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

Special ADDITIONS • As the season shifts, shake things up with gleaming accessories, the latest launches and a little cultural intrigue

Editor’s Letter • This year marks 70 years since Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne—her platinum jubilee. She has served in her offcial role alongside 14 British prime ministers, from Winston Churchill to Boris Johnson, and her reign spans 14 U.S. presidents and counting.

Rise to THE OCCASION • Guests shot to the ninth floor of 180 House on London’s Strand for the Vanity Fair EE Rising Star Party, fuelled by a heady combination of Taittinger, Villa Maria, and Cîroc cocktails.

Contributors

VANITIES

Winner’s CIRCLE • QUINCY ISAIAH’s magic moment happened slowly, then all at once

Home Cooking

Purple REIGN • Take a dip in these violet delights, from lilac cat-eye shades to indigo kitten-heel sandals to ruffes that evoke rolling floral hills

Bright SIDE • From her pink furniture to floral frocks, DVF cochairwoman TALITA VON FURSTENBERG creates candy-hued worlds

Coming Up ROSES • Can perfumery’s archetypal flower outstep its grandmotherly reputation? A new crop of scents shakes things up By Laura Regensdorf

Oscars 2022 • The 94th Academy Awards might have taken an unexpected turn, but glamour and revelry remained throughout the historic show and Vanity Fair after-party.

Coast ALONG • In postwar Cape Cod and 1960s L.A., art, love, and politics collide

SIX-PACK High raunch, Afrofuturism, and more new fiction

Unscripted • Three actors pen evocative, intimate personal histories.

Blue CRUSH • A number of settings have housed the world-renowned Tiffany Diamond—of Audrey Hepburn, Lady Gaga, and Beyoncé fame—but these flowers and petite leaves wrought in diamond and yellow gold were one of its earliest imagined iterations. The Fleurage bracelet, which Jean Schlumberger sketched in 1958 but never fully realized, has come to life with a gleaming 48-carat aquamarine at its center, in a size and cut similar to that famous pale yellow friend. Nothing but blue skies ahead for this gemstone garden.

The Wide WORLD OF KANYE • “They say people in your life are seasons, and anything that happen is for a reason.” So quoth Ye, né Kanye Omari West, whose tangled web of pals, foes, lovers, and influences is an all-weather wonder

Language BARRIER • A bilingual screenwriter tried to build a bridge between Russia and the West. Vladimir Putin burned it down

Mr. Dylan’s DREAM HOUSE • A first peek at Tulsa’s treasure-packed Bob Dylan museum

THE QUEEN OF HEARTS • As QUEEN ELIZABETH II celebrates her platinum jubilee, the ROYAL FAMILY struggles to control fractures while redefining the Firm for a new era. Perhaps no one has better footing—to everyone’s surprise—than CAMILLA, DUCHESS OF CORNWALL

DIANA’S LAST DANCE • In this excerpt from her new book, The Palace Papers, about the 25 YEARS since Diana’s death, Tina Brown describes the impact the PRINCESS’S press strategy had on her sons

THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING HOUSE OF WINDSOR • A quiet, decades-long effort to PARE DOWN the official Windsor dramatis personae has UPENDED THE MILLENNIAL ROYALS—with irreversible consequences

ALL IN THE FAMILY • JAMES...