The two best thing about Purple: Purple Naked and the dinners

Sunday night and it is action packed....

Dree Hemmingway PH Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin for Purple #12

The new Purple? It's a cornocopia...Freja liplocked with Abbey while Eniko and Magdelena carry on

Purple Beauty shoot by Paola Kudacki for Purple Fashion magazine #12 with models Suvi Maria and Hanne Gaby. Video by Caroline Gaimari

Beauty shoot by Paola Kudacki from Purple Magazine on Vimeo.

Natacha Ramsey outside the rue de Verneuil home of Serge Gainsbourg PH Olivier Zahm via purplediary.com

"I am not a direction, but simply a U Turn."
Olivier Zahm

Get into the kaledescopic Katja Rahlwes experience at katja.rahlwes.free.fr/

"Anything that triggers you to take a picture is a creative and personal decision . That is the moment that you're saying, I need that . I need to see more of that. This is what I've been looking for and no one else could give it to me . That's what makes your work specific. That's how people can recognize your work."

Katja Rahlwes in a conversation with TI

Olivier Zahm snap of Paz and Julia from his blog. Assume this is Paz.

Christina Kruse: Women: Photographed by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin for Purple Fashion S/S 09

Richard Prince Visual essay: Purple # 10

Trish Goff Photographed by Inez van Lamwesweerde and Vinoodh Matadin for Purple Magazine

The languid and mysterious Mr Style up close

I've been fascinated all year by Mr Style a/k/a Ray and his perfectly idiosyncratic and individualistic site ("http://wherethelightsend.blogspot.com) . Something about the pure and uncorrupted energy of his writing and the languidness of his beauty made me feel like here was a very interesting young talent to track. That is what makes doing TI so exciting for me these days. I feel like its been allowing me to mingle in an underground internet network , a kind of secret society of talented and beautiful new kids bent on making their mark on the worlds of taste and style. I hold Mr Style to be a prime example of this ideal. Around the time of the last Paris Fashion Week I planned to catch up with Ray but ... you know how it goes in that city. Decadent mayhem spoils the best laid plans. Last week Ray Q&A'd me for his blog so I insisted on returning the favor by investigating further the new brand of fabulousness represented our erstwhile Mr Style. This is what I found out