This Month
In Pictures: Paris Fashion Week
Jaw-dropping styles and celebrity theatrics mark the semi-annual French event.
June
When did oil reach its highest ever price? Find out in our weekly quiz
Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.
Anna Wintour is stepping down from US Vogue. What next?
The legendary editor has been a formidable and unstoppable force in fashion for the last 37 years. Can anyone match her impact?
US to dump ‘revenge tax’; Investors’ new theory; Trick to saving $213k
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
Anna Wintour cedes control of Vogue amid industry upheaval
The Condé Nast publication is seeking a successor who will take over daily editing duties of the fashion bible, but Wintour insists she remains in charge.
How Vanity Fair fell from grace under Anna Wintour
New editor Mark Guiducci is known as “The Anna Whisperer”. But some critics say he is too close to the Conde Nast supremo, and his appointment is about control.
May
$48m raised at fashion’s most outrageous night of the year
This year’s Met Gala’s theme encouraged masculine tailoring and flamboyant style – and celebrities delivered.
Snook, Zendaya, Anthony Pratt shine at Met Gala
Fashion’s biggest night is underway at the Met Gala in Manhattan, with hosts Pharrell Williams, Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo among the first to arrive.
April
Does anyone want to run Vanity Fair?
The editor-in-chief is stepping down, and the global search for her replacement has begun. But many of the more decadent parts of the job are long gone.
January
Biden awards 18 medals, and delivers one unmistakable message
Recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom included some of the brightest lights of the old guard that Donald Trump has said he wants to tear down.
October 2024
At home with Plum Sykes, the author who skewers the rich and famous
The satire in the writer’s novels about wealthy and glamorous women is all the sharper for being written by an insider.
September 2024
A $12.5b luxury fashion merger turns ugly
Michael Kors was among those called to testify as US regulators try to block a blockbuster deal between the owners of Coach and his brand.
May 2024
Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez in full bloom at Met Gala
The annual charity event for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, otherwise known as Anna Wintour’s Met Gala, is getting underway, drawing fashion’s A-listers.
June 2023
The podcast with the story behind the stories you never read
For anyone who is fascinated by the world of media – or who just wants to know more about the stories that never made it to the world – this is a must-listen.
May 2023
Murdoch confidante, News Corp magazine chief a winner in restructure
Former Vogue Australia editor Edwina McCann, a close friend of Sarah and Lachlan Murdoch, has emerged as a winner in News Corp’s latest restructure.
Kidman, Rihanna shine at Met Gala
The worlds of fashion, Hollywood, sports and music collided at the extravaganza that this year honoured the late designer Karl Lagerfeld.
April 2023
The Met Gala used to need Vogue. Now it’s the other way round
The event was once about promoting fashion history. These days, it’s about spruiking a magazine.
September 2022
How Serena Williams wields fashion like a weapon
Since she turned professional in 1995, the tennis champion has smashed barriers of race, age and background, and the old dress codes.
May 2022
This fashionista is one of the world’s most powerful business leaders
Most people know Anna Wintour as the long-reigning editor of ‘Vogue’, but her biographer wants you to know she’s so much more than that.
January 2022
No more working for jerks!
For almost two years, couches have been cubicles. Colleagues are instant message avatars. And people are reconsidering how much they should have to put up with from a boss.