 The cover of the debut issue, featuring Beth Ditto | |
| Categories | Fashion |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Biannual |
| First issue | February 2009[1] |
| Company |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | Paris |
| Language | English |
| Website | lovemagazine |
Love (stylised in all caps) is a biannual fashion magazine, published in Paris since 2009 (previously London till 2020 and New York City till 2024).
| Editor | Start year | End year | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katie Grand | 2009 | 2020 | [2] |
| Ben Cobb | 2020 | 2020 | [3] |
| Whembley Sewell | 2020 | 2021 | [4] |
| Sarah Burke | 2021 | 2024 |
Founded in 2009 by stylist and fashion journalist Katie Grand.[5] She joined the magazine's publisher Conde Nast from pioneering British fashion title Pop with a brief to launch an edgy, photographic fashion title aimed at broadening the company's audience.[6] The first cover in 2009 featured American singer-songwriter Beth Ditto, naked. Later covers have featured Madonna, Cher, Kate Moss, Miley Cyrus, Lea T, Justin Bieber, Hiroshi Tanahashi, Maria Kanellis-Bennett and Minnie Mouse.[7]
In 2012, Lulu Kennedy, founder of the Fashion East initiative, joined Grand's team as editor-at-large[8] and Alexander Fury was named editor.[9] Suzanne Weinstock of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism described the magazine this way in 2010:[1]
Despite its glossy pages, the magazine has a raw look. Black-and-white photography dominates, and most of the color photography has a muted palette, as if the pictures have aged and faded. Some images are clearly fashion photography; others are more like inventive snapshots. Nudity is plentiful in many styles, from the grittily pornographic to the breathtakingly artistic.
Grand left the magazine in September 2020.[2] She was replaced by Whembley Sewell and the magazine moved its offices to the United States now overseen by them.[10] Love became digital only and slowly winded down operations until closure in 2024.[11]
LOVE will return in September 2025 no longer published by Condé Nast ran by Juan Costa Paz and Nordine Benotmane, the relaunched title will be edited from Paris with 'distinct perspective that steps outside the Anglo-American fashion axis, rooted in European culture, but engaged with a global creative community,'.[12] The magazine will be based in Paris and distribution focused on New York, Paris, Milan, London, and Los Angeles.[12]
