| Pop | |
| Editor: | Dasha Zhukova |
| Editor Title: | Editor-in-Chief |
| Frequency: | Twice yearly |
| Circulation: | 80,000+ per issue |
| Category: | Fashion Magazine |
| Company: | Bauer |
| Firstdate: | 2000 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Based: | London |
| Language: | English |
Pop is a British fashion magazine co-founded in 2000 by Ashley Heath and editor Katie Grand.[1] The initial creative directors for the magazine were Lee Swillingham and Stuart Spalding.[2] [3] Pop is published bi-annually.
In 1999, the publishing house Emap enticed Grand to leave Dazed & Confused and invited her to work on the cult magazine The Face, as the magazine's official fashion director. At the same time Emap offered her a position as Editor-in-Chief of an as-yet unnamed new magazine. The first issue of Pop was launched in September 2000. Grand said that her main concept was that "it to be really jolly. And pink — I was obsessed with it being pink."[1]
Grand left Pop in 2008, along with creative directors Swillingham and Spalding, to establish a rival magazine, Love, published by Conde Nast.[4]
Pop relaunched in an online digital format as THEPOP.COM. and the first issue under new management was released on 1 September 2009. Dasha Zhukova was hired as editor-in-chief with Ashley Heath as the Editorial Director and David Girhammar as an editor.[5] [6]
On 1 September 2010 Britney Spears appeared on the cover of the magazine for her first time.