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]
BEST of the SEASON
by Terry Richardson and Carine Roitfeld
The Balenciaga Boutiques
interview with Nicolas Ghesquière and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
by Olivier Zahm
by Spencer Sweeney
by Alex Israel
by Caroline Gaimari
by Glenn O'Brien
by Olivier Zahm
by Sabine Heller
by Nathaniel Goldberg
by Camille Bidault Waddington
by Gardar Eide Einarsson
by Max Snow
by Robert Longo
by Olivier Zahm
by Olivier Zahm
by Anuschka Blommers and Neils Schumm
by Terry Richardson
by Paola Kudacki
by Ari Marcopoulos
interview with Nicolas Ghesquière and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster
by Olivier Zahm