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From Mr. Robot himself to a new Game of Thrones power player, here are the characters that kept us glued to our TVs this year.
Box Office
Joy holds its own in one of the most crowded Christmas box offices in recent memory.
Politics at its finest
A former state employee called the disaster “a circular firing squad.”
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Angelina Jolie prefers Brad’s movies and Johnny Depp has given up on his own altogether.
The Dark Side
Anakin may yet make a triumphant return to the franchise.
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These guys took the phrase “the rich get richer” seriously this year.
SunHee's Cabinet
A look into *V.F.* beauty director SunHee Grinnell's latest beauty recommendations.
A KARDASHIAN KRISTMAS
West gave Kardashian over 150 gifts.
Game On
The kids are growing faster than the dragons.
GRAND JURY
The prosecutor's office called the grand jury’s decision “reasonable.”
COMING ATTRACTIONS
The project follows Nolan's 2014 sci-fi drama *Interstellar*.
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Dutiful family time is done, now onto New Year's Eve and a chance to dress up. Here are the accessories you need for four possible celebrations.
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In her eponymous new book, published by Assouline this December, Lee Radziwill shares a compilation of personal anecdotes and images from throughout her jet-setting life in the public eye. Now 82, Radziwill’s eye for style and careers as an actress, interior designer, and a P.R. executive for Giorgio Armani undoubtedly gave her a wardrobe to die for. (She was named to Vanity Fair’s International Best-Dressed List’s Hall of Fame in 1996.) The book gives readers highlights from her glamorous lifestyle and documents her many famous friends—including chapters dedicated to Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, and “The President,” referring, of course, to President John F. Kennedy, who was married to Radziwill’s older sister, Jacqueline. The book also includes some rarely seen private snapshots of her family.
Long has the adage “the rich get richer” stood, and so it was true again in 2015. But it was particularly apt for certain American billionaires, who saw their fortunes balloon, multiply, and expand more than their super-rich compatriots. So you know whom to envy, emulate, or cozy up to in 2016, here are the 10 U.S.-based billionaires whose billions grew the most over the last year, based on numbers from Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index.
From fellow soldiers forming a platonic bond to a romance as beautiful as its costumes, the best movie pairs of 2015 spanned every kind of relationship, but made us want to be part of every single one of them. Yes, even the one between a spy and the villainess trying to kill her.
It’s not every year that a magazine photo becomes a cultural phenomenon, but Caitlyn Jenner’s groundbreaking July Vanity Fair cover did just that, managing to capture the zeitgeist and reveal a glamorous and empowered modern woman. While Jenner was unquestionably the most talked-about V.F. subject of the year, she was in good company. From #girlsquad captain Taylor Swift to the cast of The Force Awakens; prima ballerina Misty Copeland to tech giant Mark Zuckerberg, take a look at our most memorable moments in photography from Vanity Fair.
Fill up your water bottle (with rosé champagne). Put your feet up (on a velvet throw pillow). It is time to revel in the aesthetic marvel that is the Duchess of Cambridge’s hair. Kate Middleton’s hair waits for no one. It knows what it is, and is always the best version of itself. It doesn’t send superfluous texts, just to send a text; its speech isn’t peppered with “like” or “uh” or “um”—it is hair with intention and poise and grace. (Yes, writing about Kate Middleton’s hair for more than two years will make a person positively cult-ish about its properties.)Here we go, friends! For the third year straight, it’s the year measured in the only way it should be: in Kate Middleton’s hair.
Everywhere you turned, there seemed to have been, at the very least, the hum of The Imperial March on the soundtrack to the carpets and closets of the week. While Daisy Ridley and Zendaya arrived at the Star Wars premiere, going galactically grand in Roland Mouret and Michael Kors, Lupita Nyong’o, Victoria Beckham, and Jennifer Lawrence strayed from the dark side and opted for clean all-white looks worthy of Princess Leia’s stamp of approval, sans the buns.
Even if you’ve never heard this about her before, it should come as no surprise that Amy Schumer likes to box.Yes, she’s usually laughing, quipping, or goofing off, but throughout her meteoric rise in 2015 Schumer has been stubbornly pushing against any preconceived notions of what it means to be a beautiful, popular, and powerful woman in Hollywood. As she conquered the worlds of film, television, publishing, and more this year, Schumer proved time and time again that she’s the best person to have in your corner.
A certain something hovered over many of pop culture’s major moments in 2015. From the year’s most exciting new musicians to the world’s most-watched woman to the shortest-fingered vulgarian running for president, it seemed a person couldn’t make news without a bold hairdo. In 2015, hair seemed more important than it ever was before (which means you’ll probably languish in obscurity forever if you’re bald). So herewith, a review of the year’s mane events.
The world saw a new kind of “It girl” in 2015, when women were negotiating bigger paychecks and bringing big business to its knees. Pretty, pouting ingenues need not apply.
In a little over a year from now, Barack Obama will shake the hand of his successor, stop being president, and fly off into a world where he will no longer be held singlehandedly responsible for keeping Western civilization from descending into chaos. He has also discovered that there are a finite number of fucks a man can possibly yield in the harvest of his soul, and at this point, he no longer has any left to give.It’s not that Obama’s mentally checked out of his job as president. On the contrary, as Obama made clear during his State of the Union speech in January, having no campaigns left to run has freed him to chase whatever liberal pipe dreams he damn well pleases and, more importantly, say whatever he wants without fear of political repercussions. “My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I’ve had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitol — to do what I believe is best for America,” he said, ushering in the Year of No Fucks Given. “If you share the broad vision I outlined tonight, join me in the work at hand. If you disagree with parts of it, I hope you’ll at least work with me where you do agree.”
The closer he crept to that bright light of freedom in 2015, the more evident it became that after almost seven years of being Diplomatic, Measured, and Extremely Nice, Obama reveled in the absence of fucks:
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