This document analyzes and compares the front covers and double page spreads of the fashion magazines Vogue and Grazia. For both magazines, the covers use bright colors and fonts that complement the featured model. They highlight headlines about popular or stereotypical topics to attract readers. Vogue keeps its design simple and classy to appeal to older, higher-income audiences. Grazia uses bold colors and easy-to-read text. It features celebrities and quotes to generate interest in reading full articles. Both magazines overlap images and text and use spacing and varied fonts to make the pages visually interesting without looking cluttered.

1. Critical analysis
on Fashion magazine

2. Fashion Magazines
Vogue –
This magazine targets a female audience ranging from 18-50 year olds who more than
half have been through education and employment.

3. Front Cover Analysis
Vogue usually uses around 3 different
font colours to compliment the image,
they tend to be colours that blend well
with the outfit or makeup of the model.
They use the brighter colours on the
text that is featuring things that are
popular at that moment or just
something stereotypical that women
are to take interest in. having these
certain bits of text highlighted makes
you look at it and think about it first,
which is more likely to catch the
audience’s eye.
The magazine only sometimes
displays the name of the person
on the cover, on this particular
cover only the first name is
mentioned in big lettering. The
person used in this cover is
somebody who is popular at the
moment so this will attract the
audience and may influence
their decision on purchasing the
magazine. The person featured
tends to look quite classy, well
dressed and covered up which
is generally what the target
audience would want to see
and give them ideas about how
they should dress themselves.
Sometimes the magazine chooses to place their images so that
the head of the model is covering up the ‘G’ on the title. As
this is a well known magazine the public know which letter is
being covered because they are aware of the magazine.
The topics that are shown suggest that the
magazine is for an older and more mature higher
class audience. ‘How to hold on to your style’ is
an example of this. The magazine is trying to
connect with the audience giving them tips and
advise on fashion etc, which would be one of the
main reasons somebody from the target
audience would want to purchase the magazine.
On this magazine cover certain words are used that
suggest that you should improve yourself and by buying
this magazine you will be able to read about how to do
so.
Compared to most magazines, Vogue is
usually quite simple with their front covers.
They keep it quite basic so it has that classy
look to it. So the women that are of the
target age range are most likely to chose
this magazine over something such as
Cosmopolitan etc which has more of a
younger look to it.

4. Double page spread analysis
Like on the front cover, there is a
heading which is targeted to an
older audience suggesting that
you are losing your style because
you are getting old and tips on
how to stay young etc.
These pages have been kept fairly simple
and colourful, using colours that are
generally quite feminine. You know by the
images used that the page spread is going
to feature something about fashion
straight away, even without looking at the
titles ‘Style’ and ‘Fashion’ which are kept
spaced from each other and are not placed
how you would usually see a normal title..
Like the cover page they tend to overlap text with imagery
There are a mixture of different fonts which
makes the pages look a bit more interesting
and stand out more. The text is spaced out
well so that when you see the page you don’t
just see a lot text which can sometimes look a
bit boring.

5. Grazia
Grazia is a fashion magazine that has a
large female audience with the highest
percentage of readers being aged 35-44

6. Front Cover Analysis
Like Vogue magazine, Grazia is also
very popular so is as well able to
cover up a letter with the head of an
image.
The colours used in this cover
are quite bold and stand out
well, they are feminine in a
mature type of way. The text is
also quite simple and easy to
read. With the most eye
catching bits highlighted in
yellow. The colours also are
used in a way that compliments
the image being used.
The person featuring on the
front of the magazine is usually
somebody very popular. On this
issue it is Rihanna. They have
her name highlighted in bold to
attract your attention and
underneath there is a quote.
They are using a quote that goes
with a celebrity news story that
is current. By using this quote it
makes the readers want to read
more about it so will therefore
purchase the magazine.
The types of articles are ones that are
stereotypical things that women are
interested in, which are displayed on this
page. Stuff to do with diets, marriages, dating
and clothing. Because of this Grazia are more
likely to maintain a very popular reputation by
giving their readers what they want.

7. Double page spread analysis
This page is very simple
and only uses 3 different
colours. The simplicity of
this page works quite well
because even though it is
simple it doesn’t’ look
boring.
The features of her face
have been split up in to
different boxes that are
shaped to spell Cara.
They are not made
completely clear because
this article is featuring
somebody who is popular
at the moment, so people
know instantly who it is
without having to have
the name shown.
Larger and bolder lettering is used to
draw your attention and possibly
make it so that the text is read first
out of everything else, because it’s a
quote it makes the reader more
interested in what that celebrity has
said, so then they are more likely to
read the full page.