Vanity Fair (1-year) | 
| Publisher: Conde Nast Publications
Category: Magazine
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Rating:  114 reviews
Sales Rank: 8
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00005NIPX
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Vanity Fair covers the people, issues, and events that define our times. This chronicle of contemporary culture provides access to the movers and shakers in film, music, entertainment, sports, business, and politics. With articles by renowned writers and images by award-winning photographers, every issue of Vanity Fair is always fascinating, never ordinary.
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Who Reads Vanity Fair? Smart, stylish, and voraciously interested in the world, Vanity Fair readers have an extraordinary ability to discern what is truly worth their time, attention, and money. It is essential for Vanity Fair readers to be conversant in a wide range of topicsfrom global issues, economics, and travel, to beauty, fashion, and entertainmentand they pursue the knowledge of these subjects with an unusual intensity. Vanity Fair readers actively seek out friends and colleagues with whom they share ideas and experiences, creating a diverse and eclectic network of peers. Known for its ability to "ignite a dinner party at 50 yards," Vanity Fair is meant for readers who enjoy expert-level knowledge and lively, spirited debate. What You Can Expect in Each Issue: - Fanfair: Vanity Fairs monthly guide to truly unique and talked-about cultural events around the world, hot new CDs, books, and films; groundbreaking art and design; exhibitions and theatrical events; fashion, beauty, and travel trends.
- Fairground: The magazine brings its discriminating eye into the worlds most exclusive events, capturing candid snapshots of the cultures rich, famous, and iconic. This pictorial feature goes around the world, one party at a time.
- Columns: Insightful essays by distinguished writers, such as Dominick Dunne, James Wolcott, and Michael Wolff, cover the most relevant topics of the day. These investigations on crime, politics, business, society, the media, and current events are often touted on the cover and have a dedicated following.
- Vanities: Short takes on todays most compelling personalities, Vanities is a reader favorite, incorporating splashy graphics and quick wit.
- Spotlight: Spotlight shines a light on the stars of the future. Former discoveries include Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jennifer Lopez, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Gwyneth Paltrow, all before they made it big.
- Proust Questionnaire: An update of the 19th-century parlor game, this classic Q&A features a different celebrity subject every month.
- Features: In-depth, award-winning stories about entertainment, the arts, business, politics, fashion, design, and more, are at the heart of the magazine each month.
Past Issues: Contributors: With every issue, Vanity Fair allows its contributors the freedom to indulge in extraordinary storytelling, making it a destination for the worlds most renowned photographers and award-winning journalists, such as Marie Brenner, Bryan Burrough, Bob Colacello, Amy Fine Collins, Dominick Dunne, Christopher Hitchens, Sebastian Junger, William Langewiesche, Maureen Orth, Todd Purdum, James Wolcott, and Michael Wolff; and photographers such as Jonathan Becker, Harry Benson, Patrick Demarchelier, Todd Eberle, Larry Fink, Jonas Karlsson, Annie Leibovitz, Tim Hetherington, Norman Jean Roy, Mark Seliger, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber. Magazine Layout: With a dynamic combination of big pictures and big stories, Vanity Fair delivers both bold, beautiful photography and the very best thought-provoking journalism in a clean, bold design that is simple yet sophisticated, minimal yet full of restrained energy. When it comes to visually expressing the passions of its stable of photographers, illustrators, writers, and editors, the magazine must look as smart and powerful as the topics it covers. Comparisons to Other Magazines: With a broad range of interesting subjects, Vanity Fair is a general interest magazine that captures the best of the best, from world affairs to entertainment, business to style, design to society. Vanity Fair is unique in its ability to act as a cultural catalysta magazine that provokes and drives the popular dialogue. No other magazine can match Vanity Fair's unique mix of stunning photography, in-depth reportage, and social commentary. Each month, Vanity Fair accelerates ideas and images to center stage, creating an unrivaled media event that attracts millions of modern, sophisticated readers. Advertising: Vanity Fair's advertisers are as eclectic as the editorial content. Fashion and retail advertisers are responsible for the majority of Vanity Fair's ad pages, but other advertising partners stem from a wide array of consumer categories, including automotive, financial institutions, not-for-profits, corporate entities, beauty, travel, entertainment/media, home furnishings, food, and wine and spirits. On average, a little more than half of the pages in Vanity Fair are devoted to advertising (56%). Awards: - The American Society of Magazine Editors has nominated Vanity Fair for 63 National Magazine Awards since 1984; the magazine has won 15 times
- Winner of National Magazine Awards for Reporting and Photo Portfolio, 2008
- Winner of National Magazine Award, Columns & Commentary 2007
- Winner of National Magazine Award, Public Interest 2007
- Winner of the 51st annual World Press Photo of the Year 2007
- Gold Medal Award, Photography, Spread/Single Page, Society of Publication Designers 42nd Annual Competition 2007
- Graydon Carter: The only two-time winner of Adweek magazine's Editor of the Year
- 248 awards for design and photography since 1984
- Included on Adweeks Hot List nine timesmore than any other magazine
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 Great mix of gossip and hard news December 17, 2001
mirope (Seattle, Washington)
81 out of 93 found this review helpful
"Vanity Fair" is head and shoulders above anything else on the magazine rack. On the one hand, it has loads of fun, gossipy stories on celebrities - past and present - combined with state-of-the art work from the premier photographers in the business, including Herb Ritts and Annie Leibowitz. While the articles on entertainment celebrities are usually pure PR fluff pieces, there are also more in-depth articles about the power players behind the scenes and old Hollywood legends. These voyeristic guilty pleasures sit comfortably side-by-side with some of the best serious journalism in print. Month after month, "Vanity Fair" addresses important issues that are only covered superficially in most of the media. The editors aren't afraid to allow their reporters to do long pieces on foreign affairs, politics and the economy. If it's been a major event on the world scene, "Vanity Fair" has covered it, and covered it well. I almost always read it cover to cover, and always come away feeling like it was time well spent.
Something for everyone - young and old May 29, 2003
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
I've been a subscriber for about 10 years now. I cannot WAIT until this magazine shows up each month. Vanity Fair is full of wonderful articles mostly of the rich elite, but it capitalizes on on how sometimes awful things can happen to people with money too. For instance, Dominick Dunne's diary of the Moxley murder and the Safra murder. I turn to Dunne's article first in every issue. Christopher Hitchens is sometimes a bit of a "windy" rebel. He sometimes makes a point a peppering a lot of words that you may have to look up in the dictionary.The lives of the rich and famous are a fascinating read. Truman Capotes Black and White Ball article a few years ago was great. The coverage in the Middle East has been cutting edge. I first heard of the Martha Stewart Imclone stock selling in the pages of Vanity Fair well before it became a scandal. In response to some postings on Amazon regarding the Hispanic comment: Dame Edna is a comedian. The Hispanic community should take his/her remark with a grain of salt and rise above it. I'm Polish, but I can still appreciate a good Polish joke. The well received sound of laughter is universal. In closing, I just love reading about casanovas from the 1920's, bi-sexual poets from the 1940's, outsider art from the 1990's, famous restaurants in the 1950's, the history of the corset dating from the 1800's, and cheezy billboard art on the highways of the U.S.A. Vanity Fair has it all.
Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll... with a Better Vocabulary March 18, 2005
A. Grant
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've been an avid reader of Vanity Fair since first subscribing at age 16. How else would I know the goings-on of people like Jocelyn Wildenstein and Princesses Marie-Chantal, Pia, and Alexandra (aka The Miller Sisters)?
Vanity Fair consistently provides a well-balanced volume of investigative reports, society gossip, movers-and-shakers features, and luscious photography. If you care to know the who's who of everything upper-crust -- philanthropy, fine dining, theater and the arts, film, fashion -- Vanity Fair is the magazine to treasure. The photography alone is reason enough to subscribe: they are so masterfully styled and intricately decorated, images from ten years ago still are emblazoned in my (nutty-professor-forgetful) mind.
Fluff and Stuff August 18, 2003
B. BIRD (SAN ANTONIO, TX United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Where can one find Annie Leibovitz, Dominick Dunne, and Christopher Hitchins as regular fare in a magazine, under the same cover, often in the same month? Vanity Fair. The subjects of the stories can range from G.W Bush's religious experiences to the use of squalene in Anthrax vaccines to the bizzare lives of the overindulged ultra-rich. For the single diner who doesn't have a handy book, VF fills the bill with just enough articles and essays to pass an hour eating dinner.
"Fair" Game September 15, 2002
Patrick Graham (Gainsville, Fl United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Vanity Fair is one of the best magazines around. It has a fantastic combination of style and substance.As a reader we are treated to a constant barrage of ads from the elite fashion designers of our time combined in-depth articles from the elite writers of our time. David Halberstam, Dominick Dunne, and Sebastian Junger are all regular contributers. To finish it off, we are kept up to date on the latest gossip and events in "high society." It takes nearly a month to read an issue cover to cover and it is well worth the price of the subscription. Buy one issue from the rack and by the time you are finished, I guarantee you will be filling out the subscription form.
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