Open Lab

Vanguard Red is a digital magazine based in Auckland, New Zealand, devoted to showcasing the current and emerging talents of contemporary culture. With a focus on the new and emerging players in every facet of the arts - music, fashion, film, design, photography - they aim to feature those who are changing the game and in turn, document the future.

Naag was founded by Fiona Byrne and fashion model Agyness Deyn. They talk about things they like and do and see and feel.

Allure is a women's beauty magazine. It was founded in 1991, and its current Editor in Chief is Linda Wells. The magazine has different features, all based on the subject of beauty. A signature of the magazine is its annual Best of Beauty awards, a combination of readers' and editors' picks for their favorite products. Allure celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2006. Recent cover subjects have included Victoria Beckham, Eliza Dushku, Fergie, Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, Lindsay Lohan, Eva Longoria, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson, Jennifer Garner, Christina Aguilera, Katie Holmes, Hilary Duff, and Gwen Stefani. Allure is published monthly by Condé Nast Publications in New York City.

The winner of Shear Genius gets a spread in this magazine.

Popteen is a monthly teenage fashion magazine published by the Kadokawa Haruki Corporation in Japan. The first issue was published October 1, 1980, by Kadokawa Shoten, but later issues were produced by Asuka Shinsha who bought the magazine for 200 million yen. In 1994, the magazine was bought by the Kadokawa Haruki Corporation for 600 million yen, and has since become its flagship publication.

Popteen is one of Asia's top fashion magazines. The magazine is published in Japan and Taiwan, and has recently launched a web presence in the United States.

Japanese magazine's 'cover queen' is Ayumi Hamasaki, who has been featured on the cover 21 times since 2000. Other artists that appeared on the cover include Kumi Koda, Namie Amuro, Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears, Fergie and Gwen Stefani.

The magazine is famous for having a 'user-model business-model' where its readers become models in the magazine. It is notable for its coverage of Gyaru fashions. One of the most popular popteen models was Tsubasa Masuwaka who in December 2007 married Umesan Naoki, a male fashion model. She announced on her blog that she had graduated from Popteen and that the February 2008 issue would be her last.

"Hanatsubaki" is a monthly corporate culture magazine issued by Shiseido. It was first issued in 1937. Although it was temporarily discontinued out of necessity for a period of time during and after World War II, it resumed printing in 1950. Since its first issue, "Hanatsubaki" has been delivering hints to enable people to live their lives richly and beautifully through not only visual materials such as photographs and graphics but also reading materials such as essays and novels.

Since 2007, the magazine had alternately issued “Miru Hanatsubaki,” in which fashion, beauty, art, and culture were vividly expressed on color pages, and “Yomu Hanatsubaki,” in which various reading materials such as novels were included. However, these 2 forms were unified again, and the magazine has been issued as “Hanatsubaki” again starting in 2012, which is Shiseido’s 140th anniversary and the magazine’s 75th anniversary. In addition, “electronic version ‘Hanatsubaki’” has also been periodically issued along with the main magazine.

CLEO is an Australian, New Zealand, South African, Malaysian, Singaporean, Thailand and Indonesian women's magazine.

Aimed at an older audience than the teenage-focused Dolly, the magazine is most famous for its CLEO Bachelor of the Year award.

CLEO was the first Australian women’s magazine to feature non-frontal nude male centrefolds in 1972, with Jack Thompson as the magazine's first Playmate of the Month. Other playmates were Alby Mangels, Eric Oldfield, Peter Blasina and the band Skyhooks. The centrefold feature was discontinued in 1985, the last being a bare-chested picture of Mel Gibson. The centrefold feature was reinstated in 2005 as a permanent feature of the magazine and has featured such celebrities as Daniel MacPherson, Jake Wall, Michael Sullivan, Shane Watson, Jamie Brooksby, Michael Witt and Koby Abberton.