Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

designers' Xmas trees for charity "100 alberi d'autore"

Dear Shaded Viewers,

There was a big party tonight at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, the reason? A charity sale of designers' Xmas trees called "100 alberi d'autore" http://www.ilnataledei100alberidautore.net/

Beniamino Marini designed the leather button tree, next to him is Clorinda Covino, the company heiress.

Beniamino Marini's leather Christmas tree (360 hand made buttons in leather and a base that is made of upholstered suede white soft leather). Beniamino created this for an italian fashion brand called .it (they also do a show catwalk during milan fashion week).

If you want to place your order, bids start at 2,600 EUROS and the money goes to cancer research for children.

Later,

Diane

If Gold had a fragrance - comme des garcons 8 88

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Now the secret of 8 88 can be revealed, IF GOLD HAD A FRAGRANCE...

The press was invited to the Vinyl Factory so that all could be revealed.

Gold throughout the ages has always had mythic connotations.
Who hasn't dreamed of finding gold, a precious symbol of health, wealth and happiness...

Adding amber for its colour, and incense and patchouli for their ritualistic significance and many other ingredients to create the imaginary smell of gold.

The process was by its very nature arbitrary, ruled by the senses.
The result is the romanticization of GOLD.

Alchemists

Think...
Gold seqins locked within rock crystal in suspended animation. Gold nuggets found in the mountain stream. Quartz with its thredas of brilliantly cloloured minerals.
Gold as found in its natural and pure state, mythical and magical, but how would it smell?

The journey began with Safraleine, a molecular derivation of saffron and then composed a poem around it, bringing together ingredients of the highest quality such as the essence of Pepperwood and curcuma, the finest coriander, the most luxurious geranium.

Christian Astuguevieille & Elissey Kostsov @ Citizen K Russia & Yana Zubtsova @ Harpers Bazaar Russia

Elissey @ Citizen K Russia & Christian Astuguevieille & Maxime Goshko @ Puig Russia

Elissey, man on a mission and Christian Weinecke @ CdG architect of the 8 day store @ Burlington Arcade

All at Michael Howells staged international press launch @ vinyl factory
8 88 CdG new perfume for the Puig Group
Press & Event organisation Gillian Mc Vey for Purple Pr London

After the press launch everyone went to the shop.

Christian Weinecke @ CdG architect of the 8 day store @ Burlington Arcade and Christian Astuguevieille and Christian and Adrian Joffe, the president of Comme des Garons.

Photographs by Georg Dressler

Yves Saint Laurent fashion show 1962

ROMAN MAZURENKO

ROMAN MAZURENKO and his 3 mates that he throws parties with in Moscow.

Roman on his new magazine: "i made a fashion magazine like paper was never even invented; there for i had to invent new rules and standards for their kind of magazines... But the most important is that i refused to make a west-like-looking magazine, i wanted to keep it very russian and i hope i achieved it with the first issue... "

Georg Dressler

8 88 at Comme des Garçons preview shop until 8th December and then closed for ever

In celebration of the press launch of the new Comme des Garçons 8 88 Perfume, they are pleased to announce the opening of the Comme des Garçons 8 88 Pre View Shop until 8th December only.

Upstairs
A limited number of 8 88 Fragrance, T-Shirts and Candles only available here for this week. Launch in regular shops worldwide in February / March 2008.

Downstairs
Rare Vintage CDG Parfum T-Shirts and collector CDG Parfums, all from Comme des Garçons and all at £20.

Comme des Garçons 8 88
5 Burlington Arcade
London W1

From 1.00pm on 29th November to 8th December, then closed for ever.

December 1st is Aids day DAA film Turn You On/Safe Sex

DAA

launching tomorrow evening- some pages will be available in 7 languages (English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese).

Kenneth Anger Interview - On Magick and Film Commentary

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Meet the man hear about Dream Logic, how Jean Cocteau awarded his film a prize for a poetic film. "Your work comes from the dark night of the soul. Jean Cocteau. In 1950 Anger went to France and met Cocteau, Genet and Colette and Henri Langlois who offered him a job as his assistant. The first of his films I ever saw was Scorpio Rising and was hungry for everything he did since then.

Later,

Diane

SPARKLING PARTY AT DOVER STREET MARKET

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Andrew Logan & Zandra Rhodes Duggie Fields

Elissey Kostsov @ Citizen K Russia and Sebastien

Henderson and Gary and Fred Butler

Sylvie Minois, Mei Hui and Elaine Neocleous, Callioppe Elissey Kostsov @ Citizen K Russia

Pablo Leon de la Barra and Philipp Hinz and Anna Orsini

Robb Young and Mei Hui Liu

A welcome dinner for the international press for the launch of the new Comme des Garcons parfum.....8 88....the secret will be revealed tomorrow. Seated -Christian Astuguevieille and Georg Dressler.

Later,

Diane

Denis Rodriguez reports on ASH at the 22nd edition of "Casa de Criadores" Sao Paulo

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Yesterday was the first day of the 22nd edition of "Casa de Criadores", the most
underground Fashion Show in Brazil. My friends from ASH opened this edition.
03 nights of runaways, each day 05.

Best,

Denis Rodriguez
Sao Paulo

PIN-UP Magazine

Dear Shaded Viewers,

This says it all: magazine for architectual entertainment. The magazine is available now in France and will be in the rest of Europe and the USA over the next few weeks. Check the website for more details.

www.pinupmagazine.org

Later,

Diane

British Fashion Awards 2007

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Zoe Ball played master of ceremonies at the Lawrence Hall in Westminster for the British Fashion Awards.

Dame Vivienne Westwood received the Award for Outstanding Achievement in Fashion Design in recognition for revolutionising fashion. Since the 1970s Westwood has developed a global business and created timeless collections that continue to challenge and inspire. Actually the reason that I am in London is because I was a member of the jury for the selection of the designer to be awarded for outstanding achievement . Vivienne is never short on dialogue, she wanted to keep it light but felt compelled to point out the fact that if we do not pay attention to our environment we soon will not have any air to breath. She looked amazing, wants to use her authority beyond the boundries of fashion, unfortunately I did not take a photo of her on the stage nor when she was outside and fell into the arms of Marios Schwab, or rather he caught her in his arms to keep her from falling. Robb was there but I had the camera, he said it was quite sweet.

I did however get a picture of the beautiful Agyness Deyn who received the model of the year award wearing a Giles Deacon dress and receiving her award while talking on her mobile to her mom. Her mom actually had no idea of the awards ceremony and was in the middle of her own private party at home.Cool is the only word one could use to describe this exceptional beauty.

Mandi Lennard and Cassette Playa and Gareth Pugh and Dazed and Confused. Carrie was up for the menswear designer award against Alexander McQueen and Christopher Bailey for Burberry. Christopher won. Gareth was up for the New Designer award against Christopher Kane and Marios Schwab. Christopher Kane received the award.

DP with Marios Schwab, winner of the 100,000 EUROS Swiss Textiles Award and BFC's Anna Orsini and Rubbish, that is the name of the hilarious publication, not an insult. Jenny Dyson's issue 2 of Rubbish was in our goodie bag. It takes itself very lightly as is quite obvious by it's title. Imagine a fashion publication in Paris calling itself Rubbish?

Erdem was awarded the BFC Fashion Enterprise Award sponsored by Swarovski. In its second year, the £50,000 prize will enable him to continue funding collections and expansion of the brand. He was over the moon and said it was completely unexpected. British Fashion Council's Anna Orsini and Robb Young and I.

Pop Magazine's Katie Grand and front row VIP in pink.

Roksanda and Lulu Kennedy and Agyness Deyn and Henry Holland

Marios Schwab and friend in Marios and old friends Steven Jones with Leslie Chilks

Lulu Kennedy and Roksanda Ilincic and Robb Young
The award for Fashion Creator was renamed this year in honour of the late Isabella Blow and was presented by Philip Treacy and Detmar Blow to award winner Michael Howells. Anya Hindmarch was awarded the accolade of Designer Brand. Other winners were the Marc Jacobs shop, the Red Carpet Designer which went to Marchesa, Harvey Weinstein was on hand for this event, The Accessory Designer went to Tom Binns and the Designer of the Year Award which went to Stella McCartney.

There was an afterparty, Robb went, I did not.

Later,

Diane

Kenneth Anger - KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (1965)

DINO DINCO : HOUSE OF DIEHL / StyleWars / Los Angeles

A project of the House of Diehl, StyleWars features 8 contestants who battle live at creating a knock-out outfit from raw materials in 5 minutes.

Tonight's Los Angeles leg of the tour features a live performance from Jody Watley.

Could be fun(ny).

Download stylewarsfri2.mov

A visit chez Boudicca as they prepare to do the Christams tree for the V & A Museum

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I am in London for the British Fashion Awards which takes place tonight. It was my first trip on the faster by 20 minutes Eurostar which arrived in the St. Pancras International Station, which looks quite lovely except they forgot to open a currency exchange and there are no cash machines yet, but hey, looks great.

If you are in London from December 10th through the holidays, visit the Victoria and Albert Museum and see their beautiful Boudicca Christmas tree, what follows is the work in progress from the glass eyes to the angel wings and the mini corset.

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Later,

Diane

THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER VOL. 2 DVD TRAILER

Trailer for the Fantoma DVD release of THE FILMS OF KENNETH ANGER VOL. 2 came out on October 2nd, 2007

DINO DINCO : DESIGNERS AGAINST AIDS / NEW SITE LAUNCH

On Saturday December 1st (World AIDS Day) ‘Designers against AIDS’ is launching their new website www.designersagainstaids.com that willl have pages in 7 languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese. On the same day their brandnew AIDS awareness clip, directed by Mick Traen, will be shown for the very first time and on http://en.dawanda.com/shop/designersagainstaids a special Christmas Charity auction will start where the public can bid on cell phones customized by celebrities such as the popular band Scissor Sisters, avantgarde designer Bernhard Willhelm, elektro singer Peaches, chic eco brand Noir and contemporary artist André.

DAA wil be present at World AIDS Day events in Brussels (Place de la Monnaie, from 11 AM- 5 PM- (http://www.preventionsida.org) and Antwerp (Modenatie, Nationalestraat 28, 2000 Antwerp-(http://www.momu.be/ modenatie/).

In both locations the public will be able to purchase DAA T-shirts from earlier collections at 20€ each, get a red AIDS ribbon to show their solidarity and find leaflets with more information about our work. We hope to see you there!

Designers Against AIDS (DAA) is a project of non-profit organisation Beauty Without Irony and was founded in 2004 to raise AIDS awareness in the international media and towards the general public, more specifically towards young people in the industrialised countries. We do this by asking famous and emerging fashion designers, musicians, artists and other celebrities to create designs that we then print on items such as T-shirts, sweaters, bags, hoodies, condom boxes, ring binders, etc. The T-shirts and sweaters of all DAA collections are made of organic cotton in a Fair Trade community in India with the help of German company Sense Organics. The DAA logo -that is part of every item- features our website url, enabling people to find recent information on HIV/AIDS on the 'Links' page. We also take part in events, exhibitions, fairs and festivities and collaborate with interested artists, organisations and brands - drawing more attention to the cause as we go.

Kindest regards,

Ninette, Javier & Andrés

'Designers against Aids'
Bredabaan 260
2170 Merksem-Antwerp
Belgium
Tel/fax: + 32 (0)3-237.33.82.
Mobile phone: + 32 (0) 475-84.30.90.
e-mail: ninette@designersagainstaids.com
www.designersagainstaids.com
www.beautywithoutirony.com
http://www.myspace.com/designersagainstaids
Skype: freefashion54

OMG U GUYZZ!!! LOLvogue 'wurkin hrd 4 ana' edition

The gurls @ Jezebel R bak wit anothur rotflmfao editiun of LOLvogue.

Previous LOLvogues:
Scarves & Scooters
Models & Marionettes
Shoulders & Champagne

A few days before Art Basel there is Miami Beach Art Photo Expo

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I was happy to see that three of the photographers from the NOOVO exhibition wll be there: Michael James O'Brien, Wing Shya and Seb Janiak.

Miami Beach Art Photo expo is organizing and producing in Fashion 07 from December 2nd to December 9th at the Surfcomber hotel before and during the biggest Art Fair on the American Territory: Art Basel Miami Beach.

Marion de Beaupre is the curator of the inaugural exhibition. Marion selected 20 of the world's most famous fashion photographers, whose personalities and work have been chosen as a true representation of fashion today.

Miami Beach Art Photo Exp

Later,

Diane

Kenneth Anger - Puce Moment (1949)

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I've always been a fan of Kenneth Anger but had never seen this film. Thanks to my friend David Norbury I fell in love with Puce Moment and would love to have it for You Wear it Well 3.

Later,

Diane

***CAFFE VIENNOIS***

October 21th 2007,
A shaded view on fashion team decided to buy a first class round trip to Vienna just to have a caffe viennois for breakfast. We were expecting Waltz, Chandeliers, Croissants and Creamy hot Chocolate.

Springtime in Buenos Aires by Glenn Belverio

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Because Diane has taken me on so many vicarious trips to places I've never been via this site, I'm returning the favor with some shots from my recent trip to Buenos Aires--a city she's always wanted to visit. (I'll post more later this week.) As you can see above, it was sunny and warm in the "Paris of South America", with the trees in bloom in the plaza of San Martin. I made this trip to BA after attending the Minas Gerais Trends Preview in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

 

Above: I took a picture of this skyscraper in San Martin because I liked the shape of it and later found out that it's the famous Edificio Kavanagh, an art deco landmark. When it was built in 1935, it was the tallest building in South America.

Above: Street art in San Telmo. San Telmo was my favorite neighborhood because it reminded me of being in Centro Habana/Habana Vieja in Cuba. As in Havana, the people in Buenos Aires are outstandingly friendly and sweet. I think every New Yorker should be required to spend a week in BA so they will learn that it's not necessary to go through life being a rude, pushy bitch. They'll also find out what good--really good--pizza tastes like. It was better than any pizza I had in Italy. Because of immigration, there is a lot of Italian influence in BA. The people speak Spanish with an Italian accent.

A day without Che is like a day without sunshine. When I arrived in BA, I stayed at a gay bed and breakfast in Microcentro where every room was named after a famous Argentinean. There was Maradona, Borges, and of course Evita, which had a balconey that looked out over the street. And then of course there was the Che room. Being both a fashionista and a commie (I'm an Oscar Wildean Socialist, after all) I was torn between wanting to stay in the Evita or Che room. The Evita room was much nicer (shocker) but an irritating straight couple was staying there. (Funny enough, for a gay bed and breakfast, I seemed to be the only fag staying there.) So it was the Che room for me. The room was clean and well decorated but there was no window and the walls were paper thin--allowing me to hear everything the staff was saying and doing, especially while I was trying to take a nap. And worst of all, I wasn't allowed to bring any guests back to my room! After canoodling with a young Argentinean at a sauna and then a handsome Brazilian at an after-hours sex club called Tom's (although everything seems to be after hours in BA)--both of whom I couldn't bring back to my room--I was fed up, so moved to a hotel. The Argentinean lived way outside the city (I wasn't up for a trip) and didn't speak a speck of English. The Brazilian was from Brasilia, the fantastic city built by Communist architect Oscar Niemeyer (he turns 100 next month). I thought it was odd that my Brazilian didn't even know that Niemeyer was still alive, but even worse was the fact that he was staying at a $9 per night youth hostel called The Madhouse where they put 12 people to a room. It made Abu Ghraib look like a Phillipe Starck luxury condominium. He was 34 years old and worked for the Brazilian government - I guess the gig doesn't pay well? At any rate, at least we had some semi-privacy at Tom's (if you don't count the gawkers peering through the glory holes...ah, the romance of Buenos Aires!)

If you've ever seen the brilliant Wong Kar-Wai film, "Happy Together" (I'll choose a steamy booth at Tom's over the misery of the film's gay protagonists any day) you'll recognize the location above. This is the tango bar that the super-sexy Tony Leung worked at while he and his hustler boyfriend (played by the late, great Leslie Cheung) were going through one of their many breakups. I had planned on visiting a few locations from the film, such as the Chino Central restaurant, but just never got around to it.

That's all for now, but I have tons of more photos and will try to report again.

Love,

Glenn Belverio

illustration from Sylvie Minois for Victimfashion st

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Mei Hui Liu in front of her old location

Victim has moved to 33 Marshall Street W1F7EX.

illustrations by Sylvie Minois for Victimfashion st.

Later,

Diane

Miguel Villalobos shoot for WAD

Dear Shaded Viewers,

An advance preview of a shoot Miguel Villalobos and Graham Tabor did for the next issue of WAD. Impatiently I wait to see the rest of the shoot.

Later,

Diane

Dover Street Market November 28th

Metro Loves NOOVO and NOOVO loves Metro

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I just saw this lovely coverage in London's Metro:

Thank you Bel Jacobs, NOOVO loves you too.

Diane

DINO DINCO: HAS ANYONE EVER MADE THIS CONNECTION?

Mina Mazzini, legendary Italian singer
Album: Salome, Vol. 1 & 2
1981

Peaches, Canadian recording artist
Fatherfucker
2003

Big thanks to Max of Ragusa, Sicily

On leur dit Merci!!!

ON NE DIRA JAMAIS ASSEZ MERCI A LA SNCF, A LA RATP et A DELANOË ...
(la photo ci-jointe témoigne de la joie d'avoir un vélo pendant les grèves !)

The Queen of the Bicycle

Thank you Mathias Ohrel for the commentary on the week from hell.

Later,

Diane

Fashion East Christmas Sale

The Vedettes at Palais du Tokyo by Shoji Fujii

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Despite the strikes that paralyze the city, the Vedettes from Brussels gave a performance last night that kept everyone laughing and nearly rolling on the floor.

Later,

Diane

All images by SHoji Fujii

A Special Brussels event tonight at Palais du Tokyo

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Starting at 19h30 tonight you can enjoy the best of Brussels with entertainment, the Vedettes pictured above, Jerome Porsperger, plus design and fashion talents. Sandrina Fassoli, the recent winner of the 300,000 EUROS Mango Award will be there along with Xavier Delcour, Jean-Paul Knott, Cathy Pill and design talents Christine Hogner, Jean-Francois D'Or, Sebastien Wierinck, among others.

See you there,

Diane

press contact: Bruno Michel At Large

At the opening:

Jean Paul Knott and the press conference

Delvaux bags

Urbanroom

Sandrina Fasoli and Cathy Pill

Xavier Delcour

The Vedettes out of costume Shoji will report on their performance later.

Diane

The service on the RATP is almost normal today. Not sure what they accomplished except for loosing the city 4,000,000 EUROS a day.

Maria Calderara

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I visited the showroom of Maria Calderara when she was in Paris.

studio franca soncini
ripa di porta ticinise 21
20143 milano
tel +39 0258105520
antonella@fsoncini.it

Later,

Diane

Happy THanksgiving from Miguel Villalobos and Graham Tabor

Dear SHaded Viewers,

A Thanksgiving visit to Graham's mom's and the view out their bedroom window.

Miguel Villalobos and Graham Tabor.

Later,

Diane

A FEW MUSICIANS BY BENIAMINO MARINI FOR KULT MAGAZINE

Dear D. and S-viewers,
In september I was  asked to draw a few celebrities for an italian magazine. I chose 4 kids from the music scene (without talking with anybody at L'Uomo Vogue, I swear...)

1) this is Joan as Policewoman wearing a Mr Freedom t-shirt by Diana Crawshaw and a pair of Biba platform lace ups. Joan is in New York as you can see through the little window on the right...

2) Beth Ditto, from the Gossip, whom I recently met in Milan (and originally, I dont know why, I thought was from London, that's why you see the Foster building in the window) is playing with a Marathon Vintage Adidas (from Rome's Olympics in 1960) and with a couple of Bart Simpson Qee.

3) Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé from Justice are playing with some Vitra wooden dolls by Alexandre Girard and riding the Sella Chair (sella means saddle) by Giacomo Castiglioni for Zanotta. They are of course in Paris: can you see la Défense?

4) And as a happy end, Justin Timberlake is waiting someone to tie his wrists to the ankles (I was probably thinking of the Alpha Dog movie or something like that) wearing a Burberry's "Fashion for relief" t-shirt, standing on a Mezzadro Chair by Castiglioni for Zanotta. He's in L.A.

Thanks to Giada from Kult for the choice of accessories, clothes, objects

B.

Robb Young by Miguel Villalobos

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I asked Miguel Villalobos to take a photo of RObb Young for the article that I am writing about him. I received the contact sheets today and love this image.

Later,

DIane

Fashion from New Zealand Alexandra Owen

Dear Shaded Viewers,

If you are wondering what is going on in New Zealand.

www.alexandraowen.co.nz

Later,

Diane

Callioppe Spring/Summer 2008

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Download callioppe_slide_show.mov

Callioppe chez Romeo in Paris.

Later,

Diane

Ideal Showroom in Berlin

www.ideal-berlin.com

Rozalb de Mura - „A cracked smile and a silent shout"-fashion from Romania

Dear Sahaded Viewers,

Rozalb de Mura - „A cracked smile and a silent shout"
(menswear/womenswear)

For the fall-winter 07 / 08 collection „A cracked smile and a silent shout" from Rozalb de Mura, Olah Gyarfas took a plunge in the strange and dark universe of The Knife group. In a surrealist present or maybe from a primitive uncertain future, Rozalb de Mura coldly analyzes a contemporary fairytale world, inhabited by lonely souls, ghosts and weird divas.

Naturally, the artificial with its endless possibilities comes forth in this avant-garde, electro glamour and technically detailed collection. High-tech fabrics feature shiny fibres or a metallic, cold glimmer. Extravagant mixtures of electric blue, fluorescent green and silver in enlarged cuts bow in an ironically-provocative reverence towards the '80s. Everything cooled down by a breeze from a robotized, alien future.

To appease the future-electro exuberance, Rozalb de Mura introduces a parallel series that could belong to the generous realm of the classical, from the precious materials – wool and cashmere, to the sober colours – black, white, grey and beige. The refined severity of the pieces is benignly deterred by an unexpected twist - a detachable inset, terribly exciting perforations on the back of some simple dresses, fake pleats on a gracious and quiet coat à la Audrey Hepburn. For the subtle look of a sexy, contemporary and humorous aristocrat.

www.rozalbdemura.ro (new website coming soon)
erika.olea@gmail.com / 00 4 0723 172 850