Vogue magazine makes comeback in Greece as debt crisis ebbs
Relaunch bets on a successful return in a magazine market hurt by declining readership and advertisers
Athens — Fashion magazine Vogue hit the newsstands in Greece on Sunday, relaunched after a seven-year absence as publishers bet that the country's economic recovery after a debt crisis will revive an appetite for glossy fashion and lifestyle prints. Vogue Greece will be the luxury magazine’s 26th international edition, run by a 29-year old editor-in-chief Thaleia Karafyllidou. The fashion bible’s publisher Conde Nast International has teamed up with Kathimerines Ekdoseis and the monthly edition will be distributed with Sunday's Kathimerini newspaper, which is celebrating 100 years in print in 2019.
It will also hit newsstands in Greece and Cyprus. “Dear Vogue Greece, welcome back again,” Anna Wintour, Vogue editor-in-chief since 1988, wrote in the Greek comeback edition titled “Eyes on the future” with model Bella Hadid on its cover. “Your return after years of absence fills us with joy. Greece faced problems and lived dramatic moments, I can only imagine how tough it was. How...
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