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Purple Magazine 41 The Essence of Fashion Issue: “Today, the world of fashion seems to be limitless. Fashion is extending its influence across multiple domains, from gender politics to celebrity culture, from social documentary to contemporary art, from TV series to pop music. It’s becoming a global cultural paradigm, an ephemeral but optimistic future in a panic civilization, the main subjective resource for everyone in a time of narcissism and anxiety.
Are we experiencing the pinnacle of the power of fashion, or the start of its decline? Is this expanding empire of signs – with its gigantic corporate groups, seemingly limitless economy, and swarms of creative emerging labels in every city – only at the beginning of its cultural domination? Or, on the contrary, is fashion already losing its purity, radicality, and originality, to become so commonplace that any influencer or celebrity can launch their own label?
Working on this issue – a fashion magazine exploring what fashion means – I realized that the essence of fashion is multifaceted. It cannot be encapsulated in a single concept since it reveals itself through multiple appearances, signs, fragments, moments, talents, stories, and ideas. Fashion shapes the fundamental aspects of human life and dreams, and their capricious, unpredictable evolution. To capture something of its essence, I have created a lexicon of concepts listed in alphabetical order.
Each of them represents a fugitive facet of the essence of fashion and the ways it is expressed, whether through a brand’s identity, a designer’s story, a photographer’s lens, a model’s attitude, or even a city’s vibe. Of course, this open, unfinished list does not claim to fully describe the system of fashion.
It’s more like a toolbox for your own take on it, your own vision of fashion.
To me, fashion signifies freedom. It’s an effortless way to free ourselves from countless forms of control and conformity, even from the dictates of fashion itself.”
– Olivier Zahm
Purple Magazine’s Revolutions Issue is its most passionate ever, with stories infused with the love for change and alternative solutions and yet full of heartache as regression and inequalities rise.
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Malgosia Bela in Balenciaga by Mark Borthwick
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Tyrone Dylan in Cartier by Olivier Zahm
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Anja Rubik in Saint Laurent by Joshua Woods
/ 511 pages
/ hardcover
/ 3,1 kg
/ 24 × 33 cm
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Culture today means sustainability – in its honest meaning.
Culture has always been about human respect, tolerance. It’s not only about accepting human diversity but it’s about searching for the beauty of every human peculiarity.
Inclusion is the first value that defines art. Culture today means one thing only: to be part of a community, to think as a community.
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