The NYT Sunday Style’s checks in with Parisian hebrew Olivier Zahm, founder of Purple Magazine and Purpler Jounal.Zahm is about as cool as Frogs get, though he buys into the commercial downtown NYC street thing a little too much. But he’s excused because of his French origins. Rizzoli just published the Purple Anthology: Art Prose Fashion Sex Music Architecture Sex (ah, le good life). The book is maybe the best single volume of 2000s style.
OLIVIER ZAHM, a founder and the editor of Purple magazine.
WHAT I’M WEARING NOW An Yves Saint Laurent leather jacket and ostrich boots, American Apparel jeans and a vintage Christian Dior shirt. I buy a lot of these T-shirts from Eleven on Elizabeth Street. They feel sweet against the skin. My watch is a Seiko from the ’80s. It looks like a gold Rolex, which I can’t afford yet. The glasses are Ray-Ban. I have five pairs, all in different shades of amber. I love amber. It’s a beautiful color for men. The only perfume I wear is because of its amber color — Azzaro, which is an old cheap cologne for workers.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.
I’ve long said that a man should never distract from the woman he’s with. A man’s job is to make a woman’s style shine. Timeless not trends define good male style. Zahm, you rule!
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