W back issues from March 2005:
Pattern play.(DKNY)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Open your map to the city and what you see are graphic patterns, bold shapes and endless texture. Spring's patterns are as dynamic as the landscape, and are meant to ...
Growing Gucci.(The Month in Fashion)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Financial analysts--not to mention fashion fanatics--had been anxiously waiting several months for Gucci Group's new CEO, Robert Polet, to reveal his plans for the luxury conglomerate. But when he addressed shareholders at a meeting in London this winter, Polet made the anticlimactic ...
Birds of a feather.(The Month in Fashion)
Mar 01, 2005; ... There was bound to be a fashion angle to the plight of Pale Male, the red-tailed hawk whose hasty eviction from the facade of a Manhattan co-op at 927 Fifth Avenue made headlines around the world. It turns out that among the building's owners, at least for a brief period, was designer ...
if the Choo fits.(The Month in Fashion)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Less than a month after announcing that it was looking for strategic options, Jimmy Choo was sold last November to a European private equity investment firm, Hicks Muse, in a deal that valued the company at about $187 million. Tamara Mellon, president of Jimmy Choo, has expanded the luxury ...
Mindless fun.(The Month in Fashion)
Mar 01, 2005; ... After conquering the indie music scene, opening a vegetarian card and launching his own brand of bottled iced tea, techno rocker and New York society regular Moby has set his sights on the fashion industry. His recently opened Lower East Side boutique, Little Idiot Collective, will sell ...
Grape expectations.(The Month in Fashion)
Mar 01, 2005; ... It makes sense, somehow, that the man who cultivated a craze for Italian designer jeans in the U.S.--the home of denim--would pour his resources into an Italian vineyard and plant it with French grapes. Renzo Rosso, CEO of Diesel, is renowned for his unconventional approach to ...
In development.(The Month in Fashion)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Designer David Cardona's career is taking a happier turn after a year of disappointments. Milan company Fin.part had hired him as head designer for Cerruti's women's collections, but the company quickly crumbled after defaulting on its bonds. The events compelled Cardona, who had made a ...
Dance fever.(The Month in Fashion)
Mar 01, 2005; ... First, Vogue editor at large Andre Leon Talley served as narrator for the Martha Graham Dance Company's production of The Owl and the Pussycat. Now, Oscar de la Renta will appear on the company's stage, or at least his dresses will. De la Renta is designing the costumes for the April ...
Strip tease.(The Month in Fashion)
Mar 01, 2005; ... In the late Sixties, when Sonia Rykiel urged women to stop wearing bras under her tight poor-boy sweaters, she caused a minor sensation. Now, however, the designer thinks it's au courant to wear--and show--a little lingerie. Rykiel, who said it was demand from customers that made her ...
Jean scene.(The Month in Fashion)
Mar 01, 2005; ... When Generra was relaunched in 2003, its creative director, Tony Melillo, and Dan Shamdasani, CEO of the brand's parent firm, Public Clothing, knew that denim was in the label's future. "When we created Generra we filled a mood," Melillo said. "We created clothes that feel real. Creating a ...
Hicksville.(Flashback)
Mar 01, 2005; ... David Hicks, the interior designer who looked like a matinee idol and lived like a king, was the antithesis of a chintz-loving English decorator. At his prime in the Sixties and Seventies, he pushed bold colors and geometric prints that redefined at-home style for the international social ...
Hot scots.(Fast Forward)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Cast as hell-raising, wheelchair-bound best friends in the new Irish tragicomedy Rory O'Shea Was Here, Scottish actors James McAvoy and Steven Robertson make one of cinema's more unusual rebel pairs. "It's not a film about disabled people, it's a film about pals," says McAvoy, 25, whose ...
Foreign affairs.(Letter From the Editors)
Mar 01, 2005; ... March At least since the days of Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War, the foreign correspondent has held a romantic place in the popular imagination: dodging bullets on the front, drinking till all hours, having affairs with mysterious locals. Sitting front-row at the ...
Gray matter.(Readers React)(Letter to the Editor)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Your photo shoot featuring elephants in couture was genius ("Trunk Show," January). The models really show how the fabrics drape when there's so much territory to cover. Of particular note are the Chanel suits, Balenciaga chain mail and Louis Vuitton dress. This certainly takes plus-size ...
Savoir Blair.(Readers React)(Letter to the Editor)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Frankly, Deeda Blair's put-downs concerting her husband's ability to earn a living, her dismissal of her son's depression and her scorn for housewives and the suburbs show her to be a cranky old lady ("Deeda Moves On," January). She may have been on to something ...
Taylor made.(Readers React)(Letter to the Editor)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Your article featuring Elizabeth Taylor was superb ("La Liz," December 2004). Miss Taylor remains an enigmatic woman: part glamour goddess, part earth mother, but always a consummate artist and activist. There has never been--and never will be again--such a passionate person with ...
Twice as nice.(Readers React)(Letter to the Editor)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Thank you so much for the wonderful photos of the Masai tribe ("On Safari," January). I was delighted to see something of substance in your publication. My second surprise in the new issue was the fashion shoot of the elephants. Terrific! I was going to give up my subscription after ...
Spoiled rotten.(Uncensored)
Mar 01, 2005 ... The world's most expensive white truffle, unearthed last summer in the Tuscan village of San Miniato, got nothing like the culinary send-off it deserved. Andy Needham, chef at the posh London restaurant Zafferano, put in the winning bid of $52,000 at a charity auction last November, backed ...
Hot wheels.(Uncensored)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Even when he's not on the clock, Lapo Elkann, Gianni Agnelli's dashing 27-year-old grandson and the head of marketing for Fiat Motors, is on the job. Lately Italy's most eligible bachelor has been seen racing through the streets of Rome in his new Alfa Romeo (an Agnelli-owned brand), the ...
Kissing cousins.(Uncensored)
Mar 01, 2005 ... While the international social set has been busy whispering about the breakup of Princess Olga of Greece and playboy Johnny Pigozzi, Olga has been enjoying a new romance--a bit closer to home. The beautiful, free-spirited princess has taken up with her noble cousin, Aimone de Savoie-Aoste, ...
The iceman cometh.(Uncensored)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Hollywood has found a new status symbol: jewels by JAR. While a few L.A. cognoscenti, including Elizabeth Taylor and balletomane Liane Weintraub, have collected work by the uber exclusive Paris designer for years, a copy of JAR's 2003 exhibition catalog recently caught the eye of Gigi ...
Sweet and stylish.(Uncensored)
Mar 01, 2005 ... The fashionable few who refuse to ruin their high heels on the cobblestones of the Meatpacking District can take comfort at the Carlyle during February's New York Fashion Week. Every afternoon, the venerable hotel's gallery is offering pastries inspired by standouts from the spring 2005 ...
Hollywood subtle.(Uncensored)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Can flashy Sunset Boulevard handle an injection of understated chic? Peter Famulari (Ian Schrager's partner in Sky Bar) has recruited decorator Greg Jordan, a favorite of Blaine Trump's, to do up a new nightclub in the landmark Hollywood Athletic Club building. The nightspot, called ...
Marine streak: set sail on the high seas of style with spring's nautical offerings, from classic to cool.(Trend)
Mar 01, 2005; ... In sifting through the multitude of spring's nautically themed clothes and accessories, one thing becomes glaringly obvious: The motif is the Energizer Bunny, the Ironman, if you will, of trends. There are few inspirations that boast such longevity. Somehow, a natty nautical always feels ...
Girls gone wild: catfights, crowds and queuing up at dawn--the things fashion lovers will endure for a sample sale.(Fashion Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Two dogs fighting over a bone. It's not the most elegant analogy, but often, that's what it looks like when two women argue over the last pair of size 38 d'Orsay pumps at the Manolo Blahnik sample sale. This is fashion--a world of calculated sophistication and unbridled luxury? Yup. And ...
The PR machine: Paco Rabanne's new designer, Patrick Robinson, gets in touch with his sexy side.(Fashion Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... In Paris, a little arrogance can be a good thing. Just ask Patrick Robinson, who landed at the Paco Rabanne atelier in January with only two months to prepare his first runway collection and turn everything on its head. "I didn't look at the archives or old pictures," Robinson said two ...
Red alert: got ringside seats to a show at one of Moscow's dueling Fashion Weeks? Don't forget your raincoat.(Fashion Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Outside Moscow's ramshackle Hermitage Theater, a fur-clad crowd in painted-on Roberto Cavalli jeans and Stephane Kelian boots jostles in the arctic air. They're lining up for Nina Donis, the collection by design duo Nina Neretina and Donis Pupis, known for staging one of the city's hottest ...
Mommies dearest: with a trunkful of Fendi, the electropop duo Mother, Inc., takes its show on the road.(Fashion Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... The two construction workers, standing on wobbly looking scaffolding, can't bear to move from their seemingly precarious perch. They're transfixed by a most unusual scene playing out across the street in a loft with floor-to-ceiling windows in New York City's TriBeCa: Two high-heeled women ...
Women in uniform: talk about timeless style. For some women, consistency is the ideal answer to fashion's vagaries.(Fashion Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Most fashion followers spend days--weeks, even--in head-scratching bemusement wondering how to boil down a new season of fashion trends. They've watched fad after fad come and go, from newsboy caps to chandelier earrings to the ubiquitous Ugg boots, and they're eager to avoid the horror of ...
3 alternatives to a facelift: face it. We all want to stay young-looking.(special advertising section)(Advertisement)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Face lifts aren't the only answer. Thanks to the miraculous breakthroughs of modern science, there are now alternatives--and they're far less costly and less drastic than surgery. The Dior Innovation Center at St. Jean de Braye, France, is one of the world's most renowned ...
Starting the course: meet three gifted women who are attracting retail attention with intriguing new collections.(Fashion Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... JASMIN SHOKRIAN "Accidentally Yours," began the ad tucked in the classified section of a local Los Angeles newspaper, The LA Weekly. The listing provided a phone number and cryptically asked for nothing more than messages--from anyone. Few would have guessed that the ...
A yen for style: in Tokyo, fashion is always in fashion. Pack your bags and get ready for a fabulous shopping trip.(Fashion Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Some cities are great for vintage shopping, while others seem ideal for a splurge at a luminous megaboutique; then there are those that have an infinite variety of unexpectedly well-designed offerings at bargain-basement prices, perfect for filling out a wardrobe. But Tokyo has all of ...
It's personal: make fashion your own this season with designers' most glamorous whims for spring.(Accessories Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Fashion loves a label: hipster, tomboy, uptown girl. But this season, the magic is in the mix. The spring runways screamed eclecticism, from graphic and colorful retro at Prada to Indian embellishments at Gucci and Oscar de la Renta to a Fifties sock hop at Louis Vuitton. What better way ...
Neck and neck: ornate collar necklaces, with gobs of pearls and gems, set off a woman's loveliest bones.(Accessories Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... In India, where pink and gold are the country's favorite colors and Bollywood productions employ everything under the sun for their lavish costumes and sets, minimalist design is tantamount to treason. When it comes to Western jewelry with an Indian feel, the same doctrine prevails ....
Joie de Vivier: designer Bruno Frisoni is breathing new life into the legendary Parisian house that Roger Vivier built.(Accessories Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... The similarities are striking: In his retro nerd glasses, Bruno Frisoni, who serves as creative director at the luxe accessories house of Roger Vivier, could almost pass for a younger version of the brand's legendary namesake, another tall, thin Parisian brimming with charm. But the real ...
Blue mood: it's all in the jeans these days, as accessories designers unveil an array of lavish denim bags.(Accessories Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... From the California gold miners of the 19th century to Brooke Shields's famous Calvin Klein ad that ushered in the Eighties, jeans have long been a staple of America's fashion diet. In fact, denim is one of the few constants in the fickle world of fashion; ask any stylish girl and she'll ...
Deep impact: wrested from the bottom of the ocean, these noble emeralds may be the ultimate buried treasure.(Accessories Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... On a summer day in 1715, a dozen Spanish ships sailed from Havana laden with silver, gold and jewels. The voyage was at the behest of King Philip V, whose new bride, Isabella Farnese, the Duchess of Parma, refused to consummate the marriage until a suitable gift arrived from the New World ....
Bolognese sauce: Furla's Giovanna Furlanetto is putting a little practical magic into her family's classic Italian bags.(Accessories Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... These days, fashionable women don't waste much time fretting over how to match their gloves with their suits. According to Giovanna Furlanetto, the chairman and chief executive officer of her family's 78-year-old accessories house, Furla, a more pressing modern question is how to locate ...
Excess baggage: spring's hottest carryall may be called the hobo, but nothing looks more extravagant. Fill 'er up.(Accessories Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... An air of luxurious calm has replaced the ladylike rigor of the past few seasons' important bags, and nothing expresses the new ease more eloquently than the reinvented hobo. Slouchy and oversize, these bigger-is-better bags are dressed up with opulent leathers, animal skins and bejeweled ...
Special agents.(Accessories Flash)
Mar 01, 2005 ... What girl hasn't dreamed of throwing on a trenchcoat, donning a pair of dark glasses and heading out for some glamorous detective work? From Nancy Drew to Miss Marple, lady sleuths of every stripe will love this season's spy-inspired bags. John Galliano's spring show for Christian Dior had ...
True bloom.(Accessories Flash)
Mar 01, 2005 ... As scientists across the globe vie to create the first blue rose, Italian jeweler Bulgari has come up with something even more dazzling: the Sapphire Flower Collection of exquisite petaled pieces that feature the gem in varying hues of yellow, purple, green, pink and, of course, true blue ....
Feet smart.(Accessories Flash)
Mar 01, 2005 ... When it comes to shoes, women like to define themselves as heel lovers or flat fanatics. But leave it to the shoe gurus at Bruno Magli to step things up with the foot-friendly but very chic Nisako, which stands somewhere between the classic ballet flat and a high-rise ...
Custom-iced.(Accessories Flash)
Mar 01, 2005 ... From a diamond and ruby necklace that looks like a zipper to a gem-covered button clasp with a pink diamond thread woven through it, each piece in Van Cleef & Arpels's new Couture Collection is as technically impressive as it is exclusive. Sixty-six different designs are currently ...
Finding a Neverland: whimsy is the word for spring, with fruit, florals and feather or two to spread the wonder.(Shopping)
Mar 01, 2005; ... 1 Louis Vuitton White gold, sapphire, emerald and diamond pendant, $14,300, at select Louis Vuitton stores; 866.VUITTON, www.vuitton.com 2 Bottega Veneta Leather and Plexiglas bag, $1,850, at Bottega Veneta nationwide; 877.362.1715 3 Jean Paul ...
Mane attraction: new deep treatments for tresses promise stronger, more luxuriant hair.(Beauty Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Sabina Anibas's recipes for healthy hair are so top secret that she won t even let her own son in the room when she's mixing her concoctions. A stylist at Aurbeautica, a tiny salon in New York's SoHo frequented by Ford and Wilhelmina models, Anibas has developed her own three-step ...
Derm warfare: there's an epidemic of doctors inking deals for beauty brands. Is there enough skin to go around?(Beauty Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Move over Drs. Brandt, Murad and Perricone--there's a new generation of M.D.'s launching skincare lines, and they've got their lasers trained on your demographic. Ava Shamban, the sane dermatologist amid the scalpel-happy surgeons on Extreme Makeover, comes out with her own acne-fighting ...
The best in Day spas and skin care salons.(Advertisement)
Mar 01, 2005 ... East Coast: Elizabeth Grady Skin Care Salons (800) FACIALS 40 salons in 5 states: CT, MA, NH, NY & NC website: www.elizabethgrady.com "Business is beautiful[R]"--John P. Walsh, President Word of mouth, that's how we got to be known for the ...
World champion: from its neighboring Alps to far-flung Indonesia, La Prairie takes a global approach for its new scent.(Beauty Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Swiss skincare house La Prairie has never been one to skimp. The company that brought caviar to moisturizer and foundation has now t focused its no-holds-barred luxury mind-set on fragrance. Its latest creation, Silver Rain, borrows its name from the pure mountaintop ice in the ...
Better than Botox[R] *?[TM]: "who would have thought a stretch mark reducer would turn out to be the anti-wrinkle breakthrough of the decade!".(Anti-Aging Breakthrough)(Advertisement)
Mar 01, 2005 ... In a remarkable turn of events, arguably one of the strangest in the history of cosmetics, women across the country are putting a stretch-mark reducing emulsion called StriVectin-SD[R] on their face to diminish the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles and crows' feet. And, if consumer sales ...
Dark victory: black orchids and gooseberries are the bright ideas behind By Terry's new skin line.(Beauty Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... In a boutique in Paris's elegant Palais Royal, a middle-aged woman is poring over rows of eye shadows when a petite, Prada-clad brunette walks through the door. The shopper notices the woman and elbows her companion, who looks up as well. "Are you 'By Terry' Terry?" they ask shyly When ...
The skinny.(Beauty Flash)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Wondering why French women look so svelte? Besides great genes and the mysterious powers of red wine, it might have something to do with L'Oreal Paris Sublime Slim system, Europe's reigning anticellulite product. Just introduced in ...
Soft curls.(Beauty Flash)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Makeup artist Mally Roncal is known for making sexy seem wholesome--clients from Maggie Gyllenhaal to Beyonce flock to her when it's time to amp it up. So it's only fitting that Roncal would be the one to transform the notoriously intimidating ...
Taking notes.(Beauty Flash)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Pairing a brooch with a cardigan no longer earns points for ingenuity, so Gap has figured out another way to champion personal style. Scent Editions, a Crayola-like assortment of a dozen different single-note oils like Crushed Peony, Silk Yuzu and ...
Let there be light.(Beauty Flash)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Turns out there is such a thing as being too rich. When Chantecaille launched its Biodynamic Lifting Cream, the dry-skinned among Its jetset clientele were thrilled. But those with shiny and acne-prone complexions were reluctant to indulge in such an intensely moisturizing treatment. The ...
Lining up.(Beauty Flash)
Mar 01, 2005 ... It's a sad thing, what happened to lip liner. Thanks to women overzealously applyinq dark pencil around their lighter-hued mouths, it was written off as hopelessly outdated. Happily, Cle de Peau Beaute understands that a subtly contoured pout never ...
Venice, anyone? Three wellborn women are the creative forces behind some of the city's chicest design lines.(Home Flash)
Mar 01, 2005; ... With its Byzantine architecture and whimsical glassware, Venice has a legendary aesthetic heritage--though you might never know it visiting the gift shops stocked with plastic gondolas and San Marco snow globes. Valiantly combatting the flood of kitsch, three of the city's most prominent ...
Charles in charge: for New York foodies, there's big news on the horizon: the arrival of Chicago's legendary Charlie Trotter.(Going Out)
Mar 01, 2005; ... In the office above his eponymous Chicago restaurant, Charlie Trotter has hung photos of the Dalai Lama, and French chef Fredy Girardet. But Miles Davis, he says, is his supreme hero. "Now Miles," begins Trotter, whose father played trumpet in a jazz sextet before getting rich in business, ...
Gold standard.(Eye)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Forget DiCaprio and Eastwood: The most powerful man at the Golden Globes was the Beverly Hills fire marshal, who, with a wave of his hand, temporarily shut down all four post-parties at the Beverly Hilton just minutes after they started. That didn't deter Natalie Portman, who busted ...
She's a super chic.(Eye)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Living in the spotlight may be glamorous, but it isn't easy, especially when one's every evening out is captured by a phalanx of photographers. Yet night after night this season's stylish standouts make their way to black-tie affairs, movie premieres and fashion parties looking as chic as ...
Free radical: brash English director John Maybury goes Hollywood, indie credentials still intact.(Eye)
Mar 01, 2005; ... John Maybury is feeling a bit queasy, but he couldn't be happier. The hangover comes courtesy of a night caroming at London's notoriously debauched Colony Room. The twinkle in his eye, however, is a symptom of another condition: The avant-garde British film director admits he s in love ...
Spoils to the Victor: Miami's reinvented Hotel Victor aims to win over the South Beach set with its very high style.(Eye)
Mar 01, 2005; ... There's a jellyfish tank in the lobby of the newly renovated Hotel Victor in South Beach, courtesy of interior designer Jacques Garcia. It may not provide quite the coup de theatre that the models-behind-glass do at Andre Balazs's Hollywood Standard in Los Angeles, but the invertebrates ...
Major league.(Eye)
Mar 01, 2005 ... In the weeks before Christmas, Diane von Furstenberg's West Village studio played host to two major parties. First, the designer welcomed Christian Louboutin to the neighborhood--his boutique just opened nearby--with a lasagna dinner for Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ellen Barkin, Julianne Moore and ...
Higher learning: after decades in the shadows, Columbia is becoming the top choice for artists on the rise.(Eye)
Mar 01, 2005; ... The corner of 133rd Street and 12th Avenue is the last place one would expect to find a burgeoning New York art scene. But it's there, in a ram! shackle former warehouse nestled between a sewage treatment plant, the famous Fairway grocery store and a string of autobody shops, that Dana ...
A snob's tour: Gosford Park's Julian Fellowes stokes England's class war with his first novel.(Eye)
Mar 01, 2005; ... Julian Fellowes, a decidedly unbuttoned-up Englishman, walks into the dimly lit downstairs bar at London's Blake's Hotel. "Please excuse me," says the actor, screenwriter and now novelist, slipping both hands inside the back of his trousers and crouching slightly. "The elastic on my pants ...
L'Age Dior.(Eye)
Mar 01, 2005 ... In a crowd that included Chloe Sevigny, Maria Bello, Delphine Arnault, Heather Graham and Gretchen Mol, former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson stuck out like a sore thumb. It was early into the Artist's Ball at the Guggenheim Museum last December, and Tyson, waiting for pal Carmen Electra ...