ANIMAL » PURPLE

Purple Mag Editor Shows Off Sleazy Shots

Will Sherman — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:30:44 +0000

Purple magazine founder and editor Olivier Zahm is taking his fashion porn offline and into the gallery. Through December, Chinatown’s Half Gallery will host the Parisian photoblogger’s first exhibition, much of it presumably culled from his Tumblr, Purple Diary. Without many details about the show, it’s a safe bet it will feature a similarly explicit collection of timestamped images.

Expect some shots of the fashionably dressed, and undressed, at the Boom Boom Room and around the Standard Hotel, where the sunglasses-wearing editor is frequently lurking.

Oliver Zahm, December 1 – January 2, Half Gallery, 208 Forsyth Street

Sean Lennon Pretends He’s Yoko Ono

Will Sherman — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:44:13 +0000

For the Fall issue of Purple magazine, Sean Lennon appears in a recreation of his parents’ famous 1981 Rolling Stone cover, their last photo together by financially troubled photographer Annie Leibovitz. The new snap by Terry Richardson features Sean in his mother’s place while nude model Kemp Muhl fills in for his dead father. See the semi-NSFW homage below.

Terry Richardson photo via Homotography and Copyranter

Purple’s ‘Portfolio’ Cost A lot of Green

ANIMAL — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:57:37 +0000

Not to be outdone by Visionaire’s outrageously priced collectors trunk of all its issues, French fashion magazine Purple is releasing a super limited edition portfolio of photos from Juergen Teller, Richard Kern, Jack Pierson, Terry Richardson, and Richard Prince to celebrate its 15 year anniversary. The $25,000 ‘Purple Portfolio‘ collection features five 16″x20″ photographic prints—one from each artist—is housed in a stamped cloth-covered clamshell box, and all come signed/numbered. Not so surprisingly, only ten of these are being made. After the jump, a small sampling of what to expect including a slightly NSFW Richardson’s Service Please, Prince’s Hannah C. and Pierson’s portrait of Brad Pitt (Teller’s Pasolini’s Dog pictured above).

Purple Mag Editor Reveals Dash Snow’s Next Gig: Cross-Dressing

ANIMAL — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:41:42 +0000

Purple magazine’s founder and editor, Oliver Zahm, appeared in a fashion profile for the New York Times recently where he discussed his desire to look how child molesting film genius Roman Polanski did in the ’70s, an affinity for Ray-Bans, and his plans to “show the beauty and love” of ‘Washed Up‘ artist Dash Snow by dressing him like a girl:

“In the next issue, I have the artist Dash Snow wearing women’s clothes from the fall collections. To see a beautiful man like Dash, who for me is American aristocracy—this is inspiring.”

Truly inspiring indeed!
Photo: Dash Snow at V-magazine party |Logo|