Purple Fashion Magazine

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Get Ready for a Fashion Revolution with Purple Fashion Magazine!

For just $90, experience the iconic magazine that changed the fashion game in 1992. Purple Fashion is all about raw, real, and edgy style, with amazing photos and art.

What You’ll Get:

• Kicked off in 1992 as Purple Prose by Paris-based duo Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm, born from a punkish backlash against ’80s superficiality—think Interview meets Ray Gun, heavy on “realism” via shooters like Juergen Teller and Terry Richardson.
• By 2004, it split souls: Purple Fashion landed with the Purple Institute (Paris and New York hubs), while Purple Journal stuck to Les Editions Purple in France—Fashion’s the bilingual beast (English/French) cranking out heftier, artist-book-stuffed editions.
• Olivier Zahm’s the linchpin—co-founder, editor-in-chief, and creative director since day one, notorious for his libidinal lens on women and culture (he’s blogged his escapades into legend), with Elein Fleiss helming the Journal side and M/M Paris on art direction post-2006.
• Biannual rhythm means two fat issues a year—Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter—each packing 120-200 pages of fashion-as-art, with every drop since issue two bundling a full artist’s book inside.
• Circulation? Clocked at 75,000 back in 2013, holding that niche cult status without chasing mass numbers—it’s import-only for many, fueling its elusive vibe.
• Latest drops: Issue 42, Fall/Winter 2024-2025 “The Magic Issue” (199 pages, out September 1, 2024); Spring/Summer 2025 ode to Japan’s radical culture (121 pages, April 25, 2025 pub, featuring Katerina Jebb).
• Upcoming: #44 Fall/Winter 2025 “The Analog Issue,” teasing a back-to-basics photo push amid digital fatigue.
• Prices hit hard for the prestige: Single issues retail $65-85 (Amazon/Walmart at $65.55, eBay around $84.58 with free U.S. shipping); full-year sub (2 issues) $199 via Magsstore (36% off a $310-ish cover total), or $167 straight from MagazineCafe for the pair with free mainland U.S. delivery—digital access to archives is free on purple.fr, no paywall there.
• Milestones stack up: 25th bash in 2017 with Chloe Sevigny and Grace Hartzel; Zahm’s 2015 relaunch amped the sex-and-seventies cocktail; by 2025, it’s a Lampoon-interviewed manifesto for indie publishing, dodging corporate chains.
• Beyond print, it’s a ecosystem—Purple.fr streams free reads from the last decade-plus, plus spin-offs like Purple Fiction and Purple Sexe, all orbiting that anti-fashion core where intellect crashes into desire.