Love #22 F/W 2019.20

[aracic]

Gigi's cover is my favorite she looks stunning there! Lizzo deserved better, that hair literally swallowed her

 

[Phuel]

I struggle to understand how this magazine still exists. Surely no one is buying it anymore, which makes me wonder how much money Conde UK are wasting keeping it afloat ?
And to think that Newhouse denied Baron his own magazine so that they could give Katie this hype machine, that made an impact for four years tops...

Every single cover is instantly forgettable. That’s a rather impressive feat in itself considering there are so many covers and stars.

This industry has never been and never will be remotely fair. It’s an illusion to think otherwise. It’s likely at its most phoney these days despite its hollow and shallow endorsement of “inclusivity and diversity” of the most vacant generation of lesser-talents ever. It’s literally whoever is in fashion that gets the role.

(In a weird way, I’m glad even someone as talented and as consistently solid in his work-- and as unbreakable to me-- as Fabien, gets rejected in this industry.)

 

[honeycombchild]

The Mariah cover is so bizarre in reality, it’s blurry and looks like a photo of a photo.

 

[russianelf]

Can anyone give a review, please?

 

[kokobombon]

I´ve seen some pics on tumblr, is the digital issue available?

 

[JPineapple]

Got my issue today -Rami's cover-, 480 pages and Katie Grand still being EIC according to the masthead.

This side of story (36 pages)
Ph: Alasdair McLellan
St: Katie Grand
Mod: Raquel Zimmerman, Connor Jackson, Fernando Lindez, Hugh Burry, Meghan Roche, Sasha Krivosheya, Simon Bornhall Tang He.

Puff piece (14 pages)
Ph: Tim Walker
St: Ibrahim Kamara
Cast: Tomo Koizumi (designer), Ayokunmi Sule, Jairo Bierling, Jonathan Darby, Kharis Jonson-Achu (models)

Our lives, our rules (28 pages)
Ph: Willy Vanderperre
St: Katie Grand
Cast: Gigi Hadid, Juliette Lewis, Ha***y Bi***r, Tracee Ellis Ross

Love Lizzo (10 pages)
Ph: Alasdair McLellan
St: Nell Kalonji
Cast: Lizzo

Fiction factory (52 pages)
Ph: Call this Number
St: Katie Grand
Cast: Rami Malek, Ben Cobb, Emily Ratajkowski, Karen Elson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tami Williams, Tang He, Felicity Jones, Fran Summers, Jean Campbell, Martha Hunt, Meghan Roche

Ave Mariah (16 pages)
Ph: Sharna Osborne
St: Grant Woolhead and Johnny Wujek
Cast: Mariah Carey

Cupid's vault (12 pages)
Ph: Sarah Piantadosi
St: Oliver Volquardsen
Cast: Cupid (make up artist), Lola Hendricks, Lara Mullens, Luka Sabbat, Sarah Snyder

New York City Kid (10 pages)
Ph: Angelo Penetta
St: Danny Reed
Model: Adut Akech

Now you see them (16 pages)
(Is like Vogue's "Forces of fashion" portfolio, includes a profile of every talend included in the ed)
Ph: Nigel Shaffran
Talents: Ibrahim Kamara, Luke Day, Alasdair McLellan, Richard Habberley, Verde Visconti, Harriet Verney, Cyndia Harvey, Lucy Bridge

Finding love in Fire Island (16 pages)
Ph: Alex de la Cruz
St: Paul Flyyn
Cast: Amir Baradaran, Blair Jirousek, Casey Spooner, Charlie Himmelstein, Diego Villarreal, Stoya, Wilson Kiethline

McQueen's Legacy (20 pages)
(A portfolio of artists who received Alexander McQueen scholarship)
Ph: Solve Sundsbo
St: Joshua Beaty
Talents: Katie Roberts-Wood, Sarah McCormack, Henry Stanford, Cecily Cracroft-Eley, Leo Carlton, Rosa Johan Uddoh, Emily Frances Barrett, Danxia Liu, Shapeng Wong, Castro Smith, Michaela Yearwood-Dan, Jonah Pontzer, Joshua Beaty
Model: Giselle Norman (wearing some pieces created by the artists/designers mentioned)

 

[russianelf]

There's also an interview with Tim Walker and Grand that has several various sized photos of Walker's previous work for LOVE. They all seem to be reprints though...

 

[JPineapple]

^^In fact, all of them are reprints.