Love Magazine: Conde Nast Launches New Style Mag In UK

Guardian:

I'm looking down at one of the most delicious magazine front covers I've seen in a long time glossy mint green with painterly, promising coverlines and a cherubic Beth Ditto, naked, her modesty covered by a cerise tutu and, in the case of her nipples, an airbrush. Welcome to Love, the new style magazine from Condé Nast, which launches tomorrow.

It is hard to find a newsagent that stocks the full gamut of fashion, style and indulgently photographic magazines, but there are very many of them. Katie Grand was plucked from the queen of these, as Pop editor-in-chief, to fill a gap in Condé's impossibly aspirational magazine portfolio. Condé is the home of W magazine and has had previous, extremely short-lived brushes with other edgy style titles, but this is their big dream. If Grand can't make it work, no one can. But Condé Nast is about as far from the edgy, punked-up rudery that defines the best of British street fashion as it is possible to be - isn't this a little like Anna Wintour trying to host an electro night?

Read the whole story: Guardian

Comments

[DeeW]

01:42 AM on 02/20/2009

Love the cover!

[jimrs6]

05:28 PM on 02/19/2009

I was wondering what Rosie was up to these days.

[RoloTomassi]

04:27 PM on 02/19/2009

One thing for sure about the comments, this article has the effect of separating the delusional anorexics from the rest.

[mommadona]

04:21 PM on 02/19/2009

This is a JOKE, right?

Onion?

No, really.....

[Shaddup]

12:30 PM on 02/19/2009

The best thing Conde Nast ever published? Pulp magazines. Doc Savage and The Shadow.

[brandnewstuff]

10:31 AM on 02/19/2009

I am personally turned off by the cover- On the other hand I do not invest in Magazines being the History of WAR and magazines- great history to learn and read about the mother of the invention and how that has changed- just a thought to share on propagandas- Once you get past the hish gloss cover everything is superfical and the products themselves are far from helping a green planet- though they will sell you some crap about being green

[larry278]

08:36 PM on 02/18/2009

Has anybody heard of Al Goldstein or SCREW lately?

[hjfraser2002]

08:18 PM on 02/18/2009

Women are beutiful in any form. We need to represent the more common body type like this more often. Our body ideal has been so warped, it is unattainable these days. Love what you have not wht you are told to have.

[Takae]

06:23 PM on 02/18/2009

Katie Grand? Nice one.

[redkim]

05:48 PM on 02/18/2009

Maybe they are trying to be more like Warhol's Interview. The cover font is reminiscent of it.

[Takae]

06:26 PM on 02/18/2009

Katie Grand is known to be a huge fan of The Face (UK) and Interview. I believe she combined elements of both magazines into Pop, which I think she may be continuing on with Love.

[redkim]

05:46 PM on 02/18/2009

I guess tolerance only goes so far on this site by some people. Bold move by Conde Nast....the magazine industry is plummeting.

[klondiker]

05:32 PM on 02/18/2009

Sure, it's a cool cover. But, do they really think that a new magazine - especially one with such an amorphous agenda - will survive in this environment??

[SuesW]

05:12 PM on 02/18/2009

I love the cover! But I'm a sexy chubby chick too, lol. She looks way more normal than most women on American magazines.

[fictioneer]

03:28 PM on 02/18/2009

The cover image is cool. I don't like the type. I'm still thinking Domino was a great idea that deserved to either live or get a new owner.

[thewhitewitch]

09:48 AM on 02/20/2009

From your mouth er-fingers to god's ears! Why oh why oh why did they kill my beloved Domino?

[american-dolt]

03:21 PM on 02/18/2009

gross me out