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Asvoff: A documentary on the designer Mary Quant tells the story of female emancipation

Asvoff, the fashion film festival presented by Diane Pernet, has inaugurated its 2024 programme with "Quant", a documentary on the British stylist Mary Quant, one of the most iconic fashion designers of the 60s. By giving women the opportunity to show their legs, Quant embodied, from a sartorial point of view, female liberation. The documentary,...

Design

Fashion as Film gaining momentum

It seems that the ever popular new fashion genre; fashion as film is gaining ever more momentum in an industry looking for alternative means to express their creations. With next month seeing the beginning of NYFFF, New York Fashion Film Festival, short films will be screened at New York’s Visual Arts Theatre. One nomination includes fashion...

Fashion

A shade view on fashion film success

In an ever evolving creative landscape, where insiders are ever more looking to push boundaries and converge different mediums to create something altogether groundbreaking, fashion as film has become a niche genre in itself. From its infancy and relative obscurity, the genre has been garnering continuing applaud for its vision and originality...

Video

Bijules artisan fashion film

In collaboration with fashion blogger Diane Pernet’s curational project at Vicenza Oro, New York based jewellery designer Jules Kim of Bijules launched an artisan fashion movie by Wardenclyffe. With the film ‘Amasia - Possible Future Supercontinent After Actual Earth’, Kim explores unknown territories of the worlds of fashion and jewellery. On...

Design

Smallest traveling store

Designer A.F. Vandevorst will be hosting the Smallest Travelling Store in Paris for one night at Super 8 on May 24th. The event will showcase a video project featuring personalities from the worlds of fashion and the Internet. This first edition will cover blogs, video and journalists. Interviews will be held with e-personas Sarah Mower, Diane...

Fashion

A shaded film view of fashion

Die hard fashionistas and emerging fashion filmmakers have the opportunity to submit their best fashion film feature or short around the theme of fashion, style or beauty to be screened at ‘A Shaded View on Fashion Film 2010’. Paris-based journalist Diane Pernet and 13 year old fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson have teamed up to find the next...

Fashion

Amanda Lepore curates NJAL

Transgender and multi-talented glamour girl Amanda Lepore curates the August collection for Not Just A Label (NJAL). Muse of David LaChapelle and fashion fraternisers, Lepore takes over from August 6th. It is the third month, the NJAL shop virtually opened its doors offering avant-garde one-off pieces by Ute Ploier, Husam El Odeh, Gemma Slack...