Was MODE or Cosmopolitan launched first?
MODE (magazine): MODE (stylized MO"D"E) was a fashion magazine aimed towards plus-size women which launched in the spring of 1997. Cosmopolitan (magazine):  Formerly titled The Cosmopolitan, the magazine was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine; it was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine since 1965.
Cosmopolitan