Dan Colen

Black tuxedo and white Oxford shirt BURBERRY Black trench coat MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA

Dan Colen’s gray wool tuxedo MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA

White Shirt BURBERRY, wool vest DOLCE & GABBANA, black tie CHARVET

Tuxedo Jacket YVES SAINT LAURENT

interview by GLENN O’BRIEN
text by DIKE BLAIR
portraits by TERRY RICHARDSON
styled by MEL OTTENBERG

DAN COLEN, one of the most promising of the new generation of  New York artists, is here portrayed by three long time Purple contributors, all veterans of the New York art scene. Terry Richardson captures the young lion in his element; Glenn O’Brien conducts a fax-to-fax interview, and artist Dike Blair, Dan’s former professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, weighs in with his thoughts on his work. Three view points on a man who,…