May 2013
Latina Magazine is the definitive fashion, beauty, and lifestyle magazine for Latina women. Latina is written in English for today’s Hispanic woman and is committed to helping each reader attain her maximum potential. Each issue of Latina magazine covers the latest and features articles on Latin entertainment, celebrities, fashion and beauty, food and fiestas, health and fitness, relationships, careers and educational opportunities, and more. Latina is the leading monthly lifestyle, entertainment, beauty, and fashion magazine for acculturated Hispanic women. Along with its daily online destination Latina.com, Latina has a combined audience of 3 million. Latina was named to Adweek’s ‘Hot List’ in 2000 & 2001 and named Best Magazine by Advertising Age in 2000.
In 1996, Christy Haubegger founded Latina magazine. Haubegger conceived of and developed a business plan for a groundbreaking magazine that would showcase fashion, beauty, lifestyle and empowerment for Hispanic women. The magazine first launched Latina magazine back in 1996 as a quarterly with Jennifer Lopez on the first cover, before she was a rising star. Today, Jennifer Lopez is an internationally-respected entrepreneur who has built a multimillion-dollar empire around several fashion and beauty lines. Her business interests reflect that of her fellow Latinas, who are starting businesses at a rate of six times the national average, while in the pages of Latina, readers have demanded more coverage of career and financial topics, as well as inspiring corporate role models.
In October 2011, Latina magazine celebrated its 15th anniversary with a special quinceñeara collector’s issue, “15 Latinas We Love,” which highlighted fifteen of the most influential Latina celebrities since the magazine hit the stands 15 years ago. Latina’s 15th anniversary issue took 9 months of planning, 7 photo shoots, more than 100 red designer dresses and upwards of $10 million in jewelry to create the triple gatefold cover.
In the 3-page fold out cover, from left to right: Shakira, Selena Gomez, Salma Hayek, Zoe Saldana, Eva Longoria, Gloria Estefan, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Daisy Fuentes, America Ferrera, Rosario Dawson, Ana de la Reguera, Natalie Morales, Rosie Perez and La La Anthony.
The magazine selected these ladies because “these are women who live not only in the worlds of music and movies and TV, but also serve as the faces of big beauty lines and big corporations, who use their power to get us to vote and to give back, who work both in front of and behind the cameras to break down stereotypes and redefine the way non-Latinos see us.”
Behind the scenes video Latin cover shoot with Rosario Dawson:
Behind the scenes Latina cover shoot with Eva Mendes
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