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Heir APPARENT • What do Leonardo DiCaprio, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Elisabeth Moss have in common? CHASE INFINITI playing their daughter on a screen near you

In ROUGE

Enchanted KINGDOMS • Don’t let summer’s end quell your wanderlust. Journey to Renaissance-era Venice, through the halls of the newly renovated Frick Collection, and across Chilean archipelagos

School Ties • Three fall novels make hay of academe, probing campus politics and intellectual foibles writ large

Abstract AWAY

Fire and ICE • The women I met at a Louisiana detention center, where I was held for 45 days, demonstrated generosity and compassion through even the darkest times

Zoey Takes HER SHOT • Zoey Deutch’s turn as Jean Seberg was a decade in the making. It’s helped give her acting life a second wind

THE NEXT JEN • JENNIFER ANISTON has faced down tabloid scrutiny, stalkers, and a relentless fictionalization of her love life—Barack Obama! Pedro Pascal!—but as the fourth season of her hit The Morning Show debuts, America’s favorite girl next door has leveled up to a whole new sphere of envy-inducing zen

We Keep Moving • In a Vanity Fair exclusive, Martin Luther King Jr.’s daughter reflects on Trump’s decision to declassify the civil rights leader’s assassination files, her father’s legacy, and the future of the movement

A Chan of Heart • In 2015, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan built a philanthropic behemoth in their image: the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Science-forward, research-backed, driven by empathy. But as Zuckerberg and Meta have tacked right, ditching DEI, insiders say Chan has become a proxy figure in the battle between her husband’s company and their progressive CZI staff

HARLEM HOME COMING • THE STUDIO MUSEUM WILL STAGE A DAZZLING RETURN AMID TENSE TIMES AND A CHANGING NEIGHBORHOOD. IT COULDN’T ARRIVE SOONER

WAYMO, TAKE THE WHEEL • AS ELON MUSK RETURNS HIS ATTENTION TO TESLA’S AMBITIONS, TEKEDRA MAWAKANA, THE CO-CEO OF WAYMO, OFFERS UP A DIFFERENT KIND OF LEADERSHIP. SHE’S FOLLOWING HER OWN ROAD TO A DRIVERLESS FUTURE, SHE TELLS VANITY FAIR

A SACRED PAUSE • IN 1928, COCO CHANEL CONJURED HER RIVIERA GETAWAY INTO BEING, COMPLETE WITH ARTIST FRIENDS, LAVENDER FIELDS, AND A CLAY COURT WORTHY OF ROLAND GARROS. FOLLOWING A MAGNIFICENT RESTORATION OF LA PAUSA, AS THE PROPERTY IS KNOWN, A NEW BOOK EXPLORES THE HOUSE’S VIBRANT HISTORY

KILLER INSTINCT S • William Noguera was sentenced to death after an act of rage as a teenager that he never stopped regretting. But his redemption arc while incarcerated brought him perilously close to some of the most violent criminals in America, including Joseph Naso, a convicted serial killer whose true body count—and culpability—became Noguera’s mission to expose

GAME SHOW • Jason Kelce, Richard Sherman, and Nate Burleson may be football prodigies, but they weren’t natural-born commentators—they took a crash course at the NFL’s Broadcast Boot Camp. VF has a sneak peek at the class of 2025

The Boot Camp Alumni Network • The NFL is America’s most popular television show, and this training program serves as a pipeline for players turned pundits who go on to gab in studios and man the sidelines.

JOSH BROLIN • The actor on dry skin, the American dream, and the famous Brolin behind