Innholdsfortegnelse for May 2024 i Vanity Fair

She lay in a coma at Cedars-Sinai for five days, with no hope of regaining consciousness, until her grieving family made the wrenching decision to take her off life support. The following spring, Tina Brown, who had come from London to New York as a special consultant to the newly relaunched magazine Vanity Fair, met Dominique’s father, Dominick Dunne, at a dinner party hosted by the writer Marie Brenner. Dunne was then working on a novel about a society murder (it would become The Two Mrs. Grenvilles), and that evening he spoke movingly about Dominique’s death and mentioned he was going to LA for the trial. Brown recounts their conversation in her memoir, The Vanity Fair Diaries: “Marie told him he should think about keeping a diary. It might be…

“SHE’LL HAVE A fashion line, a foundation—she’s going to turn her whole family into millionaires,” muses Josh O’Connor’s Patrick about Zendaya’s Tashi in Challengers, Luca Guadagnino’s sweaty, vibey ménage à trois costumed by Loewe’s Jonathan Anderson. Racketers need not stop there. Peruse The Tennis Collection (Rizzoli), where Gustavo Fernández delves into Museo de la Moda’s fashion archives, and Teddy Wayne’s The Winner (Harper) for another spin on psychological courting dynamics. Then don a skirt set, head for the baseline, and raise a racket. —KEZIAH WEIR Love / Love Serena Williams’s latest hit: versatile makeup for every day “Early on, playing on the pro circuit meant having to grow up in front of a camera,” says Serena Williams, whose career kicked off at 14. When she began wearing liquid liner and lip…

◼ Style File DAILY UNIFORM: Besides loving cashmere (2), you would be shocked at how many pairs of jeans I own. FOR WALKING: Birkenstock classic sandals (8). WRIST CANDY: My vintage Cartier charm bracelet that my husband, Sean MacPherson, adds charms to for special occasions. It is building the story of our lives together (1). DATE NIGHT: I like to mix something fun over something proper. I absolutely hate wearing stilettos—the pain is a distraction to my evening. I prefer comfortable boots. I have three pairs from Reike Nen (15). OUTERWEAR: Marfa Stance (10). ◼ Self-care CURRENT OBSESSION: BeautyBio GloPro (9). HOLY GRAIL: Goop’s Himalayan salt scalp scrub shampoo is one of the most luxurious things you can do for yourself that takes less than a minute. I have been…

AT 3 A.M., during the early hours of Halloween 1982, Detective Harold Johnston of the West Hollywood homicide division rang the doorbell of my mother’s house in the flats of Beverly Hills. Marina, her live-in housekeeper, woke to the sound and let the detective in. When she led Johnston into Mom’s bedroom, the lights were on and she was already sitting up in bed, bracing herself for news that is never good at that time of night. The first thing that caught Johnston’s eye was my mother’s wheelchair. He was a tough Irish cop who’d made countless house calls like this before, but never to a lady like Mrs. Ellen Griffn Dunne of 528 Crescent Drive North. He took in the wheelchair, the collection of glass hippos lining the shelves…

What is your idea of perfect happiness? A beautiful meal and a glass of wine with my favorite people and lots of laughter ringing around the table. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Self-doubt and a reoccurring fear that people would prefer the other Alfred Molina. What is your greatest extravagance? Having my shirts dry-cleaned. What do you dislike most about your appearance? How much time do we have? Which words or phrases do you most overuse? “Oh darling, here’s something interesting…” What is your greatest regret? Waiting so long to move to New York. When and where were you happiest? My first payday as a professional actor, knowing this was the beginning of the rest of my life, and the day my daughter told me I…

Nick RILEY BENTHAM VANITIES P. 21 While there is often a sense of joy palpable in the VF contributing photographer’s work, his day photographing South African singer Tyla was at another level. Everyone danced the day away “in formation,” Riley Bentham says, on a high-energy set graced with the presence of the musician’s new puppy. Griffin DUNNE “DEVIL’S EVE, 1982” P. 78 The director, producer, film and television actor, and nephew of the late Joan Didion is often asked if it was diffcult to write about himself and his family in his forthcoming memoir, The Friday Afternoon Club (Penguin Press). Dunne’s largest obstacle proved to be finding a satisfying ending. “Most everyone is gone, but they seemed to come alive on my laptop…. I had to say goodbye all over…

“SO MANY FEMINIST artists get erased,” says Kathleen Hanna, who, with her new memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, is determined not to be one of them. Hanna, 55, tells Vanity Fair she needed to sit down and turn her “life into some kind of narrative to make sense of it.” Her first draft clocked in at around 600 pages—a “Riot Grrrl Hobbit,” she jokes—before she cut it down to size. Hanna, of course, has a lot to say, as Rebel Girl charts her trailblazing path as a leader of the 1990s Riot Grrrl movement and front person for Bikini Kill and Le Tigre, finding her voice in xeroxed zines and on sweaty stages. Rebel Girl is Hanna in full: politically radical, funny, and fearless. She writes…

As the go-to hairstylist for Chanel campaigns and Thom Browne runways, James Pecis understands the glamour and excess of the fashion world. That’s why a 2013 shoot with Gisele Bündchen in the Costa Rican hamlet of Santa Teresa left such an impression. “I was going surfing on my lunch break,” he says. Pecis and his wife, Kimberley Norcott, ended up buying property nearby; when the pandemic hit, they stayed put with their young son, taking in the waves and sunsets. Pecis is attuned to the environment (“I’ll be paddling through the water and see a shampoo bottle passing me”), which is why the duo has created Blu & Green, an innovative hair care brand with plastic-free packaging. It reflects their pared-down lifestyle in a place that draws a creative crowd.…

Lily of the valley has been a symbol of hope and good luck within France for centuries. The prolific and superstitious Christian Dior embraced it as his favorite, so much so that his first collection in Paris is said to have been shown amid bouquets of its bell-shaped blooms. It makes sense, then, that Victoire de Castellane and Kim Jones (creative directors of Dior Fine Jewelry and Dior Homme, respectively) drew upon the emblem for their collaboration on a unique piece of high jewelry for men. The delicate mother-of-pearl blooms, vivid malachite leaves, and glittering lacquer roots bring life and dimension to the brooch. (And hopefully significant amounts of bonne chance to the wearer.) —Daisy Shaw-Ellis…