Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

Diane Pernet on CHIC / Arte

On Arte at 13h30 "Tendances" Blog de Mode

Dear Shaded Viewers,

If you have a tv, which I don't...you can watch "Tendences" Blog de Mode at 13h30 today on Arte. I think for the rest of the week you could find it on www.arte.tv/fr/connaissance-decouverte/chic. The part on www.ashadedviewonfashion.com was filmed the day of the final selection for Hyeres, so you will be privy to a bit of the process.

www.arte.tv/fr/connaissance-decouverte/chic/980738.html

Later,

Diane

El Pais in the Sunday Special Fashion Magazine supplement

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Thanks to Mario Canal, I heard that I appear in the Special Fashion Magazine supplement of El Pais today. Of course, aside from telling me that it made him smile, I have no idea what it says and this is the only image of the magazine that I have. Looks comfortable on Mario's bed in his new apartment.

If any of my Shaded Viewers in Spain have a copy and would like to translate it for me, please do. You can easily find El Pais here but unfortunately not with the magazine supplement. The photo is by Miguel Villalobos.

I have the coolest Shaded Viewers, within no time I received the translation from Itzi and the scan from DFC, thank you both.

Later,

Diane

P.S. Happy 25th birthday to Shaded Contributor Yoanne Lemoine. In addition to his many accomplishments as a filmmaker, director and illustrator, Friday he signed a contract with Polydor Records as a jazz/folk singer. I'm looking forward to his first album. I never even knew that he could sing....guess I had not read his myspace page.

DP in D la Repubblica delle Donne today

Dear Shaded Viewers,

This is crazy, I just got in the door from Florence and the journalist that wrote the article, Laura Antonini, sent me this jpeg. I was in Italy where I could have easily picked up a copy of D la Repubblica delle Donne had I known that I was in it...Of course, I don't speak Italian so I only understand about half of what it says but I love sharing the page with Anthony Hopkins. I'm honored.

Later,

Diane

photo is by Miguel Villalobos

IQONS Magazine in WGSN

photo of Ruben and Isabel Toledo by Miguel Villalobos

Iqons Magazine will be launched during New York fashion week and will be distributed at the London, Milan and Paris fashion weeks.

Today is Miguel Villalobos's 15 minutes, visit him on IQONS.

Later,

Diane

Oct i-D_Sept Travel & Leisure and Paper Magazine and a rare moment, only for SHOWstudio, DP dances with Judy Blame

Dear Shaded Viewers,

i-D photos by Sonny Vandevelde. Travel & Leisure photo by Kai Junemann

Mr. Mickey interviewed me for the September Outsiders issue, Paper Magazine and later Kim Hastreiter asked me to propose a dozen designers that I like and that live outside of the major fashion capitals. This weeks New Yorker magazine does a profile on Kim Hastreiter, the co-founder with David Hershkovits of Paper Magazine. I'm waiting for the magazine to make it to Paris so I can enjoy the read.

Photo by Jenny Lexander

The next issue of Paper Magazine is October's Un-Hollywood Issue. Paper Magazine has invited You Wear it Well to screen with the Un-Hollywood festival on September 24th.

Later,

Diane

I found this image on the web today from Knotoryus. When I was at LFW I participated in Nick Knights SHOWstudio interactive video project, The Replensihing Body. I never ever dance anymore so this is truly a rare moment that I shared with Judy Blame. I wish that I had been a better actress and had been able to keep a straight face like Judy instead of falling into constant laughter.

London Fashion Week's Daily Rubbish

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Don't you just love the name of this brand new fashion publication? It's London's answer to The Daily.

If you were not in London for the collections, check out Daily Rubbish and have a look through their archives. Great NVU with Eley Kishimoto.

Later,

Diane

Pure Fashion issue - Paper Magazine

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Paper's Outsider issue has hit the stands. One article that I really enjoyed was how handicapped people at the Creative Growth Art Center in San Francisco interpret fashion looks for next season. I found the article so intriguing that I will try to visit the Center when I am in the neighborhood next month. Maybe I'll ask them to spontaneously interpret my look and then film the results...
cover shot is from a fashion tribute to Isabella Blow shot by Jenny Lexander and styled by Catherine Baba

Kim Hastreiter also wrote about those of us addicted to our own personal uniforms. The issue is about Pure Fashion, Outsiders and eccentrics.

Mr. Mickey interviewed me and I listed some of the designers working outside of the fashion capital that I find to be extremely talented.

Photographs by Jenny Lexander/Agent Bauer

Later,

Diane

DP by Stephan Hilpold/Der Standard/rondo/06/07/2007)

Dear Shaded Viewers ,

Later,

Diane

photo by Manfred Unger

Thank you to Shaded Viewer Anna Charlotte Wiedemann for taking the time to translate this article, I really do appreciate it.

Der Standard – Rondo
Stephan Hilpold
06/07/07

- translated version -

This woman is an icon of the fashion world – not only due to her external appearance – Diane Pernet runs the world’s most interesting fashion blog.

Diane Pernet owns a red bathrobe – and wears it, too. This is a piece of information that could cause some disquiet within the international fashion scene. It’s like finding out that Anna Wintour secretly wears fake fur.

Diane Pernet has been wearing black for the past 20 years. Black skirts and black fluttery blouses, a black turban and black shades. That’s how fashion’s people know her from Paris to Tokyo, and it is this gothic look that is partially responsible for her becoming the fashion icon that she is today. Red does not fit this picture.

But, says Pernet, she loves colours. “My apartment in Paris is decorated in the brightest colours. Only my clothes are black – with the exception of my bathrobe.”

We are sitting in one of Vienna’s most garish coffee houses. Every time the waiter rushes by, he glances irritatedly at the woman clad in a Sicilian widow costume. Snail-shells sparkle on her artfully pinned-up turban. She has been called the ‘Anna Wintour of the internet’.

“Me and influential?” she whispers into my ear and you really have to crowd her on that coffeehouse bench in order to get all of her aspirated words. “But I only run a blog.” A Shaded View on Fashion: that’s her forum. You can find wiggly snapshots on there and mostly simplistic messages. I love this or that designer. This outfit is great. You would imagine the utterances of the world’s most important fashion blogger to be different than that. More detailed – or, to put it bluntly – more profound.

But Pernet’s essays are published elsewhere. Her articles appear in countless magazines (among them the Viennese Placed). The Internet is used for other things: videos, snapshots, and quick messages to the fashion world. Her website records 6000 visits each day, not really that many, but most visitors are members of the fashion community. For a lot of them, Pernet is one of the most important sources of information: She is on the spot at almost all festivals and competitions and she is a highly visible frontbencher at the shows. Afterwards, she goes for a drink with the designers. Pernet is one of the most important talent scouts. A walking networking service. The speed of fashion is rapid; Pernet – with her blog – is one of the few who hold against that.

Conventional media have long capitulated facing the pace of fashion. Weblogs such as Hintmag or Iqons, however, have increasingly gained ground over the past years. The industry’s jargon calls this phenomenon ‘net force’ and for quite some time now, it is no longer dared to ban its representatives to the back rows.

Usually, Pernet updates her blog several times each day. “There’s so much going on in my life,” she says and glances at Dino Dinco who accompanied her to Vienna. The artist lives in Los Angeles; together with Pernet, he initiated the fashion short film project ‘You wear it well’. He is one of Pernet’s most important informants. “My website would look a lot different without my friends in the fashion world.” And she has plenty.

Pernet has been at home in fashion for decades. Born near Philadelphia, she spent the eighties living and working in New York as a designer. “My designs were always described as avant-garde, even though I avoided trends. My first show was a tribute to Rainer Werner Fassbinder.” Her heroes: Pasolini, Fellini, Antonioni.

When she moved to Paris in October 1990, she approached Europe also spatially. “I couldn’t stand New York any longer. The city was so run-down.”

In Paris, she fitted out films, worked for TV fashion shows, and was an editor for a Hong Kong fashion magazine. Finally, she found herself at Elle and French Vogue. She started her own blog in February, two years ago.

The lady in black was known all over the place back then already. When Robert Altman shot ‘Prêt-a-Porter’ (1994), she was already present. As a mourning Marie Antoinette, she sat among all of her childhood idols. If she was bored, the director asked her. What a question, she still giggles to herself. Then she refreshes her bright red lipstick. It’s the only colour that she allows herself in public.

DP in Kurier

Dear German Speaking Shaded Viewers,

Anyone want to translate this for me?

Later,

Diane

DP in the Chinese press and an illustration by Carmen Ortiz

Dear SHaded Viewers,

Thanks to Shaded Viewer, Meng I have a translation:

I connect fashion with science technology and enjoy my blogging life via my mobile phone. I believe that independent designers need a web platform to attract more attention to themselves and to save money. It means new power and the possibility of having everyone enjoy high-quality images that were once the priviledge of a few.

Later,

Diane

illustration by Carmen Oritz photograph by Wiglius de Bie

Kim Jones in Tokyo, well for one night more

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I just got back from New Delhi and received a message from Kim Jones telling me that I was on the front page of the Japan Times. Here is his view at 5am this morning. I had nearly the same view. Kim Jones is a traveller , today he is in Tokyo , tomorrow he will be in Hawaii. Before Tokyo he was doing a show in Melbourne Fashion Week. He loved it there. Kim I am envisioning you enjoying the sunlight and the sound of the waves at night.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20070325x1.html

Later,

Diane

Suite magazine.

Dear Shaded Viewers:

Carlos from Suite magazine gave me the new issue, great interviews and photos by Daniel Riera.

Thank you Diane,

Alex.

DP in an art newspaper in Zurich

Dear Shaded Viewers,

How's your German, I cannot get beyond the title and Bernhard's name. Translation?

Later,

Diane

IQONS in L'Official March

CLINICA FASHION SHOW COMING SOON :

I will be back with more....

Taz, die tageszeitung - any German viewers want to tell me what this says?

EGR REPORTS FOR ASHADEDVIEWONFASHION : NEWS FROM KSUBI AND ALBA FAN CLUB IN MEXICO CITY .

Dan Single and George Gorrow from KSUBI shoot the winter campaign for
their difussion label, Alba Fan Club, while writing a travel story for
Harpers Bazar Australia.

The TEAM wasn`t complete of course without REBECA QUADE from neon Poet ,Mike Piscitelli FROM Fucking Awesome , jUSTIN PADGET AND CLINICA Staff.

GEORGE & DAN

Andrea Gonzalez the 18 years Old Mexican Model.

Playtime with Christian Astuguevieille and CDG in ZOO

Here is a piece that I wrote on Christian and CDG in the current issue of ZOO. As you can read, Christian has been creating the scents for CdG since the beginning. I've been wearing Avignon for years now. He is also the designer of the beautiful gold chair that I have featured more than once on this site, you will only be able the chair in Bilbao at Persuade. Maybe you could special order one.

Later,

Diane

IQONS in FACTS

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I received this in the post today from the Swiss magazine called FACTS. How is your German? Better than mine, I trust.

Later,

Diane

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Richard Nahem from Eye Prefer Paris last week.www. eyepreferparis.com

EL Mundo la luna de metropoli supplement