Vanity Fair

From entertainment to world affairs, business to style, design to society, Vanity Fair is a cultural catalyst, inspiring and driving the national conversation. Now the magazine has redefined storytelling for the Digital Age, bringing its high-profile interviews, stunning photography, and thought-provoking features to your device in a whole new way.

Vanity Fair

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VANITIES • MAISY STELLA knows how to think outside the box

Fashion PLATE

Meet CUTE • From When Harry Met Sally… to You’ve Got Mail, NORA EPHRON’s singular style championed the feminist perspective in witty banter and chunky knits. Nora Ephron at the Movies (Abrams) explores her life, legacy, and reinvention of the rom-com

Past PERFECT • A new collection of photography presents a glittering jet set but serves, too, as a moving meditation on the passage of time

Six Pack • Gripping inquiries into all aspects of humanity

Haute GOSSIP • LAINEY LUI, creator of celebrity news devotional Lainey Gossip, swears by espresso martinis and her mom’s vintage Rolexes while keeping tabs on the A-list

Clutch LIT • Style and substance abound in this selection of smart bags and great fiction—befitting the season, some are scary, but all are scary good

Narrative ARCH • In a new architecture monograph, glossy brownstone renovations and modern masterpieces come alive through an unusual inhabitant: flash fiction

Boys and THEIR TOYS • Inside the hypermacho, Bible-thumping alt-tech universe trying to take on Silicon Valley—from El Segundo

Party PLANNING • Putin wants Trump to win, of course, and he’s got big ideas about a new world order. Think Yalta—on Fiji

STRANGER Things • The Democrats’ short hot summer of “weird”

BOTH SIDES NOW • SELENA GOMEZ is seriously in love—and making the best work of her career. With the audacious Emilia Pérez hitting theaters and Only Murders in the Building returning to TV, the actor, singer, entrepreneur, and mental health advocate talks about the climb

GIVE AND LET GIVE • MELINDA FRENCH GATES is speaking out for the rights of women and girls, embracing her role as godmother to her fellow philanthropists, and getting political, even when it’s a little uncomfortable. For Vanity Fair, French Gates opens up about her next act and highlights six other women charting their own paths of generosity

TSITSI MASIYIWA

KARLIE KLOSS

CARI TUNA

ANNE WOJCICKI

SARA BLAKELY

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

THE BILLIONAIRE’S SECRET • THE GERMAN INDUSTRIALIST KLAUSMICHAEL KUEHNE, BORN IN 1937, IS ONE OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, WITH MORE MONEY THAN KEN GRIFFIN, OR MACKENZIE SCOTT, OR FRANÇOIS PINAULT. WHERE DID HIS FAMILY FORTUNE COME FROM? THE NAZIS KNOW

THE GENERAL • How ELIZABETH PRELOGAR, America’s low-key, high-powered solicitor general, is holding the Supreme Court’s feet to the fire

BAD FAITH • From exiled actors to academics, influencers to intellectuals, VF gets under the hood of the Catholic right’s celebrity conversion industrial complex

FUNNY BUSINESS • NEARLY 50 YEARS AGO, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE LAUNCHED A REVOLUTION THAT CHANGED COMEDY, TELEVISION, AND THE MOVIES. NOW DIRECTOR JASON REITMAN HAS RE-CREATED THE CHAOTIC HOURS BEFORE SNL’S FIRST EPISODE. LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT’S 1975!

A House Divided • The Mellon dynasty has long been known for its old money refinement and discretion. But when TIM MELLON became Donald Trump’s biggest donor, many members of the family were mystified—and not afraid to talk about it

STANLEY TUCCI • The actor and author of What I Ate in One Year on face cream, Harry Styles, and why temperance is overrated