Vanity Fair
Celebrity culture bible
Vanity Fair originally names the worldly, frivolous marketplace in John Bunyan's 1678 allegory *Pilgrim's Progress*, where all manner of vanities are bought and sold.
The phrase now refers broadly to the world of fashion, wealth, and superficial social pursuits: the glittering vanity fair of Manhattan's Upper East Side.
It's also the title of Thackeray's satirical novel and a prominent magazine covering celebrity and culture.
- ThackerayWrote satirical fiction
- Victorian novel1837-1901 British long-form fiction
- magazineBound periodical with articles
- satiricalMocking through exaggeration
- novelNew and unusual
periodical · Annie Leibovitz · photo shoot · cover story · best dressed · Tatler · allegory · consumerism · societal critique · glamour · fashion · social commentary · publication · celebrity · pretension · Christian symbolism · Battle of Waterloo · high society
- Thackeray WorksPhilip, Catherine
- Classic BooksPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Moby-Dick, Great Expectations
- magazinesmagazine, issue, periodical, publication, design magazine
- Class DramasPride and Prejudice, Downton Abbey, Great Expectations, Pygmalion, Emma
- fashion mediafashion magazines, fashion blog, Vogue, fashion journalism, Elle
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
Vanity FairPeople
Persons collectively
TMZ · National Enquirer · Entertainment Tonight · tabloid journalism
Vanity FairScientific American
Popular science monthly publication
The Economist · Foreign Affairs · Harvard Business Review · Nature · academic journals
Vanity FairHeaven
Sacred afterlife realm
Paradise · Mount Zion · New Jerusalem · Eden · salvation
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