Purple Magazine
— F/W 2011 issue 16

Edito

We produced this new issue of Purple with Japan in mind.

We recently lost of our close friend Fumihiro Hayashi, the founder and editor of Dune, our favorite Japanese magazine. We miss Fumihiro dearly, and dedicate this issue of Purple to him.

This past spring we helplessly witnessed the disaster that destroyed Northern Japan, resulting in the world’s worst nuclear accident. The careless use of nuclear energy is inacceptable to us, as are the profit-driven energy policies that engender it. We’re the first generation forced to live with a looming — self-made — disaster, in a Civilization of Panic. The idea of apocalypse is now totally embedded in everyday life. Yet we continue to lead our “cool” comfortable lifestyle, the cost of which could easily be a Fukushima-like disaster near Paris or New York City.

We at Purple refuse to passively accept this hedonistic cynicism. Kaneto Shindo, the 100-year-old Japanese filmmaker, interviewed in this issue, survived the destruction of Hiroshima, and has never stopped chronicling the absurdity of the nuclear culture that developed out of this first atomic calamity. Kenneth Anger’s satanic short films, such as Lucifer Rising, resonate with all the potential of human darkness. And in the new Purple News section, which connects art to life, artists express their optimistic, utopian — or paranoid — feelings about the complex social issues of today.

— OLIVIER ZAHM

[Table of contents]

F/W 2011 issue 16

Table of contents

purple EDITO

purple NEWS

purple BEST of the SEASON

purple INTERVIEW

purple FASHION WOMEN

purple FASHION MEN

purple DOCUMENTS

purple BEAUTY

purple TRAVEL

purple NAKED

purple PHILOSOPHY

purple NIGHT

purple WINTER

purple VISUAL ESSAY

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