LOVE Issue One
Inaugural Issue — Spring/Summer 2009 — Beth Ditto by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott — original LOVE POSTER present
The inaugural Spring/Summer 2009 issue of LOVE, the Condé Nast fashion-and-pop-culture title launched under editor Katie Grand after her work at Dazed & Confused, The Face and POP. Its now emblematic Beth Ditto cover, photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and styled by Grand, deliberately placed a non-sample-size female body at the centre of a major luxury-fashion launch.
Read the catalogue note →- Publication
- LOVE Magazine
- Condition
- Good+ overall; complete magazine with visible cover wear, while the original attached poster is reported and photographed in pristine condition.
- Completeness
- Complete under the standing TMR magazine rule. The user explicitly confirms the magazine is complete and that its original attached fold-out poster remains present; the poster is stated to be in pristine condition.
- Date
- Spring/Summer 2009
Catalogue note
The inaugural Spring/Summer 2009 issue of LOVE, the Condé Nast fashion-and-pop-culture title launched under editor Katie Grand after her work at Dazed & Confused, The Face and POP. Its now emblematic Beth Ditto cover, photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott and styled by Grand, deliberately placed a non-sample-size female body at the centre of a major luxury-fashion launch. This copy retains the original attached fold-out LOVE POSTER, an important design component associated with Joe McKenna, M/M (Paris), Iris Strubegger and David Sims; the poster itself is reported pristine despite visible wear to the magazine covers.
Why this object matters
The Ditto/Grand/Mert and Marcus launch image and retained M/M-associated foldout poster combine publication foundation with a specific challenge to conventional fashion-body presentation. The complete editorial package sustains Gold at 9.3 despite cover wear.
Evidence limits: No new physical inspection or collation was performed. Copy-specific conclusions remain limited to the retained catalogue and accession evidence.
Score and assessment method
Archive Importance: 9.3 / 10 · Gold Star.
This is a curatorial judgement, not a measurement accurate to one tenth or a market valuation. Read the explanation and its evidence limits together.
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