Relocating to Paris in 1990, Diane Pernet's first job there was as a costume designer for director Amos Gitai[2] and his film Golem, l'Esprit d'Exile.

[11] This brainchild developed into a three-day A Shaded View on Fashion Film (ASVOFF) festival that was showcased for the first time in September 2008 at Paris' Jeu de Paume museum.

[12] With fashion film as a centerpiece, ASVOFF developed into a yearly travelling international event with satellite conferences, performances and exhibitions.

[61][62][63] Pernet's iconic personal style has attracted cinematographer attention as well: she has figured in the Robert Altman film Prêt-à-Porter,[64] Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate,[65] Larry Clark's The Smell of Us[66] and Ben Stiller's 2016 Zoolander 2.

On March 30, 2008, Pernet was chosen, as one of world's top three influential global bloggers, to take part in a panel celebrating a seminal fashion exhibition at New York's venerated Metropolitan Museum of Art.