Olivier Zahm

rdf:langString Olivier Zahm

rdf:langString Olivier Zahm

rdf:langString Olivier Zahm

rdf:langString Paris, France

rdf:langString Zahm in Paris

rdf:langString Editor-in-chief and co-founder of Purple Magazine

rdf:langString French

rdf:langString Magazine editor, photographer, art critic, writer, fashion journalist

rdf:langString Olivier Zahm (born 25 September 1963) 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. In addition to his innovative print publishing, he is a recognized pioneering cultural influence at the dawn of the electronic era during the Digital Revolution. His early blogs garnered notoriety, and featured highly stylized photographs taken by him, that took his audience on daily tours of his fantasyland populated by the artists, intellectuals, designers, filmmakers, socialites, models and celebrities who regularly appeared in his magazine. His aesthetic has been described as anti-fashion, counterculture, and unfettered by the constraints of the mainstream publishing world. His online activity served as an early electronic precursor to popular social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. His magazine remains one of the only independent and privately owned publications of its kind. Created in the beginning of the 1990s – it still remains a major reference for other alternative magazines today.