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Annabelle
Switzerland’s leading online fashion magazine and once one of our ‘Editor’s picks’. It had always been cutting-edge when it came to the design, but repositioned itself as a portal one year—and now is a subscription site for the print edition with archives (login required). In German

B

Beauty Matters
An intelligently written, blog-driven site examining the nature of beauty

Bon
Stylish Swedish fashion magazine with fashion tidbits

The Budget Fashionista
A hugely popular blog with shopping specials and coupons, started by Kathryn Finney in 2003

C

Caviar & Cashmere
Blog detailing the latest in luxury products, including online store (3/11; 1/14)

Châtelaine
In print, our favourite Canadian women’s mag and the web site is vastly improved since its first incarnation. Good sense of community-building, including numerous chatrooms. One of the better transplants and one of Canada’s leading fashion sites. Your choice of English or French

Claudia Brasil
For the modern independent woman. Claudia’s Brazilian edition has items on fashion, news, relationships and home since it turned into a portal folded into the UOL domain (like a Ministry of Web Sites!). In Portuguese
Content 9   Design 7

Cosmopolitan Deutschland
The German counterpart to the well-known magazine. If you can read the language, you’ll find this site to be more cohesive than its American sister, with better design and useful content

D

Destination Luxury
Online magazine covering luxury brands and exclusive locales, with delicious photography and video

Dot Com Women
A very active women’s portal, with information on work, lifestyle, fashion, homemaking, health, parenting and crafts. A lot of people have attempted this market but Dot Com Women is one of the few that succeed without losing that vital ingredient: sincerity. Pop by and you’ll see what we mean

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Elle
Our competitor has some really good points, including the fact they can be quicker than us with the runway photos. En français
Content 8  Design 9

Elle Korea
These are such brilliant folks. We’ve had the pleasure of dealing with Hachette’s Korean outpost at Elle and found that they are people who keep their word—as well as putting together a fine title. Online, it’s updated regularly, though the cover can be a bit commercial for western eyes. In Korean

Elle Sverige
Sweden’s edition is one of the better ones, thanks largely to Hachette’s investment in online media in that country. Very faithful stylistically to the print edition—right down to the extra-light custom version of Futura—without subscription demands getting in the way. Clean, capitalizing on the knowledge from Hachette’s men’s magazine, Magazine Café

Elle Taiwan
Chinese-language edition of Elle. From what we can tell, the content is shared with the Hong Kong and mainland Chinese online editions of Elle (one China, three Elles), the latter with the simplified character set. Useful content, reviews

Esquire
Positioned as a gentlemen's magazine with more of an emphasis on lifestyle and current events.

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FashionClick
An English and Spanish site with in-depth features and interviews on the fashion and accessories scene

Fashionista
One of the best fashion blogs out there, based in New York

FashionOffice
Formerly Fashion Navigator and a.k.a. Fashion.at, in English and German, Fashion.at covers the Austrian fashion and style scene. Marks for comprehensiveness

Fashiontoast
Fashion, travel and style with one of the top US bloggers, Rumi Neely

FashionTribes
A fun blog with catwalk reports and accessories

Fashion Worlds
Blog-driven site focusing on fashion designers, their histories and their influences

Flare
Canada’s fashion monthly, with features, beauty tips, directory and contests. Facelifted in 1999

Flux
An independent British fashion, music and arts magazine, which started in Manchester as a fanzine in 1997, and has since grown to be an internationally distributed title (5/15)

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