GN Publishing to launch CitizenK Arabia and CitizenK Homme Arabia

CitizenK International is a French lifestyle and fashion magazine with a circulation in excess of 100,000 copies per issue. The magazine was launched in 1992 and is owned and edited by its founder, Parisian fashion industry icon Kappauf.

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CitizenK Arabia will be published in a mixture of English and Arabic with small dedicated sections in simplified Chinese, Russian and Farsi, four times a year from March 2016 and will cover the world of luxury fashion and lifestyle from a uniquely local and international perspective.

CitizenK Homme Arabia contains a unique mix of luxury fashion and lifestyle content targeted at a male audience.

The magazines will be distributed together, with a total print run of 20,000 copies. Priced at Dh.40 (€10) in the UAE, CitizenK Arabia and CitizenK Homme Arabia will be distributed in retail across the GCC, to VIP homes and at selected boutique retail outlets, hotels and luxury venues in the UAE.

James Hewes, Publishing Director at GN Publishing said: “I am delighted that we are launching CitizenK Arabia, an exciting new force in the GCC’s luxury lifestyle media space. The opportunity to bring France’s premier luxury lifestyle magazine to this market is not to be missed and I look forward to working with Kappauf to deliver CitizenK Arabia to the region’s luxury consumers.”

“CitizenK Arabia is the next step in our international expansion and is a project particularly close to my heart due to my Syrian origin.” said Kappauf.

The editorial and commercial team behind CitizenK Arabia will be announced in the coming days.

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