- Dazed & Confused (magazine)
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Dazed & Confused Editor Rod Stanley Former editors Jefferson Hack, Rankin Categories fashion, lifestyle Frequency monthly First issue 1992 Company Waddell Limited Country United Kingdom Based in London Website DazedDigital.com ISSN 0961-9704 Dazed & Confused is a British style magazine, that was set up in 1992 and published monthly. Its founding editors were Jefferson Hack and Rankin. Topics covered include music, fashion, film, art, and literature.
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Background
With the demise of both The Face and Sleazenation, Dazed & Confused now exists alongside old rival i-D.
Beginning as a black-and-white folded poster published sporadically, the magazine soon turned full colour, promoted with London club nights. The combination of Jefferson Hack's eye for emerging scenes and talent, Rankin's growing reputation for celebrity portraiture, inventive graphic design and an inspirational fashion team brought a reputation that belied the magazine's small distribution.
This reputation attracted cover stars such as Richard E. Grant (issue #11), Jarvis Cocker (issue #15) long-time collaborator Björk (#16) and in a coup for the magazine, Radiohead's Thom Yorke interviewing himself in issue #19.
Throughout the 1990s the magazine's influence grew as its format evolved and the reputations of some of those it had championed early in their careers blossomed. Among its many international magazine cover firsts Dazed counts Alicia Keys (June 2001, #78; view it here [1] on page 6), Jake Gyllenhaal (#98), Hilary Swank (#64), Eminem (#66) and Pharrell (#101), all of whom have gone on to huge international success.
The magazine has also supported social causes and encouraged debate with issues such as its 1998 Fashion-Able issue (#46) and 2004's South Africa issue (#115), the former dealing with perceptions of beauty and disability and the latter with the state of the country ten years after apartheid and the AIDS crisis throughout Africa. In 2006 Dazed & Confused joined forces with MySpace to support RED and World AIDS Day by encouraging the public to submit artwork and pledge their support to join the (RED) initiative.
Dazed Film & TV
Looking to move beyond the printed page in 1999 Dazed Film & TV was founded, a production company that would produce the first mast-head television broadcast ever, the one hour special Renegade TV Gets Dazed, for Channel 4. In 2001 the Dazed Group, as it styled itself, launched the luxury bi-annual Another Magazine. In 2005 the Group launched Another Man, a bi-annual fashion title for men.
In April 2011, Dazed & Confused launched its first live festival in East London, Dazed Live, featuring live music performances from Gang Gang Dance, Factory Floor, Black Devil Disco Club, About Group (feat. Hot Chip's Alexis Taylor), SBTRKT, Caribou, and more.
Dazed Digital
In November 2006, Dazed launched a new web based strand of the magazine titled DazedDigital.com, which delivers fashion, film, music and art news and special online events.
In 2010, Dazed Group confirmed its leading position of the digital version of the magazine. Dazed & Confused is number one in its category with 205,000+ followers on Twitter and 105,000+ Likes on Facebook. They relaunched their site on September 7, 2010 under the project title "Dazed Digital REACTIVATE". With a countdown in the days prior to the relaunch, the new site did not go live until there were 10,000 simultaneous viewers; this target was reached in 22 minutes. The new site launched as first UK online publisher using an HTML5 site.
DazedTV.com
Soft launched in September 2010, DazedTV.com is Dazed new destination for video only content. With the launch of Dazed TV on Boxee, short films and exclusive music videos curated by Dazed can now be streamed on a computer but also on a TV set.
In February 2011, Dazed launched its first ever show, DAZED TV PARTY premiered on Dazedtv.com. Hosted by Stuart Hammond, and created by Dazed co-founder Jefferson Hack and music editor Tim Noakes, DAZED TV PARTY is an ongoing audiovisual experiment produced in association with Warp Films. Paying homage to the lo-fi public broadcasting aesthetic of Glenn O’Brien’s cult 1970s TV Party, the first episode features new interviews and exclusive performances from Florence Welch, Jake Chapman, Alice Dellal, Dominic Jones, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Factory Floor, Dave I.D., Marques Toliver, and Theo Adams. Turner Prize-nominated artist Mark Titchner has created a series of bespoke graphic idents for the show, and the studio set was built and designed by renowned art director Gary Card.
Other editions
Dazed & Confused Japan launched in April 2002. [2] On May 16, 2008, Dazed & Confused Korea published its first issue. [3]
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- British magazines
- British lifestyle magazines
- Monthly magazines
- British fashion magazines
- Magazines established in 1992
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