Special Section

HERB RITTS'S LEADING LADIES

The legacy of Herb Ritts, who died last December, can be conveyed in one word: "Beauty." He saw it, celebrated it, and captured it, often in the pages of Vanity Fair. For this special 20th-anniversary portfolio, V.F. culled Ritts's most glorious portraits of an era's most glamorous women

April 2003 Herb Ritts
Special Section
HERB RITTS'S LEADING LADIES

The legacy of Herb Ritts, who died last December, can be conveyed in one word: "Beauty." He saw it, celebrated it, and captured it, often in the pages of Vanity Fair. For this special 20th-anniversary portfolio, V.F. culled Ritts's most glorious portraits of an era's most glamorous women

April 2003 Herb Ritts

OSCAR-WINNER PROMENADE: MARLEE MATLIN, ELLEN BURSTYN, KATHY BATES, MARISA TOMEI, WHOOPI GOLDBERG, LIZA MINNELLI, SOPHIA LOREN, AND HOLLY HUNTER. April 1995

JULIA ROBERTS July 1990

BARBRA STREISAND September 1991

GOLDIE HAWN September 1989

KIM BASINGER June 1989

LAUREN BACALL April 1997

JENNIFER LOPEZ June 2001

DEBRA WINGER October 1990

CHER November 1990

MICHELLE PFEIFFER, JODIE FOSTER, AND MEG RYAN April 1999

JULIE CHRISTIE April 2002

ANGELA BASSETT April 1996

NICOLE KIDMAN July 1995

MERYL STREEP September 1998

CATHERINE ZETA-JONES April 2000

SOPHIA LOREN April 1995

BETTE MIDLER December 1987

JESSICA LANGE From a shoot for V.F.'s October 1988 issue.