Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

Maria Videl reports on: Alejandra Quesada autumn winter 2009

Dear Diane and Shaded Viewers:

Fashion week in Mexico was cancelled however Alejandra Quesada  presented his autumn winter 2009 collection a few weeks ago, in a lovely garden. 

Available here.

Later,

MV.

Young Genius @ Soho Grand - Saturday 16 May 2009

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Kate Lennard reads from her series of childrens books from 2-4pm Saturday 16 May at the SOHO Grand Hotel. If you have children between 5-9 years it would be fun for them and their parents. 

Later,

Diane

Interview Magazine sometime in the 80's

Dear Shaded Viewers,

My friend Miguel Villalobos came across this vintage image and sent it to me. Since I've lost most images of my past, I am always happy to receive some tracks. I have a vague recollection of this photo shoot. Different shades at any rate. 

Later,

Diane

Prada Transformer Seoul OMA/Rem Koolhaas

www.prada-transformer.com

Later,

Diane

Festival d'Hyeres - the awards 09

Dear Shadies N' Shadettes,

...and finally, the awards.

An Unpublished series "the invisible fuck off" by Theo Mercier

Dear Shaded Viewers,

My friend Theo Mercier was commissioned by a magazine to do a series of still lives a few months ago. When the editor received the images he chose not to run them. Theo is quite fond of them and asked me if I would like to post them. Since the 'cleaned up' version has already hit the stands, I decided to publish a few. I find them quite sweet.

  :

http://theomercier.free.fr

Amy Gwatkin's photos from the Fashion Innovation evening at the Design Museum

Let Them Eat Cake Magazine hosted the evening with open discussions and  some of the designers work on display like Cooperative Designs, Katie Early, Gemma Slack, Maria Francessca Pepe, Piers Atkinson, etc. chaired by the BFC scout Andrew Tucker. The top is by  James Long and MFP jewelry and a snap of Fred Butler's accessory workshop.

Later,

Diane

Exhibition at the Irish Embassy - Tom J Byrne - May 16th

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Irish Embassy

12 Ave. Foch

75116 Paris 

Entrance on Rue Rude

www.embassyofireland.fr

May 16th doors open from 10h - 16h

Later,

Diane

The Mango Jury gave the 300,000 EUROS prize to South Korean designer, Jin Youn Lee

Dear Shaded Viewers,

The chairman of the Mango Awards was  Oscar de la Renta, the jury members included Jerry Hall, Selfridges Laura, Armand Hadida from L'Eclaireur, Jean Jacques Picard, Elle USA ...the prize was awarded to Jin Youn Lee from South Korea. This is the 2nd Mango Award, the first went to Belgian designer, Sandrina Fasoli. The ten finalists in the 2nd Mango awards included: ean Pierre Braganza, Sinha Stanic, Peter Pilotto and Christopher de Vos, Jakub Polanka, Christian Wijnants, Josh Goot, Miriam Lehie and Sabrina Egler, Alex Kim and Silvia Garcia Presas.

Later,

Diane