The ASVOFF festival returns to Paris from November 7 to 10

ASVOFF, acronym for A shaded view on fashion filmreturns to the City of Lights. The annual fashion film festival, founded in 2008 by American journalist and critic Diane Pernet, is organizing its sixteenth edition from November 7 to 10 at the Parisian concept store Dover Street Market, located at 35/37 rue des Franc-Bourgeois, in the 4th arrondissement of Paris.

Over four days, the event will offer nearly 130 titles, including films, documentaries and short films focused on the world of fashion, as well as performances and conferences. The program focuses, among other things, this year on eight themes, with for each a selection of ten or more short films, from mental health in fashion to the representation of black people, including fashion Chinese films, films generated by AI, those made by students or even the subject of the intersection between LGBT identities and fashion.

Not to be missed on opening day, November 7, is the documentary “Quant” directed by Sadie Frost about the famous British fashion designer of the 1960s, Mary Quant. The next day, November 8, also worth mentioning is “Siberian Dream” by Janet Paxton Gardner, recounting the journey of Russian model activist Irina Pantaeva, from Soviet Siberia to the catwalks of Paris and New York.

Another gem, “Fashioned Out”, a series of mini-films shot by Diane Pernet and Alex Czetwertynski as part of a project commissioned in 2002 by Galeries Lafayette offering an overview of fashion twenty years ago in the world. On Sunday, November 10, the event will close in the evening with the awards ceremony, according to the winners of the jury chaired this year by Michèle Lamy.