Innholdsfortegnelse for April 2025 i Vanity Fair

This month Michelle talks with the eternally fascinating Gwyneth Paltrow, who, just when you think she might have receded—not into irrelevance, never that! but comfortably into the furniture—shows up somewhere unexpected, like, say, the Bal des Débutantes in Paris with her daughter, Apple, or making out with Timothée Chalamet in photos on the internet from their new movie, Marty Supreme, directed by Josh Safdie. And then, like magic, she’s our main character all over again. Michelle visits Paltrow at home in Montecito, where they talk business (Goop) and pleasure: her life as an empty nester, rebranded in rose-colored Gwyneth style as a “free bird.” AFTER THE WILDFIRES in Los Angeles, Vanity Fair committed to supporting two local organizations helping affected families and industry professionals get back on their feet: Baby2Baby,…

SKY DADDY Kate Folk’s premise should not work, and yet it’s utterly delightful and even profound: A woman with a Boeing 737 kink is driven to form an everlasting bond by way of a plane crash. (Random House) M˜Y DOCUMENTS Following terrorist attacks, the US government begins interning Vietnamese Americans in Kevin Nguyen’s trenchant and quick-witted exploration of racism, ambition, and family ties. (One World) AUDITION In Katie Kitamura’s signature biting, sleek prose, a young man and an older married actress meet, to ominous effect, in a café; the book’s second half upends and concretizes relationships. (Riverhead) EARLY THIRTIES From VF alumnus Josh Duboff, a warm, funny story of dear friends navigating New York careers—Victor, a celebrity-profile writer, and Zoey, a fashion entrepreneur—and relationships. (Scout Press) WHEN THE GOING WAS…

In 1948, seeking a place to relax after his sudden rise to fame, Christian Dior purchased Moulin du Coudret, an old mill at Milly-la-Forêt, near Fontainebleau. Ensconced in the property’s lush gardens (which a 1951 Vogue story described as “designed after no visible plan but colour”), he found both inspiration and solace. Like the couturier himself, this delicate collar necklace takes its cues from the natural world. The elegant piece, featuring an eight-carat yellow diamond, bestows sunny days to wearers and admirers alike.…

IT’S MID-OCTOBER IN San Francisco, and a crowd of 200 or so congregants—some seated in pews, others standing below cathedral windows at the back—bow their heads in prayer. Over cranberryapple cosmos and plates of Burmese food served by black-shirted waiters, a DJ plays a thumping soundtrack of remixed worship music. This is not a church service or even a Bible study. It is, instead, an entirely new kind of event in Silicon Valley. We are here to listen in on a conversation between Dr. Francis S. Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of Health and leader of the Human Genome Project, and Garry Tan, the president and CEO of Silicon Valley’s influential start-up incubator Y Combinator, which has hatched thousands of tech companies with a combined valuation of…

THEY CALLED HER GYPSET. THE NAME, A COMBINATION OF GYPSY AND JET SET, wasn’t one she’d come up with herself; she’d gotten it from the writer Julia Chaplin, who coined the term in her 2009 book, Gypset Style, to evoke the vibe of bright young things who waft from Sayulita to Tangier to Topanga Canyon, crafting eclectic necklaces and draping yurts with Hermès cashmere. Athletic and glamorously bohemian, with glacial blue eyes and a silver ring in her nose, Gypset embodied her nickname’s ideal, always flying off to go skiing or hang out backstage at a rock show. Her given name was Lindsey Gleiche. She lived in Huntington Beach, California, a short walk to the Pacific surf. Being a gypset is an occupation best suited for the independently wealthy, and…

IN DECEMBER 2023, Pulitzer Prize–winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen had something he felt needed to be said and, luckily, a platform of unusual gravity on which to say it. Earlier that year he was tapped to give the Norton Lectures, a nearly century-long Harvard series in which an artist addresses the public six times over the course of a year. This April, Nguyen will release To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other, an edited compilation of the lectures, preserving their piercing insight into the dilemmas faced by outsiders working in an insider literary culture. “There is a task and a purpose for those who believe in literature—there is important work for us to do,” he says. “For those of us who are concerned about the injustices of our…

AFTER HE FILMED the first season of Beef, Young Mazino slipped away to Spain. He had no idea that the 2023 limited series with Steven Yeun and Ali Wong would make him a breakout star. But after Mazino earned an Emmy nomination, he suddenly saw possibilities opening up. “I’m still perplexed by everything,” says the actor. “I don’t know where this world is headed, but it seems to get more and more surreal.” Mazino recently took another major trip—bouncing from Tokyo to Indonesia—because he’d just finished the second season of the wrenching zombie hit The Last of Us, which premieres April 13. “I never judged my character, but he’s a bit of a Boy Scout,” says Mazino. “He definitely tapped into the brighter, warmer side of myself because I think…

Style File DAILY UNIFORM: Citizens of Humanity jeans and a white T-shirt. FOR WALKING: New Balance sneakers (12). TO BED: Olivia von Halle silk pajamas (10). WRISTWATCH: Apple Watch with a Hello Kitty face. BELOVED JEWELRY: It’s hard to choose one favorite, similar to choosing a favorite child, but if I had to pick: diamond gypsets (2)! For Pleasure READING: Playground, by Richard Powers (7). WATCHING: Slow Horses. LISTENING TO: Tracy Chapman. On Beauty FACE WASH: Raaie Golden Nectar Mānuka Honey enzyme cleanser (9). SERUM: Dr. Barbara Sturm hyaluronic serum (3). DAILY MAKEUP: Westman Atelier. HAIRBRUSH: La Bonne Brosse. PERFUME: Kérylos by L’Objet (11). WORKOUT: Pilates in the Clouds and Box Clever LDN. The Menu MORNING CUP: Coffee.  INDULGENT DRINK: Wine. TAKEOUT: Anything from Michiko Sushino in Queen’s Park, London. At Home RECENT ADDITION: Rick Owens…

MEGYN KELLY ISN’T the most obvious candidate to land a scoop about a Hollywood feud. But in January the right-leaning firebrand was joined on her SiriusXM program by Justin Baldoni’s lead attorney, Bryan Freedman. Kelly debuted a voice message from Baldoni to his “dream team” editing the movie in which he described being, in Kelly’s sympathetic paraphrasing, “put in the basement on the premiere of his own movie” to meet the alleged demands of his It Ends With Us costar, Blake Lively. Freedman then made a comprehensive case for his client for just under 10 minutes. The YouTube clip alone passed 1 million views. Hollywood trades picked up the story. And Freedman continued on his aggressive media tour. Baldoni’s voice memo was part of the effort to soften his image.…

SIMONE ASHLEY’S PARENTS supported her dream of being an actor when she was a teenager, but a few years later, they seemed to be watching the clock. “When I was in my early 20s, they were still open to it,” the actor says on a video call from her home in London. “But I think, secretly, they were like, ‘Oh, when you hit 25, that’s when you have to get serious.’ I didn’t really explain how much I wanted it—and how hard I was working for it—because I wanted the work to prove that I could do it. Then when I, thankfully, could make a living off doing this, I think they were just like, ‘Cool, she’s fine.’” Fine doesn’t do justice to Ashley’s trajectory. By the time she was…

What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Chastity. Pointless. Who came up with that?! On what occasion do you lie? To my dentist about the regularity of my flossing. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Floating on my back in the ocean. What is your greatest extravagance? Flights to Italy. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? “This is the best thing I’ve ever eaten” and “Hilarious!” and “Arlo, get off your phone!” What is your favorite journey? Summer days spent jumping off a boat into the sea, or winter days on a train. Both preferably in Italy, but I’ll pretty much jump into any clean body of water. Which living person do you most admire? Anyone brave enough to truly be themselves. What is the trait…