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Vanity Fair was founded in 1913 when Condé Montrose Nast purchased a men's fashion magazine called Dress and renamed it. The magazine ran until 1936, when it was folded into Vogue, then was revived by Condé Nast in 1983.
Vanity Fair's editors since its 1983 revival have been Richard Locke, Leo Lerman, Tina Brown (1984-1992), Graydon Carter (1992-2017), Radhika Jones (2017-2025), and Mark Guiducci, who became editor-in-chief in June 2025.
The Vanity Fair Oscar Party is an annual invitation-only event that began in 1994 as a successor to similar gatherings hosted by agent Irving Paul Lazar. It was co-hosted by producer Steve Tisch at Morton's in West Hollywood in its early years, with Graydon Carter initially keeping the dinner list to around 120 guests.
On the 25th of April 2008, Entertainment Tonight reported that a then-15-year-old Miley Cyrus had posed topless for a Leibovitz shoot for Vanity Fair. Disney called it a deliberate manipulation of a minor. The New York Times later clarified she was wrapped in a bedsheet and not actually bare-breasted; Cyrus issued an apology but reversed it ten years later in an Instagram post.
Vanity Fair's May 2005 issue identified Mark Felt as the Watergate whistleblower known as Deep Throat. Felt had leaked information that led to the 1974 resignation of U.S. President Richard Nixon.
In 2005, the High Court in London found Vanity Fair liable for libel after a 2002 article claimed Roman Polanski made sexual advances toward a Norwegian model during travel to Sharon Tate's funeral. The court ruled the alleged scene could not have occurred on the stated date because Polanski had not dined at New York restaurant Elaine's until three weeks later. It was the first time in English legal history that a court permitted a defendant to testify via video link from abroad.