Purple Fashion Magazine’s Olivier Zahm has been busy helping put together the first issue of the Chanel magazine: 31 Rue Cambon (incidentally, this is also the address of fashion legend Coco Chanel’s Parisian apartment). Zahm is acting as art director and designer for the publication, which will be distributed exclusively in Chanel stores worldwide.
Zahm recently released the first teaser photograph of the Chanel magazine: 31 Rue Cambon on his personal web-based diary. Surely, Karl Lagerfeld will also be all over the Chanel magazine. Also expect Lagerfeld favorites Lara Stone, Baptiste Giabiconi, and Freja Beha Erichsen to be featured prominently.
Label-Centric Mags
Olivier Zahm Reveals a Sneak Peak at the Chanel Magazine: 31 Rue Cambon
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