February 15, 2009
Love pages
Hapsical has posted some pictures of issue one of Love.
4 Comments
Comment on February 17, 2009 by richard says:
holding a copy in my hands now. its so eighties/early 90s in styling. really reminds me of old elles and old vogues with the condensed over-spaced type. that studio box robin derrick look. it really is just ‘Pop’ but under a different name, which is no surprise, but is also slightly underwhelming. there are just no great surprises. im guessing they’ll rip the typography/styling/handwritten headlines up again for the next issue as they did in Pop
and kate moss. just put your frickin tits away girl. its getting embarrassing…
Comment on February 17, 2009 by LondonLee says:
My first thought when I saw that handwritten brush type was really old Vanity Fair/Harper’s Bazaar which I guess is intentional given the very vintage 3-D logo too. 1930s style typography for the new Great Depression?
Comment on February 19, 2009 by Paul Harpin says:
I couldn’t get a copy of LOVE on my way to a lecture at Preston yesterday. So I bought Bazaar instead. There defense issue against the launch: big size, full of quality pages and I was struck that this is how the newsstand works. I bought a mag. UK Bazaar is a real Fabien Barron tribute and rightly so (done very well, he’d be proud, a homage, nicely detailed nothing out of place). But, I really do worry that there is such an apprenticeship system in this sort of mag (the whole fashion and women’s patch) that nothing new ever occurs. (apart from Matt Willey’s Plastique and Sara Horrock’s Grazia).
I was massively distracted by a Toby Young article in Bazaar on the decadent life and ritual restaurant vandalism at Oxford colleges also detailing the party life of Nigella, David Cameron, Boris and Hugh Grant from which comes this extract:
“And the discovery all these young pretenders eventually make when they take their seat at the cabinet, or become QCs, or pocket £100 million on a complex land deal, is that the people pulling the levers of power – are exactly them. There is no such thing as the real McCoy, just a bunch of schoolboys parading around in the contents of a dressing up box. That’s the dirty little secret at the heart of British public life – and for the few who are tapped up to become members of the Piers Gaveston or the Assasins or the Bullingdon, it’s a secret they will discover much sooner than the rest of us.”
So when I got LOVE today I felt that this Toby Young piece was so relevant to the fashion world. The couture designers will love LOVE. It covers their world. I found it so predictable, a pastiche.
If I was on hols and around the pool was Cameron, Nigella, Grant et al, I’d leave and also if the LOVE troop turned up: Beth Ditto, Courtney Love, Pixie Geldof, Amy Winehouse, Iggy Pop, Kate Moss and Katie Grand and her six fashion editors ands their assistant’s assistants, I’d go straight back home, asap. It would be a nightmare.
As for the design there’s nothing new here. Robin did better work in 1986. But it’s a terrific bit of business. Conde Nast will get the ads. But they far outshine the look and the content. I found it a bit embarrassing. But the real story is – it’s out there, they have done it, a rare launch, and I bought two mags. QED.
Comment on February 20, 2009 by bob says:
wot?
