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

Editor’s Letter

New FLAMES • If seasonal gloom is beginning to take hold, light things up with the month’s brightest pieces, people and places

A Call to HOPE • Staying resilient for the battles ahead

Contributors

VANITIES • VANITAS VANITATUM

SHE’S All That • Musical heroine, dystopian warrior, Disney princess—what can’t RACHEL ZEGLER do?

Body WORK • A comprehensive new book of photographs showcases the coolly carnal vision of Steven Klein

Destiny, MANIFEST • From shimmering eye shadow to frosted accessories, return to a world where everything that glitters is likely diamanté—and the club is jumpin’, jumpin’

TAIL Spin • As the tabloids chart a supposed diminution in celebrity butts, a new book takes stock of a valued asset

Manual Reset • Soft Services, a solutions-minded body-care brand, designs a nightstand staple for the hands.

Be Here, NOW • Through 366 images, Patti Smith finds art in the everyday

SIX PACK • Stories of siblings, star-crossed love, and more new fiction

Memory Palace • A writer recalls his formative relationship with Elizabeth Hardwick in 1970s New York.

Made to MEASURE

A Rare TREAT • A Parisian den of delicacies, Caviar Kaspia, expands its purview to New York, and if it’s anything like the original, the rich and famous will follow

The Lizzo Show • EVERYTHING’S coming up LIZZO, and it’s ABOUT DAMN TIME

THE RISE OF THE RONALD • Ron DeSantis is the polished, competent, Fox-loving, lib-owning successor-in-waiting to Donald Trump’s MAGA nation. Is it any wonder they’re locked in a 2024 cold war?

We Need to Talk About • EZRA MILLER rocketed from starring turns in indie hits to a budding superhero franchise with The Flash. But a recent spiral of guns, drugs, delusions of grandeur, and allegations of assault and grooming have thrown the promising actor’s career into question. Inside the alarming story of Hollywood’s most troubled young star

FORWARD VISION • ANNIE LEIBOVITZ TURNS HER LENS ON EIGHT OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FEMALE ARTISTS OF OUR TIME.

THE FIGHT A HEAD • The Supreme Court’s decision to end federal protections for abortion access didn’t just rewind the clock 50 years, it opened a Pandora’s box of confusing, potentially life-threatening legal complications. VF talks with five women on the front lines

The Past Is Present • Half a century ago—amid Supreme Court hearings on Roe v. Wade, racial reckonings, and political tension—a group of women launched Ms. magazine. Here, Gloria Steinem reflects on that first year

The QUEEN MOTHER • The question of reparations couldn’t be more urgent, as the health care crisis for black Americans worsens. In Queen Mother Audley Moore, we have a newly relevant template for change

THE AFTERMATH • Girls have been banned from school after sixth grade. Women are mandated to be fully covered except for their eyes. Female employment has virtually disappeared. PETER VAN AGTMAEL reports and photographs from Afghanistan, where the Taliban have spent the past year erasing women from public life

JULIE TAYMOR • The visionary director on the 25th anniversary of The Lion King, the power of travel, and her fear of hippos