Vanity Fair October 1993 [antikvár]

Party of the Decade I en years of Vanity Fair. Ten years of riot, revolution, and excess. Think of the magazine in your hands as a dinner party—a raucous, all-night affair, with companions who have just returned from faraway places with wonderful stories to tell. And they've brought pictures! This month Annie Leibovitz presents a remarkable portfolio of the heroes and heroines of Sarajevo, the unarmed soldiers who maintain the soul of the city while its body dies .Dominick Dunne reports on the Los Angeles trial of the Menendez brothers, accused of murdering their parents for their inheritance (a story Dunne first covered for V.F. three years ago, when the boys were arrested) .Bob Colacello has just come back from Paris with an inside look at the apartment everyone in Europe has been talking about but few have actually seen—the brilliantly outrageous home of art hostess Sao Schlumberger And Gail Sheehy breaks new ground in her ongoing examination of the stages of life, this time in a report on how a new generation of women is redefining what it means to be 50. There is much more—above all, beginning on page 105, a scrapbook of just a few of the greatest hits from the past 10 extraordinary years. As you leaf through this flashback you should know that getting the impossible-to-get stories re- quires not only the most stellar group of [ writers and photographers ever assembled i under one roof, and the omnipresent eye of i Alex Liberman (see page 180 for the tale of i Liberman's early years at Conde Nast), but a hugely talented and devoted staff working furiously behind the scenes. Some, like executive literary editor Wayne Lawson and art and design director Charles Churchward, have been here since the magazine's first year. Excellence is about the ability to make the extremely difficult appear effortless. This, Lawson, Churchward, and their colleagues do every month. They are the chefs and sous-chefs of the dinner party. They snare and dress the movie star, hunt ideas and images, edit the often last-minute stories, design the stunning layouts, polish the prose, and double-check the facts. In short, they bring these pages as near to perfection as possible, with flair, flexibility, and dedication. And they stand ready as we prepare to cover the world's next 10 years—their riot, revolution, and excess—in the way that only Vanity Fair can. Editor in chief Cop: Julia, Take Two ON THE COVER Julia Roberts wears a knit-and-lacc dress by Gianni Versacc. Hair by SerRc Normant. Makeup by François Nars. Styled by Marina Schiano. Photographed exclusively for V.F. by Herb RlUs. Julia's gotta love it, lefi. standing barefoot in a steel-magnolia pose on the back porch of the Home Place plantation in Hahnville. Louisiana. Roberts, with Herb Ritts in the upstairs parlor, below, wears a dress by Fernando Sanchez. ID /nrrnRFR 1993 ¦'