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 spend a fortune on magazines. Now I occasionally buy one if I have some time off, but even that's tailed off as they seem so dull.

I buy interior design mags and the occasional tech/photography one. I like fashion, but hate the amount of health stuff in women's mags and too many adverts for stuff I can't afford. Though I used to read Marie France in French when I was at school and an American edition of something...Glamour I think, I loved the adverts in that.

It makes sense it closing down. Full of ads and uninspiring content. Marie-Claire is the name of my husbands Grandmother (French) and I love the name. 5 years ago I was so convinced the mag would close we named our daughter Marie-Claire - eh voila! Hope there weren’t job losses but kind of pleased the prophecy cans true 😊 xx

Haven't bought a women's magazine for more than 20 years. Don't miss them. Honestly, who still reads them?

Marie Claire used to (in the nineties I guess) have interesting and hard hitting articles, it was where I first learned about FGM which was mind boggling at a time when the internet wasn't around.

Has Cosmo gone to the big newsstand in the sky as well?

Like so many other posters, am not surprised. Over priced. Full of expensive ads for stuff i can't afford. Obsessed with telling women how to become more appealing to men.

I would like a magazine about women, for women. That reviews clothes I might actually buy. That has stories of real and inspiring women. That carries articles about the home not limited to cooking or cleaning. Not sure such a thing exists.

I learned about fgm from Marie Claire too Fantasisa. The few copies I have seen over the last few years had forgotten about feminism.

I don't think I've bought a magazine since Just 17. I could never see the point of them, they were full of such bilge.

I enjoy Olive and Delicious, and if I was going to buy a woman’s magazine, it would be Woman & Home. I used to enjoy Good Housekeeping but 80% of it is breast cancer articles these days.

@ChardonnaysPetDragon not yet but I bought it the other day on a whim and it was shite, so probably won't be long!

Tbh I thought they'd closed down years ago. Like others have said they stopped being readable. Full of adverts for clothes for the mega rich.

I buy Red through subscription as it is really cheap £9.99 for 6 months - so assuming l am their ypical target customer, it really riles me that the clothes they advertise are always ridiculously expensive.

Red is HOW MUCH 😮

I thought I was just going to the shops in between issues.

That is a shame, although it seems inevitable.

Marie Claire used to have excellent reportage/long reads, although I am going back a number of years now. Like too many other magazines, they are too celebrity-driven instead of focussing on real women. I don't mind a bit of celebrity info here and there, but it is in everything everywhere now. Once that's the case, your own magazine has very much lost its USP.

I used to love Marie Claire. I used to treat myself to it when I was in my early twenties. There was some great articles in it. I remember a couple of great ones in particular one about women in China who were still being forced to bind their feet. However anytime I bought it recently it's been totally the opposite of everything I remember it being.

Used to be a subscriber but a lot of magazines that are aimed at a younger demographic are going down that route. I am older and still like a real magazine...but we will see how many are left in, say, 20 years.

I loved Marie Claire in the late 80s / early 90s - there was more about it than other mags of the time. Haven't bought it for years though. I stopped my Red subscription when I realised I had read everything before: every month just seemed to be a rehash. I tend to buy interiors mags now - perhaps that's our time of life! Saga next ;) .

Also used to love MC in the 90s.
I do still love mags and subscribe to Good Housekeeping and Woman and Home. Occasionally buy Red

Easy Living was great and actually had decent content.

I was an avid magazine reader for years. Starting with Big and Smash Hits in the 90's moving to Just 17 and More in my early teens, then Cosmo and Marie Claire in my late teens and then Closer, New and Look in my 20's.

I stopped reading them as much when I had babies and didn't have the time or money. But now, I can get a lot of interesting content online, so I don't really need magazines.

I do have a library app with magazines that I can download for free and if I'm honest, I don't really enjoy them anymore.

I have fond memories of cutting out pictures of my favourite stars and putting them in scrapbooks. Or, taking them on holiday and reading them by the pool.

This is old news! It closed in 2019.

The last few years they have become vapid shite.