Culture
Vanity Fair US
THE PEOPLE'S PRINCES
In Hollywood's golden age, studios turned regular men into secular gods: changing their names, hiding their flaws. But now, writes OTTESSA MOSHFEGH, the era of the remote matinee idol is over-and the dawn of the almost approachable, appealingly authentic modern actor is in full swing. Meet the new class of leading men
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
Confessions on a Dance Floor
Once upon a time, going out in Hollywood was actually fun. DEREK C. BLASBERG lifts the velvet rope for an oral history of LA nightlife in the 2000s as told by the insiders who made it happen
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
California Schemin'
Even newspapers can have Hollywood ambitions. As the New York Post colonizes Los Angeles, its editors reveal big future plans, and, as LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT reports, onlookers are welcoming the California news wars
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
MIDCENTURY MAISON
For years, Nicolas Ghesquière had one very special West Hollywood house on his mood board. PAUL GOLDBERGER tours the property—newly restored by the designer and his partner, Drew Kuhse—that is now the couple's American home base
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
World on Fire
OLIVIA NUZZI was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames. In an excerpt from American Canto, our West Coast Editor takes stock of scorched earth
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
RUTH E. CARTER
Ryan Coogler's go-to costume designer—the two-time Oscar winner who breathed life into Spike Lee's earlier masterpieces and conjured up Black Panther's signature style—on taking a seminal trip to Egypt, wearing status pajamas, and telling her doctor little white lies
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
All in Vein
VERA PAPISOVA spends the day with Hollywood's new in-demand accoutrement: a blood concierge
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Hollywood knows AI is a profound technology bound to be transformative, and also bound to replace humans. It's all anyone can talk about in private, at parties, on location. With the town on edge, TOM DOTAN plumbs the industry's anxiety and hope
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
How to Win an Oscar—or Go Broke Trying
Awards season, an annual circus of consultants and events, is awash in money. Nearly everyone involved seems to tolerate this at best. So why does Hollywood keep doing it? JOY PRESS looks for answers
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
37 HOURS IN HOLLYWOOD
From a dawn run for Erewhon smoothies to sunset on Hollywood Boulevard, with stops in London, Paris, Nashville, and New York, Vanity Fair invites you to ramble and roam the corridors of a global industry at a crossroads.
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
KAIA GERBER SLAYS IT ALL
Catwalk. Back lot. Boardroom. Bookshelf. Rebecca Ford meets a self-confident, self-aware multihyphenate
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
DREAM WEAVER
Nearly five years ago CHLOÉ ZHAO's Nomadland broke new ground and swept awards season. Now the director is ready to do it all again with Hamnet, a devastating portrayal of love and loss. MICHELLE RUIZ sits down with the visionary for a revealing conversation about on-set raves, reviving Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and navigating Hollywood as a neurodivergent filmmaker
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
BAGGAGE CLAIM
Schlepping is an art, particularly in a Wes Anderson film. Whether trekking to prep schools or grand hotels, heading off on trains, planes, and automobiles, or escaping from camp, the director's crew of eccentric characters all travel in style.
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
HACKING THE SYSTEM
Do you want to live forever? VERA PAPISOVA has devised the perfect day, full of antiaging and devoid of death
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
IF THE SHOE FITS
During a six-week stay at the Sunset Tower, JULI WEINER slipped into something more comfortable for daily life a plush pair of hotel slippers. Here, she makes the case for taking them to the street
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
DEER DIARY
After CAZZIE DAVID moved into the hunting lodge of an Old Hollywood star, she got in touch with her animal instincts
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Hollywood 2025/2026
Vanity Fair US
BROKEN ARTED
Barbara Guggenheim and Abigail Asher were, until recently, grandes dames of the art market, outfitting the most powerful people in the world with killer portfolios. Then, in a flurry of mutual allegations ranging from sexual favors to fraud, the two women parted ways. As their battle heads to court
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November 2025
Vanity Fair US
THE LAST STAND
Richard Prince has shocked the cultural establishment again and again with norm-breaking—some say lawbreaking—conceptual artworks. But since the pandemic, he's been holed up in his Hamptons home, rarely making appearances. In an unprecedented interview late in his career, he spills to NATE FREEMAN about the surprising new series he calls Folk Songs and his six-hour film, Deposition. And for the first time, he discusses what will happen to his estate after he's gone
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November 2025
Vanity Fair US
Captain America?
NYC's mayoral candidate has Kennedy-like charisma, a global profile, and nepo baby instincts.
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November 2025
Vanity Fair US
Brat's Next Act
Just married. Pivoting to film in magnificent fashion. After a seemingly endless summer of brat, Charli xcx talks to ANNA PEELE about her new season of stardom
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November 2025
Vanity Fair US
LARRY GAGOSIAN
The world's grandest art dealer and new owner of Book Hampton, the celebrated tome slinger to East End Brahmins — on summering in Capri, wading in warm St. Barts waters, his custom-made pool cue, and sitting for David Hockney
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November 2025
Vanity Fair US
He Got His MTV
TOM FRESTON helped birth MTV and reinvent television. In an excerpt from his new memoir, Unplugged: Adventures from MTV to Timbuktu, he recalls the campaign that saved the network
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November 2025
Vanity Fair US
THE ARTIST IS PRESENT
As ICE continues mass detainments and deportations, artist Isabelle Brourman has spent months inside the New York City federal immigration court. She spoke with KEZIAH WEIR about the scenes of brutality and emotional strength she's documented, in rooms where cameras aren't allowed
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November 2025
Vanity Fair US
From Bust to Bust
Andrew Ross Sorkin tells NATALIE KORACH his new book on 1929 works as a parable for today—down to the characters
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November 2025
Vanity Fair US
Realm of the Coin
In a financial system upended by cryptocurrencies and meme stocks, where value is detached from utility and the loudest voice gets richest, ZOË BERNARD tours a brave new world in Bel Air that is part Bravolebrity, part Wolf of Wall Street, and all casino
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November 2025
Vanity Fair US
MUSE AND MAKER
The painter Kate Capshaw, known for her intimate likenesses, could hardly say no when the National Portrait Gallery commissioned one of Steven Spielberg, her husband of more than 30 years
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November 2025
Vanity Fair US
DREAM WEAVER
FOR HIS DEBUT at Dior, Jonathan Anderson worked with prolific textile artist Sheila Hicks to reimagine the house's epochal Lady Dior bag with texture, utility, movement, and fun.
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November 2025
Vanity Fair US
ODESSA A'ZION
The emblematic Gen Z cool girl seems poised to become a reluctant celebrity—which made her perfect for director Josh Safdie's latest film, Marty Supreme
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November 2025
Vanity Fair US
ORANGE WINE
In a revival of a Jazz Age Vanity Fair column, one writer explores how a modest experiment in winemaking has fermented into a nightmare
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November 2025
Vanity Fair US
Sibling Revelru
ELLE AND DAKOTA FANNING HAVE BEEN ACTING ALMOST AS LONG AS THEY'VE BEEN SISTERS AND HAVE HIT REMARKABLY FEW BUMPS ON THE ROAD TO GROWN-UP MOVIE STARDOM. THEIR SECRET IS SIMPLE, SAVANNAH WALSH REPORTS: A FAMILIAL BOND EVEN A NOTORIOUSLY TOUGH BUSINESS CAN'T BREAK
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