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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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Editor’s Letter • What’s so interesting about families? Tolstoy knew. And Shakespeare. So did Dickens, whose novels so often found their resolution by

VANITIES VANITAS VANITATUM • LOURDES LEON gets into the groove

Captured by THE CASTLE • In a diary she kept while living on the Windsor estate during WW II, ALATHEA FITZALAN HOWAR D, friend to Queen Elizabeth II, describes anguish beyond the idyll

Golden TOUCH • To mark the launch of La Prairie’s Pure Gold Collection, artist Carla Chan undertook a unique residency in the Swiss Alps

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SPIRIT OF Innovation • IT’S BEEN A bumper year for the ever-growing gin industry, but for Whitley Neill gin, the focus has always been on enhancing time-honoured tradition with vibrant flavour profiles

Screen QUEEN • TRACEE ELLIS ROSS—star of Black-ish and Mixed-ish—likes her sneakers luxury and her martinis extra dirty

Family BUSINESS • Right before our very eyes—from reality TV to TikTok—the KARDASHIAN-JENNER clan reshaped the beauty industry

Getting GONE • Four new books offer trips across time and space

How Trump FADES AWAY • Media domination doesn’t last forever. Just ask Sarah Palin

CONTI NENTAL RIFT • Two brothers, alike in dignity, among the British monarchy where we lay our scene, are grappling with ancient grudges. Will it—should it—be mended?

The FALL of THE HOUSE of HAMMER • ARMIE HAMMER’s life seemed beautiful from the outside—perfect wife and kids, sparkling Hollywood career. But a glimpse into his family’s dark past reveals how the shocking allegations of rape and abuse may be the latest chapter in a fraught legacy

LOST AND FOUND • Last August, a devastating explosion in Beirut demolished thousands of homes, including many of the city’s opulent 19th-century villas. As the city rebuilds, one young photographer is determined to preserve its history

Blue NOTES • AS MOONLIGHT DIRECTOR BARRY JENKINS TURNED COLSON WHITEHEAD’S AWARD-WINNING NOVEL THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD INTO A TV SERIES, HE UNRAVELED HIS OWN STORY

SHOT CHASERS • In the Trump administration’s final weeks, a secretive effort to vaccinate essential federal workers bred suspicion, infighting, and “shameless” attempts to 62 VANITY FAIR jump the line

PHANTOM THREADS • The artisans behind Chanel’s MÉTIERS D’ART collection can spend years training to make the perfect stitch, the sleekest boot, the tweediest jacket. Leah Faye Cooper peeks into the ateliers

The King’s Gam bit • You know STACEY ABRAMS as the founder of Fair Fight and a leading light of the Democratic Party. Now Vanity Fair excerpts Abrams’s first political thriller, While Justice Sleeps, a tale of conspiracy, biotech schemes, and an irascible member of the Supreme Court

BRAT, UN PACKED • In his new memoir, Brat: An ’80s Story, actor ANDREW McCARTHY recounts his early days in Hollywood, from a (brief) stint as Jacqueline Bisset’s roommate to the reshoots that made Pretty in Pink a classic

SHARON STONE • The actor, out with her memoir The Beauty of Living Twice, on her passions for singing badly and reading Capote over dinner

Editor’s Letter • And so for the...