Olivier Zahm

Quick Facts

Full Name	Olivier Zahm
Occupation	Editor
Date Of Birth	Sep 25, 1963(1963-09-25)
Age	61
Birthplace	Paris
Country	France
Birth City	Île-de-France
Horoscope	Libra

Olivier Zahm Biography

Olivier Zahm is one of the most popular and richest Editor who was born on September 25, 1963 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Olivier Zahm (born 25 September 1963) is a French magazine editor, art critic, art director, curator, writer, and photographer He is the co-founder, owner, and current editor-in-chief of the bi-annual art and fashion magazine Purple. In addition to his innovative print publishing, he is a recognized pioneering cultural influence at the dawn of the electronic era during the Digital Revolution. His early blogs garnered notoriety, and featured highly stylized photographs taken by him, that took his audience on daily tours of his fantasyland populated by the artists, intellectuals, designers, filmmakers, socialites, models and celebrities who regularly appeared in his magazine. His aesthetic has been described as anti-fashion, counterculture, and unfettered by the constraints of the mainstream publishing world. His online activity served as an early electronic precursor to popular social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. His magazine remains one of the only independent and privately owned publications of its kind. Created in the beginning of the 1990s – it still remains a major reference for other alternative magazines today.

Olivier Zahm was born and raised in Paris, France. He was the eldest of three children born to two university professors. His parents, who were both students at the time of his birth, raised Zahm and his other siblings in student quarters that were designed by Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé, located at Résidence Universitaire Jean-Zay in Antony. Much of his early childhood was spent in academic settings, particularly- during the volatile period of civil unrest in France that broke out in May 1968. The protests reached such a point that political leaders feared civil war or revolution. The unrest began with a series of student occupation protests against capitalism, consumerism, American imperialism, and traditional institutions, values and order. Many of the new and radical ideas surrounding Zahm, immersing his youth in tumultuous generational discord, stayed with him, shaping his views on art, philosophical ideas and lifestyle choices. He leveraged his profound formative experience using it as a tool to build aspects and themes that remain prevalent in his personal and professional life in adulthood. He told The New York Times in 2010 that he, “remembers summers spent vacationing in the South of France with his parents in a community of like minded free spirits” – who he labeled hippies. It was the 1970s, the decade of sex revolution and Zahm’s parents were committed to free love, nudism and polyamourous relationships. “My parents had a lot of lovers, they had a lot of affairs. At the time, my parents were really part of this alternative movement in Paris but quite bourgeois too. It wasn’t San Francisco or New York. It was the French way.” Zahm’s love of magazines began when he was a teenager in the Paris suburbs. “We used to steal porn magazines in the bookstores and shops and look at them during school,” he says. “It was fun and secret. This is where my obsession for magazines comes from. Magazines used to reveal and give us access to sex, fashion, music and art. TV never did that, and books are mostly academic. Magazines were a symbol of freedom.” He studied philosophy, history, semiotics and literature at the Sorbonne. His father, Claude, taught philosophy, and Zahm was on track to do the same, before realizing, at 25, that he preferred life outside “la tour d’ ivoire.” Zahm’s youngest sister committed suicide in 1994 at the age of 20.

Olivier Zahm Net Worth

Olivier Zahm is one of the richest Editor from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Olivier Zahm 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

For its 25th anniversary issue, Purple celebrated the artists and models who incarnated the spirit of the magazine through their style, attitude, and personality: Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Chloe Savigny, Richard Prince, Paul McCarthy, Susan Cianciolo , Maurizio Cattelan, and more. It was the first time the magazine printed multiple covers for one issue. 25 different covers showed 25 Purple icons. It was also the first time purple distributed hard- cover magazines instead of the traditional soft-cover print. He described in the editions Edito:

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Zahm gravitated towards the idea of working with magazines from the conception of his career in art. In 1992 Zahm and his partner Elien Fleiss printed the first issue of Purple Prose, a Parisian literary art zine. Their goal was to create a new kind of space for artists to present their work and express their ideas; and to design a network through which people working in different disciplines, could easily access new information and each other and contributing to the early 90s alternative indie culture. Zahm liked the idea of a color sharing the title with an art magazine. Dike Blair an American artist suggested the title Purple Prose in reference to the literary term in which a prose text is so extravagant, ornate, or flowery that it breaks the flow and draws excessive attention to itself. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm created spin-off publications like Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction and Purple Fashion. Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art, in creating Purple Fashion. A typical issue featured interviews, articles and presentations covering a wide range of topics and disciplines which include; film and video, politics, fashion, architecture, sexuality, science, photography and music. Each issue was built around a loose theme which serves to create a link between subjects-past examples have been: Indian Summer, Violet Violence, Post-Sex. With its international correspondents and cutting- edge design, Purple Prose had the distinctive feel of a truly global art zine. The texts were written in roughly equal parts French and English, without translations.

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Iola Ranked on the list of most popular Editor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Olivier Zahm celebrates birthday on September 25 of every year.

Zahm credited Lagerfeld for reigniting his sentiment for taking photos in

2005. Zahm told WWD in an interview dedicated to Purple’s 25th Anniversary: