Inspirational Texts

Like I mentioned in previous posts my magazine genre is fashion, so to help give me some inspiration I decided to look at other magazines. I will be looking mainly at the layout of the magazine and looking at the different images used, this will hopefully help me decide what I should include on my magazine.

I will mainly be looking at magazines such as Vogue, Elle and Marie Claire. I believe that these will help me most because these are magazines that I read at home and I know the target audiences and what they would like the magazine to include. If you look at Elle magazine, the first thing that really stands out to me is the background colour. The colour pink is probably the most feminine colours ever, and I think that this really contrasts with the model as Lily Allen is a well-know notorious singers of the 21st century. I really like the way Lily has been styled its old but with a modern twist, as her is very 1950's. Similarly if you look at the Vogue front cover there is a pink background which is probably more suitable to the model, Lana Del Rey. I really like these pastel colours and would like to incorporate them into my own product. However one magazines colour scheme I am not too fond of is the Marie Claire one from above. Although the colours do work well together, they aren't personally my cup of tea, like I mentioned previously I would prefer to use more pastel toned colours rather than blue. I also don't like what the model is wearing as I believe it makes her look frumpy and doesn't really suit her. I personally would choose something that would really make the magazine stand out from the rest of the text, make it pop.