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PERROQUET
Sølve Sundsbø
Born out of a lifelong fascination with science photography and nature documentaries, Parroquet showcases a body of work by fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø, comprising eight film shorts and a selection of photographs. Keen to produce imagery that didn’t fall into the traditional genres of photography, this project’s central focus is the parroquet, a type of small, slender, long-tailed parrot. This particular subject matter couldn’t be more removed from Sundsbø’s lavish editorial spreads and striking campaign imagery, although his reasons for choosing this particular species do, in a way, relate to fashion. Possessing almost sartorial qualities, it was the bird’s trademark vibrant plumage that piqued the photographer’s interest.
- Contributors Last updated 1 Oct 2008
- Movies Last updated 1 Oct 2008
- Gallery Last updated 1 Oct 2008
- Project Blog Last updated 1 Oct 2008
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PHONECARTE: Lily Donaldson
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.
- Contributors Last updated 23 Sep 2008
- Voicemails Last updated 19 Sep 2008
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VIOLENCE
Nick Knight/Sissel Tolaas
In partnership with the scent artist Sissel Tolaas, SHOWstudio is launching a groundbreaking initiative to create a fragrance on the Internet. Based on a provocative concept, the scent will be created over the coming months, taking its inspiration from an unconventional theme and using Tolaas’ amazing ‘headspace’ technology.
- Concept Last updated 24 Sep 2008
- Process Blog Last updated 16 Sep 2008
- Film Interview: Sissel Tolaas Last updated 4 Apr 2007
- Audio Interview: Sissel Tolaas Last updated 4 Apr 2007
- Interview Extras: Sissel Tolaas Last updated 4 Apr 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 15 Mar 2007
- Contributors Last updated 15 Mar 2007
- FILM INTERVIEW: SISSEL TOLAAS Last updated 2 Mar 2007
- AUDIO INTERVIEW: SISSEL TOLAAS Last updated 2 Mar 2007
- INTERVIEW: SISSEL TOLAAS EXTRAS Last updated 2 Mar 2007
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ZEROPOINTZERO
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
- ZERO POINT ZERO: Project Blog Last updated 19 Sep 2008
- Movie Last updated 19 Sep 2008
- Artist's Statement Last updated 18 Sep 2008
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FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FASHION
Giles Price/Magda Keaney
Andy Warhol famously coined the 'Fifteen Minutes of Fame' cliche, but only in fashion do those fifteen minutes come around every six months. While all eyes usually focus on the flurry of the catwalk presentation, Fifteen Minutes of Fashion not only turns the lens backstage, but on the designers themselves. Taken during the S/S 2009 London Fashion Week presentations, these diptych images capture leading British designers five minutes before their show, and five minutes after their creations exited the runway. Curated by Magda Keaney and featuring the striking photography of Giles Price, the resulting portraits offer an arresting before-and-after contrast reflecting each designer's behind-the-scenes response to the realisation and reception of their latest collection.
- Project Blog Last updated 9 Sep 2008
- Contributors Last updated 9 Sep 2008
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FASHION IN THE MIRROR
- Contributors Last updated 9 Sep 2008
- Project Blog Last updated 9 Sep 2008
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FUTURE TENSE
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.
- Programme Last updated 14 Aug 2008
- Essays Last updated 12 Aug 2008
- Contributors Last updated 11 Aug 2008
- Project Blog Last updated 6 Aug 2008
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POLITICAL FASHION
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.
- Movies (Season 2) Last updated 15 Jul 2008
- Movies Last updated 6 May 2008
- Viewers Gallery Last updated 5 May 2008
- Contributors Last updated 10 Apr 2008
- Essays Last updated 3 Mar 2008
- Project Blog Last updated 28 Nov 2007
- Brief Last updated 28 Nov 2007
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FASHION DJS
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.
- Programme Last updated 1 Jul 2008
- Popvox Last updated 1 Jul 2008
- Live Last updated 1 Jul 2008
- Project Blog Last updated 25 Jun 2008
- Contributors Last updated 25 Jun 2008
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KNEE DEEP IN YOUR EYES
Julie Verhoeven & N/A
Created in collaboration with London-based N/A, Julie Verhoeven's 'Knee Deep in Your Eyes' is a visual treat, taking you on a spiraling magical mystery tour through her inimitable illustrative world. Painting, drawing, photography, collage, decoupage, montage, reality... all come together to dazzling psychedelic effect as LP's, EP's and record sleeves embellished with bold Verhoeven designs spin incessantly through 360-degrees. Taken from a 15-minute original showcased as a backdrop to a live performance by London post-punks Ginger Bread Men at the 9th edition of Art Rotterdam in February 2008, this mesmerising surrealist feast is a compelling mix of the raw and the rarefied, blurring the line between what is real and what is make-believe.
- Project Blog Last updated 17 Jun 2008
- Contributors Last updated 17 Jun 2008
- Movie Last updated 17 Jun 2008
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1-1
Nike
Until May 18 members of the public can submit their football-inspired artwork for the chance of exhibiting as part of the 1/1: Art of Football show in Basel, June 2008.
- Exhibition Last updated 13 Jun 2008
- Associates Gallery Last updated 5 Jun 2008
- Finalists Last updated 2 Jun 2008
- Favourites Gallery Last updated 23 May 2008
- Project Blog Last updated 27 Mar 2008
- Contributors Last updated 27 Mar 2008
- Video Brief Last updated 27 Mar 2008
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WONDERLAND
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.
- Movie Last updated 25 Jun 2008
- Video Library Last updated 1 Feb 2008
- Time-lapse Last updated 28 Jan 2008
- Articles Last updated 9 Jan 2008
- Project Blog Last updated 6 Dec 2007
- Contributors Last updated 6 Dec 2007
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EYES OF THE BEHOLDER
Toyin
In collaboration with Replay, SHOWstudio has invited photographer and filmmaker Toyin to turn her signature, romantic lens on the Italian denimwear company's Autumn/Winter '08-09 collection. Though shot in Robert Adam's exquisite, 18th century London townhouse at 33 Portland Street, Toyin and stylist Stevie Westgarth gave themselves poetic license to shift the date forward to the 19th century - the wild west to be specific - where winsome girls swooned over bare-chested boys who cracked bullwhips and wore the bowler hats of frontiersmen. But this resultant film short is no Calamity Jane-style caper. The faded elegance of the Georgian backdrop, combined with the contemporary energy of both choreography and Replay's collection, creates a spellbinding visual feast. To an electrifying soundtrack, specially composed by the Doi, sit back and witness the extraordinary models' performances that are this filmmaker's hallmark.
- Gallery Last updated 9 May 2008
- Contributors Last updated 8 May 2008
- Movie Last updated 8 May 2008
- Project Blog Last updated 8 May 2008
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MARKETA UHLIROVA
- Interview Last updated 8 May 2008
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WHITE WEDDING
Nick Knight/Joseph Corré/Kate Moss/Jake & Dinos Chapman/Gideon Ponte/Ruth Hogben
The product of a grand collaboration with lingerie giant Agent Provocateur to mark the launch of their bridal range, 'White Wedding' is a groundbreaking exploration in extending a narrative advertising campaign to also create an experimental film series. Responding to a six-part script treatment written by Agent Provocateur founder Joe Corré, Nick Knight and a stellar cast including Kate Moss and artists Jake and Dinos Chapman have created six striking campaign stills that storyboard "the demise of a bride's 'big day' and serialise the unravelling of the religious organisation behind it".
From film footage captured whilst shooting the six shots entitled 'The Happiest Day of Her Life', 'The Garden of Eden', 'Bad News', 'Frenzy', 'Revenge' and 'Let Them Eat Kate', Nick Knight has pushed each image into new visual territories, projecting motion imagery onto interpretative props and filming it, to capture this abstraction 'in camera', rather than in post production. The result is an intriguing set of stylish shorts depicting Kate Moss running the gamut from demure virgin bride to dangerous, Lynchian siren that suggests new applications and creative potential for fashion film in advertising.
Log on each night on to SHOWstudio from Friday 2nd–Wednesday 7th May 2008 at 18:00hrs UK time to watch the marital meltdown unfold.
- Project Blog Last updated 28 Apr 2008
- Contributors Last updated 28 Apr 2008
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FREJA
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?
- Project Blog Last updated 19 Mar 2008
- Movie Last updated 19 Mar 2008
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SHOWTIME
Nick Knight/Victoria Beckham
Filmed amidst the nuts-and-bolts of the photographic shoot, Showtime is a sneak preview of Nick Knight’s editorial for the April 2008 edition of British Vogue starring the indomitably glamorous Victoria Beckham.
- Project Blog Last updated 6 Mar 2008
- Contributors Last updated 5 Mar 2008
- Movie Last updated 5 Mar 2008
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NATALIA V
Nick Knight/Natalia Vodianova
In tandem with his shoot for supermodel Natalia V’s guest-edited issue of Russian Vogue, Nick Knight captured a short film featuring the world-famous model doing what she does best.
- Project Blog Last updated 27 Feb 2008
- Contributors Last updated 27 Feb 2008
- Movie Last updated 27 Feb 2008
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COLLECTION HOMME A/W 2008-09
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.
- Project Blog Last updated 24 Jan 2008
- Movie Last updated 24 Jan 2008
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MEN IN TIGHTS
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!
- Film Last updated 1 Feb 2008
- Contributors Last updated 10 Jan 2008
- Project Blog Last updated 10 Jan 2008