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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.

Vanity Fair UK

Fall TOGETHER • The approach of autumn calls for energising new arrivals, a statement dress and the last of the summer wine

Editor’s Letter

Contributors

VANITIES • Wherever he goes, LEWIS PULLMAN is in his element

Filthy Business

Back to THE FUTURE • A debut makeup line from the house of PACO RABANNE honors the late designer’s iconic metalwork and prompts an experimental streak

Power Plants

PARADISE Found

Ace of DIAMONDS • JENNIFER FISHER, who built an empire of bijoux, makes a case for monochrome

Bleak MIRROR • A recent spate of horror-tinged novels reflects a shared fascination: the hypnotic dystopia of the beauty-industrial complex

In the Pink • As Glossier navigates an evolving market, a new book takes stock of the brand.

Skirting THE ISSUE

Bloom DAYS • With Art in Flower, out in October, floral designer Lindsey Taylor translates famous works into lush arrangements. Here, an ode to Willem de Kooning’s 1972 abstract, La Guardia in a Paper Hat

Auteur’s NOTES • In saved ephemera, SOFIA COPPOLA leads a luxurious tour behind the scenes of her films

SIX PACK • A trove of new novels from award-winning authors

Up and Away • A former Obama aide gives her take on the American Dream.

The PLAYER • The Barstool Sports brand is known for its bro-ish excess, but the company has a woman to thank for driving its $550 million sale: CEO Erika Ayers Badan

LIFE OF RILEY • DAISY JONES & THE SIX PROPELLED RILEY KEOUGH TO STARDOM EVEN AS SHE COPED WITH THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER, LISA MARIE PRESLEY, AND A LEGAL BATTLE WITH HER GRANDMOTHER, PRISCILLA. NOW THE ACTOR, FILMMAKER, AND NEW MOTHER IS CHASING PEACE AND CLARITY AND, IMPROBABLY, FINDING THEM

PICTURE PERFECT • A new volume of portraits by photographer Slim Aarons, including never-before-seen work, reanimates a lost world

THE AMERICANS • On the eve of the US Open, VF catches up with the next generation of tennis stars

THE CURIOUS CASE OF THE CARDBOARD BASQUIATS • A show of “lost” works by the celebrated artist Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Orlando Museum of Art was meant to be a blockbuster. Then the feds came knocking

Just Kids • In 2013, a bunch of unknowns made a tiny movie called Short Term 12. Ten years later, a shocking number have become stars, Oscar winners, superheroes, or all of the above. BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, LaKEITH STANFIELD, STEPHANIE BEATRIZ, KAITLYN DEVER, and writer-director DESTIN DANIEL CRETTON dish about the undersung drama that launched their careers

THE DOPPLE GANGER EFFECT • It was more than a decade ago when writer and cultural critic NAOMI KLEIN first realized people were confusing her—and her work—with another writer and cultural critic: Naomi Wolf. In this exclusive excerpt from her new book, Klein grapples with a phenomenon she’s started to see repeated in the culture all around us

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL • IN 1981, MARGY PALM WAS FORCED INTO HER CAR AT GUNPOINT BY A SERIAL KILLER SUSPECTED OF MORE THAN 30 MURDERS. WHAT HAPPENED BETWEEN THEM OVER THE NEXT EIGHT HOURS—AND LATER WHILE HE AWAITED EXECUTION—WAS SO UNLIKELY THAT JOURNALISTS AND FILMMAKERS HAVE TRIED FOR DECADES TO GET PALM TO TELL THE WHOLE...