Purple Fashion Magazine Issue 45 (the New Glamour Issue) is available now on loremnotipsum.com. Issue 45 comes with 17 different covers.
Glamour has always been an illusion — but never an innocent one. Long before cinema and pop music, it existed as a strategy of power: carved into marble, painted onto canvases, embodied by gods, heroes, and sovereign families. Beauty and authority were fixed into icons meant to last, to dictate, and to fascinate.
With Hollywood’s Golden Age, from the late 1920s to the 1970s, and the rise of pop music and stars in every domain, glamour became a universal dream: a mirror for everyone’s narcissism. No longer reserved for elites or ruling classes, it entered the collective imagination, shaping sex appeal and identities, and electrifying creativity.
By the late 1980s, glamour had turned into a commercial nightmare. It glorified success, domination, money, and visibility. It was mostly reduced to a formula — polished, standardized, triumphant. Mystery disappeared. Seduction turned into consumption. Glamour lost both its tension and its danger.
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We cannot guarantee which cover we will be able to offer. Therefore, a specific cover cannot be chosen when ordering, but you can specify your cover preference in the order notes at checkout and if it is available, we will send that cover.
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. Purple Fashion magazine is high quality, chunky and seriously good, published in France, printed in both English and French.
List of covers
- Laurie Simmons
- Jordan Roth by Steven Klein
- Gucci with Petit by Gaspar Noé
- Linder Sterling
- Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello by Inez & Vinoodh
- Burberry with Lou Doillon
- Balenciaga with Mona Tougaard
- Givenchy by Sarah Burton with Pauline Schubach
- Valextra by Olivier Zahm
- Francesco Vezzoli
- Paris Texas with Paloma Elsesser
- Loewe by Joshua Woods
- Born in Roma Valentino
- Prada by Torbjørn Rødland
- Clash de Cartier by Olivier Zahm
- Tom Ford with Cameron Russell by Venetia Scott
- Anthony Vaccarello Ten Year Anniversary at Saint Laurent
Details: Purple Fashion Magazine Issue 45
492 pages
25 x 17 x 3 cm
2.5 kg
Hardcover




































