FASHION Magazine

On the coattails of its debut during Paris Fashion Week, A Shaded View of Fashion Film continued its globetrotting festival tour in Montreal this past weekend. Founded by Paris-based American Diane Pernet—often regarded as the original fashion blogger— the now yearly event held court at Excentris Cinema where an ASVOFF retrospective was screened before both fashion and film industry players.

In between visits with designers Marie Saint Pierre, Denis Gagnon and Duy Nguyen and a shopping break at Les Créateurs, we caught up with Pernet during this Canadian leg of her tour to learn more about the festival and (how could we resist?) to pick the fashion icon’s brain.

Welcome to Paris, and welcome to another batch of stunning snaps courtesy of our snap star on the streets, Lewis Mirrett! Yesterday, outside Dries Van Noten‘s Fall 2012 show, Mirrett spotted a myriad of delights, from Anna Wintour‘s luxe-beyond-luxe red fur Prada coat, to Sarah Rutson‘s embroidered floral Celine pencil skirt, to Bette Franke‘s extreme orange lids, still in place post show. Brighten your morning with these glorious photos.

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“Why do you come to London? Is it the best for finding new designers?” I forget who asked me this the other eve⎯by now the whole week’s a blur of long skirts and spikes and unnaturally bright hair⎯but the answer is yes. It’s not the weather.

If you’re not burned out on films and documentaries, post-TIFF–and can swing a last-minute trip to Paris–A Shaded View On Fashion Film, the world’s first annual fashion, style and beauty film festival, will be kicking off at the Centre Georges Pompidou on September 24.

Show: Alexander McQueen—and I wasn’t even present. Too sick that night to crawl from bed, I—and thousands upon thousands of other obsessives—watched McQ’s first live-to-air catwalk on ShowStudio.com. Even from afar, I was spun in, so totally entranced by his entire underworld of alien warrior princesses. (And those shoes! The most wondrously physics-defying footwear since Theyskens’ heelless hooves for Nina Ricci. Which was just last season…but still.) Magnificent in scope, meticulous in execution, it was a show to write home about. Unless you were already there.

Diane Pernet of Diane, A Shaded View on Fashion posted without comment because we are not worthy.

See her signature look, in full, after the jump.