Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2019 i Vanity Fair

It’s fitting that the latest actor to take up the mantle of the Joker, the comic book villain who has been played by Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger, and Jared Leto, would insist on being fooled to get a good shot. “Just trick me—just trick me,” Joaquin Phoenix urged Ethan James Green, whose portraits of the actor for this month’s cover story, along with his portfolio of YouTube’s brightest stars, are his first as a Vanity Fair contributing photographer. As Green recalls it, the shoot wasn’t going well. He was trying to craft scenes; Phoenix was looking, as he does in all his roles, for authenticity. “He pulled me aside and was like, ‘This is stupid,’ ” says Green, who embraced the critique as an invitation to simply capture their day…

“You either die a hero or you live long enough to become an Instagram boyfriend.” Camila Morrone, 22, stars in Mickey and the Bear Vanities/Opening Act Earlier this year, Camila Morrone sent shivers through South by Southwest and jolted a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival with her performance in Annabelle Attanasio’s film Mickey and the Bear. Her breakout role as the daughter of an opioid-addicted veteran reaches audiences nationwide this month, and now the American actor and model, who happens to call Leonardo DiCaprio her boyfriend, is taking the lead. Here, some insights gleaned from an evening at home with Hollywood’s newest heroine. SHE WAS BORN in Los Angeles to two Argentinian actors—“growing up in Hollywood, you can’t really run from it”—and attended Beverly Hills High School. “Our…

As the worldwide demand for gold and diamonds rises, so too does the consumer understanding that even the most beautiful jewelry, when paired with environmental irresponsibility, is a recipe for buyer’s remorse. NGOs like the World Wide Fund for Nature have issued watchdog reports that highlight much-needed policy changes, and fine jewelers across the board are making strides to apply their exacting quality standards to their sustainability practices. Chopard’s necklace—fashioned from 64.34 carats of Responsible Jewelry Council–certified diamonds, set in 18-karat white Fairmined gold—is one realization of the 21st-century notion of true luxury: extravagant pleasure without eco-guilt.…

In San Francisco, the crown jewel of Silicon Valley, there are no poor neighborhoods, just poor people. Squeezed between million-dollar apartments and Michelin-starred restaurants is a rising tide of homelessness: vagrants begging for scraps from the tech zillionaires on Market Street, families who couldn’t afford the rent after the latest IPO, Uber drivers sleeping in their cars in the Safeway parking lot. The nouveau wealth capital of America is a land of decadence and irony, where Juul (banned from selling e-cigarettes in the county) just bought a $400 million office tower and Vinod Khosla thinks he owns the beach. Farther down the 101 in Menlo Park and Sunnyvale, Facebook and Google employees are raising their kids tech-free. This is the world the smartphone has built. In 1994, Vanity Fair inaugurated…

1 RUPERT MURDOCH AGE: 88 Murdoch clan paterfamilias, chairman of Fox Corporation. Sold half his empire to Disney for $71.3 billion. 2 TIM COOK AGE: 58 CEO of Apple. Still flirting with a market cap of $1 trillion while focusing on recurring revenues. Slow and steady goes the ship. 3 LARRY FINK AGE: 66 Billionaire Blackrock chief with more than $6 trillion under management. Recently opened an office in Saudi Arabia. 4 JAMIE DIMON AGE: 63 The Mad Dog is now the Big Dog. Said in January 2018 that he won’t retire from JPMorgan for at least “another five years.” 5 DAVID ZASLAV AGE: 59 The Discovery boss was the highest-paid executive in the country last year, with a package worth $129 million. 6 LORNE MICHAELS AGE: 74 O.G. television…

Jeffrey Epstein once told a billionaire that he’d invented the derivatives market—a claim that is totally false. But without question, he helped create one of the signal trades of the last few decades. He came to prominence in the 1990s, as the modern meritocracy was taking shape in the collision between the cult of technology and the burgeoning class of billionaires. Epstein played a role in this marriage. He was one of the people who figured out how to arbitrage the particular needs, desires, and vulnerabilities of these groups. He recognized, long before others, that Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Park Avenue, and the Academy were converging around a new salon culture embodied by TED Talks and “billionaires dinners.” Genius wanted to ride on a private plane—it deserved to travel by…

AIR Coeur Battant by Louis Vuitton An Air sign (Gemini, Libra, Aquarius) makes every day a party. This perfume honors their sparkling spirit, with overtones of crisp pear mingling almost chaotically with jasmine, patchouli, and moss. Expect a heady sillage as you drive away with the top down for the weekend getaway they suggested 20 minutes ago. $250. (louisvuitton.com) WATER Little Flower by Régime des Fleurs and Chloë Sevigny Known to be romantic, a Water sign (Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces) is the type to reread texts from 2012 or send flowers without occasion. Tap that feeling of intimacy with this collaboration. Imagine bodega roses mixed with palo santo, which hints at the ethereal side of water. $205. (regimedesfleurs.com) EARTH Notorious Oud by D.S. & Durga What luck, to be the lover of an Earth…

1 SUSAN WOJCICKI CEO of YouTube, the world’s largest video platform AGE: 51 With global scale (and 2 billion monthly users) comes world historical problems. “Everybody is angry at you all the time,” Wojcicki has said of her battle to rid YouTube of extreme content. In August, she reaffirmed that YouTube will remain an “open platform”—even if she offends some people along the way. 2 SATYA NADELLA CEO of Microsoft, the world’s most valuable public company AGE: 52 EMPLOYEES: 130,000 Microsoft had missed the boat on mobile and was a drifting also-ran when Nadella took over. Now it’s a world leader in cloud computing, and, at nearly $1.1 trillion, bigger than Apple. Who would have guessed? 3 ANDY JASSY CEO of AWS AGE: 51 The most powerful Amazon executive not…

1 BEYONCÉ & JAY-Z AGES: 38, 49 COMBINED NET WORTH: $1.4 billion Undisputed American royalty, they’ve made great art and more money out of their marriage troubles. As Jay-Z put it: “I’m not a ‘Business-Man’! I’m a Business…man!” 2 ARIANA GRANDE Pop’s current crown princess, Nickelodeon alum, Pete Davidson ex, social media savant AGE: 26 “I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it.” 3 LEBRON JAMES Arguable hoop GOAT AGE: 34 In the world as on the court, James can play multiple positions: surprisingly talented actor; empire-building businessman; athlete-activist role model, Taco Tuesday enthusiast. 4 MEGAN RAPINOE President Rapinoe, World Cup all-star, celesbian icon AGE: 34 Rapinoe plans to leverage her transcendent World Cup triumph to make political change. “I just think she’s the perfect person…

1 SUSAN ZIRINSKY President of CBS News AGE: 67 Zirinsky’s first moves as president of the news division were locking down Gayle King at CBS This Morning and elevating Norah O’Donnell to the anchor chair of the Evening News. But, she says, “We’re nowhere near done.” 2 BARACK & MICHELLE OBAMA Former president and first lady, nonprofit leaders, and Netflix producers AGES: 58, 55 With seven- and eight-figure deals with Netflix, Penguin Random House, and Spotify, the Obamas have officially gone multiplatform—and, soon, multiplatinum. “They are very ambitious in terms of the impact they want to have,” says longtime friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett. Cable News Wars Top prime-time anchors’ ratings (millions of viewers) Sean Hannity Tucker Carlson Rachel Maddow APR MAY JUN JUL AUG 3 JULIE K. BROWN Miami…

Meet the new Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: a house divided against itself, yet somehow still standing. The 2019 version of the Academy is not America; it’s actually whiter, older, and more male, although strides have been made in all three of those areas. But the ways in which it balances competing appetites for revolution, retreat, incrementalism, and compromise among its different voting constituencies are very now, very us. We don’t yet know what this year’s race will look like—what the controversies will be, or what ideological fault lines this fall’s movies will reveal. But we do know that the Academy, and Hollywood, are both in a state of existential anxiety. The Academy is expanding; the industry is contracting. This year, one mega-studio, Disney, devoured 20th Century Fox…

1 Sloane CROSLEY “The Lion Tamer,” p. 132 “Hasan and I both speak fluent suburbia,” says Crosley, whose latest book of essays, Look Alive Out There, is out in paperback. “He’s also pointed out the cultural similarities between Jews and Indians, so allow me to say: He’s a mensch. It’s this ‘leveling’ that makes him such an effective performer—everyone feels kinship.” 2 Marisa MELTZER “Face Value,” p. 126 Meltzer calls Emily Weiss, the founder of Glossier, “ambitious and determined. But she has a dreamy quality as well. Like you could leave her in a room alone and an hour later she would have an outline for a novel or for an improved Barbie dream home.” Meltzer’s book about the founder of Weight Watchers, This Is Big, will be published in…

Power shifts, flows, recombines—and so too does Vanity Fair’s annual ranking of tech moguls, tastemakers, financial wizards, and cultural icons. After 25 years, we’ve divided our traditional list into 10 groups of 10, illuminating more tribal aspects of the influence networks that define our world. Of course, modern power, catalyzed by technology, tends to transcend its categories. The Obamas have a Netflix deal. Rihanna is building a billion-dollar beauty empire. Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. And Jeff Bezos is disrupting Hollywood. This year has also been notable for the Establishment’s conspicuous failings. In Silicon Valley, the #MeToo movement, and the Jeffrey Epstein saga, we find glaring indictments of ruling-class values. There’s nothing more fascinating than power—and nothing more dangerous.…

1 JEROME POWELL Federal Reserve chair AGE: 66 The man Trump has labeled an “enemy” is bent but not broken, and he may be the only person standing between the U.S. economy and a global recession. Most Assets Under Management BLACK ROCK $6.8 trillion VANGUARD $5.2 trillion STATE STREET $2.81 trillion JP MORGAN $2.72 trillion CHARLES SCHWAB $2.5 trillion FIDELITY $2.46 trillion 2 MARIANNE LAKE & JENNIFER PIEPSZAK JPMorgan heirs apparent AGES: 50, 49 There’s a running joke at JPMorgan Chase that it’s always “another five years” until CEO Jamie Dimon retires. But Lake, who runs the bank’s consumer lending business, and Piepszak, now CFO, are very much in the running to succeed him. And rumor is Dimon wants to shake things up—if he ever leaves. 3 DAVID SOLOMON President…

With their explosive story on Harvey Weinstein, New York Times reporters and New Establishment veterans Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor planted a grenade in the cultural psyche and pulled the pin. They pursued scraps of whispers and convinced very unwilling sources to speak out against one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, all the while butting up against a legal system—white-shoe lawyers, corporate obfuscation, nondisclosure agreements—designed to protect him. The resulting exposé divided the modern world into two distinct epochs: before the Weinstein story broke, and after. There’s definitely been a palpable shift in institutions and mores and minds. Workplaces have installed entire new rule books; media outlets are much more responsive to sexual scandal; and powerful men are on notice as to how they should behave. Yet on…

1 MACKENZIE BEZOS AGE: 49 Signed the Giving Pledge soon after divorcing the world’s richest man. Wants to combat cancer and homelessness. 2 BILL & MELINDA GATES AGES: 63, 55 Davos regulars. The original Big Tech bad guy now uses tech and science to attack global problems: malaria, ebola, polio. 3 MICHAEL BLOOMBERG AGE: 77 The perennial presidential aspirant spent more than anyone on Democrats in 2018 and could do the same in 2020. 4 LAURENE POWELL JOBS AGE: 55 Jobs’s Emerson Collective (named for Ralph Waldo) aims to save journalism (buying the Atlantic) and reform education. 5 TOM STEYER AGE: 62 Impeachment enthusiast and 2020 candidate. Promised $50 million to fight Trump but could spend twice that on himself. 6 PRISCILLA CHAN AGE: 34 Zuck’s wife is donating their…

1 RIHANNA AGE: 31 Fenty mastermind, the first black woman to head an LVMH brand. “She’s fucking God,” says model Luka Sabbat. 2 VIRGIL ABLOH AGE: 39 Fashion visionary. “I’m sure that you’re trying to challenge yourself to invent something new. That’s impossible.” 3 KYLIE JENNER AGE: 22 Kardashian-Jenner MVP, “self-made” billionaire. Spun off Kylie Skin from her $900 million start-up Kylie Cosmetics. 4 GWYNETH PALTROW AGE: 47 Actress, lifestyle guru, yoni egg purveyor. Turned weekly lifestyle newsletter Goop into a $250 million business. 5 STELLA McCARTNEY AGE: 48 Pushing the boundaries of environmental ethics in fashion. Sold a minority stake to luxury conglomerate LVMH. 6 DAVID ZWIRNER AGE: 54 Art world puppet master, super-gallerist. Gagosian’s longtime rival continues to expand his global footprint. 7 JAMES JEBBIA AGE: 56 Streetwear…

America met Emily Weiss in 2007, halfway into the second season of MTV’s The Hills. As the camera panned up from a pair of high heels, we saw a college-age Weiss striding through a Los Angeles office, dressed in a short flared skirt and a black turtleneck. “Emily: New York Intern” flashed on the screen. With her pin-straight brown hair and a binder in hand, she looked like some wildly confident apparition who had come to show the laconic stars of the series what working at a magazine really takes. (In this case, efficiently MapQuesting directions and discussing chinoiserie with nonchalant authority.) They called her, with begrudging awe, the super intern. Twelve years later, Weiss is the CEO of Glossier, the paradigm-shifting beauty brand she founded in 2014, and she…