Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in eighteen countries by Conde Nast Publications. Each month, Vogue publishes a magazine addressing topics of fashion, life and design. Vogue is most famous as a presenter of images of high fashion and high society, but it also publishes writings on art, culture, politics, and ideas. It has helped to enshrine the fashion model as celebrity.Vogue is regularly criticized, along with the fashion industry it writes about, for valuing wealth, social connections, and low body weight over more noble achievements. Vogue is widely published; today, it is published in eighteen countries: Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom and the United States. In 2005, Condé Nast launched Men's Vogue and announced plans for an American version of Vogue Living launching in late fall of 2006. Conde Naste Publications also publishes Teen Vogue, a version of the magazine for teen girls, the Seventeen demographic, in the United States. South Korea and Australia has a Vogue Girl magazine, in addition to Vogue living and Vogue Entertaining + Travel.
Vogue is a monthly published magazine currently selling at £3.70. Vogue magazine has a website which interacts further with the readers. The website includes Daily new, fashion shows, video, trends, beauty, jewellery, magazine and competitions. This gives the reader more of a chance to interact, by commenting on fashion shows and news and also by entering competitions which may give the reader a voice in running the magazine.
Vogue magazine is targeted at middle class young women/women. This is suggested in that it writes about valuing wealth and social connections. However as previously stated Vogue is often criticized for this. The adverts represented in the magazine also suggest this as they are often advertising expensive designer brands for example Gucci and Louis Vuitton.
The front cover of this particular issue of Vogue is photographed of Keira Knightley a famous, and extremely popular actress. The photograph is clearly posed, you can tell this by the position of her arm above her head and her facial expression. She is wearing what appears to be very expensive clothing and also obviously the outfit is fashion inspired. The fact that they have chosen to feature such a famous actress/model on the front page of the magazines, represents the idea that the magazine features models, fashion, the catwalk and celebrities. The colour of the fonts used is mainly pink and white, which create a contrast with the colour of her clothing, therefore making it stand out more. The articles advertised are all based on fashion topics which relates to the focus area of the magazine. The cover of Vogue does have some similarities to magazines like ELLE magazine and Tatler, as they are both targeted at similar audiences, and both follow the same topic throughout - mainly fashion. The types of expensive designer wear adverts are also featured in all three of these magazines.
I believe that the reasons for Vogues popularity is that it gives people a lot of inspiration towards being a part of the fashion world. It also inspires people on how to dress correctly, and gives them an insight into the fashion industry. The magazine offers the readers inside information on supermodel interviews, beauty trends and celebrity party photos.
