Dear Shaded Viewers,
Back in 2000-2005 Alex Czetwertynski and I collaborated on a series of short fashion films. Fashioned Out was a project commissioned by Galleries Lafayette in 2003. In 2003 we were commissioned to do Fashioned OUt! for Paris and we had a crazy schedule. We would shoot from morning till very late at night into early morning and around 3 am usually I did the voice overs by 9 am the films from the day before were in the windows of Galleries Lafayette. It was crazy but we loved the insanity of it and the films stayed in the windows during fashion week andfor 2 weeks after that. The following season Galleries Lafayette commissioned us to cover NYC, London and Milan and then during Paris fashion week we again had the windows of Galleries Lafayette for 3 weeks. Today the first chapter of Fashioned Out season two – NYC , coming soon: London and Milan.
Our summer project at ASVOFF Headquarters is to have Juan Enrique Villarreall go through the fashion archives that I still have and capture some of that history and give it to you. Some of the designers have gone on to great success like Raf Simons, Haider Ackermannand KTZ's Marjan Pejoski while others have totally disappeared, at least from the limelight. They probably still exist behind a big brand but who knows where they are. Maybe they left fashion altogether.
Later,
Diane
