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It was the day before his first match at the Miami Open, and @carlitosalcarazz had given over a fraction of his morning for this Vanity Fair cover shoot and interview. Prior to his arrival on set, there was some anxiety in the air. But it cleared once he walked in.

There are, of course, readily available clips online of the player being a gent: sweeping clay courts himself after practice rounds, greeting staffers and fellow players with the same warmth. And yet it’s hard to prepare for Alcaraz’s disarming niceness.

On the court, when he hears his fans cheer, Alcaraz points to his ear to encourage them to scream louder. He vigorously huffs and puffs and assuredly kicks his racket in between serves. In person, Alcaraz is more gentle than he lets his professional persona reveal.

He’s tennis’s greatest contemporary showman.

Read @eljosecriales’s full cover story on the young tennis phenom at our link in bio.

Photographer @ethanjamesgreen
Fashion Editor @dara._
Hair @tamastuzes
Makeup @emikaneko
Set Design @tuna.bird
Production @selectservices

Every year after the WNBA season ends, @aja22wilson takes a reset. “I put my shoes away. I get my long nails,” the six-foot-four center says. “This makes sure I cannot touch a basketball.”

When she is playing, Wilson’s unstoppable. She’s a four-time league MVP who’s led the Las Vegas Aces to three championship victories—the first WNBA player to score more than 1,000 points in a single season. Her three-pointers float effortlessly; her jump shot is the move’s platonic ideal. She bats away defenders like a cat with a toy mouse.

In April, the South Carolinian reportedly signed a deal that makes her the highest-paid player in WNBA history—a three-year contract that starts at $1.4 million and could reach $5 million. Now she’s making a case for inclusion on the list of greatest athletes ever, in any sport. She’s not being shy about it, either. “I want to prove that I’m the best,” says Wilson. “That allows me to have a great trophy case. It allows me to get rings. And it allows me to just play with peace.”

For Vanity Fair’s Sports Issue, @vanderhoofy catches up with the queen of the court. More at our link in bio.

Photographer: @campbelladdy
Fashion Editor: @maxortegag
Hair: @lacyredway
Makeup: @iamjamalscott
Set Design: @ibbynjoya
Production: @selectservices

It’s been eight years since @k.mbappe made his World Cup debut as an electric wide forward who bashed in four goals in seven matches as France won the tournament for just the second time in 88 years. He was 19.

Now Mbappé will lead France into this summer’s tournament as captain, but as he sits down for an interview with Vanity Fair’s @aidan_mclaughlin, his platinum career is in a crucible.

He’s weathered attacks on his French identity while serving as his nation’s chief diplomat. He’s endured criticism of his game while scoring goals by the hatful for Real Madrid.

For Vanity Fair’s Sports Issue, @aidan_mclaughlin meets the biggest star in world football. He’s under unfathomable pressure. More at our link in bio.

Photographer @annieleibovitz
Fashion Editor @luxurylaw
Groomer @melissa.dezarate
Set Design @maryhoward_setdesign
Movement Director @jorgedorsinville
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Location @fairmontwashington, member of ALL Accor

“That little girl? That little girl was working hard.”

@keke watches a clip from ‘True Jackson, VP’ for Vanity Fair’s Scene Selection. Full video at our link in bio.

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DP @gbellzie
Editor @likachuu
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Audio @justindfoxphoto

The midterm elections are upon us. Democrats are looking to win back the House and just maybe the Senate, promising to use that power to stop Trump. For Republicans, despite victories in a bare-knuckle redistricting war, the House already looks lost. They’re just hoping to hold on to the upper chamber of Congress.

A year ago it would have been unthinkable for Republicans to lose the Senate, but as Trump wages an unpopular war with Iran while gas prices climb (“peanuts,” Trump says) and economic anxieties mount (“hoax,” Trump explains), his polls keep sinking. Republicans are panicking.

Trump isn’t. “I don’t care about the midterms,” he said at a Cabinet meeting this week.

For the latest edition of his column, Party Animals, @aidan_mclaughlin offers Vanity Fair’s guide to the midterm elections—the races to watch, the key dates, the latest polls, and whom to keep an eye on. Head to our link in bio for more.

The midterm elections are upon us. Democrats are looking to win back the House and just maybe the Senate, promising to use that power to stop Trump. For Republicans, despite victories in a bare-knuckle redistricting war, the House already looks lost. They’re just hoping to hold on to the upper chamber of Congress.

A year ago it would have been unthinkable for Republicans to lose the Senate, but as Trump wages an unpopular war with Iran while gas prices climb (“peanuts,” Trump says) and economic anxieties mount (“hoax,” Trump explains), his polls keep sinking. Republicans are panicking.

Trump isn’t. “I don’t care about the midterms,” he said at a Cabinet meeting this week.

For the latest edition of his column, Party Animals, @aidan_mclaughlin offers Vanity Fair’s guide to the midterm elections—the races to watch, the key dates, the latest polls, and whom to keep an eye on. Head to our link in bio for more.

Despite a lack of political experience, reality TV star Spencer Pratt is making greater inroads in his campaign to become the next mayor of Los Angeles than many expected when he announced his candidacy.

Like many residents of the area, ‘The Hills’ figure lost his home in the 2025 LA wildfires. He blames the loss not on the climate crisis, which experts say has contributed to an uptick in SoCal blazes, but on current mayor Karen Bass. Pratt is running against her, he tells VF’s Maxwell Adler, to “damage” Bass “as much as possible.”

Can a campaign based on retribution end in a TV personality as mayor of the second-largest city in the US? Recent polling has consistently placed him in second place behind Bass heading into California’s June 2 primary—positioning Pratt to make it into a runoff against the sitting mayor come November.

Read more from @maxwell_b_adler’s wide-ranging interview with Spencer Pratt at our link in bio.

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Editor @hannahpak__

The lineup for “The Great American State Fair” was thin to begin with—but now that Bret Michaels, Martina McBride, and Morris Day have all dropped out, it looks like the Trump-affiliated concert series is skating on Vanilla Ice.

Almost as soon as Freedom 250 announced its concert series on the National Mall, artists began pulling out. Martina McBride said “what we were told is, in fact, not what is happening.” Bret Michaels said the event had “evolved into something much more divisive than what I agreed to be a part of.” Morris Day kept it simpler: “It’s a no for me.”

As Trump’s approval ratings continue to spiral, it makes sense that artists may be wary of associating their brands with his co-optation of the Semiquincentennial.

At the link in bio, VF’s @vanderhoofy breaks down the growing list of dropouts, and the Milli Vanilli confusion that suggests the planning may have been slapdash from the start.

The lineup for “The Great American State Fair” was thin to begin with—but now that Bret Michaels, Martina McBride, and Morris Day have all dropped out, it looks like the Trump-affiliated concert series is skating on Vanilla Ice.

Almost as soon as Freedom 250 announced its concert series on the National Mall, artists began pulling out. Martina McBride said “what we were told is, in fact, not what is happening.” Bret Michaels said the event had “evolved into something much more divisive than what I agreed to be a part of.” Morris Day kept it simpler: “It’s a no for me.”

As Trump’s approval ratings continue to spiral, it makes sense that artists may be wary of associating their brands with his co-optation of the Semiquincentennial.

At the link in bio, VF’s @vanderhoofy breaks down the growing list of dropouts, and the Milli Vanilli confusion that suggests the planning may have been slapdash from the start.

“If you watch ‘Chopped,’ whoever wins the dessert round usually wins the show,” ‘Hacks’ cocreator Lucia Aniello tells Vanity Fair. “It really is all about the ending.”

Over five tight seasons, the trio behind HBO’s ‘Hacks’—@luciaaniellosetfits, @jenstatsky, and @paulwdowns—explored how misogyny undermines and limits women’s careers in entertainment, asking what happens when someone like Deborah Vance becomes the punch line instead of the joke-slinger. Along the way, the series helped bring Jean Smart the reverence she deserves and turned Hannah Einbinder into an Emmy-winning star.

Seven years after writing the pilot in an apartment in Paris—and 10 years after first conceiving the show—the creators knew they wanted to stick the landing.

VF’s @joypress101 interviewed Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky ahead of last night’s series finale. Read more from the conversation at our link in bio.

Warning: spoilers ahead.

“If you watch ‘Chopped,’ whoever wins the dessert round usually wins the show,” ‘Hacks’ cocreator Lucia Aniello tells Vanity Fair. “It really is all about the ending.”

Over five tight seasons, the trio behind HBO’s ‘Hacks’—@luciaaniellosetfits, @jenstatsky, and @paulwdowns—explored how misogyny undermines and limits women’s careers in entertainment, asking what happens when someone like Deborah Vance becomes the punch line instead of the joke-slinger. Along the way, the series helped bring Jean Smart the reverence she deserves and turned Hannah Einbinder into an Emmy-winning star.

Seven years after writing the pilot in an apartment in Paris—and 10 years after first conceiving the show—the creators knew they wanted to stick the landing.

VF’s @joypress101 interviewed Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky ahead of last night’s series finale. Read more from the conversation at our link in bio.

Warning: spoilers ahead.

“If you watch ‘Chopped,’ whoever wins the dessert round usually wins the show,” ‘Hacks’ cocreator Lucia Aniello tells Vanity Fair. “It really is all about the ending.”

Over five tight seasons, the trio behind HBO’s ‘Hacks’—@luciaaniellosetfits, @jenstatsky, and @paulwdowns—explored how misogyny undermines and limits women’s careers in entertainment, asking what happens when someone like Deborah Vance becomes the punch line instead of the joke-slinger. Along the way, the series helped bring Jean Smart the reverence she deserves and turned Hannah Einbinder into an Emmy-winning star.

Seven years after writing the pilot in an apartment in Paris—and 10 years after first conceiving the show—the creators knew they wanted to stick the landing.

VF’s @joypress101 interviewed Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky ahead of last night’s series finale. Read more from the conversation at our link in bio.

Warning: spoilers ahead.

“If you watch ‘Chopped,’ whoever wins the dessert round usually wins the show,” ‘Hacks’ cocreator Lucia Aniello tells Vanity Fair. “It really is all about the ending.”

Over five tight seasons, the trio behind HBO’s ‘Hacks’—@luciaaniellosetfits, @jenstatsky, and @paulwdowns—explored how misogyny undermines and limits women’s careers in entertainment, asking what happens when someone like Deborah Vance becomes the punch line instead of the joke-slinger. Along the way, the series helped bring Jean Smart the reverence she deserves and turned Hannah Einbinder into an Emmy-winning star.

Seven years after writing the pilot in an apartment in Paris—and 10 years after first conceiving the show—the creators knew they wanted to stick the landing.

VF’s @joypress101 interviewed Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky ahead of last night’s series finale. Read more from the conversation at our link in bio.

Warning: spoilers ahead.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

“If there’s a beginning, there must be an end,” Zendaya’s character, Rue, says in the penultimate episode of ‘Euphoria’ season three, ahead of this Sunday’s finale.

The hit teen drama premiered on HBO in the summer of 2019, back when “Old Town Road” topped the charts and the biggest thing Jacob Elordi had ever done was kiss Joey King at a carnival. Seven years and merely three seasons later, ‘Euphoria’ has become part of the zeitgeist, remembered for its bedazzled underage debauchery as well as its provocative commentary on coming of age in Trump’s America. The series also launched Zendaya and now Oscar nominee Elordi into the stratosphere, alongside costars Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, and Sydney Sweeney.

After the show killed off one of its core characters last week, VF staffers theorize about how the provocative HBO series will meet its dramatic conclusion. Possible spoilers to follow—assuming we made good on our guesses. Read more at our link in bio.

Two days after the first-ever Enhanced Games in Las Vegas, Maximilian Martin, the event’s cofounder, had to admit he was slightly disappointed.

“I thought we were going to break a few more world records,” Martin told Vanity Fair over the phone this week. “But at the end of the day, it’s live sports.”

The Enhanced Games—part peptide vendor and part sporting extravaganza, backed by Peter Thiel, Donald Trump Jr., and Saudi royalty—shipped runners, swimmers, and strongmen to Abu Dhabi to complete a clinical trial on the impacts of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) on the human body. After nine and a half weeks of training on individual concoctions of drugs, the athletes came to Las Vegas for the ultimate test—an Olympics-style competition on steroids where breaking a world record could result in a million-dollar prize.

But by the end of the event, only one record fell.

More from @claramolotbluecheck on the future of the Enhanced Games at our link in bio.

Photography by @mateusz.stefanowski

Two days after the first-ever Enhanced Games in Las Vegas, Maximilian Martin, the event’s cofounder, had to admit he was slightly disappointed.

“I thought we were going to break a few more world records,” Martin told Vanity Fair over the phone this week. “But at the end of the day, it’s live sports.”

The Enhanced Games—part peptide vendor and part sporting extravaganza, backed by Peter Thiel, Donald Trump Jr., and Saudi royalty—shipped runners, swimmers, and strongmen to Abu Dhabi to complete a clinical trial on the impacts of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) on the human body. After nine and a half weeks of training on individual concoctions of drugs, the athletes came to Las Vegas for the ultimate test—an Olympics-style competition on steroids where breaking a world record could result in a million-dollar prize.

But by the end of the event, only one record fell.

More from @claramolotbluecheck on the future of the Enhanced Games at our link in bio.

Photography by @mateusz.stefanowski

Two days after the first-ever Enhanced Games in Las Vegas, Maximilian Martin, the event’s cofounder, had to admit he was slightly disappointed.

“I thought we were going to break a few more world records,” Martin told Vanity Fair over the phone this week. “But at the end of the day, it’s live sports.”

The Enhanced Games—part peptide vendor and part sporting extravaganza, backed by Peter Thiel, Donald Trump Jr., and Saudi royalty—shipped runners, swimmers, and strongmen to Abu Dhabi to complete a clinical trial on the impacts of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) on the human body. After nine and a half weeks of training on individual concoctions of drugs, the athletes came to Las Vegas for the ultimate test—an Olympics-style competition on steroids where breaking a world record could result in a million-dollar prize.

But by the end of the event, only one record fell.

More from @claramolotbluecheck on the future of the Enhanced Games at our link in bio.

Photography by @mateusz.stefanowski

After years of speculation and rumors, the search for the next James Bond is officially underway.

With reports circulating that casting director Nina Gold has begun testing candidates to replace Daniel Craig as 007, VF staffers share their predictions for who should be the next Bond.

Video by @wengellg and @madisoncoffey

Edited by @photogabete

After spending some two years as hip-hop’s resident punching bag, thanks to his very public feud with Kendrick Lamar, Drake returned to music this month in a big way. The Canadian rapper released not one, not two, but three albums at once on Friday, May 15: ‘Iceman,’ ‘Habibti,’ and ‘Maid of Honour.’ And while 43 new tracks equating to two and a half hours of material might feel like overkill, fans can’t seem to get enough of Champagne Papi. Drake has now become the first artist ever to hold the top three spots on the Billboard Hot 200 chart in the same week. Not bad for someone who was being enthusiastically roasted at the Super Bowl halftime show just over a year ago.

True, Drake arrived at this history-making feat thanks to a technicality: Michael Jackson would have achieved the same feat in 2009, if not for a now discarded rule that disqualified from the weekly chart albums released more than 18 months earlier. Still, Drake’s comeback is impressive for an artist many thought was DOA after Lamar dog-walked him in public for the better part of 2024.

At our link in bio, @christress chronicles the series of all-too-public humiliations that Drake has suffered at the hands of Kendrick Lamar, and the one entry in the star rapper’s new trilogy that shows he can still be the life of the party.

After spending some two years as hip-hop’s resident punching bag, thanks to his very public feud with Kendrick Lamar, Drake returned to music this month in a big way. The Canadian rapper released not one, not two, but three albums at once on Friday, May 15: ‘Iceman,’ ‘Habibti,’ and ‘Maid of Honour.’ And while 43 new tracks equating to two and a half hours of material might feel like overkill, fans can’t seem to get enough of Champagne Papi. Drake has now become the first artist ever to hold the top three spots on the Billboard Hot 200 chart in the same week. Not bad for someone who was being enthusiastically roasted at the Super Bowl halftime show just over a year ago.

True, Drake arrived at this history-making feat thanks to a technicality: Michael Jackson would have achieved the same feat in 2009, if not for a now discarded rule that disqualified from the weekly chart albums released more than 18 months earlier. Still, Drake’s comeback is impressive for an artist many thought was DOA after Lamar dog-walked him in public for the better part of 2024.

At our link in bio, @christress chronicles the series of all-too-public humiliations that Drake has suffered at the hands of Kendrick Lamar, and the one entry in the star rapper’s new trilogy that shows he can still be the life of the party.