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Elle
 |
| Editor |
Robbie Myers |
| Categories |
Fashion |
| Frequency |
Monthly |
| Circulation |
1.1 million/month |
| First issue |
1945 (France); 1985 (U.S.) 1987 (Sweden) |
| Company |
Hachette
Filipacchi Media |
| Country |
 France |
| Language |
Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish |
| Website |
Elle.com |
Elle is a worldwide magazine that focuses on women's fashion, beauty, health, and entertainment. elle is also the world's
largest fashion magazine.It was founded by Pierre Lazareff and his
wife Hélène Gordon in 1945. The title, in French, means
"she". Robbie Myers is the editor and
chief.
Elle was founded in France in 1945. In 1981, Daniel
Filipacchi and Jean-Luc Lagardère purchased Hachette magazines, which
included the then-struggling Elle. Elle was then
launched in the U.S. (News Corporation owned a stake in the
US edition until 1988), followed by 25 foreign editions.
It is now the world’s largest fashion magazine, with 39
international editions in over 60 countries.[1]
Technologically speaking, the Elle brand is a global network encompassing over 20 websites. Elle readers
have a median age of 34.7 years.[1]
Subscriptions account for 73 percent of
readers. With the remaining 27 percent purchasing single issues,
Elle is the only fashion magazine to have increased its
newsstand sales in the past five years, most notably with an 18
percent increase in the first half of 2006. There are 27
Elle websites globally, which collectively attract over 1
million visitors and 26 million page views per month[2]
Elle reaches over 4.8 million readers. The vast majority
(82 percent) of Elle's audience are women between the ages
of 18 and 49. Forty percent of readers are single, and the median household income is
$69,973.[3] "Our
readers are young enough to think about life as an adventure and old enough to have the means to
live it," said Robbie Myers, editor in chief.[4]
Elle is owned by the Lagardère Group of France. It is published in the US by Hachette Filipacchi Media
U.S., in Canada by Transcontinental Media, in Brazil by Grupo Editora Abril, in
Mexico by Grupo Editorial
Expansión, in Argentina
by Grupo Clarín, in Singapore by Mediacorp, in Germany by Hubert Burda Mediaand other
countries including Portugal and Spain. The first UK edition was
published in November 1985.
The winners of America's Next Top Model
from cycles 3-6 have each appeared in a fashion spread shot by
fashion photographer Gilles Bensimon, including Eva
Pigford, Naima
Mora, Nicole Linkletter, and Danielle Evans
respectively.
The winners of seasons 1 to 5 of Project Runway got a spread in this
magazine.
Elle has an exclusive Misses' clothing collection, Elle
Contemporary Collection, with Kohl's.
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