Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2020 i Vanity Fair

It is impossible to pinpoint the moment that Gen X culture hit its zenith, but one could make a sound case for sometime in 1994. That year was major: Tonya vs. Nancy, Pulp Fiction, Weezer’s “Buddy Holly,” the birth of lad mags, the death of Kurt Cobain, the debut of Friends and, a few months later, “the Rachel.” In fashion, that was when grunge crossed over from mildewed Seattle rock venues into suburban malls—a trickledown effect of Marc Jacobs’s spring 1993 collection for Perry Ellis, which put supermodels in flannel and knit beanies (and later got the designer fired). Soon, brands were bending sideways to appeal to next-gen consumers, whom they imagined to be disaffected, wary of being marketed to, and more or less against buying things. So how do…

CAN JEFFREY KATZENBERG and Meg Whitman make Quibi a noun? Sitting in their offices in Hollywood, the duo drops the name of their company into the conversation as if it’s already a household word and not a goofy-sounding portmanteau of “quick bites.” As media conglomerates scramble to stake their claim in the new streaming world order, Quibi looks like an underdog, albeit a heavily funded one run by former head of Disney and DreamWorks Katzenberg and ex–Hewlett Packard CEO Whitman. The pair have already raised $1.4 billion to launch their upstart: a streaming service dedicated to high-quality short-form series (episodes of 10 minutes or less) made to be watched on your phone. While other executives are zigging in pursuit of the next big show, Quibi is zagging toward a market…

The year begins in January, obviously, but the rap on this January was that it felt a year long. Britain left the European Union, Meghan and Harry left Britain, the Senate took leave of its common sense. (I myself got a year older, which probably would have happened anyway, but I still blame Mitch McConnell.) I don’t know about you, but it added insult to injury every time news of world-historical order dropped nonchalantly onto my phone via push notification, as if the death of the dream of a unified Europe was just another OS update. We can’t turn back the clock, but what if we try starting fresh with spring and its leitmotifs of youth and renewal? Our March issue looks forward, starting with our cover star, Ana de…

“I’m blessed to have made it to 50.” —DIDDY For more exclusive photos from the party, head to VF.com.…

THERE IS A DOOR that separates celebrities from civilians, leaving those of us curious enough to peer through the keyhole with an incomplete idea of fame. Here, for example, is the keyhole version of Ana de Armas, the 31-year-old breakout star of last year’s Knives Out: She darts across the dining room of Versailles, the Culver City outpost of Miami’s famed Cuban restaurant, like she’s trying to shave a few seconds off her time. It’s the day before the Golden Globes, and she has just come from a facial, which puts one in mind of a butler polishing already gleaming silverware. What is here for an esthetician to excavate I do not know. De Armas has been nominated for her portrayal of Marta Cabrera, the moral compass of the whodunit…

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Style File ALWAYS WEAR: Bulgari B.zero1 ring (8). GO-TO SHOE: The Row Zipped Boot 1 (2). FAVORITE BAG: Chanel Classic Handbag Spring-Summer 2020 (11). HAIR ACCESSORIES: Boring, but Scünci’s No Damage Thick Hair black elastics. On Beauty LIPSTICK: Nars Dragon Girl Velvet Matte Lip Pencil (5). PERFUME: Le Labo Santal 33 (4). SUPPLEMENTS: Oregano oil capsules are my cure-all. WORKOUT: Sky Ting Yoga, SoulCycle, and a li’l dancing with Megan Roup or FORWARD_ _Space. Sweet Home NEW ADDITION: I recently won my beloved vintage stool by Jean Prouvé at auction. BEDDING: Last Light. FLORA: Seasonally cut branches, like quince (3). POTTERY: Japanese ceramic plates from Roman and Williams Guild. FOUR-LEGGED FRIEND: I just rescued the sweetest pup ever. We met at a film screening hosted by Dianna Agron—he was being…

It’s rare, says Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, that the “complete repertoire of a modern city emerges more or less at the same time.” Doha is an exception; after the Brits emancipated Qatar in 1971, the capital city was razed and rebuilt. Koohlaas first visited in 2006 and fell for the city’s natural beauty, as well as its focus on art and innovation, before eventually designing the National Library. This month, Koolhaas mounts Countryside, the Future, a joint exhibition at New York’s Guggenheim with studio AMO. The project explores nonurban spaces, and features Doha’s entirely indoor dairy farm, created during Saudi Arabia’s blockade of 2018. As Koolhaas calls it, “instant countryside.”…

AMID THE FINE HORSES competing in this year’s Royal Ascot, the red-coated postilions driving the Queen of England in her carriage, and the rabble in immense grandstands, one man stands in the event’s most exclusive VIP area wearing a black silk hat. Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the leader of Dubai, more often wears the traditional headscarf and white robe, or kandura, of Dubai, one of the seven states that make up the United Arab Emirates—but for the most important race of the season, he makes an exception. The sheik is a progressive who bows to the laws of capitalism as well as the mosque, and so unlike the dictators of old that he writes his own poetry. “Mohammed is articulate, erudite, and suave—a Davos type,” says a businessman who…