Purple Magazine
— F/W 2014 issue 22

Edito

Can fashion still be a subculture — surprising, fresh, unpredictable, a natural reflection of youth culture?

It’s not easy. And what alternative is there to a purely mercantile world flooded with similarly “posed,” similarly “sexy and seductive” images, supposedly with “attitude”? From the glossies to Instagram, from advertising to blogs, this sameness kills the interest in fashion — however innovative a designer’s work might be. This is every magazine’s challenge, but especially for Purple, which thrives on the spirit of experimentation, bricolage, amateurism, irony, and even ideas, and that keeps a distance, deliberately, from what the industry thinks is “professional” or “powerful” at any given moment.

This is why we shot portraits of 112 creative women from outside the mainstream, along with three strong men of character: the YSL icon Thadée Klossowski de Rola, the radical artist Larry Clark, and the talented make-up artist Aaron de Mey. It’s also why we asked for fashion stories from artists like Sandy Kim and Olaf Breuning and from the duo who makes TOILETPAPER.

Maybe to celebrate fashion, one has to be spiritually anti-fashion. It’s been done before; it can happen again. Different doors must be opened: the door to contradiction, the doors to opposition and transgression, and even the risky door to bad taste. In that way, maybe ends can become new beginnings.

— OLIVIER ZAHM

[Table of contents]

F/W 2014 issue 22

Table of contents

purple EDITO

purple NEWS

purple BEST of the SEASON

purple INTERVIEW

purple FASHION WOMEN

purple FASHION MEN

purple DOCUMENT

purple BEAUTY

purple LOVE

purple SEX

purple NIGHT

purple STORY

purple VISUAL ESSAY

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