Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictitious entities

• Vanity Fair, a location in The Pilgrim's Progress (1678), by John Bunyan
• Vanity Bonfire Fair, a fictional character from the 2005 novel Orphans of Chaos by John C. Wright

Films

• Vanity Fair (1911 film), directed by Charles Kent
• Vanity Fair (1915 film), a silent film directed by Charles Brabin and made by the Edison Company
• Vanity Fair (1922 film), a silent British film directed by Walter Courtney Rowden
• Vanity Fair (1923 film), a lost silent feature film directed by Hugo Ballin and produced by Samuel Goldwyn, with Prizmacolor sequence
• Vanity Fair (1932 film), directed by Chester M. Franklin and starring Myrna Loy, with the story updated to make Becky Sharp a social-climbing governess
• Vanity Fair (2004 film), directed by Mira Nair and starring Reese Witherspoon

Literature

• Vanity Fair (novel), 1848, by William Makepeace Thackeray

Music

• "Vanity Fair" (Mr. Bungle song)
• "Vanity Fair", a piece of orchestral music by Anthony Collins
• "Vanity Fair", a song by Squeeze from East Side Story
• "Vanity Fair", a song by The Ocean Blue
• "Vanity Fair", a song by World Party from Egyptology
• "Riding to Vanity Fair", a song by Paul McCartney

Periodicals

• Vanity Fair (magazines), any of five magazines:

(Listed chronologically)

• • Vanity Fair, American magazine, 1859–1863
  • Vanity Fair (British magazine), 1868–1914, famous for its caricatures
  • Vanity Fair (US magazine 1902–04), an unrelated New York magazine published by The Commonwealth Publishing Company
  • Vanity Fair (US magazine 1913–36), American magazine
  • Vanity Fair (magazine) (1983–present), a monthly American magazine of culture, fashion, and politics

Television

• Vanity Fair (1939 TV series), a British television series about fashion
• Vanity Fair (1967 TV serial), a British miniseries on BBC starring Susan Hampshire
• Vanity Fair (1978 TV series), a Hong Kong television series
• Vanity Fair (1987 TV serial), a British miniseries on BBC featuring James Saxon
• Vanity Fair (1998 TV serial), a British miniseries on BBC starring Natasha Little
• Vanity Fair (2018 TV series), a British miniseries on ITV starring Olivia Cooke

Brands and enterprises

• Vanity Fair, a brand of underwear owned by Fruit of the Loom
• Vanity Fair, a brand of paper products owned by Georgia-Pacific

See also

• Becky Sharp (film), a 1935 adaptation of Thackeray's novel starring Miriam Hopkins
• Vanity Fare, a 1960s UK pop/rock group