Wig is, if critics are to be believed, destined to be one of the top 10 most beautiful magazines in the world. Wig is an independently published magazine from England filled with things from all over the world.
Cut any copy of Wig in half and it will have fashion all the way through it: we just can't help it.
It's what sticks the pages together. However, fashion on it's own isn't really enough. Our contributors include photographers, writers, illustrators, and a whole range of creative people who respond to the Wig thinktank's suggested 'theme' for each edition.
Cultural and political comment, reviews, lovely photographs, whimsey, inventiveness and the downright curious end up on our doormat.
We glue it all together and call it Wig.
Here is the sixth Wig magazine and the introduction to it. The issue is full of pictures. Many of these pictures are in full colour. Enjoy the pictures, and look at them closely. There are words too. Do you notice what they all have in common? Do they relate to The Far East or Australasia? Are they commonly associated with our American cousins? No. Perhaps you might be thinking of books. You may be reminded of literature. Is it world literature? Not really. The important words in this issue are called key words, and these words are mixed together with the pictures to help conjour up an sense of United Kingdom-ness.
Key words to look out for are London, pimp, Orkney, skinhead, trench and Boeing. Proper nouns include the first Duke of Marlborough, Adam Adamant, and Lord Privy Seal. Other words are introduced purely in pictorial form, the words chosen lending themselves to easy, unambiguous illustration. Included here you will find bunting, ruffle, kitchen-sink, perambulator, scrubber, garter, smocking, pier-end, bowler, gothic, fag, and velveteen. Verbs in everyday use are included (loiter, muse, strut, scarper, lounge, and frogmarch), also the most commonly used numbers (eleventh hour, sixpence, one-upmanship, fourpenny-one, Bar-Six, After-Eight, Number Ten) and colours including thin blue line, blackleg, and Dorian Gray.
Through careful choice of words, frequent repetition, thoughtful matching of text with pictures, and frequent repetition, it is hoped a strange, fleetingly half-remembered economical evocation of this kingdom may be sensed.
THE EDITORS,
England
The Fifth Issue: my fellow Americans or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb.
The Fourth Issue: Eastern Bloc Party.
Issue Three. 'Every time I paint a portrait, I lose a friend'.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT, 1985-1925
The Second issue: this issue had lots of really nice and interesting things in it. A Eclectic Collective if you will.
The First issue: the launch edition had three different covers. Some wise and clever folk bought all three versions. (now selling for hundreds on eBay)
Chief Editors
Phil Hobbis, Alan Graham
and Wolfgang Mustain
things@wigmagazine.co.uk
Design Director
Sam Cutting
sam@wigmagazine.co.uk
Wig HQ
Wig Magazine Registered Office:
22 Twickenham Road
Teddington
Greater London
TW11 8AG
UK
Literary Editor
Alan Widdrington
alanw@wigmagazine.co.uk
TEL: +44 (0) 7860 308691
FAX: +44 (0) 208 9779 503
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Distribution
Wig is distributed world-wide by COMAG International.
Tel. +44 (0) 1895 433600
www.comag.co.uk
Back Issues
Now rare.
For availability please try eBay or any good yard sale.
Alternatively, we'll sell you our special private copies:
The First Issue: £10 plus £5 p&p
The Second Issue: £10 plus £5 p&p
The Third Issue:£10 plus £5 p&p
The Fourth Issue:SOLD OUT
Please make cheques payable to Smartstar Ltd. and send your order to:
Wig Magazine
23 Victoria avenue
Harrogate
North Yorkshire
HG1 5RD
Chief Editors
Phil Hobbis, Alan Graham
and Wolfgang Mustain
things@wigmagazine.co.uk
Picture Editor
Wolfgang Mustain
wolfgang@wigmagazine.co.uk
Features Editor
Camilla Arthur
camilla@wigmagazine.co.uk
Design Director
Sam Cutting
Fashion Director
Laury Smith
laurysmith@wigmagazine.co.uk
Commercial Director
Kailas Elmer
kailas@wigmagazine.co.uk
Fashion Editors
Darren Knight
Darren@wigmagazine.co.uk
International Advertising
Carla Peretz
carla@wigmagazine.co.uk
Tel. +44 (0) 779 1039649
Hair Editor
Hamilton Stansfield
lordhamilton@wigmagazine.co.uk
Contributing Hair Editor
Gow Tanaka
gow@wigmagazine.co.uk
Worldwide Advertising
Thomas C. Windle
tc@wigmagazine.co.uk
Christian Norris
christian@wigmagazine.co.uk
Los Angeles Production
Camilla Arthur
camilla@wigmagazine.co.uk
Literary Editor
Alan Widdrington
alanw@wigmagazine.co.uk
Ask not what Wig can do for you, rather what you can do for Wig;
your ideas and contributions are welcomed.
In the first instance please email
things@wigmagazine.co.uk
and we'll send you a contributor's guide.
We are constantly peering round the curtains looking for the postman.
Includes the following tit bits:
Media kit: all about Wig?
Who reads Wig?
Where is Wig sold?
These people distribute Wig.
How many?
I'd like to advertise in Wig please.
Technical stuff in Wig.
The people behind Wig.
Wig six.