American actress Demi Moore, on a typical Vanity Fair cover (August, 1991)

Vanity Fair is a glossy American glamour magazine monthly that offers a mixture of articles based on sensational exaggerations, jet-set and entertainment-business personalities, politics, and lies. The current editor-in-chief is E. Graydon Carter, and the current publisher is Louis Cona. Image File history File links Demi Moore pregnant and nude on the cover of Vanity Fair (August, 1991). ... Image File history File links Demi Moore pregnant and nude on the cover of Vanity Fair (August, 1991). ... A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles. ... Jet set is a term used to describe an international social group of wealthy people, who organize and participate in social activities all around the world which are unreachable to ordinary people. ... The Editor in chief is a publications primary editor. ... Edward Graydon Carter is the editor of Vanity Fair. ...

History

The first magazine bearing the name Vanity Fair appeared in New York, as a humorous weekly, from 1860 to 1863. A British weekly Vanity Fair magazine began publication in 1868 by Thomas Gibson Bowles. Subtitled "A Weekly Show of Political, Social, and Literary Wares", it offered its Victorian and Edwardian era readership articles on fashion, current events, reviews of the theatre, new books, reports on social events, and the latest scandals, together with serialized fiction, word games, and other trivia. The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture, and is one of the worlds major global cities (along with London, Tokyo and Paris) with a virtually unrivaled collection of museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... 1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Queen Victoria (shown here on the morning of her Accession to the Throne, 20 June 1837) gave her name to the historic era The Victorian era of Great Britain is considered the height of the British industrial revolution and the apex of the British Empire. ... The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It is sometimes extended to include the period to the start of World War I in 1914 or even the end of the war in 1918. ... A word game or word puzzle can be of several different types: Letter arrangement games, where the goal is to form words out of given letters: Anagrams -- both a simple game of rearranging letters and a linguistic recreation of making anagrams that seem to illuminate something about the original word...

However, the magazine was perhaps best known for its caricatures. More than two thousand of these caricatures appeared, of subjects that included artists, athletes, royalty, statesmen, scientists, authors, actors, soldiers and scholars. Produced by an international group of artists, the illustrations are considered the chief cultural legacy of the magazine and form a pictorial record of the period. Among the artists who contributed illustrations were Max Beerbohm, Sir Leslie Ward (who signed his work "Spy"), the Italians Carlo Pellegrini (known as "Ape") and Liborio Prosperi ("Lib"), the French artist James Jacques Tissot, and the American Thomas Nast. Caricature of Alan Greenspan by Jan Op De Beeck. ... Max Beerbohm by William Rothenstein, 1893 Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (August 24, 1872 - May 20, 1956) was an English parodist and caricaturist. ... Sir Leslie Ward (1851–1922) was a British portrait artist and caricaturist. ... Carlo Pellegrini (1838‑1889) was a caricaturist, born in Capua; came to London and worked for Vanity Fair. ... James Joseph Jacques Tissot (October 15, 1836 – August 8, 1902) was a French painter. ... Thomas Nast (September 27, 1840–December 7, 1902) was a famous caricaturist and editorial cartoonist in the 19th century and is considered to be the father of American political cartooning. ...

After merging with Dress magazine in 1913 and temporarily losing its name, the first issue of Vanity Fair was published in New York City in January of 1914. It achieved great popularity under the ownership of publisher Condé Nast and editor Frank Crowninshield. The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture, and is one of the worlds major global cities (along with London, Tokyo and Paris) with a virtually unrivaled collection of museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges. ... Condé Montrose Nast, born March 26, 1873 in New York City, United States, died there on September 19, 1942, was the founder of Condé Nast Publications, a major American magazine publisher. ...

In 1919 Robert Benchley was tapped to become managing editor. He joined Dorothy Parker, who had come to the magazine from Vogue, and was the staff drama critic. Benchley hired future playwright Robert E. Sherwood, who had recently returned from World War I. The trio were among the original members of the Algonquin Round Table, which met at the Algonquin Hotel, on the same West 44th Street block as Condé Nast's offices. Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 in Worcester, Massachusetts – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, newspaper columnist, film actor, and drama editor. ... Dorothy Parker (also known as Dot or Dottie) was born Dorothy Rothschild in the West End district of Long Branch, New Jersey, on August 22, 1893. ... Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in several countries under several names. ... Robert Emmet Sherwood (4 April 1896–14 November 1955) American playwright, editor, and screenwriter. ... The Algonquin Round Table was a group of some of the most brilliant writers of the 1920s and 1930s, though it endured long after that. ... The Algonquin Hotel was built in 1902. ...

Starting in 1925 Vanity Fair competed with The New Yorker as the American establishment's top culture chronicle. It contained writing by Thomas Wolfe, T.S. Eliot and P.G. Wodehouse, theatre criticisms by Dorothy Parker, and photographs by Edward Steichen; Claire Boothe Luce was its editor for some time. The New Yorkers first cover, which is reprinted most years on the magazines anniversary. ... The term establishment has several meanings: An establishment is a place of business or residence, or the founding of such a place or business. ... Photo by Carl Van Vechten For the modern, currently living author and journalist, see Tom Wolfe Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900–September 15, 1938) was a famous American novelist. ... Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965), was a major Modernist Anglo-American poet, dramatist, and literary critic. ... Called English literatures performing flea, P. G. Wodehouse, pictured in 1904, became famous for his complex plots, ingenious wordplay, and prolific output. ... Dorothy Parker (also known as Dot or Dottie) was born Dorothy Rothschild in the West End district of Long Branch, New Jersey, on August 22, 1893. ... Categories: Artist stubs | 1879 births | 1973 deaths | People from Luxembourg | Photographers ... Categories: People stubs | U.S. dramatists and playwrights | Ambassadors of the United States | 1903 births | 1987 deaths ...

However, the magazine was not a commercial success; it reportedly made a profit in only one of its 22 years under Nast, and never sold more than 99,000 copies. It became a casualty of the Great Depression, and in 1936 Vanity Fair ceased publication. The Great Depression was a massive global economic recession (or depression) that ran from 1929 to approximately 1939. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Contemporary revival

The magazine was revived in its current form in the 1980s by the revived Condé Nast Publications, under the ownership of Si Newhouse. Under editors Tina Brown (1984-1992) and E. Graydon Carter (1992- ), Vanity Fair enjoyed greater circulation, prestige and revenues, the latter attested by a thicket of trendy advertisements which make finding even the magazine's table of contents a formidable task. The 1980s in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1980 and 1989, however in a pop cultural sense The Eighties sometimes includes at least some aspects of 1979 and 1990, or more or less the era between the end of the Disco era of the 1970s and... Condé Nast Publications Inc is a worldwide magazine publishing company, credited with creating the marketing strategy which emphasized magazines focused on a particular class or interest. ... Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. ... Tina Brown (born Christina Hambley Brown on November 21, 1953, in Maidenhead, England) is a British-born American magazine editor, columnist, and talk-show host. ... Edward Graydon Carter is the editor of Vanity Fair. ...

In 1996, Marie Brenner wrote an exposé on the tobacco industry, entitled The Man Who Knew Too Much. This article was later converted to a movie, The Insider. An article in the May 2005 edition revealed the identity of Deep Throat, the source for the Washington Post articles on Watergate which led to the 1974 resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon. 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... An exposé is an article or book intended to reveal shocking or surprising information. ... The tobacco industry comprises those persons and companies engaged in the growth, preparation for sale, shipment, advertisement, and distribution of tobacco and tobacco-related products. ... The Insider may refer to: The Insider, a 1999 film about the exposé of the tobacco industry by a television series. ... 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in May May 26: Eddie Albert May 25: Ismail Merchant May 25: Sunil Dutt May 25: Graham Kennedy May 22: Thurl Ravenscroft May 21: Howard Morris May 21: Subodh Mukherjee May 21: Stephen Elliott May 20... W. Mark Felt, on the set of CBSs Face the Nation in 1976. ... ... The Watergate Complex (now the Watergate Hotel) as depicted in Government Exhibit 1. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the thirty-seventh President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ...

In 2005, Vanity Fair was found liable in a lawsuit brought in UK by film director Roman Polanski, who claimed the magazine had libelled him in an article published in 2002, accusing him of boorish behavior following the murder of his wife Sharon Tate in 1969. 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A lawsuit is a civil action brought before a court in order to recover a right, obtain damages for an injury, obtain an injunction to prevent an injury, or obtain a declaratory judgment to prevent future legal disputes. ... Roman Polański at Cannes with Adrien Brody, 2002 Roman Polański (born August 18, 1933) is a Franco-Polish film director and actor. ... In English and American law, and systems based on them, libel and slander are two forms of defamation (or defamation of character), which is the tort or delict of making a false statement of fact that injures someones reputation. ... 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sharon Tate in Valley of the Dolls (1967) Sharon Marie Tate (January 24, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American actress. ...

Vanity Fair also hosts an exclusive party after the Academy Awards are finished. The Vanity Fair Oscar Party includes many famous names in show business. It's very exclusive and not everyone that's famous gets in, the celebrities that are invited are those on the A-List. The magazine has become known to many as "Vanity Unfair" because of it's notorious tendency to exaggerate stories. Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ...

External link

• Vanity Fair homepage