Gwyneth Paltrow & Anna Wintour are releasing ‘Goop: The Magazine’ this fall

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Gwyneth Paltrow’s inane thoughts on beauty, fashion, diet, exercise and “wellness” are now going to be available in print form. That’s right, people. Goop: The Magazine is coming. The idea for a Gwyneth-soaked, Gwyneth-curated, Gwyneth-centric magazine was thought up by Gwyneth and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, because this is what happens when you put Nuclear Wintour and Dame Gwyneth in a room together.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop is partnering with Condé Nast to expand the company’s media footprint. The New York-based magazine publisher will coproduce a quarterly special print issue of Goop that will hit newsstands in September. As part of the initial print rollout, Condé will work with Goop on digital and social content. According to Goop, the magazine (also dubbed Goop), will launch with a steady stream of coproduced, co-branded digital content that will be distributed across select Condé Nast titles’ web sites, goop.com and the brand’s social channels.

Goop said the majority of content in each print issue would be “original and produced by Goop, while the creative is an artistic collaboration between Goop and Condé Nast.” A spokeswoman clarified that the “artistic collaboration” includes some visuals and images from Condé.

Conceptualized as a collectible edition, the magazine is meant to translate the brand’s popular verticals into headlining sections. Some of those verticals include health and fitness, cooking and recipes, style and design and other lifestyle-centric subjects such as wellness and travel. For this collaboration, all multiplatform content experiences will revolve around a wellness theme — central to both companies’ missions. Condé Nast has been hoping to capitalize on wellness and health following the closure of Self magazine last year. Although Self still has a digital presence, adding Goop could help it to shore up credibility in the health and wellness sphere, which is quite lucrative.

The partnership between the brand and the publisher was born out of a conversation between Goop founder and chief executive officer Paltrow and Anna Wintour, Condé Nast artistic director and editor in chief of Vogue.

“Anna is a powerhouse, and one of the most admirable thought-leaders in media,” Paltrow said. “Collaborating with her and Condé Nast on this multiplatform content partnership, anchored by Goop’s emergence into a physical entity, was an opportunity for us to push our boundaries visually and deliver Goop’s point of view to consumers in new, dynamic ways.”

Wintour added: “I’ve long known Gwyneth to have wonderful taste and vision — but with Goop she has built something remarkable, a thoroughly modern take on how we live today. Goop and Condé Nast are natural partners and I’m excited she’s bringing her point of view to the company. We all look forward to working with her and her team.”

[From WWD]

Goop is “a thoroughly modern take on how we live today” is… a very interesting way to describe Gwyneth’s Goop project. I guess I too could be thoroughly modern if only I was A) rich, B) white, C) on a crazy goat-milk-only diet, D) shilling personally-branded vitamins and E) a huge, gaping, prolapsed a–hole. Basically, Anna Wintour and Gwyneth thought this would be absolutely charming and all of those peasants desperately need to have a quarterly magazine.

Imagine the cover lines:

Jade Eggs and Where You Should Stick Them
What Hollywood’s Top Psychics Think About Quinoa
Culture-clash: When Your Faith-Healer Disagrees with Your Personal Pharmacist
How to Spend Your $1 Million Bonus
Bathed in Unicorn Tears: The True Fountain of Youth
Should You Spend $75K On This Year’s It Bag? YES!
Help! I Ate a Peanut, Am I Fat Now?

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  1. Nicole says:

    No thanks. Pretentious magazines are not for me

  2. Ankhel says:

    ISN’T TRUMP ENOUGH GOD!?

  3. AlmondMilk says:

    Steaming your veggies and your vag in under 10 min.

    Ha.

    I won’t buy it so i don’t care. Added bonus for me is that she’s too busy being a CEO and building her Goop business to be on my TV or at my local cineplex. Make that coin Goopyth.

    • swak says:

      “Steaming your veggies and your vag in under 10 minutes” – you win. What I want to know, can you do both at the same time?

    • bap says:

      @Almondmilk What do think about the articles Brad’s kids spending time with him at his home and the nannies being there?

  4. detritus says:

    can we please do a scientific breakdown of why Goop is wrong, for each magazine? It won’t be hard, I promise, she generally uses really dumb easily refutable stuff.

  5. boredblond says:

    Hehe..loved the cover story ideas! I can’t wait to read ‘How to survive CPS–chronic perfection syndrome’ or ‘Consciously Uncouple cellulite from your thighs’

  6. Sigh... says:

    Sigh…Why do I feel like staring into the sun will be more entertaining/enriching and less damaging to my general health and appearance than reading her schillings…?

  7. Simmy says:

    “Culture-clash: When Your Faith-Healer Disagrees with Your Personal Pharmacist”
    This sounds like a ligit tag line for this sh*t rag.

  8. bap says:

    I will Never buy the magazine.

  9. bap says:

    Hopefully the low informational people will not purchase the magazine.

  10. Desi says:

    Who is BUYING this shit? O_o

    • Junebug says:

      Her market is Lady Food bloggers with money. Also she is bff with the editor of bon appetit so they shill her crap, and finally hollywood starlets- people with MAJOR anxiety who think if I only I had damaged hair, abused body by tracey anderstooges, etc I too could get an oscar despite bad acting, and launch a household name brand site…and be set forever.

  11. cindy says:

    oh f*ck off.

  12. skeli says:

    I’m very curious: How popular is that? Do people really believe about her crap like steaming your vag?

  13. HK9 says:

    Nooooooooooooo no more please.

  14. Sage says:

    Her movie career is dead, poor thing. I enjoyed her as an actress. The last movie I watched of hers was Ironman.
    I don’t care for her lifestyle brand but whatever Goop, do your thing.

  15. adastraperaspera says:

    For goodness sake, save the trees and produce it online only! But then the content footprint would heat up server farms and exacerbate climate change… This is a no win situation.

  16. Anon33 says:

    I don’t even get how this can be good for business. My sister got out of the magazine industry (she worked for conde Nast for ten years, would pass Anna in the hallways) a few years ago because it’s literally a deadend. How are they thinking that starting a new magazine right now is a good idea?!? Especially for such a niche market?

  17. Littlestar says:

    Not trying to be rude but for as much effort Goop puts into controlling her diet for supposed “benefits” shouldn’t she look less, uh, aged and leathery? Just saying, if I’m going to exclude entire food groups and pay $1,000 for rare berries grown under a waterfall and harvested at sunset then my face/body better benefit. Of course everything she is hawking is phoney. Seems more like disordered eating under the guise of health and wealth.

  18. Robin says:

    That magazine is going to fail so hard. Lol

  19. Sunny says:

    I think this could be successful; where I live there’s lots of this specific type of wellness-focused women.
    I’m (the lower end of) her target market. I work hard and spend a big chunk of my time, energy and money on my health. There’s no $75k handbags in my foreseeable future but there is $400 sneakers for to-and-from $35 Pilates, making bone-broth, drinking biodynamic wine and checking labels on skincare. I think, the world over, there’s a small army of us. It’s a world I partly inhabit and mostly aspire to.
    I love goop. Obviously, I don’t agree with everything! The vagina is a self-cleaning oven!
    Some women probably covet a Carrie-like closet that Big built her; I daydream of a yoga-meditation room with infrared lights.
    Yes, I’m a white, privileged, wellness-wanker. We exist and we spend!

    • Danielle says:

      But so much of her stuff is pseudo science and fads, not true wellness. Benefits ofyoga meditation have solid scientific backing.

  20. Izzy says:

    Also in an upcoming issue: You Too Can Have Hair Like Dry Straw!

  21. Dolkite says:

    Whenever I date someone, i ask them if they steamed their vagina. I don’t want to date someone with no sense of hygiene, after all.