French fashion magazine
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Elle, women’s fashion magazine founded in France in 1945 by Pierre Lazareff and his wife Hélène Gordon and owned by the Lagardère Group of France. Its name is the French word for “she.”
Elle features articles on fashion, beauty, and style but also covers health and fitness, food, travel, relationships, celebrities, and current art, music, and books. The magazine also serves as a shopping guide for designer clothing, jewelry, skin products, and beauty merchandise. Its annual Elle Style Awards honour the world’s most stylish celebrities. Elle is generally considered one of the world’s most sophisticated fashion magazines. In the early 21st century Elle had the largest readership of any fashion magazine in the world, with culturally specific editions published on six continents.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Adam Augustyn.
