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The cover of the debut issue, featuring Beth Ditto
Editor In Chief	Sarah Burke
Editor	Harriet Verney
Categories	Style & Fashion
Frequency	Bi-annual
Circulation	100,000
Publisher	Catherine Russell
First issue	February 2009 (2009-February)
Company	Condé Nast
Country	United Kingdom
Based in	London
Language	English
Website	thelovemagazine.co.uk

Love (stylized in all caps) is a bi-annual British style magazine founded in 2009 by stylist and fashion journalist Katie Grand. 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. In 2012, Lulu Kennedy, founder of the Fashion East initiative, joined Grand's team as editor-at-large and Alexander Fury was named editor. Suzanne Weinstock of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism described the magazine this way in 2010:

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.

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 even (for the tenth issue) Minnie Mouse.

Grand left the magazine in September 2020. She was replaced by Whembley Sewell who announced plans to move the magazine to the United States.

References

1. ^ Weinstock, Suzanne. "Love"., The New York Review of Magazines, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (May 2010).
2. Schneier, Matthew. Independent Women: Katie Grand, Harpers Bazaar (September 5, 2011).
3. "Condé Nast's new style magazine: Love - can you feel it in your fingers?". The Guardian.
4. "Love Magazine Names Lulu Kennedy Editor at Large". WWD. 23 April 2012.
5. "An Interview with Alexander Fury". Another Magazine. 13 January 2016.
6. Zarrella, Katharine. "Katie Grand Is Still in Love", Style (July 23, 2013).
7. Conti, Samantha (September 4, 2020). "Katie Grand Leaves Love Magazine, Heads to Sarabande". Retrieved 12 November 2021.
8. Drohan, Freya (25 November 2020). "Condé Nast Reveal Plans For The Future Of LOVE Magazine". Fashion Week Daily. Retrieved 12 November 2021.

External links

• Official website

• Magazines established in 2009
• Visual arts magazines published in the United Kingdom
• Biannual magazines published in the United Kingdom
• Magazines published in London
• Fashion magazines published in the United Kingdom