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Vogue: previous largest issue was in October 2007
Condé Nast's Vogue has increased its cover price to £3.80 as it publishes a record-breaking March issue featuring Kate Moss on the cover.
The edition, publishes on Monday, runs to 430 pages, including 282 advertising pages - the largest March issue on record. The cover features Moss wearing Dolce & Gabbana.
"It's a surprisingly big issue given the fluidity in the retail environment," said the Vogue publisher, Stephen Quinn.
"In that sense, then, it's a significant achievement to be ahead of the field. I'm an old guy but I like to be ahead of the others," he added.
"I gave my team a Churchillian talk the other morning which was, 'Take no prisoners. Don't get yourselves into a recession mood by thinking that there will be cuts.'"
Traditionally the last three months of the year are the biggest for the fashion bible, whose largest issue on record last October had 306 advertising pages out of a total of 476 pages.
Condé Nast narrowing avoided an additional bill of £250,000 from Royal Mail after the October issue when supplements nearly tipped the scales at 2g, which would have attracted extra postal charges.
Quinn said that Vogue's circulation was about 220,000, which he described as "robust".
The 10p price rise will be split between the publisher and retailers - meaning the retail industry will receive an extra £142,000 in revenue over the next year, according to Quinn.
Vogue will run a national advertising print campaign to publicise the issue.
Quinn said readers had not complained about the bulk of the issue. "My state of mind is that if you are glossy then you can't be too big," he added.
The latest ABC circulation figures for consumer magazines for the second half of 2007 will be released mid February.