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{edih}| country = France| language = Frenchelle.fr}}}}Elle (stylized in all caps) is a worldwide women's magazine of French origin that offers a mix of fashion and beauty content, and society and lifestyle. The title Elle means She in French.BOOK, R. Becker, Shannon, 2020, French for Reading and Translation,weblink live, UK, Routledge, 27, 978-0-3673-4454-2,weblink 17 December 2023, Elle is considered "one of the world's largest fashion and lifestyle publications", with 45 international editionsNEWS, 2 December 2021, Elle to stop promoting the use of animal fur in its magazines,weblink live, BBC News Online,weblink 16 December 2023, 16 December 2023, totalling 33 million readers and receiving 100 million unique monthly visitors on its 55 digital platforms.NEWS, 2 December 2021, Elle says will drop fur from magazines worldwide,weblink live, France 24, Agence France-Presse,weblink 16 December 2023, 16 December 2023, NEWS, Etancelin, Valentin, 2 December 2021, Le magazine 'Elle' bannit la fourrure de toutes ses publications, 'Elle' magazine bans fur from all its publications,weblink live, fr, HuffPost, Agence France-Presse,weblink 16 December 2023, 16 December 2023, It was founded in Paris in 1945 by Hélène Gordon-Lazareff.NEWS, 18 February 1988, La disparition d'Hélène Gordon-Lazareff La 'tsarine' de la presse féminine, The disappearance of Hélène Gordon-Lazareff The 'tsarina' of the women's press,weblink live, fr, Le Monde,weblink 16 December 2023, 28 December 2023, subscription, MAGAZINE, 31 May 2007, Defending Fashion,weblink live, Forbes,weblink 28 December 2023, 28 December 2023, The magazine's readership has grown since its founding, increasing to 800,000 across France by the 1960s. Elle editions have since multiplied, creating a global network of publications and readers. Elle{{'}}s international expansion began with Elle UK and Elle USA launches in 1985. Previous magazine editors include Jean-Dominique Bauby for Elle France and Roberta Myers, the longest-serving editor-in-chief at Elle USA. (:fr:Véronique Philipponnat|Véronique Philipponnat) is currently the director of Elle France. Nina Garcia currently holds the position of editor-in-chief at Elle USA, appointed after the departure of Roberta Myers. The Paris-based Lagardère Group owns the brand internationally. Elle France{{'}}s official headquarters is located in Levallois-Perret, Greater Paris.MAGAZINE, 17 September 2015, 'Elle' fête ses 70 ans en s'exposant aux Champs-Elysées, 'Elle' celebrates its 70th anniversary by exhibiting on the Champs-Elysées,weblink live, fr, L'Express, Agence France-Presse,weblink 16 December 2023, 16 December 2023,

History

Hélène Gordon-Lazareff, Russian-born and Paris-raised, started Elle in Paris in the immediate aftermath of World War II. It was first sold as a supplement to France-Soir, edited at the time by Hélène's husband, Pierre Lazareff. Hélène, Elle{{'}}s pioneering founder, returned to Paris from New York City to create a unique publication that grappled with the many forces shaping women's lives in France in 1945.JOURNAL, Weiner, Susan, 1999, Two Modernities: From "Elle" to "Mademoiselle". Women's Magazines in Postwar France, Contemporary European History, 8, 3, 395–409, 0960-7773, 20081719, 10.1017/S0960777399003045, 20120562, 32621538, Women won the right to vote in 1944,WEB,weblink 21 avril 1944 : les Françaises ont (enfin) le droit de voter, 24 December 2014, TV5Monde, fr, 2 April 2019, and Elle dove immediately into long-form "newspaper-like" features on women's role in national politics and the growing feminist movement.WEB,weblink Elle: The Making of a Modern Magazine, The Fashion Law, 11 January 2018, en-US, 2 April 2019, Elle would "celebrate a new type of woman: independent, modern, active, comfortable in her own skin and her time". The first issue of Elle France was published on 21 November 1945NEWS, Bloch-Lainé, Virginie, 16 August 2023, Une biographie d'Hélène Gordon-Lazareff: diva de la presse, A biography of Hélène Gordon-Lazareff: press diva,weblink live, fr, Libération,weblink 16 December 2023, 16 December 2023, subscription, featuring Yolande Bloin on the cover dressed by Elsa Schiaparelli. Bloin was an actress in Jacques Becker's film .NEWS, 15 December 2015, 70 ans de Elle : ces 10 unes emblématiques, 70 years of Elle: these 10 emblematic front pages,weblink live, fr, Europe 1,weblink 28 December 2023, 28 December 2023, The magazine had a circulation of 110,000 copies in 1945.In the Elle articles featuring rising fashion designers, the magazine would provide free patterns of some of their fashion pieces. This allowed the general public to experience haute couture as the glamour of the fashion world was becoming accessible to the common working class.WEB, You are being redirected...,weblink 2022-04-21, thetempest.co, 18 August 2021, Its 100th issue, published on 14 October 1947,WEB,weblink Vintage advertisement, fashion, arts, erotica, printed collectibles – Paris, France, hprints.com, en, 2 April 2019, featured the work of Christian Dior just eight months after his debut show. Likewise, Brigitte Bardot had her first Elle cover at age 17, on 7 January 1952, months before her screen debut in Manina, the Girl in the Bikini.On 2 April 1956, Grace Kelly appeared on the cover of Elle France, a few days before her marriage to Rainier III, Prince of Monaco. On 16 July 1956, Elle France featured Marilyn Monroe on the cover.By the 1960s, Elle had a readership of 800,000 across France and was said to "not so much reflect fashion as decree it." This dominance was reflected in the famous slogan: " (If she reads, she reads Elle)" ({{literal translation|lk=yes}} "If she reads she reads She").MAGAZINE, 22 May 1964, Magazines: Si Elle Lit Elle Lit Elle,weblink Time (magazine), Time,weblink 28 December 2023, 16 December 2023, live, Lagardère Group subsidiary, Hachette Filipacchi Médias began pushing Elle outside of France in 1985, launching Elle in the UK and the United States.NEWS,weblink Advertising; The Elle Magazine Campaign, Dougherty, Philip H., 16 April 1985, The New York Times, 2 April 2019, en-US, 0362-4331, The Chinese version of the magazine was first published in 1988. It was the first four-colour fashion magazine offered in China. The magazine was an informational and educational tool for opening the Chinese textile market.NEWS,weblink Elle magazine heading for China's fashion-hungry, UPI, 13 July 2018, en, JOURNAL, Yang Feng, Katherine Frith, Fall 2008, The Growth of International Women's Magazines in China and the Role of Transnational Advertising,weblink live, AEJMC Magazine,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20141129014211weblink">weblink 29 November 2014, 14 November 2014, In 1987, Elle Decoration was launched in France by the Lagardère Group. The brand's internationalisation began in the US with the launch of Elle Decor in 1989.By 1991, the magazine's sales were in decline in the U.S.NEWS,weblink Hachette Is Paying For Its Hubris, 17 February 1991, The New York Times, Fabrikant, Geraldine, 2 April 2019, en, In 1995, the magazine circulated 5 million copies worldwide.NEWS, Bonnet, Philippe, 2 December 1995, 'Elle': 50 ans, vingt-cinq enfants. Le magazine vend 5 millions d'exemplaires dans le monde. Dont 6% en France., 'Elle': 50 years old, twenty-five children. The magazine sells 5 million copies worldwide. Including 6% in France.,weblink live, fr, Libération,weblink 18 June 2015, 29 December 2023, Elle.com was launched in 2007.NEWS,weblink Fipp's top magazine innovations for 2011, 22 March 2011, Campaign, 14 August 2015, In 2011, Hearst Corporation reached a €651M deal with Lagardère to purchase the rights to publish Elle Magazine in fifteen countries including the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Russia and Ukraine.NEWS,weblink Hearst Leaps to New Level With Deal for Lagardere Magazine Portfolio, 13 July 2018, en, Lagardère, which struggled in the international market in the 2000s, retained the rights to the French edition and would collect royalties from the international editions.NEWS,weblink Hearst to Buy 100 Magazines From Lagardère, Pfanner, Jeremy W. Peters and Eric, DealBook, 31 January 2011, 16 July 2018, en, By retaining ownership of the Elle brand in France and through licensing forms in 25 countries, Lagardère remained "the guarantor of brand consistency".NEWS, Gonzalès, Paule, De Capèle, Gaëtan, Larroque, Philippe, Renault, Enguérand, 5 January 2011, Lagardère restera propriétaire de la marque Elle, Lagardère will remain owner of the Elle brand,weblink live, fr, Le Figaro,weblink 16 December 2023, 16 December 2023, The strategic decisions on Elle concerning the countries managed by Hearst would be "taken in close consultation" with Lagardère.Elle Brazil was the first commercial magazine in the world to have a transgender model on its cover, with Lea T. in December 2011. The Brazilian edition had also discovered transgender model Valentina Sampaio and had put her on the cover before French Vogue. Elle printed special collectors' covers for their September 2016 issue, and one featured Hari Nef, the first time an openly transgender woman had been on the cover of a major commercial British magazine.NEWS,weblink Meet Hari Nef: actor, model – and Elle's first transgender cover girl in UK |Society, Sarah Hughes, 30 July 2016, The Guardian, 5 August 2016, In April 2018, Lagardère Group sold Elle France to Daniel Křetínský via his holding company Czech Media Invest (CMI), parent of Czech News Center.MAGAZINE, 18 April 2018, Lagardère lance la vente de 'Elle' à un groupe tchèque, Lagardère launches the sale of 'Elle' to a Czech group,weblink live, fr, Challenges (magazine), Challenges, Agence France-Presse,weblink 16 December 2023, 16 December 2023, Lagardère continues to own the Elle brand in France and internationally by granting a "license for the exploitation of magazines".WEB, Fleur Burlet, Lagardère Completes Sale of French Elle to Czech Media Invest, WWD, 5 April 2020, 15 February 2019,weblink At the end of 2021, Elle announced that all global editions would ban fur from their pages as of 1 January 2023, citing "a really great opportunity to increase awareness for animal welfare, bolster the demand for sustainable and innovative alternatives and foster a more humane fashion industry."NEWS, Gumuchian, Marie-louise, 3 December 2016, Elle magazine bans fur in all its titles to support animal welfare,weblink live, Reuters,weblink 4 April 2023, 17 December 2023,

Notable editors-in-chief

Elle editors have included Jean-Dominique Bauby in France, who became known for writing a book after suffering almost total paralysis, and Robbie Myers for the USA edition.WEB,weblink Denis Boyles on EuroPress, National Review Online, 10 October 2013, 17 October 2013, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131017164233weblink">weblink 4 February 2015, In September 2017, it was announced that Roberta Myers was stepping down from the role of editor-in-chief of Elle USA, position she held since 2000, stating through a memo to the staff that "I want to spend the next seasons as available to my children as I can be, and so I take my leave of Elle now".NEWS,weblink Robbie Myers to Exit Elle Magazine, 11 September 2017, The Business of Fashion, 12 September 2017, en-GB, A day later of the announcement, it was reported that Nina Garcia, creative director of Marie Claire was appointed as the new editor-in-chief effective 18 September.NEWS,weblink Nina Garcia Appointed Editor-in-Chief at Elle, 12 September 2017, The Business of Fashion, 12 September 2017, en-GB, Patricia Wang was the first editor of Elle China.WEB,weblink Elle magazine heading for China's fashion-hungry, UPI, en, 8 April 2019, {{ill|Véronique Philipponnat|fr}} is the current director of Elle France.NEWS, Gauchet, Yvonnick, 30 April 2021, La semaine des médias No. 24 ..., Media Week No. 24: Nicolas Beytout, Stéphane Guy, Sonia Mabrouk, Nathalie Iannetta, Marie Portolan,weblink live, fr, Le Figaro,weblink 30 August 2023, 17 December 2023,

Circulation (Elle France) {| class"wikitable"

weblink 11 May 2021, www.acpm.fr, | Year!2009!2010!2011!2012!2013!2014!2015!2016!2017!2018!2019!2020!2021!2022!Circulation| 370,658| 404,037| 402,989| 401,332| 384,704| 352,390| 342,981| 333,141| 340,690| 342,453| 339,151|330,895|314,834|288,254

Global operations

As of 2019, seventy-eight media licenses from the brand are available around the world: one Elle Girl, two Elle Men, five , twenty-five Elle Decoration, and forty-five Elle.MAGAZINE, Bonacossa, Caroline, 11 March 2019, La marque Elle prend une nouvelle direction, The Elle brand is taking a new direction,weblink live, fr, Stratégies,weblink 26 December 2023, 27 December 2023, 0180-6424, According to François Coruzzi, CEO of Elle International, the magazine's centrals are located in Paris, London, and New York, and it has 29 offices worldwide as of 2019.Technologically speaking, the Elle brand is a global network encompassing over 46 websites. Subscriptions account for 73 percent of readers in the USA.Media News - TV Ratings - Television Programming {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010155411weblink|date=10 October 2008}} Media Week. Websites and social networks compose Elle{{'}}s 55 digital platforms.The first international edition of Elle was launched in 1970 as An An Elle Japon.In 1985 American Elle was launched with the first issue featuring supermodel Yasmin Le Bon on the cover.WEB, 2010-02-08, ELLE Flashback: 1985-86,weblink 2024-01-25, ELLE, en-US, The magazine was jointly owned by Hachette and News Groups Publications (owned by Rupert Murdoch).NEWS, Kastor, Elizabeth, 1985-08-23, Giving Them Elle, After a Fashion,weblink 2024-01-25, Washington Post, en-US, 0190-8286, The U.K. edition was also launched in 1985 and also featured Yasmin Le Bon on the cover.BOOK, Di Hand,weblink Design for Media: A Handbook for Students and Professionals in Journalism, PR, and Advertising, Steve Middleditch, 10 July 2014, Routledge, 978-1-317-86402-8, 8, 2 August 2015, WEB, Yasmin Le Bon {{!, covers {{!}} 1985 |url=https://www.yasminlebon.net/covers/1985/index.html |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=www.yasminlebon.net}}In the US, the vast majority (82 per cent) of Elle{{'}}s audience is women between 18 and 49. Its readers have a median age of 34.7 years.WEB, Elle overview,weblink dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20071028130827weblink">weblink 28 October 2007, 11 November 2007, Hachette Filipacchi, 40 percent of the readers are single, and the median household income is $69,973.WEB,weblink Elle reader demographics, Hachette Filipacchi, 11 November 2007,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20070927102725weblink">weblink 27 September 2007, dead, "Our readers are young enough to think about life as an adventure and old enough to have the means to live it", said Roberta Myers, editor in chief.Branding - Corporate Branding - Internet Brand Marketing Brand Week.Elle España was then launched in October 1986.WEB, ES, FashionNetwork com, La revista Elle cumple 25 años en España,weblink 2024-01-25, FashionNetwork.com, es, JOURNAL, Ana Almansa-Martínez, Ruth Gómez de Travesedo-Rojas, 2017, Stereotypes about women in Spanish high-end women's magazines during the economic crisis,weblink dead, RLCS, Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 72, 608–628,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20211009130831weblink">weblink 9 October 2021, 4 May 2020, Elle Italia and Elle Hong Kong were launched in 1987.WEB, South China Morning Post {{!, About publications |url=https://corp.scmp.com/our-business/magazine/ |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=South China Morning Post Publishers Limited |language=en-US}}WEB, Turra, Alessandra, 2018-09-03, Elle Italy Becomes Weekly,weblink 2024-01-25, WWD, en-US, The Italian publication went from a monthly publication to weekly publication in 2018.Elle Brasil was launched in 1988 and 30 years later in 2018 the magazine was shuttered.WEB, Diderich, Joelle, 2018-08-07, Media Group Abril Shutters Brazilian Editions of Elle, Cosmopolitan,weblink 2024-01-25, WWD, en-US, In the same year Elle was also launched in China,WEB, Cowan, Alison Leigh, Advertising; Elle Is Opening In China in July, The New York Times,weblink Greece,WEB, Greece,weblink 2024-01-25, Lagardère Global Advertising, en-GB, Germany,WEB, Germany,weblink 2024-01-25, Lagardère Global Advertising, en-GB, PortugalWEB, Gonçalves, Agência Lusa, Mauro, Ao fim de 32 anos nas bancas, revista Elle vai ser descontinuada em Portugal,weblink 2024-01-25, Observador, pt-PT, and Sweden. However in 2021 the Portuguese edition was closed.The following year in 1989 editions were launched for Quebec, The Netherlands and Switzerland.WEB, ELLE Québec 1989: rétrospective des pages couvertures,weblink 2024-01-25, Elle Québec, fr, WEB, Netherlands,weblink 2024-01-25, Lagardère Global Advertising, en-GB, WEB, Switzerland,weblink 2024-01-25, Lagardère Global Advertising, en-GB, Australian and Taiwanese versions were launched in 1990. However in July 2020 Bauer Media Australia licence holder of the Australian edition announced its closure, citing declining advertising revenue and travel restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.NEWS, Meade, Amanda, 2020-07-21, Mercury Capital axes eight former Bauer magazines, including Harper's Bazaar, Elle and Men's Health,weblink 2024-01-25, The Guardian, en-GB, 0261-3077, WEB, 2024-01-25, Bauer axes eight magazines in Australia,weblink 2024-01-25, NZ Herald, en-NZ, NEWS, Doyle, Michael, 21 July 2020, InStyle, Elle, Women's Health, Men's Health among Australian magazines axed by Bauer Media,weblink live,weblink 11 August 2020, 4 September 2020, ABC News (Australia), ABC News, In November 2020 the magazine returned in a digital only form.WEB, 2020-11-05, Are Media revives Elle in digital only form,weblink 2024-01-25, Australian Financial Review, en, In September 2023 it was confirmed that the magazine would return to print in March 2024, published by Are Media, the successor to Bauer Media Australia.WEB, Jaspan, Calum, 2023-09-15, Elle magazine returns to print as 'readers tire of digital deluge',weblink 2024-01-25, The Sydney Morning Herald, en, WEB, Elle Australia - Fashion For The Stylish,weblink live,weblink 29 March 2021, 28 April 2021, Are Media, Elle Korea was launched in November 1992.WEB, ELLE, 2019-11-09, '92년생 엘르'를 축하해주세요,weblink 2024-01-25, ELLE, ko, A year later in 1993 Elle Singapore was launched.WEB, Suresh, Sanjeeva, 2023-11-28, Lagardère Group Appoints Heart Media Group as its new licensing partner for ELLE Singapore,weblink 2024-01-25, LUXUO, en-US, In 1994 Mexican,WEB, Mexico,weblink 2024-01-25, Lagardère Global Advertising, en-GB, Argentine,WEB, Elle {{!, Grupo Clarín |url=https://www.grupoclarin.com/en/areas_y_empresas/elle |access-date=2024-01-25 |website=www.grupoclarin.com}} Thai,WEB, Bangkok Post Public Company Limited,weblink 2024-01-25, www.bangkokpost.co.th, Polish, and CzechWEB, Elle Czechia,weblink editions were launched.WEB, New edition of ELLE in Hungary,weblink 2024-01-25, Lagardère - Lagardere.com - Groupe, en-GB, Elle Russia was launched in 1996 and the South African edition was also launched in the same year.JOURNAL, Jukka Pietiläinen, 2008, Media Use in Putin's Russia, Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, 24, 3, 365–385, 10.1080/13523270802267906, free, The Russian edition was closed in 2022 after the licence was terminated due to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.NEWS, Britten, Fleur, 2022-04-20, Vogue Russia closes as Condé Nast stops publishing after 'rise in censorship',weblink 2024-01-25, The Guardian, en-GB, 0261-3077, Alongside the Russian and South African editions Elle India launched in 1996.WEB, Of recipes and G-spots: On India's 'magazine era',weblink 2024-01-25, DNA India, en, WEB, India,weblink 2024-01-25, Lagardère Global Advertising, en-GB, Elle Romania and Elle Norge (Elle Norway) were launched in 1997.WEB, Sørvald, Charlotte, 2022-08-31, Vi øker staben,weblink 2024-01-25, www.elle.no, nb-NO, A Turkish edition was launched in 1999.WEB, Turkey,weblink 2024-01-25, Lagardère Global Advertising, en-GB, Elle Canada, Elle Ukraine and Elle Hungary were all launched in 2001.WEB, ELLE : International Launches,weblink 2024-01-25, Lagardère - Lagardere.com - Groupe, en-GB, In 2020 Elle Canada closed its office in Toronto but continued publication from Montreal.WEB, Elle Canada shutters Toronto office, eliminates four jobs, Media of Canada,weblink 2024-01-25, In 2002 a Croatian edition was launched.WEB, Sanoma Magazines Zagreb launches women's fashion magazine ELLE,weblink 2024-01-25, www.sanoma.com, en, Elle launched in Belgium in 2003 in both French and Dutch.The Serbian edition of Elle was launched in 2005 along with a Bulgarian edition.WEB, Sanoma Magazines to launch Elle in Serbia and Montenegro,weblink 2024-01-25, www.sanoma.com, en, WEB, Sbb.bg, ELLE / SBB Media,weblink 2024-01-25, www.sbb.bg, bg-BG, Elle Slovenia was also launched the same year.In 2008 Elle Indonesia and Elle Finland launched.WEB, Lagardère Active launches Elle in Indonesia and Finland,weblink 2024-01-25, Lagardère - Lagardere.com - Groupe, en-GB, A Danish edition was also launched later in 2008.WEB, Denmark,weblink 2024-01-25, Lagardère Global Advertising, en-GB, A Vietnamese edition (Elle Phái đẹp) was launched in 2010, under a licence with Ringier, however it ceased publication in 2020.WEB, Lagardère Active launches ELLE in Vietnam, the 43rd ELLE international edition,weblink 2024-01-25, Lagardère - Lagardere.com - Groupe, en-GB, WEB, Communications, Ringier Corporate, 2020-09-15, Ringier discontinues publication of ELLE Vietnam,weblink 2024-01-25, Ringier, en-US, The magazine was later relaunched.Elle Kazakhstan started publication in February 2015.In February 2017 a digital edition launched for the Ivory Coast.Elle Lithuania launched in February 2024, the magazine is published by the team who previously published L'Officiel Lithuania from 2010 till its closure in 2023.WEB, Vilnius, Made in, 2023-12-23, Unexpected news: the fashion magazine "L'Officiel Lithuania" is ceasing publication,weblink 2024-01-25, MadeinVilnius.lt - Vilniaus naujienų dienoraštis, en, Elle Egypt launched digitally in April 2024, a print edition will be launched in September of 2024.WEB, 2024-04-17, Lagardère Group Launches Egyptian Edition of Elle Magazine,weblink 2024-05-12, The Business of Fashion, en, Elle also publishes region-specific editions within countries, such as Elle Hong Kong{{notetag|When launched in 1987, Hong Kong was not a Chinese special administrative region and instead a dependent territory of the United Kingdom}} and Elle Québec. Published in addition to Elle China and Elle Canada respectively. In Belgium since 2003,WEB, Belgium,weblink 2024-01-25, Lagardère Global Advertising, en-GB, Elle is published as Elle Belgique (in French and for Wallonia) and Elle België (in Dutch for Flanders). Elle Middle East was launched in 2006 across the Middle East with Elle OrientalWEB, Launch of ELLE ORIENTAL in Beirut,weblink 2024-01-25, Lagardère - Lagardere.com - Groupe, en-GB, (published in Arabic and French for Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and the Maghreb). The two publications were later rebranded into Elle Arabia and the French edition was dropped.Elle is a brand owned by the Lagardère Group of France. It is published in France by Czech Media Invest, in the U.S. and the UK by Hearst Magazines, in Canada by KO Média, in Brazil by Grupo Editora Abril, in Mexico by Grupo Expansión, in Argentina by Grupo Clarín, in Indonesia by Mayapada, in Singapore by Atlas Press, in Serbia/Croatia by Adria Media, in Turkey by Doğan Burda Magazine,WEB,weblink Doğan Burda Magazine, 2 March 2022, 19 August 2020,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20200819041058weblink">weblink dead, in Germany by Hubert Burda Media, and in Romania by Ringier. In China, the publisher is Shanghai Translation Publishing House. In India, it is published by Ogaan Publications Pvt. Ltd. As an international magazine, Elle has its headquarters in Paris as well as licensed publishers in New York City, London, Toronto, Mexico City, South Africa, Istanbul, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brussels, Lisbon, Tokyo, Warsaw, Belgrade, Oslo, Helsinki, Bucharest, Athens, Delhi, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Jakarta, Kyiv, Kuala Lumpur, Sofia, Budapest, Bangkok and other cities.In December 2013, Elle US hired Randy Minor as design director. In November 2016, Elle Canada promoted Vanessa Craft to editor-in-chief, making her the first black woman at the helm of an Elle magazine globally.WEB,weblink Elle Canada has a New Editor-in-Chief - Masthead Online News,

Editors

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• Dina Spahi (Arabia)
• Arlette Barrionuevo and Gabriela Silvestre (Argentina)
• Grace O'Neill (Australia)
• Marie Guérin (Belgium)
• Susana Barbosa (Brazil)
• Maria Georgieva (Bulgaria)
• Joanna Fox (Canada)
• Sun Zhe (China)
• Barbara Häckelová (Czechia)
• Cecilie Ingdal (Denmark)
• Susan Sabet (Egypt)
• Véronique Philipponnat (France)WEB,weblink Erin Doherty Named Editor in Chief of French Elle, Williams, Robert, 30 November 2016, WWD, en, 17 June 2019,
• Sabine Nedelchev (Germany)
• Maria Patoucha (Greece)
• Winnie Wan (Hong Kong)
• Ruben William Steven (Indonesia)
• Ainee Ahmedi (India)
• Massimo Russo (Italy)
• Mika Kowaki (Japan)
• Dana Lee (Kazakhstan)
• Eun Mi Chae (Korea)
• Irina SinÄ— (Lithuania)
• Claudia Cándano (Mexico)
• Anke de Jong (Netherlands)
• Petra Middelthon (Norway)
• Marta TabiÅ›-Szymanek (Poland)
• Sophie Banford (Quebec)
• Roxana Voloseniuc (Romania)
• Teodora Bogdanovic (Serbia)
• Caroline Suganda (Singapore)
• Benedetta Poletti (Spain)
• Elina Grothén (Sweden)
• Kayt Hush (Taiwan)
• Kenya Hunt (United Kingdom)
• Nina García (United States)NEWS,weblink Elle Magazine Names Design Director, WWD, 19 December 2013, 19 December 2013, Alexandra Steigrad, 21 December 2013, live,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131221130632weblink">weblink
• Svitlana Kravchenko (Ukraine)
• Lien Chi Nguyen (Vietnam)

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Other markets

In the 1980s, Elle signed an agreement with the Japanese Itokin,NEWS, Feitz, Anne, 17 September 2012, Les très rentables licences de la marque Elle, The very profitable licenses of the Elle brand,weblink live, fr, Les Echos (France), Les Echos,weblink 26 December 2023, 26 December 2023, a group based in Osaka specialising in ready-to-wear.NEWS, 18 March 1989, Bagarres de chiffonniers, Ragpickers' brawls,weblink live, fr, Le Monde,weblink 26 December 2023, 26 December 2023, Elle has been selling its lingerie in Japan for over forty years through licensing agreements. Elle has over 150 partners in 80 countries, all paying royalties to the brand. Elle has more than 3,000 stores worldwide, mainly in Asia. Under the Elle brand, there are around ten , hair salons and spas. The brand also sells fashion, beauty and home decor products.NEWS, Visseyrias, Mathilde, 17 May 2022, Des magazines à l'hôtellerie: une 'Maison Elle' va ouvrir à Paris, From magazines to the hospitality industry: a 'Maison Elle' will open in Paris,weblink live, fr, Le Figaro,weblink 1 September 2023, 17 December 2023, Nissan and Elle collaborated and unveiled the Nissan Micra Elle in September 2012, a limited-edition car specially designed for women.NEWS, 5 September 2012, Le magazine 'Elle' décliné en Nissan Micra, 'Elle' magazine available in Nissan Micra,weblink live, fr-CA, La Presse (Canadian newspaper), La Presse,weblink 26 December 2023, 26 December 2023, The brand has also been launched in the hospitality industry. In 2023, the fashion magazine opened its first hotel, Maison Elle, on the 17th of Paris.NEWS, d'Arcy, Susan, 13 January 2023, The new sky-high hotel that has the best views in Paris,weblink live, The Sunday Times,weblink 13 January 2023, 17 December 2023, Other Elle Hotel projects have been announced for Mexico and around fifteen high-end hotels in the heart of cities that would open in the next ten years.

See also

• List of fashion magazines
• List of women's magazines
• Didier Guérin, executive in charge of new releases
• (:Category:Elle (magazine) writers)

Notes

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External links

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