V is a monthly, wide-circulation magazine that began as a more mass market version of the high art publication Visionaire. A collection of magazines A magazine is a periodical publication containing a variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchase by readers. ... An art and fashion publication that has come out in limited, numbered editions 3 times a year since Spring of 1991. ...

It is edited by Stephen Gan and Christopher Bollen, and the focus is art, culture, and fashion. Contributors include Tama Janowitz, Mario Testino, Mario Sorrenti, and Karl Lagerfeld. Interview subjects have included Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, and Norman Mailer. Tama Janowitz (born April 12, 1957) is a U.S. novelist and short story writer, most commonly associated with the Brat Pack. ... Mario Testino (born 1954) is a London-based fashion photographer. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Karl (Otto) Lagerfeld (born September 10, 1938 (according to some sources 1933) in Hamburg, Germany) is widely recognized as one of the most influential fashion designers of the late twentieth century. ... Photo of Joan Didion by Robert Birnbaum Joan Didion (born December 5, 1934) is an American writer, renowned as a journalist, playwright, essayist, and novelist. ... Salman Rushdie Salman Rushdie (born Ahmed Salman Rushdie, Urdu: , Hindi: on June 19, 1947, in Bombay, India) is an Indian-born, ethnically Kashmiri, British essayist and author of fiction, most of which is set on the Indian subcontinent. ... Norman Mailer, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American writer and, along with Truman Capote, is considered an innovator of Creative nonfiction. ...

V recently launched an offshoot called V Man.