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Cosmopolitan
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American fashion and culture magazine
Key facts
- Editor in chief
- Willa Bennett
- Categories
- Fashion , Women's
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Total circulation
- 526,322 (2025)
- First issue
- March 1886 ; 140 years ago ( 1886-03 )
- Company
- Hearst Communications
- Country
- United States
- Based in
- Hearst Tower , New York City
- Website
- www .cosmopolitan .com
- Issn
- 0010-9541
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- magazine
- Country
- United States
- Genre
- fashion magazine
- Country of origin
- United States
- Publisher
- Hearst Communications
- Main subject
- woman
- Official website
- www.cosmopolitan.com/uk
- Image
- Veronica Lake by Bradshaw Crandell on Cosmopolitan cover, 1941.jpg
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- Commons category
- Cosmopolitan (magazine)
- title
- Cosmopolitan
- inception
- 1886-00-00
- language of work or name
- Italian
- name in kana
- コスモポリタン
- Commons gallery
- Cosmopolitan Magazine
- total produced
- 3032211
- different from
- Cosmopolitan Twarda 2/4
- social media followers
- 1970000
- newspaper format
- tabloid
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Encyclopedic overview
Cosmopolitan (stylized in all caps) is an American quarterly women's fashion and entertainment magazine first published in New York City in March 1886 as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and, since 1965, has become a women's magazine. Cosmopolitan is one of the best-selling magazines.
Formerly titled The Cosmopolitan and often referred to as Cosmo, Cosmopolitan has adapted its style and content. Its current incarnation was originally marketed as a woman's fashion magazine with articles on home, family, and cooking. For some time it focused more on new fiction and written work, which included short stories, novels, and articles. Now it is more targeted towards women's fashion, sports, and modern interests. Eventually, editor-in-chief Helen Gurley Brown changed its attention to more of a women's empowerment magazine. Nowadays, its content includes articles discussing relationships, sex, health, careers, self-improvement, celebrities, fashion, horoscopes, and beauty.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cosmopolitan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.