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L’Officiel introduces Hong Kong publication

Fashion publication L’Officiel has unveiled a new digital platform for Hong Kong, with a print magazine for the region scheduled to come in early 2024. The announcement was made by a number of subsidiaries under the umbrella of business conglomerate AMTD Group, which acquired L’Officiel in 2022 and has since set about expanding the magazine’s...

Business

People to relaunch People StyleWatch digitally

Entertainment media company People has announced it will be relaunching its People StyleWatch publication through the first-ever digital issue. The new StyleWatch has been revamped for a modern audience, the firm said in a release, offering a collection of around 20 shoppable stories, alongside trends and style inspiration from celebrities and...

Business

The Evening Standard reveals ES Magazine’s NFT cover ready for auction

ES Magazine, the Evening Standard’s weekly lifestyle and culture magazine, has unveiled it’s first non-fungible token artwork. The moving, digital magazine cover stars LGBTQ+ poet and model Kai-Isaiah Jamal, with the one-of-a-kind NFT set to go up for auction through the Foundation platform. The artwork was officially revealed at the Evening...

Fashion

Italian Vogue forgoes photoshoots in January issue for sustainability

In an effort to take on more sustainable practices, Vogue Italia has opted out of photoshoot productions for its Jan. 2020 issue. According to an announcement the publication made on its website, the special issue will instead have illustrations from a diverse selection of artists instead. “All of the covers, as well as the features of our...

Fashion

Asos celebrates the 100th issue of its magazine

Online fashion retailer Asos is set to celebrate the 100th issue of its magazine today by selling it online for the first time. Available for one pound on Asos.com, Asos first launched its quarterly customer magazine back in 2007. Since then it has grown to become one of the UK’s highest circulation fashion titles, with an ABC of 453,287. Over...

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World's largest magazine

Cult fashion publication Visionaire has created the world's largest magazine. An oil-drenched Lady Gaga appears in her mermaid form on their “Larger Than Life” cover. Says the publication, “Visionaire broke the Guinness World Record for the largest magazine with LARGER THAN LIFE at 36 x 49.48 inches. Then we shattered our own record with a...

Fashion

Fashion editors are the new retail directors

Are magazine editors the new brand saviours? They are according to The Business of Fashion, who recently commented that commercial content for fashion brands is the new editorial. Jeremy Langmead, former editor of Esquire, is now at online retailer Mr. Porter, the brother site of Net-a-porter.com. Andrea Linett, formerly of America's Lucky...

Fashion

The London Magazine Awards

On Wednesday 21st of May, the London Magazine will celebrate the capital’s best dressed man and woman. The event will take place at the Serpentine Gallery and on the evening the winners of the best dressed awards will be announced. Jury members are insiders of the fashion industry, including designer Vivia Ferragamo, granddaughter of the...

Fashion

Magazine readership in sharp decline

Magazine readers are becoming less and less, as ABC circulation figures will reveal this week. The expected forecast will show the magazine market is unlikely to have grown, despite a handful of flourishing titles such as Emap's Grazia. Nearly every mass-market category, from men's and women's lifestyle to real-life and celebrity titles, appears...

Fashion

In Style polls best dressed celebrity couples

In Style magazine has polled Madonna and Guy Ritchie as the world's best-dressed celebrity couple. The couple was followed by Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in second place, with David and Victoria Beckham, and singer Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rosendale, securing the third and fourth spots respectively. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher rounded off the...

Fashion

New magazine launch

Emap Consumer Media (ECM) is set to launch Grazia, Britain's first weekly glossy lifestyle magazine for women, in the spring of 2005. Grazia will be a British licensed version of the Italian fashion magazine owned by Mondadori, the Italian media group controlled by the family of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. ECM anticipates newsstand...

Fashion

Lose Face

The Face, the magazine that was once the epitome of cool, is to close after 24 years. Publishers Emap have decided that the monthly glossy - which was at the cutting edge of popular culture during the 1980s and some of the 1990s - is no longer viable as circulation has dropped from 70,000 copies a month to just 25,000. The last issue of the...