Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair Digital collage, 2025 – Honys Torres

Vanity Fair portrays Caitlyn Jenner cradling her former self, William Bruce Jenner, in a scene that blends tenderness, spectacle, and contradiction. The piece draws inspiration from the iconic Vanity Fair cover published on June 1, 2015, where Caitlyn introduced herself to the world as a transgender woman—marking a media milestone in trans visibility.

The image, saturated with pop characters and consumer symbols, ironizes the contrast between a transition supported by reality shows, surgeries, stylists, and marketing, versus the realities faced by those who undergo gender transition amid poverty, stigma, and exclusion. The athlete wearing a USA jersey and number 935 evokes Jenner’s Olympic achievements, while phrases like “TIN MARIN DE DO PINQUE” and “VANITY FAIR” turn identity into spectacle.

Vanity Fair denounces the illusion that “anything is possible” when fame, money, and cameras are involved. It critiques the emotional capitalism that turns pain into a cover story and transition into a product.

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