Purple Fashion

[droogist]

^ A comes out biannually, supposedly in time with the s/s and a/w seasons...but they don't exactly adhere to the strictest schedule, do they.

[faust]

I'm so glad I'm not the only who is bored with Purple. It really used to be much better, and much less pretensious.

I also think i-D gets it right the closest, even though some issues are achingly bad - but we can't have it all with too many differences in tastes.

I love it how i-D sticks to FASHION, isn't that an amazing concept for a fashion magazine?! I think American magazines should take a note of that.

M-O-M, sounds like SelfService is something you are recommending. I shall take a look.

[faust]

Originally Posted by Johnny

Thanks for the archives cerfas. I also find it a little too self consciously "poetic", but some of the photography is quite beautiful. For me, it's a little too banal on the whole though.

i-D is the only mag that does it for me really. I saw the Margiela A edition in the cafe in DSM a few weeks ago and thought it was really really dull, such a dissapointment. HT Yohji one is good. I think it's only annual.

When I hear DSM, my first thought is Diamond Star Motors (Mitsubishi). Ex car-freak <

[Mr-Dale]

Oh I have never heard of this magazine before. So it's an annual magazine covering lots of fashion photography, but then all very serious if I read it all well? Is it available in Europe too?

[luxmode]

I've only seen a few issues of Purple, but I liked the photography and the layouts. I'm sad to hear it's gone downhill...

[helena]

Yes its available in Europe - although I have only ever seen it in Borders Books or artsy mag shops.

[Mutterlein]

I-D is my favorite in part because it is so fashion focused with perhaps a slight nod to happenings in music hidden away as well as it's inclusion of a lot of menswear in editorials and articles. Their stylists are aslo the most imaginative to me.

I found Purple Fashion to be a bore and could never bring myself to flip through a whole issu.e

[cerfas]

French Vogue is wonderful--I agree completely. And even French Marie Claire has some really great fashion editorials, they have a great sense of balance and put together looks that are reasonably good for a magazine that I would have expected to be boring, generic.
It is the earlier Purple issues that interest me, I agree completely that it has gone downhill. I have not bought a single recent issue, barely care to look.
Funny, MoM, I found the early issues to be very playful. I will scan some pictures when I get the chance.
You're welcome Lena, Johnny.
Not only is CRASH a great magazine, their online archives are just incredible. Anyone who has not seen it--check it out, www.crash.fr

[cigaretiquette]

Crash is one of the best pure underground style magazines
I-D is the worst by far.
Purple has nice editorials tho

[faust]

Originally Posted by cigaretiquette

Crash is one of the best pure underground style magazines
I-D is the worst by far.
Purple has nice editorials tho

What are you finding is wrong with i-D?

[Lena]

A magazine is real good but its more like an edited 'book' than 'a real fashion mag' no? I have the Margiela and the V&R issues, maybe more? not sure...

From the 'indie' press, Self Service and maybe Citizen K are the best
as for Crash, not sure if i have seen this, i've been falling out of magazine infatuation for some seasons now..

finally, i havent seen Purple in a long time, but if one visits Paris they can drop by the Purple Institute cafe&boutique, near Gare De l'Est i think, they have a sweet small cafe and a rack of clothes there, quite cozy and sweet (thats if you find it open) .

[metal-on-metal]

Originally Posted by Lena

A magazine is real good but its more like an edited 'book' than 'a real fashion mag' no? I have the Margiela and the V&R issues, maybe more? not sure...

That's very true. Not a magazine in the true sense, though certainly an interesting and clever reading experience.

[Scott]

To concur,I think the best issues of Purple are the older ones. They've lost a bit of that spark to me these days. The best thing about Purple was indeed the stories....the photography,the styling,the make-up artists....not to mention the kind of designers they featured in these stories. There was also this sort of "realism" that I appreciated about it. But like one said,it's been a bit repetitve lately.

[cerfas]

I didn't mean to say "great" so many times. I got two hours of sleep last night.

Fashion magazines are usually disappointing to me...I see it more as finding a couple things here and there that I like rather than loving the comprehensive vision of one publication in particular. Another magazine used to be pretty good but I havent seen in it in a while...don't have much access to fancy print media around here.

Purple Institute also has shows...A while back Noriko Tujiko played there.

[Scott]

As for A....well coming from somebody who's bought it since Dirk Van Saene curated the first....I'm not as taken by the latest issues under the new title. A-D were all amazing to me...didn't even bother with V&R's exhibition catalogue issue. But Margiela and Yohji were a bit disappointing to me.