Magazine Analysis- High Fashion October 2018 (Elle)

Elle (Kevin O'Malley Magazine)- Selena Gomez is featured as the main image on the front page of this edition. They have used her to create star power, which suggests that she is an ambassador for the magazine. This, in turn, helps to attract  more audience members, and encourage them to buy the magazine. The photo of Gomez is a close up, which allows the audience to see her face very clearly. Meghan Markle is a thin, attractive, relatively young and well known star. She embodies so many of the stereotypical societal ideals of beauty, making her everything that the audience would aspire to become.

Selena Gomez is known and liked by so many people globally due to her very successful singing and acting career. Therefore, people who are not a fan of the magazine would likely buy it because she is on the cover, which helps to expand the audience. Having Selena Gomez making direct eye contact with the audience connotes a friendly and kind image, portraying the star as both approachable and natural. This also shows that she is very self- confident in her looks and this would make the audience want to be like her, which then further entices the audience to buy the magazine.

The name of the magazine is Elle which, in French means She or Her. This creates a feminine and glamorous allure for the magazine, and further emphasises the sophistication and glamour of the magazine. The masthead is at the top of the magazine as it is the most important aspect. The name being at the top allows it to stand out and catch the readers eye. 

The cover lines are yellow and sit well with the warm background colour, the colour palette is bright yet minimalistic which connotes but elegance and fun. Elle is published by Kevin O'Malley. Elle is published as a monthly magazine, similarly to most high brow fashion magazines which are also monthly editions.

Finally, the biggest words on the cover, after the masthead, are the words 'Go Glam', in large capital letters, to draw in attention. They want people to have no doubt that Elle is a glamorous, high fashion magazine.