Vanity Fair Keeps Evolving With Collier Schorr as New Contributor

Nicole Kidman’s latest cover for Vanity Fair is something of a departure, for her and the magazine. The star has appeared on countless magazine covers over the last 30 years or so, including Vanity Fair, often in some state of undress, hair flowing, makeup soft, her obvious beauty made even more obvious but also palatable for the supermarket line. But for VF’s May cover and inside story, shot by Collier Schorr, the goal was not just “pretty” in a conventional sense. There’s some lingerie, some lipstick — but also bold androgyny, even a buzzcut. “Part of the joy of the creative process is that you never know what someone will come back with,” editor in chief Radhika Jones said. “I found myself intensely curious about what Collier would do with Nicole in front of her lens.” She must be pleased with the result, because Collier is now Jones’ first addition to Vanity Fair’s small stable of mostly longtime — and over 60 years old — contributing photographers, which still includes Annie Leibovitz, the only woman for some years, along with Jonathan Becker, Mark Seliger and Larry Fink. Jones said “it was important” to her to add another woman to the magazine’s list of

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