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Peter Saville/Nick Knight
As backdrop to an editorial story for July 2009 Wallpaper* magazine, Peter Saville's febrile imagination constructs an imaginary 'Erotic House' of Pop perversity, sexualising an entire post-modern environment and fetishising furniture, fashion and flesh alike.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Interview] [Peter Saville] [Francesca Burns] [Gideon Ponte] [Interiors] [Shoot]
SHOWstudio/Swarovski
Fashion has defined the appearance and character of every important moment in musical history. And in turn, fashion continues to draw on that heady heritage for inspiration season after season. To celebrate this inextricable link between musical performance and fashion exhibitionism, SHOWstudio and Swarovski are partnering on Fashion DJs: an ambitious, three-day music and fashion event to be held at the legendary Abbey Road Studios on 9, 10 and 11 July 2008. Fashion DJs will be broadcast live on SHOWstudio.com and swarovskisparkles.tv and also transmitted via radio for London listeners, on 87.7FM.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Gareth Pugh] [Music] [Naomi Campbell] [Jason Evans] [Sam McKnight] [Boudicca] [Stephen Jones] [Michael Clark] [Alice Hawkins] [Katy England] [Lily Cole] [Peter Saville] [wild beasts] [Jourdan Dunn] [Francesca Burns] [Antony Price]
Ruth Hogben/Laura Bradley/Kathryn Ferguson/Sarah Chatfield/Monica Elkelv
Part of the Birds Eye View 2009 film festival, 'Fashion and the Moving Image' celebrates the growing genre of fashion film. Captured during the event held at at London's ICA, this project showcases footage of the evening's lively panel discussion alongside recent fashion shorts directed by four of the panelists.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Laura Bradley] [Film] [Interview] [Ruth Hogben]
Hywel Davies/Giles Deacon
Filmed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, this Talking Fashion evening brings together journalist Hywel Davies and fashion designer Giles Deacon. Providing a rare insight into the designer's working practice, this hour-long interview sees Deacon shed light on almost every aspect of his career.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Design] [Giles Deacon] [Hywel Davies]
Documenting next season as it happens, SHOWstudio updates live and direct from the cream of the Paris collections for A/W 2009. SHOWstudio fashion director Alex Fury will upload show reports throughout the day, accompanied by images captured by veteran catwalk photographer Chris Moore to illustrate the shows and showcase a selection of SHOWstudio's favourite designers through comprehensive image galleries.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Gareth Pugh] [Paris Fashion Week] [Yves Saint Laurent] [John Galliano] [Alexander McQueen] [Martin Margiela] [Vivienne Westwood] [Yohji Yamamoto] [Hussein Chalayan] [Givenchy] [Autumn/Winter 2009] [Rick Owens]
Nick Knight/Ruth Hogben
Incorporating the cream of this season's monochromatic fashions, Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben's latest film was captured on set during Knight's 'Black and White' shoot for British Vogue. Set to a pulsating soundtrack, witness model Anja Rubik bring to life striking clothing and accessories courtesy of designers including Martin Margiela, Dior, Vivienne Westwood, Viktor & Rolf and Florian Ladstaetter.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Christian Dior] [Sam McKnight] [Martin Margiela] [Vivienne Westwood] [Ruth Hogben] [Vogue] [Viktor & Rolf] [Anja Rubik] [Pringle] [Florian Ladstaetter]
Stephen Jones/Oriole Cullen/Michael Howells
Coinciding with the opening of the exhibition 'Hats: An Anthology' at London's Victoria and Albert museum, SHOWstudio unveils its own tribute to the enduring genius of millinery maestro Stephen Jones. Inspired by Cecil Beaton's 1971 exhibition 'Fashion: An Anthology', which formed the basis of the V&A's enviable contemporary costume collection, Jones' exhibition pays homage to Beaton whilst exploring his own milieu in mind-boggling detail. Created in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert museum, this project showcases the creation of the exhibition literally from the drawing board, exploring its inspiration with the key players.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Film] [Interview] [Design] [Illustration] [Set Design] [Stephen Jones] [Parties] [History] [Exhibition] [Michael Howells] [Hats] [Oriole Cullen]
Chris Moore/Alexander Fury
Documenting next season as it happens, SHOWstudio updates live and direct from the cream of London's collections for A/W 2009. SHOWstudio Fashion Director Alex Fury will upload show reports throughout the day, accompanied by images captured by veteran catwalk photographer Chris Moore to illustrate the shows and showcase a selection of SHOWstudio's favourite designers through comprehensive image galleries.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [City] [Marios Schwab] [Alex Fury] [Peter Pilotto] [Autumn/Winter 09-10] [Louis Goldin] [Chris Moore] [David David]
Louise Goldin
A ten part series exclusively filmed alongside award-winning designer Louise Goldin and team during the realisation of her Autumn/Winter 2009 collection, Unravelled deconstructs her creative process, working backwards from Goldin's show at London Fashion Week to reveal every facet of its development.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Design] [London Fashion Week] [Louise Goldin] [Autumn/Winter 2009]
Hussein Chalayan/Alex Fury
To mark the opening of Hussein Chalayan's first UK solo exhibition at London's Design Museum in January 2009, we showcase an exclusive interview with the ground-breaking designer alongside a video of his critically-acclaimed S/S 2009 collection 'Inertia'.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interview] [Hussein Chalayan] [Exhibition] [Alex Fury]
Jez Tozer/Robbie Spencer
Budding fashion, perhaps, should not emerge from its chrysalis too soon - but Jez Tozer's fashion film of the same name allows us to peer inside and sneak an advance view of Spring/Summer 2009 ahead of the fashion flock.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Yves Saint Laurent] [Givenchy] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Jez Tozer] [Robbie Spencer] [Christopher Kane]
Nick Knight/Jonathan Kaye/Ruth Hogben
We play mind games with thisdecidedly Surreal fashion excursion, starring Maison Martin Margiela's Spring 2009 "Wig-Coat" in perpetual, oddly seductive motion.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Martin Margiela] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Ruth Hogben]
Max Vadukul
Working once again with Max Vadukul, the first photographer to create the now seminal Yohji Yamamoto womenswear catalogues in the 1980s, these two 'Coming Soon' films utilise the innovative medium of motion image to show off Yamamoto's second line's casual yet elegant sportswear through the exuberant energy of contemporary dance.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Yohji Yamamoto] [Sportswear] [Max Vadukul]
Nick Knight/Gareth Pugh/Ruth Hogben
Conjuring a macabre phantasmagoria that unfurls before your eyes like a sinister but beautiful bloom, Insensate showcases the brutal geometry and raw creative fire of Gareth Pugh's A/W 2008 collection to truly bewitching effect.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Gareth Pugh] [Ruth Hogben] [Autumn/Winter 2008-9] [Matthew Stone]
Nick Knight's latest fashion film, Fantasia, is a free-wheeling exploration of joyous, unbridled movement in model and clothing alike.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Gareth Pugh] [John Galliano] [Alexander McQueen] [Yohji Yamamoto] [Lily Donaldson] [Jourdan Dunn] [Ruth Hogben] [Vogue] [Hussein] [Chalayan] [Viktor & Rolf]
Dialing in directly from backstage at S/S 2009 Paris Fashion Week, model Lily Donaldson gives us an alternative view of the fashion circuit by phoning in her inside experiences at, between, and even during this season's catwalks shows.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Audio] [Models] [Diary] [Lily Donaldson]
Aganovich/Jez Tozer
Opting out of the frenetic On/Off schedule of London Fashion Week, Nana Aganovich and Brooke Taylor of design label Aganovich have opted to present their latest collection via online film in collaboration with Jez Tozer
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [London Fashion Week] [Jez Tozer] [Aganovich] [Brooke Taylor]
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interview] [Penny Martin] [Exhibition] [Grégoire Alexandre] [Michel Mallard] [Raphaëlle Stopin] [Jonathan de Villiers]
Our new film season Future Tense embraces and celebrates the creative visions of the latest generation of twenty-first century fashion designers, using the medium of moving image. In collaboration with Hywel Davies, whose forthcoming book 100 New Fashion Designers was our departure point, we’ve approached a wide variety of fashion stars to create films of between 30 seconds and three minutes, expressing their individual design vision.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Penny Martin] [Peter Jensen] [Pierre Hardy] [Rodarte] [Hywel Davies] [Alex Fury] [Lutz] [Todd Lynn and Henrik Vibskov] [Daryoush Haj-Najafi]
Believing fashion to be intrinsically political, Nick Knight is staging a multi-level film project, encouraging creatives to use the medium of fashion to convey their political beliefs, agendas and thoughts. From the beginning of December 2007, the first stage of 'Political Fashion Films' invites visitors to the SHOWstudio website to submit a film of between 30 seconds and 3 minutes that articulates some kind of political point using fashion. Inkeeping with previous film seasons 'Moving Fashion' and 'Editing Fashion', in February 2008, this invitation will be opened up to a wide selection of fashion industry, art world and celebrity figures, whose Political Fashion Films created to the same brief will also be broadcast on the SHOWstudio website, one film per weekday. The end of the project will be marked by a screening event to be held in London during Spring 2008. All films received before Friday 15 February 2008 will be considered for inclusion.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Politics]
Helen Storey
A product of a groundbreaking exploration of chemically-fabricated, biodegradable materials by the artist and fashion designer Helen Storey and the scientist Tony Ryan, 'Wonderland' uses fashion as a 'trojan horse' to demonstrate radical scientific findings. From 29 January–29 February 2008, Storey will construct her first fashion collection in 12 years, in front of a live audience. These garments are designed to deconstruct over time in water and this amazing quality will be showcased during the residency, during which time SHOWstudio will document the full process in picture diaries and live webcasts. When the collection is completed, our task will then be to photograph the garments in a live shoot in Spring to document their design and appearance before dissolving them for a film that will showcase their miraculous scientific secret.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Webcast] [Film] [Performance] [Art] [Design] [Diary] [Pinny Grylls] [Patricia Belford] [Helen Storey] [Tony Ryan] [Science]
Nick Knight/Freja Beha Erichsen
If clothes maketh the man and your purpose is to demonstrate the masculinity of the Spring/Summer '08 womens' collections, then who better to explore their gender-bending potential than androgynous beauty Freja Beha Erichsen?
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Sam McKnight] [Val Garland] [Ruth Hogben] [Spring/Summer 08] [Freja Beha Erichsen] [Kate Phelan]
Yves Saint Laurent
To show his Autumn/Winter 2008 menswear collection for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, creative director Stefano Pilati broke the mould of the traditional catwalk show by presenting his collection via film. Originally displayed on a triptych of screens, the film plays across three frames of action and is here shown in its entirety. Romantic, ethereal and yet technologically complex, the film manages to evoke the twin dynamics of familiarity and formality and the tension of old and new constantly at play in Pilati’s offerings for men.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Menswear] [Yves Saint Laurent] [Stefano Pilati] [Autumn/Winter 08-09]
Nick Knight/Bernhard Willhelm
The latest designer electing to create a film to showcase his fashion collection, Bernhard Willhelm will be in the studio on Sunday 13th and Monday 14th January 2008 with Nick Knight, creating a movie to be previewed at the Menswear shows in Paris on the 20th of this month. Of course, we can't say too much about the collection, but Bernhard has supplied us with the working title "Men in Tights" so you can draw your own conclusions and tune in from 11:30 to get a load of the nylon and lycra action on set!
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Menswear] [Bernhard Willhelm]
Nick Knight/Stefano Pilati
A unique chance for SHOWstudio viewers to influence the narrative of a high-end fashion shoot to create a catalogue and film for Yves Saint Laurent’s forthcoming ‘Edition 24’ collection. SHOWstudio is inviting submissions for a twenty-four-scene screenplay that will form the basis of a twenty-four hour, live fashion broadcast, over the night of 15 July, during which Nick Knight and Stefano Pilati will transform your ideas into imagery. The names of those authors selected will be credited in the final film to screen on SHOWstudio and YSL.com!
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Live] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Politics] [Yves Saint Laurent] [Stefano Pilati]
Showcasing a new genre of amateur print photography that has emerged from South East Asia over the past decade - Purikura- we have invited a Tokyo-based team to interpret the Autumn/Winter collections using nothing more than a souped-up Photo-Me booth. See how photographer Kenji Hirasawa, stylist Takumi Iwata, illustrators Kai Ohta and Yumiko Suzuki envisage model Ayako Hayamizu in looks by Givenchy, Martin Margiela, Balenciaga, Comme des Garcons, Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane, Christian Dior, Chanel, Prada and Yves Saint Laurent in their own inimitable way in five, fun film shorts that detail the amazing construction of the resultant 'fashion spreads'.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Balenciaga] [Christian Dior] [Yves Saint Laurent] [Chanel] [Alexander McQueen] [Martin Margiela] [Comme des Garcons] [Prada] [Givenchy] [Christopher Kane] [Photograhy] [Kenji Hirasawa] [Takumi Iwata] [Kai Ohta] [Yumiko Suzuki] [Yasuhiro Tsuchiya] [Ayako Ha]
AItor Throup/Jez Tozer
Launching simultaneously with his first on-schedule catwalk presentation as part of the MAN showcase at London Fashion Week, watch menswear designer Aitor Throup's film collaboration with photographer Jez Tozer, The Funeral of New Orleans - Part One. A narrative response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Throup's collection tells the story of how five members of a marching band protect themselves and their instruments, which are interpreted through the cut and structure of the garments. See how Throup's acclaimed research process lends itself to motion image.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Jez Tozer] [Aitor Throup]
Andrew Gow
It has been said that Catalonia’s longstanding separatist identity is best characterised by its offerings to the creative arts. The capital, Barcelona, has been ascribed a design temperament at odds with the rest of Spain – a mixture of ‘Reason and Craziness,’ Seny i Rauxa, that delights in the biomorphic forms of art-nouveau and surrealism yet which maintains an unwavering reputation for technical excellence. Fashion has been central to Barcelona’s mercantile history since the end of the eighteenth century with its textile industry maintaining it as a hub for high quality clothing production. From the 9th to the 11th July Andrew Gow will be there offering coverage of the city's fashion week.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Andrew Gow] [Barcelona Fashion Week]
Featuring 651 exhibitors and 760 brands, the Pitti Immagine Uomo show has opened the trading calendar for mens contemporary fashion and textiles for 67 seasons. Writer Hywel Davies was in Florence to report on the exhibition’s highlights as well as to offer coverage on the mens international clothing and accessories collections.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Menswear] [Textiles] [Hywel Davies] [Florence] [Exhibition]
Fred Butler
For the first time SHOWstudio did live coverage of the Arnhem Fashion Biennale, possibly one of the best places in Europe to see what’s happening in the world of art and fashion crossover. The exposition, which took the theme of ‘Happy Fashion’ for 2007, showcased a host of designers, some new, some more established, in a highly unusual ‘multi-sensory’ setting. Art Director Fred Butler was there to send us all her impressions of the event via picture phone.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Film] [Art] [Art Direction] [Fred Butler]
Viewpoint on the creative legacies of designer Steven Robinson (1968–2007) and fashion director Isabella Blow (1958–2007)
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Steven Robinson] [Isabella Blow] [Andrew Gow]
Nick Knight
For the 2007 CFDA Awards, America’s most prestigious fashion awards ceremony, Nick Knight was asked to make a film featuring the nominees for the Best Womenswear Designer category, a list that included Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler and Oscar de la Renta. On Friday 20 April SHOWstudio broadcasted the making of the film from a London-based studio, starring model Agyness Deyn who wore creations from each designer’s last two seasons’ collections. The finished film was later shown on the SHOWstudio website at the time of the CFDA awards ceremony in June.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Design] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Adam Mufti] [Marc Jacobs] [Oscar de la Renta] [Agyness Deyn] [Miranda Joyce] [Proenza Schouler]
&Son. (Simon Foxton/Nick Griffiths)
Skin was an undertaking by the company &Son, the creative consultancy run by stylists Simon Foxton and Nick Griffiths; a commercial project that rethought traditional advertising using motion image. Ten models from a range of mixed ethnic backgrounds -five male and five female- were filmed wearing pieces from adidas’s new ‘Materials of the World’ line, a collection influenced by the indigenous fabrics of different world cultures. Over a period of ten days beginning on May 10, the living portraits were also displayed in the windows of a Curtain Road shop front in London’s Shoreditch where the attention of passers by was tested to register that it was film and not stills that were seeing. In this sense, Skin was a subtle development out of Simon Foxton's previous Sittings: Thirty Men project of 2005 and a handsome addition to SHOWstudio's ongoing study of living fashion portraiture.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Nick Griffiths] [Adidas]
John Galliano
In this exclusive film for SHOWstudio, John Galliano lets us in on how he really makes his fashions. With Morgane Dubled starring as la merveilleuse ingénue and Monsieur Galliano as the eponymous mauvais garcon, witness the creative process of the atelier in all its histrionic glory before the showing of his A/W ’07 collection. Doctored with cigarette burns and jaundiced film reel for a straight-from-the-archive-shelf charm, this self-effacing film re-enacts the common mythologies that enshroud the figure of the fashion designer: as a fastidious creator of clothing and fantasy. Toying with many of these received ideas, the film is made in the parodic style that M. Galliano does better than anyone else.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [John Galliano]
Nick Knight
Caught on film during Nick Knight’s photo shoot for the 49th issue of Visionaire's 'Decades' collaboration back in June 2006, Ice Cream features London model Lily Donaldson wearing pieces from the Maison Martin Margiela Archive, posing with some of the season’s favourite ephemera – including a rhapsody of metallic balloons and a flurry of dry ice. Watch the movie, edited by Ruth Hogben, to see how fashion’s current preoccupations with hard luminosity and liquescence are brought to life in another of our moving fashion montages and see the gallery for the prints that appeared in the magazine last summer.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Martin Margiela] [Val Garland] [Lily Donaldson] [Ruth Hogben] [Katy Barker]
For this season’s PHONECARTE, chanteuse and model of the moment Irina Lazareanu led you through Paris Fashion Week as she dialed in direct from between the shows and told us all her fashion secrets.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Audio] [Models] [Diary] [Irina Lazareanu]
Nick Knight/Simon Foxton
Invited by Arena Hommes + magazine to photograph the highlights of John Galliano’s outlandish Autumn/Winter ’07-8 collection, Nick Knight and Simon Foxton were in the studio over two days, staging one of the explosive action shoots that are the hallmark of their longstanding creative collaboration. From 11:00hrs (UK time), the cameras streamed live coverage of Galliano’s prehistoric fashions, giving those with a penchant for woolen Minotaurs, skintight briefs and Samurai swordsmen an opportunity to indulge their tastes for the primeval and the preposterous in equal measure.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [John Galliano] [Autumn/Winter 07-08]
For the shows of Autumn/Winter '07/08, Penny’s brand of guerrilla phone reportage was beefed up by a newly appointed two-man army. HQ Girl Friday, Ingrid Hass, and MOET photographer-cum-party-flaneur, Clive Booth, joined her as they journeyed through the pageantry and pandemonium that is London Fashion Week. This season, produced the same quick-fire show commentaries and first-hand video footage as well as unprecedented high-resolution photos from the front line. Highlights included a peek into the glittering netherworld of Gareth Pugh, coverage of favourites Christopher Kane and Giles as well as our obligatory tour of all the most important tent corners.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Magazines] [Gareth Pugh] [Penny Martin] [Jens Laugesen] [London Fashion Week] [Giles] [Marc Jacobs] [Christopher Kane] [Autumn/Winter 07-08] [Clive Booth] [Ingrid Hass] [Aitor Throup] [MAN] [Central St. Martins]
Nick Knight/Naomi Campbell
As a Christmas treat SHOWstudio viewers had a unique opportunity to get to grips with the physicality of one of the most successful, beautiful and, er, topical of the Supermodels: Miss Naomi Campbell! Viewers watched Nick Knight scan that legendary hard body using cutting edge 3-D scanning technology live on set. The event was streamed on the SHOWstudio site, providing the chance to see the creation of fashion imagery, live in the making.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Naomi Campbell] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Val Garland]
Nick Knight
Nick Knight was chosen to receive the prestigious Möet & Chandon Fashion Tribute 2006. To mark the occasion, he staged a lavish and spectacular Masked Ball on Tuesday 24th October. The event was attended by a wealth of international personalities from the world of fashion, photography, film, music, and art who had worked with Nick throughout his 25+ year career. The full proceedings were broadcast live on SHOWstudio and the run up to the event was documented in detail on the site. Nick challenged ten designers and one stylist with whom he had worked most closely to design an outfit, complete with mask for a ‘muse’ of their choosing, who would wear it to the ball. In addition, there was a unique opportunity for two SHOWstudio viewers to win a much-coveted ticket by designing an outfit and mask for our ‘You Shall Go to the Ball’ competition. All twelve designs were auctioned after the event, with proceeds going The Princes Trust.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Stylists] [Design]
Nick Knight/Gemma Ward/Giles Deacon/Christopher Kane/Marios Schwab/Rebecca & Mike/Fred Butler/Paul Bruty/Simon Foxton/Alexis Marguerite Teplin
Over three days, 7, 8 & 11 December 2006 twelve friends of SHOWstudio came down to the live space to create one of 12 Days of Christmas videos, each decorating a Nick Knight silhouette of Gemma Ward with Swarovski crystal. In addition to webcasting the live event, each contribution was filmed from above and the footage was edited into a special film that was offered on SHOWstudio on each of the twelve days of Christmas (26 December – 6 January). Starting 7 December, set up day, viewers watched inspired hands at work to get a sneak preview of the final result.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Gareth Pugh] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Gemma Ward] [Jonathan Kaye] [Paul Bruty] [Francesca Burns] [Marios Schwab] [Christopher Kane] [Rebecca and Mike] [Fred Butler] [Alexis Marguerite Tepli]
Tokyo Style Clash was your chance to battle it out and really see if you were 'HOT or NOT?'. From the 14th until the 16th October, a roster of photographers were set up in the front window of BEAMS' store in Harajuku, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo, waiting to take the portraits of anyone who thought they might be a style contender! All photographs were then used to create an interactive game to be played on SHOWstudio by our viewers and an invited panel including Undercover designer Jun Takahashi, Nick Knight, great Dane Peter Jensen, model Lily Cole and Paris fashion princess Sarah Colette. So it was over to our celebrity panel and the SHOWstudio viewers to play the game to decide who really had the hottest look in Tokyo!!
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Peter Jensen] [Retail] [Lily Cole] [Jun Takahashi] [Sarah Colette] [Fumiko Imano] [Game]
Model Lily Cole acted as your insider guide to Paris Fashion Week. Phoned in directly from backstage at the shows, prior fittings at the atelier, en route to the venues and afterwards at the hotel, each intimate BLOG entry communicated that unexpected and evocative aspect of fashion reportage: the sound of fashion week.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Audio] [Models] [Diary] [Lily Cole]
Penny Martin, Laura Bradley
The shows, the 're-sees', the preposterous rumours and the parties: let the SHOWstudio picture phone be your guide as the team braved the queues at the biannual fashion collections. From 18 September until 8 October 2006, the team blogged the Spring/Summer '07 shows and all the fabulous fashion fuss and frippery that went with them.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Laura Bradley] [Penny Martin] [Paris Fashion Week] [London Fashion Week] [Spring/Summer 07] [Milan Fashion Week] [Nicholas Guesquiere]
Gareth Pugh, Eugene Souleiman, Alex Box
Fêted for his commitment to creating provocative spectacles over mundane, workaday clothes, controversial young designer Gareth Pugh used the SHOWstudio live platform to stage a series of performances to mark Couture Week, the first week of July 2006. Each representing his attitude towards the different aspects of his whirlwind fashion career thus far, the afternoon broadcasts focused on themes of boredom and repetition, artifice and multiple personae, high-octane glamour and the falsity of easily dealt acclaim. Of course, no Gareth Pugh project would be complete without the attendant, out-of-control party, which he he threw to open the series.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Film] [Gareth Pugh] [Performance] [Art]
Laura Bradley, Marie O?onnor, Ross Phillips
Featuring an extensive selection of accessories from the A/W '06-7 collections, 'Blow, Clap, Talk & Hum' was a series of interactives that relied on specific noises created by the viewer.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Audio] [Ross Phillips] [Laura Bradley]
Laura Bradley, Paul Hetherington, Nick Knight, Penny Martin, Ross Phillips, Zora Star
Anechoic is a 'collections story' project that used sound instead of visuals to interpret the essence of key garments from the A/W '06-7 season by leading fashion brands. A live recording session in a specialist recording studio -a hemi-anechoic chamber- on 1 June 2006 was used to create a series of groundbreaking interactives that for the first time in fashion media, detailed the precise sound of fashion materials such as feathers, sequins, glass crystals and beads, nylon, taffeta, leather, velvet, jacquard, zips and metallic chains. The live broadcast was also filmed, providing motion image footage of model Zora Star working in the unconventional, futuristic studio environment, which was then edited to create abstract shorts of each audio 'shot'.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Audio] [Ross Phillips] [Performance] [Collections] [Models] [Zora Star] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Dorian Moore]
Daniel Brown, Susannah Frankel, Nick Knight, Nick Ryan
During the shoot of a 'Balenciaga special' by Nick Knight for Pop magazine in November '05, digital artist Daniel Brown was invited on set to respond to Nicolas Ghesquiere's Spring/Summer '06 collection. Inspired by its delicately layered, translucent garments, Brown proposed a series of interactives based on the unpublished images from Knight's story (published in January '06). Using the notion of 'pictures for the blind' as a stimulus, a collaboration with synaesthete and sound designer Nick Ryan ensued, aiming to interpret the source garments and images through sound. Follow the project from its initial meetings and tests to the final interactive works below, as Brown guides you along via a series of intimate film blogs.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Audio] [Nick Knight] [Collections] [Daniel Brown] [Balenciaga]
Nick Knight
Nick Knight became the eighth participant in our series of ‘In Camera’ interviews. The SHOWstudio director and leading fashion photographer of twenty-five years answered viewers’ questions during a live webcast at the beginning of May 2006.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interactive] [Live] [Nick Knight] [Interview] [Webchat]
Jens Laugesen, Alastair McKimm, Marcus Werner Hed
Made in collaboration with Swedish filmmaker Marcus Werner Hed, this conceptual film short showcased fashion designer Jens Laugesen’s designs for the A/W ’06-7 season. The film, originally screened on 4th March 2006 in tandem with an exclusive screening at the Le Passage du Désir during Paris Fashion Week, was the fourth in a series of films featuring Jen Laugesen’s collections previously screened on SHOWstudio.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Jens Laugesen]
Judy Blame, Emily Drake, Linda Evangelista, Irina Funtikova, David James, Grace Jones, Nick Knight, Clinton Morrison, Adam Mufti, Sharmin Nordien, Ivan Putrov, Philip Treacy, Rachel Yankey
SHOWstudio was invited to create an event to mark Philip Treacy’s debut, A/W '06, collection in collaboration with British sports brand UMBRO. Drawing on historic, chronophotographic images by Eadweard Muybridge, Nick Knight and Judy Blame collected a colourful cast of dancers, gymnasts, Premiership footballers and iconic fashion models to stage a spectacular exploration of Treacy’s ‘luxury sportswear’ concept. Viewers had the chance to tune in on Thursday 2nd February 2006 and watch a balletic motion study, choreographed to an innovative musical score and which created the basis for a kinetic audio installation that was unveiled on 16 February during London Fashion Week.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Interview] [Collections] [Linda Evangelista] [Philip Treacy]
Olivier Alary/Rupert Angarita-Dodds/Craig Armstrong/Apurva Asrani/Michael Blackburn/Vladimir Boboshin/Nigel Buck/William Chang/Saulyus Chyamolonskas/ Egoli Editing Team/Mike Figgis/John Galliano/John Gosling/Nick Knight/ Sam McKnight/Charles Nartey Mezo/Sharmin Nordien/Greg Perler/Christopher Seguine/ Sam Sneade/Anna Span/Joanna Swan
An offshoot from our three-month MOVING FASHION project at the end of 2005, EDITING FASHION shifted the focus of SHOWstudio's ongoing exploration of fashion film from direction to the editing process and from established, guest artists to the SHOWstudio viewer base. For this, we offered a package of source material –including exclusive film footage shot by Nick Knight and a selection of possible soundtracks by guest artists- that could be downloaded and edited by SHOWstudio Viewers. Viewers were asked to make an edit from the material provided which lasted up to two minutes. By keeping the source material the same in all cases, the emphasis was kept on the individual editor’s approach and authorship. The finished films could then be uploaded onto SHOWstudio from mid-January 2006 and screened in the Viewers’ Cut gallery.
A second phase of this project saw a number of high-profile, internationally-based, professional editors from a range of different genres tackle the same footage to create a series of five-minute shorts in early 2006.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Politics] [Mike Figgis] [Collections] [Paris Fashion Week] [Body Image] [Gemma Ward]
Sam Blair/David Bailey/Fabien Baron/Francesca Burns/Liz Collins/Lily Cole/Patrick Demarchelier/Julien D?s/Arthur Elgort/Karen Elson/Katy England/Jason Evans/ Simon Foxton/John Galliano/Val Garland/Bay Garnett/Katie Grand/Alice Hawkins/Shona Heath/Hiromix/Eamonn Hughes/Stephen Jones/Jonathan Kaye/Steven Klein/ Nick Knight/Thomas Lenthal/Peter Lindbergh/Christian Louboutin/Glen Luchford/Alister Mackie/Stella McCartney/Sam McKnight/Marian Newman/Oribe/Kate Phelan/Gareth Pugh/Emma Reeves/Paolo Roversi/Stella Tennant/Toyin/Solve Sundsbo/Willy Vanderperre/Tim Walker/!WOWOW!
The printed page has determined the way fashion looks since women's magazines were first introduced. For over three centuries garments have appeared as if frozen still. Nick Knight's key motivation for founding SHOWstudio was to investigate the representation of clothing through sound and motion; perhaps the last great challenge in fashion image making.'Moving Fashion' aimed to exploit this exciting new opportunity through an in-depth study of fashion film.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Collections] [Models] [Stylists] [Art Direction] [Hair] [Beauty] [Music]
Ann-Sofie Back/Jodie Barnes/Judy Blame/Namalee Bolle/Tal Brener/Francesca Burns/Naomi Campbell/Cathy Edwards/Katy England/Nicola Formichetti/Simon Foxton/Katie Grand/Leo Gregory/Paul Hetherington/Princess Julia/Jacob K/Jonathan Kaye/Nick Knight/Erika Kurihara/Karolina Kurkova/Alister Mackie/Penny Martin/Erin O?onnor/NOKI/Nancy Rhode/Sarah Richardson/KT Shillingford/Jamie Surman
SHOWstudio recruited viewers' help in prepping a major project with i-D magazine, for the October 2005 issue. We asked you for your favourite item of clothing, which was to be customised and styled by a leading stylist, modelled by a stellar cast of fashion luminaries and curiosities, photographed by Nick Knight for i-D magazine and then auctioned for charity on eBay to raise money for Oxfam!
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Models] [Judy Blame] [Photoshoot] [Naomi Campbell]
Ann-Sofie Back, Jeffrey Deitch, Jonathan De Villiers, Andrea Dworkin, Philippe Garner, Paul Hetherington, Jonathan Kaye, Richard Kern, Nick Knight, Penny Martin, Ross Phillips, Peter Saville, Liberty Ross, Christabel Stewart, Julie Verhoeven
Liberty Ross featured in a live, interactive photo shoot that was broadcast on SHOWstudio on June 28, 29 & 30 2005. Inspired by the live, pornographic video chats widely available on the web, the model was the focus of a free ‘feature show’ for which there was also a live video feed. Effectively, it acted as SHOWstudio’s interactive ‘collections story’ for the Autumn/Winter ’05-6 season.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Models] [Liberty Ross] [Erotica] [Jonathan Kaye] [Downloadable] [Junya Watanabe]
Simon Foxton
Thirty men in thirty days: Simon Foxton's fashionable month ran from April
1st, each day he styled a different model to pose in front of a live webcam and
take your calls.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Simon Foxton] [Performance] [Models] [Stylists] [Menswear]
Stephen Willats
'Multiple Clothing' presented a selection of clothing-based works by British artist Stephen Willats' that spanned 40 years of practice.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Performance] [Art] [Picture Phone]
Bay Garnett
Political, profane or plain picture-perfect: download and print our exclusive SHOWstudio T-shirt designs.
Viewers had the chance to return over a number of weeks for T-Shirts from artists, designers, photographers and celebrities including Maria Chen Pascual, Frank Leder and Jonny Davis.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Art] [Art Direction] [Downloadable] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Celebrity]
Rita Ackermann/David Bailey/Bless/Heston Blumenthal/Weebl and Bob/Hussein Chalayan/David Chipperfield/Lily Cole/Jason Evans/Simon Foxton/John Galliano/Bay Garnett/Alice Hawkins/Nick Knight/Glen Luchford/Sarah Morris/Kate Moss/Aimee Mullins/Alice Rawsthorn/Viktor & Rolf/Liberty Ross/Peter Saville/Dita Von Teese/Julie Verhoeven
Twenty-four SHOWstudio contributors made the countdown to Christmas all the more pleasurable by confiding their most desired gift in this audio advent calendar.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Models] [Celebrity]
Penny Martin
An artificial sweetener dispenser designed by Karl Lagerfeld, a hairbrush
whose bristles had been replaced by locks of human hair, coloured contact
lenses that sported the letters 'CD' across the iris: each of these fashion
curios occupied the weird territory between fashion garment and accessory,
making them qualify for SHELF APPEAL. For the bi-monthly 'Editor's Choice'
slot that ran from December 2003-4, Penny Martin selected her then current object of desire, got it into the SHOWstudio live space and gave it a good old written examination.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Penny Martin] [Christian Dior] [Yves Saint Laurent] [Chanel] [Bottega Veneta] [Miu Miu] [Marni]
Jessica Ogden
Always one to go her own sweet way, designer Jessica Ogden has offered to shed light on this sacred territory of new ideas. Accompany Ogden on her weeklong trip to Chennai (formerly Madras), India, via this sequence of captioned images, which were sent to SHOWstudio daily.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Picture Phone] [Documentary] [Diary]
Gwen Stefani/Nick Knight
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Music] [Downloadable] [Gwen Stefani]
Sam McKnight
Revisit the vital tidbits of information, rumour and nuance from the Spring/Summer '05 campaigns via Sam McKnight' report, phoned in to the SHOWstudio answer phone service from behind closed-sets.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Audio] [Hair] [Diary] [Sam McKnight]
Jason Evans, Richard Nicoll
Shown in its second season as part of the hit showcase Fashion East, Richard Nicholl teamed up with photographer Jason Evans to create this sequence of intimate portrait images to demonstrate Nicholl's distinctive way of draping and twisting fabric. Intercut with moments of pure motion fun from Evans, the piece was the seventh in a series of very different approaches to fashion editorial using film, screened in relation to London Fashion Week S/S '05.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Collections] [Jason Evans] [Richard Nicoll] [London Fashion Week]
Jens Laugesen, Alistair McKimm
The title of Jen's Laugesen's Spring/Summer '05 collection (OUTSIZE 02: CMYK) gave some preparation for the uncharacteristic surprise of colour concluding the Danish designer's predominantly monochrome show. Whereas Laugesen's own design philosophy involves creating different, generic versions from the same aesthetic whole, filmmaker Jean-François Carly adopted a more narrative approach to recording the construction and execution of the catwalk show.
The only of Shows Film Week's shorts to venture backstage, the fourth in our series took a 'behind-the-scenes' look at the production of the fashion show itself.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [Jens Laugesen] [London Fashion Week]
Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones, Hamish Morrow, UVA
Less interested in 'next season' than in a genuine future of fashion, Hamish Morrow took a couple of collections off from showing on the catwalk in order to consolidate his research into technological glamour and functional luxury. Having chosen to represent this exploration in motion image, he
collaborated instead with Nick Thornton-Jones, Warren Du Preez and United Visual Artists on this film, 'Fashion in Zero Gravity', about the effect of gravitational pull on fashion garments and image.
The fifth in a week of fashion films relating to London Fashion Week '05, it was originally presented in the context of an exhibition project staged at Belsay Hall in Northumberland May - September 2004.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [London Fashion Week] [Hamish Morrow] [Nick Thornton-Jones and Warren Du Preez]
Kataryna Szczotarska, Dirk Seiden Schwan
Dirk Seiden Schwan's short film for the Russian fashion designer Katarzyna Szczotarska was a refreshing and endearing portrayal of a young woman's exuberant, emotional response to the fashion she is wearing.
An exclusive edit from a longer original, 'Appoline' was the sixth fashion film in a series drawn from London Fashion Week, S/S '05 season.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [London Fashion Week]
Emma Cook, Shona Heath
Making a welcome return to the London schedule after a season's hiatus, Emma Cook delighted audiences with a highly-feminine, though directional and extremely wearable, collection that showcased expert draping gathered up by Art Nouveau detailing and accessories.
The third installment to a week of films relating to the Spring/Summer '05 season, this decorative film short by Shona Heath backgrounded Emma Cook's catwalk show and revealed the collection's source aesthetic as well as referencing the pool of innovative image-makers that have surrounded this progressive designer's work.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [London Fashion Week] [Emma Cook]
As visible shoulder pads, twisted denim dungarees and wet T-shirts that revealed red lace bras proceeded (in reverse order) down Ann-Sofie Back's S/S '05 catwalk, it was clear that this Swedish designer's antipathy to conventional representations of femininity was ongoing. As her peers made their money back on bankable, pretty accessories like dainty high heels and lady-like handbags, Ann-Sofie's broken sunglasses, slit bowler hats worn as necklaces and rope belts served to complicate already challenging visions of campus-girl imperfection.
How then, would she market that classic money-spinner, the fragrance? In a season that was peppered with scent adverts and launches-Dior's J'Adore, Chanel's No. 5, Viktor & Rolf's Flowerbomb-Ann-Sofie collaborated with photographer Benjamin Huseby to imagine the perfume campaign that could capture her brand's key values of subverted sophistication, awkwardness and hard-to-reach beauty. Were she ever to create a fragrance, that is.
The second in a week of films related to the recent Spring/Summer '05 collections, 'Sandra' unpacked this popular, pre-Christmas genre of fashion image-making with the quintessential self-awareness and wit that characterises an Ann-Sofie Back project.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Ann-Sofie Back] [Benjamin Alexandre Huseby]
Swash, Stephen White
Highlight of London Fashion Week S/S '05 for many, Swash's sunny, poplin prints and cheeky cut-out trousers brought a breath of fresh air to the catwalk and what's more, a welcome sense of humour. This film, The Hoteliers, showcased the collection that put them on the London schedule: a previous, capsule collection of motorcycle capes and trousers designed for the nineteenth Festival International des Arts de la Mode à Hyères prize, which they won in May 2004. Situating their characteristic, virtuoso tailoring, classic fabrics and fun print designs (by illustrator Yuko Kondo) in a fantastical, English pastoral setting, Stephen White's film short exemplified the growing trend for designers to present their garments in a motion image and sound context.
The first in a full week of films related to the recent Spring/Summer '05 collections, The Hoteliers represented this innovative way of re-imagining editorial fashion image-making.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Swash]
Karen Elson
Supermodel Karen Elson sent frequent voicemail messages throughout her week's work at the Paris Fashion shows.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Audio] [Models] [Paris Fashion Week] [Diary] [Karen Elson]
Leigh Bowery
Guiser presented a rare selection of original and previously unpublished material that looked at, listened to and wrote about the legendary figure Leigh Bowery. The extraordinary personage of Leigh Bowery has had an enormous influence on visual culture - across fashion, art, music and performance - and SHOWstudio wanted to celebrate this legacy. Guiser brought together previously unseen film footage of Bowery being photographed by Nick Knight, with unreleased sound material from 'Minty' demo tapes as a soundtrack. Also featured was an essay by one of Leigh's contemporaries, Donald Urquhart -whose own artistic output and creativity mirrors the breadth of Bowery's output, as well as intertwining creatively with it. Urquhart's text gave personal accounts of some of the posthumous events that have commemorated Leigh Bowery.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interview] [Performance] [Art] [Christabel Stewart] [Leigh Bowery] [Donald Urquart]
Marius W Hansen
View photographer Marius W Hansen's live Picture/Message project, broadcast from the Queens Ice Bowl where Peter Jensen presented his S/S '05 collection 'Tonya' on ice.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [Picture Phone] [London Fashion Week]
Peter Jensen, Marius W Hansen
Seven London-based designers agreed to let our camera into their studios prior to the unveiling of their Spring/Summer '04 collections to document the various people and source materials that inspired them. Use these fascinating 'photo-joiners', fashioned in a 360-degree cycle, to peruse the private workspaces photographed. Like Deckard's Esper Machine in Blade Runner, an in-built zoom function allows you to indulge your curiosity by scouring every last detail of each studio's contents. Enlarge fascinating scenarios and snippets, ranging from phone-numbers scribbled on Post-It notes and fabrics laid out on cutting-tables to the revealing book collections of some of London's leading designers.
In accompanying interviews, the designers explained their choice of studio space and considered its influence on the work produced there.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Peter Jensen]
Seven London-based designers agreed to let our camera into their studios prior to the unveiling of their Spring/Summer '04 collections to document the various people and source materials that inspired them. Use these fascinating 'photo-joiners', fashioned in a 360-degree cycle, to peruse the private workspaces photographed. Like Deckard's Esper Machine in Blade Runner, an in-built zoom function allows you to indulge your curiosity by scouring every last detail of each studio's contents. Enlarge fascinating scenarios and snippets, ranging from phone-numbers scribbled on Post-It notes and fabrics laid out on cutting-tables to the revealing book collections of some of London's leading designers.
In accompanying interviews, the designers explained their choice of studio space and considered its influence on the work produced there.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Boudicca]
Penny Martin
SHOWstudio took their Picture Phone along to document the proceedings at Austrian Fashion Week. View Gala Awards ceremonies, a visit to the Juergen Teller show at Vienna's Kunsthalle and a series of studio visits with designers that included fabrics interseason and Petar Petrov.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Picture Phone] [Diary]
Preen
Seven London-based designers agreed to let our camera into their studios prior to the unveiling of their Spring/Summer '04 collections to document the various people and source materials that inspired them. Use these fascinating 'photo-joiners', fashioned in a 360-degree cycle, to peruse the private workspaces photographed. Like Deckard's Esper Machine in Blade Runner, an in-built zoom function allows you to indulge your curiosity by scouring every last detail of each studio's contents. Enlarge fascinating scenarios and snippets, ranging from phone-numbers scribbled on Post-It notes and fabrics laid out on cutting-tables to the revealing book collections of some of London's leading designers.
In accompanying interviews, the designers explained their choice of studio space and considered its influence on the work produced there.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Preen]
Eley Kishimoto
Seven London-based designers agreed to let our camera into their studios prior to the unveiling of their Spring/Summer '04 collections to document the various people and source materials that inspired them. Use these fascinating 'photo-joiners', fashioned in a 360-degree cycle, to peruse the private workspaces photographed. Like Deckard's Esper Machine in Blade Runner, an in-built zoom function allows you to indulge your curiosity by scouring every last detail of each studio's contents. Enlarge fascinating scenarios and snippets, ranging from phone-numbers scribbled on Post-It notes and fabrics laid out on cutting-tables to the revealing book collections of some of London's leading designers.
In accompanying interviews, the designers explained their choice of studio space and considered its influence on the work produced there.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Eley Kishimoto]
Seven London-based designers agreed to let our camera into their studios prior to the unveiling of their Spring/Summer '04 collections to document the various people and source materials that inspired them. Use these fascinating 'photo-joiners', fashioned in a 360-degree cycle, to peruse the private workspaces photographed. Like Deckard's Esper Machine in Blade Runner, an in-built zoom function allows you to indulge your curiosity by scouring every last detail of each studio's contents. Enlarge fascinating scenarios and snippets, ranging from phone-numbers scribbled on Post-It notes and fabrics laid out on cutting-tables to the revealing book collections of some of London's leading designers.
In accompanying interviews, the designers explained their choice of studio space and considered its influence on the work produced there.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Stephen Jones]
Seven London-based designers agreed to let our camera into their studios prior to the unveiling of their Spring/Summer '04 collections to document the various people and source materials that inspired them. Use these fascinating 'photo-joiners', fashioned in a 360-degree cycle, to peruse the private workspaces photographed. Like Deckard's Esper Machine in Blade Runner, an in-built zoom function allows you to indulge your curiosity by scouring every last detail of each studio's contents. Enlarge fascinating scenarios and snippets, ranging from phone-numbers scribbled on Post-It notes and fabrics laid out on cutting-tables to the revealing book collections of some of London's leading designers.
In accompanying interviews, the designers explained their choice of studio space and considered its influence on the work produced there.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Giles]
Julie Verhoeven
Follow a week in the multimedia life of artist, illustrator and designer Julie Verhoeven in this sequence of images sent from her weeklong trip to New York. Shows captured through her lens included Luella, Marc and Marc Jacobs.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Art] [Picture Phone] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Diary] [Julie Verhoven] [New York Fashion Week] [Parties]
Seven London-based designers agreed to let our camera into their studios prior to the unveiling of their Spring/Summer '04 collections to document the various people and source materials that inspired them. Use these fascinating 'photo-joiners', fashioned in a 360-degree cycle, to peruse the private workspaces photographed. Like Deckard's Esper Machine in Blade Runner, an in-built zoom function allows you to indulge your curiosity by scouring every last detail of each studio's contents. Enlarge fascinating scenarios and snippets, ranging from phone-numbers scribbled on Post-It notes and fabrics laid out on cutting-tables to the revealing book collections of some of London's leading designers.
In accompanying interviews, the designers explained their choice of studio space and considered its influence on the work produced there.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Miki Fukai]
Alexander McQueen/Michael Clark/Kate Moss
View an ambitious re-staging of many of the defining moments of McQueen's legendary fashion collection shows. Look out for a crowd-pleasing dance duet by Michael Clark and Kate Moss.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Live] [Film] [Collections] [Music] [Picture Phone] [Alexander McQueen] [Kate Moss] [Michael Clark] [Dance]
H Project
Accompanied by ecstatic sound of The Master of Gospel and the Joy Georgia Mass Choir, the second of our H Projects films was dominated by nature as Thymaya Payne and Zara Rusadze took menswear to the forest.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [Music] [Menswear]
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Simon Foxton] [Documentary] [Styling] [Clubs]
Martin Margiela
Many took up Maison Martin Margiela's challenge to complete what he had left unfinished. Since late June 2004, SHOWstudio viewers across the world have been downloading his simple, shift-dress pattern and adding to it to express their individual vision. Once made up, the more creatively ambitious have interpreted their designs in fashion stories, surprising and varied. To showcase this two-way fashion dialogue, a selection of the best were posted in our Atelier Gallery.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Photoshoot] [Downloadable] [Martin Margiela] [Garment Pattern]
Isabel Best, Gotscho, Emanuel Ungaro
A collaboration between Emanuel Ungaro and Parisian artist Gotscho, this short film focused on the fusing of couture garments with other objects in an exploration of absence.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interview] [Art] [Collections]
Nick Knight/Alexander McQueen/Michael Clark
Watch the filmic version of SHOWstudio's MAC III print, an image born out of an explosive creative collaboration between McQueen, Knight and Clark. Featuring McQueen's Depression-era marathon dance inspired Spring/Summer '04 collection, and Clark's choreography, this multi-faceted film captured nine views of the gracefully suspended bodies in motion, the elegantly athletic composition that was set up for Knight's Numéro magazine shoot.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Collections] [Photoshoot] [Alexander McQueen] [Michael Clark] [Dance]
Toyin/Nicola Formichetti
The Burberry Boys battled it out with the Kim Jones gang in this A/W '04 west side story. The Doi provided the soundtrack to Toyin's graceful study in teen angst and masculinity.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Music] [Menswear] [Toyin] [Kim Jones] [Burberry] [Nicola Formichetti]
Kate Moss/Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin
Intimate, spontaneous, low-tech and informal. These are not words one might associate with the work of legendary photographic duo van Lamsweerde & Matadin. Not only did this film short reveal the more lighthearted aspects of their shoots, however, as Kate Moss re-enacts Michael Jackson's classic dance routine, it demonstrated the photographers' working process as van Lamsweerde audibly encourages Moss to strike the playful poses for which this partnership has become known.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Models] [Music] [Celebrity] [Kate Moss] [Dance] [Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin]
An interactive camera/sensor was placed in the window of the Regent Street Liberty's store to capture the 'looks' of over 17,000 participants during the period from 14 February - 4 April 2004. All the images were posted on SHOWstudio, including England's shortlist of 10 finalists - one of whom won £300 worth of Liberty's vouchers.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interactive] [Live] [Retail]
Lucy Orta
In response to the Allied forces handover of power back to Iraq on 30th June 2004, artist Lucy Orta staged a 'protest performance' at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The event was recorded in both image and sound and, for those wishing to participate in the statement, a protest t-shirt design is available for download.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Politics] [Performance] [Art]
Mauro Cocilio
Photographer Mauro Cocilio took the SHOWstudio picture phone backstage (and front) to document the proceedings of the thirteenth Graduate Fashion Week. Thirty colleges from up and down the UK were screened by a panel of industry luminaries at the Gala Awards ceremony in London's Battersea Park where the winning designers-of-the-future were announced.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Picture Phone] [Documentary]
Brad Pitt
During a recent shoot for Vanity Fair, Nick Knight created a number of
on-set scenarios for intriguing visual and aural actions for subject Brad
Pitt to perform, so as to engage the actor in 'pique' performance. 'Freedom
of Love' is a short film which captured Pitt in action during the shoot,
energetically painting onto a huge blow up of his own face, and adding
caption, and contemplatively reading surrealist poetry. Pitt reads from
André Breton's poem 'Freedom of Love', a one stanza, sixty-line homage to his wife. The poem cites a beautiful litany of comparisons for her physical attributes, deftly playing with language that eludes any commonplace romantic imaging, instead presenting uncanny metaphors. Breton was the provocative, passionate leader of the avant-garde literary and artistic movement Surrealism, who believed in 'revolution of the mind', and in the 'marvellous' - dazzling combinations of words or visual images,
spontaneously created by automatic processes of the mind.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Performance] [Photoshoot] [Menswear] [Brad Pitt] [Poetry] [Alister Mackie]
Nick Knight/Kate Phelan/Stevie Stewart/David Holah
Kate Phelan and the Vogue team entered the SHOWstudio live space to shoot the prevailing themes from the A/W '04 collections. Computer-generated prints from Balenciaga and Giles Deacon, and computer-aided cutting and draping techniques from Hussein Chalayan, Gucci and Lanvin affirmed fashion's preoccupation with technology at the time.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Webcast] [Collections] [Models] [Gemma Ward] [Photoshoot]
Comme des Gar�ons
Legendary designer Rei Kawakubo opened up her highly intellectual creative process for consideration in this unprecedented collaboration with SHOWstudio. Following the production of a photographic shoot from its inception to its delivery to Another Magazine for its September issue, this project demonstrated how the many creatives involved in making fashion imagery responded to the overarching conceptual direction of the celebrated Comme des Garçons visionary.
For the initial, three-day phase of the project, photographer Nick Knight and stylist Alister Mackie interpreted the emotional theatre of the Autumn/Winter '04 Commes des Garçons collection with its attenuated jacket sleeves. From there, follow the post-production of the resultant photographs in a dialogue between Knight and his imaging collaborator Allan Finamore as they extended the visual parameters of the pictures taken on set via digital manipulation. Finally, Kawakubo added the 'hand of the artist', imbuing the final images with her individual response to them.
A live discussion forum ran throughout the project, giving SHOWstudio viewers the opportunity to ask questions of the creatives active during each stage.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Magazines] [Interview] [Photoshoot] [Digital Image-Making] [Comme des Garcons] [Post Production]
In May 2004, a complement of mystery guests were invited to participate
in this twenty-two-course meal, prepared by the gastronomic alchemist Heston Blumenthal and photographed by Nick Knight for a visually decadent W magazine shoot. Not only can you now listen in on the diners' conversations in the Audio Webcast, you can also see what's on their plates as they consume the challenging courses in the Interactive Menu. Coinciding with the magazine's publication, this broadcast finally revealed the secret identities of all celebrity diners present in a sequence of unseen pictures from the shoot. In a final flourish, Blumenthal generously offered the coveted recipe for his trademark Smoked Bacon and Egg icecream, available to you as a T-shirt or apron
design via the Recipe Download.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Audio] [Nick Knight] [Models] [Photoshoot] [Liberty Ross] [Jonathan Kaye] [Food] [Alice Hawkins] [NOKI]
Duncan Cheetham/Lisa Mustafa
A one-day, live shoot in which print designer Duncan Cheetham screen printed from five of his own specially commissioned designs onto seven original outfits. Make-up artist Lisa Mustafa took the print designs and colours as her palette and inspiration.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Performance] [Models] [Beauty] [Photoshoot] [Textile Prints]
Richard Rhys-Thomas/Paul Hetherington
Future Vintage! 'Try on' the enduring fashion statements from the Spring/Summer '03 collections before picking them up cheap while stocks last.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Collections] [Paul Hetherington] [Graphic Design] [Illustration]
Penny Martin
As a recognised showcase for new talent, the Festival International des Arts de la Mode à Hyeres brought together ten young fashion designers and photographers under the patronage of an international jury. SHOWstudio's Penny Martin reported from the festival in its nineteenth year.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Penny Martin] [Picture Phone] [Documentary] [Diary]
3-D & Tom Hingston/Katy England & Bobby Gillespie/Jason Evans/Simon Foxton/Nick Knight, Kylie Minogue & Liz Neal/Felix Larher/Nick Rhodes & Gavin Elder/Julie Verhoeven
Thirteen leading creatives from the fields of fashion, music and image-making used mobile video phones to create a series of short 'motion clips' that visually interpreted the lyrics of their favoured song.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Music] [Picture Phone] [Celebrity] [Jason Evans] [Bobby Gillespie] [Kylie Minogue] [Katy England] [Julie Verhoeven] [Tom Hingston] [Massive Attack]
Karni Arieli/Celia Topping
Photographer Arieli substituted skilled performing artists in place of models for this live fashion shoot featuring progressive knitwear design from the A/W '04 collections. She shot stills using the SHOWstudio picture phone as well as short motion-image clips of three different pairs of artists, referencing Eadweard Muybridge's chronographic sequences in their form.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Performance] [Picture Phone] [Photoshoot]
H Project, Zaza Rusadze
An experimental film collaboration between German fashion collaborative H Project and the film director Zaza Rusadze. Featured menswear by designers including: Bless, Samuel De Goede, Frank Leder, Raf Simons and Bernhard Willhelm.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [Menswear]
Peter Jensen
The sole question that perplexed those lucky enough to have witnessed Peter Jensen's utterly memorable S/S '05 'show on ice' was 'why had nobody done it before?' Shot from the rink side, this short film, 'Tonya', captured the magic of the young skaters in action, showing fashion as it is experienced in everyday life; in motion.
The final film short in a week-long series marking how motion image has inveigled its way into mainstream modes of representing fashion, 'Tonya' celebrated the infamous ice queen who fell from grace and inspired Jensen's collection.
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Nigel Bennett, Martin Margiela
An exclusive preview of Nigel Bennett's film showcase of the feted design group's A/W '04 womenswear collection. Presented in four parts, the film comprised conversations with five women, from which the themes of the main line collection and its intriguing Trompe L'Oeil prints were drawn.
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Ebru Ercon
Fresh from a stellar appearance at cult showcase Fashion East, designer Ebru Ercon came into the SHOWstudio live space to photograph her look book, enlisting the help of photographer Dennis Schoenberg and stylist Marie Chaix.
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Maison Martin Margiela
As the acclaimed fashion house of Martin Margiela prepared to open its doors for the first time in London, photographer Valerie Von Stahl Stromberg took the SHOWstudio picture phone to document the shop's arrival; hard to miss in the form of a 'sandwich-board campaign' on the cities streets.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Picture Phone] [Documentary] [Martin Margiela]
Alexander McQueen
The third in our series of downloadable garments, Alexander McQueen allowed us to examine and assemble his pattern for a beautiful, kimono-inspired jacket from his A/W '03 collection.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Collections] [Downloadable] [Alexander McQueen] [Garment Pattern]
Jens Laugesen/Jean Francois Carly/Marcus Werner Hed
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Peter Jensen
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BLAAK
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week]
Patrik Söderstam
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Hamish Morrow/Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones/UVA
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Performance] [London Fashion Week] [Nick Thornton-Jones and Warren Du Preez]
Maria Chen Pascual/Jean Francois Carly/Marcus Werner Hed
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Aleksandra Olenska
Stylist Aleksandra Olenska constructed a live tableau in the SHOWstudio livespace over two days. Drawing on her appliqued stocking designs, seen both at Roksanda Illincic and Peter Jensen's A/W '04 shows, she created a Trompe L'Oeil 'Hosiery Garden'.
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Photographer John François Carly selected seven Belgian designers - Véronique Branquinho, Jean Paul Knott, Véronique Leroy, Haider Ackerman, Martin Margiela, AF Vandevorst and Bruno Pieters - as the focus of seven fashion films; each featuring garments from their respective A/W '03 Collections. Accompanying interviews exposed the interlinking strands that bind 'the Belgians' together, making them the current cerebral force of fashion.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Collections] [Martin Margiela] [Jean-Francois Carly] [Raf Simons]
Maria Chen Pascual, Jean Francois Carly, Sam Gainsbury, John Gosling, Lulu Kennedy, Susanne Tide-Frater
Providing worldwide fashion week coverage, four creatives took the SHOWstudio picture phone to fashion's four capital cities for the A/W '04 collections, throughout March. Photographer Jean-Francois Carly travelled to New York to report from designer Maria Chen Pascual's first ever stateside presentation, whilst Fashion East's Lulu Kennedy shared her busy week in London. Head of Creative Direction at Selfridges, Susanne Tide-Frater conveyed the more commercial perspective from Milan and finally, producer Sam Gainsbury and DJ John Gosling reported from Paris.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Picture Phone] [Diary]
Zac Posen/Craig McDean
Designer Zac Posen constructed a 'dress' from the very bodies of the redoubtable Martha Graham dancers in Craig McDean's balletic film with collaboration from model Erin O'Connor.
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Simon Foxton/Jason Evans
Imagery for live shoot that used old sporting photos for a new direction in menswear editorial.
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Self Service Magazine
Chic Parisian magazine came to town to photograph the stars of the London scene inside the SHOWstudio live space.
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Val Garland/Sam McKnight/Marian Newman
Nick Knight's stalwart hair and make-up team threw open their studio doors during a three-day collections shoot. Drawing on the S/S '04 key theme of iridescence, a relay of live stills influenced by the classic beauty imagery of Penn and Watson disclosed the key looks of the season.
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Nick Knight/Natasha V
Natasha V gave the performance of a lifetime in this film short depicting Nick Knight photographing her for British Vogue magazine. In an accompanying interview, the model talked about her experience of the war in Bosnia, aggression and her idiosyncratic approach to modelling.
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Alexander McQueen
In the first interview in the newly-launched live SHOWstudio space, McQueen came clean on all manner of subjects, from which fashion items make him cringe and his opinion on fur to his views on fashion as entertainment.
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Nick Knight/Jonathan Kaye
Evangelical florist and icon of pre-war femininity, Constance Spry provided inspiration for this three day Nick Knight shoot for W magazine. Stylist Jonathan Kaye picked the best of the Spring/Summer '04 collections whilst stylist Simon Foxton invited leading florists to interpret the floral themes that characterised the catwalks.
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Maria Chen Pascual
In a twofold presentation of short films and downloadable t-shirt design, re-immerse yourself in the Gothic Romanticism that Pascual's imagery evokes.
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Yohji Yamamoto
To launch this new series of downloadable fashion, internationally acclaimed designer Yohji Yamamoto contributed an enigmatic pattern for viewers to download from their computers and make up into an exclusive, mystery garment, free of charge. Nick Knight's photographs of the piece held the visual key.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interactive] [Downloadable] [Garment Pattern] [Yohji Yamamoto]
Katy England
Trick or treat? The spooks and creeps came out in force for Artist Sam Taylor-Wood's Halloween Party. Stylist Katy England caught the macabre proceedings on camera.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Stylists] [Parties] [Alister Mackie] [Katy England]
Harri Peccinotti
Exclusive, behind the scenes film of legendary photographer Harri Peccinotti at work, photographing exhibits from Nike's White Dunk exhibition.
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John Galliano
Exclusive preview of Galliano's first own-brand menswear range. The legendary designer took questions from the set of his Arena shoot.
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David Weightman
In homage to 'Peeping Tom', David Weightman's live portraiture project used a special mirror camera to document the front row at Paris Fashion Week.
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by Viktor & Rolf
Who better to have shown you around Viktor & Rolf's historic Louvre retrospective than the designers themselves in a live tour one hour prior to the launch?
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Paris Fashion Week S/S '04
Direct from the Paris shows, stylist Tabitha Simmons used the SHOWstudio picture phone to select and send the cream of the S/S '04 collections.
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Jens Laugesen
Downloadable T-shirt design and GROUND_ZERO.03, Nick Knight's film of Laugesen developing his S/S '04 collection launch simultaneously as the designer's show hit the catwalk.
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Hamish Morrow/Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton-Jones/UVA/Thierry Dreyfus
Live imagery projected onto models to create 'virtual' clothing and prints at Hamish Morrow's S/S '04 collection unveiling.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Performance] [Collections] [Digital Image-Making] [London Fashion Week] [Hamish Morrow] [Nick Thornton-Jones and Warren Du Preez]
Eley Kishimoto
SHOWstudio collaborated with Eley Kishimoto on a series of screen-based works that marked 10 years of their cult patterns and which were broadcast across London during Fashion Week.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Stylists] [Jason Evans] [Eley Kishimoto] [Textile Prints] [Norbert Schoerner] [Laurent Fetis] [Elisabeth Arkiphoff] [Shona Heath] [Rory Crichton] [Adam Mufti] [Frauke Stegmann]
London Fashion Week S/S '04
Mauro Cocilio and Gerald Jenkins captured the frenetics of London Fashion Week S/S '04 including backstage images from Boudicca, Sophia Kokosalaki and Gibo.
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Laura Sciacovelli
Summer dresses provided the inspiration for these sensual motion portraits with atmospheric soundtracks from experimental bands Plinth, Colleen and The Pastels.
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Mario Sorrenti/Jane How
Cheese and liquorice were among the unlikely materials that modelled the likenesses of contemporary icons for this W magazine jewellery shoot.
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Jonathan Gent explored the world through his basilisk eye with the SHOWstudio picturephone and revealed his fervent observations in arresting pictures and fierce drawings.
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Alexander McQueen
To mark Alexander McQueen's CBE award, the visionary designer illustrated the showstoppers from his 2003 collections in a film that documented the formidable technique at their core.
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John Galliano
Enter the creative mindset of fashion revolutionary John Galliano by downloading and making-up this intricate vintage jacket pattern, drawn from his A/W 2001 Pirates collection.
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Toyin/Kim Jones
As Kim Jones' garments slithered across the bare torso of the young male model in Toyin's film short, it became apparent that clothing may not have been the photographer's motivating obsession...
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Nick Knight
In this film contextualising couture for a W magazine shoot, the studio was not treated as the traditional, non-specific space, but as a blank canvas upon which surreal fashion performances could be staged.
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For the first time, discover Bourdin's grasp of the moving image in this legacy of unseen cinefilms.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Music] [Adam Mufti] [History] [Guy Bourdin] [Olivier Alary]
Craig Robinson
Flip Flop Flyin' boy selected his favourites from the current campaigns and constructed a quirky advertising world in which to view them.
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Greg Kadel/Viktor & Rolf
Showcasing their most colourful and playful collection yet, Dutch designer duo Viktor & Rolf's Spring/Summer '03 show provided the setting for Greg Kadel's kaleidoscopic films.
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Kate Moss
Beauty icon Kate Moss gave her candid responses to over 100 of your questions in this transcript of her first interview since the birth of her baby.
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Patrik Söderstam
Swede Sucess: Having joined a substantial number of fashion houses during this particular season, young Swedish designer Söderstam launched his graduate collection via a film presentation.
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David Bailey
Celebrated photographer David Bailey answered questions from visitors in the first of SHOWstudio's live interviews.
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Raf Simons
The visionary Belgian designer revealed the passions and graphic influences central to his Autumn/Winter 2003-04 menswear show.
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Jo-Ann Furniss/Jonathan Kaye/Nick Knight
Witness the splendour of Paris Haute Couture week, via image/texts sent by mobile phone from the front row.
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M/M (Paris)/Simon Periton/Shaun Leane/Jane Simpson/Emma Cook and others
Download, cut out and use our festive stencils to make your own cards, gift-wrap and decorations.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Art] [Paul Hetherington] [Art Direction] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Emma Cook] [Simon Periton] [Shaun Leane] [Jane Simpson]
Greg Kadel
Malgosia's pale blue eyes provided the motivation for this gentle motion portrait.
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Nick Knight/Dazed & Confused
Celebrate ten years of imagery from the pages of Dazed through your own interactive photo-montage.
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Shelley Fox/Scanner/D-Fuse
Fox launched her collection No. 14, based on the cyclical lives of family portraiture. Her garments were showcased in a groundbreaking audiovisual environment created in collaboration with photographers Hiroshi Kutomi and Gareth McConnell, audio pioneer Scanner and with projections by D-Fuse.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Art] [Collections] [Music] [Documentary] [Hiroshi Kutomi] [Gareth McConnell] [Shelley Fox]
Fumiko Imano
How to wear it. When the most innovative fashions were beyond your grasp, only a film of you secretly trying them on in the top department stores and boutiques came close.
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Hywel Davies/Edward Enninful/Paul Hetherington/Yoko Ikeno/Jonathan Kaye/Zoe Whitley/Panos Yiapanis/Nancy Rohde
You've desired them in the magazines. Stroked them in the shops. Now construct the key pieces from the Autumn/Winter '02 collections into your new look for the season using our dress-up-doll. Once you have styled one of four top models, you can send your fashion plate as a 'seasonal greetings card' to friends and family! Leading stylists Edward Enninful, Jonathan Kaye, Nancy Rohde and Panos Yiapannis selected their 'top ten' garments from the current fashion collections, which were interpreted by illustrator Yoko Ikeno. Writer Hywel Davies considered the biannual imperative to refresh our capsule wardrobes in an accompanying essay and the stylists discussed the selection process in interviews with Zoe Whitley.
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Hussein Chalayan, Nick Knight
With his trademark eye for unconventional beauty, pioneering designer Hussein Chalayan shed new light on making up. Nick Knight's dramatic images formed the basis of a seductive interactive, where the face of contemporary maquillage was disclosed in vivid, painterly strokes.
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Serge Leblon
Obedience training. Sun burnt corpses. Gun-wielding predators. Belgian photographer Leblon suffused the improbable stuff of everyday life in the delicate, luminous tones of his fashion imagery in four, beautifully unsettling film shorts.
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Nick Knight/Simon Foxton/Jonathan Kaye/ Sam McKnight
SHOCKER: Supermodel gets fat! Alexander McQueen turns into a golden eagle! Bobby Gillespie dresses in ladies' underwear! See the bizarre and fantastical transformations that took place during your average Nick Knight fashion shoot. In films drawn from Webcam footage, movies from video documentation and animations from the original Polaroids, watch the models as they arrived, the stylists at work and the celebrities laze around as 16 amazing fashion stories unfolded.
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Lance Martins
Film and music maker Lance Martins documents his eclectic visual inspirations during his travels as the coordinator of displays for Paul Smith Ltd. worldwide.
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SImon Foxton/Alasdair McLellan
For your pleasure. Fashioned from calling cards, nine working boys gave us their denim look. Who will you pick? Alasdair McLellan provided the photos, Simon Foxton the styling.
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Nick Knight
Check in each day to view a different fashion performance from one of fifty performances by the greatest models, from Jerry Hall and Linda Evangelista to Kate Moss and Angela Lindvall.
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Daniel Brown
What will your computer be wearing this season? Fascinated with the notion of 'magic advertising', Daniel Brown selected the four signature pieces from the Spring/Summer collections of Balenciaga, Marc Jacobs, Missoni and Prada to create these beautiful interactive brand experiences.
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Stephen Jones
Milliner extraordinaire Stephen Jones kept his head for hats amid the pandemonium of the London, Milan and Paris fashion weeks. Acting as our Correspondent, Stephen took us behind the scenes at the shows and inveigled our way into the celebrity parties that followed.
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Félix Larher
Did the bright, young things ever make it through Playland? Barbie Killer's celebrity cull took its toll in Félix Larher's heroic fantasy.
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Peter Saville/Julie Verhoeven
Investigate the dark, erotic scenarios underlying Julie Verhoeven's intricate, interactive wallpaper. The decorative, Toile de Jouey-inspired designs belie the seamy underworld they depict.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Paul Hetherington] [Art Direction] [Erotica] [Illustration] [Julie Verhoven] [Peter Saville] [Paul Bruty]
Craig McDean/Karen Elson/Melissa Auf Der Maur
Watch supermodel Karen Elson and former Smashing Pumpkins and Hole bassist, Melissa Auf der Maur, as they performed SHOWstudio's new 'singing cover' in Craig McDean's intimate film.
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John Galliano
John Galliano's five years at Christian Dior were marked by a series of Nick Knight images that interpreted the Dior couture collections. SHOWstudio took you behind the scenes of the shoot...
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SHOWstudio challenged fashion's finest to create the industry's Holy Grail: inspiring womenswear designs for sizes 16 and over. 12 leading designers took up the gauntlet.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Politics] [Body Image] [John Galliano] [Alexander McQueen] [Sophia Kokosalaki] [Shelley Fox] [Jessica Ogden] [Marjan Pejovski] [Bodymap]
Richard Bush/ Hussein Chalayan/Jane How/Nick Knight/Terry Richardson/Raf Simons/David Sims/Tim Walker
Focusing on fashion imagery published and withdrawn at the time of the attacks of 9/11, Killed examined the criteria governing propriety in contemporary fashion publishing. Featured images by Richard Bush & Jane How, Hussein Chalayan, Nick Knight, Terry Richardson, David Sims, Raf Simons and Tim Walker.
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Nick Knight
Watch nine supermodels sleep in these delicate and mesmerising films compiled from Webcam footage, captured from their hotel rooms.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Performance] [Collections] [Models] [Zora Star] [Liberty Ross] [Jonathan Kaye] [Elise Crombez] [Devon Aioki] [Surveillance]
Simon Pentleton/Josephene Soughan
Were these girls performing in a retro erotic film or posing for a contemporary fashion shoot? Seductive shots replaced narrative in a film that defined the ambiguous space between the cinematic sequence and the fashion story.
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Nick Knight/Alexander McQueen/Bj?Danny Brown
Spellbinding sound and image project generated from Nick Knight and Alexander McQueen's installation for La Beautéin Avignon, with an exclusive Bjork soundtrack.
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Nick Knight/Adam Mufti
Trailer trash, Jerry Springer, a '57 Cadillac, Gummo, Angela Lindvall and lots of spray paint. Put them in a blender and what did you get?
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Music] [Christian Dior] [Adam Mufti] [Animation] [Jeremy Healey]
Jason Evans
This is not a love song. Jason Evans dressed up to test the parameters of identity and propriety.
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Kate Moss/Bobby Gillespie
Intimate Super-8 footage of Kate, Bobby and friends recording the track 'Diamond Blues' one playful, summer's afternoon.
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Lone Sigurdsson
Guess the label. Try to spot which designer's work Lone Sigurdsson has been cloning in her Plasticine replicas of the A/W '01 collections.
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Nick Knight/Katy England/Alexander McQueen
Not any old suits, or even any old Alexander McQueen for Givenchy haute couture suits, but fibre optic haute couture suits that pulsate with light when Katy England spins them round and round on turntables for Nick Knight.
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Nick Knight/Camille Bidault-Waddington
Take a model styled by Camille Bidault-Waddington with hair by Sam McKnight. Let a four year-old, a one year-old and two three year-olds do what ever they want with her make-up, and then ask them to draw on Nick Knight's prints.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Paul Hetherington] [Art Direction] [Beauty] [Music] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Digital Image-Making] [Animation] [Camille Bidault-Waddington]
Nick Knight/Katy England
If breast cancer affects one-in-ten women, why is it invisible in fashion photography? Nick Knight and stylist Katy England, redressed the balance in a shoot starring seven women who have fought breast cancer and won.
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Nick Knight
Join the dots to watch J. Alexander's lesson in how to walk the catwalk, directed by Nick Knight and animated by Dominic Wright.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Graphic Design] [Animation] [Peter Saville] [J Alexander]
Nick Knight/Jane How
Here's something we made earlier. Stylist Jane How recreated her favourite looks by Comme, Yohji, Hussein and Mugler from sweet papers, cupcake wrappers and doilies. Nick Knight recorded the result on a 3-D scanner and set it to a musicbox soundtrack by Fridge.
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