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"Dressing Rooms\nStyle, luxury, and practicality come together in our showcase of storage spaces created with both fashion and function in mind\n\"I'm interested not so much in interior design as in designing environments,\" says maternity couturi\u00E8re Lauren Sara, who created the interiors of her home near Philadelphia. Throughout, she wanted a uniform palette of black and white and the rooms to have a minimalist, gallery-like feel. In the dressing area, floating shelves hold shoes and leather boxes. Past a stair that leads to her third-floor office stands a wire dress form. A former prot\u00E9g\u00E9e of Calvin Klein's, she is the author of Expecting Style, a style guide for pregnant women. (June 2006)\nIn the medieval hill town of M\u00E9nerbes, France, a fortified ch\u00E2teau dating to the 11th century was sensitively renovated by an American couple, with the help of French designer Michel Biehn. The philosophy of the renovation was \"nothing gimcrack, ersatz, or new,\" the wife explains. \"We used original materials only.\" Closets in the dressing room were built from old louvered shutters. The 18th-century carved gilt-wood mirror is from a Scottish castle. (July 2005)\nMartin Kemp, head designer at Candy &amp;amp; Candy, conceived the interiors of a 17,500-square-foot penthouse in La Belle Epoque, which overlooks the port of Monte Carlo. Art Deco styling influenced one of the two master suites\u2014a true gentleman's quarters, with an adjoining dressing area, pictured here. (November 2009)\nEleven AD 100 designers transformed Apartment 73A at New York's One Central Park into a glamorous showhouse. Roderick N. Shade imagined the master dressing area to be \"a place where girlfriends get together and snap on their shoes and have a glass of Champagne\" and a spot \"to put on the finishing touches before going out on the town.\" (February 2004)\nAlso at Apartment 73A, Victoria Hagan turned a narrow hall into \"a jewel of a dressing room, dedicated to James Bond's women.\" She created a cool white haven of milk glass and lacquer, where the woman with a silver derringer in her Birkin bag can linger and reload. It had one closet for black clothes, another for white, and a white desk with a sleek white computer. \"Some people feel sorry for strong women,\" Hagan says. \"I celebrate them.\" (February 2004)\n\"It's ideal for someone who wants a traditional home with a modern feel,\" architect James Paragano says of the house he designed for New York Yankees pitcher C. C. Sabathia and his family in Alpine, New Jersey. Adding a second floor above the great room gave Sabathia a new closet, providing plenty of storage for his extensive collection of signature sneakers. The space also boasts a dry bar with a microwave and refrigerator drawers. (November 2010)\nFor the renovation of her Manhattan duplex, designer Elissa Cullman, of Cullman &amp;amp; Kravis, collaborated with architect John B. Murray. The designer's \u00E9glomis\u00E9-paneled dressing room is rooted in Swedish neoclassicism; Cullman uses a 19th-century Swedish writing table as her desk. (September 2006)\nInterior designer Roger Thomas and architects DeRuyter Butler and Glen Ashworth collaborated with Steve Wynn on the hotelier's own Las Vegas residence, a duplex villa on the grounds of the Wynn Las Vegas. The master suite includes a walk-in closet and dressing area, designed with a neutral palette to evoke the color of the desert sand. (November 2010)\nFor a Southern California couple, architect Richard Landry created a classic, elegant setting. The wife says that initially she and her husband wanted contemporary decor, but after meeting designer Craig Wright, \"we turned\u2014we wanted something warmer.\" In the wife's dressing area, high-gloss lacquered walls provide what Wright calls \"a spacious, cool, glamorous effect.\" The button-tufted slipper chair lends an Art Deco flair. (March 2007)\nKenneth Alpert and Andrew Petronio, of KA Design Group, conceived the interiors of a couple's 5,000-square-foot apartment, originally three individual raw-space units, in Manhattan's Trump Tower. \"My dressing room,\" says the wife, \"is the envy of every woman who sees it\u2014its size and all the closet space, not to mention all those wonderful mirrors, which reflect not only me but, even more important, the view.\" The placement of the mirrors cleverly echoes the lines of the General Motors Building across the street. (January 2007)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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