  The VIMOS VLT Deep Survey (VVDS) is an on-going program to map the evolution
of galaxies, large scale structures and AGNs from the redshift measurement of
more than 100000 objects down to a magnitude I_{AB}=24, in combination with a
multi-wavelength dataset from radio to X-rays. We present here the first
results obtained from more than 20000 spectra. Dedicated effort has been
invested to successfuly enter the ``redshift desert'' 1.5<z<3, by producing
high S/N galaxy templates in the rest wavelength domain probed by VIMOS. We
have produced the luminosity function (LF) of galaxies for the first time out
to I_{AB}=24, and the evolution of the LF for each morphological type is
clearly established, indicating that most of the LF evolution is concentrated
in the later types. We present for the first time the 3D spatial distribution
of a well controlled sample of faint galaxies, and show that significant
clustering is detected out to z~1.5
