Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion

"Aplace Spring / Summer -08" - A Fashion Short Film

Dear Shaded Viewers,

A short film inspired by the s/s-08 collections from Nakkna, Miki Fukai, Julian Red, Pelican Avenue, KIND, Peter Jensen, Nike, Pia Simensen and Shofolk. See more at www.aplace.se

CREDITS
Script & Direction: Erik Lindvall
Styling & Production: Dan Jaget / Aplace
Art Direction: Stina Persson Helleday
Model: Malin / Stockholmsgruppen
Hair Stylist: Sofia Ringberger / Mikas
Make up Artist: Ignacio Alonso
Music Composer: Carl Brolin

An early entry to be considered for You Wear it Well 3.

Later,

Diane

Tarkovsky on Art Part One

Thanks Shaded Viewer, Galileo, for sending it to me.

Later,

DIane

Michael James O Brien shoots Maria de Medeiros for ZOO Magazine

Dear Shaded Viewers,

The next issue of ZOO Magazine is the music special. Michael James O'Brien shot Maria de Medeiros. Last month Maria was designated as a UNESCO artist for the peace and will be giving concerts in Mozambique and Mexico this summer to spread their message. Maria was brought up under the influence of Brazilian music with artists like Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento and Brazil's cultural minister, Gilberto Gil. A Little More Blue is her first album. We met about twelve years ago when I was doing the costumes for her for an Arnold Barkus film.

Later,

Diane

La Pequeña Prohibida

La Pequeña Hillary Clinton

La Pequeña Amy Winehouse

Chilean version about the english singer Amy Winehouse

Thanks to Antoine Asseraf and Yoann Lemoine

After Louie Screen test - Zach Booth

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Yesterday when I saw my friend Vincent Gagliostro we spoke about the film that he is going to make and the screen test for his leading actor.
Download screen_test.mov

title: AFTER LOUIE, producer: AMY MOORE-CINECHICKS, director: vincent gagliostro, screentest: Zach Booth, films lead.
…was there really ever a new york like that where adventure and discovery and sexual tension were still palpable and possible on the skinny island of manhattan? where there was a meat-packing district before pastis and children weren’t yet named paris and tiffany? wow you think when you see this that you actually remember for a moment the streets and the clubs and the boys with nice abs but way different from the perfect forms of now beneath Abercrombie tshirts.
in the visual and audio collage of gagliostros piece you can remember this new york city from last century like it was yesterday, but through a veil, thin, numb like a condom, you remember it all not with nostalgia, but with relief that this new york actually existed and actually happened before it was too late. that despite the tragedy and loss and pain of that era there was still the nourishment of real off-line experience and the comforts of heart and sex and art and strangers and bodies and life, and soul growth before everything was already discovered, developed, trained, tracked, exploited, done, over.
this movie is about a time when lives were fast ending—way too fast—ending. but when life, and new york and like everything just didn’t feel like it was kind of over. like now.
like after louie.

Later,

Diane

Boudicca on Political fashion now on SHOWstudio

http://www.showstudio.com/project/politicalfashion/movies/2008-03-21

SHOWstudio.com
Zoe Broach and Brian Kirkby of Boudicca have never been content to go with the flow. Their Political Fashion film documents some of their experience as anti-capitalist protestors at the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, where the power of the events they witnessed was in turn the central inspiration for their Spring/Summer 2002 collection ‘Transition (Corporate Deserter)’. The film documents police brutality while the resulting collection examined the quashing of creativity by multinational corporations in exactly the same manner. Boudicca’s film stands ultimately as a harrowing document of the nature of the society in which we live - 'It pays my way, but it corrodes my soul.'

CELEBRATING WARHOL @ THE GERSHWIN HOTEL (EDITED)

Celebrating Warhol at the Gershwin Hotel, 2007, with Taylor Mead, Penny Arcade, Debbie Harry, Walter Stedding, Misha Sedgwick, Kevin Kushel, Jacob Fuglsang Mikkelsen, Kristina Korsholm.

After watching Liqud Sky again and Benjamin Liu walking by in the trailer I thought of Neke Carson who had the modeling agency La Rocka where Anne Carlisle and Mario Van Peebles got their start. This was filmed on one of Neke Carson's nights at the Gershwin Hotel. Debbie Harry sings Heart of Glass. I remember in the 80's when I was designing Neke lent me his loft for my show, it was on Halloween.

Queensryche - "One More Time" / "Someone else? "

Later,

Diane

Full moon tonight
Lunar lunacy

— The Lunacy Act 1824 stated that people were liable to go mad when the moon was full

— Robert Graves was so in thrall to the mystical power of the Moon that he was known to bow to it

— The saying “The Moon is made of a greene cheese” – meaning not aged – is from John Heywood’s Proverbes (1546)

Source: Times database

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-the-moon-rules-your-life-433071.html

Jean-Luc Godard interview (1964)

I enjoyed Glenn Belverio's dress code for my party so much that I thought that this could be an inspiration for those of you opting for the Godardian new wave look.

Later,

Diane

MORE MEXICAN FILMS

PEDRO NAVAJAS

LOLA LA TRAILERA !!!

UN LUGAR SIN LIMITES :1977 director ARTURO RIPSTEIN

THE ACTRESS DOLORES DEL RIO ANOTHER MEXICAN BEAUTY FROM THE 40´S IS THE ONLY ONE TO COMPARE WITH MARIA FELIX

LA MUJER DEL PUERTO :1951 INSPIRED BY THE NOVEL ¨LE PORT ¨ BY GUY MAUPASSANT AND DIRECTED BY Arcady Boytler AND STARRING THE GORGEOUS MOVIE STAR ANDREA PALMA.

Isaac Mizrahi-Unzipped

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I don't have a TV so I missed Loic Prigent's film on Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton on Arte. When I think about fashion documentaries one of my all time favorites is Unzipped featuring Isaac Mizrahi.

Later,

Diane

TOBY DAMMIT, Federico Fellini, Italy 1968, 40 minutes



Invitation to an afternoon film
Eastern March 23rd 2008 at 5 pm
c/o Andrea Splisgar, Lehrter Strasse 57 Haus 4, 10557 Berlin, 030 46735333

TOBY DAMMIT, Federico Fellini, Italy 1968, 40 minutes

Fellini's forgotten masterpiece TOBY DAMMIT, a forty minute film made in 1968,
is one of the three short films adapted from stories by Edgar Allan Poe
that were distributed together to Italy as TRE PASSI NEL DELIRIO,
in France as HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRES,
and in England and the US as SPIRITS OF THE DEAD.
Fellini's film is an adaption set in a contemporary Rome of Poe's 'Never bet the Devil your head' published in 1841.
Poe's work is a brief comic satire of the transcendentalist movements that were then popular in Europe and America.
Fellini's work takes two elements from Poe's story:
First the plot of a drunk who confronts a mysterious stranger on a bridge and bets him his head;
the man falls to see that the stranger is the devil who subsequently wins the bet.
Second Fellini takes the name Toby Dammit, Toby being an English slang term for ass in Poe's time.
In short, Toby Dammit is a dammed ass.

RSVP

A film for Jean-Pierre Braganza by Malcolm Pate

Dear Shaded Viewers,

A film for Jean-Pierre Braganza by Malcolm Pate

Later,

Diane

Happy Valentines Day to all Shaded Viewers.

Mia Kirshner dances to Leonard Cohen in Exotica

This is from one of my favorite Atom Egoyan films, Exotica (1994) unfortunately it cuts off before it's over.

Before this film was released, a friend of mine was at a dinner with Atom Egoyan who was complaining that no one came to see his films and my friend suggested that he set something up in a parking lot to screen his films. Atom was speechless with this remark. Soon after Exotica was released to great success. If you have not seen it yet, rent it.

And another film from a director that I love:

(1997) In the Company of Men Trailer - Directed by Neil LaBute

Later,

Diane

Chapter 7: Eat Your Chiffon part II is now live!

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Chapter 7: Eat Your Chiffon
Watch the final chapter (part III) at
www.youtube.com/glassloves www.glassloves.com

Later,

Diane

TRICKS ARE FOR KIDS , MEXICO CITY.

AN IMPROVISED FILM MADE AT ABOUT 2 YEARS AGO HERE IN MEXICO CITY THAT SHOWS A LITTLE BIT OF MEXICO CITY FASHIONISTAS ( INCLUDING ME PERFORMING AS A DOCTOR ) I DENY TO ACT ON IT AS I AM VERY SHY BUT NOW I JUST LAUGH ABOUT IT .
XOXO
EGR

Chapter 7: Eat Your Chiffon part II is now live!

Chapter 7: Eat Your Chiffon part II

Pre-dinner with Zandra Rhodes and Natt Weller. Stay tuned for the dinner party finale next week!
www.glassloves.com or www.youtube.com/glassloves

Kenneth Anger - Puce Moment (1949) and Guy Maddin

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I know that I've shown you this film before but the thing is I just finished the most amazing interview with the director Guy Maddin for the next Cinema issue of ZOO and in it he mentioned Kenneth Anger and this film, so I bring it back to you with his comment.

Puce Moment was to be called Puce Women, but only this 6 minute fragment was finished. Situated in the 1920's, it depicts a lady, Yvonne Marquis, selecting a dress to go out with her dogs. Puce is a colour, a hue of violet, popular in those times

Do you remember the first Kenneth Anger film that you saw; was it Fireworks, or something else? If you had to choose an all time favourite film, what would it be?

A: It was Fireworks, which really stands up – a masterpiece! Eaux D’Artifice is maybe the greatest! But my favourite is Puce Moment, by far. I could watch it all day. A fashionista would be interested to know it starts with the most incredible fashion sequence in the history of 16mm filmmaking: One 20’s vintage dress after another shaken before the camera and removed to reveal yet another, over and over again, in glorious Ektachrome the sheers, beads and silks in every colour of the spectrum until puce is finally unveiled! Puce is the ever-changing colour of the flea! And it’s gorgeous. And the film is gorgeous!!

You are going to want to read the rest of what Guy has to say in ZOO coming out in February.

Later,

Diane

Chapter 7: Eat your Chiffon

http://www.youtube.com/glassloves

The saddest music in the world / Guy MADDIN /

Guy Maddin - Dracula:Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2002)

Guy Maddin talks about his editing style (and YouTube!

SPOTLIGHT: BRAND UPON THE BRAIN! Maddin & Glover

Later,

Diane

Memories are make of this, Veronika Voss

Veronica Voss by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1946 - 1982)

Martha by Fassbinder

Martha is my absolute favorite Fassbinder film. Too bad they don't have the most amazing 360 degree pan around for the taxi or the sunburn scene on youtube.com for that you will have to go and rent the film. It's killer.

Later,

Diane

LOVE STREAMS (#13/1) Gena Rowlands John Cassavetes

This is John Cassavetes last film.

John Cassavetes - Opening Night (1977)

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol 01-2 (1966

Guy Maddin - Sissy Boy Slap Party Director's cut

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I am working on the next issue of ZOO and have Guy Maddin on my mind.

Love this guy,

Diane

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

Super kult film about a lesbian designer and her model, however this scene is with her silent assistant. The model was Hannah Schygulla.

I recommend you rent the DVD if for nothing else than to appreciate the costumes.

Later,

Diane

Trailer: Die Ehe der Maria Braun (R.W. Fassbinder, 1979)

My very first job when I moved to Paris was as the costume designer on the 1991 film of Amos Gitai, Golem l'esprit d'Exile. I dressed the two principle actors, one of them was Hannah Schygulla, the star of this film. I've always held R.W. Fassbinder in the highest regard. My dream would have been to work as the costume designer on one of his films, but the closest that I did get was seeing his portrait hanging on the wall at the entry of Hannah Schygulla's apartment in Paris.

Later,

Diane

Trailer: Angst essen Seele auf (R.W. Fassbinder, 1974)

Miss Teen USA

thanks to Robb Young

Fashion — A definition

Something fleeting
And a trifle artificial
Like an electric flash
That can kill you...

Karl Lagerfeld and friends, 1970

Karl Lagerfeld, Kissing, 1970

Ok, clearly I am reading Alicia Drake's The Beautiful Fall and have Lagerfeld and YSL on my mind.

Later,

Diane

John Cassavetes on movie audiences

Kenneth Anger - KUSTOM KAR KOMMANDOS (1965)

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

Bjork - French and Saunders

A walk down Melrose with Steve Olson and David Norbury

EGR SS08 WORLD PREMIERE

Joao de Mendonca's short film "Idolu"

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Joao de Mendonca and Mark, it's a wrap.

In my insanely busy schedule I fit in an appearance as an underground film journalist in Joao's short film, "Idolu". In fact, it was a pleasure. Of course I never asked to see the rush so I have no idea how I look...

Later,

Diane

Lohan Holiday by Michael Mouris

DINO DINCO : SO GLAD I STAYED AT HOME TONIGHT....

These are some of the people in my neighborhood....

Michael Mouris, please make a film for YOU WEAR IT WELL....

Christine Yufon and You Wear it Well in Sao Paulo

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Last month Dino and I were invited to screen You Wear it Well at Filmefashion in Sao Paulo. The first night in Sao Paulo I was already hearing how I must meet the amazing woman, Christine Yufon.

Dino Dinco and Diane Pernet visit Christine Yufon's studio in Sao Paulo. The video was recorded by the designer Dudu Bertholini from Neon

Dino Dinco and I introduce You Wear it Well in Sao Paulo, Brazil August 2007. Ruben Toledo directed Fashionation which screens at the end of the interview.

The last screening of You Wear it Well's first edition will be on the 24th September in New York City. Thank you Paper Magazine for inviting us to participate in the Un-Hollywood Film Series.

Later,

Diane

Fly's new trailer

click here to watch the trailer

NEW YORK STORIES - EPISODE 4 / FLESH

Hey ShadedViewers,

Here is the fourth episode of my Summer adventures.
I just came back to Paris a few hours ago... I'll be working on new portraits next time i'm in New York, probably next winter, so don't be afraid, episode 4 is not really the last one.
I'm actually interested in doing the same thing in Paris, if you have any ideas, if you think your art and personnality are interesting, if you have amazing friends that you think can be interesting, please contact me !
My email is contact@yoannlemoine.com

*** LINKS TO PREVIOUS EPISODES ***

NEW YORK STORIES - EP1 / PROLOGUE

NEW YORK STORIES - EP2 / SKULLS AND BUNNIES

NEW YORK STORIES - EP3 / THE LIBERATION PROCESS

Take care !

Yoann

Welcome to my home

Hey ShadedViewers,
Remember, Leather is always great, and in Fashion, sometimes, you play against designers.

Thanx to my amazing crazy roommate Desi for these videos, and thanks to Brenda Dickinson, of course.

Take care

Yoann

NEW YORK STORIES - EPISODE 3 / THE LIBERATION PROCESS

Hey Shadedviewers,
Episode 3 is online !
Have Fun :-)

Take Care Yoann

It's a Day late but - from my friends in Berlin

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Dino Dinco-His Work part 2

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Dino Dinco is an artist, a filmmaker and a photographer living in Los Angeles but born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. His early childhood was spent in a biker bar where he was raised surrounded by fighting chickens. Dino has been using a camera since he was a child. If there is one thing that he does not want it is to be type cast and put into a box. His current series of self-portraits is quite a departure from his Elysian Park series, which he exhibited last year at his Paris gallery, Baumet Sultana.

Dino Dinco is also a contributor to www.ashadedviewonfashion.com and the co-curator of the fashion/video/short film festival, You Wear it Well.

Visit his website http://www.homeboyfilms.com for more details.

For samples of his work visit Galerie Baumet Sultana

Later,

Diane

Happy Friday the 13th, if you are in Berlin tonight, please join us for You Wear it Well. The screening will be held across the street from Cafe Moscow where Ideal takes place.

Dino DINCO in a Hotel Room in Arnhem - June 2007

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I was in Arnhem with Dino Dinco in June for the screening of You Wear it Well at the Arnhem Biennale. As you already know, Dino and I co-curate You Wear it Well but what you probably don't know is much about Dino and his early life.

Later,

Diane

NEW YORK STORIES - EPISODE 2 / SKULLS AND BUNNIES

Hey ShadedViewers,
Here is the episode 2 of New York Stories ! I'm sorry it took such a long time, but don't worry, you won't have to wait 2 weeks before episode 3, it's almost finished.

*** LINKS TO PREVIOUS EPISODES ***

NEW YORK STORIES - EP1 / PROLOGUE

Take care !

Yoann

NEW YORK STORIES - EPISODE 1 / PROLOGUE

Hey Shadedviewers,
Here is the first episode of my NEW YORK STORIES,
I hope you'll enjoy meeting the amazing BRIAN BELUKHA

Take care !

Yoann

Coming Attractions: New York Stories by Yoann Lemoine

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Yoann Lemoine is a Parisian, I am an ex-New Yorker, I am living in his country and he is going to visit mine. Yoann is embarking on a two month trip to NYC and he has promised to send us back a short film at the end of each week. He will report on how he feels, what he sees and who he meets. I am looking forward to that and I am sure that you are too.
Later,

Diane

instrumental - pedro y el lobo

Thank you lenfanterrible for sending me the link.

Later,

Diane

Shoot the Freak by FRANCOIS GOIZE

Projections du court métrage "SHOOT THE FREAK " à la 3ème édition du festival NOUVEAUX CINEMAS.

Jeudi 14 juin à 19h30 .
Cinéma l'Archipel, 17 bd de Strasbourg 75010 (métro: Strasbourg St. Denis)

Dimanche 17 juin à 13h30.
Péniche Cinéma Le Baruda, 63 quai de Seine 75019 (métro: Riquet).

L'entrée au festival est gratuite. La réservation est conseillée par e-mail à cinefac@hotmail.fr

A bientôt.
François.

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Women in Art

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Thanks to Cherry Vanilla for sending me the link to 500 years of Female portraits in Western art.

Later,

Diane