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Velvet is a luxury fashion and lifestyle magazine launched in 2010 by Paris London New York Publications.

Velvet is a UAE-based international monthly magazine that looks West but thinks East; it incorporates global style and trends but holds true to its Middle Eastern roots, appealing to discerning readers from the Gulf to Morocco, from Beirut to Berlin. With its cutting edge design and stable of award-winning writers, Velvet inspires and challenges its readers to live life more fully and beautifully.

Under The Influence is an independently published, art fashion magazine bringing together collected works from established and emerging photographers, stylists, artists and writers to create a visually beautiful, distinct publication. It is a creative challenge, an exchange of ideas surrounding one theme.

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.

The Knot (www.theknot.com) is the Internet’s most-trafficked one-stop wedding planning solution. Founded in 1996 to offer a much-needed alternative to the white-gloved, outdated advice of the available etiquette experts, The Knot has quickly become America's leading wedding brand reaching out to millions of engaged couples each year through our award-winning website, books, magazines, and broadcast offerings.

The brand’s trademark fresh voice and real-world sensibility can be found everywhere a bride looks: on newsstands in national and regional editions of The Knot magazine; in bookstores; in newspapers through Scripps Howard and McClatchy-Tribune News Services; online at major portals like MSN and Comcast; and on TV through original programming on the Style Network and a weddings-only, video-on-demand channel on Comcast Cable.

Margriet was first published in 1938 and has become one of the most popular women’s magazines in the Netherlands. Margriet shares emotions, offers relaxation and presents all kinds of (lifestyle) ideas. Personal contact with the readers is one of the most important characteristics.

For the reader Margriet is of great value regarding inspiration, keeping up-to-date and window-shopping. Ideas from Margriet are kept more than average. Certain features generate thousands of requests each year. The relationship with the readers is based on involvement, openness and reliability. Margriet has active readers, which is shown by the high level of response.

Each year Margriet organises the Margriet Winter Fair, an event where more than 70,000 visitors page through Margriet ‘live’. The past few years Margriet has been engaged in charity campaigns, for example Margriet’s Better World. But the brand is also developed online, www.margriet.nl. Margriet has a high reach among the women in the core readership. The specials Body and Health, Leisure, Gardens, Kids and Home will again be published in 2009. `

GQ (originally Gentlemen's Quarterly) is a monthly men's magazine focusing upon fashion, style, and culture for men, through articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, travel, sports, technology, and books.