Niche Fashion Magazines ─ Changing the Shape of Fashion

Niche fashion magazines speak to a highly fashion literate readership and mix the codes of style magazines, glossy women's magazines and art catalogues. They are often produced and read by people engaged in the business of creating fashion taste. Through this business-to-business practice, the niche magazine genre is powerful in shaping the face of fashion. Based on unique analysis of niche fashion magazines and unprecedented access to the making of the respected Danish niche fashion magazine, DANSK, including interviews with its makers and its readers, this book unveils the behind-the-scenes of niche fashion magazines. It pays special attention to the symbolic and material cultures, as well as the values and meanings that are shared across magazine producers and their readers. It is a valuable contribution to the study and practice of fashion journalism, with appeal to students and readers of the increasingly popular high-end glossy magazines.

Ane Lynge-Jorlen is an independent fashion researcher, lecturer and curator. She has taught cultural studies of fashion at London College of Fashion and Parsons Paris School of Art and Design. She has also published journal articles in the fields of fashion magazines and contemporary fashion and is a contributor to Nordic Fashion Studies (2012).