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Condé Montrose Nast purchased the men's fashion magazine Dress and renamed it Vanity Fair in 1913. The magazine reached a circulation of 90,000 copies at its peak during the roaring twenties before the Great Depression forced its closure. Nast announced that Vanity Fair would be folded into Vogue by December 1935 to survive the economic collapse.
Tina Brown edited the publication from 1984 to 1992 and transformed the magazine from a forgotten casualty of the Depression into a global powerhouse. Her tenure crystallized the magazine's true cultural identity before Graydon Carter took the helm from 1992 to 2017. Radhika Jones served from 2017 to 2025 and Mark Guiducci succeeded her in June 2025.
Vanity Fair published a 1996 exposé on the tobacco industry titled The Man Who Knew Too Much by journalist Marie Brenner. The magazine revealed Mark Felt as the Watergate whistleblower Deep Throat in the May 2005 issue. These stories altered the course of history and brought investigative journalism to a wider audience through adaptations like the 1999 film The Insider.
The first Vanity Fair Oscar Party took place in 1994 as a successor to an event held by Irving Paul Lazar. The party was canceled in 2008 due to a Writers Guild of America strike and again in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent years have seen Vanity Fair and Bloomberg host an after-party at the French ambassador's residence in Washington, D.C.
Mark Guiducci succeeded Radhika Jones as editor-in-chief in June 2025 following her resignation. Guiducci was formerly the creative editorial director of Vogue. The magazine's employees unionized in 2022, highlighting the changing dynamics of the media industry.