Each bookstore will act as a concierge, recommending "the book you should read now" to FASHION HEADLINE readers. Every Saturday, we will introduce books selected by Shelf (3-7-4 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo), a bookstore in Harajuku/Gaienmae that specializes in foreign books.



■ "Purple #32 The Cosmos Issue"

"Purple" started as a small independent magazine and has now become an avant-garde reference for fashion, style, and culture, featuring a number of big names. This latest issue explores the cosmos, featuring artists Judy Chicago, Olafur Eliasson, Thomas Demand, Doug Aitken, Tom Sachs, and Philippe Parreno, as well as science texts by Christophe Galfard and Félix Guattari.






Photographs by Tim Elkaïm, Camille Vivier, Juergen Teller, Takashi Homma, and others are also worth seeing.