Tabla de contenidos para April 2023 en Vanity Fair

If you didn’t know spring was here, you would sense it from the energy of the stars in the pages of this issue. First, there’s Gisele, embarking on a new chapter, living an enviably healthy life in Costa Rica with her children and exercising healing powers on wounded birds. For our cover story, Michelle Ruiz spends some intimate time at home with the supermodel and her family, during which they ride horses, drink smoothies, and talk jujitsu and other strategies for self-care. Gisele’s beachy vibes reign supreme in Lachlan Bailey’s sun-drenched photographs—a taste of warmth and light to come. And there’s our portfolio of this season’s stellar Broadway talent: Jessica Chastain, Wendell Pierce, Lea Michele, Daniel Radcliffe, and many more great actors reveling in a neon-saturated Times Square simulacrum. It’s…

MORE THAN CAKE Celebrated for her fine-dining pastry work and fundraiser bake sales, Natasha Pickowicz brings a community spirit to this soulfully precise book from Artisan: both festive (black sesame layer cake) and savory (kabocha galette). MAYUMU Abi Balingit’s colorful debut via Harvest has a coming-of-age arc, with classic Filipino dishes filtered through a no-rules multicultural lens. Pichi-pichi (like cassava Sno Balls) uses Mexican chamoy sauce; chewy rice cakes sneak in Oreos. SWEET ENOUGH A bid for deliciously unkempt desserts, Alison Roman’s latest with Clarkson Potter treats “salty” as a compliment (chocolate pudding, lemon shortbread). She dotes on pies but also offers a primer on judiciously seasoned fruit salad. LOVE IS A PINK CAKE Claire Ptak, the Chez Panisse alum who runs London’s Violet Cakes, divides this sumptuous book (W.W.…

“Forget what you know about mermaids,” commands Ren Yu, the teen narrator of Jade Song’s blood-soaked Chlorine (William Morrow), calling to mind—and dismissing—red-haired Ariel and pre-Raphaelite beauties. The directive is a fitting tagline for a crop of new novels with resonances that lean more Homeric than Disney and narratives geared toward a plugged-in audience. (Halle Bailey, star of the forthcoming live-action The Little Mermaid, has said the film, too, will be “updated with the current times.”) Chlorine sees a high school swimmer go to drastic lengths to assume what she believes is her true form; in Cassandra Khaw’s taut, bewitching The Salt Grows Heavy (Tor Nightfire), a mermaid is betrayed by her husband; their daughters devour his body and destroy his kingdom. And in Julia Langbein’s American Mermaid (Doubleday), when…

IT’S ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL day for content creation, at least according to the sky blue backdrop rigged outside the windows of one tasteful midcentury-modern Malibu dream home in particular, though strictly temporally speaking, we’re in El Segundo. Indoors, seated among an embarrassment of houseplants, a young woman strikes a pose with her stylish friends. There’s a month’s worth of content to shoot this week—such is the life of catering to just over 3 million Instagram and TikTok followers—so she’s assembled a team to help. From a few inches away, her stylist leans forward and adjusts the tilt of a hand while our star influencer smiles patiently, plastically, under the crush of lights. Barbie is nothing if not a professional. “The smallest little movement can make it look like a doll,” says…

Lachlan BAILEY “WILD AT HEART,” P. 40 “Gisele really has no equal,” says photographer Bailey. The Melbourne, Australia, native, who shot the supermodel seaside in Florida on a sun-drenched day this winter, says, “She knows photography and light better than most. This is a rare treat these days.” Delia CAI “IT’S A BARBIE WORLD,” P. 36 “There is something so deliciously postmodern about the world’s most popular doll appropriating Instagram mannerisms and content creator–speak,” says VF staff writer Cai. “Let’s be real: Trends come and go, but Barbie’s influence very well might be forever.” Michelle RUIZ “WILD AT HEART,” P. 40 One commercial flight, one puddle jumper, and a car ride later, Ruiz—a journalist working on a novel inspired by the royal family saga—met Gisele Bündchen at her home in…

“THE IDEA IS to create not just beauty, but the beauty of the 21st century,” says Nicolas Gerlier, the charismatic Frenchman behind La Bouche Rouge. The maison de haute beauté debuted its first lipsticks in 2017, pairing considered formulas with hand-stitched leather cases—instant heirlooms in pale blue and camel and namesake red, by way of a heritage tannery. The line’s waste-not ethos is rooted in desire (to covet is to cherish is to refill), so it’s apt that the newest project is fragrance, a category that rides on romance. But for these five scents, the beating heart is a palette of upcycled ingredients, comprising nearly a third of each formula. (Cedar sawdust, for instance, is steam-distilled to create essential oil; by-product rosewater, when cold-processed, yields an extract called rose damascena…

FOR YEARS, ROB HOWARD restored old cars. In his youth, he worked on a 1971 Plymouth Duster with his dad, and as an adult, he restored 1960s Mustangs and modernized a 1957 Chevy station wagon so he could drive it safely with his kids. But the cars weren’t dependable, and it was especially diffcult to tune antiquated fuel systems. “No matter what, it always smelled like gasoline,” he says. With a background in tech and engineering, Howard sought improved outcomes. His key determination: Banish petroleum. “When you think about restoring your car, electrification is so obvious,” he says. “It performs better, it’s lower maintenance, and it’s actually a roughly equivalent cost.” In 2019, two years after he’d sold his software company to Target and worked on the executive team there,…

CORNER CLUB OWNER Marc Trivelpiece was starting to hate reporters. As a rule, he condemns violence—anyone who throws punches in the Corner Club gets booted—but three weeks into the media storm surrounding the murders of four college kids in his town, Trivelpiece was beginning to think that people don’t get punched in the face enough. On November 13, Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, and Maddie Mogen had been stabbed to death in the girls’ off-campus house in Moscow, home to the University of Idaho. Trivelpiece’s bar is where two of the victims, Goncalves and Mogen, spent their last evening on earth. When the murders made news, the media swarmed, and Trivelpiece’s business in particular came under siege. “I want the Corner Club to be famous,” he said. “But not…

As a student of the catwalk, Alton Mason looked to Naomi Campbell. “I wasn’t really studying the guys, to be honest with you. I was studying the women because women carry this power that is unmatched.” His own walk became “this equilibrium of masculinity and femininity.” It’s served him well. Since his New York Fashion Week debut in 2016, the five-time consecutive Model of the Year has walked 143 runways and starred in 86 campaigns. After earning the admiration of Virgil Abloh and Karl Lagerfeld (who had, shockingly, never put a Black man on a Chanel runway before), Mason made his Hollywood debut, dazzling as Little Richard in Baz Luhrmann’s Oscar-nominated Elvis. But for a career that has, historically, felt all too finite, “you’re missing birthdays, funerals, and sacrificing so…

JESSICA CHASTAIN/A DOLL’S HOUSE “At Juilliard, Andrei Belgrader told me, ‘A great thing to do right before you go onstage—even if you don’t believe it—is to stick your arms out in the air and go, I’m a genius. Then walk onstage. Because it’ll create that energy within you.’ ” SOME BROADWAY STARS hype themselves up with K-pop. Some opt for jazz. Jessica Chastain prefers the sound of nothing—a void before she’s thrust into the claustro-phobic world of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. “That feels quite Nora to me,” she says, “to sit in silence.” The Oscar winner may find that quiet is hard to come by in New York these days. For the first time since COVID-19 put live theater on an indefinite pause three years ago, venues from Broadway…

KARA SWISHER, rocking aviators, AirPods, and a “Lesbians Who Tech” sweatshirt, rolls into Vox Media’s DC headquarters and gets right to work. Today’s episode of On with Kara Swisher, a twice-weekly podcast that launched in September, is about the future of the Republican Party after the House Speaker free-for-all, and she’s tapped CNN’s Manu Raju and The Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes to make sense of the mess. Once the guests come on camera, Swisher apologizes for wearing sunglasses, explaining that she forgot her prescription pair at home. “It’s very Dark Brandon,” says Raju. “I had it before him,” Swisher shoots back. “Let’s be clear on that situation.” Swisher, as an interviewer, shows little tolerance for bloviating; she gets to the point. About halfway through the episode, she calls for a “lightning round”…