So as you guys were probably well aware, the Olympics start today! We’ve been tracking fashion news and features pertaining to the games for weeks in anticipation of their start, and now it’s time for the moment we’ve all been waiting for. NBC will be streaming the Opening Ceremonies at 8 tonight, as well as Read more →
In publishing, September is sort of like Final Exams: Each magazine is given a grade–in the form of ad pages–and that number is generally indicative of how well the mag fared all year, and what direction it’ll move in next year. After years of thinner, less ad-filled September issues (thank you recession!), magazines’ ad pages Read more →
LOVE‘s issue 8 hits newsstands on July 30. To tease the release of the issue, Katie Grand and co. have been releasing bits and pieces to get us excited. And after seeing all the Downton covers for the “costume drama” themed issue, we are. Today UK site MyDaily has a preview of a spread with Read more →
Remember that scene in The September Issue when then-Vogue publisher Tom Florio excitedly revealed to a room full of press that the September 2007 pre-crash Vogue would be the magazine’s largest issue ever? Well that record (the tome was 840 pages) will be broken come September. According to a spokesperson, this September’s Lady Gaga-covered Vogue Read more →
While print publishing’s had a tough time in the states and in many parts of the world over the past few years, the magazine industry in China is apparently booming. As we already know, China has become a huge market for luxury fashion, but not everyone is just buying the clothes. According to a piece in the Times this past weekend, young Chinese women are spending huge chunks of their incomes on Chinese versions of Western fashion glossies such as Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, etc. They’re obsessed. And Western publishing houses like Hearst are making bank.
Fashion labels are putting even more money into advertising in China than in the states and these glossies practically have more ad pages than they know what to do with. Both Cosmopolitan and Elle have to publish twice monthly over there because one would be too thick to print and Vogue added four extra issues per year. So, is this it? Is China the antidote to print’s decline here in the west?
The thing is, these publishers’ ability to make money has little to do with their publications’ quality or popularity.
It’s becoming more and more clear that spring was the season of Louis Vuitton. For magazines, that is. Not only did the brand manage to grab the most magazine covers, they also managed to nab another magazine title. Say hello to the most coveted look of the season: a gauzy, laser-cut white dress which we Read more →
Retouching continues to be a topic of debate and a catalyst for consumer backlash now more than ever. From a 14-year-old girl mounting a campaign to get Seventeen and Teen Vogue to show “real” unaltered images of teenagers to limbs getting chopped off models right and left, those fantasy images we’ve been looking at for Read more →
We alread know the covers, but how thick are this year’s all-important September issues going to be?
Pretty thick. Just when we thought print was dying, magazines are seeing an increase in ad pages, especially in fashion and beauty. Things are looking particularly good for Hearst, whose relatively recent acquisition, Elle, will debut Hearst’s largest September issue of all time. The fashion title will have 400 ad pages (annoying for us, but good for publishing!), up 14% from last year.
Clearly Elle‘s doing well over at Hearst–this news comes on the heels of four consecutive record-breaking issues in terms of ad pages. Fellow Hearst titles Harper’s Bazaar and Marie Claire were not exempt from the fashion and beauty ad page increase: the former increased by 16.6% to 360 pages, while the latter went up 23% to 237 pages. It’s Marie Claire’s largest issue ever.
Katie Holmes has so much going on right now, a divorce from Tom Cruise almost seems like an afterthought for the actress/designer. Just a couple of weeks after Holmes’s Elle cover hit newsstands, WWD has just revealed that she’s gracing the cover of California-based fashion glossy C Magazine. The cover story, of course, has a Read more →
To build excitement for the September 13 launch of CR Fashion Book, Carine Roitfeld keeps dropping little nuggets about her new magazine. First, we saw a video from a mock-up of the mag (dubbed “issue 0″), then heard rumors that Kate Upton may be Carine’s first cover girl. Now there’s a real image from the Read more →
In a world where models are getting their limbs cut off left-right-and-center, and magazines are using photoshop to frankenstein their celeb covers, it’s no secret that a lot of retouching goes on these days. All you need to do is open any magazine–or look at any beauty ad–for proof. But how much retouching actually gets Read more →
Is it just us or have magazines been making a lot of flubs recently? First Doutzen Kroes lost her leg in a botched photoshop job, then Natasha Poly’s arm suffered a similar fate on the cover of Vogue Russia. And most recently, Glamour ran a picture of long-time deceased model Daul Kim in its August issue.
Coco Rocha seems to have noticed that things have gotten a little out-of-hand too–particularly in the photoshop department. The always-outspoken supermodel took to Twitter to implore magazines to, you know, actually pay attention when they’re doctoring fashion editorials:
