Essence

Essence is the first monthly magazine for African-American women between the ages of 18 and 49, and has become a cultural institution in the African-American community. The magazine covers fashion, lifestyle and beauty with an intimate girlfriend-to-girlfriend tone.

There are sections such as Work and Wealth, Healthy Living, and Looks We Love that cover topics that focus on career, finance, health, lifestyle, fashion, and beauty which share an intimate connection with readers.

History

The magazine was founded in 1968 by Edward Lewis, Clarence O. Smith, Cecil Hollingsworth, Jonathan Blount, and Denise M. Clark. Essence Communications Inc. (ECI) began publishing in May 1970. Its circulation began at approximately 50,000 copies per month, subsequently growing to roughly 1.1 million. Photographer, Filmmaker, Author Gordon Parks served as its editorial director during the first three years of its circulation.

Susan L. Taylor was the editor in chief for 19 years (81-00) and then publications director for 7 years. She retired on 28 Dec 2007 to focus on her national Cares Mentoring Movement non-profit organization.

In 2000, Time Inc. purchased 49 percent of the magazine from its original publisher, Essence Communications Inc. By March 2005, Time Inc. became the majority owner, buying the remaining 51 percent in a deal reported to be worth US$170 million. In 2008, Essence won 12 New York Association of Black Journalists awards in the Investigative, General Feature, International, Business/Technology, Science/Health, Arts and Entertainment, Personal Commentary, Public Affairs and Online categories.

For 38 years, the company has flourished and expanded beyond pages of its magazine to generate brand extensions such as the Essence Music Festival, Women Who Are Shaping the World Leadership Summit, Window on Our Women (WOW I, II & III) and Smart Beauty I, II & III consumer insights, the Essence Book Club, Essence.com, and ventures in digital media (mobile, television and VOD) via Essence Studios.

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Tatler launched in 2008 and has become established as the most upbeat and on-the-mark monthly magazine covering high society and fashion in Russia. In Autumn 2011 Tatler introduced The Debutante Ball, a grand event for young daughters of the most influential and famous. The Tatler Best Schools iPhone app is a practical resource for objective information on the best educational institutions all over the world, while the Tatler website is the best place for society gossip and celebrity news in Russia.

Country: Russia
City: Moscow
Country: United Arab Emirates
City: Abu Dhabi

vogue.com.au, Australia's definitive online fashion destination, continues to set the benchmark for fashion websites in Australia with the launch of dynamic new features reflecting developments in the magazine, technology and the needs of vogue.com.au visitors.

Since launching in October 2000, vogue.com.au has produced an engaging online experience for its now more than 1 million unique visitors each month by continuing to combine current web technology with Vogue Australia's renowned editorial authority.

"vogue.com.au is on an astonishing trajectory - it's power and reach is unparalleled," says Kirstie Clements, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue Australia. "Together, Vogue Australia and vogue.com.au deliver the ultimate fashion environment with authority, integrity and style."

vogue.com.au in partnership with Vogue Australia magazine is able to provide users with a total fashion experience offering comprehensive runway coverage of all the major fashion shows, authoritative reports on seasonal trends, the latest social, celebrity, and fashion news, lively informed takes on fashion and pop culture, behind the scenes videos and the Vogue Forums which provide insight into the fashion industry.

From July 1, vogue.com.au's new features include interactive Lookbooks, a Fashion Calendar, gallery Zoom Tool and a new video system that will allow for more and higher quality full screen video content on VOGUETV.

"vogue.com.au is growing with the demands of our increasing visitor numbers," says Damien Woolnough, vogue.com.au editor. "The new vogue.com.au showcases the depth of original fashion and beauty content, which is updated daily."

A new innovative Lookbook feature will allow Club Vogue members to find fantastic images from all over the site and put them together in new, inspiring ways, whether they're paying homage to their favourite icons or spotting the latest trends.

This feature will create a real community of fashion fans allowing visitors to save, organize, and make notes on their favourite looks, just like a front row editor - and, best of all, they will be able to share them with the rest of the Club Vogue community.

The addition of the Zoom Tool in Galleries will enable fashion fans to focus on the intricate details in photographs from all of the international and Australian fashion shows.

The Fashion Calendar will highlight all of the events and launches dedicated fashion followers need to know.

A new video system for the highly successful VOGUETV, will allow for more video content covering the latest in fashion and beauty with full screen viewing.

With more than 1.1 million unique browsers and 9.1 million page impressions per month, vogue.com.au is the online authority for the vogue view on fashion in Australia.

Country: Australia
City: Sydney
Country: South Korea
City: Seoul
Country: China
City: Beijing

Vogue is the fashion authority. Setting the standard for over 100 years has made Vogue the best selling fashion magazine in the world. Each issue delivers the latest in beauty, style, health, fitness and celebrities and your subscription will include the must-have Spring and Fall Fashion editions. Before it's in fashion, it's in Vogue!

Vogue was founded as a weekly publication by Arthur Baldwin Turnure in 1892. When he died in 1909, Condé Nast picked it up and slowly began growing the publication. The first change Nast made was that Vogue appeared every two weeks instead of weekly. Nast also went overseas in the early 1910s. He first went to Britain, and started a Vogue there, and it went well. Then he went to Spain, however that was a failure. Lastly, Nast took Vogue to France, and that was a huge success. The magazines number of publications and profit increased dramatically under Nast. The magazine's number of subscriptions surged during the Depression, and again during World War II. In the 1960s, with Diana Vreeland as editor-in-chief and personality, the magazine began to appeal to the youth of the sexual revolution by focusing more on contemporary fashion and editorial features openly discussing sexuality. Vogue also continued making household names out of models, a practice that continued with Suzy Parker, Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton, Lauren Hutton, Veruschka, Marisa Berenson, Penelope Tree, and others.

In 1973, Vogue became a monthly publication. Under editor-in-chief Grace Mirabella, the magazine underwent extensive editorial and stylistic changes to respond to changes in the lifestyles of its target audience.

The current editor-in-chief of American Vogue is Anna Wintour, noted for her trademark bob and her practice of wearing sunglasses indoors. Since taking over in 1988, Wintour has worked to protect the magazine's high status and reputation among fashion publications. In order to do so, she has made the magazine focus on new and more accessible ideas of "fashion" for a wider audience. This allowed Wintour to keep a high circulation while discovering new trends that a broader audience could conceivably afford. For example, the inaugural cover of the magazine under Wintour's editorship featured a three-quarter-length photograph of Israeli super model Michaela Bercu wearing a bejeweled Christian Lacroix jacket and a pair of jeans, departing from her predecessors' tendency to portray a woman’s face alone, which, according to the Times', gave "greater importance to both her clothing and her body. This image also promoted a new form of chic by combining jeans with haute couture. Wintour’s debut cover brokered a class-mass rapprochement that informs modern fashion to this day." Wintour's Vogue also welcomes new and young talent.

Wintour's presence at fashion shows is often taken as an indicator of the designer's profile within the industry. In 2003, she joined the Council of Fashion Designers of America in creating a fund that provides money and guidance to at least two emerging designers each year. This has built loyalty among the emerging new star designers, and helped preserve the magazine's dominant position of influence through what Time called her own "considerable influence over American fashion. Runway shows don't start until she arrives. Designers succeed because she anoints them. Trends are created or crippled on her command."

Country: Turkey
City: Istanbul
Country: China
City: Shanghai

Women's Health reaches a new generation of women who don't like the way most women's magazines make them feel.

Women's Health is for the woman who wants to reach a healthy, attractive weight but doesn't equate that with having thighs the size of toothpicks. They know that exercising and eating well will make you happier and stronger (even if after-work runs can really suck). That looking and feeling good have very little to do with cosmetics and high heels (though they can help you feel glamorous on a Saturday night). And that life can be stressful since there's never enough time, but balance is achievable (with a little help).

Most of all, WH focuses on what you can do, right now, to improve your life.

Country: Mexico
City: Mexico City

No other magazine defines our time like VANITY FAIR. Whether a story involves a world leader or a sporting scandal, VANITY FAIR is always fascinating, never ordinary.

Country: United Kingdom
City: London

Sepp is the original magazine that unites the two worlds of fashion and football. It brings together bold face name designers and top models with the energy and panache of the beautiful game. Sepp is a visual publication featuring emerging talent in photography as well as fine art that interacts with leading fashion labels. In each issue, designers create one-of-a-kind fashion "football" jerseys.

Sepp is a stand-alone title, a collectors' item produced only every two years for the planet's two major soccer tournaments - The World and The European Championships. Recognizing its uniqueness, the Hamburg Museum of Art and Design gave over a whole room to Sepp in its winter 2006 exhibition on football.

Country: Germany
City: Berlin
Country: Netherlands
City: Amsterdam
Country: Portugal
City: Lisboa
Country: Spain
City: Madrid

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