Purple Fashion #46

In 2026, more than 130 armed conflicts are active worldwide, reflecting a deeply fragmented and unstable world. Yet this issue of Purple looks beyond war to the many divisions shaping our lives: social, political, gender, racial, ecological, and personal. The Peace Issue asks how pacifism can become imaginable again, bringing together voices and visions that challenge polarization and reconnect what has been divided. With contributions by Michel Houellebecq, Matt Mullican, Jenny Holzer, Gilles Lipovetsky, Mark Borthwick, Judith Bernstein, Natasha Lyonne and many others, issue 46 explores peace through art, philosophy, and culture. How do we make pacifism imaginable again - that forgotten dream of the 1960s and '10s? This issue does not offer a single answer. It sketches a direction. Or several that already exist in people, in artworks, in images, and in the conversations gathered in these pages.

Purple Fashion is a magazine that knows that having personality is about more than just being extroverted. Published in Paris under the eye of its charismatic Editor-In-Chief, Olivier Zahm, each issue is as decadent as his lifestyle is reported to be. Its articles and photo shoots ooze intimacy and somehow get inside places that many would dream to be. Indulgent? Perhaps. Typical? Definitely not. Purple Fashion manages to capture a ‘fashionable’ world in a way that subverts notions of superficiality and replaces it with a focus on personal expression and quality.