Purple Magazine
— F/W 2016 issue 26
Night Pictures
pictures by OLIVIER ZAHM
with a portfolio by KARLHEINZ WEINBERGER
In 1958, the Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006) — renowned for his homoerotic photographs under the pseudonym -Jim — discovered a microcosm of Zurich teenagers inspired by Elvis Presley, James Dean, and American bikers. He called them “Halbstarke,” half-strong girls and boys who rose out of the mountain landscape to join the circus of rock ‘n’ roll gladiators. They laced up the crotches of their jeans like pirates’ pants and, like legionnaires, slung their hips with buckles emblazoned with their heroes.
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Georgia Ford at the Purple party at Paul's Baby Grand, New York, February 2016
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James Goldstein and Eugenia Kuzmina at the Purple dinner and party at Milk Studios, Los Angeles, April 2016
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Zürich, 1961, photo Karlheinz Weinberger
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Langley Fox and Lili Sumner at the Purple party at Paul's Baby Grand, New York, February 2016
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Jean-Jacques Schuhl at the Purple and Vionnet dinner with Belvedere at Brasserie Lipp, Paris, March 2016
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Lily McMenamy at the Purple and Vionnet dinner with Belvedere at Brasserie Lipp, Paris, March 2016
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Caroline Vreeland and Tasya van Ree at the Purple party at Paul's Baby Grand, New York, February 2016
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Marc Ascoli and Craig McDean at the Purple and Vionnet dinner with Belvedere at Brasserie Lipp, Paris, March 2016
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Olivier Zahm and the Lipp waiters at the Purple and Vionnet dinner with Belvedere at Brasserie Lipp, Paris, March 2016
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Robert Montgomery and Greta Bellamacina, and their baby at the Purple and Vionnet dinner with Belvedere at Brasserie Lipp, Paris, March 2016
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Zürich, circa 1962, photo Karlheinz Weinberger
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Lilli Moors and Martin Eder at the Purple and Vionnet dinner with Belvedere at Brasserie Lipp, Paris, March 2016
