Jet-Set (magazine)

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Jet-Set
Jet-Set cover, issue 196.jpg
Front cover of issue 196 of Jet-Set featuring heiress and socialite Tatiana Santo Domingo.
Editor-in-ChiefOlga Viviana Guerrero Campo
Categories Celebrity, human interest, news
Frequency Fortnightly
First issueSeptember 15, 1998 (1998-09-15)
Final issueDecember 18, 2020
Company Publicaciones Semana S.A.
Country Colombia
Based in Bogotá, D.C.
Language Spanish
Website jetset.com.co
ISSN 0123-7918

Jet-Set was a Colombian-based fortnightly magazine profiling the glamorous, compelling and sometimes scandalous lives and happenings of Colombian and international celebrities, politicians, artists, and those of the elite and high-society, that is to say, those in the jet set. The magazine heavily relies on engaging editorials and vivid photographs depicting the stylish fashions worn, the exciting events attended, and the extravagant home décor of the rich and famous to captivate its readers' imagination. [1]

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History and operations

The magazine was founded in 1998 as the tenth publication of Publicaciones Semana S.A. with Álvaro García Jiménez as its first editor-in-chief. [2]

The magazine is based in Bogotá, D.C.

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References

  1. "Jet-Set (Colombia)". Factsheet. Publicitas Spain. Retrieved 2012-03-28.
  2. "La Revista del Jet Set" [The Magazine of the Jet-Set]. El Tiempo (in Spanish). 1998-09-18. Retrieved 2016-08-01.