Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

Daniel Wakahisa reports on Fashion Blogger Day in Vienna with Unit F

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Yesterday 9 Festival of Fashion and Photography held Bloggers  Day. Present : Susie Bubble of Stylebubble, Panos Destanis of Modabot, Imran Amed of The Business of Fashion, Julia Knolle of lesmads,  Moderator, Joachem Bessing, and Birgitt Kohl. 

Print journalist Joachem Bessing attempted to provoke a debate between the value of blogs vs print media.

Imran Amed and Susie Bubble

Panos Destanis of Modabot

Hermann Fankhauser

Later, 

Diane

DP NVU on je suis amy

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Today on Je suis Amy.

Thank you Amy Sall.

Later,

Diane

the-comment by Sameer Reddy - it is his new blog

Dear Shaded Viewers,

My friend Sameer Reddy, regular contributor to Newsweek, the FInancial Times, New York Times, India Vogue, etc.etc. has started a blog and I'm very happy to be the post of today.

"Late last year I had the idea with my friend Jerlyn, a graphic designer and artist, to start a blog that was dedicated to criticism. The idea was to approach a broad spectrum of topics relating to aesthetics from a thoughtful, critical stance. Things don't have to be termed 'serious' in order to warrant being taken seriously-oftentimes parts of culture which are categorized as 'Pop' have as much significance as accepted elements of the classical canon. It's all a matter of perspective and being open-minded-being willing to take fashion, music, design, art, film, advertisements, anything and everything, seriously, if there's a serious case to be made for why they mean something. I asked Diane to write a piece and I'm really happy with how it turned out. In her case, it's more of a first-person philosophical creed - she has an obvious connection to a particular aesthetic, and in her writing you can better understand how the way she looks relates to the way she lives. Her appearance is s conscious decision that reflects a larger orientation towardslife-a decision to stand apart in a space that she has created for herself. That's what personal style should be.

You can check it out at: www.the-comment.com

I try to update the site once or twice a week, and I've roped in a bunch of friends who are writers to contribute on a semi-regular basis. If you have the time and an interest check back whenever you feel like it.

-Sameer

Cool Stockholm - a new blog by David Bartal and Nizar Achmad

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I met David Bartal when we were both writing for Dutch Magazine, Dutch preceeded ZOO. Today I received a not from David that he and a friend, Nizar, a gourmet chef who lives in Stockholm but comes from Indonesia.  have started a blog...a Scandinavian perspective on fashion, design, film, art, etc. www.coolstockholm.se.

Later,

Diane