The director's cut version of Mina's The Life and Death of the Fashion Magazine video she published onto Youtube on Monday.

In this expanded edition, she shares listener stories, gives proper shout-outs to some 20th century woman EICs, dives into indie zines, and talks with Mi-Anne Chan, senior director of programming and creative development at Conde Nast (ooooh fancy), who shares valuable insight on today's digital fashion magazine industry.

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SOURCES

“Fashion in the ‘Mercure’: From Human Foible to Female Failing by Reed Benhamou

Femininity and Consumption: The Problem of the Late Nineteenth-Century Fashion Journal by Christopher Breward

‘Making the Magazine’: Visuality, Managerial Capitalism, and the Mass Production of Periodicals, 1865—1890 by Vanessa Meikle Schulman

Reflecting and Shaping American Culture: Magazines Since World War II by David Abrahamson

Hypervisibility and Invisibility of Female Haafu Models in Japan’s Beauty Culture by Kaori Mori Want

What Happened to 50 Magazines Since the Pandemic Began – WWD 

Internet Crushes Traditional Media: From Print to Digital

Seventeen print magazine moving to digital first: The era of the teen mag is over

The Monthly Fashion Magazine Is No More

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“Americana.” Time, February 3, 1930

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Helen Gurley Brown and the Birth of the Cosmo Girl | The New Yorker

Helen Gurley Brown dead: Assessing America’s most puritanical wild woman

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America's print tabloid era is over

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The Print Renaissance

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Revolutionary PHL: Blankets, Beer, and Beef: Broadsides for Care of Military Bodies

History of Amateur Journalism

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Get To Know The Little Magazines of The Harlem Renaissance

The Amazing Zines That Kicked Off Geek Fandom

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Music HerStory: Women, Zines, and Punk | Smithsonian Institution

IS PRINT REALLY DEAD? HOW GEN-Z IS REVIVING ZINE CULTURE - CULTED

Anna Wintour on the Future of Print, Hillary, and How She Feels About Her Reputation

Written by Mina Le, Ella Gray, and Sophie Carter

Edited by Sophie Carter

Music by Olivia Martinez

Cover by Lindsay Mintz