Vanity Fair opens the door to Hollywood. With a unique mix of grit and glamour, we track the latest scandals, the greatest achievements and the newest stars. Vanity Fair is a cultural catalyst. A provocative mix of culture, politics and high finance that generates more monthly media coverage than any other glossy magazine.With an outstanding combination of iconic photography, groundbreaking stories, in-depth reportage, and social commentary, Vanity Fair is the biography of our age, one month at a time.
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Editor’s Letter • I always love Michelle Ruiz’s cover profiles, because she packs so much life into every sentence, and she gravitates to subjects with very packed lives.
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Young, RESTLESS • With Beef and now The Last of Us on his résumé, YOUNG MAZINO proves he’s up to a challenge
Strike a POSE • Time to step back and be admired for superlative style statements
High WIRE • Wind your way into an artist’s imagination with Ruth Asawa: Retrospective, a celebration of the modernist’s six-decade career spent bending notions of surface, volume, and perception
Six Pack • Books that plumb the breadth of human desire
Other WORDS • VIET THANH NGUYEN explores what it means to be an outsider
Treasure TROVE • For the glitterati’s go-to jeweler JESSICA MCCORMACK, diamonds and dogs are a girl’s best friend
In BLOOM
ANATOMY of a Fall • Inside the first week—and final hours—of the Harris campaign
Gossip GIRLS • Conservative media has feasted on the fight between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. If you’re full of hate for Hollywood, what’s not to love?
GWYNETH EVERLASTING • NOT LONG AFTER SHE WON AN OSCAR AT AGE 26, Gwyneth Paltrow BAILED ON THE INDUSTRY, FINDING A CREATIVE OUTLET AND CASH FLOW IN BUILDING HER OWN BUSINESS. NOW GOOP AND THE KIDS ARE ALL GROWN UP, LEAVING PALTROW FREE TO DO WHATEVER SHE LIKES, INCLUDING HER MAJOR MOVIE COMEBACK WITH TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET
TRIAL BY FIRE • Los Angeles is said to have no seasons, but what it does have is what Joan Didion called “the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse.” Photojournalist STUART PALLEY turned his camera on this year’s wildfires and shares his account of devastation and resilience
Style DRIVER • FASHION-FORWARD SIMONE ASHLEY REVS UP FOR A ROLE IN BRAD PITT’S SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER F1
GOD COMPLEX • SILICON VALLEY WAS ONCE DRIVEN BY A GODLESS CHASE FOR GROWTH. NOW THE NEW RELIGION IS RELIGION
THE FAMILY BUSINESS • Together, Oren and Tal Alexander formed one of America’s premier real estate teams, with billions of dollars in sales. Alon, Oren’s twin, helped run their father’s private-security firm. Now they await criminal trial in a Brooklyn jail, facing multiple accusations of rape and assault from women across the country.
AIR OF DANGER • Fancy fliers have created a huge boom in private-jet travel, no longer the exclusive province of Fortune 500 companies, Elon Musk, or Taylor Swift. Yet for all the allure, flying private is a rather dangerous luxury
TONI COLLETTE • The actor and Mickey 17 star on travel regrets, acupuncture, and jumping into the ocean