Tatler from Britain, comprehensive fashion & lifestyle publication from the house of Conde Nast Publications. History: Tatler (also, informally, The Tatler) has been the name of several journals and magazines, each of which has viewed itself as the successor of the original literary and society journal founded by Richard Steele in 1709. The current incarnation, founded in 1901, is a glossy magazine published by Conde Nast Publications focusing on the glamorous lives and lifestyles of the upper class.