Purple #42 – The Magic Issue

This issue explores magic’s potential as an alternative way of approaching everyday reality—‘Magic works!’ proclaims editor Olivier Zahm—informed by the work of a wide range of thinkers and artists: an excerpt from Michel Foucault’s 1966 book The Order of Things kicks the conversation off, followed by Carl Jung’s psychoanalytic illustrations, interviews with Patti Smith, David Lynch and contemporary occultist Mitch Horowitz, an essay on superstitions in the couture workshop, plus one penned by Björk.

Also included is the second edition of the Purple Residence supplement; American painter Elizabeth Glaessner is the current artist-in-residence at Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation in Marseilles.

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.

24x33 cm, hardcover

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