The loss of Australian magazines is a sad end of days for the creative industry at large | Kirstie Clements

These trusted mastheads have played the role of friend and confidante for generations of women, but the demise was coming for a long time

In a decisive and frankly unsurprising move, Mercury Capital, the private equity firm that recently purchased the Bauer Media stable of magazines in Australia for less than $50m, swiftly shuttered eight titles this week, including high-profile licensed glossies Harper’s Bazaar Australia, InStyle Australia and Elle Australia.

As someone who has worked in fashion magazines since the mid 1980s, including 13 years as the editor-in-chief of Vogue Australia and who was until Tuesday the features director of Harper’s Bazaar, I know firsthand that these are not exactly the glory days for women’s publishing, the pressures of a global pandemic notwithstanding.

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