Reading is an active process while watching is a passive process. But you can’t deny that there’s some kind of comfort in lying on your couch on a lazy Sunday afternoon and reading hot gossip about Bollywood celebrities or reading those fashion tips that you never knew.
All in all, Bollywood fashion magazines are an essential component of the fashion industry and of the lives of all fashion lovers!
Everyone likes extra and that's what we get with Bollywood fashion magazines. These beauties not only bring out unique fashion tips and tricks but also bring out the inside spicy Bollywood celebrities stories, relationship advice, career tips, beauty hacks, style trends, health and fitness, travel tricks and many more.
From cover to inside stories, everything of these Bollywood Fashion magazines is so shiny and beautiful you can’t just take your minds off. Even the pages of these magazines are so silky that you can’t take your hands off of it. There is something about Bollywood Fashion Magazines that can never be replaced by any type of E-magazines or fashion blog.
So here we bring you 10 Bollywood fashion magazines that every fashion lover should know and if they know, they should follow:
1) Vogue
Vogue India is the first Bollywood fashion magazine released in India with 100% foreign ownership. One of the 17 International editions of the Vogue fashion magazine is Vogue India. The first issue of Vogue India was released on 20th September 2007.
Bipasha Basu, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Gemma Ward were on the regular cover of Vogue India, whereas Preity Zinta, Lakshmi Menon, and Monikangana Dutta on the gatefold cover. The cost of the first-ever Vogue India fashion magazine was INR 100.
However, Vogue India has faced certain backlash due to featuring of an American model on the 10 anniversary “Indian affair”. The Bollywood fashion magazine was criticised for not having Indian model, whereas recently Vogue India was criticized for having Suhana Khan in its cover which was criticized for supporting nepotism.
In Vogue India August edition, Hailey Bieber talked about natural beauty and was again in news. Yet, the most popular Bollywood fashion magazine in India is Vogue India. From 2007 to 2020, Vogue India has brought many stories, faces, and trends for its audiences without fail. It has been 14 years and still, it holds the same position.
Price per issue: 110
Publisher: Conde Nast India
Language: English
Frequently: Monthly
2) Verve
Next in our list of Bollywood fashion magazines is Verve. Verve is India’s premier and only home-grown luxury and lifestyle magazine for women, published since 1995. Verve Bollywood fashion magazine is an Indian magazine, not owned or run by a foreign company.
Verve is known for its strong people-focus. It is known for its in-depth interviews with famous people and has also brought new talents through their stories. Verve started in 1995 and it became bi-monthly (coming out every 2 months) in 2005 and finally made the change over to a monthly in 2007 to cope up with the high demand.
The fashion magazine, Verve, also has a Verve Man supplement that started in 2009 and is from 2014 a bi-annual property. Kunal Kapoor, Imran Khan, Abhay Deol, John Abraham, Shah Rukh Khan, and Ranbir Kapoor are few men who have been seen on the Verve Men’s magazine cover. It covers various intriguing topics like lifestyle, fashion, food, beauty, travel, career and many more.
Price per issue: 110
Publisher: The India and Eastern Engineer Co. Pvt. Ltd.
Language: English
Frequently: Monthly
3) Femina
Femina, the oldest women magazine in the country, is owned by worldwide media, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Times group. One of the most loved Bollywood fashion magazines, Femina published content on interesting topics including relationship, career, fashion, beauty, and women achievers (who left footprints in their particular fields). ‘Be Stoppable’ is the tagline which has been carried forward by Femina since 2014.
Femina's bi-monthly fashion magazines branched out into regional languages like Hindi, Bengali, and Tamil, all of which are great. Besides this multi-lingual diversification, the fashion magazine Femina also publishes Femina salon and spa, which is distributed directly to the Indian Beauty business monthly.
Femina also organises and sponsors the ‘Femina India Beauty’ pageant since 1964. From 1964 to 1999 it has also sponsored the ‘Femina look of the year’ and sent Indian contestants to the Elite Model Look. In 2009, Femina fashion magazine faced criticism for only bringing fair skin girls to finalist.
Price per issue: 60
Publisher: The Times Group
Language: English, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil
Frequently: Once in two weeks.
4) Grazia
Italian women’s fashion and celebrity gossip fashion magazine Grazia has over 28 International editions, in which one is Grazia India. Grazia’s first issue of the Indian edition was in April 2008, featuring beautiful Bipasha Basu on the cover. And thus, Grazia India is one of the widely read Bollywood fashion magazines.
Grazia is popularly known as women’s fashion and celebrity gossip magazine. Recently Grazia faced major criticism when most of the influencers pointed out the cover image of Kareena Kapoor Khan was edited so badly that her knees almost were missing.
Grazia India, the monthly fashion magazine covers exciting topics like fashion, health, current events, celebrity gossip, inside stories, and many more. Also, Grazia India has been celebrating the achievement of women by featuring their success stories in the cover story.
Price per issue: 150
Publisher: The Times Group
Language: English
Frequently: Monthly
5) Women’s Era
Another popular fashion magazine is Women’s Era, which was started in 1973 and is owned by Delhi Press. The Bollywood fashion magazine published a new edition every two weeks covering topics like fashion, cookery, movie, health, relationships, beauty, lifestyle, travel, technology, book review, current events, and views on society in the English Language.
Women’s Era also has sections for poems, short stories, tips which is like the cherry on the cake. This is what makes Woman’s Era the second most admired fashion magazine after Femina. As of today, the fashion magazine Women’s Era has a huge fan following. With almost 24 lac readers, it's one of the largest selling Bollywood Fashion Magazine in India.
Price per issue: 80
Publisher: Delhi Press
Language: English
Frequently: Once in two weeks.
6) GQ
GQ India is one of the 15th editions of the American monthly men’s magazine, which was first published in October 2008 featuring Saif Ali Khan and Katarina Ivanovska on the cover. It was the second fashion magazine released in India after Vogue India, which has 100%, foreign owners.
GQ India gives away several awards in various fields but the most popular is the ‘GQ Men Of The Year’ award. There are even other interesting categories like ‘Creative Personality of the Year’, ‘Most Influential Men List’, ‘100 Best Dressed People in India’, which attract a lot of attention.
GQ India fashion magazine has lived to the expectations of the readers and stayed there. It has entertained audiences with not only specific topics but also with numerous awards. Recently GQ India fashion magazine faced backlash for featuring Serena Williams on the cover, where influencers blame magazine for ‘Body-Shaming’.
Price per issue: 150
Publisher: Conde Nast India
Language: English
Frequently: Monthly
7) Elle
Elle India is the Indian edition of the worldwide lifestyle magazine of French origin Elle, which was first issued in December 1996. Thee word ‘Elle’ in French means ‘She’ or ‘Her’ and so this is one of the women focussed Bollywood fashion magazines.
Elle India covers mostly fashion, you will get answers for the fashion-related questions like ‘What’s the right heel for my look?’ or ‘How to look chic in a suit, in sparkles, in red’. And this is what makes this fashion magazine stand different from others.
Elle Magazine has always tried to uplift the women by showing their progress from the past and focus on their achievement. It also covers topics like relationships, career, and celebrity gossips along with an interview of celebrities. Elle is also known as the ‘World largest magazine’ with over 6.6 million reads a month.
Price per issue: 150
Publisher: Ogaan Media Pvt. Ltd
Language: English
Frequently: Monthly
8) FHM (‘From Him Magazine’ is known as FHM)
FHM India is one of the 32 International editions of the British monthly men’s lifestyle magazine, which was first issued in October 2007, featuring Ujjwala Raut on its cover, who was the most successful overseas supermodel that time.
In 1993, FHM issued female model Gina Davis on the cover which was accepted open hands by the audience. Since then FHM features Female achievers like model, TV actress, Actress, singers and such as stars on their cover page.
FHM fashion magazine is most popular for its FHM 100 sexiest women in the world, which is issued every year in their master issue. FHM is also popular for its concept based celebrity photoshoot.
Price per issue: 150
Publisher: Conde Nast India
Language: English
Frequently: Monthly
9) Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan began as a ‘First class Family Magazine’ and later converted to a ‘Women's Magazine’. Cosmopolitan fashion magazine is often referred to as ‘Cosmo’ by the readers and is one of the very popular Bollywood fashion magazines in India.
Cosmopolitan has over 64 editors, is printed in 35 languages and is circulated in more than 110 countries. Cosmopolitan India includes articles on relationships, sex, health, careers, self-improvement, celebrities, fashion, horoscopes, clothes, style, family, lifestyle, self-improvement and what not.
As of today, the fashion magazine Cosmopolitan has found popularity in its newfound medium, ‘discover’ section on Snapchat and discover over 3 million readers a day. With over 64 international editors including France, Greece, Hungary, Norway, Russia, and 59 others editors cosmopolitan features several awards like ‘Fun, Fearless Male of the year’, ‘Fun, Fearless Female of the year’, ‘Bachelor of the year’, and many more interesting awards like this.
Price per issue: 150
Publisher: India Today Group
Language: English
Frequently: Monthly
10) Harper's Bazaar
Harper’s Bazaar India was launched in March 2009 with the slogan, motto, theme, and tagline ‘India’s No.1 Fashion Magazine’. It was launched in partnership with India Today Group, featuring Kareena Kapoor and Swarovski Crystal on the cover.
The fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar primarily focuses on the fashion and lifestyle needs of the upper elite class and the upper-middle class of the society. In its editions, you will find interesting topics like Fashion tips, food, travel, politics, style, lifestyle, celebnulls clothing tricks and many more.
Not only this but it also covers topics like ‘The best workout for 2020’, ‘No Rules freedom in love and fashion’, ‘How to eat for your age’, and many more absorbing topics. Harper’s Bazaar is constantly stepping into new areas like launching Harper’s Bazaar bride marking its presence in the luxury wedding market. And not to forget, it is among the best Bollywood fashion magazines of today.
Price per issue: 200
Publisher: India today Group
Language: English
Frequently: Monthly
This brings us to the end of our Bollywood Fashion Magazines list. These 10 fashion magazines are sure to impress you if you are a lover of fashion. You can keep an eye on the latest fashion trends, lifestyle tips and Bollywood gossips by following them. They have a good presence of social media as well.
Start following them today!
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