The Origin, Trend & Technicalities Of Fashion Magazines

The Origin, Trend & Technicalities Of  Fashion Magazines

The term "Magazine" is originated from the French which surprisingly means storehouse or storage place. Storage places for cartridges in firearms are called dismantled or automatically fitted "magazines".

It was under the era of Louis XIV 'Fashion magazine” emerged first. The first publication related to fashion was called The Mercure Galant that contained illustrated fashion plates that the aristocracy in the king's court was wearing.

In general, we related the term 'Fashion' unconsciously associated with Women. Especially the society of Elite & Royal livelihood. History tells it's not. It was in 19th Century Fashion Magazines were introduced to the general public to represent the notions of femininity with an increasingly consumerist society. 

Spread in Weldon's Ladies' Journal (April 1895). In a way, fashion that was under elite society's grip became elusive &  slowly spread among the working society. How this happened?

The birth and rising needs of Democracy, after the ill-effects of war and social order through various revolution namely, French, Russia, US Civil War - Tailoring, Hemming fully-covered embedded precious metals within apparels, footwear, pouches, bags, hats, Partying, House-filled balls during the reign of kingship started withering away as class struggle tarried people which became hard for governments to rule effectively.

Working-class people's needs for getting educated, unite communities at the various levels required reading the history of the past to ensure that the best has to continue fitting contemporary needs. Thus, Fashion & Fashion Magazines survived despite multiple wars & revolutions all over the world.

Fashion magazines are an essential component for the birth of the fashion industry. Fashion magazine surges up a fusion of culture, lifestyle, to urge to manufacture and deliver consumer needs. It acted as a medium that conveys and promotes the design's vision to the eventual purchaser. Fashion doesn't associate only with apparel, footwear & outlook. It is related to everything we do, share & re-create throughout human history.

Setting fashion standards for over a century, the top-selling fashion magazine in the world with editions globally are Italian Vogue and British Vogue. Femina Magazine is the oldest homegrown magazine which is the most read fashion magazine published for women.

In America, the first magazines were published in 1741 and the foremost is Andrew Bradford's American Magazine, published of its kind in the colonies followed mere three days later, by Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine. The World of Fashion and Continental Feuilletons was the first British monthly magazine that was published from 1824-1851

Vogue, an influential American fashion and lifestyle magazine.was founded in 1892 as a weekly high-society journal. Arthur Baldwin Turnure for New York City's social elite has started publishing it, covering news of the local social scene, traditions of high society, and social etiquette; books, plays, and music reviews.

What was once a regionally circulated pamphlet, journal, periodical, newsletter later got transformed into the two main types --General Public Magazines, Specific-Interest Magazines to distinguish among them.

Fashion is a Canadian fashion magazine published by St. Joseph Communications that covers international, national, and local fashion and beauty trends and news.

Elle is known as the world's best-selling fashion magazine, despite the staggering age difference between the two - Vogue - considerably old-fashioned elites, Fashion satiated with regional subscribers of Canada. 

The magazine business has taken turmoil from surged up digital trends and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Though magazines are still active and adhere to the contemporary needs to flourish their business, the retrospective is more than worth a read. Digitalized magazines also include videos associated with the articles s that readers get an insightful look at the trending leads and as a fascinating slice of the cultural anthropology in which the fashion industry is rooted as cultural curation. 

The challenges and staying competitive restoring the print version readers swiftly into digitalized phase is feasible when the magazine content is speed enough to load, not overwhelming with a large number of ads and large pictures. According to data analytics, it was revealed that if the page didn't load with 3 seconds or if it contains cookies, allow or block popups, it's less likely the reader won't go through the magazine. 

For Fashion Magazines, this too is a challenge of modernity. Hence, editors and freelance writers keep focusing on attractive topic headers, truthful content, adequate ads, and genuine reviews on fashion products. People prefer the magazine that talks about Beauty & Grooming, Culture, Shopping, Style, Content, Fashion.

A few of the top-selling Fashion Magazines are as follows

1.Vogue

2.Cosmopolitan

3.GQ

4.InStyle

5.Glamour

6. L.Official

7. Debonair

8. Verve

9. FHM

10. Marie Claire

11. Allure

12. Femina

13. Women's Era

14. Grazia

15. Harper's Bazaar

16. Flaunt

17. Dazed

18. W.

19. Esquire

20. Vanity Fair