Diane on Charles

I just finished my feature on fashion film for Arthur and Albert [exhales deeply], it was a biggie, three interviews and a lot of research cut down to 1200 words, I look and at it and wonder - all that effort and I’m still not convinced anyone will want to read it. Is it like that with everyone or just me, hopefully the former.

One of the excerpts that didn’t make the cut was Diane Pernet discussing her young protégé’s Tavi Gevinson and Charles Guislain. Tavi, 14, famed blogger was invited by Pernet to judge her fashion film competition One Minute Light Series. My housemate Noah’s new friend Stanley gushed about Charles, a super skinny 17 year old who’s been getting a ridiculous amount of press attention. Diane to me the story about how they met “I was doing my first festival, we took a break in this empty room, Charles and his mum were sat on another. I remember thinking that has to be in fashion he was all decked out in Margella and Raf Simmons. A month later I saw him at the Gautier show, I began to see him at all the shows - he always got in. Then he sent me a note on Facebook about wanting to show me his sketches, we met for tea and that’s how it happened. I'm trying to consult him, he has two more years of school, his dream is to go to Central St Martins.”





You can read more from Diane in my fashion film feature in the September issue of Arthur & Albert Magazine.

Elusive Danielle Scutt

Last night I had the pleasure of meeting Danielle Scutt - interview in Arthur & Albert Magazine to follow. She was softer than I had been led to believe and patient given her flu-ey state. Yet I was unable too secure a full exchange, complete with dictaphone. She wanted to consider her answers before getting back to me. These days the fashion leads towards a more controlled voice. Anyway I digress, I wanted to draw focus to her skills, the Spring Summer 10 collection is astounding. I love the detail in piano skirt and the cut of her dresses are delightful. The hair is amazing, great for festival costume or a big night out, best get down Ridley Road and stock up on weave for a practice run.


Her Autumn Winter collection is bang on what's happening around east, the androgyny look played out to effect. Hot. You can check it out here. I was unable to pilfer any a/w 2010 images from off the web. What I liked about her was the lack of information I could find when researching, she told me that people had actually gone to the trouble of making up an interview with her by taking sections from other interviews and pasting into one. She prefers to remain low-key, quite refreshing I felt.