Melania’s Fashion Non Sequiturs; a Brief History of Royal Mistresses; Unraveling the Myth of SoCal Cults

Plus: How the Pandemic Created Some Permanent Hotel Guests [View in your browser]( | [Update your preferences](newsletter=vf) [Vanity Fair Weekly]( A SPECIAL EDITION OF COCKTAIL HOUR September 3, 2020 [DRESS TO SUPPRESS]( [Melania Trump’s Costume Drama]( By Kenzie Bryant [After four years and endless speculation, the first lady’s fashion choices remain impervious to interpretation.]( [Read More]( If someone forwarded you this email, [sign up for “Cocktail Hour” here](. [ART OF WAR]( [The Five Golden Rules of Presidential Debates]( By Mark McKinnon [With COVID-19 adding weight to their prime-time face-offs, Biden and Trump would be wise to heed history—and consider “the Palin Principle.”]( [Read More]( [CORONA LIVING]( [My Ultimate Pandemic Life Hack: Just Living in a Hotel]( By Chris Black [More and more hotels in New York and Los Angeles have been offering extended stays. For a certain type of free-floating guest, this might be the future.]( [Read More]( [IN OUR OWN WORDS]( [“In an administration filled with people who claim Donald Trump was SENT BY GOD to save Israel from Iran and tell reporters, on the record, ‘I’m not trying to suck my own cock,’ it can be difficult to stand out vis-à -vis who is THE MOST UNHINGED.”]( [Bess Levin]( [— Bess Levin on the current state of the Trump administration in the latest Levin Report]( [Read More]( [HIGH INFIDELITY]( [A Brief History of Royal Mistresses (and Masters)]( By Hadley Hall Meares [If recent allegations about Juan Carlos I of Spain and his mistress seem outrageous, you are due for a royal history lesson.]( [Read More]( [LA-LA LAND]( [What Is It About California and Cults?]( By Jane Borden [The idea has been burned into our collective subconscious: When the public thinks of cults, it thinks of Southern California.]( [Read More]( [PICTURE PERFECT]( [These Coffee Table Books Will Fill the Art-Shaped Hole in Your Heart]( By Allison Schaller and Danielle Walsh [This season’s most beautiful new art books offer sweeping explorations into identity, crucial contemporary painters, and the whimsy of houseplants.]( [Read More]( [LISTEN UP]( [Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things Got You Confused? Come Sit by Us]( By Vanity Fair [On this week’s Little Gold Men podcast, a conversation about the new Netflix film and the book that inspired it, as well as a large group of new releases.]( [[Play Button]Listen]( [ICYMI]( [Vanity Fair’s “The Great Fire”]( [Read stories from the September issue, guest-edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates.]( [Read More]( [Vanity Fair]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [YouTube]( This e-mail was sent to you byVANITY 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 2020.One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.