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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.

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VANITIES • VANITAS VANITATUM

Cool INTENTIONS • Architect STEPHANIE GOTO has a portfolio that spans from New York’s Aldea to work with the Calder Foundation—and her personal taste is just as eclectic

Next STEPS

Hello, GOV! • A DEEP DIVE ON A SHALLOW SUBJECT. THIS MONTH…

Flight SONG • MAYA HAWKE made an impact on Stranger Things. Now she’s making music too

Golden Hours • Jonesing for an Olympics fix? Take a walk down memory lane with some of six-time Olympic medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee’s favorite summer athletes. “It takes more than just the physical,” the heptathlete says. “Mentally you’ve got to be tough.” For videos of their best moments, visit the Olympic Channel.

Fit to Be TIED • This Technicolor dream world draws inspiration from peace and love, the keen paintings of Brooklyn-based artist Grace Weaver, ’70s Halston, and maybe a little Pink Floyd

Color STORY • DANIEL ROSEBERRY, artistic director of Maison Schiaparelli—and the first American designer to lead an established French couture house—channels Matisse in his West Village apartment

Seaside SERENITY • If a destination devoted to wellness has never sounded more appealing, head to F Zeen for relaxation on Kefalonia’s southwest coast

La Vie EN ROSE • Huge character and tiny dogs populate DANIELLE STEEL’s Paris apartment

Found OBJETS

JAM SESSION • A new cookbook from Sqirl, the cult-favorite Los Angeles café, revisits its origin story at a moment when the pantry is a pleasure center

The Politics of Politesse

Admiration Society • Authors of V.F.-beloved novels out this summer share their own must-reads, old and new

The Spirit MOVES • The Portland Trail Blazers All-Star point guard and rapper DAMIAN LILLARD brings his game on the court and on the mic

Court ORDER • RICHARD LAWSON reviews the newest iteration of a classic legal drama

A Ghost From Our Past

About FACE • When our bodies fall out of view, what remains onscreen has our undivided attention. MARISA MELTZER considers the new primacy of the face

Undercover OPERATIONS

The Eyes Have It

Traitors AMONG US • Pop culture goes soft on some of the more controversial women in American history

There Went the NEIGHBORHOOD • Racism has always been a problem in my Minneapolis

Sex and VANITY • The author of Crazy Rich Asians is back with a new satire dripping in luxury, with this riff on Forster perfectly made for our times

VIOLA’S VOICE • Poised to star as both Michelle Obama and blues legend Ma Rainey, Viola Davis says the key to a character is discovering what they’re fighting for and what holds them back. She talked to V.F. about her own extraordinary journey out of poverty and into the deeply troubling Hollywood system

IN PLAIN SIGHT • “Where in the world is Ghislaine Maxwell?” For the past year, that question vexed the authorities, the press, and the women who have accused Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime friend, lover, and alleged accomplice of luring them into a web of sexual abuse. The answer: closer to home than many imagined

NOT SO BORED IN THE HOUSE • With hundreds of millions of followers and fame stretching...