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.
EDITOR'S LETTER • AFTER THE HUNT The 1997 New Establishment featured Katharine Graham and 22 men.
VANITIES • ZADA BING! Joseph Zada battled thousands of up-and-comers to nab the lead role in the new Hunger Games movie. As REBECCA FORD found, that’s not the only way his life imitates his art
FANCY THAT • Savour precious moments with jewellery and attire to treasure forever
SUNSHINE DAYDREAM
LINE CULTURE
CATHERINE HOLSTEIN • The Khaite creative director has a few tricks up her sleeve
THE OLD ESTABLISHMENT • Ranking powerful people is perilous work. What if they’re overthrown by corporate or cultural revolution, or commit some light fraud? It’s a risk we take knowing that some listeese might go Icarus mode
FUNNY FACES
BELTWAY BLING • In Trump’s Washington, AIDAN MCLAUGHLIN finds a new set of status symbols for the MAGA elite: certain watches, certain members clubs—even a certain airport for your private jet
Donald the Great • The 45th and 47th president has been called consequential, imaginative, influential—sometimes for better, mostly for worse. TA-NEHISI COATES takes it one beat further in a bid to examine just how pivotal this president will prove to have been
The Armenian Dream • Call it a curse or call it destiny, Kim Kardashian’s success and her famous family are a prophecy foretold by her very own ancestors. It’s in her blood, argues JONATHAN VAN METER, who, in Citizen Kim, traces the mogul’s signature work ethic back to ancient Armenia
The Good Wife • A year after Charlie Kirk's murder, the MAGA movement is fracturing and the future of his influential political organization, Turning Point USA, now rests in the hands of his politically reluctant widow, who is also a victim of the conspiracy groupthink he fomented. With unprecedented access to her world, CLARA MOLOT asks: Who is Erika Kirk?
THE NEW ESTABLISHMENT 1 • POWER BROKERS. HEROES. HERETICS. OUTLAWS. MEET THE LEADERS OF THE ARTIFICIAL AGE
THE NEW ESTABLISHMENT 2-25
THE NEW ESTABLISHMENT 26-50
THE NAVIGATOR • Princess, madam, soldier, spy: Florence Pugh plays them all this year.
LARRY ELLISON'S TENTACULAR SPECTACULAR
BABES IN THE WOOD • Six years ago, Jordan Firstman’s métier was hilarious and absurd impressions on Instagram. Now he’s gate-crashing awards season with a sweet, tender coming-of-age tale called Club Kid. REBECCA FORD catches up with an auteur on the brink—and the colorful cast of his big debut
HER DARK MATERIALS • In a groundbreaking show at the Guggenheim, photographer Taryn Simon subverts the idea of national intelligence—with an assist from Jodie Foster.
THE CALIFORNIAN • Every move Gavin Newsom has made in his political career has seemed geared toward manifesting a certain destiny: the American presidency. As Newsom’s current dominion wobbles between failed state and vital organ, and his party lurches from self-loathing to valor, JOE HAGAN tags along to see if the slickest governor in the nation has what it takes to win over Democrats, never mind the whole country
ISLAND UNTO HERSELF • Rachel Scott, the Jamaican designer who runs Proenza Schouler, wants people to see Diotima, her own growing...