Purple #42: The Magic Issue

Purple Fashion is a biannual fashion and arts publication based in Paris. Curated by Olivier Zahm, it showcases new and provocative work by some of the most exciting photographers working today.

This issue explores magic's potential as an alternative way of approaching everyday reality, ‘Magic works!’ proclaims editor Olivier Zahm, informed by the work of a wide range of thinkers and artists: an excerpt from Michel Foucault's 1966 book The Order of Things kicks the conversation off, followed by Carl Jung's psychoanalytic illustrations, interviews with Patti Smith, David Lynch and contemporary occultist Mitch Horowitz, an essay on superstitions in the couture workshop, plus one penned by Björk. Also included is the second edition of the Purple Residence supplement; American painter Elizabeth Glaessner is the current artist-in-residence at Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation in Marseilles.