Photographer: Lekan Costa

KISS KISS

KISS KISS is a London-based magazine exploring modern romance as something messy, real and constantly evolving. Instead of presenting love as a fairytale, it focuses on the emotions, patterns and contradictions that shape how we connect today.

The Spring 2026 issue is built around four pillars: The Rush, The Routine, The Reckoning, and The Repair, each representing a different stage of a relationship. Together, they move through intensity, comfort, conflict and healing, reflecting the cycles that sit within modern love.

Through a mix of storytelling, visuals, and cultural reflection, KISS KISS captures romance as something imperfect but deeply human. It sits in the space between clarity and confusion, looking at how love is experienced rather than defined, and asking what it means to connect in a modern world.

Aimee Wheeler, editor and web designer

aimeewheeler04@icloud.com

@aimee.wheelerr

Lia Keeble Otero, co-editor

lkeeb001@gold.ac.uk

@lia.lee

Kyuri Bae, print designer

kbae002@gold.ac.uk

@zeitvonkyuri

Olie Ma, social media editor

rma002@gold.ac.uk

@0o0liivvv

Nandini Khurana, sub-editor

nkhur002@gold.ac.uk

@nandiinii_k