Textual Analysis of Vogue magazine

In this blog entry I am going to look at what key concepts magazines aimed at 16-19 year olds use. Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in eighteen countries by Conde Nast Publications. Each month, Vogue publishes a magazine addressing topics of fashion, life and design.

Kate Moss is pictured on the front cover of this issue of Vogue, this tells the reader that the magazine is about fashion from looking at it. The magazine cover doesn’t have the full title written across the magazine, this is because the masthead of the magazine is so famous they don’t need to put the full name.

The inside contents of the magazine advertise ‘Girl Style’ this is advertising the audience and ‘the international collections special’ shows that the magazine is published in more than one country.

Vogue has Kate Moss on the front cover of the magazine, photographing a supermodel on the front cover of a magazine attracts people, fans of the model, people who want to be like the model and people interested in her fashion. The model isn’t named on the magazine and there isn’t a story about her advertised.

The difference between Vogue magazine and a weekly magazine such as star is the celebrities on the front of star are normally relevant to the story in the magazine and are often just pictured by press however Vogue magazine use top models to put on the front cover of there magazine and their own photographers photograph and edit the pictures to how they want them. This shows that Vogue is a magazine of more quality and costs more money to produce whereas weekly magazines buy pictures off other people and often make up their own stories.