The Globe and Mail Introduces Globe Style Advisor: A Bi-Annual Glossy Stylebook for Refined Living

Spring edition debuts April 13; digital edition available for iPad users

TORONTO, March 8, 2012 /CNW/ - The Globe and Mail is introducing Globe Style Advisor, a new bi-annual stylebook featuring 64 oversized glossy pages of premium lifestyle content, on April 13. The magazine reflects The Globe's ongoing commitment to readers and advertisers - delivering quality content, products and trends covering all aspects of refined living from fashion and beauty to home and design to stylish entertaining. Globe Style Advisor will be delivered nationally to Globe and Mail subscribers and will also be available at Air Canada and VIA Rail lounges. iPad users will be able to download their digital version of Globe Style Advisor through the Apple store. The fall edition will launch September 14.

"Our readers turn to The Globe and Mail for advice about all aspects of stylish living, from luxury fashion to home decor purchases," says Andrew Saunders, Vice President of Advertising Sales, The Globe and Mail. "Globe Style Advisor is their glossy magazine of style trends complete with editorial content and products - a handbook they'll be sure to leave on their coffee tables until the next issue arrives."

Globe Style Advisor will be led by Globe Style Editor Danny Sinopoli and feature some of The Globe's most talented writers, including Paris-based Style reporter Amy Verner; decorating and interior design maven Sarah Richardson; food and food-trends expert Chris Nuttall-Smith; wine and spirits columnist Beppi Crosariol and acclaimed cultural critic Katrina Onstad. The spring and fall editions will unveil and dissect four key trends for the season, helping readers to understand the impact and interpretation of the trends across cultural platforms.

"The aim of Globe Style Advisor is to illuminate the season's top lifestyle trends in a smart, visually dynamic way that both informs and inspires," Sinopoli says. "Whether it's fashion, beauty, decor or entertaining, there are prevailing currents that shape seasonal trends, many of them overlapping. Globe Style Advisor will lay these out for readers in a strikingly handsome package and advise readers on how to adopt and incorporate them into their lives from enticing product pages and sumptuous pictorial spreads to context-setting essays by our roster of leading trend writers."

For complete information about advertising in Globe Style Advisor, visit globelink.ca/style. Space closes March 12 for the spring edition.

About The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail, through its newspaper, magazine, online and mobile platforms, is Canada's foremost news media company.  Each day, The Globe leads the national discussion by engaging Canadians in its award-winning coverage and analysis of news, politics, business and lifestyle. The Globe and Mail, Canada's national newspaper, founded in 1844, Report on Business, Canada's most influential business magazine, and globeandmail.com, the newspaper's online and mobile media hub, reach a combined 5.7 million readers every month. The Globe has received numerous journalism awards, including the international 2011 prize for General Excellence in Journalism from the Online News Association, nine Michener Awards for Public Service Journalism, and more National Newspaper Awards than any other newspaper in Canada. The Globe and Mail is 85% owned by Woodbridge, the investment arm of the Thomson family, and Bell Canada (15%).

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