{"id":1048850,"date":"2026-06-25T08:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1048850\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T08:59:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T08:59:19","slug":"a-liverpool-woman-who-started-her-own-fashion-magazine-to-prove-her-doubters-wrong-is-about-to-release-a-third-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1048850\/","title":{"rendered":"A Liverpool woman who started her own fashion magazine to prove her doubters wrong is about to release a third issue."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aleisha Petafi, 22, from Aigburth, said she faced discrimination whilst studying in London because she was from Liverpool, and started Destined Magazine as a way to celebrate her upbringing.<br \/>\nShe said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo, I started it in 2023 as just an Instagram account. I started it because I moved to London when I was 18 to study fashion. When I moved down there, I realised that it wasn\u2019t home, it wasn\u2019t Liverpool. I was very pushed out because of where I was from. I felt really homesick and felt like I had imposter syndrome, so I needed an outlet to make me feel better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cPeople will say that that\u2019s a common thing to experience down there, but I wasn\u2019t listening to them. I thought I would be fine, but you do get a lot of comments from people \u2018You can\u2019t break into the industry\u2019 et cetera. I just wasn\u2019t having it. It kind of got to me and I thought, I want to continue this from home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want to bring everything I know back home. I want to help people back home and I want to see if I can make this work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI started that Instagram account and communicated with creatives from home and it made me feel like I was at home with that Instagram account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aleisha left London two years into her degree and started publishing Destined in print.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" data-id=\"243004\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260622_160950000_iOS-62-scaled-e1782318675272.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-243004\"\/>Credit: Destined Magazine<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"667\" height=\"637\" data-id=\"243006\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/A6700443-2-scaled-e1782318731247.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-243006\"  \/>Credit: Destined Magazine<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"972\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"243007\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/FAE68F37-3CEF-4D02-B2E7-85DDE5945635-e1782318764460-972x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-243007\"  \/>Credit: Destined Magazine<\/p>\n<p>She added:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s one of those things that you\u2019ve just got to kind of take a risk with. I mean, when I started out I wouldn\u2019t have thought there was an audience for a Liverpool fashion magazine, but now that it\u2019s gained a bit of popularity I thought I\u2019d give it a go. It\u2019s been successful so far, but in terms of the publishing it\u2019s definitely been a task. There\u2019s been a lot of pushback, expenses and losses, but I do it because I want to do it and people are starting to love it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI saw a lot more people making magazines, print was coming back and I thought this is such a perfect opportunity to make a magazine. I started working on the first issue a year ago now and it came out in September 2025, the second in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe cover all things fashion in Liverpool, whether that be designers, stylists, photographers, students. I\u2019ll also cover things like fashion history, we\u2019ve got a big fashion history in Liverpool that kind of goes with our music history. I cover small clothing businesses as well, and I\u2019ll cover any fashion events or creative events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Issue 3 of Destined Magazine in production, Aleisha gave us a hint at what to expect from the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo, it\u2019s all very hush hush in terms of everything, but we are going to be working with a big boy band based in Liverpool that are very immersed in the music scene and we\u2019re going to put a fashion lense on it. We\u2019re going to try and relate it back to Liverpool fashion in the 80\u2019s and 90\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I started Destined Magazine. I just wanted to kind of get a space where we can get like-minded people in the same room sharing ideas with each other and networking with<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">each other. In Liverpool we\u2019ve got such a big creative scene and a great fashion scene, but it isn\u2019t really being showcased or like there\u2019s no place where it can all come together. So I wanted Destined to be that point of meeting where everyone can find each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about Destined Magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.destinedmag.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nGet the latest Liverpool news\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theguideliverpool.com\/category\/latest\/liverpool-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Find out what\u2019s good up North on our new platform, The Northern Guide.\u00a0<br \/>\nFrom the best hotels, beauty spots, days out, food and more up North \u2013 visit<a href=\"https:\/\/thenorthernguide.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u00a0thenorthernguide.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow The Northern Guide on Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thenorthernguideuk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aleisha Petafi, 22, from Aigburth, said she faced discrimination whilst studying in London because she was from Liverpool,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1048851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,288301,393,2584,4884,388,179,15236,16,15],"class_list":["post-1048850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liverpool","tag-britain","tag-destined-magazine","tag-england","tag-fashion","tag-great-britain","tag-lifestyle","tag-liverpool","tag-student","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}