Purple Fashion Magazine Issue 18 (Volume III)
Fall/Winter 2012, with the fashion divided by city and Rei Kawakubo, Peter Beard and Brice Marden interviewed in the front of the book.
Camille Bidault-Waddington shoots "Escaping Paris," Mark Borthwick "Red Hook, Brooklyn Blank Canvas," Olivier Zahm "Istanbul Magnetism," Alasdair McLellan "Manchester Division," Miguel Calderón "Mexico City Unlimited," Ola Rindal "Stockholm Psychology," Takashi Homma "Tokyo Decadence" and Maxime Ballesteros "Berlin Biography." Zahm interviews Kawakubo, Chan Marshall and Lou Doillon, Bill Powers talks to Peter Beard, Glenn O'Brien to Brice Marden and Sven Schumann to Cyprien Gaillard. Paul McCarthy's New Museum anniversary speech runs in documents alongside a René Burri portfolio designed by Comme des Garçons, Annabel Mehran on Frida and Trotsky, and Andrew Berardini on Michel Auder.
Quentin Meillassoux contributes an essay on metaphysics and fiction, and Daido Moriyama's "Close Your Eyes" closes the issue.