Glamour (magazine)

*Glamour*
	Cover of the January 2019 issue, the final print issue, featuring Amber Heard
Editor	Samantha Barry; Deborah Joseph (UK)
Categories	Fashion magazine
Frequency	Monthly; Bimonthly (Hungary)
Publisher	Condé Nast
Total circulation	2,300,854 (US) (June 2013)
Founded	April 1939; 85 years ago
First issue	April 1939
Final issue	January 2019 (print)
Country	United States
Language	English
Website	www.glamour.com
ISSN	0017-0747

Glamour (stylized in all caps) is an online women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. It was originally called Glamour of Hollywood.^[3] From 1939 to 2019, Glamour was a print magazine. After a low number of subscribers Glamour's last edition was in January 2019.^[4]

History

In August 1943, the magazine changed its name to Glamour, with the subtitle for the girl with the job.^[3] The magazine was published in a larger format than most of its contemporaries at the time. Charm, a Street & Smith magazine, started in 1941,^[5] later subtitled "the magazine for women who work", was folded into Glamour magazine in 1959.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Glamour targets women 18–49 (with the median age of 33.5) and reaches a subscription audience of 1,411,061 readers in the United States. Its circulation on newsstands was 986,447, making the total average paid circulation 2,397,508.^{[citation needed]}

Glamour was the first women's magazine to feature an African-American cover girl when it included Katiti Kironde on the cover of its college issue in August 1968.^[9]^[2]

Since 1990, the magazine has held an annual "Women of the Year" awards ceremony.^[10]

On January 8, 2018, it was announced that Samantha Barry, previously the Head of Social Media and Emerging Media at CNN, would be the new Editor-in-Chief of Glamour.^[11]

In November 2018, Glamour announced that its print edition would cease with its January 2019 issue in order to focus on its digital presence.^[12]^[2]

Glamour Top College Women Awards

Each year for the last 56 years, the magazine has been selecting a top ten list of outstanding college women across the country. Originally, the list was composed of the best dressed college juniors in America, but was changed for more substance with categories such as academic achievement, community service, and career goals as leading criteria. Hundreds of college juniors apply each year. Past winners, finalists include; Martha Stewart, Diane Sawyer, Swati Mia Saini,^[13] Nancy Amanda Redd, 2003 Miss Virginia (MAO) and author of Body Drama, and Tamira A. Cole, Miss Black Kentucky USA 2009 and author of HUSH, actress Sheryl Lee Ralph and novelists Curtis Sittenfeld, Kate White, Janice Kaplan, Olympians Allison Schmitt, Julie Johnston,^[14] and Nzingha Prescod, Grace Kelly, and Jean Hanff Korelitz.

Glamour Woman of the Year Awards

Each autumn, the magazine organizes the “Glamour Woman of the Year Awards” which recognize women in the public eye.

In 2007, Lorena Ochoa won a Woman of the Year award. In 2008 the award was granted to two Yemenis: 10-year-old divorcee Nujood Ali, and the lawyer who took on her case.^[15]^[16] Nujood's courage was praised by prominent attendees, including Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice.^[17] The 2010 Glamour Woman of the Year was Cher and the 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year was Zendaya

International editions

Glamour launched in the UK in April 2001, where it pioneered the "handbag size" format, with the tagline "fits in your life as well as your handbag". Each September, the magazine held "National Glamour Week", when it featured extra coupons and competitions. In 2016, Glamour UK launched the Glamour Beauty Festival, on a new off-page beauty event featuring demonstrations, treatments and speakers.^[18]

From its launch to the final traditional issue in November 2017, the magazine was edited by Jo Elvin, with Michelle Pamment serving as acting editor briefly in 2005.^[19] In June 2009, to celebrate Glamour's eighth birthday in the UK, Glamour.com made a gallery of every cover since its launch.^[20] In October 2017, following declining sales, it was announced that publication of the monthly UK edition would end at the end of 2017, and that the UK version would be a semi-annual publication.^[21]^[22] In November 2017, Deborah Joseph was appointed Chief Content Officer of Glamour UK.^[23]

The Italian edition of Glamour was launched in December 1976, under the title Lei (She), then officially renamed Glamour, like its U.S. counterpart, in 1992.^{[citation needed]}

The Russian edition was established in 2004, and is published monthly.^[24]

The South African edition launched in April 2004 and is published monthly.

Glamour is also published in Germany, Spain, Mexico, Poland, Hungary, France, Russia, Sweden, Brazil, Turkey, Greece, Israel, the Netherlands, Romania and Bulgaria. There is also a third Spanish edition, published in the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America.

Editors of international editions


Country	Circulation dates	Editor-in-chief	Start year	End year
United States	1939-	Alice Thompson^[25]	1939	1941
		Elizabeth Penrose	1941	1953
		Nina Kyle	1953	1954
		Kathleen Aston Casey	1954	1967
		Ruth Whitney	1967	1998
		Bonnie Fuller	1998	2001
		Cynthia Leive	2001	2017
		Samantha Barry	2018	present
South Africa	2004–present	Pnina Fenster	2004	2018
		Asanda Sizani	2018	2019
		Nontando Mposo	2020	present
Italy	1992–present	Grazia d'Annunzio	1992	1994
		Valeria Corbetta	1994	2003
		Danda Santini	2003	2004
		Paola Centomo	2004	2013
		Cristina Lucchini	2013	present^[26]
Mexico/Latin America	1998–present	Mar Abascal	2007	2012^[27]
		Lucy Lara	2012	2017^[28]
		Valeria Pérez	2017	present^[28]
United Kingdom	2001–present	Jo Elvin	2001	2017^[29]
United Kingdom	2001–present	Deborah Joseph (CCO)	2018	present
Germany	2001–present	Nikolaus Albrecht	2004	2008^[30]
		Andrea Ketterer	2008	2020^[31]
		Georg Wittmann	2020	2023
		Theresa Pichler	2023	present
Spain	2002–present	Alicia Parro	2002	present
Poland	2003–present	Anna Jurgaś	2003	present
Hungary	2004–present	Krisztina Maróy	2004	present^[32]
France	2004–2014 Marie Lannelongue	2017_2020 Céline Purruche	present^[33]
Russia	2004–present	Masha Fedorova	2010	2018^[34]
Russia	2004–present	Ilyana Erdneeva	2018	present^[34]
Netherlands	2005–present^[35]	Karin Swerink	2005^[35]	2012^[36]
Netherlands	2005–present^[35]	Anke de Jong		present
Romania	2006–present	Diana Tofan		present
Bulgaria	2009–present	Ani Miladenova		present
Brazil	2012–present	Monica Salgado	2012	2017^[37]
Brazil	2012–present	Paula Merlo	2017	present^[38]
Iceland	2015–present	Álfrún Pálsdóttir		present
Turkey	2016–present	Özge Sarıkadılar^[39]

Lucky magazine

In Germany and Greece Lucky, a fashion and shopping magazine is published seasonally, in tandem with Glamour. Lucky magazine has been shut down in 2015.

Reference in pop culture

A copy of it was the magazine to which George Costanza (Jason Alexander) masturbated on the series Seinfeld, when he was caught by his mother in the season 4 episode "The Contest".

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