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Apr 2023
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R.I.P. Print Fashion Magazines (with Mi-...

High Brow
About this episode
The director's cut version of Mina's The Life and Death of the Fashion Magazine video she published onto Youtube on Monday.

In this expanded edition, she shares listener stories, gives proper shout-outs to some 20th century woman EICs, dives into indie zines, and talks with Mi-Anne Chan, senior director of programming and creative development at Conde Nast (ooooh fancy), who shares valuable insight on today's digital fashion magazine industry.

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and keep up with Mina on Youtube, Instagram, and Tiktok!

Check out Mi-Anne's Mixed Feelings!

SOURCES
“Fashion in the ‘Mercure’: From Human Foible to Female Failing by Reed Benhamou
Femininity and Consumption: The Problem of the Late Nineteenth-Century Fashion Journal by Christopher Breward
‘Making the Magazine’: Visuality, Managerial Capitalism, and the Mass Production of Periodicals, 1865—1890 by Vanessa Meikle Schulman
Reflecting and Shaping American Culture: Magazines Since World War II by David Abrahamson
Hypervisibility and Invisibility of Female Haafu Models in Japan’s Beauty Culture by Kaori Mori Want
What Happened to 50 Magazines Since the Pandemic Began – WWD 
Internet Crushes Traditional Media: From Print to Digital
Seventeen print magazine moving to digital first: The era of the teen mag is over
The Monthly Fashion Magazine Is No More
Selling Style I: The History of Fashion Marketing Through the 19th Century | Wilson College of Textiles
Fashion magazines: History of the biggest magazines - Vogue, ELLE & Co. - CM Models | Model Agency
The Birth of Fashion Magazines - JSTOR Daily
The Importance of Godey's Lady's Book on 19th c. Fashion History
The Influence of Fashion Magazines
The Evolution of Fashion Journalism from Print to Digital
History Of Magazines | When Were The First Magazines Invented?
The Gilded Age of Magazines | The Nation
“Americana.” Time, February 3, 1930
Godey's Lady's Book in the Accessible Archives
Godey’s Lady’s Audience: The Women of the Mid 19th Century – The History of the Book
The Power of Community: On the Radical History of Women's Magazines
Helen Gurley Brown: 10 Best Tips From ‘Sex and the Single Girl’
Helen Gurley Brown and the Birth of the Cosmo Girl | The New Yorker
Helen Gurley Brown dead: Assessing America’s most puritanical wild woman
The Magazine Business, From the Coolest Place to the Coldest One - The New York Times
The Assistant Economy - Dissent Magazine
Does the fashion industry still need Vogue in the age of social media?
Women’s magazines are dying. Will we miss them when they’re gone? - The Washington Post
America's print tabloid era is over
The Death of Newspapers and Magazines - CBS News
The Print Renaissance
Celebrate Punk Zines With the Musicians Who Created Them | Smithsonian Voices
Revolutionary PHL: Blankets, Beer, and Beef: Broadsides for Care of Military Bodies
History of Amateur Journalism
FIRE!! Devoted To Younger Negro Artists (1926) by POC Zine Project - Issuu
Get To Know The Little Magazines of The Harlem Renaissance
The Amazing Zines That Kicked Off Geek Fandom
Xerox factor. The short-lived graphic energy of punk fanzines and posters.
Music HerStory: Women, Zines, and Punk | Smithsonian Institution
IS PRINT REALLY DEAD? HOW GEN-Z IS REVIVING ZINE CULTURE - CULTED
Anna Wintour on the Future of Print, Hillary, and How She Feels About Her Reputation

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