It’s a pity that even magazine addicts like myself are getting baffled in the face of so much choice in Borders Charing Cross or the Oxford Circus branch where the fashion magazine shelves are especially formidable. A few readers have asked me about which ones I buy because they too get flummoxed when facing miles and miles of glossy pages. The truth is that I don’t buy everything under the sun because it’s just impossible when new magazines are cropping up all the time and so I have to be selective for the sake of being able to eat in any given month. So, I’ll have my staunch monthly buys which I buy without fail and a though little predictable to list through but here goes… Dazed & Confused, i-D, British Vogue, British Elle, Vogue Paris, Jalouse, Nylon, Teen Vogue, Flux, Numero, WAD, Surface and then the biannuals/quarterlies… Pop, Another, 10, Lula, Amelia’s Magazine…. and then the ones which I pick and choose from depending on the 20 second flick through I do to see if it’s worth buying…
Actually these are staunch buys now but still need a bit of a mention…A Magazine for choosing wonderful designers to curate a whole magazine and by curate, I mean it’s really personal stuff… // Let Them Eat Cake for providing young photographers, stylists and writers a platform that has become really polished in recent issues
Above because occasionally the editorials are quite eye catching // Dansk for being consistently beautiful
Indie magazine is a recent discoverybut I’m liking the clean cut style about it // Sam is also a bit of a newcomer and showcases really up and coming labels
Issue One is only in its third issue but there’s something about the images which are really laboured over which I love //Oyster is not always regularly delivered here so it’s a treat when I do see it
Vs. is a newbie on my shelves and is an expensive buy but it is very hefty in imagery // Mixte does great articles (with an English translation at the back…) and also fantastic images
Muse should become a shelf regular as I loved its latest issue // Preen is still not widely availabe in the UK so when I see it, I have to snap it up (incidentally, the first place I finally found it was a 75p magazine stall near Old Street…)
Even looking at the list, it’s by no means definitive which is quite a scary thought in itself…. tot up the prices of those mags PLUS my regular stash and it’s a bit of a scary sum…
Aha, are you a packrat as much as i am? I had to cut back on my magazine buys because I was running out of space to put stuff. You are so lucky that all the ridiculously awesome mags are from your side of the pond and you dont have to pay crazy prices for them either!
Oh Susie! This is great. I just posted on how I would like to become more familiar to magazines I might be able to relate to more. I think you will be my source for that!
I hope your first day of work was great!
Susiepoo get rid of that wad.com link pronto s’il vous plait..
Not V magazine or Visionaire? Love the artistic shots
Hey there
How can you live without Vogue Italia? I’m French but I think it is much better than French Vogue (ok, I have a submission to both)
I also love Tush (http://www.tushmagazine.com/).
Lol at the Wad link. 🙂
I’m a bit wary of Teen Vogue. A bit too much enthusiasm for me? I ran into one of their editors+ intern at one of the Paris shows and it’s just been a bad experience ever since.
Though what’s life without a little Vogue Italia. I’m short on space in my bag (darn lap top) so I just stick with Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, W, and Vogue Men–I love their articles. I’m a bit frighten of Vogue USA…when the page counts goes over 300..
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Danny
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ooo! I’d love to be able to buy all those, unfortunately I can only afford to get 2 or 3 a month. So I get British Vogue religously, and usually The Gloss (an Irish mag)cos its cheaper than uk imports!…sometimes as a treat I get Wallpaper (design, not purely fashion) or something else that catches my eye. We don’t have a very good selection of magazines in Ireland, particularly Cork! I was in the Oxford Circus branch of Borders in London about a year ago and I was like a child in a sweetshop there was so much choice! 🙂
Just wondering, do you keep all your magazines or what do you do with them? I’d imagine you’d fill up your apartment pretty quick with that lot! I keep all my Vogue and Wallpaper but pass on everything else to friends, usually after I tear out anything interesting I might like to use in collage work!
How was your first day on the new job?
You’ve absolutely covered all my most loved except Tank.
Also I have not been able to find it since its first issue but I thought Plastique was pretty promising…
I would die for the A Magazine. lol
as for the Above Magazine, I used to own one issue and it felt like the publication was kind of blank or not that convincing. maybe it was just their not best issue.
Dansk is awesome. I love the layout, the design, the editorials. it’s just as clean and inspiring as any ‘niche publication’ (as Stefano Tonchi of T Magazine puts it in an interview for 032c Magazine) should be.
Muse is great too. To be honest, they are very similar to me, Dansk and Muse. Each of them is very visually driven which is fantastic. yet the great text has never harmed any fashion mag, no?
From what you’ve named i’d really like to check out Let Them Eat Cake (have known about it looong ago, yet never seen in the real life) and Indie.
the irony is that being a part of this world myself (on a very very tiny and rubbish scale) i always think of the ideal publication i’d love to be a part of. Once it was about V or Vogue Italia. Now it’s all about the amazing amazing 032c (superb german publication. very smart and innovative) and totally mind-blowing Self Service. but as they say, keep on dreaming.
Don’t forget Androgyny Mag. It’s too bad I can’t find most of these in stores. Maybe I just don’t know where to look for the rare ones yet. A friend of mine just took me to a wonderful bookstore filled with language and design books (and many many magazines). I should go back there and give it a thorough look-over.
I don’t have enough energy to read all these cool things!
I love posts like this, because you do all the hard work for me. Also, you feature titles I’d never normally have a chance to look at, because I can’t get access to them all here. Thanks for doing it.
have you ever read Androgyny magazine? I assume you have. It really reminds me of you, and it happens to be my favorite mag 🙂
Susie, do you read Jalouse?
And there’s this magazine called French which I love for their multiple covers. Dansk and Vs. are particularly nice with the visuals and I kinda like the simplistic layout working alonside very powerful and wonderfully styled images.
I do agree with you that it’s so hard to make a choice or to edit which ones you will get, there’s just too many magazines now and more and more coming!!
The bi-annuals and the quarterlies are just so irresistible and I kinda have a leaning towards them. haha
I limit my magazine spend to under 10 pounds a month, but think I might make an exception this time as I sooo want to get my hand on the new Let Them Eat Cake.
Eff me…. sorry guys…. that WAD link has now been changed!
Of course there were gonna be omissions…
future_classic: Tank is defintiely a bi monthly thing rather than a regular thing …. for something reason…
Plastique will be coming out with an issue soon and I think I’m writing for them so it felt odd to put them in the list…
Mia: Since V went completely online, I’ve stopped buying it only because of the awakward size..
I don’t think I’ve bought Visionnaire before…. not something I have come across… will check out though…
I didn’t count Self Service only because it’s so expensive, I see that more as a book than a mag…
Vogue Italia for me can be a little repetitive and since all the best editorials go up online too, I tend to only buy it sporadically….considering I also can’t read Italian…at least with French, I can get by….
Sabrina: Androgyny is another newbie that I haven’t got a firm conclusion about yet but it will be on the list if I ever make an updated one.
Thanks for asking about my first day…. it was frightfully different from what I had been previously doing but it was great…. I think I need some time to adjust but once I have settled in, it should be all good….
Susie I don’t know how you manage to eat anymore at all, that must cost an arm and a leg! Still, just think of all those beautiful pages of editorial you have collected.
My absolute fav’s are Another Magazine and 10. I find the content varied and truely inspiring, and their photoshoots are amazing. 10 has a really intelligent and witty style of writing too…not taking themselves too seriously – something which is all too rare in fashion glossies.
Interesting choices…
I´m not faithful to any magazine anymore, now i buy depending on the contents.
Take I-D for example, a complete issue dedicated to Agyness Dean? And now Mariah Carey on the cover? Is too much for me to bear.
I went to Borders Oxford St today and bought Androgyny! I was very tempted my Let them eat Cake but I have decided not to buy random singles of magazines but to collect a few that I will buy every issue. Have fun reading though!
hay Susie..
i am indeed an advant magazine hauler i must admit..
just as bad as my cofee droplet addiction i have read a gud few mags..
id like to add..
ID grafic issues are amazing!, the imagery is always spectacular and broadening wen it comes to the fashion world and design.
RUSSH bi-monthly australian mag= fantastic read!!!although it does need a few touchups as shes just a baby.
i kid u not. i luv indeed!!
…get backto me, id love to know ur thorts.
Emmi3 loOlu
i nearly bought that (rather old) issue of issue one- more inspiration in that than a dozen regular mags.
what happened to Marmalade Mag?
I remember buying it religiously and then after the ‘Internet’ Issue it disappeared and there don’t seem to be any updates on either the Myspace page or the website.
Does anyone know what happened and if they plan to continue publishing it? Thanks
Most of these don’t make it to my shores, and the ones that do often have their prices ridiculously jacked up so I have to wait till they turn up in the back-issues shop. It’s hard enough to find i-D or even Dazed&Confused in regular bookstores…
I forgot to say, if things don’t make it to your country’s shelf (Dru!), then do try subscribing via RD Franks or buying single copies through them…..
good choice there but i think you should have a look at my mates mag WOUND aswell – the third issue should be coming out soon.
also can you please tell me where that magazine stall near old street is? i think i stumbled across it a few years back whilst doing work experience round there on my lunch break but couldn’t find it again without help
thanks
x
i always feel bad when i buy magazines and don’t read them so i’m pretty selective at the moment.
interestng to see you picked indie though. i bought it on a whim the other day but haven’t got round to reading it yet. typical…
ohh… this is the most helpful post this morning. THANK you so much for posting this… getting the english magazines around germany is kind of a trek, and it’s very expensive
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Thanks for the tip, Susie- this is definitely going to help, even if I can’t afford too many subscriptions just now 🙂
I totally forgot Indie is published now also in english. It’s really great because it’s somewhat dettached from the real fashion in Austria (Indie Mag is Austrian btw), which tends to be more mainstream and typical.
Speaking of magazines in German, the Style 100 magazine is also awesome. It derives from Berlin, so I guess it gains a coolness plus just for this. Plus it’s bilingual (in both languages, german and english, for every article).
No Wonderland?
I wish it wasn√§t such a hassle to get some, well, most of these magazines. Though I’m an magazine addict, if I can’t touch the paper and flip it through, I’m not going to make the effort. Besides the last time I subscribed to an magazine online the issue just arrived and I have no idea how to pay it, just one paper came with the issue and I can’t figure out if it holds some significant bank detail. Too hard, I say, too hard..