Seventeen (Japanese magazine)
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| Categories | Fashion |
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| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 327,334 (2008) |
| Publisher | Shueisha |
| First issue | 1967 |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
| Website | http://www.s-woman.net/st/ |
Seventeen (Japanese: セブンティーン Hepburn: Sebuntīn?) is a monthly Japanese fashion magazine for female teenagers published by Shueisha.
Launched in 1967 as a weekly magazine based on the original American Seventeen, the magazine changed the name to SEVENTEEN in 1987, and to Seventeen in 2008.
Since the late 1990s, Seventeen has been the highest-selling teenage fashion magazine in Japan, and has featured its exclusive teenage models as ST-Mo (STモ - Seventeen Model).Seventeen is very sought after among models (teenage models) because being featured on the magazine especially on its cover and certain pages, strongly helps them to get high-quality endorsements and prestigious contracts. Well-known former Seventeen models include Keiko Kitagawa, Nana Eikura, Rie Miyazawa, Anna Tsuchiya, Hinano Yoshikawa, and Emi Suzuki.
In the late 1990s, some people criticised several young female magazines, including Seventeen, for "forcing their readers to have unhealthy lifestyles".
Seventeen kept silent about it, but in the early 2000s, Seventeen eventually started to feature some "fat" female models.
Since then, there are always some "fat models" among the Seventeen models, however, the percentage is still low. Besides, almost all of the "fat models" are actually not fat; at least under the BMI theory.
Notable current or former "fat models" include Keiko Kitagawa and Kaela Kimura.
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