SuicideGirls has launched the first issue of their "virgin" magazine Papercuts. For those of you who don't know, the SuicideGirls is an edgy website with a growing community of alternative girls. The SuicideGirls community caters and endorses a more alternative form of beauty, which includes everything alternative from tattoos and body piercings to gravity-defying hairstyles.
The magazine price is pretty steep at $20 but the company has made it ad-free and features 72 pages of the infamous pin-up girls from their website. Trendy and boudoir-chic, a mag like this one makes it easy to tell all your friends you "only read it for the articles".
What Makes This Trend Stand Out
- Alternative Beauty
- Opportunity for disruptive innovation in the beauty industry by catering to alternative forms of beauty like tattoos, body piercings, and gravity-defying hairstyles.
- Ad-free Magazines
- Disruptive innovation opportunity in the publishing industry by providing ad-free magazines for a premium price.
- Online Community Magazines
- Opportunity for disruptive innovation in the magazine industry by creating magazines that cater to specific online communities.
Sectors Adopting This
- Beauty
- Disruptive innovation opportunity for beauty brands to embrace alternative beauty trends and cater to a wider range of customers.
- Publishing
- Disruptive innovation opportunity for publishers to create ad-free magazines that offer a more premium reading experience.
- Magazine
- Opportunity for disruptive innovation in the magazine industry by creating magazines that target specific online communities and niche interests.
