Magazine Genre Research- Elle

The cover of this issue of Elle is quite noteworthy. It is simplistic, yet is very appealing. It has a gray background, but then bright pops of pink and turquoise. The title is written in big, long lettering that covers about a third of the page and it is hot pink. I have noticed that with many magazines that it is effective to keep the cover simple and with not too many words and colors. It is visually appealing for covers to also use a neutral color for a majority of the cover and then pops of color spread throughout. One of the featured celebrities, Camila Cabello, appears in a half body shot wearing a turquoise fur coat. Since Cabello is one of the focuses of this issue of the magazine, her name appears in big, wispy lettering on the cover. There is a decent amount of writing on the cover, all using the same font and written in white. It points out the theme of the issue of the magazine and who will be mentioned in the magazine. The articles in the magazine are organized by category and get longer as it travels further into the magazine. The magazine starts off with shorter articles reviewing beauty products and such, then in the middle includes a type of look book of accessories. At the end of the magazine, there are many full articles on people, especially a large section on women in music. When a new celebrity is introduced, they each have the same design for their cover page, which is their name written in very thick, spread out black letters. About the first 40 pages of the magazine are numerous advertisements on high brand, designer clothes and accessories. This alludes that the magazine can be more high brow. Throughout the rest of the magazine, advertisements for makeup or other miscellaneous products appear, however most of the advertisements are for clothes, purses, and jewelry. In the smaller articles of the magazine, where products are reviewed or shown off, there are many photos. For example, in the Shops category, there are can be 12+ pictures on a page of clothing and accessories. However, when the magazine trails into the longer articles or the Accesories category, they include full page, very artistic pictures of products and celebrities. This is because either the picture itself is the entire focus of the article or the writing is more of the focus and the picture is there to aid the reading. The table of contents appears about 40 pages into the magazine. It includes the title of the magazine across the top with the month of the issue, volume, and number. There is two pages of the table of contents which is separated by advertisements in between. Each page of the table of contents has a large picture of one of the featured celebrities. The articles are arranged by page number in the table of contents and are separated by category. The distribution number of Elle magazine in the US is about 1,103,163. Elle Magazine holds its own award ceremony, the Annual Impact Awards.