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Vanity Fair UK

Agenda

Editor’s Letter

Contributors

VANITIES VANITAS VANITATUM • HUNTER SCHAFER is making the kind of television she wants to watch

California Conscience

Culture

Love LANGUAGE • Take a petal from the swoony influences of Roman Holiday, Toulouse-Lautrec hues, Tchaikovsky ballets, and the surreal drama of Paolo Roversi’s dreamworld

Chasing That HOLLYWOOD GLOW • Actors don’t just have lines to memorize. They have lines to erase! “Especially when modern cameras pick up whether a single pore has a sore throat,” writes BETTY GILPIN, a three-time Emmy nominee for GLOW who next stars in The Tomorrow War. The self-deprecating “product hound” reviews six that she deems worth their luster

Shining SEA

HOW WAS YOUR DAY?

Fit for a STAR • On the heels of her Oscar for the Black Panther costume designs, RUTH E. CARTER has outfitted Coming 2 America. The magic starts in her studio

TRAVEL • WINNER OF THE TRAVEL MEDIA AWARDS 2020 MAGAZINE SECTION OF THE YEAR

Editor’s Letter

P.S. (Where I want to be right now)

Perpetual MOTION • A walk downstream reveals the ebb and flow of division

Rights of PASSAGE • How boundaries impede the most basic human instinct

Fantasy HOTEL • Picture the perfect place to stay: a dreamlike patchwork of details from properties all over the world…

Shifting THE Focus • The VANITY FAIR CHANGING YOUR MIND TRAVEL AWARDS 2021

Thatch THE SPIRIT • The rising value of traditional Japanese craftsmanship

Carry ONS • Be smart, be sustainable

Room to RENEW • When the chaos of the world seems endless, a health retreat at F Zeen in Greece is the perfect way to cocoon yourself in wellness-boosting bliss

SWEET Spot • Places that make you feel all is right with the world

A Passport TO PARADISE • An iconic hotel brand found its home in paradise in 2019 and Raffles Maldives Meradhoo was born. Now, the ultimate hideaway is revealed…

Between Two Rivers • Cradled by the exalted Euphrates and Tigris, Mesopotamia is dotted with remnants of ancient enterprise, and landmarks symbolising identity and survival. This network of old trade routes between Asia and Europe is today a region where Biblical associations remain current in conversation and the weight of history tussles with prospects for the future

BALI • Fernweh (German)—“An aching longing for far-off places.” Six writers contemplate where they are not

NEW YORK

KYOTO

PRAGUE

CAIRO

BOMBAY

30 YEARS of Wonder • In its anniversary year, the COMO Hotels and Resorts group is delivering some well-deserved escapism

HARBOUR MASTERS • Brimming with Banksy and Warhol, Koons and Kapoor, the Hamilton Princess hotel could quite easily be mistaken for a gallery. But what MICHELLE JANA CHAN finds is a living, lived-in space in which art fulfils a very different role

A ROOM WITH A VIEWING • Far more than mere decoration, the artworks within this trio of hotels, across three continents, reflect the properties in which they reside

PRASLIN • The Seychelles is all about its rocks—massive, smooth, shapely granite boulders—which set apart its distinctive landscape from any other,...