New York Magazine: February 23, 2009 Issue

Table of Contents

February 23, 2009

Cover Story

Kate: ‘I Am a Woman Now’

Every fashion move she’s ever made is instantly copied (and just about every boyfriend she’s ever had chronicled in the tabloids). By Amy Larocca

On the Cover: Photograph by Bert Stern for New York Magazine.

Spring Fashion 2009

Friends & Fashion

Intimacy is one of life’s richest pleasures, so for this issue, we decided to explore relationships.
Petey and the Boys

The wandering days and bunk-bed nights of Fashion Week’s handsome rookies.
Everything Here Is Under $100

Proof that nice new clothes do not require major cash.
I Go Out. I See Friends. I Take Pictures. I Post Them.

Their art is the party. Their gallery is the internet. Four young photographers who live behind the lens.
The Fashion Thief

Kevahn Thorpe is a serial shoplifter for whom jail was not too steep a price to pay for the labels he loves.
Spring Trends

A big bracelet or two is all the jewelry that’s required.
Field Trip

Nothing like a (virtual) day in the country, with some models wearing spring’s sweetest, lightest clothes.
c u later? xoxo

Spring’s best going-out clothes get a local test-drive at Goldbar and La Esquina.
The Virgins

are lying here on a really nice Persian rug in the Bowery Hotel, thinking of a new song to sing.
From Gere to Gladiators

Giorgio Armani reflects on some career-changing moments.

Strategist

Departments

Intelligencer

Culture

Columns

Defending Tim Geithner

Wall Street loved the new Treasury secretary but hated his bank-rescue plan. I see it just the other way around.

Agenda

Local Heros

It’s taken the Red Hook sandwich shop Defonte’s 87 years to open a satellite branch in Manhattan.