Innholdsfortegnelse for July/August 2025 i Vanity Fair

Shore THING The coral reef is a paradox of time, as its life-forms continually give way to something new. Like the underwater ecosystem, Fendi is looking to its past to move forward. The Italian fashion house’s Baguette bag features a red coral bandana motif in beadwork over white leather, reminiscent of the fantastical themes of Histoire d’Eau, the 1977 short film that presented Karl Lagerfeld’s first ready-to-wear collection for Fendi. This one is sure to make a splash. —Kayla Holliday Scandi DANDY In Copenhagen, a dip in Refshaleøen harbor, a bike ride from Lille bakery to La Banchina restaurant, and an abundance of sun across the city make for a picturesque summer holiday Flow STATE Following an aggressive cancer diagnosis and the end of her marriage, KATIE NICHOLL finds tranquility at…

“A CHAIR IS still a chair, even when there’s no one sitting there,” Dionne Warwick first crooned more than six decades ago. “But a chair is not a house, and a house is not a home, when there’s no one there to hold you tight.” This year, Louis Vuitton is offering a mighty assemblage of stylish decor that will make your house a home—including chairs you might just fall in love with. The Louis Vuitton Home Collections span five categories: the newly inaugurated Signature Collection of furniture and lighting, which joins tableware, decoration, exceptional gaming, and the brand’s celebrated Objets Nomades. For the latter, since 2012, the French luxury goods and fashion purveyor has collaborated with designers worldwide, like Estúdio Campana and Patricia Urquiola, to concoct limitededition creations ranging from…

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Dance music, incredible food, great friends, and lots of dogs. What is your greatest fear? Being boring. I have had two therapists fall asleep on me, not kidding. Are people even reading this far? Which living person do you most admire? My niece, Petra Janney, who got her pilot’s license to rescue animals from rural kill shelters and have them placed with different pet adoption agencies. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Oh, I have a long list. You should ask me what I like about myself—that list is much shorter. What is the trait you most deplore in others? People who punch down. What is your greatest extravagance? Postmates. What is your favorite journey? Coming home after being away…

André CARRILHO “A MODERN PROMETHEUS,” P. 34 “The interesting thing about satirizing Trump is that all hyperbole eventually becomes true,” says the artist, who in this issue illustrates Cristian Farias’s column on Chief Justice John Roberts. “These are people who would be too outrageous for fiction, thus very compelling to draw from life.” Cristian FARIAS “A MODERN PROMETHEUS,” P. 34 “Judges won’t save us,” says Farias, VF legal contributor and the host of podcast The Bully’s Pulpit, who this month writes about Chief Justice John Roberts. “It won’t be easy to fix what he has broken, but for the sake of our children, we cannot afford not to try.” Sam TANENHAUS “THE GODFATHER PRESIDENCY,” P. 52 The longtime VF contributor went to Capitol Hill during the first 100 days of…

CONTEMPORARY ART HAS been thriving in Greece for a long time. Eleven thousand years ago, Ice Age scrawlers were making cave paintings of dwarf deer on the island of Crete. Remarkable figurative clay sculptures emerged in the Neolithic period, around 4000 BC. The art of classical Greece, in the fourth and fifth centuries BC, is where you get the good stuff: red-figure vases, the marble and gold Athena Parthenos, friezes, reliefs, steles, and amphoras. But in all the millennia of Greek art history, one year stands out: 2009. That’s because in 2009, Larry Gagosian, one of the world’s most celebrated art dealers, hung his shingle in Athens, opening a gallery in what was then pretty far-flung from the culture hubs of Europe. But he was committed. The first show consisted of…

KIM KARDASHIAN HAD only one desire: to flee as quickly as she could. “I want to leave and be reunited with my children in the United States,” she said. “A private plane is waiting for me at Le Bourget.” It wasn’t that simple. Investigators from the Paris police’s organized crime department still had a few questions to ask her. It was 4:30 a.m. on October 3, 2016, and they were at her hotel to take her statement. The 35-year-old American star appeared distraught—“in shock, very pale, and she wasn’t wearing any makeup,” they noted. An hour and a half earlier, two men, one of them armed, burst into her suite at the Hôtel de Pourtalès, a stone’s throw from the Madeleine church in the heart of the city. At first she…

IT BEGAN ON the Via Veneto, July 31, 1960. On a warm Sunday night, the paparazzi were prowling the cafés, waiting to snap a screen goddess or perhaps a dowager principessa—the scene Federico Fellini immortalized when La Dolce Vita was released earlier that year. Giancarlo Giammetti was an unlikely player in this decadent Roman mix. The 18-year-old architecture student’s father owned an electronics store. But the shop was a block from the fashionable Café de Paris, which gave the elder Giammetti as well as his son privileges to a regular table. Giancarlo was ensconced in his seat when Valentino Garavani walked in. The 28-year-old Northern Italian already had a worldly air, having apprenticed in Paris with Jean Dessès, couturier to the Greek court and European nobility. Newly arrived in Rome,…

Scream QUEEN CHASE SUI WONDERS battles serial killers and bloodthirsty paparazzi with equal aplomb GROWING UP, CHASE Sui Wonders wouldn’t be caught dead at a slasher movie. But she stopped being afraid of them after making the horror comedy Bodies Bodies Bodies—which is a good thing, because in July she’s headlining a sequel to the ’90s classic I Know What You Did Last Summer. She was thrilled to make the movie with two of the original’s stars, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. “They were so welcoming. They were so willing to hang,” she says. Sui Wonders has been surrounded by her idols a lot lately. She plays an ambitious newbie executive in Apple TV+’s hit The Studio, a part she nabbed after star and cocreator Seth Rogen asked her…

To his friends and family, he is PEPELO, PIPI, PEDDERS, and PEDS. Years ago, on a movie set, someone started calling him PEPSI, which he loved. Fans on the internet famously refer to him as Daddy or Zaddy, meaning he’s a handsome, stylish older man they can imagine dominating them in a way they would not object to. In a 2022 video for Vanity Fair, part of the magazine’s Lie Detector series, he laughed off the nickname. “Daddy is a state of mind,” he said. “I’m your daddy.” He was being playful, but his eye contact with the camera was so transfixing that some observers only heard the second sentence of that statement. Bella Ramsey—his young costar on The Last of Us, the show that truly catapulted him to stardom—disliked the…

1977 DREAMING OF BRANDO November 3 First contact with Brando. At least, close. Got his secretary/assistant’s number. So, I called. She said that Marlon would do this, and that it should be about the Indians. He was back East but back next week. She would give him my number and he’d get back to me. I said, or else I’ll call him. Had a Brando dream. He was sitting on a couch, his hair in a ponytail. I went over to him and tripped, sprawling on my face. He said nothing. I asked if I could call him Marlon. He said no. I followed him to an elevator, then to a room with people there, walked past them to a smaller, darker room with cushions on the floor. He said…