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FASHION CRITIC, PHOTOGRAPHER, FILMMAKER, JOURNALIST / BLOGGER… AND ALSO AN ICON WITHIN THE WORLD OF FASHION DESIGN SINCE HER SUCCESSFUL OUTFITS IN THE EARLY 80S IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. NEXT JUNE SHE WILL BE PRESENTING A NEW EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FASHION FILM FESTIVAL ASVOFF MILAN -A SHADED VIEW ON FASHION FILM-, WHICH IS AN ITINERANT PLATFORM CREATED BY DIANE TO PROMOTE NEW ARTISTS AND TO HIGHLIGHT THE DIVERSITY IN THE CINEMA.
‘If Diane Pernet was a movie, it would be…
Hopefully passionate and funny at the same time. There have been some tragic moments like my first husband dying at the age of 31 in a car crash but I believe that something good comes out of every bad experience and I’ve always had the ability to laugh at life. There are a few quotes that I like to live by: Jean Louis Barrualt – ‘Feel passion for it all and cling to nothing’. And a psychic once told me: ‘Where there is harmony let it flow, where there is not, let it go’. I think that those two sayings have helped to form how I approach life. I would like to express the love I had for my first husband, the craziness before, the passion I had for designing my brand and the fun it was living in NYC and then the devastation of AIDS which was about the time I left NYC and moved to Paris. The tough time I spent in Paris for the first 3 years and how good it feels to be here and have my ASVOFF fashion film festival which puts it all together in a beautiful circle.’
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Wonder Magazine 11
Interview_ Diane Pernet by Marta Bran_ pp. 44-49_ May / June_ 2012
