On a snowy night just before Valentine’s Day, the Cultured Magazine gave a feast for the February -March 2025 edition. It was held in Quarters, a Tribeca room that is both a furniture store and a wine bar. The place was packed. The coverster, the actress Cristin Milioti, was there, and partygoers were in turn in doors or were on banks for their social media feeds.
“There has been an unexpected Groundswell of support,” said Sarah Harrelson, the founder of Cultured, who has worked her entire career on publications, including Instyle and Women’s Wear Daily.
The first issue of Cultured, which combines the fashion and art worlds, appeared in 2012, when Mrs. Harrelson lived in Miami, where she had worked for Ocean Drive Magazine and a magazine supplement for the Miami Herald started.
“I think back now and I was 38 and bored creative,” she said. “I wanted to do something for myself and don’t have to pay attention to the rules. Publications had become formal.”
Independently produced printed magazines with the emphasis on fashion experience a kind of tree line, making waves for their striking design and high -quality production. There has been grown but also l’etiquette, Konfekt and Polyester, to name a few who along the racks of Casa magazines, the periodic store of West Village, and magculture In London.
No longer seen as disposable or a remnant of a dying industry, these magazines are considered high-end products. “It is a luxurious experience to sit back and let a single point of view come to you that you didn’t know you wanted,” said Penny Martin, editor -in -chief of the Gentlewoman, who was said to be a pioneer of an Indie print revival when it started in 2010.
Búzio Saraiva is the associated publisher of nine independent magazines, including vacation and lunch, and the founder of Nutshell & Co., a company in Paris that works with other comparable magazines.
“People behind independent magazines create material that is meant to last,” he said. “Someone will collect them, and then someone else will buy one on a flea market and turn it into a mood board.”
Mr. Saraiva regards these magazines as vehicles for stylists, photographers, celebrities and writers to show off creativity in a way they may not be able to do in regular magazines. “It’s a lab,” he said. “It’s R&D for the creative industry. I see people who now take photos that we took 10 years ago. Not everyone checks triple to see if they have insulted or pleases everyone.”
At first glance, independent magazines use many of the same celebrities as magazines that are owned by Hearst or Condé Nast. “A lot of time is the same cover and talents, but the interviewer or the photographer can be completely different,” said Joshua Glass, who started the family style of Food and Fashion Magazine in 2023. Gwyneth Paltrow’s problem of spring 2025 interviewed the cover by the curator Klaus Biesenbach and photographed by Brianna Capozzi.
A big difference, Mr. Glass said, was creative independence. Like many other India, the majority itself is financed by the majority. “I am obliged to my own moral integrity, my colleagues and the people I have employed,” he said.
“We are in black,” Mr. Glass to it. “We don’t fly private jets or take cars in the city. We are extremely lean and we do things in ways that are modest.”
Magazines such as cultivated and family style are generally dependent on ways to keep floating that appear free on those of regular print publications. They have advertisers who would like to pay a cheaper rate for a smaller magazine with a younger audience.
“The tide has shifted,” said Nick Vogelson, who founded the Document Culture, Arts and Fashion Magazine in 2012. “Every brand sees the value of printed media. Every season for 13 years the advertisements has grown.” This spring Mr. Vogelson a new magazine, notes about beauty.
“In my work you don’t call them advertisers, you call them supporters,” said Mrs. Martin laughing. “It’s not just about display advertisements, it is about special projects, as they are called. There are other ways to work with those partners looking for culturally involved or high-net-worthy readers.” For example, the Gentlewoman has organized an architectural tour in Los Angeles with COS and a tour of the Chelsea Physic Garden in London with Vince, for example.
Here a field guide for 10 of the new harvest of fashion-leaning print magazines.
Comments about Beauty
For the first song, spring 2025, Inez and Vinoodh Julianne Moore photographed for the cover with red rose petals in her mouth. There are stories about old wellness rituals and an essay about a writer who decides to refrain from cosmetic treatments.
Dim
The A is for “A”, the “M” is for “Magazine”, and the “F” stands for something unprintable. Edition 001, with the theme ‘Pursuits of Happiness’, came out last fall, produced by the dating app FELELD, who proudly stated that more than half of the contributors were on the app. FEELLE is one of a number of companies, including Mubi, the film platform and metroograph, the cinema, producing print spin -offs for their companies.
What if a fashion magazine was almost completely photos of fashion? The autumn of 2024 Heroine has short interviews with the Finn Bennett and Noah Jupe actors, but the highlight is the Alice McGrath model, photographed by Fabien Kruszelnicki and a lot of Celine.
Grown
The most recent song has various covers, including one with Cristin Milioti with an enlightened cigarette, photographed by Chris Colls. The theme is art and film, and it has interviews with director Luca Guadagnino, the Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres and the painter Torkwase Dyson.
Paradetive
Konfekt invoices itself as “the magazine for sharp dressing, drinking, dining, traveling and design.” It is located in Zurich and often has a central European tendency. Edition 17 includes profiles of a chef in Georgia (the country) and a calligraph in Paris, and an interview with fashion designer Dusan Paunovic born in Serbs.
L’tiquette is located in Paris and emphasizes personal style and the art of dressing. There are individual editions for men and women, and they are forever sold out on kiosks. Online, panels of fashion world residents choose their favorite IT bags, which appear to be wonderfully quirky and under the radar: an ll bean suede bag, say, or a small Balenciaga in the form of a croissant.
Polyester
Polyester has a playful energy and a pop -visual aesthetics reminiscent of magazines from the 1990s. Helden to a certain kind of fashionable feminist are covered, such as the Winter 2024/2025 Cover Star Sofia Coppola or Chelsea Fairless and Laury outfit “.
Patta
Patta, the magazine of the namesake of an Amsterdam store, has received a cult -for the reporting of music and streetwear. The magazine takes a global view of culture with the emphasis on African-European connections. The problem of the spring summer has an interview with the director Baloji, born in Congolese and an article about the rising EDM scene in Lagos.
Every edition of the holiday in the Midcentury magazine was dedicated to another city. Writers include Truman Capote and Joan Didion. Fast-Forward to Spring 2014, when vacation was returned by the Studio Studio Atelier Franck Durand. It still chooses a city for every song, the autumn winter is New York. There is a vintage taste in a reprint of the Joan Didion -Asay “goodbye for all that”, but it also has Tommy Dorfman and Marc Jacobs in conversation.
Unconditionally
“Made by women, for women,” says unconditionally, and the female look is clear. Articles include a piece about lymph drainage practions in Paris and a profile of the designer Rachel Scott from the Modelijn Diotima.
