Vanity Fair UK - 12.2019

Contents Issue No. 712

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Opening Act Jonathan Majors

is on the fast track to movie stardom,

picking up speed with Brad Pitt,

Spike Lee, and Jay-Z

Style Artist Kia LaBeija, debuting

a work at Performa this year,

puts a polish on maximalism in

new-guard pearls

Trending This season’s best watches

are chic multitaskers

Beauty Bathing season beckons with

calming soaks, neo-hippie soap,

and Iceland’s latest geothermal spa

My Stuff Comedy star and newly

minted author Jenny Slate likes white

T-shirts and big bathtubs

Culture A whirlwind world tour

with Jeff Goldblum and a fine jewelry

retrospective with a literary bent

Fairground London’s glitterati party

with Bulgari in timely fashion

Vanities

Columns

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Nuking the Hurricane

BY BESS LEVIN

ILLUSTRATION BY

MICHELLE THOMPSON

From day one, Trump’s presidency has

been a strange, disturbing train

wreck. The Ukraine affair, however,

may have pushed it over the edge.

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33 Contributors

36 Editor’s Letter

38 Correspondence

132 Proust Questionnaire

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An American in Paris

BY ANDRÉ ACIMAN

ILLUSTRATIONS BY JENNY KROIK

In an exclusive excerpt from his new

novel, Find Me, Aciman picks up the

story of Elio Perlman, the young hero of

Call Me by Your Name, 15 years later.

“Perfect happiness is an egg salad

sandwich with salt, pepper, and mayo

in exactly the right proportion.”

EUGENE LEVY, P. 132

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