KALTBLUT-HONK! 03 The Divas

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DIANE pERNET
A SHADED VIEW
ON A
FASHION DIVA
Interview by Christo Mitov
www.ashadedviewonfashion.com
www.ashadedviewonfashionfi lm.com
Photos by http://www.fl ickr.com/photos/lorenzobusato
The first thing you notice physically about this lady is her look. Usually her
eyes are covered with black cat eye shades, her lips bloody red and dramatic,
her skin aristocratically pale. The next thing you see is how she’s
wearing her dark hair in a towering pompadour with a black veil and cladding
her body in layers of black clothing and gothic attire. She is someone
who knows the fashion industry from many angles, but perplexingly her
look remains static - she strikes a silhouette as instantly recognizable as
that of Karl Lagerfeld’s. She is Diane pernet.
In the 1980s, Diane was a successful fashion designer in New York before
becoming a fashion journalist and relocating to paris. In her capacity as
journalist, editor, blogger and now curator of her own fashion film festival
she relentlessly supports the young, independent forward-looking designers
and thinkers in fashion. Nowadays she is best known for her cult blog,
www.ashadedviewonfashion.com (ASVOF) which spawned the traveling
fashion film festival, www.ashadedviewonfashionfilm.com (ASVOFF) After a
successful season last year in Milano with a collaboration with Vogue Italia
and a specially commissioned new project – ‘1 Minute Light’ that was won
by Miho Kinamura and Zaiba Jabbar, this year ASVOFF number 4 will kick
off from 7-9 October at the Centre georges pompidou in paris. You can still
submit your work and be part of ASVOFF until June 30th 2011.
HONK! met Diane virtually on the night she arrived in poland traveling with
ASVOFF. Christo Mitov talks fashion, business and art with Mrs. pernet and
gets some of the wittiest yet not pretentious answers on the future of fashion.