Just got my UK print subscription copy.
The cover is super-glossy, which is great, but the issue is very thin - 112 pages. There's a two-page new season Chanel campaign and a Vuitton GO-14 ad on the back page, and that's about it for fashion advertising. The rest is jewellery, watches and travel.
There are several pages devoted to a "Global Goals List" which is "spotlighting 17 incredible leaders working tirelessly to create a better future for us all" although nearly everyone who appears in a Conde Nast magazine these days is a disruptive world-changing leader of some sort who employs the superpower of word salad to make their your world a better place.
There are mini features on "How can we trust the images we see from the Israel-Hamas conflict?" (by realising the adage "truth is the first casualty of war" isn't modern word salad) and "This Oscar season has redefined the himbo", but with not enough pictures to prove their point, I feel.
The cover story with Simone Biles is followed by an article 'Barbarians at the Glades' covering the type of people who want to live at Palm Beach. Then it's the 'One-Body Problem', "Bryan Johnson has spent millions on his twin quests for eternal life and a younger penis". Then it's 'Throne of Games' about the people who create the puzzles in the New York Times. We have some vintage HARRY BENSON as he talks about The Beatles, and then a look at Conan O'Brien's first year at whatever show he presented in the 90s. The Proust Questionnaire is Mariska Hargitay.
What type of person does Vanity Fair think reads their magazine? From the sound of most of that content, it isn't the youth market. Yet they insist on shoehorning in stuff that's on the sophistication level of someone still in high school.
Anyhow, there's more content in this issue than the page count would suggest, yet it's a.... mixed bag. After reading, I would keep the cover and ditch the rest of the issue.
The next issue should be the Hollywood one?