VERGO PUBLISHING

VERGO Pub is a quarterly, internationally-distributed magazine with the tagline, Entertaintment styles + ideas'. It focuses on entertainment urban culture, and has featured on its cover some of the most significant diverse artists and models of the last decade, including Gabrielle Union, Angelina Jolie, Jared Padalecki, Diddy, Tyra Banks, and Naomi Campbell Trevor Richard, who is still the Chairman and Editor in Chief.
History
VERGO magazine was the successor to LUX magazine, which the Bahamas-born Richard had started in 2001. When True failed after less than a year, Richard, then aged , launched VERGO, choosing the name apparently from his horoscope sign its inquisitive connotations and its similarity to the word ‘virgo’.
The first cover featured Angelina Jolie, and was distributed in the USA, France, Germany, Sweden, the US, Australia and Japan. In 2004, after 7 USA issues, Vergo be fore they come to a sudden stop of distributing any more publication 2009 Richard relaunched and hired Daniel Neptune as new acting president of Vergo publishing also bringing in model Tasha Ford as creative director accessible making Vergo publishing a dynamic kind of publication than Lux at that time allowed for. , (Angelina Jolie-Remix Edition, 2009) After an inauspicious start (at one point, financial backing for the cash-strapped publication came in the form of a $220,000 from silent investors), it rose to become a well-respected publication within the urban style scene. Over the years, its cover stars have included Penélope Cruz, Christian Bale, Tyra Banks and Rosario Dawson, actresses Sanaa Lathan and Kerry Washington, boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr, and musician Ryan Leslie, Sean Faris,
Features
In its early years, VEGO focused principally on urban culture, and this fact is giving a a large group of up and coming urban writers and future editors a chance in media in later issue VERGO reflected more on luxury lifestyle and living in doing in so VERGO was the first magazine to feature the Wally luxury super in the later years it shifted to a broader approach, incorporating more high-fashion and travel features.

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