Features
Purple Fiction, Number 4, Winter 1998

Purple Fiction, Number 4, Winter 1998
Elein Fleiss & Jeff Rian
Association Belle Haleine
France
18,5 x 13 cm
128
Magazine
Softcover
Monochrome
Elein Fleiss
Vidya & Jean-Michel, David Berman, Giasco Bertoli, John S. Hall, Aurélie Monier & Anne Cottreel, Karl Holmqvist, Vanessa Beecroft & Miltos Manetas, Mai-thu Perret, Bernard Cohen, Laetitia Benat, Frédérid El Bekkay, Katja Rahlwes, Gérard Duguet-Grasser, Franklin Sirmans, Giasco Bertoli, Kayla Allen, Dike Blair, Jen Budney, Marc Demonaz, Mark Fishman

They Look Of Reading,
We Look From Lacking
Pensive yet unaware, they are not here, but elsewhere; or so it seems. Disrupted but unoffended, they pause from absorption. — by Colby Vexler & Justin Clement

Experimental archives,
new fashion histories
The concept of the ‘archive’ seems to have captured once more the contemporary moment in fashion. — by Laura Gardner
From top to bottom
A header on a page is worn like a hat on the head. It is there as a part of a uniform that can indicate the wearers job, the books title and the stage of development in the narrative. — by Emma Singleton

Her hand nuzzled
into his pocket
How the novel frees the garment of/from? fashion — by Femke de Vries
Keeping your heart in
a fabric padded pouch
Why do we wear our hearts on our sleeves? Why do we pad out our love as though its bound to hurt? Why does a heartbeat reverberate through the fabric of the skin? — by Emma Singleton