2008 Swiss Textiles Award goes to Rodarte -100,000 EUROS

Dear Shaded Viewers,

Lots to tell you but it is 3h and no energy to blog. More tomorrow but the winner is RODARTE.

Coming soon: a short video with Rodarte by Antoine Asseraf...and lots of fun pics from tonight.

Alessandra Pelligrino, Beniamino Marini, Luca and Hiromi Ushigome

Marios Schwab, last year's winner of the Swiss Textiles award

above Alessandra Pellegrino with Patricia Fields, and yours truly with Pat and Hitha Prabhakar with Patricia Fields

Can I tell you what a great sport Patricia Fields was, we all wanted photos with her and she, as you would expect, was totally cool, above with Terry Jones from i-D.

Alessandra Pellegrino with Beniamino Marini and Rene Habermacher with Antoine Asseraf

They could not believe that they won.

Swiss Textiles Ronald Weisbrod

Later,

Diane

Diane Pernet

A LEGENDARY FIGURE IN FASHION and a pioneer of blogging, Diane is a respected journalist, critic, curator and talent-hunter based in Paris. During her prolific career, she designed her own successful brand in New York, costume designer, photographer, and filmmaker.