In 1992, Olivier Zahm and Elein Fleiss founded Purple Prose, whose name (as Fleiss gleefully points out in her intro) is "practically impossible for any French person to pronounce." (Fun to imagine, non?) Since then, the mag has branched out to include Purple Fashion and Purple Sexe, and published the work of a who's who from the art world: Teller, Ackermann, Richardson (both Bob and Terry). Their new (and curiously timed) anthology includes essays from the likes of Kim Gordon and Glenn O'Brien, not to mention reproductions of nearly every page they've ever published. This includes enough pictures of Chloë Sevigny to last two lifetimes—though if Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin's nudes are any indication, you can never have too many.
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