Taylor Antrim Like a latter-day Edith Wharton, Claire Messud, in her sparkling new novel, The Emperor's Children (Knopf), has given us a story of striving young Manhattanites, a confident turn from a writer whose work has always...

block party; On an East Village sidewalk, Looking Glass caters a picnic with champagne and couscous.(at Harvard University)
September 1, 2006... Byline: William Norwich You can always expect news from Harvard-but rarely, if ever (and no offense to the Ivy League intended), in the friendlier fields of fashion or food. But now, the ink hardly dry on their Harvard diplomas, two...

urban elegance; Attitude, eyeliner, and a mouth that means business.(make up products)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Catherine Piercy Goth princesses at Dior, glam-rockers at Gucci, urban warriors at Proenza Schouler: Fashion designers bowed low to an edgy new muse on this fall's runways. To complement the rich vocabulary of the clothes, makeup...

perfume mania; The party of the year just might be for a fragrance.(Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor launch "Juicy Couture")
September 1, 2006... Is the Juicy life just a party? No, there is work to be done in the Juicy world. A recent task of founders Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor was to plan a party, a huge party intended to launch the new Juicy fragrance, Juicy Couture....

case studies; From heavy silver envelopes and hammered-gold lids to laser-etched pigments, the powder compact is getting all dressed up.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Catherine Piercy With hidden compartments for powder and lipstick in its body, beak, and tail, Salvador Dali's "Bird in Hand"-a three-in-one cosmetics compact created by the Surrealist artist in 1950-was as much statement piece as...

the new noir; Fall phenomenon: deep, dark nails.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Jane Shin Park Fall's rebel elegance calls for a strong, statement nail to match-superdark, supershort, surprisingly versatile, deadly chic. The new nearly black shades-OPI's Lincoln Park After Dark, Rescue's slightly sparkly,...

the lady is a vamp; Hilary Swank takes a glamour turn for Guerlain.(Francois-Pascal Guerlain)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Brown Hilary Swank is staring down the lens of photographer Vincent Peters in a cavernous, pitch-black soundstage somewhere in Connecticut. A blast of hurricane-strength wind comes out of nowhere, blowing her honey- ...

the hd face; We're living in a sharp-focus, high-definition world.(high definition )
September 1, 2006... Byline: Julia Reed A few months ago a friend sent me a photograph he'd taken of me outside, in the middle of the day, at a fund-raising lunch. He thought he was doing me a favor-instead I went into a deep decline. The lines on my forehead...

rules of attraction; What does therapist Esther Perel prescribe for couples with a sagging sex life.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Rebecca Johnson I arrived at Esther Perel's SoHo loft to find her in a state of benign frenzy. That night, she was hosting a dinner party for her husband's fifty-fourth birthday; galleys of her new book, Mating in Captivity:...

fashion rules!(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Believe it or not, this is the very first time we have ever had a queen on our cover (unless you count Priscilla Presley, Elvis's queen, in 2004, or Natalie Portman when she played Queen Amidala of Star Wars). Conjured to life by actress...

teen queen; Marie Antoinette-played by Kirsten Dunst in Sofia Coppola's stunning new film-used her distinctive personal style to defy the rigid etiquette and scheming courtiers of Versailles.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Kennedy Fraser Sofia Coppola's film Marie Antoinette, covering the nineteen years that fabulous and tragic woman spent at Versailles, created a sensation when it opened earlier this year in France. It was filmed largely on location...

fight club; Four radical designers from Japan aren't content with the status quo.(Jun Takahashi, Tao Kurihara, Junya Watanabe, Rei Kawakubo)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Sarah Mower We are the Comme des Garcons army," says designer Rei Kawakubo fiercely. "Staff is too boring a word. We are co-combatants." This is how she describes Junya Watanabe and Tao Kurihara, the two designers she trained in...

PAGING PICASSO; For his American peers, Picasso had a sweeping influence.((Max Weber, Stuart Davis, Arshile Gorky, John Graham, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, David Smith, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns to exhibit their creations)
September 1, 2006... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian Picasso and American Art," one of the most keenly anticipated exhibitions of any season, opens September 28 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Eleven years in the making, it centers on nine American artists (Max...

a personal palace; Part Spanish mission, part Chinese pagoda, the extraordinary Los Angeles house designed by restaurateur Michael Chow to suit his idiosyncratic tastes was seven years in the making.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Eve Macsweeney Cruising past the high walls and imperceptibly numbered, well-secured facades of a Los Angeles neighborhood tucked discreetly between Beverly Hills and Bel Air, you can tell you're at Michael Chow's when you spot a...

eating las vegas; Sin City's most seductive pleasures, discovers Jeffrey Steingarten, are those that tempt the palate.
September 1, 2006... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten Did you know that of the 20 largest hotels in the world, seventeen are in Las Vegas? When the first Spanish explorers came upon the area we now know as Las Vegas, they named it the Meadows, which is what Las...

escape to reality; Worked the right way, fall's trickiest trends are wearable enough to walk off the runway.(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... For some women, the sight of Junya Watanabe's reconstructed army parka, Dolce & Gabbana's incredibly embellished dress, or the multitude of woolen layers from Marc Jacobs leaves them cold. And then there are those, like the women here-Lisa...

green power; Somewhere there's a floral bouquet that's forever spring.( Lewis Miller)(Brief article)
September 1, 2006... Masses of single-color blooms are hardly new, but a vase with only the greenest hues? "It's a fresh alternative to the usual autumnal suspects," says New York florist Lewis Miller, of LMD. "And it feels like the last gasp of summer before...