Purple Strikes Back | Fall/Winter 2008

While I have only once had the distinct pleasure of whooping it up with the Purple Magazine's infamous Olivier Zahm, witnessing him grab 16-year old (two years my junior) Tallulah Morton's derrier was enough to convince me that he's kind of a creep. But a majorly genius creep.

The Fall/Winter 2008 Mario Sorrenti cover (featuring himself flanking -- who else? -- but Kate) is sure-to-be legendary. Plus the fabled Balmain "Anna Jagodinska" dress is iconic: as Hilary Alexander so cleverly remarked upon seeing it on last February's catwalk, it "covers just enough to avoid infringing the laws of public decency". Not anymore!

snapped by me at last month's Longchamp 60th Anniversary fête with The Kills

Here's what to expect:

• Terry Richardson caught up with Dash Snow (along with his daughter, girlfriend, grandmother, and girlfriend’s mother) for a Best of the Season editorial. 
• Meghan Collison in an entire spread dedicated to Benjamin Cho, styled by Natasha Royt and photographed by Hanna Liden. 
• Richard Kern shot Harley Viera-Newton, Stella Madrid Schnabel, Mary Charteris, Z Berg, Theodora Dupree, Cécile Winckler, Vanessa Traina and Nathalie Love for a sweeping New York Girls editorial. 
• Malgosia Bela styled by Anastasia Barbieri for a Glen Luchford fashion spread. 
• Rinko Kikuchi stars in her own editorial shot by Chikashi Suzuki. 
• Daphne Guinness styled by Heidi Bivens in a Paul Wetherell article. 
• Richard Bush shot the hilarious and gorgeous Daisy Lowe, styled by the always brilliant Sarah Richardson. 
• Hilary Rhoda models for Purple Beauty, photographed by Katja Rahlwes. 
• Alasdair McLellan shot the Purple Fashion Men with Waris Ahluwalia. 
• Trish Goff dons her nudie suit for Inez & Vinoodh’s Purple Naked. 
• This issue’s three portraits are: Camilla Nickerson (self-styled and photographed by Mario Sorrenti), Mario Sorrenti (self portraits), and Lou Doillon. 
• In the first episode of Terry Richardson’s Life Story, Terry photographs his mother (Annie Lomax). 
• For a Vanessa Bruno editorial, Mark Borthwick shot Joanna Preiss, Léa Seydoux, Hélène Fillières, Mia Hansen-Love, Constance Verluca, Yelle and Bambou. 
• Terry Richardson portraits the city of Los Angeles for Purple Travel. 
• Camille Bidault Waddington styled Missy Rayder, Egle Tvirbutaite, Erin Heatherton, Denisa Dvorakova, Barbora Dvorakova, and Jen Messelier in Horst Diekgerdes’ Purple V-O-C-A-B-U-L-A-R-Y. 
• Richard Prince is featured in the Purple Visual Essay. 
• Supplements include Pigxtras by Harmony Korine and Purple Sexe: The Sensational Rocco Siffredi at Work in his European Film Studio of Thrills by Terry Richardson.

Brizilliant!

bunny BISOUS jf

Comments

[stevie]

Oh the excitement..

The cover is great, but it just feels too dark for me to see it. I want to be able to absorb all of the details!

But any publication that crams in Camille B-W, Harmony Korine, Z Berg, Mario S, Lou Doillon and well, everyone else is top of my list.

[Sara]

Where can I get a copy of this magazine? I don't think I've ever seen it in my local bookstores.

[Christine Gatchalian]

Yeah I was performing at a Colette/Self Service party last February in Paris and I was taking pictures and Olivier Zahm grabbed my camera, squished my face to his, and took pictures of us with it. I had beard burn on my face for the rest of the night. One of my friends had a similar fate as well!

http://tinemachine.blogspot.com/2008/03/coletteself-service-party.html