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Purple MAGAZINE

— Purple 25YRS Anniv. issue #28 F/W 2017

PURPLE 25 YEARS 25 COVERS

 

"For our 25th anniversary issue, Purple celebrates the artists and models who incarnated the spirit of the magazine through their style, attitude, and personality: Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Paul McCarthy, Michèle Lamy, Susan Cianciolo… Stella and Eva… Maurizio Cattelan, Paul Hameline… and more.

We have made 25 different covers showing 25 Purple icons, including amateur erotic photographer John Kayser, a Duncan Hannah painting, and even a cactus. The cover girls tell the story of our 25 years working with the best fashion designers and stylists.

They include super-models Eva Herzigová and Stella Tennant; ’90s icons like Guinevere, Alek Wek, and Chloë Sevigny; the strongest models of the 2000s, like Jamie Bochert, Saskia de Brauw, and Anja Rubik; new-generation talents, like Tamy Glauser, Anna Cleveland, Rila Fukushima, and Sky Ferreira; and emerging supermodels Slick Woods, Kiki Willems, and Grace Hartzel. Since 1992, Purple has been connecting art and fashion. For our 25th anniversary issue, we pay tribute to some of our favorite models and celebrate modeling as a form of art: fashion models are the ones who embody fashion at any given time, the ones who truly inspire the designers, photographers, stylists,and editors. It seems obvious, but this is something to think about in the internet age, when influencers and selfies are increasingly undermining their role, and when social media is replacing established magazines."