Marie Claire magazine closing down

[Housewife2010]

Its last UK print issue will be in November then it will be digital. There are so few glossy women's magazines compared to their heyday 10+ years ago. I used to get so many, but even I've lost interest in them. I still get Red by subscription ( it's £5.50 in the shops!) but I don't enjoy it as much as I used to.

I used to love Marie Claire and Elle, but lost interest as well - the content was so far removed from real life I think they became irrelevant.

You could also buy a good book for the same price lol

I’m not surprised, their all adverts now.

Aw no, I love magazines and am always sad to hear of one closing down
I'm not surprised that some are in decline though, as much as I love them they are just so expensive! Some of them are nearly a fiver and they're nearly all adverts.

Ah! I’m sorry to hear that, - though I’m part of the problem as I haven’t bought it in a decade. It used to have very good features and was more feminist than it’s rivals before it returned to fashion.

I worked for Marie Claire in my youth - I find this news strangely sad.

We used to rip all the pages out that were entirely adverts - made them a lot thinner!

Women’s magazines have been absolute bilge for years. All how to get your man and be thinner.

I get Simple Things now.

the content was so far removed from real life I think they became irrelevant

I agree.
Used to know the date of every single ones new issue, but only buy one very rarely now. I'm sad to hear this too, but alas I'm the declining readership.

@frith2013 to be fair that hasn't been the case for around 10 years now, they seemed to have got their acts together and a lot of the articles were genuinely hard hitting, informative and empowering.

On another note, does anyone know where Glamour magazine went? I really enjoyed the writing but haven't seen it for ages now.

That’s sad but I am also someone who hasn’t bought one in ages...maybe when I’m going on a flight but can’t remember another time. They are way too full of adverts and a lot of the them are for designer stuff that no average person could afford.

Glamour is only published twice a year now due to declining readership. It will probably close soon too.

Glamour also went digital only a while back.

Sad but inevitable. I went from buying two or three a month to one a year or just reading them while I was at the hairdressers.

They became irrelevant, full of re-hashed stories and sycophantic interviews and reviews, not to mention the wall to wall adverts for £6,000 bags, £10k holidays & £8,000 jewellery.

I used to love Glamour too. I havent seen it for years though.

Noooooo

m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/glamour-magazine-ends-print-run-solely-digital_n_5bf43895e4b0376c9e6934aa

I subscribe to Readly. It’s something liken £7 a month and you get digital access to hundreds of magazines. Things like glamour, Marie Claire, good housekeeping are on there, so for the price of 1 orn2 magazines a month i get to read lots and don’t feel ripped off if some are more adverts than content!!

I never read or bought those glossy women's magazines, ever, because I was never interested in dieting or trying to get a man or fashion or makeup. I do still buy weekly and monthly magazines related to my hobby though but they are expensive so I only stick to one or two a few times a year.

I haven't bought a magazine for years. I used to like Red but it's really gone downhill. I read mags & papers through Pressreader, free with a library card.

I could wrong but I wonder If it's down to two key factors.
First the fact that celeb gossip - a big part of most of women's mags - is now freely available and more recent on celeb gossip websites.
Second that the beauty advice they give out is overshadowed by blogs, YouTube reviews etc.

I’ve only bought it a few times - the first 15 or so pages are literally just adverts, with plenty more inside. I think if you ripped all those pages out there would hardly be a magazine left. And it’s always been much higher priced than most other magazines - that and the fact that it’s a pretty dull read compared to other magazines, I’m not surprised it’s going. It’s not value for money and I think it’s a bit unclear who they’re actually trying to appeal to.

I use a free version of Readly which is linked to my library membership.i have in the past subscribed to Red and I used to love Easy Living, which folded a few years ago.

We have a number of glossies delivered FOC to our works reception which we can take home.

I do like MC though.

What was the one that was a bit like Red but closed a few years ago?
Off on a tangent...

Oh bugger it, I remembered as soon as I hit Post. New Woman.
Anyway, I miss that one!

I loved it when it first came out, bought it regularly for a long time but every time I've tried it in the last few years its been dreadful, all adverts and really lightweight articles.

I gave up on magazines when I could buy a paperback for less.

Stopped buying mags in the 90s as they were all ads and making women feel shit.

I stopped reading after an article on trafficking women spent a paragraph explains what the women who worked for the charity were wearing.

Made me angry and sad. TBF I think that was the North American edition.