Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2020 i Vanity Fair

Ann PATCHETT “THE BOOK OF REESE” P. 54 Patchett first encountered Reese Witherspoon on the cover of Nashville magazine. “She was 15 and had just starred in The Man in the Moon,” says the author of The Dutch House. “I felt so proud because she lived in my hometown.” For V.F.’s cover story, the two bibliophiles met at Parnassus Books, the Nashville bookstore co-owned by Patchett. Jesse HYDE “THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE” P. 84 “This is a climate change story. But it’s also a story of greed and consumption,” says the Salt Lake City–based writer, whose report on the Amazon rain forest was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center. “It made me question what we’re losing in the unrelenting march of what we consider industrial and…

SKY HIGH The stellar team behind NYC’s buzzy Crown Shy restaurant has even higher hopes—60 more floors above ground. Next month, James Kent and Jeff Katz open SAGA, way up in the cityscape Fields of Gold In the Netherlands, a vibrant glow illuminates the long winter evenings: not the northern lights, but LED-lit farmlands. In The Human Planet: Earth at the Dawn of the Anthropocene, photographer George Steinmetz documents the increasingly visible human footprint on natural environments. The theme, he says, was prompted by decades of global science photography. “I spent 15 years exploring the world’s deserts because I thought they were just fantastically beautiful, but I started to see that even the most remote places were changing.”…

The paintings delighted Prince Charles. They had arrived at Clarence House, his royal residence in London, in February 2017: a collection that would eventually comprise 17 magnificent works, including pieces by Picasso, Dalí, Monet, and Chagall, that humbled the prince with their power and provenance. A supreme arbiter of art, as both a lifelong collector and an artist himself, Charles listened eagerly as Malcolm Rogers, former curator of the National Portrait Gallery in London and retired director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, explained the significance of two paintings by Sir Anthony van Dyck, England’s leading court painter in the 17th century, that were propped up against the royal residence’s wall. The prince, Rogers recalls, seemed “enthusiastic” to hear their glorious histories. Rogers was well acquainted with the source…

He’s been called “the Andy Warhol of Marrakech,” but Hassan Hajjaj defies easy comparison, with his vibrantly layered portrait photography and bespoke craftsmanship that filter his own Moroccan heritage through the lens of street style. Hajjaj—whose work is in the permanent collection of art institutions including the Brooklyn Museum and the Victoria & Albert, among others around the world—designs the clothes, backdrops, and frames for every subject, playfully juxtaposing elements like crate seating and rows of canned goods (a nod to Uncle Andy) with self-created homages to luxury labels. The fashion in Hajjaj’s pop jewels riffs on his own background hosting parties in London. “I was in the underground scene for 10 years. I started out in a warehouse in the 1980s.” Which is why, Hajjaj says, he wanted to…

Reese Witherspoon has been a hero of my personal canon ever since Election, and I watch and rewatch her work compulsively. If Walk the Line or Legally Blonde is on any screen nearby, I will absolutely park myself in front of it; sorry if you need anything from me for the next two hours. She could have had a tidy, superlative, Tracy Flick career picking up Oscars and such, but instead she expanded into acquiring and producing, and she is responsible for a real shift in the stories we see onscreen and the roles they create for women, from Wild to Big Little Lies to her new Hulu series Little Fires Everywhere, costarring Kerry Washington and based on the best-selling novel by Celeste Ng. Reese and I are kindred spirits…

▪ Style File OUTDOOR OUTFIT: Patagonia’s Worn Wear program sells repaired, reused, and recycled Patagonia products to help keep the clothes in circulation and away from landfills (6). SKIN CARE: Just Pure, Lavera, and Weleda (2). ▪ Sweet Home ASSISTANT: Google Home (4), which intelligently controls air-conditioning and energy consumption. KITCHEN FLORA: Fresh herbs like rosemary, basil, and thyme (3). ▪ On the Move CARBON OFFSETS: Cool Effect supports the reduction of carbon emissions by funding carbon-reducing projects across the globe. LODGING: I admire hotel concepts that connect luxury with eco-friendly tourism, like H2 Hotel near San Francisco (1), which has a roof covered with greenery that dams the flow of rainwater to reduce the impact on the nearby Foss Creek watercourse. It also reduces the building’s heat radiation, which…

THE FORGER California artist Tony Tetro says his four knockoffs were never meant to be passed off as real. SALVADOR DALÍ Dying Christ is a replica of Corpus Hypercubus (1954), which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. MARC CHAGALL Titled Paris Con Amor, this one came easiest to Tetro. “I’ve painted more Chagalls than Chagall,” he said. CLAUDE MONET The title of the forgery—Lily Pads 1882—was a bit of a giveaway: Monet had no lily garden then. PABLO PICASSO The original is called On the Beach. The imitation was given a more explicit title: Liberated Bathers.…

“Sustainable doesn’t need to be vanilla,” says Chilean-born Maria Cornejo, a founding member of the CFDA Sustainability Committee and frequent award recipient for her innovation in responsible fashion. “It can be luxurious. It can be sexy.” Her long-standing NoHo atelier, Zero + Maria Cornejo—of which Christy Turlington and Michelle Obama are fans—is proof positive of her belief. And by using upcycled fabrics (car seat leather; recycled cashmere) and local manufacturing, Cornejo demonstrates that it can be refreshingly pragmatic too: “If a yarn is Bolivian,” she says, “then we knit it in Bolivia. If the leather is from Italy, then we make the shoe in Italy.”…

1,980 glasses of Champagne Hundreds of french fries (vegan churros too) Every major Oscar winner And one night to remember For more exclusive photos from inside the Oscar party and portrait studio, head to VF.com.…

I first met REESE WITHERSPOON three years ago at Parnassus Books, the store I co-own in Nashville. She’d come to interview me for Hello Sunshine, her production company’s editorial site, and when the interview was finished, our events manager asked Witherspoon if she’d be willing to have her picture taken with one of our shop dogs, Mary Todd Lincoln, a dappled, silky dachshund who’d been photographed with any number of celebrities in the past. It’s Nashville, after all; it’s the kind of thing we do here. Witherspoon took the little dog and tucked her into an open space in the bookshelf behind her, then proceeded to run the gamut of human emotion: joy, surprise, eagerness, love, suffering, hope—spinning out a master class of acting in less than a minute. The…

ZEDD Zedd, 30, has worked with multiple Billboard-topping pop artists—Katy Perry, Shawn Mendes, Alessia Cara, and Selena Gomez, to name a few—but his original muses may have been closer to home and a little mellower: He grew up in Germany as the child of jazz and classical musicians. DAVID GUETTA REMEMBERS his early days, in the late ’80s, spinning at gay bars in Paris. He’s not gay but those were the only kind of clubs willing to play the house music he liked. “I was paid a hundred bucks to play eight hours a day. I worked six days a week and was treated like any other employee of the club,” he says. But after a slight pause he reconsiders: “Actually, it was better to be a waiter. They got…