Every fashion lover has held a fashion magazine in their hands and felt like they were holding a portal to another world. We love getting lost in the images and words, in the dreams and designs and learning more and more about a world so coveted and watched.
Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle magazine graze the shelf in every local convenience store. They provide an amazing look into fashion, have incredible features and are famous for a reason. However, when looking at something as broad and ever changing as fashion, these magazines only skim the surface.
Like getting over an ex, it’s time to try new things. As we know, fashion is all about leaving your comfort zone. Here are five fashion magazines you need to know about if you don’t already.
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Wonderland Magazine is an international, independently published magazine that tackles all aspects of popular culture through a fashion lens: fashion, film, music and art. “We’re about inspiring, rather than dictating to our readers,” their site reads. Their site is also complete with new daily content, including news and fashion, for when you’re craving more from the seasonal mag.
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Love Magazine is a UK based seasonal publication. Love manages to get the biggest names on the covers and gives their stars the opportunity to contribute to the magazine, whether it be behind the camera or conducting the interview. It makes for unique features and the most viral fashion images. Online, they house daily fashion content, if you can’t get your hands on this hard-to-find magazine.
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i-D is an iconic British publication that has been around for decades. It’s a bimonthly mag and it’s features on fashion, art and youth culture make it one of the best fashion magazines on the market today. According to their site, they abide by the premise “originate – don’t imitate,” and that speaks to their originality and unique take on covering the world’s fashion elite.
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Flaunt is an American fashion magazine with a satirical twist. Based out of NYC, it covers people and trends in the industry, and has featured some of the most famous American musicians, models, artists and actors. The stories in Flaunt are stories you won’t see anywhere else.
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Perhaps made mainstream by Kim Kardashian’s “Break the Internet” cover, Paper magazine is a seasonal publication based out of New York City that specializes in it’s features of famous people. Yes, they are all influential in the fashion or art industry in some way, but truly great interviews and stories come out of Paper each season. It’s a quick read, but a must.
Each of these mags have something different to bring to the fashion industry. Pick up a copy and feel yourself transported to that familiar dream world. XOXO