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A drawing by #Picasso made expressly for VF in 1924. See more in our new book Vanity Fair 100 Years. #VFvintage #VF100

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#VanityFair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age. Available in bookstores and on Amazon. All 8.2 pounds of it #VF100

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WHEN EVERYTHING WAS LOST, AMERICANS HEEDED THE CALL WRITTEN IN THEIR IMMIGRANT BLOOD. THEY TOOK TO THE ROAD.

Laura Hillenbrand on the 1930s

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The first issue of #VanityFair (1913) and #AnnieLeibovitz's October issue recreation, featuring #KateUpton. #VF100 #tbt

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Kate Upton channels Marilyn Monroe for photographer Annie Leibovitz on the cover of our 100th anniversary issue #VF100

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Whatever age we are is the age we’ve always been.

Graydon Carter on V.F.'s 100th anniversary.

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Graydon Carter on 100 Years of Vanity Fair

Depending on the circumstances, a major anniversary can put you in any number of moods. Celebratory certainly. Maybe a little wistful. Depressed, if you’re built that way. But in an age when nothing seems to last—not convictions, not even cities—a centennial, like the one Vanity Fair celebrates this year, makes me marvel at the simple fact of longevity. Over the past year, as we’ve been putting together a volume representing the magazine’s first century (Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age; Abrams), David Friend, Lenora Jane Estes, and I have spent a lot of time leafing through old issues, from the first one, in 1913 (when the magazine came into being as Dress & Vanity Fair), up to the hiatus that began in 1936, and then from the magazine’s revival under S. I. Newhouse, Jr., in 1983, up to the present. This was one of those chores that wasn’t a chore at all— more like a safari with no precise destination, distractions everywhere you look, and an ever changing constellation of boon companions, from Robert Benchley, Robert E. Sherwood, and Dorothy Parker to Bryan Burrough, Dominick Dunne, and Christopher Hitchens. With Edward Steichen and Annie Leibovitz tagging along to take the pictures.

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