Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

Partying in Tokyo with Yoshiko Kajitani, Shun and Rinko

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I asked Yoshiko and Shun to send me some photos from the party that they co-hosted.

Later,

Diane

Actor Tadanobu Asano DJ's at the ASVOFF party at Le Baron

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Another in the spectacular DJ line up for the ASVOFF party thrown for me by Martin Webb was the actor Tadanobu Asano.

Bryan Boy celebrates his birthday at le Baron in Tokyo

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Bryan Boy was being followed around by MTV and was received like a Pop Star. I might add that Bryan Boy's blog receives 350,000 unique visits a day....

Later,

Diane

Another Fashion Book and Chanel Party at Chanel and the Y-3 party

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I made a super quick appearance tonight at two parties, the first where I went alone,  the Another Fashion Book party with Chanel and afterwards I picked up my friend Imran Amed at his hotel and we went to the Y-3 party.We were almost the first to arrive.

The first person I saw at the Chanel/Another party was the lovely Pam Hogg and the last one was the Karl Lagerfeld after his very successful show. 

Filmmaker, Francois Roger

photographer Ellen Von Unwerth

Then I met my friend Imran Amed and we went to the Y-3 party 

Imran Amed aka The Business of Fashion.

Later,

Diane

Paper Magazine's Mr. Mickey and his party tonight on the Isle Saint Louis

It was a delightful break from fashion madness, intimate and relaxing and a good time was had by all. 

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Next to Lady Bunny my hair was feeling rather flat tonight.

Later,

Diane

Ponystep comes back to Paris tomorrow night

House of Blueeyes - Tamara Cincik photos by Jeremy Fusco

Dear Shaded Viewers,

The House of Blueeyes Show: a bacchanalian night of sequins and fabulosity, throws light in the shadows of cockney London at Beach Blanket Babylon.

Michael from Blow had warned me that this was the most requested ticket on his roster of shows this Fashion Week, so to get there early, which given they worked on 13 shows this week, told me everything I needed to know: get there early! anyone who knows me, knows this is a rare event in itself; luckily jeremy picked me up in the astra gypsy wagon from Nazir's show, where I had been so proud of what Anna (my ex assistant Dolly) Trevelyan and Sam Voltage had achieved.

Heading east, Jeremy pointed out that in football terms last night was the ultimate hotdate: the final of the Championships League, so we popped into the local Owl and the Pussycat for a beer (him), juice (me) and football update, (0-0) when we left. Marching through the throng ab Beach Blanket Babylon, suddenly I knew what Berlin in the 1920's must have felt like-the party at the end of the world and the finale of time (a huge inspiration for me aesthetically)-and now with the current climate, perhaps even more relevant.

A visual overload of trannies in cocktail gowns, grannies dressed as Dracula, boys led on chains and matriarchs in lingerie; glitterball Fracials of decadence and revellery hit my retina in every corner. Jeremy perhaps wondered why he had left the football, but I knew that this is where the real action was. The stories from the audience fascinated me: trannie gold medalist Jeanie D with 2 teeth and a spider on his head, Russella with her glittery Dorothy shoe red lips, Pia naked save some masking tape and a peach fur coat, as one glamazon told me, we're a long way from Kansas now...

Jacquie Soliman from Agent Provocateur pronounced this the show we have been waiting for and in a way she is right: one which announces London's more underground, underbelly, intent and content.

We'll never be Paris, we aren't couturiers, by showing in the Eastend, Johnny drew on London's sleazily Victorian past: opium dens and decadence, sexual freedom and dark corners and translated these into rock and roll punk undeniable English freewheeling beauty. A masked duo danced on the bar top, while the shows freely chaotic madness unfolded: beautiful chiffon grey dresses, Betsy in a cape throwing roses and tarot cards at the floor, boys in underwear, girls in jewels, Tamer swaying his hips in russet tones. Patrick Wolff and Jodie Harsh sashayed from the floor onto the catwalk: the audience became the show, we are all free , we are all theatre, we are all angels. Johnny would say something like this and I am inclined to agree.

I said to Tamsin and Jessie, I am not sure Jeremy knows what to make of this, it's outside his frame of reference, Tamsin (a leading climate change activist) pointed out that a lot of people want to be here; I replied, 'Exactly, just as they did in Berlin' We laughed we know, surely it's better to enjoy the circus, celebrate the chaos, the painful freedom of these random moments of madness, while the ship sinks, we may as well enjoy the tunes of the band as we drown?

www.houseofblueeyes.com

Tamara Cincik - words

Jeremy Fusco-photos

Tonight -Rendez-Vous - NY Surface to Air - Paris New York with Special Guest Metal Magazine

Dita Von Teese at the Crazy Horse Paris -opened Feb 1st

 www.lecrazyhorseparis.com

Dita Von Teese and Catherine Baba

Stephen Jones and Betony Vernon and Sasha 

For those of you in London, the V & A celebrates Stephen Jones, HATS An Anthology 

Porter Gallery 24 February - 10th of May.  

Everyone was there from Jean Paul Gaultier to Ali Mahdavi to  Sonia Rykiel. I went with Mr. Pearl and Matthew Hawkins. Fortunately for me Mr. Pearl lent me his monkey fur again, Paris is freezing. Mr. Pearl made a beautiful black corset that DIta wore in the black bath scene but you are not allowed to take photos at the Crazy Horse so if you want to see it you will just need to come to Paris and see the show.

Later,

DIane.

THE PARTY HOSTED BY CLINICA & DIARIO DE FIESTAS FOR ASVOFF / TRENDSETERA

DENISE MARCHEBOUT HOSTING

Martin Parra & Cesar Arellano

¨ THE CLINICA AWARDS ¨

THANKS TO ALL FOR COMING TOO BAD WE DON T HAVE MANY PHOTOS TO SHOW YOU .