Contributors

Leslie Bennetts, who profiled Hillary Rodham Clinton in the June issue, writes about another embattled woman this month. "Once again Debbie Reynolds's life is in a mess, but she will survive the latest romantic and financial fiascoes, as she has so many others," says Bennetts. "Reynolds is truly indomitable."

Frequent contributor Eric Boman says that before every photo shoot he forms a preconceived picture of the subject in his head, "and sometimes I'm spot-on. But what I love is to be thrown off, to be surprised by something unexpected. Jil Sander threw me with her smile, her ease, her tenderness. I wanted to try to capture that." Boman also photographed golden-age trouper Debbie Reynolds for this issue.

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"Jil Sander is a rare, almost unprecedented combination of a creator and a businesswoman," says Bob Colacello. "She is the first high-style designer to emerge from Germany and be accepted in Italy, France, and now in America." His profile of Sander is the latest of many fashion stories he has done for V.F., including articles on Oscar de la Renta, Pierre Berge, and John Fairchild.

Los Angeles-based photographer Michel Comte caught the manic Melrose Place energy of Heather Locklear.

Christopher Hitchens's book on the United Nations, International Territory, with photographer Adam Bartos, is due out this month from Verso.

Michael Musto writes the "La Dolce Musto" column in The Village Voice and "Poplife" for Spin, and is a regular in "Vanities." He also appears on the E! channel's Gossip Show. "Interviewing Heather Locklear was a longtime fantasy," he says. "Next stop, Dollywood."

Kevin Sessums is writing a novel, Porterhouse, for Random House.

Marjorie Williams profiled Strobe Talbott in last month's issue.