gonna lift your black depression, help you through the night

Read this in the NY Times today, always stoked to see Olivier in the press.

STYLE CREDO To me, the best time for men was in the ’70s. I would love to look like Polanski or Jack Nicholson back then, the way they wore their jeans with just a shirt, a good watch, glasses and a nice white jacket. It was simple, but really sexy. At the beginning of this decade all the men got very glamorous. They started buying a lot of clothes. Me, I don’t like it. When you notice clothing on a man, I find it suspicious.
ON INSPIRATION Nothing is more inspiring than love and true sexuality. People say my magazine is very provocative or transgressive. Not at all. If there is nudity and sex, it is not to provoke, it is to show the beauty and love. In the next issue, I have the artist Dash Snow wearing women’s clothes from the fall collections. To see a beautiful man like Dash, who for me is American aristocracy— this is inspiring.
CURRENT PROJECTS We have a new book called “Purple Anthology.” It’s the first 15 years, edited from more than 100 issues. I’m also doing a magazine for Chanel to accompany their Mobile Art project. I do one for each of the cities it travels to. In October, it will be in New York. It’s very exciting. I’m good at doing magazines.

Will be great to see Dash grace Purple’s pages once again! Can’t wait to see what looks he’ll be sporting.

The Purple Anthology is one of the best books ever and is way cheaper than bidding on old issues of the mag on ebay. Amazon even has it on sale for nearly half the regular price! Pick up your copy now!