A/W 2025: The Analog Issue

In an era where algorithms dictate taste and desire, where screens mediate experience, and digitalization consumes the essence of culture, Purple Magazine takes a stand.

We are witnessing the rapid dissolution of reality into the virtual—a world where artificial intelligence supplants creativity where an endless flow of ephemeral content replaces the depth of culture, and where the tangibility of art—the weight of a book, the texture of a painting the presence of an architectural volumes— vanishes into an immaterial void of simulation.

This ANALOG Issue is not about nostalgia. It is about resistance. Resistance against the digital homogenization of culture, against the illusion that art can be reduced to data, and against the slow erosion of physical experience in every aspect of life—from fashion to sexuality to politics.

This Fall Winter 2025 issue is a manifesto against the tyranny of the digital in art and fashion. It is a defense of print as a space for radical thought, beauty, and authentic artistic experience. We will gather the voices that challenge digital hegemony, that question the future of creativity in the age of AI, and that reaffirm the necessity of books, magazines, and all that resists instant consumption and demands something deeper.