Purple (magazine)

Purple is a French fashion-, art- and culture magazine, since 2004 divided into Purple Fashion published by "Purple Institute" based in Paris and New York, and Purple Journal, published by "Les Editions Purple", based in Paris.

Infobox Magazine
title = Purple Fashion


image_size = 200px
image_caption = Cover of Purple Fashion Fall/Winter 2008/09.
Kate Moss is photographed by Mario Sorrenti, styled by Jane How.
company = Purple Institute
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frequency = Biannual
language = English + French
category = Fashion, Art, Culture
editor = Olivier Zahm
editor_title = Editor-in-chief
firstdate = 1992 (Purple Prose)
1995 (old version)
2004 (new version)
country = France
website = [http://www.purple.fr/ www.purple.fr] Infobox Magazine
title = Purple Journal


image_size = 200px
image_caption = Cover of Purple Journal #13
company = Les Editions Purple
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frequency = Quarterly
language = English, French
category = Art, Culture
editor = Elein Fleiss and Sébastien Jamain
editor_title = Editors-in-chief
firstdate = 2004
country = France
website = [http://www.purple.fr/ www.purple.fr]

History

In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine "Purple Prose" as a reaction against the superficial glamour of the 1980’s; much as a part of the global counterculture at the time, inspired by magazines like "Interview, Ray Gun, Nova", and "Helmut Newton’s Illustrated", but with the aestetics of what usually is referred to as "anti-fashion". Based on their personal interests and views; Purple was, and in a sense still is, made much in the same spirit of the fanzine. The magazine quickly became associated with the "realism" of the new fashion photography of the 1990’s, with names like Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Mario Sorrenti [Zahm, Olivier; Purple Anthology 1992/2006; Purple Fashion, Fall Winter 2008/09; Purple Institute, Paris 2008; p.68-69] .

In the introduction of the Purple Anthology, Zahm writes:

Purple Prose and Purple Fashion was art directed mainly by Christophe Brunnquell until 2007, when he was succeeded by M/M Paris.

Offspring publications

Fleiss & Zahm’s collaboration has resulted in many side projects over the years:

	Purple Prose published from October 1992 till winter 1998 (13 issues).
	Purple Fiction a litterary magazine published between 1995 and 1998 (4 issues).
	Purple Fashion published between 1995 - 1998 (4 issues), and 2004 - (present).
	Purple Sexe a magazine devoted to sexuality, published between winter 1998 and 2001 (8 issues). The magazine was reborn as an one-off appendix for Purple Fashion Fall/Winter 2008/09, dedicated to Italian porn star Rocco Siffredi.
	Purple a fusion of Purple Prose, Fiction, Fashion, and Sexe; published between summer 1998 and 2003 (16 issues).
	Purple Books a publishing house (1998 - 2001)
	Purple Gallery a Parisian art gallery.
	Purple Journal a cultural magazine published 2004 - (present) in a french and an english version.

Since 2004, Purple is divided in two different publications; Purple Fashion magazine (edited by Olivier Zahm and published by "Purple Institute") and Purple Journal (edited by Elein Fleiss and Sébastien Jamain, published by "Les Editions Purple") [http://www.purple.fr/] .

Purple Fashion’s artist’s books

Since it's second issue, each number of Purple Fashion comes with an artist’s book:
No.2 – Terry Richardson: "Terry"
No.3 – Richard Prince: "The Hippie drawings"
No.4 – Hedi Slimane: "Interzone"
No.5 – Juergen Teller: "Ed in Japan"
No.6 – Rita Ackermann: "Good morning New York"
No.7 – Helmut Lang: "Selective memory series"
No.8 – Dash Snow: "You can't drink it if it's frozen"
No.9 – Christophe Brunnquell: "Annees Erotiques"
No.10 – Harmony Korine: "Pigxtras"

References

External links

* [http://www.purple.fr/ Official website of Purple]