Seventeen (Japanese magazine)
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Categories | Fashion |
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Frequency | Monthly |
Circulation | 327,334 (2008)[1] |
Publisher | Shueisha |
First issue | 1967 |
Country | Japan |
Language | Japanese |
Website | https://hpplus.jp/seventeen |
Seventeen (
Launched in 1967 as a weekly magazine based on the original American Seventeen, the magazine changed the name to SEVENTEEN in 1987, and to Seventeen in 2008.
Since the late 1990s, Seventeen has been the highest-selling teenage fashion magazine in Japan,
Controversy
From 2005 to 2007, Seventeen fired all its "mixed-race" models, in this case, of Eurasian ancestry, who had modeled for the magazine and usually been considered to be overweight models.[
Weekly Gendai pointed out that Seventeen's "radicality" had escalated since around 2005, because of the strong influence of the now-defunct lifestyle magazine
References
- ^ Japan Magazine Publishers Association Magazine Data 2008 Archived 2012-03-15 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ 印刷部数公表 (in Japanese). Retrieved March 28, 2014.
- ^ user-generated source]