10 Best Fashion Magazines to Keep You Updated

With the growing pace of the fashion industry in India, fad for fashion has been increasing tremendously.  For keeping ourselves updated in fashion, we subscribe to a lot of magazines. Fashion magazines are quintessential medium to keep you au courant, with the latest fashion and tit bits of fashion fraternity.

Feminiya has come up with the top 10 fashion magazines that you can subscribe to, for knowing the latest in fashion trends.

#10- Savvy

Savvy has been one of the leading magazines in India. Though it has been a phenomenon in covering various spheres of women’s lives besides fashion, but still it covers a lot of fashion updates and tit bits. Besides fashion, it covers health, relationship, parenting, fitness, and beauty of a woman.

#9- Women’s era

Now, this is another magazine that has gone viral. No doubt, this is one of the best and oldest magazines in India, covering from fashion to lifestyle, and just everything that is women oriented. This magazine was first published in 1973 and since then helping out the Indian women, in every possible manner. The magazine comes up with certain short stories that let you peep into Indian families and their lives.

#8- Marie Claire

Marie Claire was published in France, and later was distributed to different countries in their respective languages. The magazine shares its voice with its readers in each issue, while magazine in USA covers women from all over the globe.

#7-Verve

Verve is a fashion oriented magazine that originated from India, by Anuradha Mahindra in 1995. It covers everything on fashion, from achievers in the fashion industry to the best collection of the designers. The magazine has been changing constantly with time, updating itself with the current trends. It truly reflects the frisky women of today.

#6- Femina

Femina is also one of the oldest and the most popular magazines in India.  It was first published in 1959. Femina has been a sponsor of prestigious Femina Miss India pageant since 1964. It revolves around fashion, and keeps its reader updated in its each issue that is published fortnightly.

#5-Cosmopolitan

Cosmo was first published in 1886, in US, as a family magazine, then converted to a literary magazine and eventually became a women’s magazine. With 63 international editions published in 36 languages, circulated in over 100 countries, the magazine certainly rules the world as one of the hottest selling magazines.

#4-Elle

Elle is of French origin that celebrates women’s fashion, beauty, and lifestyle. It is also one of world’s largest fashion magazines. Elle means ‘she’ in French. It is now solely the largest fashion magazine, with 42 int’l editions in over 35 countries.

#3-Grazia

It is an Italian magazine’s Indian edition that covers women’s fashion. It keeps its readers updated with the latest fashion, shopping spots, designers and their collections, beauty tips, and much more. The very first issue in India was launched in February 2008, with the sizzling Bipasha Basu as its first cover girl.

#2- Harper’s Bazaar

It’s an American magazine that was first published in 1867. It is aimed at upper middle and upper classes. It assembles photographers, designers, artists from around the world, to present a new perspective of fashion to the world.

#1- Vogue

Vogue is indeed, India’s best fashion magazine that showcases designers and their collection, not just from India but all over the globe. It covers all the latest fashion, celebrity lifestyles, photos, and more. It is published monthly in one regional and 18 national edition.

So, after knowing the insights about these magazines, subscribe to your favorite magazine today.

Every woman needs to read Parineeti Chopra’s inspiring message on body image

Image: Suresh Natarajan

Parineeti Chopra just posted really a thought-provoking message on Instagram about her body’s journey through the years and how she overcame shaming to emerge stronger.

There are two ways to look at body shaming: one, to give in to frivolous judgments and let it affect your mind and play on your insecurities; and two, to look that judgment in the face and prove those words wrong. And if you make the right choice—for yourself and not for others—you’re already on your way to a better, healthier lifestyle.

In fact, when you get the opportunity, thank those shamers: their words encouraged you to pay more attention to yourself, and less to them.

Here’s Parineeti Chopra’s message that she shared with everyone, and we hope, inspired many girls to not let negativity get the best of them:

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“BEFORE .. All my life, I have struggled with how I look, how I feel, and how people looked at me. I was constantly made fun of, but the person I was, I generously laughed with them. Today, many people ask me what triggered the weight loss, did I give in to the “bollywood pressure”? To that I say – thank god I became an actor and had that pressure! I am able to achieve what I couldn’t achieve otherwise. I feel more confident, I feel at peace, and I feel proud! Girls and women meet me all around the world, at airports, events, on the street; they hold my hand, hug me, and tell me their struggles and how I changed their lives. They show me their wallpapers, their wallets, and its all pictures of me!! They look at those pictures and want to make that change in their own lives. They look at my Built That Way campaign and have stuck it to their walls. I have seen women tear up and tell me I changed their life. Post delivery weight, teenage obesity, they are fighting it, and I am their inspiration. As an actor, There is no bigger achievement for me. I am glad to be a part of your life in this way. So thank you everyone. Thank You for making me feel loved. Like I always say – if I could do it. So can you. And I am always there for all of you …. Lots of love….”

Anushka Sharma on why she doesn’t believe in awards

Anushka Sharma is convincing even without a script. She speaks so fast, and with such earnestness, that in two hours I feel like I know her.

We’re in the living room of her Andheri penthouse, sitting on a black sectional sofa strewn with quirky cushions, beneath a New York-style exposed brick wall. On the wall above our heads is a massive abstract photo frame, and in my vision is Sharma, curled up in skinny jeans and a black tank, with the backdrop of the sun setting on Versova beach. “I don’t understand art, so I don’t have any paintings. For me, that would be a waste of money. Photographs are more real for me, so you’ll find pictures and posters rendered on different surfaces across the house,” she says.

“Waste of money” is not a phrase many actors use. For Sharma, this penny-wise attitude comes from her upbringing as an Army kid, something that has calcified her public image of the terminally honest girl-next-door—the anti-diva in Bollywood who has a hearty laugh and says what she feels like saying.

Today, Sharma is the big-ticket actor who still lives with her family and wouldn’t have it any other way; her 20th-floor apartment is next to ones belonging to her brother and parents. “It’s a good setup. While I’m living with my parents, I still have my apartment. We are a close-knit family, so staying together is the best feeling,” she says.

It’s perfect given her idea of unwinding: “When I’m not shooting, I love spending time at home—talking to my parents, playing with my dog (a frisky Labrador named Dude) and just watching shows like Brain Games with my dad.”

Sharma calls her older brother, Karnesh, her “best friend” in the industry. In 2014, their lack of Bollywood blood didn’t stop the siblings from launching a production house together. “We make a good team. We share the same tastes and are always on the same page,” she says.

Titled Clean Slate Films, the production house was launched to showcase content-led material by newer talents. “It’s a collaborative effort. She handles the creative side of it and I look after the logistics,” says Karnesh, who gave up a job in the merchant navy to join the movie business. “The only way we are different is that she talks too fast and I’m a slow thinker,” he jokes.

LEADING LADYThat Sharma is one of the youngest actresses in the production business hints at her path-breaker tendencies—she’s ready to write her own rules (and scripts) and live by them. “People asked why I was doing it in the prime of my career. But we only say this about actresses because we assume that they need to do it to find work towards the end of their careers. I’m not into production to make films that glorify me or to replicate films that have worked at the box office; I’m doing it because I want to create quality cinema,” she argues.

She doesn’t seek validation in awards either. Despite portraying strong leads in films, Sharma, so far, has only won awards for supporting roles. “I genuinely don’t believe in awards. It’s rewarding enough that a film like NH10 (2015) got the response that it did, and that because of its success I’m now producing a film with Fox Star Studios, which is funny, romantic and poles apart from NH10,” she says about Phillauri, which stars Life Of Pi actor Suraj Sharma and Punjabi actor Diljit Dosanjh alongside her.

Sharma’s film roles amply demonstrate her range—a city girl working at an MNC (NH10), a glamorous jazz singer (Bombay Velvet), and a righteous scribe (PK), among others. “My characters are wildly different, but they have one thing in common—most of them are that of an independent, successful, working girl,” she says, “I pick a film that has a strong plot. I’d never pick one to piggyback on a big actor or director’s name.” Her decision to turn producer with NH10, an unconventional, dark action-thriller with a strong female lead, speaks volumes about her intrepid nature. “I’m not a product of how people want to see me and how I should be or ought to be. I am what I am. I’ve never done anything just because it has worked. I love taking risks and following my conviction,” she says.

You can’t blame her.

Her life is the typical Bollywood tale we usually see in movies. And the way it’s panned out seems so unreal that sometimes even she can’t believe she’s living it. “If you push me back 10 years and told me all this would happen to you, I would have said, ‘Shut up! Are you crazy? It’s impossible!’”

Read the whole interview in Vogue India’s May 2016 issue that hits stands on May 2, 2016.

Photographed by Errikos Andreou; Styled by Anaita Shroff Adajania; Hair: Gabriel Georgiou/Anima Creative Management; Make-up: Rosario Belmonte/Anima Creative Management; Production: Temple Road Productions, Divya Jagwani; Props: Bindiya and Narii; Photographer’s agency: DEU Creative Management; Assistant stylists: Priyanka Kapadio, Fabio Immediato; Photographer’s assistant: Sajna Sivan; Production assistants: Saakshi Kaushik, Aishwarya Reddy; Location courtesy: Amateur Riders Club, Mahalaxmi, Mumbai