Categories | Fashion |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Publisher |
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Total circulation (2017) | 645,135 [2] |
Founder | Amédée-Martin Brunhes |
Founded | 20 July 1921 |
Country | France |
Based in | Paris |
Language | French |
Website | lofficiel |
ISSN | 0030-0403 |
L'Officiel, [lower-alpha 1] full name L'Officiel de la couture et de la mode de Paris (stylised in all caps), is a French monthly fashion magazine. It has been published in Paris since 1921 and targets upper-income, educated women aged from 25 to 49. [3] A men's edition called L'Officiel Hommes is also published, [4] as are many foreign editions of the magazine. [3] In 2022, it was acquired by AMTD, a Hong Kong-based company. [1]
L'Officiel was first published in 1921. [4] [5] It was the official publication of the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne, a trade body representing all Paris couturiers, [6] : 83 and took over the role of Les Elégances Parisiennes, a joint publication of a group of about twenty-five couturiers which became defunct in 1922. [7] : 56 When launched in 1921, L'Officiel was originally a professional trade magazine, directed principally at international buyers of high fashion, both corporate and individual, and at those working in the fashion industry. [6] : 83
Georges Jalou joined the magazine as artistic director in 1932. [4] Within a short time, the magazine had helped to start the careers of designers such as Pierre Balmain, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Christian Dior, and Yves St. Laurent, and came to be known as "the Bible of fashion and of high society". [4] [8] Jalou became general director of the publication, and later purchased the magazine. [4]
L'Officiel Hommes was first launched in 1976 as a male alternative to L'Officiel, but in 1998 due to publishing rights, it was rebranded to L'Optimum. However, in 2005, the publishing rights to the name were acquired again and L'Officiel Hommes was relaunched (L'Optimum still operated as a separate publication). [9]
Georges Jalou transferred the magazine to his three children in 1986: Laurent Jalou became the president of Éditions Jalou, Marie-José Susskind-Jalou directed its editorial content, and Maxime Jalou was responsible for publication. [4] After the death of Laurent Jalou in 2003, his daughter Marie-José Susskind-Jalou became president of the company, and restructured the content of the magazine to target a younger market than in its early years. [4]
For the October issue in 2013 Karl Lagerfeld shot the cover photo and editorial, which featured the cast of Opium a film about the life of Jean Patou. [10]
The cryptocurrency Taste Token was launched in 2018 the venture was headed by Benjamin Eymère L'Officiel CEO and was developed to compensate readers for their time on the website and for brands to figure out what readers like. [11]
In January 2021, a group of freelancers working for the magazine took legal action in France, claiming that they had not been paid. [12] [13] [14]
For its 100th anniversary in 2021, L'Officiel opened its archive for academic study to students at the Parsons Paris. [15] They also launched L'Officiel House of Dreams a website set up as a virtual museum documenting the magazines history. [16]
In April 2022, AMTD International (now AMTD IDEA Group) a Hong Kong based subsidiary of the AMTD Group acquired L'Officiel Inc. SAS and Éditions Jalou. With the purchase, AMTD announced that it intended to expand and establish L'Officiel's presence in Hong Kong, Macau, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and the Netherlands. [1] [17] Later in the year it was also announced that they intended to launch editions in Canada, Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom within two years. [18]
At the World Economic Forum in January 2023, the L'Officiel Coffee pop up was launched in Davos, and AMTD announced plans to expand the store to different cities worldwide throughout 2023. [19]
L'Officiel Singapore and L'Officiel Malaysia were relaunched in March 2023, now directly owned and managed and no longer under a franchising ownership model. [20] In August 2023, L'Officiel Philippines was brought under direct ownership also. [21]
The magazine has over 30 different international editions. [22] Other titles published by the group include L'Officiel Hommes and L'Officiel Art (launched in 2012). Other titles of the magazine that are no longer published include L'Officiel 1000 Modèles (from 1996–2019), [23] L'Officiel Chirugie Esthétique (launched in 1996), [24] L'Officiel Voyage (2005–2019), L'Officiel Business (2007), [25] L'Officiel New Talents (2012), [26] L'Officiel Shopping/L'Officiel Paris Guide (launched in 2012), [27] L'Officiel 1000 Modèles Design, L'Officiel 1000 Modèles Joaillerie, L'Officiel Beauté and L'Officiel Intérieur. [28] [29] The 1000 Modèles issues were usually published seasonally.
The magazines first supplement was launched in the 1920s and known as L'Industrie Française du Vêtement Féminine. [30] Other once published supplements include L'Officiel Enfants and L'Officiel Style et Tendances. [31]
L'Officiel editions in Brazil, Italy and Arabia all had original print runs in the 1970s, these editions were closed down but later relaunched. [30]
In 1980 时装 (Fashion) was founded and by the mid-1980s had almost reached a circulation of 300,000. [32] From late 2003 the magazine was rebranded to 时装 L'Officiel after an agreement was made with Éditions Jalou with this the magazine became distributed in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau. [33] [34] As of 2021 L'Officiel China had a circulation of 839,000. [35]
L'Officiel Italia originally had a short run in the 1970s and 1990s. [36] In 2009 L'Officiel Hommes launched an Italian edition and in September 2012 L'Officiel Italia was relaunched with Carlo Mazzoni as Editor-in-Chief. [37] [38]
L'Officiel USA was originally launched in 1976 as one of the first international editions of the magazine, but was later shuttered in 1980. [39] In 2017 L'Officiel USA launched online headed by Joseph Akel with funding from Global Emerging Markets, with the first print edition in February 2018. [12] The Magazine is based in New York City. [40] In December 2021, the City of New York brought an action against L'Officiel USA Inc. under the Freelance Isn't Free Act, claiming that the magazine had failed to pay freelance contributors. [41] [42] [43] A settlement was reached in July 2023 with L'Officiel agreeing to pay 41 freelancers $275,000 USD. [44]
Country/Area | Circulation Dates | Editor-in-Chief | Start year | End year | Ref. |
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France (L'Officiel Paris) | 1921–present | Dominique Gaffory | 1921 | ? | [45] [46] [47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] |
Yves-Georges Prade | 1924 | ? | |||
Andrée Castanié | |||||
Georges Jalou | 1947 | 1988 | |||
Marie-José Susskind-Jalou | 1988 | 2003 | |||
Cécile Sepulchre | 2002 | 2007 | |||
Caroline Bongrand | 2007 | 2010 | |||
Daphné Hézard | 2010 | 2014 | |||
Frédérique Dedet | 2014 | 2016 | |||
Marie-José Susskind-Jalou | 2016 | 2016 | |||
Adrienne Ribes | 2016 | 2021 | |||
United States (L'Officiel USA) | 1976–1980 | Dorothy Coleman Seeman | 1976 | ? | [30] [55] [56] [57] [58] [39] [59] |
Himilce Novas | ? | 1980 | |||
2018–present | Joseph Akel | 2018 | 2019 | ||
Peter Davis | 2019 | 2020 | |||
Caroline Grosso | 2022 | present | |||
Italy (L'Officiel Italia) | 1991–1992 | Giancarlo Albano | 1991 | 1992 | [37] [60] [61] [62] |
2012–present | Carlo Mazzoni | 2012 | 2014 | ||
Gianluca Cantaro | 2014 | 2019 | |||
Giampietro Baudo | 2019 | present | |||
Turkey (L'Officiel Türkiye) | 2000–2005 | ? | ? | ? | [63] [64] [65] |
2012–present | Gülen Yelmen | 2013 | 2015 | ||
Debora Zakuto | 2016 | 2020 | |||
Inan Kirdemir | 2020 | present | |||
South Korea (L'Officiel Korea) | 2001–2002 | ? | ? | ? | [66] [67] [68] |
2019–present | Woo Lee Kyung (우이경) | 2019 | present | ||
Ukraine (L'Officiel UA) | 2001–present | Iryna Danylevska (Ірина Данилевська) | 2001 | 2004 | [69] [70] |
Natalia Radovynska | 2004 | 2008 | |||
Ana Varava (Ане Вараве) | 2008 | 2017 | |||
Ulyana Boyko (Ульяна Бойко) | 2017 | present | |||
China (时装 L'Officiel China) | 2003–present | Zhou Changqing | 2003 | ? | [30] [71] [34] [72] |
Cheng Min | ? | ? | |||
Zhang Jing (张晶) | 2017 | present | |||
Brazil (L'Officiel Brasil) | 2006–2012 | Silvana Holzmeister | 2006 | 2009 | [73] [74] |
2012–present | Erika Palomino | 2012 | 2015 | ||
Maria Rita Alonso | 2015 | 2018 | |||
Karina Hollo | 2018 | present | |||
Singapore (L'Officiel Singapore) | 2007–present | Jumius Wong | 2013 | 2015 | [72] [75] |
Grace Tay | 2016 | 2017 | |||
Ian lee | 2017 | present | |||
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (L'Officiel Baltic) | 2008–present | Līga Zemture | 2018 | present | [76] |
Latvia (L'Officiel Latvija) | 2008–present | Jelena Vlasova | ? | ? | [72] [74] |
Līga Zemture | 2018 | present | |||
Belgium (L'Officiel Belgium) | 2008–2010 | Nicolette Goldsmann | 2008 | 2010 | [77] [78] [79] |
2019–present | Laurence Descamps | 2019 | 2020 | ||
Céline Pécheux | 2020 | present | |||
Morocco (L'Officiel Maroc) | 2009–present | Sofia Benbrahim | 2009 | 2015 | [80] |
Hugues Roy | 2015 | present | |||
Thailand (L'Officiel Thailand) | 2012–present | Kusuma Chayiaporn | 2012 | present | [81] [72] |
Philippines (L'Officiel Philippines) | 2015–2017 | Pam Quiñones | 2015 | 2017 | [82] [83] |
2021–present | Danyl Geneciran | 2021 | present | ||
Vietnam (L'Officiel Vietnam) | 2015–present | Nguyễn Hữu Hôn | 2020 | present | [84] |
Malaysia (L'Officiel Malaysia) | 2015–present | Monica Mong | 2015 | 2021 | [85] [86] [87] |
Ian Loh | 2021 | 2022 | |||
John Ng | 2022 | present | |||
Saint Barth (L'Officiel St. Barth) | 2015–present | Philippe Combres | 2015 | present | [88] [89] |
Argentina (L'Officiel Argentina) | 2018–present | Ana Torrejón | 2018 | present | [30] |
Austria (L'Officiel Austria) | 2019–present | Christoph Steiner | 2019 | 2022 | [90] [91] [92] |
Svitlana Lavrynovych | 2022 | 2022 | |||
Anna Znamensky | 2022 | present | |||
Cyprus (L'Officiel Cyprus) | 2020–present | Christoph Steiner | 2020 | 2021 | [93] [94] [95] [96] [97] |
Svitlana Lavrynovych | 2021 | 2022 | |||
Anna Znamesky | 2022 | 2023 | |||
Andrea Ioannou | 2023 | 2023 | |||
Lisa Johnson | 2023 | present | |||
Monaco (L'Officiel Monaco) | 2020–present | Christoph Steiner | 2020 | 2021 | [98] [99] [91] [100] [101] |
Michael Schwab | 2021 | 2021 | |||
Svitlana Lavrynovych | 2022 | 2022 | |||
Anna Znamesky | 2022 | 2022 | |||
Daria Romanenko | 2023 | present | |||
Chile (L'Officiel Chile) | 2021–present | Valentina Espinoza | 2021 | 2022 | |
Paula Olmedo | 2022 | present | |||
French Riviera (L'Officiel Riviera) | 2021–present | Philippe Combres | 2021 | present | [102] |
Liechtenstein (L'Officiel Liechtenstein) | 2021–present | Grace Maier | 2021 | present | [103] |
Ibiza (L'Officiel Ibiza) | 2022–present | Maya Boyd | 2022 | present | [104] [105] |
Country/Area | Circulation Dates | Editor-in-Chief | Start year | End year | Ref. |
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Spain (L'Officiel España) | 1992–1992 | ? | 1992 | 1992 | [106] [107] [108] [109] [110] |
2015–2018 | Nerea Dolara | 2015 | 2016 | ||
Lidia Maseres | 2016 | 2017 | |||
Carmen Melgar | 2017 | 2018 | |||
Russia (L'Officiel Россия) | 1997-2011 | Evelina Khromtchenko (Эвелина Хромченко) | 1997 | 2010 | [111] [112] [113] [114] |
Maria Nevskaya (Мария Невская) | 2010 | 2010 | |||
Evelina Khromtchenko (Эвелина Хромченко) | 2010 | 2011 | |||
2014-2018 | Ksenia Sobchak (Ксения Собчак) | 2014 | 2018 | ||
2019–2022 | Edward Dorozhkin | 2019 | ? | ||
Greece (L'Officiel Hellas) | 2000–2003 | ANITA ΓPHΓOPIAΔOY | 2000 | 2003 | [115] [116] [72] [117] |
2006–2012 | Evi Karatza | 2006 | 2009 | ||
2014–2015 | Maria Chorianopoulou | 2014 | 2015 | ||
India (L'Officiel India) | 2002–2013 | Superna Motwane | ? | 2013 | [118] [119] [72] |
2013-2022 | Juhi Dua Jacob | 2013 | 2015 | ||
Asmita Aggarwal | 2015 | 2016 | |||
Neena Haridas | 2016 | 2018 | |||
Nitin Agarwal | 2020 | 2022 | |||
Middle East (L'Officiel Arabia) | 2005–2013 | ? | ? | ? | [72] [120] [121] |
2013–2018 | Souha Abbas | 201? | 201? | ||
2019–2022 | Boba Stanic | 2019 | 2022 | ||
Japan (L'Officiel Japan) | 2005–2008 | ? | 200? | 200? | [122] [123] [124] |
2015–2016 | Naoko Kikuchi | 2015 | 2016 | ||
The Netherlands (L'Officiel NL) | 2007–2019 | Nicolette Goldsmann | 2008 | 2019 | [72] |
Serbia (L'Officiel Srbija) | 2008–2010 | Peter Janosevic | 2008 | 2009 | [125] |
Lebanon (L'Officiel Levant) | 2009–2019 | Fifi Abou Dib | ? | 2019 | [126] |
Central Asia (L'Officiel Central Asia) | 2010–2014 | Gulnara Karimova | 2010 | 2014 | [127] [128] |
Lithuania (L'Officiel Lithuania) | 2010–2023 | Jurgita Garbaraviciene | 2010 | 2018 | [72] [129] [130] [131] [132] |
Agnė Jagelavičiūtė | 2018 | 2021 | |||
Juoz Statkevičius | 2021 | 2022 | |||
Indonesia (L'Officiel Indonesia) | 2013–2019 | Winda Malika Siregar | 2013 | 2014 | [133] [72] [134] |
Hessy Aurelia Rumadja | 2014 | 2017 | |||
Rizky Citra Rory [note 1] | 2018 | 2019 | |||
Azerbaijan (L'Officiel Azerbaijan) | 2013–2018 | ? | 201? | 201? | [133] |
Switzerland (L'Officiel Suisse/Schweiz) | 2014–2019 | Sandra Bauknecht | 2014 | 2016 | [115] [135] |
Livia Zafiriou | 2016 | 2019 | |||
Odile Didi Habel | 2019 | 2019 | |||
Mexico (L'Officiel México) | 2014–2022 | Pamela Ocampo | 2014 | 2018 | [115] |
Brenda Díaz de la Vega | 2019 | 2019 | |||
Javier Quesada | 2019 | 2022 | |||
Australia (L'Officiel Australia) | 2014–2016 [note 2] | Dimitri Vorontsov | 2015 | 2015 | [136] [137] |
Damien Woolnough | 2015 | 2015 | |||
Dimitri Vorontsov | 2015 | 2016 | |||
Kazakhstan (L’Officiel Kazakhstan) | 2015–2019 | ? | 201? | 201? | [138] |
Germany (L'Officiel Deutsch) | 2016–2019 | Lisa Feldmann | 2015 | 201? | [139] |
Poland (L'Officiel Polska) | 2016–2021 | Ewelina Kustra | 2016 | 2021 | [140] |
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