W (magazine)

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W

Mila Kunis on the cover of the June 2014 issue
Editor-in-chief	Sara Moonves
Categories	Fashion, women
Frequency	6 issues per year
Format	Oversized
Total circulation (December 2018)	453,438[1]
Founded	1972; 52 years ago (1972)
Company	W Media
Country	United States
Based in	New York City
Language	English
Website	wmagazine.com
ISSN	0162-9115
OCLC	1781845

W is an American fashion magazine that features stories about style through the lens of culture, fashion, art, celebrity, and film.

W was created in 1972^[2][3] by James Brady, the publisher of the sister magazine Women's Wear Daily (WWD), originally as a biweekly newspaper spin-off from WWD. In 1993, W was launched as an oversized fashion magazine, issued monthly. In 2000, Conde Nast purchased W from the original owner, Fairchild Publications. The magazine was still presented in an oversized format – 10 inches wide and 13 inches tall. Sara Moonves was editor-in-chief when the final print issue was published in March 2020. W was relaunched in 2021 as an online fashion magazine and now has returned to print.

W had a reader base of nearly half a million, 469,000 of which are annual subscribers.^[4]