Purple Magazine
— S/S 2007 issue 7
Summer 2007: Alex
photographer TERRY RICHARDSON
featuring ALEX
It’s not that we couldn’t find a sexy smart celeb, as we generally do, for such an important story in the magazine. But we decided to go to the other side of the spectrum and find someone who perfectly incarnates the girl of today, all of them, in fact all the girls on MySpace.
For such girls every day means a new look. There are no hierachies in their looks, no good or bad taste headaches, no worries over creative designers versus commercial brands.They’re beyond that, smarter than that. They’re consumers unburdened by neurotic complexes. They’re sardonic and polymorphic punk all at the same time. They like everything and believe nothing.
They like the power of brands, but don’t trust in tradition, in luxury, in quality or in any kind of permanence. They love fashion but don’t respect it. Every day they dress up differently, and every day they’re sexy. What counts for them is what’s good for them, right now! How they feel, right now!
And only Terry could capture the essence of what seems more like an anti-attitude. Only he could shoot a girl like Alex, a star of the no-stars generation, a sweetheart of the “experimental jet set”, the ironic post sonic hipsters, all famous on the Internet.
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Total galatic cyber-princess and her shiny robotic articulations BALENCIAGA by NICOLAS GHESQUIÉRE
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Donatella has cleaned up and her new VERSACE collection is as clear as this snow white cocktail dress, as light as a cloud
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Miuccia Prada never really disclaimed communism and utopian liberation: look at this russian constructivist silk satin MIU MIU dress
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Parisian subversion for a collection called Purple, scarf and necklace UNDERCOVER, shoes NIKE AIR FORCE ONE.
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Alex with french pop singer, Christophe outside Brasserie Balzar
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New York sporty chic for a PROENZA SCHOULER fan
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Ultra light fractal print party dress THREEASFOUR, hand in glove bag UNDERCOVER, white ankle boots VÉRONIQUE LEROY
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International style, black magic wall paper, tribal spells and mojo GIVENCHY
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Stripper zipper dress to hunt down BENJAMIN CHO, late at night in your killer high heels PIERRE HARDY
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A gold-chained take on the little black dress CHANEL. Cool...
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Tank top with Richard Prince hippie drawings print and a shiny beige skirt MARNI. Too cool...
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Shirt, nude, wet cocktail organza dress YVES SAINT LAURENT
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Mint candies, ice cream and bucolic MARC JACOBS dress for you sunshine
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Plaque in memory of Helmut Newton, on the wall i front of the Chateau Marmont in LA where he crashed his car
