Vanity Fair Decides Who Wore It Best
Plus: How Robert Kiyosaki Went Into Debt, to the Tune of $1.2 Billion
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August 29, 2026

It was really important to us—José Criales-Unzueta, Nicole Chapoteau, Derek Blasberg, and, yes, Mark Guiducci—that if we made a best dressed list, it would represent diversity. Diversity here is perhaps not what you’re thinking, though. We wanted to look across culture—to the faces making a statement in their industry, with their profession, for their generation, and certainly on the red carpet. What a mix we ended up with: Frida Escobedo, who is the most chic architect you can imagine; CNN’s Rachel Tashjian, who makes you understand what a fashion critic still can be; the artist Anna Weyant, who brought such light to our cover star, Marc Jacobs; and, because we couldn’t miss them, the celebrities—Teyana Taylor, Jacob Elordi, Colman Domingo, and more of your favorites. I certainly have a lot to learn about dressing myself, but I’m glad to have such beautiful inspiration.

LINDSEY UNDERWOOD
SENIOR EDITOR

Vanity Fair’s 2026 Best Dressed List

 

By VANITY FAIR

 

For the first time this decade, Vanity Fair presents its annual Best Dressed List. The inductees to the 2026 Vanity Fair Best Dressed List were selected by VF staff, but we could not stop at 10. So we’re honoring more of the year’s most compelling dressers across five categories: originals, perennials, professionals, duos, and the future. Read more


Why this ad?

Sell Thy Neighbor

 

By Noah Shachtman

 

The residents of the Pierre Hotel are in a well-heeled rebellion against a takeover plan involving a Saudi firm and Trump commerce secretary Howard Lutnick. Read more

MONEY

 

How Robert Kiyosaki Went Into Debt, to the Tune of $1.2 Billion

 

By Christopher Cox

 

Kiyosaki, who built an empire on the idea of getting rich, now says he’s deeply in debt. Vanity Fair visits the author and friend of Trump at home in Arizona to understand the distance between the gospel of his books and his own bleeding balance sheet. Read more

BOOKS

 

Inside the Big Business of Celebrity Ghostwriters

 

By Maxwell Adler

 

High-demand for celebrity memoirs has led to a cottage industry for talented writers looking to make money. Now, as AI raises new questions about originality and disclosure, VF goes inside the business of ghostwriting to see how the new technology is changing the nature of the industry. Read more


Why this ad?

Good Golly, Miss Dolly!

 

By Kevin Sessums

 

Why was Dolly Parton the hottest pinup of Desert Storm? Because she's every down-home virtue wrapped up in a sizzling blonde bombshell. And she's a country-music angel from “Straddlin’ Hollow” who commands her own $100 million empire. Dolly Parton is the American Dream! Read more

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