Bare

This month sees the first issue of this magazine which is going to come out quarterly. The front cover is very stylish & that is probably what caught my eye. This stylish look continues throughout the magazine and it is almost self-consciously chic. The advertised & mentioned products are expensive & inaccessible to the majority of people. The contents page also didn’t have much information on what the articles were about. At first glance I wasn't very impressed but, though it is not an easy read, persevere. Most of the articles were really interesting, in-depth and had more substance than many glossy magazines. They covered quite a variety of subjects from ...

Bare is the latest 'lifestyle' magazine to hit the shelves. Ordinarily I figure I need more than one issue to write a review, but as there is only one issue so far here goes. If you've ever read through the Sunday Times Style Magazine and thought, 'these guys are nuts, I'm not having cheap tat like that in my home' then you are probably ready for Bare. If the FTs How To Spend it supplement leaves you thinking, 'gosh what reasonable prices' then get a subscription now. As someone who still agonizes over the outlandish extravagance of spending three quid on a coffee at Starbucks I guess I'm not target market. ...

I saw this magazine nestled amongst the fashion magazines in Tescos and thought I'd read it whilst waiting for my mother to finish prodding the vegetables. Bare is a new magazine on the market according to the front cover and obviously claims to be unlike any of the others. After ten minutes of flicking through it I have come to the conclusion that we really do not need any more fashion mags on the market. Bare is like many of the other magazines that have been released lately in that it's expensive, glossy, makes an awful lot of claims, but doesn't seem to actually contain anything of interest. Bare contains some nice photos of clothes and nice living rooms, ...