Baby, This Ain’t Your Grandma’s Fashion Rag

Print’s not dead.  It’s just undergoing a slow process of evolution.  Here to help things along is Qlix Magazine, and  I am thrilled to say that laying here, spread out on my coffee table, is the very first issue!

As blogs and webzines have done before it, this uniquely formatted fashion publication demands that we rethink our idea of what a magazine should be.  

Qlix comes neatly packaged in a printed envelope that contains fold-out fashion storyboards, a poster-sized collection of mini articles, and collectable trading cards featuring the industry “up-and-comers”.  In short, it has all the fun of a kid’s magazine, but with sophisticated and grown-up content.

I just had to know where the founder, Tenisha Anderson, got her inspiration.  Here’s her story:

“During my time at Colophon 2009 in Luxembourg, being around various independent magazine publishers, learning how they started, and just seeing how enthusiastic people are about print magazines, really inspired me to pursue a long time goal of starting a magazine.  Qlix’s design layout was inspired by a collaboration of several publications I came across at Colophon 2009 that bucked the normality of what a magazine is suppose to look like…  
Plus, the talent we cover isn’t only an emerging designer, or photographer, but we also try to cover the talent that is sometimes forgotten: business mavens behind a new fashion PR firm, or a fresh forward illustrator, a crazy-skilled textile designer, fashion writer, a trend forecaster, etc.”

My final word?  This magazine simply oozes with cool.

Want to Learn More?  Just look to your right at my Blogroll and click Qlix Magazine.