Vanity Fair

From entertainment to world affairs, business to style, design to society, Vanity Fair is a cultural catalyst, inspiring and driving the national conversation. Now the magazine has redefined storytelling for the Digital Age, bringing its high-profile interviews, stunning photography, and thought-provoking features to your device in a whole new way.

Vanity Fair

Editor’s Letter • I always love Michelle Ruiz’s cover profiles, because she packs so much life into every sentence, and she gravitates to subjects with very packed lives.

Contributors

VANITIES • VANITAS VANITATUM

Young, RESTLESS • With Beef and now The Last of Us on his résumé, YOUNG MAZINO proves he’s up to a challenge

High WIRE • Wind your way into an artist’s imagination with Ruth Asawa: Retrospective, a celebration of the modernist’s six-decade career spent bending notions of surface, volume, and perception

Six Pack • Books that plumb the breadth of human desire

Other WORDS • VIET THANH NGUYEN explores what it means to be an outsider

Treasure TROVE • For the glitterati’s go-to jeweler JESSICA MCCORMACK, diamonds and dogs are a girl’s best friend

In BLOOM

ANATOMY of a Fall • Inside the first week—and final hours—of the Harris campaign

Gossip GIRLS • Conservative media has feasted on the fight between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. If you’re full of hate for Hollywood, what’s not to love?

GWYNETH EVERLASTING • NOT LONG AFTER SHE WON AN OSCAR AT AGE 26, Gwyneth Paltrow BAILED ON THE INDUSTRY, FINDING A CREATIVE OUTLET AND CASH FLOW IN BUILDING HER OWN BUSINESS. NOW GOOP AND THE KIDS ARE ALL GROWN UP, LEAVING PALTROW FREE TO DO WHATEVER SHE LIKES, INCLUDING HER MAJOR MOVIE COMEBACK WITH TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET

TRIAL BY FIRE • Los Angeles is said to have no seasons, but what it does have is what Joan Didion called “the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse.” Photojournalist STUART PALLEY turned his camera on this year’s wildfires and shares his account of devastation and resilience

Style DRIVER • FASHION-FORWARD SIMONE ASHLEY REVS UP FOR A ROLE IN BRAD PITT’S SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER F1

GOD COMPLEX • SILICON VALLEY WAS ONCE DRIVEN BY A GODLESS CHASE FOR GROWTH.NOW THE NEW RELIGION IS RELIGION

THE FAMILY BUSINESS

AIR OF DANGER • Fancy fliers have created a huge boom in private-jet travel, no longer the exclusive province of Fortune 500 companies, Elon Musk, or Taylor Swift. Yet for all the allure, flying private is a rather dangerous luxury

TONI COLLETTE • The actor and Mickey 17 star on travel regrets, acupuncture, and jumping into the ocean