J'adore Condé Nast's new biannual glossy Love edited by unofficial UK Vogue editor heir apparent Katie Grand. I'll review it properly sometime very soon but meantime my eye is drawn to the contributors list which boasts scarcely a cock-cunter.
Anders Thomsen shares: "I once shared my last pickled onion with a boy to make him love me."
Mert Alas reveals: "My first love was this guy back in Turkey ... I think he got married."
Olivier Rizzo: Has a partner called Willy. Hello, Willy.
Paul Flynn: "My first love was Lewis Collins in The Professionals.'
Handstanding Joseph Mercier names Optimus Prime in Transformers as his first love. "I Want To Fuck You Like An Animal by Nine Inch Nails is his favourite love song. Mmm, the jury's out on him.
Alasdair McLellan appears to like Bucks Fizz and Tina Turner.
Terry Richardson: Appears heavily tattoooed, naked from the waist up, bespectacled and is into Tropical Skittles. Off my radar, sadly.
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My first love asked me to flash him my flower for 10p. That stood me good stead through-out my life.
Great picture. Like to see curves on display MA.
Is this Nick Coleridge's idea then?
I can't imagine Coleridge coming up with Love - I'm not persuaded he's an ideas person at all, but like any good surfer he knows when to catch a wave, her name being Katie Grand. Remember that name, she'll be a dominant fashion ed soon enough. Also ex-Heat Mark Frith's involvement must have helped shape the result. Love looks so non-Conde Nast but I think they're trialing ways of dealing with a new gen of mags like Another Mag which manage to make money without resembling a catalogue.
I love the cover, it intrigues which is what a good cover should do. My preference would be for a chic amputee.
Yes, that image pulls you in.
Amputee? Do you mean someone like Sarah Reinertsen, first female leg amputee to complete the Ironman Triathlon?
http://www.alwaystri.net/
Marvellous pic, love it.
Well if it WAS Coleridge's idea, he is obviously pised off at the reception which the cover has received. Several arties pointed out in Design Week that the cover is a rehash of the NME, where Beth Ditto first bared her all - see their bitchy comments at http://www.designweek.co.uk/Articles/141368/Love+magazine+launch+cover+branded+a+‘faux+pas’.html
Then this week, Coleridge himself snapped back:
Coleridge tells Design Week, 'I can see no possible resemblance between that NME cover - which reminded me of a Maxim cover - and the Love one, which is clearly aimed at a fashion audience." Because, presumably, of the fashions she is wearing?
The link must be incomplete - I didn't know about the row over the cover, but so what? Most ideas you see in magazines are copies or "evolutions" of things seen and read. The trick is to stamp something new on the lift - ask Anna Wintour whose entire career is a study in creative larceny.
As for the Beth Ditto cover, I'd be interested to know if the colour palette is the same as NME's - the mint green background contrast with the copper red hair and deep mauve lips and eye shadow - things like this matter. The squiggly coverlines, too, are well done and rounded rather like Ditto's voluptuous body - which is bleached with light. There is a striking lack of sharp edges in the overall cover image.
It's one of the best fashion covers I have ever seen. If Coleridge had anything to do with it I take back everything I have ever said about him.
I was able to open it MA darling, what I did is click at the beginning of the link and drag down, rather than to the right so that it would copy the whole thing.
I am copying/pasting it here for you again, but if you use this one, you may have to join the 3 pieces I have split it into
http://www.designweek.co.uk/
Articles/141368/Love+magazine+
launch+cover+branded+a+‘faux+pas’.html
And I agree with Coleridge’s comments quoted here by Anon: I can’t see any resemblance other than using the same model/personality.
If using the same person in the nude is the fault in it, then models like Kate Moss better make arrangements to retire, because – from these tight asses point of view - there mustn’t be any other pose from which they can shoot them that would be original.
I hope you can read it: you won’t believe their reasoning; they are so full of it – Ditto doesn’t even look like the same person.
Buy the way, I’m relieved Terry Richards is off your radar. His website is a bit scary:
http://www.terryrichardson.com/
…specially his mother:
terryrichardson.com/mom/pages/m3_jpg.htm
yeap! That’s mommy…
Thank you for the new link. I have gandered and posted a new piece on Love and NME and its differing Ditto approaches.
"she'll be a dominant fashion ed soon enough" - so rather less important and vital than the bin men.
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