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L'Officiel is a French fashion magazine. It has been published in Paris since 1921 and targets upper-income, educated women aged 25 to 49. As of 2006, it had a circulation of 101,719. A men's edition of L'Officiel and eleven foreign editions (as of March 2008) are also published.L'Officiel was first published by Andrée Castaniée in 1921. George Jalou joined the magazine as artistic director in 1932. Soon after, L'Officiel launched the careers of designers including Pierre Balmain, Cristobal Balenciaga, Christian Dior, and Yves St. Laurent, and the magazine became "the Bible of fashion and of high society". Jalou later became the magazine's general director, and ultimately purchased the publication. He transferred ownership of L'Officiel to his three children in 1986. Laurent became the president of Editions Jalou, Marie-José directed its editorial content, and Maxime was responsible for publication. After Laurent died of a heart attack in January 2003, Marie-José Susskind-Jalou became the company's president. In recent years, the publication has taken a more youthful, energetic approach to fashion.

Beginning in 1996, L'Officiel began licensing its brand for use by publishers outside of France. Foreign editions of L'Officiel are now published in Russia, Japan, India, China, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil, Greece, Latvia, the Netherlands, Ukraine, and Serbia. L'Officiel India is India's "premiere fashion and luxury magazine"; in 2007, its publishers announced that they would also publish L'Officiel India in the United Kingdom to target overseas Indians there.

A men's edition of L'Officiel, called L'Officiel Homme, is also published.

For almost 20 years now, I've had the chance of working as a make up artist and art director. 20 years spent travelling, meeting men and women from all origins and backgrounds, rich from their experiences and their "Savoir Faire." India, Asia, South America, North America, Africa, Europe… All of these continents have conquered me by their diversity and by their unique way of searching for "The Beauty". From the 4 corners of the world, artists, photographers, make up artist, hairdressers. I know now that all of these hardworking, passionate artists are the true reason behind my unconditional love for my career.

And through these years, like me I realised they were all searching for one thing... Finding a way to express themselves, to let their creativity run wild.

I decided to create OOB Magazine with this unique objective.

Beauty and luxury are the main principles of our magazine.

Our teams will be allowed to create, reinvent, discover, rediscover, uncover...

Men and woman from all continents will come together in OOB magazine.

No frontier, no restriction, with only one leitmotiv: "Too much is not enough".

Jabe, chief editor