Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2025 i Vanity Fair

I first met Charli xcx in May 2024 when we cohosted a party in New York’s Floral District ahead of a new album launching the following month. Charli booked a DJ I’d never heard of who called himself The Dare and, despite a dress code that suggested florals, she wore head-to-toe black. Everyone exited the party with armfuls of peonies, tulips, cherry blossoms, and ranunculus, but nobody, not even Charli herself, could have left with an understanding of what that summer had in store for her. Eighteen months later, we know that Brat was less an album than an organism, an artistic edifice that built on itself over and over, with continuous remix releases up through a fateful weekend in July 2024, when it reached the presidential election. Kamala Harris was…

Odessa A’zion has a date with Quentin Tarantino. She’s planning to see Reservoir Dogs at the New Beverly Cinema, which the filmmaker bought in 2007. But first A’zion must get through her first Vanity Fair photo shoot. Posing is anxiety inducing enough even without a long drive up a windy Malibu hill that’s left A’zion carsick. But she puts the nausea aside once she reaches the beach, chugging water before launching herself into crashing waves, nerves momentarily forgotten. A’zion should get used to just diving in. The 25-year-old—makeup-free and dressed in a striped shirt for our interview, her mop of curly hair now dry—has graduated from playing troubled teens on short-lived series like Netflix’s Grand Army and the CBS sitcom Fam to It-girl-in-waiting status. This fall she’ll become the face…

By the summer of 1982, MTVwas in desperate straits. We were still big in Oklahoma, but few other cable companies were adding MTV to their lineups. In American business, if you ain’t growing, you’re dying. We were in danger of being shut down if we couldn’t convince more cable guys to carry us before the money ran out. Enter George Lois and Dale Pon, a wild-eyed, smiling but scary-looking dude whose specialty was “media promotion,” which involved banging people over the head repeatedly with a simple idea, such as: “Love songs, nothing but love songs. WPIX FM.” Years earlier, Lois had overseen an ad campaign for an oatmeal brand that enlisted Mickey Mantle and Wilt Chamberlain to cry on camera and whine, “I want my Maypo!” It was ironic, it…

It was the primary fight that changed the course of the Democratic Party. A craggy-faced master of insider politics squared off against a suave and handsome upstart, whose youth and relative inexperience masked the fact that he had a very hard-nosed understanding of machine politics. The older man was confident. He sat back and quietly logged support from party dons, donors, insiders. He would step in when the moment was right. The younger man campaigned at a pace that seemed to test his physical limits. He and his network of supporters badgered every ward heeler and union boss who would listen, oftenwith a simple request that they agree to meet the candidate. Because if you met the candidate, you would be charmed, sure, but you would also learn that he…

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On a recent afternoon in otherwise sleepy Bel Air, where multimillion-dollar mansions disappear behind walls of tangled bougainvillea, two security guards, handguns at their hips, pace before a tall black gate, keeping watch over a cutting-edge social experiment: the marriage of influencer culture and meme coin speculation. Inside, caterers pass out coconuts to Love Island cast members who lounge in glittering bikinis, prepping to film sponsored content. Everyone is beautiful, bronzed, and carefully composed for the camera. At the head of a long table sits Jade Watson, a redheaded content producer, drafting a prediction-markets-fordummies campaign based on the long-term romantic prospects of the reality show’s couples: Buy, hold, or sell? “What we’re doing is simplifying trading terms,” Watson says. “But we’re using the language Gen Z already speaks.” Downstairs, in…

It was a Saturday in July, perfect weather in Sagaponack, and Richard Prince walked to the door of his beach house wearing a shirt with one of his hippie drawings. He had on beat-up khakis and sneakers without socks. There was golf on the TV, paintings of flowers and birds and seashells on the walls. Prince has been out East for a while. He got property in this secluded spot in the ’90s, when he followed his friend Glenn O’Brien to the houses near potato fields. It was pretty empty then, and collectors Don and Mera Rubell had a place nearby, so they would all get lunch. Later, Prince spent summers here with his family. Boogie boards and a surfboard his kids used growing up were leaning on the deck,…

On a snowy day in January, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink joined Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC’s Squawk Box for an interview in Davos, Switzerland, where corporate and political leaders gather for the annual World Economic Forum. While the segment mainly revolved around the BlackRock CEO’s plea for Donald Trump’s SEC to make it harder for activist shareholders to take on corporations via proxy vote, Sorkin couldn’t resist asking for Fink’s take on the booming cryptocurrency ecosystem. “Are you planning on issuing either a meme coin, ETFs, or anything like that, now that the animal spirits seem to be very much alive?” he asked. “I think the Sorkin coin,” Fink replied. Two hours later, Sorkin was watching the brand-new cryptocurrency, minted by some enterprising meme coiner, soar by millions of dollars.…

Charli xcx is emoting more than seems possible for someone whose eyes—in public, at least—are nearly always conveying vacant disdain or covered by sunglasses. I arrived at her Hollywood Hills home, as requested, before 8 a.m.—an inconceivable meeting time for a person who loves to go out so much that she named one song for what she expects to hear when she’s partying (“Club Classics”) and another for the number of days a year she partakes in such activities (“365”). Throughout the conversation in her poolside courtyard, Charli rests on the lounge chair in every possible permutation of repose, from elbows on knees to partial recline to supine, and then supine the other way (another Charli banger: “360”). Charli is freshly showered, twisting her damp waves until a tumbleweed of…

The family—man, woman, baby—arrived on the 12th floor of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building on a warm day in August. The 41-story edifice of bureaucracy, better known as 26 Federal Plaza, is one in a herd of government buildings sprawled across an eerily unpopulated quadrant of Manhattan, a few blocks from the Brooklyn Bridge and a straight shot up the center of the city from where gold leaf glints on the Statue of Liberty’s torch. When the family entered the waiting area, Isabelle Brourman, the only sketch artist permitted in the court, was sitting inside the adjoining courtroom thatwould host the immigration hearing for which they’d come. “It’s kind of like the last bastion of the American dream,” she says of the process bywhich undocumented immigrants seek asylum and…