Editing Harper's Bazaar (section)

== Background ==
''Harper's Bazaar'' is an American women's fashion magazine. The magazine was founded in 1867 by [[Harper & Brothers]] as ''Harper's Bazar'' (and has since been operating as ''Harper's Bazaar'' since 1929); it is the oldest fashion magazine still in operation and was based off and originally the American version of the German publication ''[[Der Bazar]]''.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=The Harper Magazines, Part Three |url=https://storage.e.jimdo.com/file/438d0251-4770-4af9-8632-88832bfe468b/03%20Harper%20Mags%203rd%20draft.pdf |access-date=22 March 2025}}</ref>

The magazine is a monthly publication, published ten times per year with merged June/July and December/January issues.

According to the publications current editor-in-chief, Samira Nasr, "''Harper's BAZAAR'' uses fashion as a way to explore the forces shaping culture today and to tell the most urgent stories of the moment."<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harper's Bazaar advertising and media kit |url=https://advertising.hearstmagazines.com/brands/harper-s-bazaar |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=advertising.hearstmagazines.com |language=en}}</ref> Whilst the publisher and owner, [[Hearst Communications|Hearst]], describes it as "the style resource for women at every age, showcasing visionary stylists, photographers and designers with authority and insider insight."<ref>{{cite web |title=Harper's BAZAAR |url=https://www.hearst.com/magazines/harpers-bazaar |access-date=April 5, 2016 |website=www.hearst.com}}</ref>

The magazine has achieved notability for its innovative art direction under art director [[Alexey Brodovitch]] (who worked with the publication from 1934 to 1958).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Cason |first=Daniela |title=LibGuides: The Harper's Bazaar Archive: Content |url=https://proquest.libguides.com/harpers/content |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=proquest.libguides.com |language=en}}</ref> [[Norman Norell]] called it "a photographer's magazine" in reference to its innovative photography.<ref name=":1" /> Along with this the reinvention of the magazine under editor-in-chief [[Liz Tilberis]], and art director [[Fabien Baron]] who wanted to make it into <nowiki>''the most beautiful fashion magazine in the world.''</nowiki><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Schiro |first=Anne-Marie |date=1999-04-22 |title=Elizabeth Tilberis, 51, Magazine Editor, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/22/arts/elizabeth-tilberis-51-magazine-editor-dies.html |access-date=2025-03-22 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=10Magazine |date=2011-06-01 |title=LIZ TILBERIS: TEN INFLUENTIALS |url=https://10magazine.com/liz-tilberis-ten-influentials/ |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=10 Magazine |language=en-GB}}</ref> Is regarded as turning it back into a fashion publishing industry powerhouse.<ref name=":2" /> The magazine is also considered as the long-time rival to ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rourke |first=Mary |date=1992-05-17 |title=Money. Power. Prestige. With so much at stake, Anna Wintour of Vogue and Liz Tilberis of Harper's Bazaar are locked in a . . . : Clash of the Titans |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-05-17-vw-356-story.html |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Circulation ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Total circulation<ref>{{Cite web |title=Magazine Media - Six month circulation averages |url=https://abcas3.auditedmedia.com/ecirc/magtitlesearch.asp |website=[[Alliance for Audited Media]]}}</ref>
|Year
!2016
!2017
!2018
!2019
!2020
!2021
!2022
!2023
!2024
|-
!Circulation
|767,297
|761,891
|768,121
|762,088
|739,338
|730,257
|741,653
|740,242
|740,613
|}

=== Editors ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Editor
!Start year
!End year
!Ref.
|-
|[[Mary Louise Booth]]
|1867
|1889
|<ref name=":3" />
|-
|[[Margaret Elizabeth Sangster]]
|1889
|1899
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Margaret E. Sangster – History's Women |url=https://historyswomen.com/early-america/margaret-e-sangster/ |access-date=2025-03-22 |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|[[Elizabeth Jordan]]
|1900
|1913
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elizabeth Garver Jordan papers |url=https://archives.nypl.org/mss/1597 |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=archives.nypl.org}}</ref>
|-
|William Martin Johnson
|1913
|1914
|
|-
|Hartford Powell
|1914
|1916
|
|-
|John Chapman Hilder
|1916
|1920
|
|-
|Henry Blackman Sell
|1920
|1926
|<ref name=":3" />
|-
|Charles Hanson Towne
|1926
|1929
|<ref name=":3" />
|-
|Arthur H. Samuels
|1929
|1934
|<ref name=":3" />
|-
|[[Carmel Snow]]
|1934
|1957
|<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last=Bailey |first=Glenda |author-link=Glenda Bailey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uutEDQAAQBAJ |title=Harper's Bazaar: 150 Years |publisher=Abrams |date=11 November 2017 |isbn=9781683350071}}</ref>
|-
|[[Nancy White (editor)|Nancy White]]
|1958
|1971
|<ref>{{Cite news |last=Klemesrud |first=Judy |date=1971-12-02 |title=Editor of Harper's Bazaar Steps Down |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/02/archives/editor-of-harpers-bazaar-steps-down.html |access-date=2025-03-22 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
|-
|[[James Brady (columnist)|James Brady]]
|1971
|1972
|
|-
|Anthony Mazzola
|1972
|1992
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anthony T. Mazzola, Former Editor in Chief of Town&Country & Harper's BAZAAR, Dead at 90 |url=https://www.hearst.com/-/anthony-t-mazzola-former-editor-in-chief-of-town-country-harper-s-bazaar-dead-at-90 |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=HEARST |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|[[Liz Tilberis]]
|1992
|1999
|<ref name=":2" />
|-
|[[Kate Betts]]
|1999
|2001
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kate Betts - Speaker |url=https://www.txconferenceforwomen.org/speakers/kate-betts/ |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=Texas Conference for Women |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|[[Glenda Bailey]]
|2001
|2020
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-06-12 |title=Glenda Bailey {{!}} BoF 500 {{!}} The People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry |url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/people/glenda-bailey/ |access-date=2025-03-22 |website=The Business of Fashion |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|[[Samira Nasr]]
|2020
|present
|<ref>{{Cite news |title=Harper's Bazaar Appoints First Woman of Color as Top Editor |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/business/media/harpers-bazaar-editor-samira-nasr.html |access-date=June 9, 2020 |work=The New York Times}}</ref>
|}