VANITY FAIR

SEPTEMBER 2014

No. 649

FEATURES

262 WHAT NATALIA KNOWS By INGRID SISCHY Supemiodel Natalia Vodianova's rags-to-riches story is already fashion lore. More intriguing is how the cruel poverty of her Soviet youth still shapes the luxurious life she now shares with LVMH heir Antoine Arnault. Photographs by Mario Testino.

270 THE FRENCH CONNECTION Spotlight on Charlotte Rampling and Kristin Scott Thomas, in fine dramatic form. By Laura Jacobs. Portraits by David Downton.

272 URBAN LEGENDS By MARIO TESTINO The photographer plays paparazzo, snapping the likes of Ronan Farrow, Betty Catroux, Jeremy Irons, and Helena Bonham Carter, as they turn heads on V.F. s Best-Dressed Boulevard. Text by Amy Fine Collins.

288 A BEAUTY FOR THE AGES Spotlight on the eternally, ineffably elegant Carmen Dell'Orefice, whose modeling career began in 1945. Portraits and text by David Downton.

290 GEHRY S PARIS COUP By PAUL GOLDBERGER When Frank Gehry's latest project, the Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation—a reported $143 million museum and cultural center commissioned by LVMH head Bernard Arnault—opens this fall, it will break the mold for Paris public monuments. Portrait by Jonas Fredwall Karlsson. Photographs by Hufton & Crow.

294 CUT TO THE FUTURE Spotlight on nine designers (and their muses) who are bound to rule the runway. By Michael Carl. Photograph by Patrick Demarchelier.

296 BECOMING AN AGNELLI By MARELLA AGNELLI In an adaptation from her forthcoming memoir, a style icon retraces the exhilarating journey that began with her 1953 marriage to Fiat heir Gianni Agnelli, their jet-set social orbit (which pulled in Warhol, J.F.K., and Capote), and the family homes and gardens which kept her grounded.

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305 SWEET CHARISSA Spotlight on Charissa Shearer, who's acting on impulse. Photograph by Tom Craig.

306 V.F. PORTRAIT: TAVI GEVINSON By KENNETH LONERGAN As the teenage Style Rookie blogger, publisher, and activist prepares for her Broadway debut in This Is Our Youth, the play's author describes how Gevinson surprised him. Photograph by Annie Leibovitz.

308 REHIND CLAUDE'S DOORS By WILLIAM STADIEM Madame Claude's girls were the finest a man could buy, her clients a roster of wealth and power: Kennedy, Rothschild, Onassis, et al. Those who knew the enigmatic Frenchwoman recall how she turned prostitution into a luxury trade, stood trial in Paris in 1992, then vanished— seemingly forever.

313 ANOTHER ROY FROM OZ Spotlight on Australia's Brenton Thwaites, who follows his fairy-tale turn in Maleficent with the futurism of The Giver. By Matt Tyrnaucr. Photograph by Sam Jones.

314 DESIGNED FOR DESTRUCTION By MAUREEN CALLAHAN Superstar designer Alexander McQueen and his muse, Isabella Blow, once had a seemingly unbreakable bond. As an adaptation from a new book on 90s fashion renegades details, they also shared a darkness that would split them apart—and put an end to two extraordinary lives.

325 VROOM AT THE TOP Spotlight on Boyd Holbrook, revving up with six movies (including Gone Girl) this year and next. By Krista Smith. Photograph by Mark Seliger.

FANFAIR & FAIRGROUND

167 30 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF THE CULTURE Horst's beloved images at the V&A. My Desk: Jenna Lyons. Excess baggage: men's carryalls and briefcases. Hot Tracks: St. Vincent.Gone with the Wind and other archives at the Harry Ransom Center; Night-Table Reading. Denim daze: Jean Stories' Jane Herman Bishop and Florence Kane. My Stuff: Michael Kors. Hot Type. Punch Hutton's Cult Favorites. Private Lives: Olympia Le-Tan. Arc angels: ladies' top-handle bags. Fall's best in beauty.

202 AROUND THE WORLD, ONE PARTY AT A TIME Hitting the mark: Guy Ritchie and Jacqui Ainsley host an afternoon of clay-pigeon shooting at Ashcombe House, in southern Wiltshire, England.

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COLUMNS

212 WEARING OUT THE CARPETBy JAMES WOLCOTT Thanks to a marathon awards season and the small army of fashion critics who savage any sartorial misstep, the romance of the red carpet is gone. Photo illustration by Darrow.

214 THE FIRE EVERY TIMEBy MICHAEL KINSLEY When should the U.S. intervene abroad? If one looks at Putin's landgrab in Ukraine and the disintegration of Iraq, the answer should be all too obvious. Illustration by Barry Blitt.

218 HAUTE GEMS "It Girls" Eugenie Niarchos and Noor Fares have inspiration to spare, so they help with each other's jewelry line. By Derek Blasberg. Photograph by Pamela Hanson.

220 STARLET STRATEGY Spotlight on Emily Ratajkowski, whose gyrations in the "Blurred Lines" video landed her a role in Gone Girl. By Krista Smith. Photograph by Ellen von Unwerth.

222 THE INTERNATIONAL REST-DRESSED LIST The 2014 roster of style anoints a Broadway star, a retired bullfighter, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and two reigning queens of e-commerce. Find out what rocks their closets.

VANITIES

257 AMRER WAVES The Celebrity Pro-Am Ironman Nightlife Decathlon. Impossible Interview: Morrissey vs. Jennifer Lawrence.

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