Purple Magazine
— S/S 2012 issue 17

Edito

People often tell me that they feel the freest and the most stimulated outdoors, in nature. I feel the freest in artists’ studios, photography studios, and movie studios. These hidden places are a city-person’s creative refuge. They’re the most promising of worlds — micro-utopias, in fact. A studio never represents the contrary, the dystopia you so often see in those commercial movies that scare you with their stories of indiscriminate death, depraved calamity, and the apocalypse. A studio is a true place of creation because it engages process more than result. Studios engender fresh ideas and multiple options.
That’s why so many studios are shown and spoken of in this issue of Purple — for example, we did fashion shoots in the studios of artists Robert Longo, Gardar Eide Einarsson, and Christophe Brunnquell; and visited the studios of Matthew Barney and Tom Sachs. Visiting a studio is to engage with endlessly stimulating and consistently inspiring possibility. We hope that by offering such access to the creative energies of these artists, this issue of Purple will spark the same feeling of possibility in you.

— OLIVIER ZAHM

[Table of contents]

S/S 2012 issue 17

Table of contents

purple EDITO

purple NEWS

purple BEST of the SEASON

purple INTERVIEW

purple FASHION WOMEN

purple FASHION MEN

purple DOCUMENTS

purple BEAUTY

purple TRAVEL

purple NAKED

purple NIGHT

purple SUMMER

purple VISUAL ESSAY

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