Purple Diary [ April 3 ] : Travel

The French Communist Party headquaters was designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1965 when the Brazilian architect spent a few years in France to escape his country’s military dictatorship. Symbolizing the round stomach of a pregnant woman (with both intimate and ideological meaning), the white dome is an underground conference room connected to the building by a long hallway. At age 101, Niemeyer is still living in Rio de Janeiro. Olivier Zahm

Purple Diary [ April 4 ] : Travel

OLYMPIA in Japan: Mr. A graffiti in Aoyama, Tokyo. Olympia Le-Tan

Purple Diary [ April 7 ] : Night

Never Plead Guilty, Aaron Young’s tattoo by Scott Campell at Le Montanta, Paris. Photo Olivier Zahm

Purple Diary [ April 8 ] : Love

Julia Restoin-Roitfeld at the Ritz-Carlton, Moscow. Olivier Zahm

Purple Diary [ April 8 ] : Night

Olivier Zahm smoking menthol cigarettes with Byrdie Bell, a young American actress, Moscow. Olivier Zahm

Purple Diary [ April 8 ] : Night

David Lynch and his wife at the dinner to celebrate the opening of his show Fetish in Moscou. Photo Olivier Zahm

“In Hollywood, more often than not, they’re making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone. But what’s so fantastic is to get down into areas where things are abstract and where things are felt, or understood in an intuitive way that, you can’t, you know, put a microphone to somebody at the theatre and say ‘Did you understand that?’ but they come out with a strange, fantastic feeling and they can carry that, and it opens some little door or something that’s magical and that’s the power that film has.”

Purple Diary [ April 9 ] : Shopping

OLYMPIA in Japan : Crayon House in Omotesando. My favorite bookshop in Tokyo. It’s an international kids bookshop and has a great selection of vintage childrens’ books (which I collect), I am always the only one in there without a pram! There is also a weird organic restaurant in the basement. Olympia Le-Tan