Purple Magazine
— S/S 2011 issue 15

purple BEST of the SEASON

photography by TERRY RICHARDSON
art direction by OLIVIER ZAHM
style by MEL OTTENBERG

To celebrate the energetic vibrations of the radiant Spring/Summer 2011 season, we’ve recreated the dream-spirit of the Playboy mansion, a utopian amusement park where girls in sexy, colorful clothes wandered freely around swimming pools, flowerbeds, and grottos. It’s sad that such a place exists only in our minds — and on the white walls of photography studios. Sadder still is the fact that fashion magazines are the only places where young women can play with their bodies, their clothes, and their beauty without anxiety. Terry Richardson grew up in LA in the late ’70s, when this hedonistic aesthetic was everywhere, with all those fantasy girls strolling on Sunset Boulevard, roller-skating on the boardwalk, and playing in the summer sun. So Terry’s is the perfect eye to recapture the irresistible and idyllic essence of West Coast freedom.

 

Sabrina Nait @ REQUEST, Anais Pouliot @ TRUMP, Dree Hemingway and Lauren Young @ ELITE, Eniko Mihalik @ MARILYN, Magdalena Frackowiak and Edita Vilkeviciute @ DNA, and Jacquelyn Jablonski @ SUPREME, models — Jimmy Paul for BUMBLE & BUMBLE @ SUSAN PRINCE, hair — Frank B @ THE WALL GROUP, make-up — Alicia Torello @ THE WALL GROUP, manicurist — Seth Goldfarb, studio manager — Nick Sethi and Nicole Tappa, photographer’s assistants — Julia Gall, Molly Thompson, and Rebecca Grice, stylist’s assistants

Additional accessories include sunglasses by ILLESTEVA, JEREMY SCOTT for LINDA FARROW, and MYKITA. Jewelry by ANTON HEUNIS, EDDIE BORGO, NATALIA BRILLI, NOIR, PATRICIA VON MUSULIN, and SOLANGE AZAGURY-PARTRIDGE. Gloves by LACRASIA and MISS NUMA.

[Table of contents]

S/S 2011 issue 15

Table of contents

purple EDITO

purple NEWS

purple BEST of the SEASON

purple INTERVIEW

purple FASHION WOMEN

purple DOCUMENTS

purple BEAUTY

purple TRAVEL

purple NAKED

purple LOVE

purple NIGHT

purple SUMMER

purple VISUAL ESSAY

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