Kim Gordon appeared in Purple’s very first issue, in the autumn of 1992. Later, she modeled for several of our fashion stories. We did a long interview with her five years ago, toward the end of her career as the lead singer and bassist of Sonic Youth, a band that inspired us for years. This is her first Purple cover, on the occasion of her autobiography, Girl in a Band. Kim exemplifies creativity, radicality, and “experimental jet set.” She also embodies something of the feminine-masculine duality we’ve woven through this issue — in my conversation with Rick Owens and Shayne Oliver, in the interview with Jonathan Anderson, in Maurizio Cattelan’s Q&A with women artists, and throughout all the fashion stories. The portrait of Kim on the cover is an outtake from the campaign I shot for Iceberg. But I didn’t choose her because of any advertising deal. It’s simply because…