Table of contents for April 2022 in Vanity Fair

Is there any artist in the world right now quite like Grimes? Musically, she’s operating on another plane; she was breaking ground in the metaverse before most of us had heard of it. As Devin Gordon observes in his cover profile, she refers to her work as “post-internet” because it’s created in an era when virtually any sound from the past is available in a click. Her current project—appropriately for someone who has been a fan of Dune since she was four—is a space opera. Then there’s her relationship with Elon Musk, known to the rest of Earth as its richest man as well as one of its most stratospherically ambitious and idiosyncratic, but who, on Planet Grimes, plays more of a sidekick role as fellow futurist brainiac, Mars aspirant,…

Interscope Records cofounder Jimmy Iovine has long championed new voices; his label’s early acts included unproven future stars like Tupac and No Doubt. More recently, he set his sights on the contemporary art market, acquiring works by living legends including Mark Grotjahn and Brice Marden. This year Iovine is merging his interests. In January, along with Interscope CEO John Janick and others, Iovine organized LACMA’s “Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined,” in which 46 artists riffed on album covers: Kehinde Wiley painted Dr. Dre; Jenna Gribbon painted Lana Del Rey. And this fall Iovine and Dr. Dre are establishing a magnet high school within the L.A. Unified School District, set to open in Leimert Park. Like their USC Iovine and Young Academy, which the pair founded with a $70 million…

AVRIL LAVIGNE, emo icon with a new album, Love Sux, wears MAC eye kohl in Smolder, $19. (maccosmetics.com) “I use my fingertip to smudge it out. It looks even better the next morning!” MICHÈLE LAMY, Owenscorp cofounder (with Rick Owens) and executive manager of art and furniture, likes Kiko Milano Deep Black kajal, $12. (kikocosmetics.com) “I wear it as the nomads do in the desert!” JULIETTE LEWIS, actor on Yellowjackets, recommends Charlotte Tilbury Rock ’n’Kohl pencil, $29. (charlottetilbury.com) “My character Natalie, she’s a perpetual eyeliner wearer. Always smoky/smudgy.” TAUBA AUERBACH, artist with a survey at SFMOMA, wears 100% Pure Long Last liquid liner, $30. (100percentpure.com) “I’ve tried so many, and this is far and away my favorite. It’s vegan and stays on better than all the ones with nasty chemicals.” JOHN WATERS, director and Search…

MARGO JEFFERSON The Pulitzer Prize winner returns with Constructing a Nervous System, from Pantheon, a tour de force of personal narrative that engages with writers from Willa Cather to Katherine Mansfield, Josephine Baker, “gentlemen-dandies of jazz and cabaret,” Ella Fitzgerald, and a wide range of other references and influences. VALERIE BIDEN OWENS In Growing Up Biden, out from Celadon, the president’s strategist and younger sister describes Joe’s “trademark overenthusiasm” as he introduces her to her future husband; supporting each other through devastating loss; and their political campaigns, failed and victorious. DELIA EPHRON When Delia Ephron wrote an op-ed after losing her husband and sister to cancer, a widower reached out; the two soon fell in love. Peter would be at Ephron’s side when she received her own dire cancer diagnosis.…

ON THE MORNING of December 11, a young, nattily dressed, largely unmasked crowd streamed into the lower level of Phillips in midtown Manhattan for the 2021 New York Watch Auction, abuzz with the kind of anticipation you might expect in line for a concert. Phillips’s brand-new glass-box headquarters sits at the foot of 432 Park Avenue, the matchstick-thin luxury residential tower that teeters over a short stretch of Midtown commonly known as billionaire’s row but that might as well be called the watch district: On the same block are multilevel flagship stores for a number of coveted luxury watch brands, including Vacheron Constantin, Audemars Piguet, and Richard Mille, some of whose timepieces retail for seven figures. The auctiongoers took their seats in the brightly lit whitewalled room, iPhones at the…

“Before we had a hit record, we had to make an impression with our style,” Ronnie Spector recounts in Be My Baby (Henry Holt), her time capsule memoir with a new edition out next month. (She signed off on revisions shortly before her death, in January, at 78.) As newcomers in 1962, the Ronettes were seen as much as heard, with their beehives and makeup. “When we got on stage, the kids went wild, and the louder they applauded, the more eyeliner we’d put on the next time.” That trademark makeup gesture—classicism edging, millimeter by millimeter, toward transgression—is itself a song that plays on repeat. At Batsheva’s spring 2022 show, models wore exaggerated cat eyes, which evoked kitsch (echoed by the bouffant wigs) and metal (Ministry on the soundtrack). Dior’s…

■ Style File BIJOUX: Apart from my late Aunt Mahri’s signature gold bangle, I wear Indian gold earrings and bangles—most of which I received during our Punjabi wedding ceremonies and haven’t taken off since. Around my neck, I wear my Prounis handwoven Duo Loop-in-Loop chain (1). GO-TO SHOE: Chanel slingbacks (7). DAILY UNIFORM: Bode quilt trousers (9) with an antique white blouse and my black linen Bode safari jacket. ■ On Beauty LATHER: Mexican Tuberose soap by Buly (8). MAKEUP ESSENTIALS: Classic ChapStick and Chanel nail polish in Ballerina (10). HAIRBRUSH: An Italian brown tortoiseshell-like brush with white bristles. Milanese pharmacies and grocery stores are the best-kept secret spots for a classic and timeless hairbrush. ■ At Home FURRY FRIEND: Our dog, Monday (2). AROMA: Oud by Diptyque (11). FURNITURE:…

UNTIL IVY GETTY walked down the aisle in a Galliano gown festooned with broken mirrors, most people had no idea who she was. But after the 26-year-old heiress’s November wedding was featured in Vogue, with 100 photos, Getty was catapulted into trending topics. The Getty affair—a three-day extravaganza in San Francisco with multiple couture-costume changes, DJ Mark Ronson, and I.V. bags for hungover partiers—looked like a scene from The Hunger Games that was edited out for being a bit too on the nose. The bride’s family wealth comes from her great-grandfather’s success as an oil tycoon. The ceremony was officiated by none other than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and attended by San Francisco mayor London Breed and California governor Gavin Newsom, just as the U.N.’s climate summit was getting under…

With one audition, Hoyeon’s life changed. The fashion model from Seoul tried out for her very first TV role and nabbed it: Kang Sae-byeok in Squid Game, the dystopian, violent, record-breaking Netflix juggernaut that earned the 27-year-old a history-making leading-actor prize at the SAG Awards. In a moment of stillness—on day 2 of her 10-day mandatory quarantine upon reentry to South Korea—Hoyeon reflects on her whirlwind career pivot. THE DAUGHTER OF restaurant owners (they have a neighborhood soup joint), Hoyeon started to pursue modeling at 14 after a noticeable growth spurt. “There was no background or interest in fashion,” she laughs. “I just wanted to earn money and travel the world.” SHE RECALLS working with Karl Lagerfeld on a Chanel campaign. “It was kind of amazing that someone like Karl,…

“It definitely takes a certain character type to wear decals,” says Donni Davy, the mastermind behind Euphoria’s obsessed-over makeup. But one need not be an art kid to relish instant transformation—whether a rhinestone-dusted face (at Fendi’s spring 2022 couture show) or a spiked baby-doll lash (on Katy Perry for SNL). Pictured: Face Lace Flash Brights neon decals, $24. (face-lace.com) Simihaze gem strips, $38. (simihazebeauty.com) Zara jewels, $11. (zara.com) Inked by Dani makeup temporary tattoos, $12. (inkedbydani.com). Donni Davy x Face Lace Spiked! decals, $18. (donnidavy.com)…

HAMMER In Joe Mungo Reed’s stylish character probe, an auction-house specialist tangles with an art-collecting oligarch—plus his political hopes and wife. (Simon & Schuster) SEA OF TRANQUILITY Emily St. John Mandel’s time-bending novel shifts from the long past to the far future: A novelist flees Earth amid a pandemic; a solitary drifter falls into a secretive government project. (Knopf) WOMAN, EATING Claire Kohda’s gristly and thoughtful debut follows Lydia, an intern at an art collective—and a vampire—as she searches for human connection (and a food source). (HarperVia) THE CANDY HOUSE In conversation with her Pulitzer Prize–winning A Visit From the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan’s shape-shifting narrative swerves through soured love, spy manuals, and more. (Scribner) POST-TRAUMATIC Vivian, a legal advocate for patients at an NYC psychiatric hospital, contends with familial…

In 2019 the French Formula One driver Esteban Ocon found himself locked out of the competition. The year before, the Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll had bought Ocon’s team, rebranded it, and dropped Ocon as one of the organization’s two drivers in favor of his son, Lance. The world of F1 is small, with only 20 drivers competing for 10 teams each season. Ocon wouldn’t be one of them. Then his star began to rise. Ocon had featured prominently in the first season of the Netflix documentary series Drive to Survive, which began filming in 2018. The show offers fans a previously unseen level of access to the most rarefied of motorsports, stretching its global reach in the process. The drivers who had participated in that first season were no longer…