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Fashion Magazine

"Reinventing the wheel" is a common type of article.

"I can totally see some of them being used in one of those glossy fashion magazines. Y'know, the kind that cost nine bucks and are 97% ads."

—Strong Bad email "Modeling"

Magazines devoted to fashion, with some articles on other topics relevant to their readers (lifestyle, people, and other things). As noted in the quote, they are heavy on advertising, but this has had the benefit of keeping the format of these magazines relatively consistent, as opposed to the Magazine Decay of other print genres.

Many fictional works, particularly Work Coms, are set around the offices of a fashion magazine. It works well for giving guest stars the full benefit of the Rule of Glamorous.

Tropes common among these include:

Costume Porn
The Fashionista (if an article is about one)
Fur and Loathing /It's Fake Fur, It's Fine (if an article or spread focuses on fake fur)
Impractically Fancy Outfit
Merchandise Driven (Spreads showing clothes will note who made each piece, and how much they cost.)
Model Couple
Pimped Out Dress
- Fairytale Wedding Dress (for a Bridal Magazine)
Pretty in Mink (if an article or spread focuses on real fur)
Product Promotion Parade
Up Marketing

Compare Fashion Show, Rule of Glamorous.

Examples:

Film

Poise magazine in 13 Going on 30.

Literature

Runway magazine in The Devil Wears Prada.
Bu-Bubble in Unseen Academicals.
Men's fashion magazines are mentioned in A Brothers Price. The men in them wear much tighter, more revealing clothes than Jerin is willing to consider, and he thinks they are not proper, but it's different for the nobility.

Live-Action TV

Mode magazine in Ugly Betty.
Blush magazine in Just Shoot Me!.

Theatre

Allure magazine in Lady in the Dark.

Video Games

In Barbie Super Model, Barbie appears on the covers of magazines in a matching mini-game.

Real Life

Cosmopolitan (although with less of a focus than others)
- Cosmopolitan tends to focus more on issues, lifestyle, relationships and sex and so on than fashion nowadays.
Rule 63 of the above is Esquire
Elle
Harpers Bazaar
Gentlemans Quarterly (GQ), one of the few male-focused fashion magazines. Often runs lads-mag-style photo shoots of women in skimpy clothes.
Vogue (so full of ads that sometimes the table of contents is on page 100 or later).
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