brand condenast prev next arrow dd-arrow check envelope tumblr twitter facebook instagram old instagram pinterest-p youtube-play google-plus exit

Allure is the beauty expert — an insider’s guide to a woman’s total image

Allure is the beauty expert, an insiders' guide to a woman's total image, with a print audience of 5.3 million and an average monthly online audience of 8.3 million. Allure's mission is to investigate and celebrate beauty and fashion with objectivity and candor and to examine appearance in a larger cultural context. Through its journalistic approach and high aesthetic standards, Allure delivers content with credentials, which yields unwavering consumer trust.

Editor-in-Chief

Michelle Lee

Chief Business Officer

Susan Plagemann

Allure is the beauty expert, an insiders' guide to a woman's total image, with a print audience of 5.3 million and an average monthly online audience of 8.3 million. Allure's mission is to investigate and celebrate beauty and fashion with objectivity and candor and to examine appearance in a larger cultural context. Through its journalistic approach and high aesthetic standards, Allure delivers content with credentials, which yields unwavering consumer trust.

Editor-in-Chief

Michelle Lee

Chief Business Officer

Susan Plagemann

More From Allure

Allure Beauty Box

The Allure Beauty Box is a monthly subscription-based service offering beauty samples curated by Allure editors. Each month, you’ll find at least six deluxe-size product samples from major brands and innovative newcomers that our editors deem the best of the best. Plus, you'll also get a special-edition "mini magazine" chock full of the most trusted product reviews you've come to expect from Allure.

Learn More

Best of Beauty

Considered the industry's highest honor, Allure's Best of Beauty identifies the most effective and innovative products in the marketplace. Allure's editors test thousands of items, review double blind studies and independent research, and consult with industry experts such as dermatologists, makeup artists, hairstylists, and cosmetic chemists, before determining the winners. Each of the award winners represent the best-of-the-best from among the hundreds of prestige, mass and specialty beauty brands.

Learn More

Get Access to Allure

Stay up to date with all the latest Allure news

Subscribe

Contact

Subscriptions

For questions about your print, tablet or mobile subscriptions, click here or call 515-243-3273.

Press

Jaime Ellyn Marsanico
Communications Director
jaime_marsanico@condenast.com

Media Kit

For more information, please contact Alexandra Kotler.

To view our Media Kit, please click here. 

1 /

Michelle Lee

Editor-in-Chief

Michelle Lee is the editor-in-chief of Allure. Prior to joining Allure, she was editor-in-chief and chief marketing officer at NYLON, where she was in charge of editorial content as well as the ideation and execution of native advertising. In that role, she worked on large 360-degree campaigns for global fashion, beauty, and tech brands and helped launch NYLON Studio, the company's in-house creative agency.

Prior to her tenure at NYLON, Lee was the chief content and strategy officer at Magnified Media, a branded-content agency for digital and print. Lee, who was featured as a “Thought Leader” by Google in 2013, has launched brands and digital projects both big and small. She was part of the launch teams for Us Weekly and The Daily Front Row, as well as CosmoGIRL, which won AdWeek’s Launch of the Year. She has held senior staff positions at Mademoiselle and the ASME Award–winning Glamour and is the former editor-in-chief of In Touch Weekly and intouchweekly.com.

Lee was the SVP of Content at Hollywood.com and the creator and editorial director of the style site Beyond the Row.

A prominent speaker, Lee has presented at Columbia University and has appeared on many TV outlets, including the Today show, Good Morning America, VH1, MTV, CNN, and MSNBC.

Susan Plagemann

Chief Business Officer

Susan Plagemann is the chief business officer of The Style Division, which includes Vogue, GQ, Glamour, Allure and Iris. She oversees consumer revenue for this collection of brands, and leads all fashion and beauty sales for the company.

Plagemann previously served as chief revenue officer and publisher of Vogue since January 2010 and her outstanding track record in building media brands has been pivotal to the development of Vogue.

Under Plagemann’s leadership, Vogue has received numerous industry accolades including ASME’s 2015 Magazine of the Year Award and 2013 General Excellence Award. Plagemann was recognized with Condé Nast’s General Record Profit Award in 2014 and the previous year, she received Condé Nast’s first-ever Three-Year Plan Award for building record levels of profitability and growth from 2010 to 2012. In 2012 Plagemann was named along with Vogue’s editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour, as No. 9 on Adweek’s Top 50, and she won both Condé Nast’s Publisher of the Year and the Outstanding Business Performance Award in 2011.

From 2004 to 2009, Plagemann was vice president and publisher of Marie Claire, where she helped to re-establish the brand. She held the same role at Lifetime magazine from 2003 to 2004 and was publisher of Cosmopolitan from 1999 to 2003. She was the advertising manager of Esquire in 1995 and was subsequently named associate publisher, advertising. Plagemann began her career at Mademoiselle, where she held a variety of positions.