Features - Blame It On Brazil: Brazil's frenetic energy infuses everything from its pulsating economy to its samba beat, to its sense f style. For a 24-page portfolio of the sizzling Rio fashion scene - including Gisele - photographer Mario Testino and fashion and style director Michael Roberts pull together an in-crowd Carnaval, while A. A. Gill delivers the bottom on a nation's lust for life. American Dreamer: As Walt Disney re-invented Main Street, so Ralph Lauren realized Wasp America, stripped away its exclusivity, made it better, and sold it to the world. With the $4.3 billion business entering its fifth decade, Paul Goldberger explains the power of Lauren's vision. Also in this issue, models Jamie Burke & Agyness Deyn, a feature on Lake Como, Laura Jacobs on Hermes, the suicide of model Isabella Blow, plus columns by Christopher Hitchens, Michael Wolff, Dominick Dunne, and many others!
