Classy (magazine)

Monthly Classy Magazine is a Japanese women's magazine published by Kobunsha. Its title Classy is derived from an English adjective classy.

Classy Magazine is a sister magazine of JJ, and has been published since 1984 by the same company. The two magazines are closely linked, and often, models who posed for JJ magazine in their youth will return a few years later to model for Classy.

It has been approximated that the average reader of Classy magazine is between the age of 24 and 28. The magazine is known to be popular with office ladies (widely known as OL in Japan). It is also famous among university students as a magazine for fashion.

History

Magazine was first published in 1984 targeting the women in their 20's.In the beginning, most of the models were American super models, but change in the policies led to the inclusion of more and more local models.Famous Japanese super models, namely and started their modelling career's by appearing as cover girls in the magazine.

Models

Several well known models are working for the magazine. Hiroko Hatano, who used to work for JJ magazine, started to work as a model here in 2005. Sayo Aizawa and Ryoko Tanami are popular model among young ladies.

See also

• Bis (magazine)
• JJ (magazine)
• Kobunsha

External links

• CLASSY - Official Classy website (in Japanese)