Culture
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
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
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
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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October 2025
Vanity Fair US
BRUCE ALMIGHTY
When Emma Heming married one of the world's most famous movie stars, an alpha male with a wink to beat them all, she didn't imagine the fate that would ultimately befall either of them. Now, as Bruce Willis grapples with frontotemporal dementia, his wife and caregiver tells ANNA PEELE how she is helping others through the experience of the longest goodbye
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October 2025
Vanity Fair US
CHAOS THEORY
Mitchell Jackson, a once-canceled journalist, is comfortable with controversy—his own and that of his incendiary clients
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October 2025
Vanity Fair US
BUDDY COMEDY
From his early stand-up days to his work on such instant classics as Freaks and Geeks and Girls, JUDD APATOW has spent a lifetime capturing high hilarity and hoarding the accompanying snapshots and ephemera. In this exclusive excerpt from his visual memoir, Comedy Nerd, where he shares his trove for the first time, LENA DUNHAM describes the generous guy behind the slapstick
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October 2025
Vanity Fair US
EXILES IN PARIS
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, the Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui believed his greatest risk was being killed by his country's military.
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October 2025
Vanity Fair US
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
JEREMY O. HARRIS is a playwright, producer, performer, provocateur, dandy, bon vivant, and depending who you ask, a genius. As his latest wave of projects gains momentum, CHRIS MURPHY asks, can Harris keep all the plates spinning?
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October 2025
Vanity Fair US
THE FLORIDA DIVORCÉE'S GUIDE TO MURDER
Published in 1983, Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors inspired a triple murder and led to a major First Amendment test case. Still, the book is just one chapter in the bizarre story of its until-now anonymous author, \"Rex Feral,\" now a 77-year-old great-grandmother wrestling with decades of guilt
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October 2025
Vanity Fair US
MARK RONSON
The Oscar-winning songwriter and producer documents a bygone era of New York in his new memoir
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October 2025
Vanity Fair US
VANITIES
The seminomadic Springsteen obsessive and recovering indie darling is living her dream: starring as The Boss's muse opposite Jeremy Allen White
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October 2025
Vanity Fair US
CHARM TO TABLE
The 26-year-old chef FLYNN MCGARRY has been wowing diners for more than a decade. His most ambitious project yet promises fully-fledged escapism
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