Weekend Briefing: What’s behind the revival of fashion’s print media?

Last week, a number of print media outlets seemed poised to make a comeback, though print media circulation is still down. So what’s driving companies including LVMH and Bedford Media to invest in reviving old properties? Don’t forget to subscribe to the Glossy Podcast for interviews with fashion industry leaders and Week in Review episodes, and the Glossy Beauty Podcast for interviews from the beauty industry. –Danny Parisi, sr. fashion reporter

The return of the magazine

News broke last week that Karlie Kloss, along with her husband, investor Joshua Kushner, plan to revive Life Magazine. The couple’s holding company, Bedford Media, in agreement with publisher Dotdash Meredith, is bringing back the storied magazine in both print and digital forms. First founded in the 1880s, Life was a major purveyor of American photography for over a century before shuttering for good in 2000.

It’s the latest in several big moves happening in fashion around legacy print media. The industry owes much of its development and cultural ambassadorship over the decades to magazines including Vogue, Elle and Harper’s Bazaar.

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