Purple Fashion Magazine Issue 9 (Volume III)

Spring/Summer 2008, in which Wes Anderson, Nicolas Ghesquière and the Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama sit for interviews and Karl Lagerfeld shoots twice.

Olivier Zahm and Olympia Le-Tan interview Anderson, Zahm takes Ghesquière and the novelist Jean-Jacques Schuhl, Eko Sato talks to Shinoyama and Simon Liberati to Pierre Le-Tan. Mario Sorrenti photographs "The Violinist," Juergen Teller shoots Westwood and a story called "Harmony," Jack Pierson contributes "Butterfly" and Karl Lagerfeld files both "Mademoiselle" and a Versailles portfolio. Mark Borthwick's "Lightness" and Magnus Unnar's "Private Collection" and "After Dark" fill out the fashion. Documents include Bill Powers on Jay-Z and Damien Hirst, Glenn O'Brien on Richard Prince, Jeff Rian on Lizzi Bougatsos and a Dan Colen visual essay.

The news pages carry short items from Chloë Sevigny, Zaha Hadid, Paul McCarthy, M/M (Paris), Nate Lowman and Terry Richardson, a format Purple used for years to open each issue at speed.