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| Publisher: Conde Nast Publications
Category: Magazine
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Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 127
Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks
ASIN: B00005N7TH
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Editorial Reviews Who Reads W?
Boasting a big, over-sized format, W informs and inspires an exclusive, sophisticated reader on fashion, style, and the art of living. With its smart features and artistic photography, W feeds both the eye and the mind. W's readers include celebrities, couture customers, industry icons, art collectors, fashion insiders, producers and directors.
What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
Regular Departments include: - The Month in Fashion: Round-up of the industrys news.
- Fast Forward: A look at who is defining style.
- Uncensored: Insider style and cultural news.
- Trend: Of-the-moment.
- Fashion Flash: Multiple pages on fashion trends.
- Accessories Flash: Multiple pages on accessories trends.
- Shopping: What's hot now.
- Beauty Flash: Beauty trends.
- Travel Flash: Unique travel destinations (periodic).
- Home Flash: Dazzling residences in special locales (periodic).
- Eye: Short profiles on people, places and trends; photos from the latest parties.
- Fashion: Extended fashion coverage.
- Profile: In-depth feature stories on people making news in fashion/art/entertainment/home design/society.
- Last Laugh: Commentary.
- Features: In addition to its regular departments, each W issue has a different editorial focus: January-Pre Spring Fashion, February-Hollywood A-List, March-Spring Fashion Spectacular, April-The Beauty Issue, May-W Does Luxury, June-Celebrity Uncensored, July-"Trunk Show" Pre Fall Fashion, August-The Accessories Issue, September-Fall Fashion Spectacular, October-Hollywood Men, November-The Art Issue, December-The Holiday Jewelry & Watch Issue.
Past Issues: Contributors: W is written and edited by an exclusive team of highly knowledgeable style insiders who contribute an ever-evolving mix of smart, sophisticated articles that anticipate trends, showcase innovations in style and profile important personalities in the fashion and cultural zeitgeist. Magazine Layout: W is BIG, CINEMATIC, DRAMATIC in look and design. W is filled with photography and photographic essays that feature innovative and sophisticated approaches to stylistic expression, showcased on its luxurious, four-color, oversized glossy pages. W features the work of extraordinary, world-renowned photographers, such as Bruce Weber and Steven Klein, who work to create iconic images that stir the imagination and senses. The majority of readers come to W for its visual inspiration and artistic sensibility. Comparisons to Other Magazines: W is more than a fashion magazine. It is a finely designed work of art, providing readers creative inspiration through unique insights into the word of fashion, style and luxury. The magazine presents the reader with the most cutting edge, creative artistic vision through powerful photographic images that are unmatched by any other magazine. Advertising: Each W issue features a wide variety of luxury advertisers, comprising approximately half of the magazine's total pages, including fashion, accessories, jewelry, beauty, luxury travel, automotive and fine spirits categories. W's advertising is considered by readers to be nearly as inspiring and appealing as its articles and photographic features. Awards: In 2008, W was again recognized with two National Magazine Awards nominations for General Excellence and Photography, adding to 14 nominations and three wins in the last ten years.
Product Description
Go behind the runways with W and sit front row at the world's hottest shows to get the first looks at the most fabulous fashion. In each issue of W, you'll discover fashion that is elegant, opulent, and colorful, plus people, parties, and Hollywood -- all like you've never seen them before. And with your subscription, you'll get the must-have, super-sized Spring and Fall Fashion Issues!
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 Why this magazine rocks....... March 19, 2004
Stephanie (Boston, MA)
18 out of 19 found this review helpful
This magazine is the absolute best around for fashion. It hits every huge and upcoming trend way before it comes out. A lot of people seem to be griping about how expensive everything is and how you can only be a millionaire to dress like that. However I love this magazine not for the fact that its chock full of expensive designer clothes, but for the styles and fantastic outfits themselves. There are a million ways to use ideas from this magazine and work them into your wardrobe. There are plenty of cheaper options like vintage clothing stores and customizing sale items- all to get the coveted designer look that W illustrates with absolute perfection. I'm a poor college student and even though I'm not in fashion design, I use W all the time and make clothes that are deadringers for alot of the ones featured in W. I even used a couple dresses in this very magazine and copied them into two different prom dresses. Its suprisingly more simple than one would think. This magazine is an essential for me. The rest of them can not and will not ever be able to measure up to W, because W has the inside connections to show you (in gigantic glossy spreads neverless!)whats hot before it hits mainstream- and I don't mean small town mainstream, I mean beating the styles and having them before they even reach a mall and lightyears before they turn into a hoochie-craze (a la "LV" mukrami bags!) and fake Tiffany's silver. If you are a young woman who loves to call the trends before anyone else, do yourself a favor and pick up this magazine. I guarentee you that if you keep an open mind- it will be one of your best buys yet.
It's Quite Possibly the World's Fashion Bible. September 2, 2002
The Groove (Boston, MA)
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
"W" magazine is such an important staple in the world of fashion, that even guys like me can't help but read it. To call this a women's magazine would really be unfair, for it offers in-depth articles on the fashion industry, profiles on celebrities, and an excellent supplement for men published on a quarterly basis. This men's supplement offers fashion info that's hip and contemporary, but not trendy enough to spook the average American male. As with all fashion magazines, "W" could feature more models of color on their cover, but that's a relatively small gripe compared to the wealth of good stuff this magazine offers. Overall, bravo the folks at "W" a job well done!
This isn't just a fashion magazine!! January 3, 2002
Elizabeth Syms (San Ramon, CA USA)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
I had a subscription to this magazine for a few years. It's more of an fashion industry insider view of the fashion world than a buyers guide. I used to be a fashion photography major and I loved the visual images in this magazine. I have used this magazine for more than just looking at fashion photography, I have used the beautiful images as inspiration for my artwork, both pencil and ink and oil. Great for fashion afficionados and for artists!!
Want to be in the fashion know? January 3, 2007
Nikki (Indianapolis, IN)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the next best thing to read besides the WWD for the fashion savvy business people.
An amazing fashion magazine that delivers every month July 22, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Although W does not have as large of a circulation like Vogue or Harper's Bazaar, it takes the top place as one of THE best American fashion magazines. W focuses on fashion first and foremost and doesn't waste too much space with irrelevant lifestyle activities (*cough* Vogue). The editorials are always pushing the boundaries by using the best models and photographers, and they are not afraid to use nudity either. If you see this month's issue - August 2006 you will see what I mean about the editorials, especially with the Natalia Vodianova edit. As for the ads there really aren't that many, so I don't see why people are complaining. Many of the ads are so beautiful themselves, the kind you carefullly cut out and save. Articles in W feauture news about fashion, people, or places and they are always such a great read and very interesting.
An excerpt from a forbes.com article by Kiri Blakeley also sums up why I enjoy W so much:
" [W doesn't have the circulation of Vogue or Bazaar, but it is considered the most cutting-edge American fashion magazine. "They push the envelope far more than any other American magazine," Kennedy says. White, who had stints at both British and Italian Vogue, oversees all fashion shoots, and W tends to hire whatever great photographers aren't under contract to Vogue, such as Bruce Weber and Mario Sorrenti."] "
If you are someone who enjoys avant-garde photography and cutting edge fashion, W is the way to go.
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