A scene from Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette starring Kirsten Dunst. Playing on Sunday, April 8th.

This year, San Francisco is getting it’s very own fashion-centric film festival – appropriately named (what else) the San Francisco Fashion Film Festival! The festival, founded by three local fashion bloggers, will present a curated selection of independent, documentary, and dramatic films that provide a new perspective on what it means to be stylish in the cinema. Think classics like Barbarella and Ziegfeld Girl, and new comers like Miss Representation and Marie Antionette. The festival will be held on April 7th and 8th at the Roxie Theater – you can check out the full schedule and buy tickets here!

They are also having a few pre-festival events that you won’t want to miss! A seminar on Disposable Film 101 on Sunday, March 25th and a screening of Falbalas in conjunction with The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk on Friday, April 6th.

Diane Von Furstenberg and Steven Kolb Announce the 2012 Fashion Awards Nominees and Honorees. Photo Courtesy of Getty.

Last night, CFDA President Diane Von Furstenberg and CFDA CEO Steven Kolb, announced this year’s Fashion Award Nominees and Honorees. Though many of the nominations went to former nominees such as Alexander Wang, Proenza Schouler, and Marc Jacobs, who have been dazzling fashion lovers for seasons – there were some exciting newcomers thrown in, too. The most surprising name of the evening: Johnny Depp, who will receive the Fashion Icon Award (and is the first man to ever receive the honor).

Seth Meyers will emcee the evening, and is sure to inject some humor into the event, which takes place on June 4th at Lincoln Center. We know of a few other exciting announcements that will be revealed at the awards ceremony, but we can’t tell you about them just yet. Stay tuned for updates!

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Diet Coke! Yes, you heard right – Jean Paul Gaultier has been tapped to lend his creative touch to the European division of Diet Coke (or Coke Light, as it is called there). He will design limited edition bottles and cans for the beverage, as Karl Lagerfeld had done previously. “The bottles have the shape of a woman’s body, so it was great fun to dress them,” Gaultier told Women’s Wear Daily. To kick off the collaboration, the designer starred in a series of three short films for the brand – as a therapist, journalist, and a private detective solving the wardrobe dilemmas of a puppet. The first limited edition bevvies will hit European shelves next month – and this is probably the first and only time we’ll say this about a soft drink – but we can’t wait to see what their wearing!

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Xiang Zhang and Jeanette Au on 7Live.

Last week we told you that Jeanette Au and Xiang Zhang were going to be featured on 7Live – and now you can watch the video! During the segment, they talked about their experience at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York and explained the inspirations behind their Fall 2012 Collections. Follow the jump to watch the video! Watch the video…

A week ago, we told you about some changes going on in the fashion industry – Raf Simons was unceremoniously dumped by Jil Sander, and Stefano Pilati was ousted from Yves Saint Laurent. While we knew that Raf was going to be replaced by Jil, no official announcement had been made as to who would replace Stefano – until yesterday.

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One of the most highly anticipated collections is almost here – Marni for H&M is set to hit shelves this Thursday, March 8th! The collaboration features some seriously amazing prints and stellar accessories, all beautifully executed with Marni’s signature quirky charm. In celebration of this momentous occasion, we’ve got the entire lookbook for you to peruse. We’re seriously digging the silk brocade ensemble and that amazing leather top, but really, we’d be happy with anything.

What are your favorite pieces from the collection? And will you be camping out? Let us know in the comments below!

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Photo Courtesy of Ed Alcock for the New York Times.

New York Times writer Eric Wilson just published an article on Jean Paul Gaultier, looking back on the designer’s career as he celebrates 35 years in the fashion industry – and his 60th birthday. The article follows Gaultier as he prepares for his Spring 2012 ready-to-wear show in Paris and discusses the museum exhibit showcasing his work, The Fashion of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk. The enfant terrible of fashion, as we was dubbed, is known for his ability to take classical elements of fashion and turn them into something completely subversive. Apart from his wicked sense of humor and wit, he is lauded for his craftsmanship, which he brilliantly displays at the couture shows each season.

When asked if he still felt appreciated, he replied:

“Yes, not as much as before, but yes. I am no more the flavor of the month, or the year, or the decade, but it has been 35 years. I can say in some way I am lucky, when I look at the people who were there with me at the beginning, and I am the one who is still here. I am still appreciated, but not for the same reason as before.”

One thing we’re sure of – we can’t wait to appreciate his iconic work in the flesh – when his exhibit opens at the de Young Museum in San Francisco! From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk will run form March 24th, 2012 to August 19th, 2012. For more information, visit the de Young Museum website.

To read the entire New York Times article (truly a must read), click here.

Looks from Xiang Zhang and Jeanette Au. Photos Courtesy of Randy Brooke/WireImage.

This afternoon, two of our amazing designers from the Academy of Art University Fall ’12 Fashion Show are going to be guests on 7Live! 7Live is a local talk show program covering the best of the best in SF, and have asked Jeanette Au and Xiang Zhang to be guests on the show. They’ll be talking about designing their collections, showing at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, and what they’re plans are next! Be sure tune in today, from 3:00 – 4:00 PM on San Francisco’s ABC 7.

L – George Hoyningen-Huené (Russian, 1900–1968), Portrait of Elsa Schiaparelli, 1932. Hoyningen-Huené/Vogue/Condé Nast Archive. Copyright © Condé Nast. R – Guido Harari (Italian, born Cairo, 1952), Portrait of Miuccia Prada, 1999. Guido Harari/Contrasto/Redux.

They have just released a preview of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s upcoming exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations – and we like what we see. The exhibition points out similarities in the imaginative designers approach to fashion, focusing on seven specific themes. For each theme, a fictional conversation has been imagined and created by film director Baz Luhrmann. The exhibition will open with the fashion industry’s version of The Oscars - The Costume Institute Gala’s Met Ball – taking place on May 7th, 2012. Now, if we could just snag an invite to the Met Ball!

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Jean Dujardin as Geroge Valentin in The Artist. Silent film star Douglas Fairbanks.

At the 84th Annual Academy Awards, Jean Dujardin took home the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his work in The Artist. The film follows the fictional silent film star George Valentin as silent films fall out of fashion and talkies hit the big time. The character is a composite of several stars from the 1920s and ’30s, but was largely based on famed silent film actor Douglas Fairbanks, whom Dujardin has often cited as a personal inspiration – he was certainly the inspiration for the mustache.

During his acceptance speech, Dujardin referenced the famed actor – and someone else, as well: “It’s funny because in 1929 it wasn’t Billy Crystal, but Douglas Fairbanks who hosted the first Oscars ceremony. Tickets cost $5 and it lasted 15 minutes – times have changed. Thank you Douglas Fairbanks. Yes, Melissa, your grandfather’s spirit and joie de vivre inspired me for this role.”

At that moment, Gladys Perint Palmer perked up. Melissa Fairbanks is the granddaughter of Douglas Fairbanks, and happens to be a personal friend of GPP – she’s even attended a few of our San Francisco fashion shows. Though very proud of her grandfather’s accomplishments, Hollywood was not for her – she preferred a quieter life and had worked as homeopathic healer in Fairfax. So then, why would Jean Dujardin mention Melissa? GPP immediately sent her an email, asking if he had indeed been talking to her. He was.

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