Imagine if your summer plans were simply chartering a megayacht for yourself, your family, and a bunch of your friends (including Samuel L. Jackson, NBD). Well, Magic and Cookie Johnson don’t have to imagine it, as this is simply their estival reality. Obviously, their European journey was the real thing to envy, but for some reason, I’m deeply charmed by the image of this mega-famous athlete kicking back and watching women’s Olympic gymnastics on his multi-million-dollar vessel.
3. Bradley Cooper, Gigi Hadid, Margot Robbie et al on a super yacht in Italy
Okay, I have to rank this yacht a little higher than the Johnsons’ merely because a pregnant Robbie is on it, and I would lay down my life for her. (True Barbiecore stans never die, we just age!) Am I a fan of Cooper’s man bun? Not really, but presumably there are lots of places on the boat where I could go to avoid the sight of it.
2. Dua Lipa (and Callum Turner) in Italy
Dua is a known vacation queen after my own heart, and the pop star’s 2024 summer holidays in Verano, Italy, look pretty picture-perfect: blue seas, pool floats shared with boyfriends, eclectic knit bikini cover-ups, and blended drinks abound. But the real sign of a good time is how blurry and, well, bad some of these group shots are. If all the photos are perfectly composed, it can’t have been that good of a party, as I always say.
1. Zendaya and Tom Holland, also in Italy
This vacation looks very similar in energy to Dua Lipa and Callum Turner’s, except without the relentless party energy—and given that I am a recovering English major who is now fully in my 30s, I have to admit that this is the platonic ideal of celebrity vacations for me. Trading books with your partner in a private pool with your hair in two casual braids while the sun beams warmly down upon your relaxation activities? A dream.
