Key facts
- Editorial director
- Véronique Philipponnat
- Editor in chief magazine
- Ava Djamshidi
- Editor in chief fashion
- Brune de Margerie
- Categories
- Lifestyle
- Frequency
- Weekly
- Paid circulation
- 11,336,570
- Total circulation
- 11,424,963 (2025)
- Founder
- Hélène Gordon-Lazareff
- First issue
- 21 November 1945 ; 80 years ago ( 1945-11-21 )
- Company
- Hachette Filipacchi Médias
- Country
- France
- Based in
- Paris
- Language
- French
- Website
- elle .fr
- Issn
- 0888-0808
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Encyclopedic overview
Elle ( French pronunciation: [ɛl]; lit. 'She' or 'Her'; stylised in all caps), is a French weekly lifestyle magazine. It offers a mixture of fashion, beauty, and general lifestyle content. It has been published in Paris since its 1945 founding by Hélène Gordon-Lazareff.
The magazine has a global audience reach of over 250 million people monthly, 50 international editions, and spin-off publications such as Elle Décoration, Elle Men, and Elle à Table. The magazine is considered "one of the world's largest fashion and lifestyle publications".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.