Purple Magazine Issue 45: The New Glamour Issue

Spring/Summer 2026, the New Glamour issue, with seventeen covers and Laurie Simmons on the first.

Susan Sontag's "Notes on Camp" and Roland Barthes's "The Face of Garbo" are reprinted alongside Jean Baudrillard on seduction and Kenneth Anger on the new gods. A running "Notes on Glamour" collects statements from Junya Watanabe, Duran Lantink, Nicolas Di Felice, Rachel Scott, Vaquera, Raul Lopez, Elena Velez, Dilara Findikoglu, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, Taller Marmo, Andreas Kronthaler and Women's History Museum. Olivier Zahm interviews Anthony Vaccarello, Francesco Vezzoli, Christeene, Betony Vernon and Miguel Adrover, and Aleph Molinari talks to Martin Parr and Kali Malone. Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin shoot Saint Laurent, Steven Klein photographs Jordan Roth, Gaspar Noé shoots Gucci and Torbjørn Rødland shoots Prada.

Claude Cahun, Pierre Molinier, Jürgen Klauke, Sylvie Fleury, General Idea, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Jack Smith and Linder Sterling supply the issue's argument that glamour has always been a queer invention.