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About IPC - Southbank
IPC Southbank is the upmarket women's division, focusing on the two key markets of Fashion & Women's Lifestyle and Home Interest. Southbank is home to some of the most iconic magazine brands in publishing.
Southbank provides a magazine for every stage in a woman's life. Our magazines offer unrivalled breadth and reach in the upmarket women's market, delivering a readership base of over nine million across two key sectors: Fashion & Women's Lifestyle and Home Interest.
Southbank also publishes the internationally renowned Wallpaper* and its successful website www.wallpaper.com.
FASHION
Marie Claire is a worldwide icon. With editions in 36 countries, it epitomises style and substance, with fashion and beauty that embrace everything from catwalk to high street, and feature content that reflects both the fun and more serious sides of its readers' personalities. Marie Claire is published in the UK in partnership with French publishing company, Groupe Marie Claire.
InStyle, “Your Own Personal Stylist”, is an insider's guide to the lives and styles of the world's most stylish and admired international celebrities, and is the first port of call for women seeking expert advice and inspiration about fashion, beauty, homes and entertaining. The British edition of this international title was launched in 2001 and is now established as one of the leading fashion magazines in the UK.
Look was the most successful women's weekly launch of the last decade. Look is a fast-paced, glamorous, glossy high street fashion and celebrity weekly for young women. It has a unique mix of up-to the-minute affordable fashion, high street shopping advice, celebrity style and news, coupled with thought-provoking real life. Look is the accessible, must-have glossy weekly high street fashion bible, complemented with news about fashion, beauty and shopping daily online at www.look.co.uk.
HOME INTEREST
www.housetohome.co.uk is an interactive home-decorating site that takes interior design online as never before. The hub of a homes network incorporating leading brands including Ideal Home, Livingetc and Homes & Gardens, the site has over 2,000 inspirational images, plus interactive decorating tools and a comprehensive product finder allowing users to dream, click and shop to create their perfect home. The first website of its kind in the UK, www.housetohome.co.uk launched in June 2007.
Ideal Home is Britain's best-selling interiors magazine and has been empowering home-owners to make the most of their properties for over 80 years. The magazine covers every aspect of contemporary living, from a wide range of transformed houses, kitchens and bathrooms showcasing the best new trends to inspirational decorating stories which tap into the latest home looks from top retailers and designers. Further ideas and advice can be found on the www.idealhomemagazine.co.uk website.
Established for over 80 years Homes & Gardens celebrates the beauty of classic and contemporary style. Real-life homes with stunning photography deliver inspirational decorating while remaining real and relevant. Homes & Gardens is the ultimate sourcebook of beautiful ideas and detailed information, inspiring its readers to become their own interior designers. Readers can go online at www.homesandgardens.co.uk.
Country Homes & Interiors is the magazine that celebrates the best of modern country decorating style. Inspired by the spirit of today's relaxed living, you'll find page upon page of gorgeous real homes, plus a fresh take on country-inspired decorating.
Elsewhere in our market-leading Home Interest portfolio, Livingetc, Britain's best-selling modern homes magazine, is the premium glossy magazine for the design-conscious homeowner. Smart and stylish, it's the only homes title successfully to bridge the gap between fashion and interiors. Livingetc is the trusted, credible voice of relaxed modern living.
25 Beautiful Homes is designed for affluent women with traditional tastes and a sense of personal style. Its readers aspire to their dream house and enjoy looking at other people's homes, designs and styles for inspiration. The popularity of the magazine has led to the creation of Beautiful Kitchens – the UK's best-selling kitchens magazine, which now publishes 10 issues a year.
Style at Home is the practical homes monthly magazine for women who take a hands-on approach to decorating, revamping and styling their home. Every issue contains inspiring real homes, room transformations, easy makes, step-by-step projects, finishing touches, great-value shopping and affordable style ideas, plus a special pullout 'Cook it' section each issue, with 50+ quick and easy recipes.
WOMEN'S LIFESTYLE
woman&home magazine is a real success story. As the fastest-growing lifestyle title for women, it epitomises a 'brand new attitude' for women over 35. It was the first magazine to echo this new spirit and each month presents a stylish mix of content reflecting the way women live and work today. The magazine covers all areas of a woman's life – in a fresh modern way. Also online at www.womanandhome.com.
essentials is IPC's practical lifestyle monthly for modern, suburban women - and is packed with fast and easy tips to make life easier, every day. It offers useful emotional and practical help and advice - great affordable fashion, best beauty buys and step by step guides, motivating health features and smart ways to be a savvy consumer. The 32-page unique "How to" franchise offers easy, mouth watering food and gives practical, can-do tips and solutions for home, wellbeing, and new technology.
WALLPAPER*
Launched in 1996, Wallpaper* is the world's number one global design destination. It delivers the core values of modern living to a new generation of urban nomads. Aimed at an international audience, it celebrates the best in design, fashion, travel and technology.
To contact Southbank managing director Jackie Newcombe, email jackie_newcombe@ipcmedia.com or call 020 314 87651
Find out how to advertise with IPC Southbank brands or contact Alex Russell at alex_russell@ipcmedia.com or 020 314 87623
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