This 20th anniversary issue of Purple isn’t a look back, and there’s no Purple retrospective. But to celebrate our birthday, we’ve printed gifts for you and for ourselves: a Purple Book of original collages by Richard Prince, one of our favorite artists and a long-time contributor to the magazine, and a paperback reprint of his book Bettie Kline. I started this magazine with Elein Fleiss in 1992. At the time there was no interesting magazine in Paris for our generation, no publication that was made by artists for artists, and nothing to challenge the mass-market press. There was no Internet either, but the new Apple Macintosh enabled people like us to design a magazine at home. This 20th anniversary is also the right moment to reveal the Purple Fashion logo, calligraphed by M/M (Paris) seven years ago, which we have been discreetly blind-stamping on the cover all this time. In…