Vanity Fair US Magazine - September 2023

In this issue

“My whole childhood was probably very extreme… I spent more time at Neverland than Graceland, to be honest.”

The Gallery
Garden-inspired gems; a delicate white skirt is more than meets the eye.

Wherever he goes, LEWIS PULLMAN is in his element

Last fall, while filming Apple’s Lessons in Chemistry, adapted from the beloved novel by Bonnie Garmus, showrunner Lee Eisenberg made an on-the-fly change: The actor Lewis Pullman’s turn as Calvin, a progressive, introverted chemist in 1960s Los Angeles, was so winning that Eisenberg wrote him into more episodes than originally planned. Earlier this year, the Top Gun: Maverick scene-stealer wowed festival-goers at Sundance with The Starling Girl and at Tribeca with The Line. As he braces for leading man attention, Pullman reflects on life in and out of Hollywood.

2 mins

Back to The Future

A debut makeup line from the house of Paco Rabanne honors the late designer’s iconic metalwork and prompts an experimental streak

3 mins

Breaking the BINARY

Inside the fight to de-gender awards shows

3 mins

The PLAYER

The Barstool Sports brand is known for its bro-ish excess, but the company has a woman to thank for driving its $550 million sale: CEO Erika Ayers Badan

10+ mins

LIFE OF RILEY

DAISY JONES & THE SIX PROPELLED RILEY KEOUGH TO STARDOM EVEN AS SHE COPED WITH THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER, LISA MARIE PRESLEY, AND A LEGAL BATTLE WITH HER GRANDMOTHER, PRISCILLA. NOW THE ACTOR, FILMMAKER, AND NEW MOTHER IS CHASING PEACE AND CLARITY AND, IMPROBABLY, FINDING THEM

10+ mins

PICTURE PERFECT

A new volume of portraits by photographer Slim Aarons, including never-before-seen work, reanimates a lost world

7 mins

THE AMERICANS

On the eve of the US Open, VF  catches up with the next generation of tennis stars

7 mins

The Curious Case of the Cardboard Basquiats

A show of “lost” works by the celebrated artist Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Orlando Museum of Art was meant to be a blockbuster. Then the feds came knocking

10+ mins

Just Kids

In 2013, a bunch of unknowns made a tiny movie called Short Term 12. Ten years later, a shocking number have become stars, Oscar winners, superheroes, or all of the above. BRIE LARSON, RAMI MALEK, LAKEITH STANFIELD, STEPHANIE BEATRIZ, KAITLYN DEVER, and writer-director DESTIN DANIEL CRETTON dish about the undersung drama that launched their careers

10+ mins

The Doppelganger Effect

It was more than a decade ago when writer and cultural critic Naomi Klein first realized people were confusing her—and her work—with another writer and cultural critic: Naomi Wolf. In this exclusive excerpt from her new book, Klein grapples with a phenomenon she’s started to see repeated in the culture all around us

10+ mins

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