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SEPTEMBER 2025
Table Of Contents
Contents
SEPTEMBER 2025

Contents

September /No. 771

50

Vanities

37 Opening Act

Chase Infiniti on battle scenes with Sean Penn and keeping it light.

41,44 / The Gallery

Prada's butter-leather Tumulte bag is red and gold all over; a sleek Cartier watch gives new meaning to "need-to-know."

42 / Books

Take a mental getaway with this crop of art books, then head back to campus with three novels probing the foibles of academe.

Columns

46 Fire and ICE

Doctoral student Riimeysa Oztiirk spent 45 days in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. Her fellow detainees became her lifeline.

By Riimeysa Oztiirk Illustration by HokyoungKim

50 Zoey Takes Her Shot

Actor Zoey Deutch's new role as Jean Seberg helped rekindle her love for her craft.

By Joy Press Photograph by Matthew Brookes

32 Editor's Letter

34 Contributors

120 Proust Questionnaire

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September /No. 771

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Features

52 The Next Jen

Decades into TV icondom, Jennifer Aniston is still the focus of boundless public fascination but, increasingly, the picture ofzen.

By Julie Miller Photographs by Norman Jean Roy

70 A Chan of Heart

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, built a philanthropic behemoth in their own image. Then their images began to diverge. By Evgenia Peretz Illustration by Diego Mallo

78 Harlem Homecoming

After a seven-year hiatus, the Studio Museum in Harlem will reopen in its much-anticipated new building.

By Arimeta Diop Photographs by Dana Scruggs

84 Waymo, Take the Wheel

Under co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana, the autonomous taxi start-up is pursuing the anti-Elon path to a self-driving future.

By Noah Shachtman Photograph by Nicholas Albrecht

88 A Sacred Pause

The vibrant history of La Pausa, Coco Chanel's dream house on the French Riviera, which has been restored to its Jazz Age splendor.

By Keziah Weir

96 Killer Instincts

How a death row inmate helped investigate the full scope of an infamous serial killer's crimes.

By Rachel Dodes

104 Game Show

Inside an NFL training program for players seeking to transition from the gridiron to the increasingly lucrative broadcast booth.

By TomKludt Photographs by Roger Kisby

66 We Keep Moving

Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter speaks out. A Vanity Fair exclusive.

By Bernice A. King

"I came from nothing. We were broke. There's no nepo baby here."

—JENNIFER ANISTON [COVER STORY p.52]