Product Description

Go behind the runways with W and sit front row at the world's hottest shows to get the first looks at the most fabulous fashion. In each issue of W, you'll discover fashion that is elegant, opulent, and colorful, plus people, parties, and Hollywood -- all like you've never seen them before. And with your subscription, you'll get the must-have, super-sized Spring and Fall Fashion Issues!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #227 in Magazine Subscriptions
• Formats: Magazine Subscription, Print

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Editorial Reviews

Who Reads W?
Boasting a big, over-sized format, W informs and inspires an exclusive, sophisticated reader on fashion, style, and the art of living. With its smart features and artistic photography, W feeds both the eye and the mind. W's readers include celebrities, couture customers, industry icons, art collectors, fashion insiders, producers and directors.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
Regular Departments include:

• The Month in Fashion: Round-up of the industry’s news.
• Fast Forward: A look at who is defining style.
• Uncensored: Insider style and cultural news.
• Trend: Of-the-moment.
• Fashion Flash: Multiple pages on fashion trends.
• Accessories Flash: Multiple pages on accessories trends.
• Shopping: What's hot now.
• Beauty Flash: Beauty trends.
• Travel Flash: Unique travel destinations (periodic).
• Home Flash: Dazzling residences in special locales (periodic).
• Eye: Short profiles on people, places and trends; photos from the latest parties.
• Fashion: Extended fashion coverage.
• Profile: In-depth feature stories on people making news in fashion/art/entertainment/home design/society.
• Last Laugh: Commentary.
• Features: In addition to its regular departments, each W issue has a different editorial focus: January-Pre Spring Fashion, February-Hollywood A-List, March-Spring Fashion Spectacular, April-The Beauty Issue, May-W Does Luxury, June-Celebrity Uncensored, July-"Trunk Show" Pre Fall Fashion, August-The Accessories Issue, September-Fall Fashion Spectacular, October-Hollywood Men, November-The Art Issue, December-The Holiday Jewelry & Watch Issue.

Past Issues:

Contributors:
W is written and edited by an exclusive team of highly knowledgeable style insiders who contribute an ever-evolving mix of smart, sophisticated articles that anticipate trends, showcase innovations in style and profile important personalities in the fashion and cultural zeitgeist.

Magazine Layout:
W is BIG, CINEMATIC, DRAMATIC in look and design. W is filled with photography and photographic essays that feature innovative and sophisticated approaches to stylistic expression, showcased on its luxurious, four-color, oversized glossy pages. W features the work of extraordinary, world-renowned photographers, such as Bruce Weber and Steven Klein, who work to create iconic images that stir the imagination and senses. The majority of readers come to W for its visual inspiration and artistic sensibility.

Comparisons to Other Magazines:
W is more than a fashion magazine. It is a finely designed work of art, providing readers creative inspiration through unique insights into the word of fashion, style and luxury. The magazine presents the reader with the most cutting edge, creative artistic vision through powerful photographic images that are unmatched by any other magazine.

Advertising:
Each W issue features a wide variety of luxury advertisers, comprising approximately half of the magazine's total pages, including fashion, accessories, jewelry, beauty, luxury travel, automotive and fine spirits categories. W's advertising is considered by readers to be nearly as inspiring and appealing as its articles and photographic features.

Awards:
In 2008, W was again recognized with two National Magazine Awards nominations — for General Excellence and Photography, adding to 14 nominations and three wins in the last ten years.

Customer Reviews

Fashion Advertisements
This magazine has excellent fashion photography. Mostly this is in the form of advertisements, which take up the first 175 pages and many more throughout. The pages are almost twice the size of a standard magazine, which leaves room for more artistic ads. The articles, I find hard to relate to or take seriously. To me, they seem more like tabloid tales of sordid love affairs and over-hyped parties than any kind of actual informative articles. For a magazine that is touted as a fashion industry standard, I expected to see many more articles about fashion, styles, and designers rather than Hollywood gossip. The photographs and fashion advertisements really are great, and I believe they would be the most useful aspect of this magazine for people interested in fashion.

Mostly boring.
I guess if you're one of those lucky people who has more money and time than they know what to do with, W is for you. This magazine focuses mostly on rich people, the clothes they buy, and the parties that they attend. I'm not just talking celebrities, either. If that was the case, then perhaps W would be onto something. But no... W prefers to devote at least half their articles to spotlighting people like Eugino Lopez, "heir to the vast Jumex juice fortune." And then they tell us about their beachfront properties, glittering social circles, and $1,700 Louis Vuitton Murakami purses. I don't know about you, but anyone who is willing to pay that much for something that looks like an embossed leather Hot Pocket isn't worth paying $4.50 to read about.

It's Quite Possibly the World's Fashion Bible.
"W" magazine is such an important staple in the world of fashion, that even guys like me can't help but read it. To call this a women's magazine would really be unfair, for it offers in-depth articles on the fashion industry, profiles on celebrities, and an excellent supplement for men published on a quarterly basis. This men's supplement offers fashion info that's hip and contemporary, but not trendy enough to spook the average American male. As with all fashion magazines, "W" could feature more models of color on their cover, but that's a relatively small gripe compared to the wealth of good stuff this magazine offers. Overall, bravo the folks at "W" a job well done!