Harper's Bazaar

Codes and Conventions:
Harper’s Bazaar is well known for its high fashion approach to celebrity interviews; prioritising professional, trendy photo shoots of A-list celebrities, and interviews of their first hand thoughts and feelings on their current projects rather than commenting on gossipy rumours and elaborated scandals.

The Front Page of Harper’s Bazaar is image based; the context of a front page headline is limited with small fonts and the main picture dominating the page. The front cover usually consists of an attractive colour palate, with complementing font of feature titles and the magazine logo. The page as a whole follows a flexible but simple format with the layout being minimal so that all focus is on the main image to attract the audience.

- Image dominates the front page (normally an actress or model, something to appeal to fashion fanatics and die hard movie fans)

- Relatively small and discrete font for titles (small enough to not outshine the image but large enough to be bold and visible to the audience)

- Harper’s Bazaar logo/ title (usually transparent in colour)

Overall, the images to text balance is around 85% image based to 15% text based. This reflects the target audience of mostly females and some males whom are interested in high fashion photography or those interested in the model/actress themselves.