All the Queen’s Corgis; a Gilded Rage; the Kennedys’ Young Love

A special delivery from the Vanity Fair Archive. View in your browser | Update your preferences     A daily digest of things to discuss over drinks December 18, 2021 Curl up with a tale from the Vanity Fair Archive this weekend.   The Eyeful Tower André Leon Talley is an imposing, if improbable, fashion landmark, steeped in style history, his judgment sought by top designers. Light-years from the segregated South of his childhood, the former editor of Numéro Russia has apprenticed with Diana Vreeland, gone clubbing with Karl Lagerfeld, and seen Anna Wintour in the dressing room. Visiting Talley in White Plains in 2013, Vanessa Grigoriadis heard about his love life, his avoirdupois, and the importance of gloves, darling. R E A D  M O R E »     All the Queen's Corgis And then there's the other dynasty, writes Michael Joseph Gross: the canine one. R E A D  M O R E »     A Gilded Rage The 2015 killing of hedge fund manager Thomas Gilbert Sr., allegedly by his then 30-year-old son, Thomas Gilbert Jr., stunned New York society. For many in the younger man's circle, however, it wasn't such a shock. Benjamin Wallace charted the implosion of a silver spoon life. R E A D  M O R E »     Young Love He was the ambitious young congressman from Massachusetts in need of an elegant, aristocratic wife. She was the beautiful, troubled debutante on the rebound, pushed by her family to marry into wealth. In a startlingly intimate excerpt from his book on Jack and Jackie Kennedy, Edward Klein found that, against all odds, it was the start of a great love affair. R E A D  M O R E »     Wall Street on the Tundra Iceland's de facto bankruptcy resulted from a stunning collective madness. What led a tiny fishing nation, population 300,000, to decide, around 2003, to reinvent itself as a global financial power? In Reykjavík, where men are men, and the women seem to have completely given up on them, Michael Lewis followed the peculiarly Icelandic logic behind the meltdown. R E A D  M O R E » Get on the list Subscribe to our Hollywood newsletter for your essential industry and awards-season news, every day. Sign Up Now     This e-mail was sent to you by VANITY FAIR. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2021. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.