The ASVOFF (A Shaded View on Fashion Film) festival awards ceremony, the final event to cap off four weeks of collections, played to a packed house last night at the Centre Pompidou. Founder Diane Pernet awarded the first ASVOFF/Samsung prize of €3,000 ($4,417) to filmmaker Georgie Greville for her spoof on model castings, entitled I [...]

The Milan collections may be in full swing, but fashion and film buffs in the City of Light are getting a head start on Paris fashion week with tonight’s opening of the second annual ASVOFF, A Shaded View on Fashion Film festival. Among the eclectic entries in the three-day event are I Wanna Be Your [...]

Style File [Editor's note: Great name!] is the well-deserved title for the collection of 55 stylemakers compiled by aRUDE magazine editor and consummate art-world dandy Iké Udé. “When you look at an urban landscape, it is a pleasure to see someone dressed as immaculately as Iké Udé,” proclaims Diane Pernet, whose own iconic, romantic style [...]

Now that the first Paris screening of her fashion film festival has just closed, A Shaded View on Fashion’s Diane Pernet finally has time to sit down. The three-day program included intimate documentaries about Alexander McQueen (in his pre-Gucci Group days) and John Galliano by producer Madeleine Czigler and Tim Blanks (in his pre-Style.com days), [...]