Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine published in several countries by Allabaster Publications. The American version of Vogue is currently being led by Miss Vandemark, the living legend for everything fashion. Each month Vogue publishes a magazine based entirely on Fashion, Life and Design. It has surpassed all other magazines in total circulation and ads. Vogue is so named because it is said to be as a noun, Vogue suggests transient impermanent fashionability.
GQ (previously known as Gentlemen's Quarterly) is a monthly men's magazine focusing upon fashion, style, and culture for men, through articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, travel, sports, technology, and books. It is generally perceived as upscale and more sophisticated than lad mags, such as Maxim or FHM. Allabaster Publications took over in 1983, and the magazine is currently being led by Mr. Cooper, a long term English resident in New York City. He changed the course of the magazine, introducing articles beyond fashion and establishing GQ as a general men's magazine in competition with Esquire.
Two very different magazines, two very different concepts, how do you bring them together?
Nine months ago, Allabaster Publications’ director John Coppelman, took a decision that would forever change the fate of both magazines. Circulation was dropping, other magazines were slowly taking over, and something had to be done. Something radical, something that would make enough impact so as to return their former readers and introduce them to a whole new market. The merging of both Vogue and GQ was announced only a week after Coppelman’s meeting with staff from both magazines, despite their protests. Under a new name, both magazines would mold into a single one, oriented for both males and females. Vogue staff would work on the sections for women, and GQ would work on the sections for men. Coppelman, although perhaps rash and blunt, was a visionary, and his decision would prove to be incredibly successful. People went crazy over the new magazine, with it’s avant garde approach to all subjects of interest. It had everything, from fashion to music to sports to lifestyles.
Six months later, Fierce is now the lead in the print industry, although the harmony that you can see on the magazine isn’t necessarily so backstage. Because when you put together both groups, disagreements and tensions were bound to appear. At the heart of everything, is Vandemark and Cooper’s continuous fighting. They’ve always been famous for never getting along, and now they are stuck working together. Of course, rumor has it all their fighting is just a mask for the incredible sexual tension between them. But with the two leading their staff, Fierce is thrown in chaos, since it’s hard to share your power with someone else. The fashion editor claims the sports editor is taking up too much space, the gadgets editor claims his interns shouldn’t be helping the fashion stylist with shoots, photographers think they aren’t receiving as much shoots are they should. But somehow, someway, it all works out to produce a brilliant magazine.
But how long until things crash and burn? Can both teams learn to get along, to work together? Or will their fighting reach new levels? And what happens when you throw love and romance in the mix?