New York Magazine: August 25, 2008 Issue

Cooling Off

The usual spring-to-fall fashion mood shift was particularly pronounced this year.

Playing With the Form

Playing it safe: not something our cover model, Rafael Nadal, does.

America’s Next Top Fashion Editor

How reality TV turned former Elle colleagues Nina Garcia and Anne Slowey into fierce rivals.

Straight Shooter

Juergen Teller has little patience for most fashion photography.

Heaven, With Hangers

Some people feel strongly about where they keep their clothes.

The Beefcake in the Backcourt

Another way in which ripped, raffish Rafael Nadal and his cardigan-wearing Swiss rival aren’t anything alike.

The Case Against Uniforms

How tennis influences fashion, and vice versa.

Like Kafka, But With Better Clothes

Fashion can alter the exterior, but our true selves can’t be concealed.

Let’s Keep This Party Rolling

Because we’re still dressed up from last night.

Sweet, But Spooky

There’s something a little dark about the girl next door this fall.

Glitter Among the Grit

Big, fake, and fully able to outshine its surroundings.

Share the Love

No fair hogging the tuxedos!

It’s Wild Over There

Jagged edges, aggressive shapes, fur on the edge of civilization.

Tomorrow’s Clothes Today

Dresses that will still look good a century from now.

Sometimes Together, Sometimes Apart

One photographer, a group of friends, and three weeks to play with a pile of fall fashion.

Issue Contents

Table of Contents

August 25, 2008

This Year’s Model

Features

Building an American Nadal

Fall Fashion

Cooling Off

Playing With the Form

America’s Next Top Fashion Editor

Straight Shooter

Heaven, With Hangers

The Beefcake in the Backcourt

The Case Against Uniforms

Like Kafka, But With Better Clothes

Let’s Keep This Party Rolling

Sweet, But Spooky

Glitter Among the Grit

Share the Love

It’s Wild Over There

Tomorrow’s Clothes Today

Sometimes Together, Sometimes Apart

Strategist

Pieces to Covet

The Look Book

The Restaurant Review

In Season

Insatiable Critic

Restaurant Openings

What the Well-Dressed Line Cook Is Wearing

The Politically Correct, Ecofriendly Wiener

I Smell Trouble

Departments

Comments: Week of August 25, 2008

Columns

Wishing Upon a Favre

Culture

Digging Josh

The Movie Review

To Be or Not to Be: Elisabeth Shue

One-man Band

The TV Review

The Best of the Rest of the Summer

Crime Pays: Michael Agovino

The Approval Matrix: Week of August 25, 2008

Intelligencer

Are Bad Homeless Stats Still Too Good?

Stop Parsing Parsons: I’m No Mayor

Olympic Disillusionment for Oksana

Wall Street Woes Hit the Nursery

Leighton Loses Loaner From Lobe

New Chase ATMs Worry Neurotic NYers

It Happened Last Week

Camp Nebulizer

Tbilisi on the Hudson

Williamsburg Patriot

Take Me Out to the Moneyball Game

Agenda

A Family Folk Act

Cheese Whizzes

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