Innholdsfortegnelse for October 2018 i Vanity Fair

“Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see…”—Jack Hanley World Wide Worry Your story about Tim Berners-Lee’s call to arms to save the Internet [“‘I was devastated,’” by Katrina Brooker, August] brought to mind a comment made by journalist Bernard Levin some 40 years ago in The Times (October 3, 1978): “The silicon chip will transform everything, except everything that matters, and the rest will still be up to us.” Aux barricades! Brendan Kelly, Dublin, Ireland We see that Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee hopes to save us by inventing a new “decentralized” Web that protects our privacy. But why not save ourselves with a new law? This law would simply extend the privacy we all expect of letters, phone calls, telegrams, and faxes to the “datagrams” of…

1 The Sisters Brothers By Patrick deWitt French director Jacques Audiard makes his English-language debut with this Western adaptation. THE STORY: Hit-men brothers Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix) and Eli (John C. Reilly) cut a violent and wryly comic path across Gold Rush–era California in search of a mysterious man (Riz Ahmed) and an invention that might change their fortunes. Opens September 21. 2 Boy Erased By Garrard Conley Actor-director Joel Edgerton stars in the adaptation alongside Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, and Russell Crowe. THE STORY: Conley, the son of an Arkansas preacher, evocatively recalls his teenage years spent struggling with his sexuality, and the “ex-gay” conversion therapy program he sought out to suppress it. Opens November 2. 3 Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life By Jane Sherron De Hart Felicity Jones and…

Back in the day, “loosening your collar” was a sign that things were about to get more interesting. It seems the neckline has long served as a barometer for primness and cultural mores—contrast the demure, practical neckbands of the 1940s with the plunging navel-grazers three decades later. But in the anything-goes sensibility of 2018, the trend has been toward neckwear that proclaims more specific (often specifically feminist) stances than mere modesty or lack thereof. From cinema screens to the Supreme Court bench, on the runway and the streets of Sweden, protest neckwear has arrived. In 2014, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg introduced Katie Couric, and America, to her extensive collection of courtroom jabots. Ginsburg had adopted these collars and ruffs early in her Supreme Court tenure as a feminine alternative to…

What is personal style? A distillation of mood, influences, and wardrobe to create the outward version of your best inner self. As fashion has democratized, so have our wardrobes. Traditional dress codes for gender, occupation, and occasion no longer apply.→Men wear ruffles, dresses, and heels—N.B.A. stars carry some of the most lusted-after designer bags—and women rock men’s suiting and combat boots like a “proper lady” should.→Whether you favor a signature uniform or a daily dose of artistic expression, we hope this year’s list of fabulous honorees inspires you to take some risks and be fashionably fearless!→We gathered together a style brain trust from a swath of creative industries—themselves all possessed of effortless style—and asked them, along with V.F.’s executive fashion director, Samira Nasr, to nominate the most fashionable folks who…

Amal Clooney Lawyer, London and Los Angeles “Clooney is an exceptionally chic woman, beautifully turned out on every occasion.” Danielle Steel H.R.H. Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex London This year, Meghan Markle’s style has evolved into a much sleeker, high-fashion look. She’s the most daring of the royal fashion pack, and her signature boatneck cut and monochromatic color choices exhibit classic polish. H.H. Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Activist, London and Qatar “Moza’s wardrobe is the ultimate regal power statement—she is a modern Jacqueline Onassis.” A.G.…

“I consider dressing up to be part of my creative path. And that’s what it’s been, it sure has—I’m a late bloomer.” Jeff Goldblum Actor, Los Angeles Born: Pittsburgh. Favorite shoe: My zebra-printed Saint Laurent creeper-style lace-ups. Favorite accessory: Tank Louis Cartier watch. Best 2018 fashion purchase: Rings from Chrome Hearts. Fashion purchase he regrets not making: The Saint Laurent T-rex intarsia sweater. Style advice: Don’t copy anyone—find your original voice and trust yourself. Jonah Hill Actor, New York Hill has long been a student of the style family—genus: streetwear; species: skater boy—but recently he has undergone what’s known to the scientific community as a “glow up.” Lush camel overcoats over Hello, Dolly! hoodies. Sambas paired with Grateful Dead–inspired tie-dye. Pink hair on top, Sean Wotherspoon’s Air Max 1/97 VF…

Bella Hadid Model, New York “Bella loves street fashion. With boots or high-tops, and lots of Chrome Hearts, she looks more rock star than sexy pretty girl.” L.E. Eddy de Pretto Rapper, Paris Born: Paris. Favorite place to shop: Les Puces de Saint-Ouen. Favorite shoe: Adidas Yung-1. Favorite accessories: My bum bag and ring. Best 2018 fashion purchase: Andrea Crews cap. Style icon: The new raver kids from La Station. Yara Shahidi Actress, Los Angeles “Yara always looks chic and cool, but age-appropriate. She chooses looks that are fresh, playful, and still fashion-forward.” S.N.…

When you’re known as “the immortals,” as are the 40 members of the Académie Française, it’s hard to take yourselves lightly. Over the course of five centuries, 732 of them have walked the earth and reigned as the guardians of France’s most sacrosanct asset: its language. A linguistic secret service, if you like, they project an almost priestly aura when they don their habits verts—long black cloaks embroidered with leafy-green botanical motifs—accessorized with elaborate ceremonial swords. Drawn from the arts and academia as well as the clergy and government, the Académie is considered to include the nation’s finest minds, and is revered accordingly. It is, after all, the most exclusive club in France. In recent years, however, these august savants (ranging in age from a sprightly 60 up to 99),…

On Friday, September 30, 2016, Republican nominee Donald Trump made his fifth campaign visit to Michigan, a battleground state where he was closing the gap with Hillary Clinton. He was scheduled to speak at five p.m. in Novi, a suburb northwest of Detroit. But instead of landing at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, his plane continued another 150 miles west to the city of Grand Rapids. The sun was peeking through the clouds over the skyline, one of the Midwest’s finest, a harmonious blend of steel-and-glass high-rises and lovingly restored old stone and red-brick buildings, when Trump’s motorcade drove through, at 12:30, and pulled up to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum, named for the longtime Michigan congressman improbably catapulted into the Oval Office by the crimes of Watergate. Visitors were startled…

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Irin Carmon “The Justice and Ms. Jones” p. 126 Carmon says she “loved nerding out about the justice with Felicity Jones,” who plays Ruth Bader Ginsburg in On the Basis of Sex. Carmon’s wedding last year was officiated by Ginsburg, and an exhibition adapted from her book, Notorious RBG, opens in October at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Joy Press “Just F.Y.I.” p. 108 When the V.F. TV correspondent interviewed Murphy Brown creator Diane English for her 2015 book about women in television, neither expected that Murphy would soon return to prime time. “It was amazing,” Press says, “to check in with English and her crusading alter ego.” Dave Cullen “The Parkland Ground Game” p. 112 While spending 10 years writing Columbine, Cullen says he suffered secondary PTSD…

“I kept thinking, If I just get in the room they’ll know… But let me in the room!”KiKi Layne, 26, star of If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning Moonlight…

Stroll: Along Île Saint-Louis (2), Saint-Germain (11), Place Saint-Sulpice. To be alone: Jardin du Luxembourg (8). To work out: Studio Rituel. For a facial: Plaza Athénée Spa. Show-day wake-up: Nine a.m. “We typically work late the night before to finish up the fittings, so I try to get as much sleep as I can in order to re-energize before the show.” Bath or shower? Shower, with Avène Gel douche douceur. Shampoo and conditioner: Shu Uemura Ultimate Remedy (10). Body lotion: Clarins Baume Corps. Face wash: Dior Hydra Life Triple Impact Makeup Remover (3). Serum: Dior Hydra Life. Moisturizer: Dior Prestige La Crème. Show-day ritual: “I’ll eat breakfast with my daughter if she is in town, and then Laura, my makeup artist, does my makeup while I reply to e-mails on…

“Wear what you want to wear—it’s not a competition.” Tracee Ellis Ross Actress, Los Angeles Born: Los Angeles. Favorite wardrobe item: My Tracee Ellis Ross for JC Penney tuxedo. Favorite scent: Any L’Oeil du Vert oils, particularly my custom scent. Favorite shoe: For the red carpet, the Christian Louboutin “So Kate” 4.7-inch heels. For real life, black leather Birkenstocks. Favorite accessory: Jennifer Fisher Baby Samira yellow-gold hoops. Best 2018 fashion purchases: Dries van Noten men’s size-46 burnt-rose suit jacket and Givenchy pointed-toe leather boots in amber. Style icon: My mom. Style advice: The whole thing about style is that not everybody’s gonna get it, and it doesn’t matter. I really just wear what makes my heart sing! I feel like I came out of my mom’s womb like, “Where’s the…

“My style hasn’t changed, but my courage has—my ability to let myself be who I am and trust that, and suffer the consequences.” Lakeith Stanfield Actor, Los Angeles Born: On a small deserted water rock in an apparently boundless universe in a place named San Bernardino by those who won the war. Lives: A strange and oftentimes dark sunny place where illusions are cultivated… Hollywood. Favorite wardrobe item: My serpent ring. Favorite place to shop: Gucci. Favorite scent: Rain clouds. Favorite shoe: Gucci loafers. Best red-carpet moment: [In 2015] I told my stylists I wanted to wear a women’s suit [to the LA Film Festival], and they found one. It was brilliant and beautiful, and I was like, “Yes, yes, yes, yes. I have to do this.” Style advice: When…

One evening last August, Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to dinner at a restaurant in Washington, D.C., with actress Felicity Jones, who was soon to play her in On the Basis of Sex. Armie Hammer, who was to play Ginsburg’s husband, Marty, and the film’s director, Mimi Leder, were also there. In 2011, Ginsburg, 85, had granted her blessing to the project by telling the screenwriter Daniel Stiepleman—who is also her nephew—“Yes, if you’d like to spend your time doing that.” Ginsburg had not yet earned the nickname “Notorious R.B.G.,” for her stern and furious dissents; her face had not yet been tattooed on the arms and legs of feminists across the country. Stiepleman wanted to show how Ruth Bader Ginsburg became Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arguing her first…

Early in the film On the Basis of Sex, when Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s husband and fellow Harvard Law student, Marty, is diagnosed with testicular cancer, Ruth comes up with a plan to keep him on track to graduate. She begins attending his classes in addition to her own, racing from lecture to lecture like Hermione Granger without a Time-Turner. She is one of only nine women in her class of more than 500, and the juggling act she masters at that time in her life—law student by day; mother, wife, and spousal teaching assistant by night—is an almost comically impressive performance of work-life balance. Not that it helps her get a job. As we see in a series of powerful and infuriating scenes, no law firm in New York City wanted…

V.F.’s Krista Smith speaks with KiKi Layne, who stars as Tish in the film adaptation of the James Baldwin novel If Beale Street Could Talk. One of your first acting jobs was with Lena Waithe. What was that like? It was the pilot for her show The Chi, which was shot in 2015, but Showtime redeveloped it into the series that’s on now. So it was brief, but I’m still trying to work with Lena. I ran into her at Essence Fest and I was looking at her like, “Girl, it didn’t work out the first time, but I know you up to something.” How long had you been acting at that point? I was always acting. Growing up, my favorite movie was The Lion King. I used to watch…

Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy: The Story of Little Women and Why It Still Matters Alcott scholar Anne Boyd Rioux’s literary contribution to the canon. Published in August by W. W. Norton. Masterpiece’s Series A three-part adaptation starring Maya Hawke, the precocious progeny of actors Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. Premiered in May. A Modern Take Set in the now, it’s a “family friendly” version with Hallmark-style production values, and stars Lea Thompson as Marmee, the March matriarch. Out this month. Greta Gerwig’s Version Next month, filming begins on the Lady Bird director’s much-anticipated adaptation, with Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, and Timothée Chalamet. Scheduled for a Christmas 2019 release.…

“Fashion is about a certain kind of vanity—in the best and worst senses of the word.” Louise Neri Art curator and gallerist, New York Born: Hawera, New Zealand. Favorite wardrobe item: It was a heavy buckskin Alaïa jacket from 1984 that took one year to pay off on a junior’s salary. It met a watery demise with Hurricane Sandy, otherwise I would still be wearing it. Now it’s a bright-red nylon evening dress by Phoebe Philo for Céline. Favorite designers: Duro Olowu, Phoebe Philo, Stefano Pilati, and Junya Watanabe—please don’t make me choose between them. Favorite shoe: An architectural pump by Stefano Pilati for YSL from 2009. People still ask. Favorite accessories: Heirlooms––a gold-and-rubber Patek Philippe Aquanaut, an 18th-century planetary ring, and indigenous Tasmanian mariner shell necklaces. Fashion purchase she…

“The only person who can define your personal style is you.” Troye Sivan Singer-songwriter, Los Angeles Born: Johannesburg, South Africa. Favorite wardrobe item: Saint Laurent moto boots. Favorite designers: Valentino, Helmut Lang, and Wales Bonner. Favorite place to shop: There are amazing vintage spots in L.A. I love Hidden Treasures, Slow Clothing, and American Rag Cie. Favorite scent: Tacit, by Aesop. Favorite accessory: A pair of sunglasses that fit my face—which are hard to find! Best 2018 fashion purchase: An original Beatles Rubber Soul–era tee that I found in Auckland. Style icons: Mark Ronson, Annie Lennox, and Hedi Slimane. Style advice: For a long time, I didn’t allow myself to wear things that I actually appreciated because I was worried I couldn’t pull them off. Push yourself out of your…

“I want people to buy fashion like they’re stalwart fishermen—buy things that last.” Hailey Gates Actress, New York Born: Los Angeles. Favorite wardrobe item: A three-piece set by Congolese designer Fanny Mandina. My best friend got married in a bullring, and I wore that. Favorite designers: Nudie Cohn and Mrs. Prada. Favorite scents: Jasmine and street meat. Favorite shoe: Maryam Nassir Zadeh. Favorite accessory: Dramamine. Best 2018 fashion purchase: Marshmallow gauze pajamas from Japan. Fashion purchase she regrets not making: A young designer I met in Russia was making these silver rings with Vladimir Putin’s head on them and inscriptions roughly translating to “Putin’s disciples.” Style icons: Renata Adler and H.H. Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. Most stylish city: Kinshasa. There’s so much pride in dressing up—there are shrines to designers.…

Cecile Richards Activist, New York “Mixing strength and sensuality with bold colors and a few ruffles, Richards is a feminine force.” Derek Blasberg Shanay Jhaveri Museum curator, New York Born: Mumbai. Favorite wardrobe item: White cotton pajamas made by my tailor in India, a version of which I have been wearing since I was two. Best 2018 fashion purchase: A green quadruple-breasted suit by Haider Ackermann for Berluti. Carla Sozzani Gallerist and businesswoman, Milan “Carla and [her late sister Franca], the blonde Italians, broke the mold—very chic, more Italian bohemian.” Lisa Eisner Sarah Paulson Actress, New York “Paulson has emerged as this fascinating blend of theater geek and style swan.” D.B. Duro Olowu Fashion designer, London and New York Born: Lagos. Favorite wardrobe item: My vintage French workman’s jackets. Favorite…