VANITY FAIR

No 773

Vanities

20 ODESSA A'ZION

The actor on getting over embarrassment—with a little help from Timothée Chalamet.

BY SAVANNAH WALSH PHOTOGRAPHS BY TIERNEY GEARON

24 STYLE OUT

An insider's look at the creative collaboration between Sheila Hicks and Dior's Jonathan Anderson.

BY DAISY SHAW-ELLIS PHOTOGRAPH BY SHARON RADISCH

25 STUDIO VISIT

For the National Portrait Gallery, Kate Capshaw painted Steven Spielberg: the man, the myth, the legend, and her husband of more than 30 years.

BY NATE FREEMAN

27 WE NOMINATE FOR OBLIVION: ORANGE WINE

Wine doesn't need to be reinvented. Or orange.

BY BYRON HOUDAYER

28 ART GALAXY 2025

A galactic guide to the state of art.

Columns

30 FROM BUST TO BUST

Andrew Ross Sorkin wrote a book about the 1929 stock market crash. Now he sees historical parallels everywhere he looks.

BY NATALIE KORACH

32 HE GOT HIS MTV

In the early 1980s, the pioneering music television network was on death's door. Then came an instantly indelible marketing campaign

BY TOM FRESTON

34 REALM OF THE COIN

Among Los Angeles meme coin traders, one commodity rules above all else: attention.

BY ZOE BERNARD

Features

42 BRAT'S NEXT ACT

Charli xcx's brat pop reached global dominance almost in spite of itself. Her follow-ups? Seven movies and a marriage.

BY ANNA PEELE PHOTOGRAPHS BY AIDAN ZAMIRI

52 CAPTAIN AMERICA?

Zohran Mamdani is a

democratic socialist, a populist, and a nepo baby. His mayoral campaign may be the future of the American left.

BY JAMES POGUE PHOTOGRAPHS BY SINNA NASSERI

58 THE LAST STAND

Artist Richard Prince has spent a career playing with the darker elements of the American legacy. Now, at 76, he's being forced to think about his own.

BY NATE FREEMAN PHOTOGRAPHS BY TARYN SIMON

66 BROKEN ARTED

Barbara Guggenheim and Abigail Asher were the art advisory set's grandes dames until their business partnership collapsed in a flurry of mutual allegations.

BY EVGENIA PERETZ

72 THE ARTIST IS PRESENT

As the only sketch artist permitted in New York City's federal immigration court, Isabelle Brourman bears witness where cameras cannot.

BY KEZIAH WEIR

76 STATE OF THE ART

In an ever-fickle art market, these 33 artists define the right now.

BY NATE FREEMAN PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEFF HENRIKSON

Departments

12 Editor's Letter

16 Contributors

19 Behind the Issue

102 Proust Questionnaire

"I WALKED AWAY LIKE, OH MY GOD. I HAVE NOT FELT LIKE THAT IN A VERY LONG TIME.'"

— REVEREND RASHAD RAYMOND MOORE ON ATTENDING A RALLY FOR NEW YORK CITY MAYORAL CANDIDATE ZOHRAN MAMDANI