{{Short description|American monthly periodical}} {{Hatnote|This article is about the contemporary magazine. For other magazines of the same name, see magazines named ''Vanity Fair''.}} {{Use American English|date=October 2020}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Vanity Fair | logo = {{dark mode switch|frameless|alt=Vanity Fair's logo.|250px|upright=1.1|frameless|alt=Vanity Fair's logo.|version of logo}} | image_file = Vanity Fair UK Hollywood 2024-2025 cover.webp | image_alt = Cover of Vanity Fair (UK) magazine showing Glen Powell, Zendaya, Nicole Kidman, Zoe Saldana, and Dev Patel in Hollywood 2024/2025 issue | image_caption = Cover of the Hollywood 2024/2025 issue (UK) | company = Condé Nast | oclc = 8356733 | total_circulation = 1,225,706<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abcas3.auditedmedia.com/ecirc/magtitlesearch.asp |title= Circulation averages for the six months ended: 12/31/2019 |date= December 31, 2019 |publisher= Alliance for Audited Media|access-date=July 30, 2020}}</ref> | circulation_year = Dec. 2019 | language = English | previous_editor = {{plainlist| * Richard Locke * Leo Lerman * Tina Brown * Graydon Carter * Radhika Jones }} | category = Culture | frequency = 10 issues per year | editor = Mark Guiducci | issn = 0733-8899 | firstdate = {{Start date and age|1983|2}} | country = United States | website = {{URL|https://vanityfair.com}} }} '''''Vanity Fair''''' is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.
The first version of ''Vanity Fair'' was published from 1913 to 1936, then it was merged into ''Vogue''. Conde Nast then revived the title in 1983. Vanity Fair currently publishes four international editions which are circulated in the United Kingdom (since 1991), Italy (since 2003), Spain (since 2008) and France (since 2013).
==History== ===''Dress and Vanity Fair''=== {{main|Vanity Fair (American magazine 1913–1936)|label1 = ''Vanity Fair'' (American magazine 1913–1936)}}
Condé Montrose Nast began his magazine empire in 1913 when he purchased the men's fashion magazine ''Dress'', which he renamed ''Dress and Vanity Fair'' and later ''Vanity Fair''. The magazine thrived throughout the 1920s and reached a circulation of 90,000 copies at its peak. However, it became a casualty of the Great Depression and declining advertising revenues. Condé Nast announced in December 1935 that ''Vanity Fair'' would be folded into ''Vogue'' (circulation 156,000) beginning with the March 1936 issue, ''Vogue'' incorporated ''Vanity Fair'' till the February 1983 issue.
In 2008, ''Vanity Fair'' celebrated 95 years since its debut under Nast (as well as the 25th anniversary of its 1983 relaunch), and the magazine's photographic heritage was memorialized in an exhibition called "Vanity Fair Portraits, 1913–2008" at the National Portrait Gallery in London. The exhibition traveled to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, Australia. Vanity Fair: The Portraits, a special jubilee issue and hardback book, was published in the fall of 2008.
Vanity Fair is a fictitious place ruled by Beelzebub in the book ''Pilgrim's Progress'' by John Bunyan.<ref>"It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is 'lighter than vanity.'"[http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/christn/chfijba4f.html ''The Pilgrim's Progress'']; accessed 2014.10.30</ref> Later use of the name was influenced by the well-known 1847–48 novel of the same name by William Makepeace Thackeray.
== Modern revival == In June 1981, the Condé Nast company (owned by S.I. Newhouse) announced plans to revive ''Vanity Fair''.<ref>{{Citation |title=Conde Nast to Revive Vanity Fair Magazine |newspaper=Wall Street Journal |date=July 1, 1981 |page=16}}.</ref> The first issue was released on February 21, 1983 (cover date March), edited by Richard Locke, formerly of ''The New York Times Book Review''.<ref>{{Citation |first=Sandra |last=Salmans |title=Courting the Elite at Condé Nast |newspaper=New York Times |date=February 6, 1983 |page=F1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/06/business/courting-the-elite-at-conde-nast.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170804221605/http://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/06/business/courting-the-elite-at-conde-nast.html |archive-date=August 4, 2017}}.</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Dougherty |first=Philip |date=1983-02-14 |title=Advertising; Vanity Fair's Rebirth (Published 1983) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/14/business/advertising-vanity-fair-s-rebirth.html |access-date=2025-07-30 |work=The New York Times |page=D-9 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=1983-02-21 |title=Press: Resurrecting a Legend |url=https://time.com/archive/6859790/press-resurrecting-a-legend/ |access-date=2025-07-30 |website=TIME |language=en}}</ref> After three issues, Locke was replaced by Leo Lerman, veteran features editor of ''Vogue''.<ref>{{Citation |first=Curt |last=Suplee |title=Vanity Fair Editor Fired |newspaper=Washington Post |date=April 27, 1983 |page=B4}}.</ref> He was followed by editors Tina Brown (1984–1992), Graydon Carter (1992–2017) and Radhika Jones (2017 to 2025). Jones was previously the director of ''The New York Times'' book section.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ember |first1=Sydney |date=November 13, 2017 |title=Radhika Jones, Vanity Fair's Surprise Choice, Is Ready to Go |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/business/radhika-jones-vanity-fair.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114023405/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/business/radhika-jones-vanity-fair.html |archive-date=November 14, 2017 |work=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Wattles |first=Tom Kludt and Jackie |title=New York Times books editor to head Vanity Fair |url=https://money.cnn.com/2017/11/13/media/vanity-fair-editor-radhika-jones-graydon-carter/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114215115/http://money.cnn.com/2017/11/13/media/vanity-fair-editor-radhika-jones-graydon-carter/index.html |archive-date=November 14, 2017 |access-date=November 22, 2017 |work=CNNMoney}}</ref> ''Vanity Fair'' employees unionized in 2022.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Izadi |first1=Elahe |date=2022-09-09 |title=Condé Nast workers win recognition of company-wide union |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/09/09/conde-nast-union/ |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204003534/https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/09/09/conde-nast-union/ |archive-date=Feb 4, 2023 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |df=mdy-all |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> Mark Guiducci, formerly the creative editorial director of Vogue, succeeded Jones as editor-in-chief in June 2025 following her resignation.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Mullin |first1=Benjamin |last2=Grynbaum |first2=Michael M. |last3=Robertson |first3=Katie |date=April 3, 2025 |title=Radhika Jones, Vanity Fair's Top Editor, Steps Down |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/business/media/radhika-jones-vanity-fair-steps-down.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250403205624/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/business/media/radhika-jones-vanity-fair-steps-down.html |archive-date=April 3, 2025 |access-date=June 10, 2025 |website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Robertson |first=Katie |date=June 10, 2025 |title=Vanity Fair Names Mark Guiducci as Its Top Editor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/business/media/vanity-fair-editor-mark-guiducci.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250610184115/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/business/media/vanity-fair-editor-mark-guiducci.html |archive-date=June 10, 2025 |access-date=June 10, 2025 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> thumb|Vanity Fair logo, used from 2013 to 2025
=== Content and reception === ''Vanity Fair''<nowiki/>'s articles cover a variety of topics. Regular writers and columnists have included Dominick Dunne, Sebastian Junger, Michael Wolff, Maureen Orth and Christopher Hitchens. In 1996, journalist Marie Brenner wrote "The Man Who Knew Too Much", an exposé on the tobacco industry which was adapted into the 1999 film ''The Insider'' starring Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. ''Vanity Fair''{{'}}s May 2005 issue identified Mark Felt as the Watergate whistleblower "Deep Throat", who leaked information that led to the 1974 resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon. The magazine features candid interviews with celebrities, including a monthly Proust Questionnaire. In the 21st century, notable interviews include Teri Hatcher who revealed that she was sexually abused as a child, Jennifer Aniston in her first interview following her divorce from Brad Pitt, Anderson Cooper discussing his brother's death, and Martha Stewart's first interview after her release from prison.
In 2015, ''Vanity Fair'' had to update the account it had published by the NBC News correspondent Richard Engel about the disputed circumstances of his 2012 kidnapping in Syria, stating that he had misidentified his captors.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/business/media/vanity-fair-updates-article-by-nbc-reporter-engel.html |title= Vanity Fair Updates Article by NBC Reporter Engel |last= Steel |first= Emily |date= 16 April 2015 |work= The New York Times |url-access= registration |access-date= 2026-04-14}}</ref> In 2019, former contributing editor Vicky Ward said her 2003 profile of Jeffrey Epstein in ''Vanity Fair'' had included on-the-record accounts of Annie and Maria Farmer (who filed the earliest known criminal complaints about Epstein), but that they were later stricken from Ward's article after Bill Clinton pressured the magazine's editor Graydon Carter.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tracy |first=Marc |date=July 9, 2019 |title=Ex-Vanity Fair Writer Says Editor Stopped Her From Exposing Epstein in '03 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/business/media/vicky-ward-jeffrey-epstein-vanity-fair.html |access-date=February 14, 2020 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Folkenflik |first=David |date=August 22, 2019 |title=Why 'Vanity Fair' Story Left Out Abuse Allegations Against Epstein |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/08/22/753337520/why-the-media-didnt-pay-much-attention-to-jeffrey-epstein |website= npr.org| publisher= National Public Radio |language=en |access-date= February 14, 2020}}</ref>
=== Representations in film and literature === The magazine was the subject of Toby Young's 2001 book, ''How to Lose Friends and Alienate People'', about his search for success in New York City while working for Graydon Carter's ''Vanity Fair''. The book was made into a movie in 2008, with Jeff Bridges playing Carter.<ref>{{Citation |last=Weide |first=Robert B. |title=How to Lose Friends & Alienate People |date=October 3, 2008 |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455538/ |access-date=January 18, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103160055/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455538/ |archive-date=January 3, 2018 |url-status=live |others=Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=May 18, 2017 |title=Bridges agrees to "Alienate People" |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bridges/bridges-agrees-to-alienate-people-idUSN1736725620070518 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119120229/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bridges/bridges-agrees-to-alienate-people-idUSN1736725620070518 |archive-date=January 19, 2018 |access-date=January 18, 2018 |work=Reuters}}</ref> During his tenure, Carter was known for encouraging staff to spend lavishly to cultivate a public perception of the magazine as classy.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Grynbaum |first=Michael M. |date=27 June 2025 |title=The Concorde-and-Caviar Era of Condé Nast, When Magazines Ruled the Earth |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/business/media/conde-nast-magazines-vogue-vanity-fair.html |access-date=6 July 2025 |work=The New York Times}}</ref>
In 2017 former editor Tina Brown published "The Vanity Fair Diaries".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Senior |first=Jennifer |date=2017-11-13 |title=Tina Brown's 'Vanity Fair Diaries' Recall a Glossier Time |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/books/review-vanity-fair-diaries-tina-brown.html |access-date=2021-09-02 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
== Photography == Famous contributing photographers for the magazine include Bruce Weber, Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino and Herb Ritts, who have all provided the magazine with a string of lavish covers and full-page portraits of current celebrities. Among the most famous cover photographs is ''More Demi Moore'', a 1991 portrait by Annie Leibovitz in which actress Demi Moore was naked and pregnant.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 18, 2016 |title=1991 Vanity Fair cover featuring pregnant Demi Moore named 1 of most influential images of all time |url=http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/11/18/1991-vanity-fair-cover-featuring-pregnant-demi-moore-named-1-of-most-influential-images-of-all-time/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201043746/http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2016/11/18/1991-vanity-fair-cover-featuring-pregnant-demi-moore-named-1-of-most-influential-images-of-all-time/ |archive-date=December 1, 2017 |access-date=November 22, 2017 |work=Women in the World, The New York Times |language=en-US}}</ref> The April 1999 issue featured an image of actor Mike Myers dressed as a Hindu deity for a photo spread by David LaChapelle. After criticism, both the photographer and the magazine apologized.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.saja.org/vf.html |title= SAJA Vanity Fair article |date= June 9, 2000 |website= saja.org |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060116102721/http://www.saja.org/vf.html |archive-date= January 16, 2006 |url-status= dead |access-date= }}</ref>
{{quote box | quote = "I took part in a photo shoot that was supposed to be 'artistic' and now .... I feel so embarrassed .... I apologize to my fans who I care so deeply about." | source = – Disney and 15-year-old Miley Cyrus apologized on April 27, 2008 for a ''Vanity Fair'' portrait that gave the impression Cyrus was topless.<ref name="NYT VF" /> She reversed her position in a 2018 post: "IM NOT SORRY Fuck YOU #10YearsAgo". | align = right | width = 35% }}
On April 25, 2008, ''Entertainment Tonight'' reported that 15-year-old Miley Cyrus had posed topless for a photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz for ''Vanity Fair''.<ref>{{cite web |date=April 28, 2008 |title=Miley Cyrus topless controversy |url= http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23608789-5001026,00.html| work= Daily Telegraph |via=news.com.au |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080501145339/http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0%2C22049%2C23608789-5001026%2C00.html |archive-date=May 1, 2008 | access-date= April 27, 2008}}</ref> A Disney spokesperson described the photoshoot as an effort to "deliberately manipulate a 15-year-old to sell magazines".<ref>{{cite web | first= Stephen M.| last= Silverman |author-link=Stephen M. Silverman |date=April 27, 2008 |title= Miley Cyrus: I'm Sorry for Photos |url=https://people.com/celebrity/miley-cyrus-im-sorry-for-photos/ |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080513153649/http://www.people.com/people/article/0%2C%2C20195785%2C00.html |archive-date=May 13, 2008 |access-date=April 27, 2008 |publisher= |work = People}}</ref><ref name="NYT VF">{{cite news | first= Brook |last= Barnes |date=April 28, 2008 |title=A Topless Photo Threatens a Major Disney Franchise |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/media/28hannah.html |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110512221952/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/business/media/28hannah.html |archive-date=May 12, 2011 |access-date=April 29, 2008 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> The full photograph was published as part of an April 27 ''New York Times'' story, and Cyrus released an apology statement that said the photos were intended to be 'artistic'. ''The New York Times'' clarified two days later that despite the impression that Cyrus had posed bare-breasted, she was wrapped in a bedsheet and not actually topless.<ref name="NYT VF" /> In an Instagram story posted ten years after the incident, Cyrus reversed her position: "IM NOT SORRY Fuck YOU #10YearsAgo".<ref>{{cite news |last=Dodson |first=P. Claire |date= 30 April 2018 |title=Miley Cyrus Takes Back 2008 Apology Over Controversial 'Vanity Fair' Photos |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/miley-cyrus-takes-back-2008-apology-over-controversial-vanity-fair-photos |work=Teen Vogue |access-date=7 November 2022}}</ref>
In January 2014, ''Vanity Fair'' was accused by Twitter users of deliberately altering the complexion of the actress Lupita Nyong'o in photos taken by Leibovitz. Nyong'o spoke positively of the photos, and the coloration may have been a product of bright set lighting, not digital alteration.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fans Attack Vanity Fair Magazine for Lightening Lupita Nyong'o's Skin on its Cover | date= January 17, 2014| website= BellaNaija.com |url=https://www.bellanaija.com/2014/01/fans-attack-vanity-fair-magazine-for-lightening-lupita-nyongos-skin-on-its-cover/ | access-date= 2026-04-14}}</ref> Shortly before the Nyong'o case, ''Vogue'' was accused of altering actress Lena Dunham's photos. Dunham considered the modified photos to be offensive.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 17, 2014 |title=Did Vanity Fair Lighten Lupita Nyong'o's Skin Color? Check Out the Controversial Photo |url=http://ca.eonline.com/news/500812/did-vanity-fair-lightening-lupita-nyong-o-s-skin-color-check-out-the-controversial-photo |publisher=E!| website= ca.eonline.com |access-date=February 20, 2015}}</ref>
==Other ''Vanity Fair'' operations ==
=== Events === As a successor to a similar invitation-only event annually held by the late agent Irving Paul Lazar, the first ''Vanity Fair'' Oscar Party took place in 1994.<ref name="hollywoodreporter.com">Gary Baum (November 13, 2013), "[https://hollywoodreporter.com/news/vanity-fair-oscar-party-exits-655904 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Exits Sunset Tower; Will It Land in Parking Lot? (Exclusive)]", ''The Hollywood Reporter''. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219133703/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vanity-fair-oscar-party-exits-655904|date=February 19, 2014}}.</ref> During its first years, the magazine's Oscar party was co-hosted by producer Steve Tisch at Morton's in West Hollywood.<ref>Annette Haddad (May 12, 2007), "[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-12-fi-mortons12-story.html Mortons to be a memory]", ''Los Angeles Times''. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-12-fi-mortons12-story.html].</ref> At first, editor Graydon Carter kept the invitation list small, at around 120 for dinner.<ref name="Graydon Carter, the Last Impresario">Alex Williams (February 28, 2014), "[https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/fashion/Graydon-Carter-vanity-fair-oscars-party.html Graydon Carter, the Last Impresario]", ''New York Times''. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909045815/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/fashion/Graydon-Carter-vanity-fair-oscars-party.html|date=September 9, 2017}}.</ref> In 2008, in sympathy with a Writers Guild of America strike, ''Vanity Fair'' canceled its annual party.<ref>Richard Pérez-Peña (February 7, 2008), "[https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/arts/07iht-06vanity.9829588.html Vanity Fair cancels its Oscars party]", ''New York Times''.</ref> Between 2009 and 2013, the party was held at Sunset Tower.<ref name="hollywoodreporter.com" /> The 2014 edition took place in a temporary, 12,000-square-foot glass-walled structure at 8680 Sunset Boulevard.<ref name="Graydon Carter, the Last Impresario" /> ''Vanity Fair'' makes a limited number of invitations available each year for charity.<ref>Christopher Palmeri (February 9, 2012), "[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-09/vanity-fair-oscar-party-invites-draw-100-000-prices-at-charity-auctions.html Vanity Fair Oscar Party Invites Draw Prices at Charity Auctions]", ''Bloomberg''. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209191051/http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-09/vanity-fair-oscar-party-invites-draw-100-000-prices-at-charity-auctions.html|date=February 9, 2012}}.</ref><ref>"[https://www.gq.com.mx/actualidad/articulos/la-revista-vanity-fair-llega-a-mexico-en-abril-2015/4159 Vanity Fair llega a México]", ''GQ''. October 29, 2014. Retrieved April 15, 2015. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924023313/http://www.gq.com.mx/actualidad/articulos/la-revista-vanity-fair-llega-a-mexico-en-abril-2015/4159|date=September 24, 2015}}.</ref> In 2021, ''Vanity Fair'' cancelled its annual party due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McClair |first1=Sheila |date=March 1, 2022 |title=Vanity Fair's Oscar Party Is Back After Coronavirus Break |url=https://lamag.com/news/vanity-fairs-oscar-party-is-back-after-coronavirus-break |access-date=March 5, 2025 |work=Los Angeles}}</ref>
In recent years, ''Vanity Fair'' and Bloomberg have hosted an after-party at the French ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C. following the White House Correspondents' Association dinner.<ref name="Graydon Carter, the Last Impresario" />
=== Video ventures === Condé Nast Entertainment launched a ''Vanity Fair'' YouTube channel in July 2013. In anticipation of its 100th anniversary that year, ''Vanity Fair'' co-produced 10 short films, one to celebrate each decade, from well-known documentary filmmakers like Barbara Kopple and including the film producer Judd Apatow, and actors Don Cheadle and Bryce Dallas Howard.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/business/media/harder-edge-from-vanity-fair-chafes-some-big-hollywood-stars.html |title= Harder Edge From Vanity Fair Chafes Some Big Hollywood Stars |last= Haughney |first= Christine |date= September 8, 2013 |work= The New York Times |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170307105615/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/09/business/media/harder-edge-from-vanity-fair-chafes-some-big-hollywood-stars.html |archive-date= March 7, 2017 |url-status= dead |access-date= }}</ref> In 2013, Condé Nast Entertainment struck a deal with Discovery Communications-owned cable channel Investigation Discovery for ''Vanity Fair Confidential'', a crime and mystery documentary TV series based on stories from ''Vanity Fair'' magazine.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324691204578632661289755592 |title= Condé Nast Pushes Into TV Business |last= Launder |first= William |date= July 29, 2013 |work= Wall Street Journal| url-access= subscription |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140203172249/http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324691204578632661289755592 |archive-date= February 3, 2014 |url-status= live |access-date= 2026-04-14}}</ref><!--DAB on unrelated The Hive (website) etc.-->''Vanity Fair'' launched ''The Hive'' in June 2016 to cover its online coverage of business, politics, and technology. In January 2017, ''Vanity Fair'''s ''Hive'' and Condé Nast Entertainment partnered with Cheddar online TV channel to create a live weekly series called ''VF Hive on Cheddar''. Editor Graydon Carter called the series a "representation of how people are consuming more voraciously than ever".<ref name="Media Post3">{{cite news |last= Guaglione |first= Sara |date=January 9, 2017 |title= 'Vanity Fair,' Cheddar Partner For Weekly Live Series |work= Media Post | publisher= |url= http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/292484/vanity-fair-cheddar-partner-for-weekly-live-ser.html |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170110143851/http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/292484/vanity-fair-cheddar-partner-for-weekly-live-ser.html |archive-date=January 10, 2017 |access-date=January 20, 2017}}</ref>
==Legal disputes ==
=== Mohamed Al-Fayed lawsuit === The businessman Mohamed Al-Fayed launched a two-year legal battle with Condé Nast, the publisher of ''Vanity Fair'', due to details of alleged sexual assaults committed by Al-Fayed that were published in "Holy War at Harrods", a 1995 ''Vanity Fair'' article by Maureen Orth. In December 1997, Al-Fayed dropped the case and provided a settlement. The chief executive of Condé Nast UK, Nicholas Coleridge, had met Michael Cole, Al-Fayed's Director of Public Affairs, in the steam baths of the Bath & Racquets Club in Mayfair to ensure that neither of them carried covert listening devices.<ref>{{cite book |last=Coleridge |first=Nicholas |date=2019 |title=The Glossy Years: Magazines, Museums and Selective Memoirs |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-241-34287-9 |page=232}}</ref> The pair discussed ending the libel battle between their respective employers, but no agreement was then reached.<ref name="GuardSep24Porter2">{{cite news |last=Porter |first=Henry |author-link=Henry Porter (journalist) |date=22 September 2024 |title='Remorseless, ruthless, racist': my battle to expose Mohamed Al Fayed |url= https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/sep/22/remorseless-ruthless-racist-my-battle-to-expose-mohamed-al-fayed |accessdate=24 September 2024 |work=The Guardian}}</ref> Both sides of the dispute paid for their own costs following the ending of the suit.<ref name= "GuardSep24Porter2" /> No apology was issued by ''Vanity Fair'' and none of the text of the article was retracted.<ref name="TelegDec972">{{cite news |last=Johnston |first=Philip |date=1 December 1997 |title=Fayed calls truce with Vanity Fair |url=https://newspapers.com/image/752257443 |work=The Daily Telegraph |accessdate=27 September 2024}}</ref>
===Roman Polanski lawsuit=== In 2005, ''Vanity Fair'' was found liable in a libel lawsuit from film director Roman Polanski due to a 2002 ''Vanity Fair'' article that said Polanski had made sexual advances toward a Norwegian model while traveling to the funeral of his wife Sharon Tate. The disputed details were included by the writer A. E. Hotchner who credited them to Lewis H. Lapham: the article recounted Lapham's story that at New York restaurant Elaine's in August 1969, Polanski had supposedly boasted he could turn the model into "the next Sharon Tate".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cozens |first=Claire |date=July 22, 2005 |title=Polanski wins libel case against Vanity Fair |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/jul/22/pressandpublishing.generalelection2005 |url-status=live |archive-url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20171010223714/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2005/jul/22/pressandpublishing.generalelection2005 |archive-date=October 10, 2017 |access-date=February 28, 2018 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref>
The trial began on July 18, 2005 in the British courts, which ultimately ruled the alleged scene did not occur on the date given because Polanski did not dine at the restaurant until three weeks later. The trial included testimonies from Mia Farrow and others, and the Norwegian former model disputed details.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lyall |first=Sarah |date=July 23, 2005 |title=Polanski Wins Vanity Fair Libel Suit |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/23/movies/MoviesFeatures/polanski-wins-vanity-fair-libel-suit.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180228223324/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/23/movies/MoviesFeatures/polanski-wins-vanity-fair-libel-suit.html |archive-date= February 28, 2018 |access-date=February 28, 2018 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The case was notable because for the first time in English legal history, the court permitted Polanski to testify via a video link from his home in France where he was living as a fugitive from US law enforcement.<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 April 2012 |title=Polanski wins £50,000 damages |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/polanski-wins-50000-damages-7205215.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180228164520/https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/polanski-wins-50000-damages-7205215.html |archive-date=February 28, 2018 |access-date=February 28, 2018 |work=Evening Standard |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4019031.stm |title= Polanski takes appeal to Lords |date= November 17, 2004 |work= news.bbc.co.uk |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060305132925/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4019031.stm |archive-date= March 5, 2006 |url-status= |access-date= }}</ref> Polanski was awarded damages by the High Court in London.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Verkaik |first= Robert |date=July 23, 2005 |title=Polanski wins libel payout of from 'Vanity Fair' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/polanski-wins-libel-payout-of-16350000-from-vanity-fair-499893.html |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180228190726/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/polanski-wins-libel-payout-of-16350000-from-vanity-fair-499893.html |archive-date=February 28, 2018 |work=The Independent |language=en-GB |access-date=February 28, 2018}}</ref> ''Vanity Fair''<nowiki/>'s Graydon Carter said "I find it amazing that a man who lives in France can sue a magazine that is published in America in a British courtroom."<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Carter |first1=Graydon |date=September 19, 2005 |title=How I spent my summer vacation in London being sued by Roman Polanski—and what I learned about "solicitors," pub food, and the British chattering class |magazine=Vanity Fair |url= https://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/printables/050919roco02?print=true |url-status=dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060527025322/http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/printables/050919roco02?print=true |archive-date=May 27, 2006}}</ref>
==International editions and editors== ''Vanity Fair'' started an international edition in 1991, and there are now several. International editions are currently published in the United Kingdom (since 1991),<ref name="epfan">{{cite news |author1=Eric Pfaner |date=September 24, 2012 |title=A Vanity Fair for France Puts Timing in Question |work=The New York Times |location=Paris |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/business/media/looking-behind-the-french-vanity-fair-announcement.html |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=November 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102174732/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/business/media/looking-behind-the-french-vanity-fair-announcement.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 |archive-date=November 2, 2014}}</ref> Italy (since 2003, ISSN 1723-6673),<ref name=epfan/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1723-6673|title = ISSN 1723-6673 (Print) | Vanity fair |website=The ISSN Portal |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128101417/https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/1723-6673 |archive-date= Jan 28, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Stefania Medetti|title=World: medium of the week - Italy receives the first weekly edition of Vanity Fair |url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/198172/|access-date=April 15, 2015|work=Campaign|date=December 12, 2003}}</ref> Spain (since 2008),<ref name="epfan" /> and France (since 2013).<ref>Christina Passariello and Quentin Marion (June 25, 2013), "[https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323998604578567453017806518 Vanity Fair French Edition Launches Wednesday]", ''Wall Street Journal''. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140203172245/http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323998604578567453017806518 |date=February 3, 2014 }}.</ref> Previous international editions existed in Mexico (2015–2018) and Germany (2007–2009). ''Vanity Fair Germany'' launched in February 2007 at a cost of €50 million, then the most expensive new magazine in Germany in years{{Quantify|date=August 2025}} and Condé Nast's biggest investment outside the United States. After circulation had plummeted from half a million to less than 200,000 per week, the German edition was shut down in 2009.<ref>Caitlin Fitzsimmons (February 20, 2009), "[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/feb/20/conde-nast-german-vanity-fair-closes Condé Nast closes German Vanity Fair]", ''The Guardian''. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921201014/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/feb/20/conde-nast-german-vanity-fair-closes |date=September 21, 2016 }}.</ref> The Italian ''Vanity Fair'' is published weekly.<ref>Alessandra Turra (October 25, 2013), "[http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/italian-vanity-fair-fetes-10th-anniversary-7249534 Italian Vanity Fair Fetes 10th Anniversary]", ''Women's Wear Daily''. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114032133/http://www.wwd.com/media-news/fashion-memopad/italian-vanity-fair-fetes-10th-anniversary-7249534|date=November 14, 2013}}.</ref> {| class="wikitable" |+ !Country !Circulation dates !Editor-in-chief !Start year !End year |- | rowspan="7" |United States (''Vanity Fair'') |1913–1936 |Frank Crowninshield |1914 |1936 |- | rowspan="6" |1983–present |Richard Locke |1982 |1983 |- |Leo Lerman |1983 |1983 |- |Tina Brown |1984 |1992 |- |Graydon Carter |1992 |2017 |- |Radhika Jones |2017 |2025 |- |Mark Guiducci |2025 |present |- | rowspan="4" |United Kingdom (''Vanity Fair London'') | rowspan="4" |1991–present |Tina Brown |1991 |1992 |- |Graydon Carter |1992 |2017 |- |Radhika Jones |2017 |2025 |- |Mark Guiducci |2025 |present |- | rowspan="6" |Italy (''Vanity Fair Italia'') |1990–1991 |{{Ill|Paolo Pietroni|it|Paolo Pietroni}}<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Verdelli |first=Nina |date=2021-08-27 |title=When Stories Make History: the history of Vanity Fair |url=https://www.vanityfair.it/show/agenda/2021/08/27/when-stories-make-history-the-history-of-vanity-fair |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=Vanity Fair Italia |language=it-IT}}</ref> |1990 |1991 |- | rowspan="5" |2003–present |Marisa Deimichei<ref>{{Cite web |title=WORLD: MEDIUM OF THE WEEK - Italy receives the first weekly edition of Vanity Fair |url=https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/world-medium-week-italy-receives-first-weekly-edition-vanity-fair/198172 |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=www.campaignlive.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> |2003 |2004 |- |{{Ill|Carlo Verdelli|it|Carlo Verdelli}}<ref name=":2" /> |2004 |2006 |- |{{Ill|Luca Dini|it|Luca Dini}}<ref name=":2" /> |2006 |2017 |- |Daniela Hamaui<ref name=":2" /> |2017 |2018 |- |Simone Marchetti<ref>{{Cite web |last=Carrera |first=Martino |date=2018-11-06 |title=Simone Marchetti Appointed Vanity Fair Italia Editor in Chief |url=https://wwd.com/business-news/media/simone-marchetti-appointed-vanity-fair-italia-editor-in-chief-1202899667/ |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=WWD |language=en-US}}</ref> |2018 |present |- | rowspan="2" |Germany (''Vanity Fair Germany'') | rowspan="2" |2007–2009 |Ulf Poschardt<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kundnani |first=Hans |date=2008-02-18 |title=The trouble with exporting glamour |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/feb/18/pressandpublishing2 |access-date=2024-08-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> |2007 |2008 |- |Nikolaus Albrecht |2008 |2009 |- | rowspan="2" |Spain (''Vanity Fair España'') | rowspan="2" |2008–present |Lourdes Garzón<ref>{{Cite web |title=Condé Nast prepara el lanzamiento en España de la revista 'Vanity Fair' {{!}} elmundo.es |url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2006/12/15/comunicacion/1166190521.html |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=www.elmundo.es}}</ref> |2006 |2017 |- |Alberto Moreno<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=PE |first=FashionNetwork com |title=Nombran nuevo director editorial de Vanity Fair México y España |url=https://pe.fashionnetwork.com/news/Nombran-nuevo-director-editorial-de-vanity-fair-mexico-y-espana,804172.html |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=FashionNetwork.com |date=March 14, 2017 |language=es-PE}}</ref> |2017 |present |- | rowspan="3" |France (''Vanity Fair France'') | rowspan="3" |2013–present |Anne Boulay<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=WW |first=FashionNetwork com |title=Vanity Fair France launches new look, new commercial formula backed by Google investment fund |url=https://ww.fashionnetwork.com/news/Vanity-fair-france-launches-new-look-new-commercial-formula-backed-by-google-investment-fund,1082689.html |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=FashionNetwork.com |date=March 26, 2019 |language=en-WW}}</ref> |2013 |2019 |- |Joseph Ghosn<ref name=":1" /> |2019 |2021 |- |Olivier Bouchara<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Torres |first=Bernie |date=2021-10-29 |title=Olivier Bouchara nommé Head of Editorial Content de Vanity Fair France |url=https://www.vanityfair.fr/pouvoir/article/olivier-bouchara-nomme-head-of-editorial-content-de-vanity-fair-france |access-date=2024-08-08 |magazine=Vanity Fair |language=fr-FR}}</ref> |2021 |present |- | rowspan="2" |Mexico (''Vanity Fair México'') | rowspan="2" |2015–2018 |Lourdes Garzón<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-03-20 |title=Launch of Vanity Fair Mexico |url=https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/launch-of-vanity-fair-mexico-5703 |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=InPublishing |language=en}}</ref> |2015 |2017 |- |Alberto Moreno<ref name=":0" /> |2017 |2018 |}
== See also ==
* Condé Nast, publisher of ''Vanity Fair'' * International Best Dressed Hall of Fame List * World Architecture Survey, published by ''Vanity Fair'' in 2010
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==External links== {{Commons category|Vanity Fair (magazine)}} * [https://www.vanityfair.com/ ''Vanity Fair'' homepage] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110528014639/http://m.vanityfair.com/ ''Vanity Fair'' Mobile Blog Reader] * [http://www.vanityfair.co.uk/ ''Vanity Fair'' homepage (UK)] * [http://www.vanityfair.it/ ''Vanity Fair'' homepage (Italy)] * [http://www.revistavanityfair.es/ ''Vanity Fair'' homepage (Spain)] *{{fashionmagazine|id=vanity-fair-usa|name=''Vanity Fair''}} * Condé Nast (businessman)
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