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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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A Bit of MIRTH • LOUISA JACOBSON shines on The Gilded Age, HBO’s sumptuous robber baron soap

The GLITTERATI • Keep the jewel tones, skip the corset, and make the party Regency-era decadent in gobs of sequins and bejeweled boots built to shimmer under evening lights

Cult CLASSIC

Cabinet MEETING

The LUMINARIES • The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s glittering annual Art + Film Gala honored artists Amy Sherald and Kehinde Wiley alongside filmmaker Steven Spielberg

Block PARTY • Gucci shut down Hollywood Boulevard from the Chinese Theatre to the Dolby for a spectacular spring/summer 2022 show

Giddy UP • A Los Angeles eatery revives Old Hollywood charm

Among the RUINS • A nuanced view of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s great love

Murder He Wrote • The story of William F. Buckley’s most dangerous cause célèbre

SIX-PACK • Satire to rival Animal Farm, dark escapades of youth, and more new fiction

Lights, Camera…T-SHIRT? • Promotional merch from film studio A24 has become a must-have wardrobe item for the indie set

STRANGER in Town • Hello, Hollywood. Was I not what you were expecting?

Child of DUNE • My lifetime passion project managed to survive the upheaval of all Hollywood. Now let’s talk trilogy

THE HOUSE OF HOLLYWOOD • For our 28th annual Hollywood Issue, V.F. convened eight shining stars who are breaking boundaries, thrilling audiences, and inventing the movieland they want to live in

NICOLE KIDMAN • You might think of her as one of the biggest movie stars in the world. But Nicole Kidman says she loves to approach roles like she is fresh out of theater class

KRISTEN STEWART • Her turn in Spencer proves what close observers have always known: Despite her blockbuster past, she has the soul of an indie actor and iconoclast

IDRIS ELBA • With a far-reaching slate of movies ahead, including a big-screen adaptation of Luther, Idris Elba is flexing his versatility—and making room for music

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH • Star turns in very different cinematic universes have let the sublime British actor study Hollywood up close

PENÉLOPE CRUZ • The global superstar and Oscar winner dug deep for her role in Parallel Mothers, her eighth project with longtime collaborator Pedro Almodóvar

ANDREW GARFIELD • It’s actually his talent that goes Tick, Tick…Boom!

MICHAELA JAÉ RODRIGUEZ • The star on growing up in Newark, making history in Hollywood—and ignoring the noise

SIMU LIU • With Marvel’s Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, the actor shouldered superhuman expectations with aplomb. Now he contends with the responsibilities—and revelations—of being a star

SON OF A PREACHER MAN • JERRY FALWELL JR. was the Trump-anointing dark prince of the Christian right. But after a sex scandal rocked his marriage and ended his lucrative stewardship of Liberty University, he’s ready to admit he never had much use for his father’s...