Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2024 i Vanity Fair

On a flawless summer day in Los Angeles, I watched two witches work their magic. They defied not only gravity but also a rain machine, as you’ll see in Norman Jean Roy’s glorious photographs, styled by the inimitable Patti Wilson. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande have taken the backstory of Oz’s characters to heart, and we cannot wait to see their chemistry on the screen when Wicked (part one!) comes out in November. Chris Murphy speaks to each star solo and captures their dynamic together in his profile of two women putting their stamp on a theatrical property beloved for its interpretation of Gregory Maguire’s excellent 1995 novel, which itself recasts our notion of The Wizard of Oz, one of the most famous American stories of all time. High bar,…

Style File DAILY UNIFORM: Suzie Kondi velour tracksuits. GO-TO SHOE: I have Skechers shoes everywhere. I have separate pairs for inside and outside, as outside shoes are not allowed in my house. I also keep a pair in every car. ACTIVEWEAR: Alo Yoga (3). IN THE JEWELRY BOX: Harry Winston, Tiffany & Co., and Graff (1). FOR BED: Sabbia Rosa sleepwear from Paris (7). Self-care SKIN CARE: Mario Badescu Vitamin C Serum (11). WASH DAY RITUAL: I wash my hair with Oribe and get a blow-dry three times a week (4). Ice rinses are extremely important after conditioning. HAIRBRUSH: Yves Durif Vented (8). PERFUME: Fracas De Robert Piguet eau de parfum (5). WORKOUT ROUTINE: In New York, I do Pilates three times a week with Janice Friedman, my personal trainer…

Renowned for more than a century as a stylish stalwart, Cartier’s Tank watch is sizing down. Originally released in 1917, the Tank embodies Louis Cartier’s pursuit of clean, geometric, and simple forms in his jewelry and watches. This version of the timepiece—which has been frequently reimagined over the years—calls to mind various vintage iterations. And, like all canonic designs, it strikes a balance between telling the time and capturing it.…

Edward KINSELLA III “EMPIRE STATE OF MIND,” P. 76 “It felt right to have a dark, gritty, and pushed-back feeling,” says the illustrator, who used dry-brushed ink and liquid charcoal for his portrait of Steve Bannon. Kinsella’s mixed-media work, created in his St. Louis studio, has been exhibited worldwide. Ali WINSTON “THE VICIOUS CIRCLE,” P. 90 “Contemporary journalism treats extremism as episodic—we switch off after the sentence is passed and the prison doors shut—but that’s the environment where such ideologies are incubated and propagated,” says Winston, who has been investigating neofascism’s global revival since 2017. Patti WILSON “FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES,” P. 42 Stylist Wilson, who calls her time working with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande “nothing short of magical,” likes to think of her work as ever-evolving. “I am…

“HAVE YOU ANY experience with patients who suddenly understood something,” writes Jenny Slate in her new essay collection, Lifeform (Little, Brown), “and then even though they had other things to do, they could not stop fixating on that new understanding?” “You can be asleep in a stone for so long, and so much can happen without your consent, and so much can happen because you are awake in the stone but afraid to even make a peep,” she continues. “But once you are out, once you get busted out, you can work freely and make up for lost time.” Slate has a flair for the fantastical and is deeply attuned to the ecosystems of relationships: Her 2022 film Marcel the Shell With Shoes On tells the story of a one-inch-tall shell…

JESSE EISENBERG WAS futzing about on the computer one day when an ad popped up for a Holocaust tour that stated—in parentheses—“with lunch.” “It just was such an evocative phrase and summed up so much of what’s strange about modern life—the way we want to experience reality and we want to experience difficulty but always from a safe place,” he says. That pop-up ad inspired him to write A Real Pain, a funny and heartfelt story about two cousins (David, played by Eisenberg, and Benji, Succession’s Kieran Culkin) who travel from New York to their beloved grandmother’s birthplace of Poland on a group tour. Like his characters, Eisenberg—who also directed the film, which premiered at Sundance and will open in theaters November 1—was on his own eerie sojourn, even filming…

THERE ARE TIMES when Washington still feels like what it used to be—a sleepy little Southern city. Generations of some of the most powerful people on earth have spent their days in DC griping that the city is a backwater. But Washington’s modest position in our constellation of great cities was always part of its charm, well-suited to our sprawling continental republic. American power has no center, or rather, it has centers all over—New York for finance, Houston for energy, the low-slung hubs of Menlo Park and Atherton, California, for tech, all the way back to the elite schools of New England, where our scribes and aristocrats are trained to manage the subsystems that keep the American project functioning. America, as many of the most powerful people in the world…

In May, Anora won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival largely thanks to Mikey Madison’s breakout performance as the title character: a sex worker, named Ani, who falls for the son of a Russian oligarch. But Madison says her life hasn’t been turned upside down just yet. “The biggest change is just getting this puppy,” she says, nodding toward the five-month-old Chihuahua rescue curled up in her lap. She adopted Jam in June, and since then she’s largely spent her time taking him to puppy-training classes and helping him get along with her cat, Biscuit. That’s bound to change when Anora hits theaters October 18. Madison, who’s 25, has been acting for years: She played Pamela Adlon’s brash daughter Max on FX’s cult-favorite comedy Better Things and met…

A CASE OF MATRICIDE Blasé chief inspector Gorski, of Saint-Louis, France, embarks on a bungled relationship and tangles with a novelist whose mother is afraid he’s going to kill her in this marvelously meta mystery from Booker-nominated Graeme Macrae Burnet. (Biblioasis) LOVE CAN’T FEED YOU In Cherry Lou Sy’s debut, a man and his children leave the Philippines to join his wife in Sunset Park, Brooklyn; there, teenage Queenie finds herself caught between her feuding parents and begins to explore her own desire. (Dutton) EUROTRASH Christian Kracht released Faserland in 1995; nearly 30 years later this sequel finds its narrator on a road trip with his infirm and barbiturate-popping mother while attempting to right the sins of his forefathers. (Liveright) EVERY ARC BENDS ITS RADIAN A “poet/philosopher/private eye” searches Colombia…

FOR GIORGIO ARMANI, style goes beyond fashion. It is but one expression, and food is another. Just two decades after debuting his fashion label in Milan in 1975, Armani opened his first restaurant in Paris, the entrée to an epicurean empire that now serves carefully considered Italian cuisine in such glittering cities as Dubai, Milan, and Tokyo. This fall Armani/Ristorante will open its doors on Madison Avenue between East 65th and 66th streets, where it will continue to prove, as the fashion designer once said, “the only limit is good taste.” Steps away from Central Park, the restaurant’s contemporary space channels the decadence of a bygone era. A Champagne bar greets guests at the entrance, giving way to marble-effect flooring and mirrors on the walls. Just as Armani sees no…

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Creating something and feeling proud of it. What is your greatest extravagance? A toss-up: my New York apartment or owning two horses, two extravagances that don’t sit well with each other. What is your greatest regret? Je ne regrette rien, but there are a few star-making roles I turned down. What or who is the greatest love of your life? Lucky me: my wife, Mary. What do you dislike most about your appearance? My posture. (I blame perpetual stooping out of courtesy.) What is your greatest fear? Climate change, duh. On what occasion do you lie? Backstage visits. Which living person do you most admire? Bill Moyers. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Conflict aversion. What is the trait you…