Contents
Volume 40 Issue 09 September ’10
WHO
Liu Wen
A first for Lauder.
Talent Shows
Four designers worth watching.
Inside Job
Facialists who delve deep.
Chic Cliques
Back-to-school fashion cliques.
Marathon Man
The U.S. Open's marathon man.
The Closet Starchitect
Kazuyo Seijima is both influential and under the radar. Arthur Lubow talks to the Pritzker Prize winner behind this month's Venice Architecture Biennale.
Hollywood Mans Up
Aussie actors conquer Hollywood.
Sinfully Chic
London's diamond diva.
WHAT
True Blood
Red lips leave their mark.
Paint It Blackberry
Chanel's new nail.
Flight of Fancy
A rug by the late, great Alexander McQueen.
Paris When it Glitters
The Biennale des Antiquaires.
Haute Hideaway
A by-appointment-only treasure trove in New York.
A Matter of Style
The next wave in furniture: creatively updated Americana.
Bay Watch
Saint-Tropez without the crowds? C'est possible! Christopher Bagley heads to Montenegro, Europe's playground du jour.
Diamond in the Rough
South African Hotel.
L.E.S. is more
Once an art-world outlier, Manhattan's Lower East Side art scene takes center stage.
A Wedding in Gascogne
Behind the scenes at Europe's most fashionable wedding.
WHY
My cups runneth over
Now that designers have embraced a fuller figure, Caroline Weber learns to love life on the D-list.
I'imparfaite
Paris's sexy new magazine.
Prematurely Plastic
Rob Haskell reports on a new breed of beauty junkie whose goal is to look 36—even if she's 23.
Fake Or Real?
Can you spot the impostors?
Guess who's coming to dinner?
Celebrity chefs are building mass appeal by cooking for a precious few. Danielle Stein eats it up.
WHEN
We've maked our calendar with the moht's must-see events: An "Embarrassment of Riches" in Minneapolis. Sotheby's seed sale. Marc Newson's toys for the boys. Yul Brynner's photographic memories. Gregory Crewdson's images of Cinecitta... and more.
FASHION
Last Exit to Brooklyn
The moody, windswept waterfront of Red Hook serves as a backdrop for the season's Fifties silhouettes and rich, tweedy fabrics.
The East Enders
The spirit of London's style pioneers is alive and well in these portraits of kaleidoscopic kids from the city's East End.
Color Me Beautiful
In a nod to Warhol Factory fixture Donna Jordan, Lara Stone plays party girl in a rainbow of Seventies-inspired threads.
Double Vision
Five head-to-toe accessories. And we mean that literally.
Georgia On Our Mind
Rock royalty Georgia May Jagger steps into fall's decadent furs and opulently ornamented ready-to-wear.
Total Tailoring
Designers come clean with monochromatic, razor-sharp silhouettes.
FEATURES
The Brave Ones
Lynn Hirschberg talks to Hollywood's new It girls—eight young actresses with talent to burn.
Tisci's Tribe
A fantastic constellation of muses—from certified pop icons to gender-bending models—helped Riccardo Tisci return Givenchy to the height of fashion.
Made in Italy
Before there was Philippe Starck, there was Alessandro Mendini. Alice Rawsthorn reveals the enduring influence of a design original.
On Set: The American
Behind-the-scenes images from George Clooney's latest thriller, by photographer-turned-director Anton Corbijn.
Louise's last year
Intimate never-before-seen photographs of artist Louise Bourgeois, along with tributes from Jenny Holzer, Helmut Lang, and others.
