Men's Vogue: The queen is dead. A list of the heir apparent.

The best men's fashion magazines.

Men's Vogue was cut back, from a monthly, to a biannual supplement last week. Conde Nast cited the weak ad environment as the reason for the change. As if. You probably won't even notice this dishrag missing from the newstand. Men's Vogue was the magazine version of a sweater-vest, or your local avuncular weatherman. It's hard to run a men's fashion magazine. Much harder to find a damn good magazine. Still, there are a few candidates. and no, Esquire is not among them. (You relinquish that title when you're reduced to this).

Vogue Hommes International- Conde Nast actually does run pretty savvy men's fashion magazines - they're just on the other side of the ocean (L'uomo Vogue, being the other one). These are good for people with money (not that there's anything wrong with that!) - they're functional and quick. The Summer Vogue Hommes has a spread on formal nightwear. The guys wearing the bespoke suits? The Virgins. As shot by Terry Richardson.

L'uomo Vogue is like a good Slim Aarons photo: attractive people doing attractive things in attractive places.

The risk-taker should read Arena Hommes Plus. In the summer issue Juergen Teller will teach you how to wear PVC skinny jeans with panache. Synthetic fabrics, and attenuated cuts - what more could a man want.

The price for the best men's fashion magazine goes to The Chap, a little British journal, with an eighth of the Conde Nast budget, but twice the style. The Chap is for strict Dandies - it's a favorite of the dandy of the underworld Sebastian Horsley and that maligned reporter Jared Paul Stern. Friends in high places indeed. If you like these guys, you're a Chap. Asked in a questionnaire which item of clothing he considers the height of vulgarity, Horsley said: There are only two actions I cannot tolerate. The first is denim. The other is murder. If denim is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

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