Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2023 i Vanity Fair

ENGLISH LIT Princess Diana on her visit to Klokotnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 1997.…

■ Style File WATCH: Rolex Day-Date 40. (1). EYEWEAR: While I was in Paris this summer, I bought a few frames from the Swedish company Chimi, including the Lab Black (8). DAILY UNIFORM: Stamp Inner City T-shirt and Pipeline ankle pant (7) from my brand, Honor the Gift. SNEAKERS: I have my own signature shoe line with Jordan and have been able to create different shoes and colorways that I love (12). ■ On Grooming BODY WASH: Dove Body Wash. SHAMPOO: Whatever my wife uses; I use hers. RAZOR: I don’t shave; never have shaved in my life. I’m baby-faced. ■ At Home FURNITURE: I have a custom bed. I travel a lot for work so it is always nice to come home to your own bed. ARTWORK: A painting…

“How many Black friends do you have?” It’s the question that launched Ziwe—the mononymous comedian, late-night television host, and interview provocateur—onto the national stage. While she made a name for herself as the question asker, Ziwe is full of answers in her debut essay collection, Black Friend. “I don’t love sharing anything about me, and I didn’t want it to be personal,” Ziwe tells me. “But obviously, you really can’t hide behind 200 pages. So you’re forced to reveal parts of yourself and be vulnerable. That was a hard pill for me to swallow.” The self-exposure paid off. In Black Friend, she plumbs the depths of her own experience to deliver thought-provoking essays about topics as salient as affirmative action, as scary as getting harassed by a stranger in the…

The story set to run in these pages concerned the matter and outcome of a past criminal trial widely covered by the global press. A verdict was reached on multiple charges. However, the prosecution plans to retry one count. In an attempt to ensure the fairness of the trial, the court has ordered a restriction on the reporting of evidence from the previous trial. As a result, Vanity Fair was impelled to remove the story from certain editions, even though the issue was already in the process of printing. By way of explaining these blank pages, we offer this note and thank you for your understanding.…

“I’M NOT TRYING to give her sole credit for the discovery of the clitoris, but she really changed the public dialogue in a way that was profound,” says Oscar-nominated producer and director Nicole Newnham of Shere Hite, the subject of her new documentary. “The way she looked and dressed and acted was as revolutionary, and as important in some ways, as the work she did.” In 1976, the former Columbia graduate school student published The Hite Report, a qualitative survey of more than 3,000 American women with questions such as “Do you think that sex is in any way political?” and “Do you ever fake orgasms?” In The New York Times, Erica Jong wrote that Hite laid out “how sex really is right now.” Her work, which promoted more fluid…

ON A CHILLY DAY IN MID-APRIL 2020, MONCEF SLAOUI, THE RETIRED HEAD OF THE VACCINE DEPARTMENT AT THE PHARMACEUTICAL GIANT GlaxoSmithKline, was sitting by his unopened pool in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, when his phone rang. The hopeful hint of spring in the air belied the dark desperation that suffused the world as the COVID-19 pandemic raged and the world’s wealthiest country struggled to figure out a way forward. The caller was Jim Greenwood, a former Republican congressman from Pennsylvania who, since 2005, had served as the CEO of the trade association BIO, short for the Biotechnology Innovation Organization. Greenwood was reaching out after getting a call from Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar. He had an urgent question for Slaoui: “Do you think that if you had unlimited resources,…

“I believe my parents had a full-blown party in the room at Cedars-Sinai,” says filmmaker Lorraine Nicholson of the day of her birth, “because adults are constantly coming up to me saying, ‘I was there the day you were born.’ ” The late Robert Evans snapped a photo of her father, Jack Nicholson, with her in his arms; two days later her mom, Rebecca Broussard, crashed a luncheon celebrating his fresh fatherhood at the Polo Lounge—wearing garters “to show she still had it. A real California love story!” Thirty-three years later, Nicholson is chronicling what usually makes LA confidential with a feature in the pipeline based on the life of an exotic dancer who married a Ponzi-scheming money manager, lost everything, and built herself back up. And she’s creating a…

GABRIELA HEARST | PAYSANDÚ The Uruguay-born designer expands her brand this fall with two fragrances, created with Fueguia 1833. “Both scents, Paysandú and New York, are pieces of my childhood, my memories, and my soul, in a way,” she says. A nod to her motherland, Paysandú is a resinous blend layered with jazmín del país and the medicinal herb carqueja. She sees it with a knit wrap from her line, made by artisans from the nonprofit Manos del Uruguay. $415. (gabrielahearst.com) VICTORIA BECKHAM | PORTOFINO ’97 “Fragrance for me is emotional and subjective,” says Beckham, who calls her trio of perfumes “extremely personal.” Suite 302 (tobacco, black cherry) conjures a night in Paris; San Ysidro Drive (saffron, incense) captures a stretch of LA life. This citrusy postcard from the Italian…

THE FUTURE Doomsday preppers, one-upping tech scions, fake news, and environmental activists collide in Naomi Alderman’s apocalyptic pandemic-ridden page-turner. (Simon & Schuster) THE NEW NATURALS In Gabriel Bump’s melodic story of attempting to heal, following the death of their newborn daughter, a pair of married academics builds an underground utopia. (Algonquin) BAUMGARTNER From Paul Auster, a day of ominous signs leaves a lasting impression on a widowed professor; some months later, a dreamed visitation from his late wife changes his romantic trajectory. (Grove Atlantic) THE HAPPY COUPLE Naoise Dolan’s droll exploration of the lead-up to a London wedding peers into the entwining life of a young couple, from her beautiful ex to his initial reluctance to wed. (Ecco) SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS Ed Park’s blisteringly entertaining newest entangles a mythic…

ON A SUNDAY afternoon in June, inside a cavernous warehouse in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, the 40th anniversary of Wild Style, the 1983 film that did more than any other to frame, codify, and promote the culture now known as hip-hop, was celebrated as the climax of the weekend-long Five Points Festival. It felt as if an old-school Bronx block party had been transported to 21st-century Brooklyn. The guy manning the turntables? That would be Grand Wizzard Theodore, the DJ widely credited with inventing scratching, the revolutionary technique that defined early hip-hop; the PA was set to a decibel level somewhere between a jackhammer and a Boeing 787. The director of Wild Style, Charlie Ahearn, a wiry guy with white hair and a friendly pink face dressed head to…

What is your current state of mind? I’m oscillating between the joys of playing hooky from responsibilities and a desperate need to take on new creative responsibilities. What is your favorite occupation? I don’t know, what I do is all I’ve ever done. What is your most marked characteristic? Storytelling. When and where were you happiest? In Paris, with people I love. What is your most treasured possession? The perfect murse. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I wish I could be less restless. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Seriousness. What is your greatest regret? I am sincerely devoted to not having regrets. What is your idea of perfect happiness? To love and be loved in return. What is your greatest…