10 Weird Facts About Vanity Fair's Annual Hollywood Issue

I am an African American female and I love Vanity Fair. None of my African American friends have ever even bothered to pick up a VF, so why should they market their magazine to people who don't purchase it? No one is complaining about Essence or Ebony not featuring white people. I just think people need to get over the race crap. Bottom line is, whomever is buying the magazine is who they should market it to.

The reason there is hardly any diversity on Vanity Fair is because that magazine is geared toward the white population. Simple as that. If it offends anyone there are plenty of better magazines out there anyway. I am latina and have only read this mag once what a waste of my hard earned cash. Never again. Lesson learned.

From an africian american woman, thanks but no thanks. We will continue to read our Ebony and Jet.

Can anyone hear the crickets? If not, let me turn up the volume for you. It's all in the buying power, if no one on the "COVER PAGE" represents you, then don't buy it.

Personally, I prefer culinary magazines - mmmmmm...food....sexy!!!!

Who reads Vanity Fair, it has no sex or affordable fashion? Black people outside of fashion do not purchase this mag, white people we dont care stop trying to make this mag relevant by mentioning no blacks have been on the cover. Even if they put beyonce on the cover blacks would look over it and reach for Jet. Do what you please to stay in the media but there are no black women crying at night because brown faces rarely grace the cover of VF.

These images are just too large, the detail is overwhelming. Could you find smaller cover pictures please? Just thumbnails or something would suffice, I don't want to be bothered by actual magazine cover pictures in an article about very specific magazine cover pictures.

I'm about as shocked as when the token black guy gets killed in every single movie on earth. Not at all.

Ms Piper Weiss, how about reading a book instead?

A boring magazine for boring people.

I don't care enough to care.

so negative!!!

"Women of color." Could you be specific, which group of women have no color?

My point here is there shouldn't be, this great divide in anything we are all women American women we like makeup, doing our hair, fashion, men, etc there i more we have in common then the differences our skin make. I'm sick of being an off set of the American population and other are too, in this country yeah there are more white people but put us minorities together there are way more of us. I'm just sick of it, i love magazines like Cosmo, Vogue, and Vanity Fair its just a shame they don't like us as much we do them. why cant these magazines be for women not Black, White, Asian or what ever im sick of being divided into sub categories.

Piper, it's okay, we get it. As non-whites, we get it. We've grown up seeing white models, white dolls, white characters in TV shows and movies, white business people and political leaders, etc, all over the place. We're used to it by now. In fact, when I see a person of color included in a group, I usually think, "There's the obligatory non-white person", meant to encourage the idea of diversity. I'm Hispanic- seeing a Hispanic woman included in a photo spread doesn't make me feel any sort of shared identity or association with her; for all I know her world view could be light years away from mine. It makes sense that they would focus on white women- white women are the ones who are most likely to buy this magazine, and whites are the majority in the country. Don't worry, we do the same thing in other countries.

I bought it, and I think it's beautiful. Want to know why?? Because I seriously don't give a crap about all the stuff you just over-analyzed!! God, this article killed off some of my brain cells...

The ONLY reason I ever read VF was Dominick Dunne. Now that he's dead, I haven't bought one issue and have canceled my subscription.

Vanity Fair gets it wrong 99% of the time. Tried reading this magazine, but got tired of all the advertisements.

I figured since I just wasted my time reading this crap, I should make a comment:
Their magazine, their business, their choice to decide who goes on the cover.

Hey Piper, I'm sick of all this diversity crap being shoved down my throat. There are magazines just for blacks out there, you know. I guess they lack diversity too, now don't they?