Diane Pernet

Diane Pernet
Diane Pernet photographed by Alessandro Simonetti
Born	Washington,DC, USA
Residence	Paris
Education	Temple University
Occupation	Founder/Director of ASVOFF, fashion blogger and critic

Diane Pernet (born in Washington, D.C., United States) is a Paris-based American-born French international fashion blogger and critic. She is also the founder of ASVOFF (A Shaded View on Fashion Film).

Pernet was a New York City fashion designer in the 1980s, a costume designer for movies and worked as the woman's fashion editor for Joyce magazine, and as a fashion editor for Elle.com and Vogue.fr. She is the creator of the blog A Shaded View on Fashion (ASVOF) and the Founder and Director of a fashion film festival, A Shaded View on Fashion Film (ASVOFF).

Pernet has curated CIneOpera, a series of films by the composer/director Michael Nyman in 2010 at Corso Como, a fashion/art exhibition and an ASVOFF film program at the New York Art Fair, SCOPE in 2010. She co-curated NOOVO fashion and photography festival in Santiago de Compostela in 2007. On March 30, 2008 she was invited by the Metropolitan Museum in NYC to be on their blog-mode panel and recognized as one of the 3 most influential fashion blogs.

Pernet received a degree in documentary filmmaking from Temple University and she has been making small low-fi movies for years. She also worked as a costume designer for, amongst others, director Amos Gitai.

Designer in the 80’s of her own brand in New York for 13 years, Diane Pernet moved to Paris two decades ago and left the backstage behind to begin a career reporting on fashion. Her first job in Paris was as a costume designer for Amos Gitai's 1992 film Golem l'Esprit d'Exile. Work for the CBC’s Fashion Files programme led to an appointment at Joyce magazine where she was the woman's fashion editor for five years. At Elle.com, she was “Dr. Diane”, who gave style advice, and for Vogue.fr she worked to present the runways.

In September 2006, Mark Eley of Eley Kishimoto commissioned her to make a road movie of the brand's men's wear launch and as well as making a documentary film she life-blogged the entire journey from London to Monte Carlo. his film was the impulse behind the launch of Diane's first fashion film festival 'You Wear it Well" which she co-curated with her LA correspondent and was launched in Los Angeles at CineSpace in 2006. In 2008 founded and curated A Shaded View On Fashion Film (ASVOFF) a traveling international event built upon a competition of short fashion, style and beauty films. For its Paris launch, ASVOFF took the form of a festival showcasing feature films, documentaries, conferences, performances and installations