French Magazines

[Bernice]

What are the best french fashion magazineS?
thank you

 

[Alien Sex Friend]

self service and purple- underground and indie

 

[indie]

Those are my favorites too..
and there is always Crash and Citizen K , but I don't enjoy them as much (but that may be because I can't read french that much )

 

[Lily530]

I like L'Officiel. (did I spell that correctly?)

 

[StellaMare]

Purple is fantastic. I also enjoy Jalouse a lot most of the time, and of course Vogue Paris.

 

[piep]

Numero is also great.

 

[BerlinRocks]

Numéro
VogueParis
Purple Fashion
SelfService
Mixte
Jalouse
Crash
Citizen K
Stileto
Double
Elle (but Elle is weekly in France.... so sometimes it's really boring... but their Special Mode is very often good...)
L'Officiel (more and more boring)

well I name my french magazines... they are not all top... and I don't buy them all everymonth...

 

[La bordélique]

BerlinRocks, does Crash have a lot of editorials? I took a peak at them (really fast) at my local bookstore and it seemed more like a pop culture magazine. Their covers are often great but I don't know about its content, so I've never bought one.

 

[jun3machina]

i think frecnh magazines are the very best! i can only read a little, but their editorials are so much better than things from the US or UK!

 

[BerlinRocks]

BerlinRocks, does Crash have a lot of editorials? I took a peak at them (really fast) at my local bookstore and it seemed more like a pop culture magazine. Their covers are often great but I don't know about its content, so I've never bought one.

oh yeah for a "small" magazine they have about 5 or 7 editorials... but for you to know : their editorials is very often btw 8p. and 10p. I think I've never seen more...
they do some styling for the first pages, too (about music bands and young designer)...
it's a bimonthly so it's ok to buy it once in a while... for us/canada buyers, i think it's around 10$

since Masha Orlov (ex fashion editor in chief of Crash) left, Armelle Leturcq (founder of the magazine) is taking too much place, i think... but they have good stylists... who are doing a grood job, imo. but honestly, i prefer the MEN issue!
but you know they don't have many money (as a lot of "underground" magazines...) so it's hard, i think, for them.

I think Pedro and I have posted threads about Crash, maybe you could check...

 

[fabri]

Double and French revue de modes!!

 

[Pedro]

Paris Vogue is without any doubt the best!
C Roitfeld, F Baron, E Alt, M-A Sauvé, A Barbieri, etc, produce the most fascinating and attractive European fashion magazine. Karl Templer just came a board, this couldn’t get more exciting!!!

 

[mariemaud]

Double and French revue de modes!!

double has some great issues even if the latest is really disappointing...
Is Above Mag ? sorry if I don't know it - I'm french - but it's really a hard-to-find mag...
Dealer de Luxe is great too ! Numéro is often excellent, Vogue has some good issues but imo not every month, L'Officiel seems to take a way I won't follow myself latest Crash was disappoiting, ditto for latest Blast, previous one was so great... French revue de modes is great too...

 

[beltedmaude]

My favourites are Purple, Self Service, Numero, and Vogue itself.

 

[La bordélique]

Anyone here who buys stiletto magazine? Is it good?

 

[Whitelinen]

L' Officiel at the moment, although I do agree it is getting a little bit more boring. I wish I could get Numéro from where I live. I once got two issues, and they were rather good.

 

[jag137]

i love numero magazine, but recently have had some difficulty finding it. can anyone tell me a place(s) to find it in new york city?

thank you!

 

[penny609]

Anyone here who buys stiletto magazine? Is it good?

yes it's quite good, but the issues' quality is a little unequal. Sometimes you have a very exciting one, sometimes I'm quite hesitating when it comes to buying it I wish it was thicker as well, most of times but current issue is truly interesting and rich enough in eds to make me buy it !
I have a few scans here:
http://mariemaud.canalblog.com

 

[kissmesweet]

Paris Vogue is without any doubt the best!

Agreed. There's so much creativity, art, process, thoughts, imagination, love that goes into each and every ed... and it shows! So can we please post some covers we love?

models.com

models.com

ebooks.com

madonnalicious.com

ebooks.vayoki

greencine.com

(PS. Does anyone have the HQ of the Sofia cover?)

 

[La bordélique]

Thanks penny609!