Deliciae Vitae

Deliciae Vitae: for men of the world In 1983, aged 18, I approached one of Europe’s leading publishers of adult material with my idea for a stylishly superior men’s publication. I knew there was a market for an international magazine that was classy, luxurious and sexy but which was fundamentally not about porn. I mean if that's all you want you can get it anywhere, right? They laughed me out of the building...

Another 18 years on, the culture of photography and publishing has come a very long way. Having worked as a fashion designer for much of the intervening period I've been struck how much fashion, and particularly fashion photographers have embraced sex and sexuality in advertising and editorial fashion shoots for men and women.

Ultimately, as the fashion industry knows very well, it's the image - the way someone (or something) is photographed - that makes them desirable. The medium - as they say - is the message. Which explains why certain fashion photographers have become as famous as film directors.

Deliciae Vitae is an independent bi-annual publication, of deliberate, unashamedly luxurious excess. Autonomous and unconstrained in a world of ever more increasing conglomerate fashion.

In this, its first issue, beautiful women from across the globe are photographed by the very best fashion and art photographers to give pleasure to the most sophisticated of palates. But such sophistication is indulged just as much by fine writing. So look out for features on the eternal sexual chemistry of champagne, the elitist joys of supersonic travel or the return of the ultimate pop playboy Bryan Ferry. Deliciae Vitae is not meant to appeal to everyone. But then, you're not everyone, are you?

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Country: Turkey
City: Istanbul
Country: France
City: Paris
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City: London
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City: Madrid

31 Rue Cambon is distributed worldwide in all the Chanel stores. The magazine takes its name from the iconic apartment of brand founder Coco Chanel’s Parisian apartment.

Country: France
City: Paris
Country: Germany
Country: Poland
City: Poznań

West fuses with East. East meets West. W.E. is a new breed of Style Culture/Design boutique magazine that brings the best of two worlds together. It appeals to readers who are influential and affluent, global in vision and yet individual in taste. W.E. aims to capture the innovative and the inspirational with special focus on the Asian metropolis, and present them through bold design and sophisticated concepts. Anything but a ghettoized ethnic magazine. W.E. initiates our readers in to a hybrid world of the future. As all things Asian increase in global influence across areas of lifestyle, design, fashion, entertainment, culture and philosophy, a premier cultural and lifestyle guide in timely due. W.E. features the modern, creative and diverse selection of talents in Asia that are visionary, provocative and sense enriching. The focus is Asia, but the approach is international. Bringing together both emerging and iconoclastic creators and contributors from around the world, in fields of photography, graphic design, fashion entertainment and media. W.E. offers an unique editorial attitude and original design concept. Our aesthetics is versatile and witty, with no want of sophistication. W.E. advocates a new attitude towards life in 21th century. That is, to globalize the regional and individualize the universal.

Country: China
City: Hong Kong

Under the influence is not ruled by popular trends, instead they take inspiration from subversive subjects, they create and they influence. They awaken their readership to new ideas. They are the precursor to what will happen in the coming years. They are a vein communicating fashion and creativity, luxury and art through the commonality of human nature. It is a timeless object, a book, and a style reference, something tangible to keep and collect.

Country: France
City: Paris
Country: Netherlands
City: Amsterdam
Country: Bulgaria
City: Sofia

Interview is a magazine founded by artist Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga in 1969. Dedicated to the cult of celebrity which fascinated Warhol, it featured cutting-edge graphics and interviews of celebrities. These interviews were usually unedited or edited in the eccentric fashion of Warhol's books and The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again. The first head of advertising for the magazine was Susan Blond.

Complimentary copies of Interview were often given to the "in-crowd" to lure them into contributing to the magazine, and given as freebies to attract potential new advertisers.

Toward the end of his life, as Warhol withdrew from everyday oversight of his magazine, it became more focused on presenting the point of view of the fashion elite (under editor Bob Colacello), and a more conventional editorial style was introduced. However, Warhol continued to act as ambassador for the magazine, distributing issues in the street to passersby and creating ad hoc book-signing events on the streets of Manhattan.

The magazine (dubbed "The Crystal Ball Of Pop", according to its website) continues in a similar form to this day - 30% features/70% glossy advertising - published, since shortly after Warhol's death in 1987, by Brant Publications Inc. In 2009 actress Kristen Stewart posed for the cover of the magazine's 40th anniversary issue.

Country: Germany
City: Berlin

WWD Magazines set the trends the world follows, engaging fashion, retail and beauty power players with compelling issues that offer the first look at what’s next in global fashion.

Country: United States
City: New York

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