ASVOFF is the visual statement of fashion film, an ethereal, surrealistic, visionary new genre of cinema.
ASVOFF 3, the fashion film festival created by Diane Pernet (one of the most fabulous persons I've ever met in my life ) and co-produced by Antoine Assraf & David Herman will be soon in Paris, hosted by Centre Pompidou on September 24-26th 2010.
Showing posts with label fashion cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fashion cinema. Show all posts
Friday, September 10, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
Irina Lazareanu - a beauty of the decade
Thanks to Diane Pernet, I discovered today Irina Lazareanu. She was born on June 8th, 1982 in Romania. Acording with Wikipedia at age 5 Lazareanu emigrated to Canada from Romania, settling into the Montreal suburb of Saint-Hubert, Quebec with her Romanian parents. At the age of 13 she moved to London to study ballet until she was derailed by a broken knee.
At age 17 Lazareanu attended an open call and signed with Giovanni modelling agency in Montreal with the hopes that it would help pay rent. From then on she did the usual rounds of London and Paris, occasionally appearing in Barcelona, Australia and Madrid fashion weeks. It wasn't until she was chosen by acquaintance Kate Moss to model for the December/January issue of Vogue: Paris, which she guest edited that Lazareanu received notice by fashionistas. Lazareanu has since become an increasingly popular fashion model, breaking the record for most runway work in one season.
She has modeled for many top designers, including Chanel, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Anna Sui, Lanvin, Versace, and many more. She is affiliated with the modeling agencies Marilyn (New York and Paris), Why Not Models (Milan), Select Model Management (London), and Giovanni (Montreal). In March 2007, Lazareanu was chosen by Kate Moss as the model for her new Topshop clothing range.
Vogue Paris has unveiled their list of who they believe are the top 30 models of the decade. Irina Lazareanu is one of the women that did more than stun us throughout the 2000’s.
She remainds me of a silent cinema star. She is a Lilian Gish of fashion.
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"Charming and lovely Irina Lazareanu" with Diane Pernet. Discover more: http://www.ashadedviewonfashion.com/
At age 17 Lazareanu attended an open call and signed with Giovanni modelling agency in Montreal with the hopes that it would help pay rent. From then on she did the usual rounds of London and Paris, occasionally appearing in Barcelona, Australia and Madrid fashion weeks. It wasn't until she was chosen by acquaintance Kate Moss to model for the December/January issue of Vogue: Paris, which she guest edited that Lazareanu received notice by fashionistas. Lazareanu has since become an increasingly popular fashion model, breaking the record for most runway work in one season.
She has modeled for many top designers, including Chanel, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, Anna Sui, Lanvin, Versace, and many more. She is affiliated with the modeling agencies Marilyn (New York and Paris), Why Not Models (Milan), Select Model Management (London), and Giovanni (Montreal). In March 2007, Lazareanu was chosen by Kate Moss as the model for her new Topshop clothing range.
Vogue Paris has unveiled their list of who they believe are the top 30 models of the decade. Irina Lazareanu is one of the women that did more than stun us throughout the 2000’s.
She remainds me of a silent cinema star. She is a Lilian Gish of fashion.
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"Charming and lovely Irina Lazareanu" with Diane Pernet. Discover more: http://www.ashadedviewonfashion.com/
Sunday, January 24, 2010
A VISION OF IDEAS. Diane Pernet
It's 4.26 AM Bucharest time and it's probably the coldest night of the year.
I am reading Diane Pernet's memories from her blog. Sometimes I cry. I am not sad, but I have a vision of her life and it's an splendid film that I would like to watch someday. It can be even a documentary because her journey is already an epic tale of love, creation and mistery. The sense of cinema makes me very sensitive; I always imagine the feelings of hundreds, thousands or milions of viewers.
A non-iconical picture of her that I like very much.
More on shaded view of fashion
"Later",
Andreea
I am reading Diane Pernet's memories from her blog. Sometimes I cry. I am not sad, but I have a vision of her life and it's an splendid film that I would like to watch someday. It can be even a documentary because her journey is already an epic tale of love, creation and mistery. The sense of cinema makes me very sensitive; I always imagine the feelings of hundreds, thousands or milions of viewers.
I met her in Bucharest, in the first days of the last month of the decade. Her presence is magic. She has wings.
Diane on feelings, ideas and art:
" I think in terms of contemporary art, process isn't as important anymore as ideas."
" I think I never liked the really method of storytelling. I think my work still tells stories to a degree. I'm more interested in trying to convey feelings that are more layered and not so easy to define. "
A non-iconical picture of her that I like very much.
More on shaded view of fashion
Coming soon: My cinematical meeting with Diane Pernet
"Later",
Andreea
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
The Big Blue: Home, Europa, Plato's Atlantis and Our Avatar
BLUE - a colour that always tells a story. My fascination has a declaration now... A connection of visual epic moments which made me believe that Atlantis still exists in our DNA. We have only to understand the message. We are searching for our AVATAR.
1. HOME, THE BIG BLUE on THE BLUE MOON In 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high, but it's too late to be a pessimist: humanity has barely ten years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of its spoliation of the Earth's riches and change its patterns of consumption.
HOME is a environmental documentary about Earth produced by Luc Besson and directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, an acclaimed aerial photographer. Glenn Close does the English narration and everything is sublime.
It was launched on You Tube in the same day with its theatrical release.
YouTube, in a post on the company blog, said the event "marks the first time a global audience can watch a movie online, in movie theaters, on TV stations, and on outdoor screens around the world at the exact same time." You can watch the full movie on you tube. HOME
I loved LUC BESSON from his first movie , THE BIG BLUE. He spent his childhood following his parents around the world. They were scuba diving instructors. His early life was entirely aquatic.
Following a serious diving accident at age 17, Paris-born Luc Besson left behind his childhood ambition of becoming a marine biologist to try his hand at filmmaking.
1. HOME, THE BIG BLUE on THE BLUE MOON In 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has upset the balance of the planet, established by nearly four billion years of evolution. The price to pay is high, but it's too late to be a pessimist: humanity has barely ten years to reverse the trend, become aware of the full extent of its spoliation of the Earth's riches and change its patterns of consumption.
HOME is a environmental documentary about Earth produced by Luc Besson and directed by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, an acclaimed aerial photographer. Glenn Close does the English narration and everything is sublime.
It was launched on You Tube in the same day with its theatrical release.
YouTube, in a post on the company blog, said the event "marks the first time a global audience can watch a movie online, in movie theaters, on TV stations, and on outdoor screens around the world at the exact same time." You can watch the full movie on you tube. HOME
I loved LUC BESSON from his first movie , THE BIG BLUE. He spent his childhood following his parents around the world. They were scuba diving instructors. His early life was entirely aquatic.
Following a serious diving accident at age 17, Paris-born Luc Besson left behind his childhood ambition of becoming a marine biologist to try his hand at filmmaking.
The Big Blue, my favorite movie, (French: Le Grand Bleu), released in 1988, is the first English-language film made by Luc Besson. The film stars Jean-Marc Barr, Rosanna Arquette, Jean Reno and depicts a fictionalized account of the sporting rivalry between two famed free divers. It is inspired by Jacques Mayol's life, the DOLPHIN MAN.
The movie was dedicated to his daughter Juliette Besson who required surgery, having become ill whilst he was working on the film.
Luc Besson's production company is called EUROPA Corp. Logically the name comes from Jupiter's Moon, Europa.
A scientist at Kennedy Space Center claims NASA has discovered evidence for dolphin-like creatures living under the ice on the BLUE MOON Europa. A metaphysical theory states that life on European is connected to the dolphins on planet Earth, communication via telepathic tones.
2. PLATO'S ATLANTIS
First described by Plato, Atlantis and its catastrophic downfall is one of popular science's most enduring controversies - the original location of the vanished civilisation is still hotly debated.
Quite why a story written 2,500 years ago by the Greek philosopher Plato continues to capture the public imagination is a mystery in itself - a mystery fed by countless books, films, articles, web pages, and now a fashion show. It has spawned a rich populist sub-culture (much of it internet-based) which pits the passions and imaginations of committed 'Atlanteans' against the orthodox analysis of the scientific mainstream.
PARIS, October 6, 2009
McQueen's collection, Plato's Atlantis, was live-streamed on Nick Knight's SHOWstudio.com, intercut with the photographer's premade video footage.
According to Style.com, this latest collection entitled “Plato’s Atlantis” was created to cast an apocalyptic forecast of the future ecological meltdown of the world. With humankind made up of creatures that evolved from the sea, McQueen used fashion to demonstrate how man may be heading back to an underwater future as the ice cap dissolves.
In a section in which it looked as if McQueen was envisaging a biological hybridization of women with sea mammals, there were trousers whose bulbous flanks mimicked the skin of sharks or dolphins.
3. AVATAR
James Cameron's long-awaited, much-touted 3D motion-capture technique is a step towards the future. What we see on screen during Avatar is nearly impossible to explain with words.
Avatar is Cameron's latest magnum opus is probably one of the most anticipated movies since Titanic and now it seems that the visionary director has indeed created a film that'll revolutionise the world of cinema.
In a distant future, humanity discovers the planet 'Alpha Centauri B-4', and for those scientists and astronauts who've traversed the gulf between neighboring suns and arrived on its alien soil know it as 'Pandora'. A world filled with an incredible diversity of beautiful and deadly ammonia-breathing lifeforms. Its also a world that harbors treasures and resources almost beyond price. But just as the original Pandora's Box wrought devastation on those who would use it for their own gain, so too this world may destroy not just the Pandorans home, but ours as well.
Avatar is the story of a wounded ex-marine, thrust unwillingly into an effort to settle and exploit an exotic planet rich in bio-diversity, who eventually crosses over to lead the indigenous race in a battle for survival.
The movie was dedicated to his daughter Juliette Besson who required surgery, having become ill whilst he was working on the film.
Luc Besson's production company is called EUROPA Corp. Logically the name comes from Jupiter's Moon, Europa.
A scientist at Kennedy Space Center claims NASA has discovered evidence for dolphin-like creatures living under the ice on the BLUE MOON Europa. A metaphysical theory states that life on European is connected to the dolphins on planet Earth, communication via telepathic tones.
2. PLATO'S ATLANTIS
First described by Plato, Atlantis and its catastrophic downfall is one of popular science's most enduring controversies - the original location of the vanished civilisation is still hotly debated.
Quite why a story written 2,500 years ago by the Greek philosopher Plato continues to capture the public imagination is a mystery in itself - a mystery fed by countless books, films, articles, web pages, and now a fashion show. It has spawned a rich populist sub-culture (much of it internet-based) which pits the passions and imaginations of committed 'Atlanteans' against the orthodox analysis of the scientific mainstream.
PARIS, October 6, 2009
McQueen's collection, Plato's Atlantis, was live-streamed on Nick Knight's SHOWstudio.com, intercut with the photographer's premade video footage.
According to Style.com, this latest collection entitled “Plato’s Atlantis” was created to cast an apocalyptic forecast of the future ecological meltdown of the world. With humankind made up of creatures that evolved from the sea, McQueen used fashion to demonstrate how man may be heading back to an underwater future as the ice cap dissolves.
In a section in which it looked as if McQueen was envisaging a biological hybridization of women with sea mammals, there were trousers whose bulbous flanks mimicked the skin of sharks or dolphins.
3. AVATAR
James Cameron's long-awaited, much-touted 3D motion-capture technique is a step towards the future. What we see on screen during Avatar is nearly impossible to explain with words.
Avatar is Cameron's latest magnum opus is probably one of the most anticipated movies since Titanic and now it seems that the visionary director has indeed created a film that'll revolutionise the world of cinema.
In a distant future, humanity discovers the planet 'Alpha Centauri B-4', and for those scientists and astronauts who've traversed the gulf between neighboring suns and arrived on its alien soil know it as 'Pandora'. A world filled with an incredible diversity of beautiful and deadly ammonia-breathing lifeforms. Its also a world that harbors treasures and resources almost beyond price. But just as the original Pandora's Box wrought devastation on those who would use it for their own gain, so too this world may destroy not just the Pandorans home, but ours as well.
Avatar is the story of a wounded ex-marine, thrust unwillingly into an effort to settle and exploit an exotic planet rich in bio-diversity, who eventually crosses over to lead the indigenous race in a battle for survival.
Cameron's blue creatures, a genetically engineered hybrid manufactured by blending human DNA with that of the native Na’vi, McQueen's hybridization of women with dophins and sharks, Besson's dolphin man are all together fruits of our imagination. They feed our hungry memory.
Directors are the chosen ones. They can see what we need to see, helping us to remember who we are.
Remember HOME. One day, from a distant Blue Moon, we have to tell a story.
Directors are the chosen ones. They can see what we need to see, helping us to remember who we are.
Remember HOME. One day, from a distant Blue Moon, we have to tell a story.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Fashion Shows goodbye! The stylist becomes a director
Will the short films produced in partnership by stylists and directors become a new form of expression for fashion and luxury?
What will be the role of technology in redesigning a new relationship with the public? On the occasion of the 65th International Film Festival Marina Garzoni presents Stylestar, the format for fashion in the twenty first century.
What will be the role of technology in redesigning a new relationship with the public? On the occasion of the 65th International Film Festival Marina Garzoni presents Stylestar, the format for fashion in the twenty first century.
If Valentino is “The Last Emperor” and “King Giorgio” (Armani) is over seventy this means that fashion as we know it now has reached the end of an era and it is entering a new one. Beneath an apparent aura of tranquillity there is an undercurrent of innovation.
After years of adjustment, and after overcoming the changes required following flotation on the stock exchange and acquisitions, the major brands now aspire to eternity by dedicating themselves to the Cinema because of its ability to fuel their dreams and turn their brands into a myth, as sustained by Jacques Seguèla in his best seller “Hollywood washes whiter”
Therefore, if the stylist becomes a director, or if he or she gives directors and actors the task of transforming what the stylist thinks into what will be seen in a short film lasting only a few minutes, the brand gains new vitality and global visibility.
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