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Sunday, October 4, 2026

Exclusive: Damien Hirst is Back in Fashion

Plus: Nik Cohn’s “License to Misbehave”

October 4, 2026

Like many people of my generation, I grew up with Damien Hirst. The 61-year-old artist came to prominence right around the time Gen Xers were putting away childish things, and his work has remained a fixture ever since. As I watch so many of my cohort begin to fixate on the past, it’s thrilling to see how vital and forward-thinking he remains—and how his lifelong candor has somehow managed to skip over midlife crankiness to land at full-on, later-in-life IDGAF. All that’s on display in José Criales-Unzueta’s exclusive interview with Hirst, on the occasion of the artist’s collab with 123-year-old Scottish cashmere luxury label Barrie. Snuggle up and give it a look.


You might need one of Hirst’s plush-looking blankets as you prepare to watch You Can See Everything, the already-infamous documentary about Elizabeth Holmes from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim. Hillary Busis was at the New York Film Festival’s single screening for the movie, which was so in-demand that people camped out for 12 hours in hopes of a seat. Good for them, I guess, though I feel I can wait to “see everything” from my couch. Great, now I’m the stick-in-the-mud Gen Xer.

EVE BATEY
EDITOR

STYLE

 

Is Fashion Art? Damien Hirst Settles the Score

 

By José Criales-Unzueta

 

Artist Damien Hirst has designed a line of cashmere clothing with Barrie, declaring “Anything done well is art.” In an exclusive interview, the United Kingdom's richest living artist talks about the times he almost worked with Hussein Chalayan, Lee Alexander McQueen, and Virgil Abloh, and why those partnerships never came to be. Read more

HOLLYWOOD

 

Making the Elizabeth Holmes Doc Fried Nathan Fielder’s and Lance Oppenheim’s Brains

 

By Hillary Busis

 

The pair told a packed house on Wednesday that they’re still recovering: “Just literally, the laws of reality and everything we thought was going on outside just evaporated.” Read more

STYLE

 

Introducing The Super-Fabulous, Super-Connected Mario and Cait Carbone

 

By Elise Taylor

 

Celebrity chef Mario Carbone and star brand strategist Cait Bailey Carbone threw a blowout wedding reception at the Seagram Building in New York City. Benson Boone performed. Alix Earle TikToked. And the bride wore custom Schiaparelli—on a recommendation from Karlie Kloss herself. Read more

 
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MOVIES

 

I Can’t See Anything: A Tale About Elizabeth Holmes, Billy Evans, A24, and Me

 

By Dan Adler

 

One writer finds himself caught in the web of eccentricity, intrigue, and villainy spun by Nathan Fielder, the notorious couple he shadowed, and the film studio’s cloak-and-dagger PR. Read more

FAIR GAME

 

Jeremy O. Harris Shares His Unfiltered Thoughts on the Democrats and DSA, Being Snubbed by the Tonys, and Broadway’s “Crisis Moment”

 

By Savannah Walsh

 

“The bitchiest level is that in spaces where it matters, as in spaces with money, people think I won the Tony,” the playwright and cultural critic tells Vanity Fair’s Mark Guiducci in the new episode of VF’s long-form interview series Fair Game. Read more

EXCERPT

 

Nik Cohn’s “License to Misbehave” and the True Story of His 1983 Arrest by the FBI

 

By Nik Cohn

 

In an exclusive excerpt from his latest collection of writing, Corner Boy, the famed rock critic, whose writing inspired Saturday Night Fever, gives a detailed account of his surreal brush with the law in 1983, when he was arrested in a federal drug investigation. Read more

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