Harper's Bazaar is a world-renowned arbiter of fashion and good taste. Since its inception in 1867 as America's first fashion magazine, Bazaar has been home to extraordinary talents of Man Ray and Richard Avedon, and continues that tradition today with photographers including Peter Lindbergh and Sølve Sundsbø.
Sophisticated, elegant and provocative, Harper’s Bazaar is the style resource for women who are the first to buy the best, from casual to couture. With style, authority and insider insight, Bazaar focuses strictly on fashion and beauty, and covers what’s new to what’s next.
Month after month, Harper’s Bazaar showcases the world’s most visionary stylists and talented designers to deliver readers a visually stunning portrayal of the world of fashion and beauty.
In addition to publishing in the United States, Bazaar prints 27 editions around the world.
In November 1970 the Hearst Corporation’s Harper’s Bazaar Au (founded in the early 1930s) The magazine focused on Australian "high society" which mostly came from Britain during the time due to British expansion and Imperialism and the lives of socialites and the Aristocracy.
It has surmounted Vogue and Elle, in numbers in Australia, becoming ever more popular with the general population because Harper's Bazaar is considered the one and only Fashion Magazine (first started in 1867).
Harper's Bazaar out sells Vogue in Australia and Thailand. Recent Roy Morgan figures shows that the title is selling 55,891 copies (June 2008) reflecting it to be the number 1 prestige fashion title in Australia.
The magazine launched its website in 2007, and recently relaunched with a new look and feel in April, 2009.
