My research on fashion magazines

Magazine front cover• Some magazines are very bright, the colours used are very

sharp and some covers are very dull, and there is a reason for the selection of colors. There are different layouts to a fashion magazine front cover, for eg winter , fall, jewellery etc. but all these are included in the genre ‘fashion’.

For example: • This magazine’s front cover is very bright. The text ‘sunshine’ is in yellow color and highlights the fact that it is a summer magazine. The target audience for this mag

is girls from 17 to 25 years.• The main text is in pink color

which enhances the girly effect and is written in in center for attention.

Winter edition• The colors used are not very lively or

bright.• As her dress is in black color so the

background is white.• Her jacket and hair were light so to

maintain the color balance they have changed the color of their logo to

red. • In this layout of front cover small

summeries of contents-written.• Red color used so that logo-not

awkward.

This is another example of a fashion magazine cover layout.

• The summaries of contents are written on this front cover however the main words are written in capital and bold

letters.

• In this cover of harpers bazaar magazine no summaries are written

which differentiates it from other covers.

• Only the name of main article in magazine is written in capital letters ,

to attract audience.

Contents:• There are many different types of layouts to a content page.• Every fashion magazine has there own style.• It also depends on the genre if it’s a gossip girl magazine then

they usually attach pictures with the content list to make it look more girly.

Example:

• In this layout they have written the main article’s page number

in bold numbers.

• Pictures are also used to enhance there effect otherwise

text will look really simple.

• The contents other then main ones are written in a simple list.

• The content list is simple in this example.• The main article in

this magazine is the interview of beyonce so her picture is attached with the page number.

This content page is very simple. No pictures are

used ,only page numbers are written in

bold.

• The headings are written in red bold

letters. And the page number size is also

bigger then the font size.

• A picture is included to keep interest of people.

• The word “passion” is also written in big

letters to highlight it.

I have explained 4 types of magazine covers and 4 types of content page layouts. All of these examples were under the genre “fashion” but every layout was different from other.