In der aktuellen Ausgabe von Vanity Fair (UK)

• A CUT ABOVE
  Elevate and dazzle with summer keepsakes that will see out the seasons to come
• MONEYBALL
  Mississippi quarterback Trinidad Chambliss is one of the highest paid stars in college football. As BOMANI JONES reports, he’s also the face of an epic showdown with the NCAA
• GAME CHANGER
  Forget Super Bowl watch parties and last-minute Stubhubbing—luxury sports tourism is here. LEAH FAYE COOPER breaks down the big spenders in the big leagues
• SPEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
  For the ultrawealthy, boats or jets are yesterday’s toys. DEREK C. BLASBERG digs into how owning a sports team became the last bastion of status for a well-moneyed few
• PRACTICE SESSION
  It’s the summer of soccer, and you don’t speak a lick of Soccerese. Not sure where to begin? Fear not, JACK HOLMES has your World Cup cheat sheet
• KYLE SMITH
  The NFL’s fashion editor makes the players look good—win or lose—for every game. Call it tunnel vision
• GOOOOOALS!
  What’s better than one famous fan preening courtside? Two household names lighting up the jumbotron—one old-school, the other next-gen. CHRIS MURPHY explains who’s who
• Keep Outside the House That Always Wins
  This is an American sports story about addiction and attention—one KIESE MAKEBA LAYMON has only told to his casino friends after losing his paycheck and nearly the rest of his life
• Kissing the Ring
  Turns out the most powerful man in Hollywood, at least for a moment, is NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT chops it up with the mogul entertaining bids from every studio head in town, as they duke it out for the most valuable thing on TV
• KING OF THE COURT
  As the brightest star on the men’s tennis scene, Carlos Alcaraz draws attention whether he likes it or not. JOSÉ CRIALES-UNZUETA speaks to the Spaniard about his rise to number one and the rivalry that promises the future of his sport
• RARE AIR
  Whether she’s shooting three-pointers or walking the red carpet, the WNBA’s four-time MVP doesn’t miss. ERIN VANDERHOOF catches up with A’ja Wilson
• THE TIPPING POINT
  After 17 months of heated negotiations and decades of inequity, the WNBA and its players reached a deal this spring that has completely transformed women’s basketball. YOHANA DESTA spent an afternoon with Clara Wu Tsai, the billionaire owner of the New York Liberty, to talk about the league’s next chapter and the expansion that will forever change women’s professional sports
• THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR
  Kylian Mbappé was crowned football’s future king when he was just a teenager, but AIDAN MCLAUGHLIN meets the captain of Les Bleus at a turbulent time. He’s weathered attacks on his French identity while serving as his nation’s chief diplomat, endured criticism of his game while scoring goals by the hatful. He’s on top of the world—and under unfathomable pressure. Everything is on the line at this summer’s World Cup…
• UNITED NATIONS
  Every World Cup is the biggest event in human history. This summer, it’s coming to North America. But down in Mexico this spring, as three nations fight for one ticket to the big show, FRANKLIN LEONARD finds far more than goals or red cards in the tales of Jamaica, New Caledonia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• PRADA’S FORTUNATE SON
  Before he joined the family business, Lorenzo Bertelli, son of Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli, was a professional rally race car driver. Since his retirement, he’s assumed his rightful position as heir to their throne, overseeing the Prada Group’s highest-profile business moves. But he still indulges in his need for speed, and MARISA MELTZER goes along for a ride
• HIGH HORSES
  Forty minutes inland from the power and pomp of Palm Beach lies a greener, but no less gilded, Florida enclave. In this Year of the Horse, ELISE TAYLOR goes inside the winter equestrian capital of the world
• BODIES, BODIES, BODIES
  Several dozen world-class athletes have spent the last four months in Abu Dhabi training to compete for millions of dollars in the Enhanced Games—a competition that is literally on steroids. And hormones. And Adderall. CLARA MOLOT talks to the people involved—and RFK Jr.—about the event that’s backed by everyone from Peter Thiel and Donald Trump Jr. to Saudi royalty
• LORD OF THE RING
  Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk has won every major title in professional boxing without a single defeat. Amid a war, as ANNA ZOLOTARIOVA writes, he continues to prove that victories can be won despite adversity
• YOU’VE GOT A FAST CAR
  Wildly expensive vehicles, famous fans, and a Netflix glow-up propelled Formula 1 from niche European import to full-blown American obsession. Photographer HAILUN MA documents the early season fervor at the 2026 Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai.
• THE INVINCIBLE LINDSEY VONN
  For the first time since her horrifying crash at the 2026 Olympics, the American skiing legend speaks to ELISE TAYLOR at length about what really happened at Milano Cortina, the five surgeries and paparazzi frenzies that followed, and whether this is really, truly the end
• TROUBLE IN THE WATER
  Star water polo player Lucca van der Woude was arrested in 2024 after being accused of sexual assault, rocking an elite Los Angeles community. Two years later, his former teammate Aidan Romain tells DEANNA KIZIS about his lawsuit against both Van der Woude and Harvard-Westlake School—which Romain says protected the white student who made his life unbearable
• A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN
  Whether in the arena or at the studio, athletes and artists have a shared reverence for discipline and physicality. NATE FREEMAN explores the symbiotic and sometimes creative relationships between these masters of craft
• TONY HAWK
  The skateboarding pioneer and Gen X icon, still shredding at the age of 58, would happily live out his days shooting the breeze with his growing brood—especially if one of them can locate his missing eyebrows