Jeffrey Epstein The Nauseating Time Travel of Watching Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Party Like It’s 1992Vanity Fair - Erin VanderhoofThe fashion, the music, the blatant sexism—it’s a bracing reminder of a past that, come to think of it, isn’t so far gone after all. What catches your attention first is the 1992 of it all. The video shows
Ted Kennedy “The Kennedy Machine Buried What Really Happened”: Revisiting Chappaquiddick, 50 Years LaterVanity Fair - Josh SanburnThere aren’t many people alive who witnessed Chappaquiddick firsthand. Those who did recall how Ted Kennedy escaped punishment—and how Mary Jo Kopechne’s story was overshadowed. Fifty years ago, as men
Skin Care Great, FaceApp Helps Us Confront Our Mortal Coils in Two Easy StepsVanity Fair - Kenzie BryantOr maybe by looking age in the face, we’re going to be able to handle the real thing better—provided we even make it that far. Wow, FaceApp is in the news again because everyone wants to share how they
Play buttonBlue Ivy Carter Blue Ivy Carter Continues to Be the Star of the Lion King Press TourVanity Fair - Josh DuboffAfter making a splash at the premiere, Carter makes an impression in Beyoncé’s new music video. At the Lion King red carpet in Los Angeles last week, all eyes—as ever—were on Beyoncé, as the star of the
Katy Perry What’s Katy Perry’s Secret?Vanity Fair - Kenzie BryantWho does it better?, we want to know. Who does it best? Who has the better plan for health and happiness? Grimes? Or Katy Perry? Or Gwyneth Paltrow? Or Shailene Woodley? What’s their secret? Perry’s restorative
Festivals Who Would Have Guessed Woodstock’s 50th Anniversary Would Involve So Many Lawsuits?Vanity Fair - Kenzie BryantThe peace-and-love war continues with bureaucracy and cease and desist fronts. Woodstock’s 50th anniversary is under a month away, and as much as the original festival supposedly came together in an ad
Underground Railroad “The Outrage Was So Large and So Secret”: Colson Whitehead Talks Hope, Despair, and Fighting the Power in The Nickel BoysVanity Fair - Yahdon IsraelThe Pulitzer Prize–winning author's new novel, inspired by the atrocities committed at Florida's Dozier School for Boys, lays bare America’s history of state-sanctioned violence In 2016, Colson Whitehead
Stella McCartney Has Grimes Gone Full Tech Bro? Or Is She Just a Troll?Vanity Fair - Erin VanderhoofIn Instagram post announcing her role in a campaign for Adidas by Stella McCartney, the art-pop princess (and girlfriend of Elon Musk) got a little weird. In May 2018, when we were all feeling the earliest
Gwyneth Paltrow Tracy Anderson Offers an Oddly Poetic Defense of GoopVanity Fair - Josh DuboffGwyneth Paltrow is used to navigating all sorts of micro-controversies and scandals related to her company, Goop, as it continues to expand and grow its scope. Recently the company held its first-ever
Area 51 The Absolute Joy and Utter Relief of the Teens’ Area 51 Conspiracy MemesVanity Fair - Kenzie BryantA plan to break into Area 51 and “see them aliens” turned into plan to break into Area 51 and “clap” the aliens’ “cheeks.” Listen, I’ll get this out of the way: The government has asked you kindly not
Billy Eichner Meghan Markle and Billy Eichner Found Common Ground at the Lion King PremiereVanity Fair - Josh DuboffThe Lion King star shared some details about his conversation with the Duchess. It is very easy to forget, given that she is now the Meghan Markle we know her to be, that it was not all that long ago the
Hungary Petra Collins Molds Herself AnewVanity Fair - Dan AdlerThe artist speaks about her new photography book and its reconfigured self-portraiture. Petra Collins is used to taking photographs and being photographed. In her new book, Miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én
Brad Pitt Brad Pitt Reportedly Has the Kids for SummerVanity Fair - Kenzie BryantFilming dates dictate who get the kids and when, as the Angelina Jolie–Brad Pitt divorce nears its third year. Oh gosh, where did we leave off? Where in the interminable dissolution of Brad and Angelina
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle and Beyoncé Have Now Met; the Internet Survives, BarelyVanity Fair - Josh Duboff“The best advice I can give you: always find time for yourself,” Jay-Z reportedly tells the Sussexes. It has happened: after much anticipation and buildup, Meghan Markle and Beyoncé, the Duchess of Sussex,
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle, Kate Middleton, and Pippa Middleton Are All Smiles Together at WimbledonVanity Fair - Kevin FitzpatrickAfter a week of photo drama and a reunion at a polo match seemingly intended to move past it, Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle made the public joint appearance we’ve been waiting for. The two duchesses,
Play buttonTV shows Spoon Has Been in Tons of TV Shows, but Usually Didn’t Watch ThemVanity Fair - Erin VanderhoofThe band’s frontman Britt Daniel watches film and TV scenes that feature his songs—some of them for the first time. When the nervy indie-rock band Spoon formed in 1993, frontman Britt Daniel didn’t expect
Narcissism Banks Is Ready for an “Unapologetic Reintroduction”Vanity Fair - Ilana KaplanThe singer, known for her sultry, gospel-tinged vocals, took some time to find herself—and turn 30—before she made her album III, which is out today. At the beginning of her career, the musician Banks
R. Kelly R. Kelly’s Publicist Is Confronted in Atlanta Hours After Singer’s ArrestVanity Fair - Kenzie BryantIt’s been a bad month for men accused of lording their power over young girls. Days after Jeffrey Epstein made global news for his arrest on one count of sex trafficking and one count of conspiracy to
Jackie Kennedy Onassis Inside Jackie O’s Longest, Most Complicated FriendshipVanity Fair - William KuhnNancy Tuckerman, who died a year ago, stood beside the first lady from her teenage years to the White House to her editorial career. She knew her as perhaps no one else did. Few people knew Jackie Kennedy
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle Gave D.J. Idris Elba a Set List for Her WeddingVanity Fair - Josh DuboffWhile we don’t have any photographs from inside Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s wedding reception—which took place in May of last year—a few intriguing details have emerged since the glam event. George
Matt Lauer Hamptons Problems: The MAGA Invasion Is Just the Tip of the IcebergVanity Fair - Kia MakarechiIt’s been some time since this writer rounded up Hamptons horror stories, but the situation seems so out of hand that a summary is, if anything, overdue. Consider this list of big shots who have popped
Robotics David Ewing Duncan Is Ready for the Robot RevolutionVanity Fair - Mary Alice MillerIn Talking to Robots, his new collection of short stories based on deep reporting, the science writer addresses our technological anxieties. David Ewing Duncan, the award-winning science journalist and
Honey Now You Can Buy a Dan Colen—And Put It on Your ToastVanity Fair - Laura RegensdorfThe artist’s Sky High Farm, set on a bucolic 40 acres in New York’s Columbia County, has been quietly sustaining local food banks for years. Now, with a budding product line on the online food shop Bubble,
Justin Bieber Hollywood’s Holy Hipster SceneVanity Fair - Joel SteinFrom Kanye’s Sunday Service to churches like Zoe and Mosaic: searching for salvation—and “the authentic”—at L.A.’s new breed of celeb-laden ministries. I am in the mosh pit of West Hollywood’s El Rey jangly
Louis Vuitton Louis Vuitton Serves Up Instagram-Friendly NostalgiaVanity Fair - Iva DixitThe new collection revels in 1980s Paris, which plays well in the digital age. In Éric Rohmer’s ‘80s classic Les Nuits de la Pleine Lune (Full Moon in Paris), a young design intern, Louise (Pascale Ogier),
Malala Yousafzai Malala Yousafzai Answers the Proust QuestionnaireVanity Fair - Condé NastThe Nobel Peace Prize winner, Malala Fund founder, and author of We Are Displaced talks nail-biting and pesky brothers. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Being grateful for what you have. What is
Andy Warhol GalleryVanity Fair - Erin VanderhoofWhen the Italian photographer Ugo Mulas made his first trip to New York to visit artists’ studios in 1964, his first task was to find his mentor, Marcel Duchamp. According to Mulas historian Hendel Teicher
Princess Diana Guess How Much Princess Diana’s Tabloid-Foiling Sweatshirt Is WorthVanity Fair - Kenzie BryantWell, you blew it. Unless you are the “collector in California who wishes to remain anonymous,” you did not manage to outbid everyone else in order to acquire Princess Diana's old Virgin Atlantic sweatshirt.
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Breaking Down Every Angle of Archie’s Royal ChristeningVanity Fair - Josh DuboffAlso on this week’s episode of In the Limelight: Kate and Meghan go to Wimbledon. Archie Harrison—seventh in line to the throne, son of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle—made his first appearance since his
