Vanity Fair

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Vanity Fair

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KAIA GERBER SLAYS IT ALL • Catwalk. Back lot. Boardroom. Bookshelf. Rebecca Ford meets a self-confident, selfaware multi hyphenate

BAGGAGE CLAIM

PADDING AROUND • Los Angeles is replete with landmark real estate, from triumphs of design by Richard Neutra, John Lautner, and John Elgin Woolf to less name-brand mega-mansions. Yet across time, movie stars, moguls, and other powers that be have all called the same power addresses home. If these hedges could talk…

HACKING THE SYSTEM • Do you want to live forever? VERA PAPISOVA has devised the perfect day, full of antiaging and devoid of death

CHARACTER STUDIES

DEUS EX CHATBOT • The ink-stained wretches of Tinseltown fear that the machines will make them obsolete. What if a writers room of chatbots could do a better job than humans at coming up with the next Sopranos, or at least the next Is It Cake? Let’s imagine

DEER DIARY • After CAZZIE DAVID moved into the hunting lodge of an Old Hollywood star, she got in touch with her animal instincts

IF THE SHOE FITS • During a six-week stay at the Sunset Tower, JULI WEINER slipped into something more comfortable for daily life—a plush pair of hotel slippers. Here, she makes the case for taking them to the street

California Schemin’ • Even newspapers can have Hollywood ambitions. As the New York Post colonizes Los Angeles, its editors reveal big future plans, and, as LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT reports, onlookers are welcoming the California news wars

How to Win an Oscar–or Go Broke Trying • Awards season, an annual circus of consultants and events, is awash in money. Nearly everyone involved seems to tolerate this at best. So why does Hollywood keep doing it? JOY PRESS looks for answers

All in Vein • VERA PAPISOVA spends the day with Holly wood’s new in-demand accoutrement: a blood concierge

THE PEOPLE’S PRINCES • In Hollywood’s golden age, studios turned regular men into secular gods: changing their names, hiding their flaws. But now, writes OTTESSA MOSHFEGH, the era of the remote matinee idol is over—and the dawn of the almost approachable, appealingly authentic modern actor is in full swing. Meet the new class of leading men

World on Fire • OLIVIA NUZZI was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames. In an excerpt from American Canto, our West Coast Editor takes stock of scorched earth

DREAM WEAVER • Nearly five years ago CHLOÉ ZHAO’s Nomadland broke new ground and swept awards season. Now the director is ready to do it all again with Hamnet, a devastating portrayal of love and loss. MICHELLE RUIZ sits down with the visionary for a revealing conversation about on-set raves, reviving Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and navigating Hollywood as a neurodivergent filmmaker

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM • Holly wood knows AI is a profound technology bound to be transformative, and also bound to replace humans. It’s all anyone can talk about in private, at parties, on location. With the town on edge, TOM DOTAN plumbs the industry’s anxiety—and hope

Confessions on a Dance Floor • Once upon a time, going out in Holly wood was actually fun. DEREK C. BLASBERG lifts the velvet rope for an oral history of LA nightlife in the 2000s as told by the insiders who made it happen

MIDCENTURY MAISON • For years, Nicolas Ghesquière had one very special West...