1. Olivier Zahm was born on 25 September 1963 and is a French magazine editor, art critic, art director, curator, writer, and photographer He is the co-founder, owner, and current editor-in-chief of the bi-annual art and fashion magazine Purple.
20 Facts About Olivier Zahm
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Olivier Zahm's aesthetic has been described as anti-fashion, counterculture, and unfettered by the constraints of the mainstream publishing world.
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Olivier Zahm's magazine remains one of the only independent and privately owned publications of its kind.
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Olivier Zahm was the eldest of three children born to two university professors.
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Olivier Zahm's love of magazines began when he was a teenager in the Paris suburbs.
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Olivier Zahm studied philosophy, history, semiotics and literature at the Sorbonne.
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In responding to the superficial glamour of the 1980s, Olivier Zahm co-founded Purple Prose magazine.
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Olivier Zahm liked the notion of "being everywhere and on the move", following art fairs, meeting artists, educating himself in the universe of contemporary art while immersing himself into its social landscape.
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Olivier Zahm found himself penning for the three leading art titles at the time Art Forum, Art Flash, Texte zur Kunst and Art presse and introduced a then unknown Jeff Koons, Martin Kippenberger, and Larry Clark to the European art world.
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Olivier Zahm was looking for an art critic to write a manifesto against a journalist from a daily newspaper who she felt was writing insanities about contemporary art in general.
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Olivier Zahm agreed to do it, and that was the beginning of the encounter, which then became a love story.
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In May 2017, Olivier Zahm published a book in collaboration with Donation Grau titled,' Une avant-garde sans avant-garde'.
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Olivier Zahm gravitated towards the idea of working with magazines from the conception of his career in art.
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Olivier Zahm liked the idea of a color sharing the title with an art magazine.
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Olivier Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art, in creating Purple Fashion.
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In 2018 Olivier Zahm designed a fanzine for Gucci's FW2019 collection presented at Le Palace in Paris.
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Olivier Zahm credited Lagerfeld for reigniting his sentiment for taking photos in 2005.
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Olivier Zahm told WWD in an interview dedicated to Purple's 25th Anniversary:.
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Olivier Zahm has had shows of his photographic work at Half Gallery in New York, Colette in Paris, Leadapron in Los Angeles and The Last Gallery in Tokyo.
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Olivier Zahm has a son, Balthus, with designer Natacha Ramsay-Levi, and a daughter, Asia, with writer Anna Dubosc.