I was researching layout examples for my project and I found a really interesting genre: indie fashion magazines! I instantly fell in love. They’re clean, aesthetically pleasing (this is a must), and highly artistic. These are all factors that I’ve wanted implement into my magazine so this genre perfectly epitomizes what I would like to create.
Indie magazines maintain a very simplistic and elegant look. Some can have simple two-page layouts, like this one from The Gentlewoman magazine:
Or they can have a very artistic look, like this one from Garage magazine:
One major characteristic of indie fashion magazines is that they often have a two-page layout with one page containing a full image of a person, like these:
Human Being magazine:
System magazine:
Indie fashion magazines use mainly black and white for their internal text but their images can be very colorful. As for the cover, these types of magazines usually use a black or white minimalist font. The most important feature of the cover is that they don’t use cover lines! This means that they’re not sold in places like grocery stores, but are instead sold in high-end locations or only sold through subscription. Most consumers of the genre do not need cover lines to entice them to buy the magazine; they buy it because of its design elements and subtle nature. In addition, most indie fashion magazines are not released monthly. Since they are very artistic and take a large amount of time to create, they usually come out four times a year (once every season). These important features demonstrate how valuable each edition of the magazine is.
However, there are some drawbacks to making my own indie fashion magazine. One major issue is that these magazines usually rely heavily on advertisements to fund their work, but do not usually include advertisements in their publication. Whether or not I should include ads in the magazine would be a difficult decision; should I break conventions and include an ad to demonstrate that they rely on ads, or not? One other obstacle that I would encounter is that my group prefers to also include beauty products, but indie fashion magazines do not include beauty. We would either have to exclude beauty from our magazine and break typical indie fashion conventions and choose to include it.
Hope you enjoyed!
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Image Citations (in order of appearance):
Stack Magazines. (2016, February). 10 Independent Fashion Magazines. Retrieved March 1, 2019, from https://www.stackmagazines.com/everything/10-independent-fashion-magazines/
Bounds, B. Garage Magazine. Retrieved March 1, 2019, from https://www.behance.net/gallery/7992149/Garage-Magazine
Stack Magazines. (2016, February). 10 Independent Fashion Magazines. Retrieved March 1, 2019, from https://www.stackmagazines.com/everything/10-independent-fashion-magazines/
Stack Magazines. (2016, February). 10 Independent Fashion Magazines. Retrieved March 1, 2019, from https://www.stackmagazines.com/everything/10-independent-fashion-magazines/
Stack Magazines. (2016, February). 10 Independent Fashion Magazines. Retrieved March 1, 2019, from https://www.stackmagazines.com/everything/10-independent-fashion-magazines/
Hawgood, A. (2014, April 9). New Kids On the Magazine Rack. Retrieved March 1, 2019, from https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/fashion/indie-fashion-magazines-like-out-of-order-and-hero-on-the-cutting-edge.html
Stack Magazines. (2016, February). 10 Independent Fashion Magazines. Retrieved March 1, 2019, from https://www.stackmagazines.com/everything/10-independent-fashion-magazines/
The Cut. (2012, October 15). An A-Z Guide to Indie Fashion Magazines. Retrieved March 1, 2019, from https://www.thecut.com/2012/09/a-z-guide-to-indie-fashion-magazines.html
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