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

THE MAKING OF THE NEW ESTABLISHMENT ISSUE

ZADA BING! • Joseph Zada battled thousands of up-and-comers to nab the lead role in the new Hunger Games movie. As REBECCA FORD found, that’s not the only way his life imitates his art

VANITIES

SUNSHINE DAYDREAM • With their colorful lenses and frames inspired by pop culture history, Jacques Marie Mage sunglasses have developed a cultlike following. But for founder Jérôme Mage, vision is not limited to specs. The designer speaks to ELISE TAYLOR about putting his rock-and-roll spin on a Los Angeles architectural gem

LINE CULTURE • HILLARY BUSIS goes a step beyond Tom Petty: The waiting is the least necessary part

CATHERINE HOLSTEIN • The Khaite creative director has a few tricks up her sleeve

THE OLD ESTABLISHMENT • Ranking powerful people is perilous work. What if they’re overthrown by corporate or cultural revolution, or commit some light fraud? It’s a risk we take knowing that some listees might go Icarus mode

BELTWAY BLING • In Trump’s Washington, AIDAN MCLAUGHLIN finds a new set of status symbols for the MAGA elite: certain watches, certain members clubs—even a certain airport for your private jet

FUNNY FACES

Donald the Great • The 45th and 47th president has been called consequential, imaginative, influential—sometimes for better, mostly for worse. TA-NEHISI COATES takes it one beat further in a bid to examine just how pivotal this president will prove to have been

The Armenian Dream • Call it a curse or call it destiny, Kim Kardashian’s success and her famous family are a prophecy foretold by her very own ancestors. It’s in her blood, argues JONATHAN VAN METER, who, in Citizen Kim, traces the mogul’s signature work ethic back to ancient Armenia

The Good Wife • A year after Charlie Kirk’s murder, the MAGA movement is fracturing and the future of his influential political organization, Turning Point USA, now rests in the hands of his politically reluctant widow, who is also a victim of the conspiracy groupthink he fomented. With unprecedented access to her world, CLARA MOLOT asks: Who is Erika Kirk?

VANITY FAIR PRESENTS THE RETURN OF THE NEW ESTABLiSHMENT 2026 • POWER BROKERS. HEROES. HERETICS. OUTLAWS. MEET THE LEADERS OF THE ARTIFICIAL AGE

THE NAVIGATOR • Princess, madam, soldier, spy: Florence Pugh plays them all this year. HILLARY BUSIS catches up with an actor who has a genuine devotion to her craft, even when it hurts—and an uncommon agility steering through Hollywood’s choppy waters

LARRY ELLISON’S TENTACULAR SPECTACULAR • Larry Ellison’s favorite motif is the octopus, from which his holding companies, investments, and even his art collection have taken inspiration. In a moment when the $200 billion software titan has suctioned himself to so many different hubs of influence—from data centers to TikTok to Hollywood studios to the Oval Office itself—TOM DOTAN dives deep into Ellison’s cephalopodic kingdom, starting on the island enclave of Lanai, to see if his grip is beginning to loosen

BABES IN THE WOOD • Six years ago, Jordan Firstman’s métier was hilarious and absurd impressions on Instagram. Now he’s gate-crashing awards season with a sweet, tender coming-of-age tale called Club Kid. REBECCA FORD catches up with an auteur on the brink—and the colorful cast of his big debut

HER DARK MATERIALS • In a groundbreaking show at the Guggenheim, photographer Taryn...