American magazine
Glamour
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![A blonde woman in a light blue dress, sitting on a red motorcar](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7d/Glamour_cover_January_2019.jpeg/220px-Glamour_cover_January_2019.jpeg) Cover of the January 2019 issue, the final print issue, featuring
Amber Heard
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Editor
| Samantha Barry
Deborah Joseph (UK)
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Categories
| Fashion magazine
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Frequency
| Monthly
Bimonthly (Hungary)
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Publisher
| Conde Nast
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Total circulation
| 2,300,854 (US) (June 2013)
[1]
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Founded
| April 1939
; 85 years ago
(
1939-04
)
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First issue
| April 1939
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Final issue
| January 2019 (print)
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Country
| United States
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Language
| English
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Website
| www
.glamour
.com
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ISSN
| 0017-0747
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Glamour
(stylized in
all caps
) is a multinational online
women's magazine
published by
Conde Nast Publications
and based in
New York City
. It was originally called
Glamour of Hollywood
.
[3]
From 1939 to 2019, Glamour was a print magazine. After a low number of subscribers Glamour's last edition was in January 2019.
[4]
History
[
edit
]
In August 1943, the magazine changed its name to
Glamour
, with the subtitle
for the girl with the job
.
[3]
The magazine was published in a larger format than most of its contemporaries at the time.
Charm
, a
Street & Smith
magazine, started in 1941,
[5]
later subtitled "the magazine for women who work", was folded into
Glamour
magazine in 1959.
[6]
[7]
[8]
Glamour
targets women 18?49 (with the median age of 33.5) and reaches a subscription audience of 1,411,061 readers in the United States. Its circulation on newsstands was 986,447, making the total average paid circulation 2,397,508.
[
citation needed
]
Glamour
was the first women's magazine to feature an African-American cover girl when it included
Katiti Kironde
on the cover of its college issue in August 1968.
[9]
[2]
Since 1990, the magazine has held an annual "
Women of the Year
" awards ceremony.
[10]
On January 8, 2018, it was announced that
Samantha Barry
, previously the Head of Social Media and Emerging Media at CNN, would be the new Editor-in-Chief of
Glamour
.
[11]
In November 2018,
Glamour
announced that its print edition would cease with its January 2019 issue in order to focus on its digital presence.
[12]
[2]
Glamour
Top College Women Awards
[
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]
Each year for the last 56 years, the magazine has been selecting a top ten list of outstanding college women across the country. Originally, the list was composed of the best dressed college juniors in America, but was changed for more substance with categories such as academic achievement, community service, and career goals as leading criteria. Hundreds of college juniors apply each year. Past winners, finalists include;
Martha Stewart
,
Diane Sawyer
,
Swati Mia Saini
,
[13]
Nancy Amanda Redd, 2003 Miss Virginia (MAO) and author of Body Drama, and Tamira A. Cole, Miss Black Kentucky USA 2009 and author of HUSH, actress
Sheryl Lee Ralph
and novelists
Curtis Sittenfeld
,
Kate White
,
Janice Kaplan
, Olympians
Allison Schmitt
, Julie Johnston,
[14]
and Nzingha Prescod,
Grace Kelly
, and
Jean Hanff Korelitz
.
Glamour
Woman of the Year Awards
[
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]
Each autumn, the magazine organizes the “
Glamour
Woman of the Year Awards” which recognize women in the public eye.
In 2007,
Lorena Ochoa
won a Woman of the Year award. In 2008 the award was granted to two Yemenis: 10-year-old divorcee
Nujood Ali
, and the lawyer who took on her case.
[15]
[16]
Nujood's courage was praised by prominent attendees, including Hillary Clinton and
Condoleezza Rice
.
[17]
The 2010 Glamour Woman of the Year was
Cher
and the 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year was
Zendaya
Old logo used from 2018 to 2023
International editions
[
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]
Glamour
launched in the UK in April 2001, where it pioneered the "handbag size" format, with the tagline "fits in your life as well as your handbag". Each September, the magazine held "National
Glamour
Week", when it featured extra
coupons
and competitions. In 2016,
Glamour UK
launched the
Glamour Beauty Festival,
on a new off-page beauty event featuring demonstrations, treatments and speakers.
[18]
From its launch to the final traditional issue in November 2017, the magazine was edited by Jo Elvin, with Michelle Pamment serving as acting editor briefly in 2005.
[19]
In June 2009, to celebrate
Glamour
'
s eighth birthday in the UK, Glamour.com made a gallery of every cover since its launch.
[20]
In October 2017, following declining sales, it was announced that publication of the monthly UK edition would end at the end of 2017, and that the UK version would be a semi-annual publication.
[21]
[22]
In November 2017, Deborah Joseph was appointed Chief Content Officer of
Glamour UK
.
[23]
The
Italian
edition of
Glamour
was launched in December 1976, under the title
Lei
(
She
), then officially renamed
Glamour
, like its U.S. counterpart, in 1992.
[
citation needed
]
The
Russian
edition was established in 2004, and is published monthly.
[24]
The South African edition launched in April 2004 and is published monthly.
Glamour
is also published in
Germany
,
Spain
,
Mexico
,
Poland
,
Hungary
,
France
,
Russia
,
Sweden
,
Brazil
,
Turkey
,
Greece
,
Israel
, the
Netherlands
,
Romania
,
South Africa
, and
Bulgaria
. There is also a third
Spanish
edition, published in the Spanish-speaking countries of
Latin America
.
Editors of international editions
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Country
|
Circulation dates
|
Editor-in-chief
|
Start year
|
End year
|
United States (
Glamour
)
|
1939?present
|
Alice Thompson
[25]
|
1939
|
1941
|
Elizabeth Penrose
|
1941
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1953
|
Nina Kyle
|
1953
|
1954
|
Kathleen Aston Casey
|
1954
|
1967
|
Ruth Whitney
|
1967
|
1998
|
Bonnie Fuller
|
1998
|
2001
|
Cynthia Leive
|
2001
|
2017
|
Samantha Barry
|
2018
|
present
|
France (
Glamour Paris
)
|
1988?1995
[26]
|
|
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2004?2020
[27]
|
Marie Lannelongue
|
2004
|
2014
|
Celine Perruche
|
2017
|
2020
[28]
|
Italy (
Glamour Italia
)
[29]
|
1992?2019
|
Grazia d'Annunzio
|
1992
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1994
|
Valeria Corbetta
|
1994
|
2003
|
Danda Santini
|
2003
|
2004
|
Paola Centomo
|
2004
|
2013
|
Cristina Lucchini
|
2013
|
2019
[30]
|
Mexico/Latin America (
Glamour Mexico y Latinoamerica
)
|
1998?present
|
Mar Abascal
|
2007
|
2012
[31]
|
Lucy Lara
|
2012
|
2017
[32]
|
Valeria Perez
|
2017
|
present
[32]
|
United Kingdom (
Glamour UK
)
|
2001?present
|
Jo Elvin
[33]
|
2001
|
2017
|
Deborah Joseph
[34]
|
2017
|
present
|
Germany (
Glamour DE
)
|
2001?present
|
Nikolaus Albrecht
|
2004
|
2008
[35]
|
Andrea Ketterer
|
2008
|
2020
[36]
|
Georg Wittmann
|
2020
|
2023
|
Theresa Pichler
|
2023
|
present
|
Spain (
Glamour ES
)
[37]
|
2002?present
|
Alicia Parro
[37]
|
2002
|
2019
|
Carmen Manana
[38]
|
2022
|
present
|
Poland (
Glamour Polska
)
[39]
|
2003?present
|
Anna Jurgas
[40]
|
2009
|
2018
|
Katarzyna Dabrowska
[41]
|
2018
|
present
|
Hungary (
Glamour Hungary
)
|
2004?present
|
Krisztina Maroy
|
2004
|
present
[42]
|
South Africa (
Glamour South Africa
)
[39]
|
2004?present
|
Pnina Fenster
[43]
|
2004
|
2018
|
Asanda Sizani
[44]
|
2018
|
2019
|
Nontando Mposo
[45]
|
2019
|
present
|
Russia (
Glamour
)
[46]
|
2004?2022
|
Masha Fedorova
|
2010
|
2018
[47]
|
Ilyana Erdneeva
|
2018
|
2022
[47]
|
Netherlands (
Glamour Netherlands
)
|
2005?2021
[48]
|
Karin Swerink
|
2005
[48]
|
2012
[49]
|
Anke de Jong
|
|
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Romania (
Glamour Romania
)
[39]
|
2006?present
|
Diana Tofan
|
2007
|
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Bulgaria (
Glamour Bulgaria
)
[39]
|
2009?present
|
Ani Miladenova
|
2009
|
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Brazil (
Glamour Brasil
)
[39]
|
2012?present
|
Monica Salgado
[50]
|
2012
|
2017
|
Paula Merlo
[50]
|
2017
|
2018
|
Barbara Tavares
|
2024
|
present
|
Iceland (
Glamour Island
)
[51]
|
2015?2018
|
Alfrun Palsdottir
[52]
|
2015
|
2018
|
Turkey (
Glamour Turkiye
)
[39]
|
2016?2016
|
Ozge Sarikadilar
[53]
|
2016
|
2016
|
Lucky
magazine
[
edit
]
In Germany and Greece
Lucky
, a fashion and shopping magazine was published seasonally, in tandem with
Glamour
.
Lucky
magazine was shut down in 2015.
Reference in pop culture
[
edit
]
A copy of it was the magazine to which
George Costanza
(
Jason Alexander
)
masturbated
on the series
Seinfeld
, when he was caught by his mother in the
season 4
episode "
The Contest
".
See also
[
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,
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Further reading
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- Payne, Chelsea L. (2021).
Glamour, Incorporating Charm: Two Fashion Magazines for Working Women, 1939-1959
(PDF)
. Department of Communication,
Fashion Institute of Technology
.
Dissertation or Thesis
![Free access icon](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png)
- Wingate, Nancy Anne (1983).
'Mademoiselle' and the working woman, 1969-1981
(PDF)
.
University of Delaware
.
MA Thesis
![Free access icon](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png)
- Meeker, Richard H. (1983).
Newspaperman : S.I. Newhouse and the business of news
. New Haven: Ticknor & Fields.
ISBN
0899192009
.
(
registration required
)
- Feldman, Bob
(November 18, 1992).
"Newhouse Dynasty's 'Vogue'; Conde' Nast's Garfinkle Connection Historically"
.
'Downtown' (Lower East Side alternative newspaper)
. Retrieved
August 5,
2022
.
- Lizzie Bramlett.
Charm
magazine
?
The Vintage Traveler
- Lappin, Pamela Hill (March 6, 2021).
"Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Charm Magazine, 1945"
.
Madge's Hatbox
. Retrieved
August 5,
2022
.
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