GQ Russia magazine celebrated its 20th anniversary – Society
MOSCOW, December 6. / TASS /. The magazine “GQ Russia” on Tuesday 20th celebrated its anniversary with a gala dinner at the Moscow historical hotel “Metropol”. Editors-in-chief of the magazine of different years, partners and regulars of social events gathered to congratulate the authoritative men’s magazine on the anniversary.
“Over the 20 years of its existence in Russia, GQ magazine has done a tremendous job on itself: from a fashion magazine for men, it has turned into a multimedia platform uniting a variety of people from all over Russia,” the editor-in-chief of the publication Igor Garanin told TASS. From glossy pages, but also to website, mobile phones, YouTube channels, podcasts, and directly through the brand’s offline events. “
Today, he said, GQ’s audience exceeds 4.3 million subscribers across all platforms. GQ, Garanin believes, has matured, became conscious, but has not lost its youthful enthusiasm. “GQ is a way of life. A bright, varied and fulfilling life, ”he said.
Journalist and TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, in an interview with TASS, noticed that the GQ brand always has its own special atmosphere, its own style. “I remember very well how GQ appeared in 2001 and somehow immediately acquired the best photographers and authors,” said the agency’s interlocutor. GQ is always an event that everyone is still really trying to get into.
Rector of the Academy of Russian Ballet. A. Vaganova, People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Nikolai Tsiskaridze believes that GQ is a platform where it is combined with intelligence. “Men here combine dignity, style and high class,” he notes.
Actor Danila Kozlovsky believes that 20 years for the magazine is just the beginning. “The GQ cover is often a lucky mascot for me. I wish the brand to continue to be an intellectual gloss and love cinema,” he told the agency.
Gq tv show
Especially for the jubilee December issue of the magazine, the chief editors of “GQ Russia” of the past years Rem Petrov, Alexey Zimin, Nikolay Uskov, Mikhail Idov and Kim Belov spoke about vivid memories in the twenty-year history of the brand.
The program of the evening was opened by the rock group “End of the Film”. After the guests, a video project GQ TV Show was presented, based on which interviews with heroes and award winners of different years. The releases involve performers Svetlana Loboda, Vasily Vakulenko, showman Pavel Volya, riding Tina Kandelaki, actresses Ekaterina Varnava, Marina Kravets, blogger Danya Milokhin and many others. The first part of the show will be presented on December 9 by the Premier streaming platform. And in the galactic collective, GQ will also present several interviews from the project for readers.
The evening ended with a concert of the Little Big group.