Founded in 2009 by stylist and fashion journalist
Katie Grand. She joined the magazine's publisher
Conde Nast from pioneering British fashion title
Pop with a brief to launch an edgy, photographic fashion title aimed at broadening the company's audience. The first cover in 2009 featured American singer-songwriter
Beth Ditto, naked. Later covers have featured
Madonna,
Cher,
Kate Moss,
Miley Cyrus,
Lea T,
Justin Bieber,
Hiroshi Tanahashi,
Maria Kanellis-Bennett and
Minnie Mouse. In 2012,
Lulu Kennedy, founder of the
Fashion East initiative, joined Grand's team as editor-at-large and Alexander Fury was named editor. Suzanne Weinstock of the
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism described the magazine this way in 2010: She was replaced by Whembley Sewell and the magazine moved its offices to the United States now overseen by
them. Love became digital only and slowly winded down operations until closure in 2024.
Relaunch LOVE returned in September 2025 with issue 24. No longer published by Condé Nast, the relaunched title is edited by Juan Costa Paz and Nordine Benotmane and based in Paris. According to their press release, they aim to bring a 'distinct perspective that steps outside the Anglo-American fashion axis, rooted in European culture, but engaged with a global creative community,'. The magazine will be based in Paris and distribution focused on New York, Paris, Milan, London, and Los Angeles. ==References==