Purple Magazine
— F/W 2012 issue 18

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This 20th anniversary issue of Purple isn’t a look back, and there’s no Purple retrospective. But to celebrate our birthday, we’ve printed gifts for you and for ourselves: a Purple Book of original collages by Richard Prince, one of our favorite artists and a long-time contributor to the magazine, and a paperback reprint of his book Bettie Kline. 

I started this magazine with Elein Fleiss in 1992. At the time there was no interesting magazine in Paris for our generation, no publication that was made by artists for artists, and nothing to challenge the mass-market press. There was no Internet either, but the new Apple Macintosh enabled people like us to design a magazine at home. This 20th anniversary is also the right moment to reveal the Purple Fashion logo, calligraphed by M/M (Paris) seven years ago, which we have been discreetly blind-stamping on the cover all this time. In the age of digital media this signature helps me to reaffirm the spirit of openness and independence that has always guided me and our contributors. 

Purple is no longer just one magazine but two: an online magazine that we attend to every day and one that is published on paper each season. Purple in print and Purple online complement each other and continue our ongoing dialogue with fashion, with the various art worlds, with the world of ideas, and with the political events and cataclysmic occurrences that enliven our lives and sometimes shock the hell out of us. With them we’ll continue to fight for true beauty and love. 

— OLIVIER ZAHM

[Table of contents]

F/W 2012 issue 18

Table of contents

purple EDITO

purple NEWS

purple BEST OF THE SEASON

purple INTERVIEWS

purple FASHION WOMEN

purple FASHION MEN

purple DOCUMENTS

purple BEAUTY

purple TRAVEL

purple LOVE

purple NAKED

purple PHILO

purple NIGHT

purple WINTER

purple VISUAL ESSAY

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