Saudi Arabia's new glitzy magazines: Progress or 'fashion-washing'? While some celebrate Saudi Arabia's broadening media landscape, human rights organizations fear that imprisoned women's activists and government critics are being neglected. The first edition of Harper's Bazaar Saudi used the newly built megacity Neom as a backdrop Saudi Arabia's print media landscape has just been broadened with the publication of high-end lifestyle magazines Harper's Bazaar Saudi and Esquire Saudi. The permission and promotion of such glossy ventures is the latest addition to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's "Vision 2030" strategy, a social, cultural and economic overhaul of the kingdom's conservative rules.