Vogue articles from September 2007

Vogue archives from September 2007

blow-up.
September 1, 2007... Byline: Anna Wintour Making the September issue-our most elaborate, most fashion-filled, and this year our biggest ever-is like making a movie. It requires advance planning, location scouting, casting, wardrobe, art direction, set...

designing women.(Kirat Young and Isabel Toledo)
September 1, 2007... The unexpected superhit of New York's Fashion Week for this fall/winter season was Isabel Toledo's return, after a decade, with a solid-gold collection for Anne Klein. We met at the company's minimally appointed beige showroom, high on the...

signature luxe.(VBH Luxury Inc.)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Bruce Hoeksema celebrates the fifth year of VBH, the envy of retailers and architects alike. The Peter Marino-designed space, a former bank building, houses contemporary art, modern furniture, and objets that serve as a backdrop for...

judgment day.(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Andre Leon Talley Second time around for yours truly as a member of the Italian search committee Who's on Next, headed by Vogue Italia's Franca Sozzani, which took place in Rome early this summer. The most exciting finalist,...

the gift; Writer James Salter remembers passing an hour with time-obsessed, and yet timeless, Vladimir Nabokov.
September 1, 2007... Byline: James Salter Sometime around 1950 I came across his name, which I first mispronounced, to myself and aloud, with the accent on Nab. It was a professor's name or a musician's, and in fact he was a professor at the time, at Cornell....

the magic touch; Jessica Kerwin left the fashion world and a broken marriage to massage leprosy patients in India.
September 1, 2007... Byline: Jessica Kerwin It didn't lack drama. Declaring my intention to quit Paris and the fashion world for India was a spectacular exit plan, but months before a rickety government bus dumped me in the dust near the gates of Anandwan, a...

maria, venus & roger.(Maria Sharapova, Venus Williams, and Roger Federer)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... THEIR PLAYING STYLES are unmistakable, but 2004 Wimbledon winner Maria Sharapova and reigning titleholder Venus Williams have long been scoring major points with their signature court looks, too. It's an even match, with Sharapova's ruffled...

TREND of the month foot loose.(sandals)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The calendar may say it's fall, but the weather is still warm enough to permit summer's favorite fetish: sandals. This year they're especially strappy, though not delicately so, and they're best paired with effortless short dresses. Christy...

big time.(celebrities' gowns)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... COUTURE SEASON in Paris always inspires the part of us that loves a great, glamorous evening dress. Suddenly we want something with volume and too many tiers to count, like the dramatic Dior that French actress Clotilde Courau chose; or we...

pure whimsy.(Laura and Kate Mulleavy's fashion collections)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... RODARTE DESIGNERS Laura and Kate Mulleavy tap into everything women love about fashion, from tiny flower appliques to wildly adorned party dresses. No one else does detail the way they do, which is why so many stylish women, from model Karen...

happy green-day; William Norwich grazes on nutritious nursery food at a garden party thrown by Jessica Seinfeld with recipes from her new cookbook for parents.(Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food)
September 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich In the cozy cottage kitchen of her fairy-tale beach house, Jessica Seinfeld, in a Peter Som sundress and a striped Bitten T-shirt, is concocting mother's magic. She hides cauliflower in chicken nuggets, folds...

dare to wear; Let the world turn ever more casual: When it comes to matters of style, these women have the courage of their convictions.
September 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Holgate When Stephanie Seymour talks Dior and Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga, it is vintage couture and not the booty acquired from an afternoon spent at Barneys New York that she is referring to. It is not every day that...

the sloppy syndrome; Is it a form of self-expression or an issue of self-esteem.
September 1, 2007... Byline: Jean Hanff Korelitz There is, in the story of American fashion, a strangely enduring practice of buying an elegant, expensive garment and dressing it so far down it might have been scored at a rummage sale or picked up at a T-shirt...

sweet reverie; An L.A. jewelry designer's dreams of rubies and sapphires have really come true.(SatBir Kaur Khalsa)(Interview)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Sara Moonves A career as a jewelry designer came to SatBir Kaur Khalsa literally in a dream. "I dreamed of a pair of gold earrings with hot-pink rubies and yellow sapphires," she says. "I've never woken up in the middle of the...

screen idol; Designers have long looked to filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder's uberglamorous leading ladies.
September 1, 2007... Byline: Lynn Yaeger Two women tiptoe precariously through the ruins of postwar Berlin. One, a brunette with pouty scarlet lips, sports a marigold-yellow swing coat, a black veiled hat, and a sleek patent leather clutch; the other, a...

style council ask mrs. exeter; Considering fall's courageous fashion statements, how do we pull off fierce, fearless style.
September 1, 2007... Question:_First Nan Kempner and then Pat Buckley; our most fearless national exemplars of taste have been disappearing at an alarming rate. Whom should we turn to for inspiration now that the fashions of the season seem so elegant and daring?...

fashion won't forget; Andre Leon Talley remembers Gianfranco Ferre's marvelous more-is-more life and vision.
September 1, 2007... Byline: Andre Leon Talley To me, Gianfranco Ferre, the towering and imposing figure in the world of fashion who died in June at 62 from a brain hemorrhage, was never totally understood. He was not a designer for women who wanted to dress...

ring leader; To fete its birthday, Pomellato has created a clutch of luscious one-off jewels.(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Florence Kane A one-of-a-kind ring with a price tag up to six figures? Not what you would expect from Pomellato, the Italian company known for big and colorful-but very wearable-baubles meant for every day. But the Milanese...

designs on the future; A new exhibition asks fashion's stars to gaze into a crystal ball-and then create their glimpses of tomorrow.(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Mark Holgate Before I started working on this project," says Olivier Theyskens, sculpting a crocheted dress constructed from yards and yards of shimmering yarn, "I felt it was important to distinguish between 'future' and...

a show of hands; Gloves beckon Lynn Yaeger, who looks for a pair that fits her style like, well, you know.(Product/service evaluation)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Lynn Yaeger Always one, never two. You check your purse or the pockets of your coat, but you know it will be in vain: One glove is gone. Now what to do with the other? You can't very well toss out a hand-knitted mitten bought in...

straight from the shoulder; Can Marina Rust make the switch from a roomy satchel to a smaller, boxier handbag.(Product/service evaluation)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Marina Rust Medium-size, structured shoulder bags? Sure, I'd carry one. "Great," says my editor. "We'll send some over. Ideally, there will be one you like." What's not to like? I wonder, hanging up the phone. Yes, the big...

high tied; Are multi-everything scarves the next multiseason accessory.
September 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower We fashion people talk about trends-season in, season out-but I have learned by now how to recognize the difference between a whim and the signs of an epidemic. Here are the symptoms: Whatever it is has to be not just...

tech-tiles; A handful of inspired designers says the future of fashion is in smart, scientific fabrics.
September 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman My first request to visit the Fabrite factory in Woodridge, New Jersey, where designers Flora Gill and Alexa Adams had the high-tech double-bonded silk georgette they're working with this fall developed, was firmly...

needle me this; Faced with fall's knitwear frenzy, Genevieve Bahrenburg takes matters into her own hands.(knitting)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Genevieve Bahrenburg Masterfully woven throughout the collections-see Nina Ricci's twisted sweaterdresses or Giles's mammoth mufflers-knitwear is one of the most ubiquitous directives of the season. This deluge of chunky cabling...

strap hangers.(travel accessory)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Adjust your eye. These are not full-size purses. Really, they're no bigger than a man's Dopp kit (note: This travel accessory is said to get its name from Charles Doppelt, the German immigrant and leather craftsman who started producing the...

man and superwoman; Jefferson Mays and Claire Danes take on Shaw-and each other-in a smart new Broadway production of Pygmalion, writes Adam Green.(Interview)
September 1, 2007... Claire Danes may never have seen My Fair Lady, but when she first picked up Pygmalion, the sublimely sharp-tongued, protofeminist Romance in Five Acts by George Bernard Shaw, on which the 1956 musical was based, she had a visceral reaction. "I...

THE EDGE OF NIGHT.(Theater review)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green Experimental theater is alive and well in London. After last season's smashing Southern Gothic twist on Goethe's Faust, set in an abandoned factory, the ingenious theater company Punchdrunk takes on Poe with The Masque...

ROYAL TREATMENT.(Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer remodels Royalton hotel)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Who: Husband-and-wife design team Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer of Roman and Williams What: To reinvent Philippe Starck's iconic boutique hotel, the Royalton inspiration: a hotel in Lisbon where "writers, Parliament members, and...

the avenger; In The Brave One, Jodie Foster revisits the movie that put her on the map.(Movie review)
September 1, 2007... Jodie Foster was only thirteen when a movie role changed her life forever: She played Iris, the young prostitute in Taxi Driver whose protector was De Niro's Mohawked Travis Bickle. Shockingly matter-of-fact, her performance announced the...

love in the afternoon.(Movie review)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Centered on a Portland coffee house, Robert Benton's Feast of Love is an ensemble drama about passion's many forms that simmers at a very low flame-except for Radha Mitchell's incandescent turn as Diana, a nervy, hard-edged real estate agent....

fly me to the moon.(Shadow of the Moon)(Movie review)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: John Powers The most astonishing thing about the 1969 lunar landing is how little it seems to matter today. The epochal glory of the achievement is recaptured in David Sington's wonderful documentary In the Shadow of the Moon,...

CALIFORNIA DREAMING.(Teresa Palmer)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Lauren Waterman Teresa Palmer's first acting gig required her to spend weekends "dressed as Strawberry Shortcake or the Christmas Fairy," wandering the shopping centers of her native Adelaide, South Australia. "But you can't grow...

stockholm syndrome; A stylish quintet from Sweden releases its addictive new album.(Shout Out Louds' 'Our Ill Wills')(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Lauren Waterman We see ourselves as a gang," announces Adam Olenius, the lead singer and songwriter of a Stockholm-based indie-pop act called, perhaps misleadingly, the Shout Out Louds. The name-selected after the group discovered...

natural instincts.(Lulu de Kwiatkowski)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Textile designer Lulu de Kwiatkowski is known for the vivid fabrics and home designs of her company, Lulu DK. But her latest project is much more personal. Her new book of collages, Lulu (AMMO Books), is composed of family photographs, Marche...

pleasures and days; On the occasion of a big new Avedon retrospective, Carolyn Burke considers his brief, inspiring friendship with Jacques Henri Lartigue.(Richard Avedon)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Carolyn Burke The other day Mr. Szarkowski of the Museum of Modern Art . . . showed me your photographs," Richard Avedon wrote Jacques Henri Lartigue in 1963. "It was one of the most moving and powerful experiences of my life....

rise and shine.(Golden Morning Cups)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Stephanie Lacava The Neue Galerie's new limited-edition set of Golden Morning Cups is sure to add a dash of bright elegance to your breakfast table. In such saturated hues as royal-blue, emerald-green, and cardinal-red, the six...

dawn of the new superheroes; Joan Juliet Buck finds there is nothing they can't do-live forever, raise the dead, or smite enemies with strange powers.(television programs)(Television program review)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Joan Juliet Buck This season's shows all seem to center on the pathos of the lonely supergifted. We have cops with superior powers, a pie baker who can raise the dead, and two unwitting recipients of classified government...

white knight.(Asus Eee PC)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Kimberly Straub Great things come in small packages. With its pearly-white finish and discreet silver nameplate, the Eee PC by Asus could be a distant cousin of your Mac laptop. But at nearly two pounds and completely shockproof,...

return to paradise; From eastern Brazil to southern India, Richard Alleman scouts out the world's best-kept-secret hideaways.(cruise lines and resorts)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Richard Alleman Bali high One of the most exciting new ways to explore Southeast Asia is aboard the Silolona. Based in Bali, this sleek twenty-first-century version of a traditional Indonesian phinisi flies elegant...

INSIDER TRADING.(Indagare.com)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Looking to buy vintage Pucci in Florence or rent a private villa facing Mount Kilimanjaro? Indagare.com, is an exclusive new Web site that offers its members the chance to discover best-kept secrets from a host of well-traveled style arbiters....

CRAZY FOR YOU.(Metropolitan Opera Orchestra stages 'Lucia di Lammermoor')(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Adam Green Peter Gelb continues to bring fresh life to grand opera by turning to its more raffish cousin_-the theater. Under the baton of maestro James Levine, the Met's season opener is the inspired theater director Mary...

match point; With a killer serve and utter confidence, Serb Novak Djokovicc sets his sights on the top.(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian Men's tennis at just below the top level (where Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal reign supreme) has never been more competitive, but this season one young player, the 20-year-old Serb Novak Djokovicc, has outdistanced...

mighty aphrodite; Ana Ivanovicc's grace and power are getting her noticed on center court.
September 1, 2007... Byline: Robert Sullivan You'd think Ana Ivanovicc came out of tennis from nowhere, born on a shell, like Venus, though not that Venus. But it's been a long time, at least by her estimate. "It's been fifteen years of hard work and practice,...

titlehere; A contemporary-art show in Athens may just be the exhibit of the decade.(Fractured Figure)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Dodie Kazanjian Contemporary art is regularly accused of being self-referential, sensation-mongering, or cynically in league with popular culture. A new exhibition called "Fractured Figure," however, opening this month at the Deste...

ahead of the curve; Looking after one of Europe's most-coveted private collections, curator Alison Gingeras has become an international arbiter of art-world cool.(Interview)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Leslie Camhi Faced with artists-wildly demanding, deeply unconventional-museum professionals tend to close ranks. Not Alison Gingeras. "I never wanted to be on the other side of the barricade," says the 33-year-old, who oversees...

the lives of writers; The season's best nonfiction reveals the stories behind the storytellers.
September 1, 2007... Byline: Megan O'grady Spending one's life in the service of genius may be a thankless task, but at least it guarantees you a place in the history books. Leah Bendavid-Val's Song Without Words: The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia...

the wonder years.('The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao')(Brief article)(Book review)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Taylor Antrim Published in The New Yorker, then collected in 1996's widely celebrated Drown, Junot Diaz's early short stories introduced Yunior, a Dominican-American boy with an open heart and a finely wrought, streetwise voice....

costume party; A parade of glittering new fashion books brightens up the season.
September 1, 2007... Byline: Jane Herman In honor of the French house's sixtieth anniversary, Dior (Assouline) remembers the designer's legacy and pays homage to his successors through a meticulous catalog of 150 dresses. A limited-edition tome, Valentino...

china fun; On a quest for haute Chinese cuisine, Jeffrey Steingarten seeks out surprising ingredients, sharp flavors-and no more thick, sludgy sauce.(Chinese restaurants)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Jeffrey Steingarten Chinese cuisine is on the march, everywhere you look, everywhere you go. Did you see that article the other day in the Hindustan Times of Delhi, the one about high-class Chinese restaurants in India? It...

at the parlor; Champagne and haircuts are the order of the day-and night-at Ashley Javier's private Manhattan atelier.(Parlor)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Plum Sykes There is a scruffy gray commercial building on the corner of Twenty-eighth Street and Fifth Avenue. Devoid of glamour, it is situated on the kind of grim Manhattan intersection that can provoke clinical depression in...

loud mouth; The biggest, boldest makeup message of the season is hard to miss: Get ready for the High-Impact Lip.(lipstick)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Catherine Piercy Oh, those ever-fickle fashion gods. Just when we'd stockpiled enough antique white camisoles and pastel chiffon blouses for a fleet of urban-chic fairies, along comes fall's bolder, brighter muse, sauntering down...

fresh air; In the wake of celebrity-scent mania comes a new wave of refreshingly chic designer perfumes, made for the dressing table and poised to be classics.(Gucci by Gucci, Kelly Caleche, and Eau Premiere perfumes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Brown There is something distinctly different about fall's most refreshing new fragrances: They aren't named for sports stars or tabloid queens; they don't seem destined for a teenager's locker. The new storm of scents is...

OVERHEARD.(Britt and Cori Bardo, and Philip Kingsley)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... The chicest behind-the-(fashion)-scenes sister act in L.A.? Cori and Britt Bardo. Britt is the sleek blonde stylist sitting front row at Fashion Week; Cori is her raven-haired, rock-'n'-roll hairstylist sister. Originally from "seriously the...

at your service.(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Las Ventanas-the whitewashed paradise perched on Mexico's Sea of Cortez-has made vacationing an art. Starting this month, each suite comes with its own butler to make all imaginable arrangements (midnight movies a deux on the beach? Fresh mango...

birds of a feather.(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Brown From the rash of flirty feathers (in hair! On gloves! On bags! And shoes!) to all of the extravagantly beaded, drop-waist cocktail dresses, fashion is having a major affair with the twenties. Caron joins the party with...

in the clear.(Isolaz acne laser)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Jancee Dunn I used to be a veejay on MTV2, which is perhaps the worst job for a grown woman with acne. Before every on-camera interview with a rock star, my skin would erupt. The crew still talks about the cystic pimple, so large a...

the lash couturier.(M.A.C and Christina Smith's couture eyelashes)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Christina Han After years of working with famed film-still photographer Bud Fraker, Canadian-born makeup artist Christina Smith found herself one of the most-sought-after makeup artists in Hollywood in the early seventies. But it...

class conflicts; After a shocking outbreak of campus violence, students are heading back to school amid heated debates over privacy, security, and mental illness.
September 1, 2007... Byline: Eve Conant When Janet Spaventa packed her daughter off to college two years ago, she was thrilled. Sure, she was going to miss Laura terribly, but it was time for her to go. Fast-forward to today, when in a few weeks Janet's second...

GOOD-TIME GIRLS.(party girls)(Brief article)
September 1, 2007... Once upon a time, the party girl was a worldly creature. She knew her Beiderbecke from her Bauhaus, traded racing tips with Diego Rivera, and spiced her peach-satin coquetry with barbed double entendres. And that smart Jazz Age spirit has risen...

8 1/2; A weekend in the Eternal City transports Sienna Miller into a Felliniesque world of paparazzi, palazzi, pop legends, and, most of all, plumage.(Rome, Italy)(Interview)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Sally Singer In early July at Rome's Fiumicino airport, I'm waiting for my suitcase to materialize when I see a blonde who reminds me of Sienna Miller. Her hair is pulled into a scruffy ponytail, and she wears a long gray tank top...

the natural; To the role of would-be First Lady, Michelle Obama brings modesty, dedication-and a reputation for truth-telling.(Interview)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Rebecca Johnson Iowa in spring. A full nine months before the primaries, but Michelle Obama is already at work on her husband's behalf. The setting: the Chit-n-Chat coffee shop in Waukee. Population 9,213. Percentage of population...

village people; Luke and Julie Janklow's Greenwich Village home mixes old Hollywood glamour with relaxed spaces for fun, games, and high-concept dinners.
September 1, 2007... Byline: Plum Sykes On a summery Thursday night in May, Julie Janklow, 38, very tan, very lean, is sitting folded up like a Burmese cat on the hot-pink velvety floor of the 25-by-20-foot walk-in dressing room in her Greenwich Village town...

Pat, inc. Alligator eyebrows, private planes, and an army of assistants.(Pat McGrath)(Interview)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Sarah Mower How do you accurately encompass a phenomenon as vast, protean, fast-moving, subtle, and supertalented as Ms. Pat McGrath? At the tip-top of fashion's power pyramid, she is the one makeup artist who belongs to the tiny...

widespread panic; Haunted by a debilitating anxiety disorder that would take over her mind and body, Harriet Brown learned to face her fears.(panic disorder)
September 1, 2007... Byline: Harriet Brown I'm driving to work on a picture-perfect summer day-blue sky, puffy clouds, Warren Zevon on the CD player-when it starts. Somewhere toward the end of "Lawyers, Guns, and Money," my heart begins to flutter, just a...

american beauties; Not all daughters of the social establishment have gone the way of reality TV shows and public scandals.
September 1, 2007... Byline: William Norwich Although most young women of her circumstances would be splashing in the social waters of Southampton or Malibu today, Diana Mellon sits this Fourth of July morning at the kitchen table in her family's cavernous,...