In 1949,
Aenne Burda expanded her family business into women's magazines publishing, founding a fashion magazine printing and publishing company in her home town of
Offenburg, Germany. The same year she debuted the magazine
Favorit, which was later renamed to
Burda Moden. The first issue of
Burda Moden magazine was published in 1950 with a circulation of 100,000. It gained popularity after 1952, when it began to include
patterns for clothes. In 1987,
Burda Fashion became the first
Western magazine to be published in the Soviet Union. In 1994 it became the first Western magazine to appear in the People's Republic of China.
Burda Style launched in the United States in 2013, in partnership with
F+W Media. ==See also==