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 aesthetics 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. The magazine is high quality, chunky and seriously good, published in France, printed in both English and French.
Details: Issue 40
Purple Fashion Magazine Issue 40 (the Revolutions Issue) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Purple Magazine’s Revolution Issue is its most passionate ever, with stories infused with the love for change and alternative solutions and yet full of heartache for regression and inequalities in this revolutionary era.
494 pages, 25 x 17 x 3 cm, 3.5 kg, Hardcover
Details: Issue 39
Purple Fashion Magazine Issue 39 (the New York Issue) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Issue 39 features 431 pages full of 25 texts and interviews and 15 luxury stories.
431 pages, 25 x 17 x 3 cm, 3.5 kg, Hardcover




