Purple Magazine
— F/W 2015 issue 24

Edito

In this issue you’ll find interviews with two French icons: Catherine Deneuve, a legend of French cinema and a conscious but nonmilitant feminist, and Hélène Cixous, a highly respected author, philosopher, and critic, and a central figure in contemporary feminist theory.

The standard cliché is that fashion is anti-feminist, that it objectifies women with its superficial commercialism, that it’s an industry designed to alienate women by reducing their identities to their appearance. This is as one-sided as saying that fashion empowers women, that it helps women to liberate themselves, dress for themselves and speak for themselves, and that it can push the boundaries of gender stereotyping.

Anything can happen in fashion. Fashion can be feminist and anti-feminist at the same time. This open contradiction and permanent opposition can lean toward progressive ways of representing women or, on the contrary, toward regressive social stereotypes that instrumentalize women.

By raising this controversial issue, I’m not trying to convince you that Purple is far more feminist than other fashion magazines. You can decide that for yourself. This issue is, however, a visual experiment. We wondered what kind of fashion stories could intentionally be created with feminism in mind — the multiple facets of feminism today — without being didactic, political, or simply boring.

— OLIVIER ZAHM

[Table of contents]

F/W 2015 issue 24

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 TRAVEL

purple PHILOSOPHY

purple SEX

purple NIGHT

purple STORY

purple VISUAL ESSAY

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