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According to a handy press release we just got from the well-heeled folks at Conde Nast, the March issue of Vogue Espa
ol is setting a record as the biggest issue of Vogue ever published in the world, coming in at 1,006 pages. Oh, how the rainforests weep...
Spanish Vogue s March issue sets a new record as the biggest issue of Vogue ever published in the world. With a 1,006 pages, the magazine weighs 2.7 kilos, just short of 6 pounds.
The magazine is 400 pages with a 606 page supplement devoted to the fashion Collections, specially bound together. It surpasses the previous record, held by the September 2004 issue of American Vogue, which ran at 832 pages. The main magazine of Spanish Vogue contains 175 advertising pages and the supplement contains 173 ad pages.
To repeat: six fucking pounds. American Vogue editor Anna Wintour is obviously pissed — but we're not sure if it's because they broke her record, or because they gained so much weight.
Full release after the jump.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 23, 2006
SPANISH VOGUE SETS RECORD WITH 1,006-PAGE ISSUE
Spanish Vogue
s March issue sets a new record as the biggest issue of Vogue ever published in the world. With a 1,006 pages, the magazine weighs 2.7 kilos, just short of 6 pounds.
The magazine is 400 pages with a 606 page supplement devoted to the fashion Collections, specially bound together. It surpasses the previous record, held by the September 2004 issue of American Vogue, which ran at 832 pages. The main magazine of Spanish Vogue contains 175 advertising pages and the supplement contains 173 ad pages.
Spanish Vogue is beating all of its competitors. The March issue of Elle, containing three supplements, has 688 pages and Marie Claire, with two supplements, has 336 pages. A local fashion magazine, Telva, sold with three supplements, comes to 564 pages.
Vogue is by far the biggest fashion magazine in Spain, and more importantly, it is the best,
Jonathan Newhouse, Chairman of Cond
Nast International said.
The editor of Spanish Vogue is Yolanda Sacristan, and the President of Cond
Nast Spain is Javier Pascual del Olmo.
Comments
Jesus. Can Nick Kristof start another imaginary "pledge fund" to send Conde's Spanish outpost some copy editors or something?
I really have no comment on anything related to Vogue, but since I'm a music blogger and we don't know much else...the post did remind of of some lyrics to a Replacements song: "The magazine she sifts through is the special double issue / Smells of perfume, she leaves it on the plane."
I am ashamed. This excites me. I will buy it. I will learn Spanish. Whatever it takes. Vogue, you rule me.
I applaud Spanish Vogue for its healthy weight. But even it it's "six fucking pounds" I bet it still looks really really thin and tiny in person.
I doubt there'll be any teeth-gnashing over a fashion magazine from a country where the women regularly wear white pants and match their earrings to their shoes. I love Spain, but really now.
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