If you’re not familiar with Purple Magazine, you may know it as that magazine your girlfriend is really into that with tax will usually cost about $30. The price is completely worth it

If you’re not familiar with Purple Magazine , you may know it as that magazine your girlfriend is really into that with tax will usually cost about $30. The price is completely worth it because this biannual mag is the size of a coffee table book, except this one you will look at a hundred times more. This is the best of the best and in my opinion, one of the only worth reading. Anyway, Oliver Zahm, pictured above, is the man behind Purple and among other things, he has this natural french charm that will make just about every woman he comes into contact with either want to ravage him or at least flash him a significant amount of times while he photographs her. Lucky for us, Oliver launched the Purple Diary at the beginning of NY Fashion Week and has since been updating everyday with behind the scenes work for the mag, a front row view of the shows he attends and plenty of epic nights in several hotel rooms and bars. A brief look into what Oliver’s diary holds is below…

and what might be the best video of an editorial shoot ever…

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Jen
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We do about an interview a week but only a tenth of them seem to actually make it to print. Here’s one I did with a Canadian art magazine that I managed to get off the author on the condition I didn’t mention the magazine or the author.
Journalists are usually bad with the phony language and insincere questions but ART journalists bring this bullshit to a new heights. This one was particularly illiterate. When we asked them if they were going to print it they said, “Are you fucking kidding me?” which was the first time we heard them use actual English. Check out this insane intro…

The ’90s ushered in the widest bifurcation of fashion, the gay community became both, more formal and louder, the flintily end days of grunge nuanced aloofness, revival fashion became paying homage rather than posing, Harajuku trends were ordered through the internet and catalogue magazines to New York, London, Paris and LA, garbed Oriental and African expatriates tessellated prints subsumed in rich colors reflected the changing physiognomy in fashion and urban centers. In the cacophony of street fashion, Gavin McInnes’s obsession with street fashion filled the desideratum for a critic and he has become iconoclastic for his endeavor. McInnes’s street fashion critiques antedate all others and all others are in some way or another derivative of his. Only his exceptional record for being right matches his temerity.
Why do you think street fashion critiques became so influential in the mid ’90s, yours the most influential arguably?

Gavin McInnes: Temerity? Bifurcation? Desideratum?! Dude, what is with that intro? Did somebody buy you a thesaurus for Halloween? I haven’t heard words like those since University. “The changing physiognomy in fashion”? Is this how artists get by the part where everyone thinks they’re full of shit; They make up a language? You’re like a bunch of fucking lawyers.

To answer your question: who says street fashion critiques had this big surge in the 90s? Where is that documented as a fact? As with most questions, they say more about the asker than the subject. YOU think there was this big zenith in street fashion critiques because YOU were reading DOs & DON’Ts back then and starting to give a shit about how you looked. There was nothing special about this time and making fun of people’s pants has been going on since before there were pants.

My street fashion critiques were/are popular because my level of wit tends to be reserved for serious shit like politics and social commentary. To do high-IQ jokes about lowbrow stuff like shoes and socks is the hook that keeps it on most people’s radar. It has nothing to do with the epoch.

Q: Chameleon by Woody Allen is about a man who immediately transforms to suite his surroundings. Can someone do that wearing the exact same thing?

Too good. You use huge words to try to sound smart and then you spell suit wrong. And it’s Zelig not Chameleon. Ha. This is why it’s always best to just be yourself and not try to be this Christopher Hitchens intellectual. How old are you, 23?

Q: When does character trump actual attire?

Jesus, this is not easy. First I have to translate each question into English then I have to try to answer it honestly. I’m going to assume you mean, “Is there a point where someone is so amazing, it doesn’t matter what they wear?” If that is the case, the answer is, “Of course.”

Fashion, like art, is just kidding. To take it seriously is to miss the point. When I say I want to kill men that wear flip flops, I am being hyperbolic. I actually could care less, obviously. The real impetus behind style and dressing well is, “I know none of this matters but I’m stepping into the fray and giving it a go anyway, how’s this?” Fashion is like a board game or a dance. You want to do a good job because it’s fun and it shows you’re happy to be here but as soon as you take it seriously, the bubble pops. Some of my best friends are bad dressers. I just think it’s lame and wish they’d try harder because it’s fun to do that.

Q: What is style analogous to? What does it tell us about someone?

I think you just wanted to say “analogous.” As I said earlier it is “analogous” to, say, the board game Risk or even Operation. You are participating in this thing called society and fucking around with the parameters (great, now I’m talking like you people). Style is about someone who knows the rules and can tweak them a bit to reflect her personality. She’s never going to wear Juicy Couture but she might be funny enough to wear Rocawear with a Balenciaga bag. Sometimes she blows it and her friends point it out and everyone laughs.

Q: Who are some women and men who dress poorly but pull it off?

There’s a New York artist named Spencer Sweeney who always wears overalls and flip flops. I don’t know if it’s his confidence or his art career but nobody can fuck with him. It’s a mystery how he does it but if I tried it, I’d look like a gay farmer who sells ice cream to construction workers.

Sarah Silverman is a woman who couldn’t dress her way out of a wet paper bag but somehow she makes it work.

Who else? Um, I wouldn’t say Notorious 92-year-old night owl Zelda Kaplan “dresses poorly” but she dresses “really fucking insanely” and always manages to pull it off.

Q: What things are common in any fashion faux pas.

Basically, attraction is built on recognizing our differences. Women want men to be masculine and men want women to be feminine. That’s why flip flops are such a crime. What if someone slaps your girl? How are you supposed to fight now or go chase him with your little rubber soles? And why do men have to be so comfy all the time? In New York the summer uniform is cargo shorts and wife beaters. They look like Thai street vendors. Men dressing like they’re still in dorms is not masculine and women don’t like it.

Similarly, there seems to be a huge contingent of females that think it’s empowering to walk around in clogs and sweatpants with short hair and no make up. This “throwing in the towel” look ignores the part where women are more attractive than men and should take advantage of it. Elevate your ass with heels, paint on your face a bit. You can grow longer hair than men so take advantage of that.

We’re only of courting age for about 10 years or so. To ignore that and say you’re over it is like refusing to play musical chairs with the rest of us because it’s “Gay.”

Q: Why are women so clueless to what man want and like in fashion?

“To what man want”? What are you, a cave person? Dude, you come at this interview with a tidal wave of synonyms and you can’t even pluralize “man.” Is this what the Canadian education system has come to?
One’s first instinct when answering this question is to say, “The problem is you have mostly gay men designing, casting, shooting and basically running an industry based on making women attractive to straight men” but I don’t think it’s a “problem.” Sure, they choose models a little boyish for most of our tastes and we’d appreciate a lot more ass than they’re willing to give, but the relationship seems to be working just fine and I love the way women dress when they try. That’s basically what this whole discussion comes down to. You have to at least try. Not too hard. But a bit.

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Street Carnage has covered favorite winter coats before and I thought I’d share mine.
Street Carnage has covered favorite winter coats before and I thought I’d share mine. Last year I couldn’t go an hour without seeing someone in a puffer jacket and was convinced they weren’t for me. Now since cold days have started rolling in, an effort to get warm has turned up. My hoodie wasn’t cutting it the other night so I borrowed a puffer coat from a friend and am now convinced they’re the best. In fact I’d have to say that I too, like SC, can barely notice the cold while wearing this thing cause it’s so insanely warm.

The fucking thing came from Forever 21 which means that if this cheap jacket was really doing the job than what would an expensive puffer be like? If I wasn’t assured I could keep the coat and I suddenly had thousands of dollars to throw around, I would be interested in these killers from Moncler.

The pants are a bit much unless you live in Aspen but I suppose your legs would be really warm in them. Much warmer than say the tights half the girls in the city can be seen sporting on snow days but they sure do look cute. Moncler jackets run unfortunately over a grand so all ideas of scoring one are out the window but the trapper hats are a different story altogether.

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There’s a lot of awesome shit in the garbage in New York City. We found new jackets last night. First, I found a jacket in the garbage. Eugene was jealous. Then, he looked in the same garbage can and found another jacket. I liked his better and he liked mine, so we traded.

I couldn’t understand why this was in the garbage.

The jackets weren’t ripped or dirty and they smelled like fresh laundry.

There weren’t any bedbugs, either. I was convinced there would be bedbugs.

All of the buttons were missing from both of the jackets.

The photographer for this fashion shoot totally fucked up. That’s why we look so shitty.

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The first instinct men have when they see women walk down the street all dressed to the nines is: Jealousy.

The first instinct men have when they see women walk down the street all dressed to the nines is: Jealousy. Why are they the only ones that get to feel the soft hug of full-leg polyester socks? We tried to make skirts manly and it didn’t quite pan out. Then make up was going to be a male thing but that got lost. Well, can we at least TRY pantyhose?

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The opposite of cargo shorts and flip flops is the true “greatest generation,” the ones born before the concept of self or adolescence.

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If your readership is anything like me they are major concerned with putting the recycling ethic to use in areas other than what their green plastic bin they put out every Wednesday tells them they can be major concerned with.

If your readership is anything like me they are major concerned with putting the recycling ethic to use in areas other than what their green plastic bin they put out every Wednesday tells them they can be major concerned with.

Although my contribution may be small, if everyone put to use the little ideas they have every once in a while instead of saying ” nawww, nobody would go for that” like a loser, we might have a truly democratic society.

NEwayz – w/out further a doo, my little contribution for the better good:

Have you ever wondered what to do with the leftovers from all of your cutoffs? Here is just ONE idea, with a top and without…….I don’t know how to insert them within a text but I would just like to call attention to the “glamenco” effect these little additions make to any wardrobe. Ah, I can die at ease now.

- Guido

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2008 was a real breakthrough year for Canadian Fashion. No longer destined to rest on their plaid and beige laurels, Canadians took to the streets to show off their new minted fashion sense.

While barely tracking on the international FASHION scale, many advanced FASHION analysts were setting their sights on, what they dubbed “the mecca of madness”. PARKDALE, CANADA

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Tell me again why we’re supposed to follow gay men’s lead when it comes to fashion advice?

Tell me again why we’re supposed to follow gay men’s lead when it comes to fashion advice?

I’m kinda bitter about the fashion industry, because it’s obvious that alotta the expensive stuff that’s for sale for women is based on a body type—carpenter’s dream—that’s only attractive to gay men who are into twinks. But, everyone knows that already, right? Like, I’ve always been amazed at the success that a lot of gay men find in fashion because sometimes they just make women look downright hideous. And how much longer can this go on? You’d think that, evolutionarily speaking, women who can afford to achieve the looks you see on a lot of runways or in magazines would never be able to have children because straight dudes wouldn’t want to fuck them. For example, even if you could find a warm, moist orifice here, would you even wanna stick your dick in it?

I kinda want those shoes though.

I used to think it was some kind of like conspiracy on the part of fashion fags. Like, that they kinda wish they were women, and because they aren’t, they want to sorta punish us. But then I was looking over this photo gallery for beachwear for men, and I realized that maybe that’s not the case. They don’t even know how to dress themselves. Maybe it has to do with some like subconscious self-hatred for being gay in the first place. Or maybe if you take it in the ass enough you just start to have shit for brains. I know I feel like that on mornings after I operate with three inputs.

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