For my project looking at fashion among youth culture in Jersey, I am aiming to produce a magazine for my final product. I have briefly mentioned this intention in previous blog posts but I will now begin to publish blog posts that show my research on different magazines I will be taking inspiration form in terms of design, style, layout, graphics and actual photograph style. 

I have chosen to present all work produced for this project in the format of a magazine because the actual content I will be producing will fit most appropriately into this style of display. The magazines I will be researching are all magazines that highlight music, fashion and youth culture – the latter is what I will be covering in my project. As well, magazines are becoming much more popular now and there are many more magazines for many more reasons in this current day which cover lots of different things such as fashion, music, TV, home, lifestyle and photography/art. 

DAZED

Dazed (formerly Dazed & Confused) is a bi-monthly British style magazine founded in 1991. It covers music, fashion, film, art, and literature. Dazed is published by Dazed Media, an independent media group known for producing stories across its print, digital and video brands. The company’s portfolio includes titles such as AnOther, Another Man and Hunger. The company’s newest division, Dazed Studio, creates brand campaigns across the luxury and lifestyle sectors. Based in London, its founding editors are Jefferson Hack and fashion photographer Rankin.

The popular magazine is distributed globally, covering fashion, art, music and lifestyle. Cover stars have included Björk, Kate Moss, David Bowie, Young Thug, Millie Bobby Brown, Amandla Stenberg, Marilyn Manson, Jazz Jennings, Thom Yorke, Kendall Jenner, Tilda Swinton and FKA Twigs.

Dazed is a very diverse magazine that uses creativity to empower young people and the magazine has championed humanitarian issues including from AIDS in South Africa, giving blood, the refugee crisis, breast cancer awareness and LGBTQIA rights. Furthermore, Dazed is the first magazine to feature disabled models as cover stars – “Accessable” is a 14-page feature in the style magazine Dazed & Confused, shows people with disabilities looking powerful and beautiful in designer clothes.

Dazed magazine also owns their own digital format of the magazine where users can access all issues of their magazine on different formats of technology including heir phone, tablet, laptop or computer and this makes it a more easily accessible and easy to use magazine to read and take enjoyment out of. However, users have to subscribe for this and this costs the consumer money. This feature also allows consumers different features exclusive to the digital version of the magazine.