elle magazine

ELLE MAGAZINE

EDITORLorraine Candy has been the editor of Elle UK since 2004, and before that she held the same position at Cosmo magazine. She has also appeared on Sky One’s ‘Project Catwalk’ as well as Channel Four’s ‘Model Behaviour’.

Although of French origin Elle is published monthly in twenty eight different

languages to a readership of six million six hundred thousand people per month. Elle

is published by Hachette Filipacchi Médias; the first issue was published in

France in 1945.

PUBLISHING

Elle magazine has a target audience of specifically women who are aged between sixteen

and thirty. Elle appeals to this audience with almost exclusively female cover stars, pink colour

schemes, and articles surrounding women's fashion or beauty. The magazine also features

many adverts for top of the range products, so the women who buy Elle probably have disposable

income.

AUDIENCE

TYPICAL COVER

Female celebrity on the cover (only one image)

Primary articles (about women's fashion) on the left-hand third

Articles on hair and beauty

Celebrity interviews

Readers can recognise the font in the masthead in spite of it being partially covered