Vanity Fair UK

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

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Written in the Stars

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Inside the Hive with Nick Bilton

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Opening Act

CHECK, PLEASE • Fall fashion lives somewhere in the grid of the Scottish highlands, Clueless, and the platonic ideal of a woodcutter

BEL CANTO • Break out the cough drops and flick open the lorgnettes—the opera is getting a refresh

LOCAL TIME • For Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli, Rome’s cultural contradictions make for ripe inspiration

TALK OF THE TOWN

THE LIFE MELODIC • A chorus of new books delves into the minds of musicians, from rappers and rockers to indie-pop icons

SKIN DEEP • In the booming beauty game, the quest for the dream cream is driving creativity, in and out of the jar

EYES Redefined • Meet La Prairie’s latest magic potion: an eye-opening dual-formula serum that will transform delicate skin

ROCK AND ROYAL • “Being gay gave me more respect than I saw given to a lot of straight women in similar situations,” says King Princess about growing up around her father’s Brooklyn recording studio. “It eliminated that sexual nature in working with men,” adds the 20-year-old singer/songwriter/producer. Her acclaimed indie EP on Mark Ronson’s Zelig label led to this month’s release of her debut studio album, Cheap Queen, and a current U.S. headlining tour. Here, she discusses studios, sexuality, and sad songs.

HOT TO HANDLE • From a roped-off Rodeo Drive to an after-party in an iconic home, Louis Vuitton created a luxe fantasyland for L.A.’s creative set

Dating the Monster • In rarefied New York circles, Jeffrey Epstein was the sociopath who proved the rule

UPON A STAR • The Black Panther and Us actor has spun a dynamic career on her own terms—and in rapid fashion. Good thing the sky’s the limit

The Vanity Fair Best-Dressed List • In a year in which camp was queen and some 89 congresswomen showed their might in suffragette white, we salute the standouts who made us look—time and again—in style so remarkable, so personal, so flat-out fabulous that we are reminded: Clothes are never really just clothes

Rock Legend • Rough and rare gems become exquisite showstoppers in the hands of Dior’s Victoire de Castellane

A RAKE’S PROGRESS • After a hard-partying life as a cricket star and sex symbol, Imran Khan has transformed himself from revered sportsman into international statesman. AATISH TASEER, who has known Khan since his days as a tabloid fixture, explores how an Oxford-educated playboy became the prime minister of Pakistan—and an outspoken critic of Western decadence

DREAD’S REBELLION • IN 1811, SLAVES IN LOUISIANA STAGED THE LARGEST PLANTATION UPRISING IN U.S. HISTORY. ARTIST DREAD SCOTT IS MOUNTING A PROVOCATIVE REENACTMENT TO ASK THE QUESTION: WHAT IF THOSE REVOLUTIONARIES HAD SUCCEEDED?

FUTURE PERFECT • An ADVENTURE on the STREETS of LOWER MANHATTAN with MACKENZIE DAVIS, HOLLYWOOD’S go-to APOCALYPTIC MUSE, in the SEASON’S most cutting-edge COUTURE

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