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FLOWERS FOR KATE
Nick Knight/Kate Moss/Jonathan Kaye
Say it with flowers: on 12 & 13 December 2007 we photographed a story for V magazine featuring the one and only Kate Moss. SHOWstudio offered its viewers an unique chance to be part of the shoot by sending a personal floral greeting to Kate.
- Movie Last updated 11 Apr 2008
- Poetry in Motion Last updated 11 Dec 2007
- Deliveries Last updated 3 Dec 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 15 Nov 2007
- Contributors Last updated 15 Nov 2007
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24HRS
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!
- Catalogue Last updated 6 Nov 2007
- Movies Last updated 25 Oct 2007
- Competition Last updated 25 Oct 2007
- Call Us Last updated 13 Jul 2007
- Live Event Last updated 12 Jul 2007
- Treatments Last updated 11 Jul 2007
- Brief: Political, Philosophical and Social Statements Last updated 29 Jun 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 19 Jun 2007
- Contributors Last updated 19 Jun 2007
- Brief Last updated 19 Jun 2007
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DESIGNER PURIKURA
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'.
- Collections Report Last updated 16 Oct 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 12 Oct 2007
- Contributors Last updated 12 Oct 2007
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READINGS
Hussein Chalayan/Nick Knight/Antony Hegarty
To present a collection about the dynamic between icons and their audience Hussein Chalayan is staging a live broadcast of a film shoot in collaboration with Nick Knight, Antony Hegarty and the global SHOWstudio audience. We are soliciting musical directions from SHOWstudio viewers for Antony to perform during the broadcast at the end of September. The resultant footage will create the soundtrack and a film, so it's your big chance to show in Paris at last!
- Lookbook Last updated 22 Oct 2007
- Movie Last updated 3 Oct 2007
- Shoot Last updated 25 Sep 2007
- Interview: Hussein Chalayan Last updated 13 Sep 2007
- Audio Brief Last updated 11 Sep 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 10 Sep 2007
- Contributors Last updated 10 Sep 2007
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BONED
Nick Knight/Alister Mackie
Invited by Another Man magazine to shoot men’s underwear for its A/W '07–08 issue, Nick Knight and Alister Mackie took inspiration from imagery Robert Mapplethorpe and Horst P. Horst, only translating the monochrome power of their stills into colour. Featuring new work by a range of designers, the results offer a fresh perspective on men’s underwear, its representation in fashion imagery and on masculinity itself. Boned also features a film of the shoot, an accompanying essay by Shaun Cole and clips and interviews from the live broadcast.
- Movie Last updated 28 Sep 2007
- Gallery Last updated 28 Sep 2007
- Plain, uninteresting and out of sight? Men’s Underwear Last updated 28 Sep 2007
- Contributors Last updated 29 May 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 29 May 2007
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THE REPLENISHING BODY
Ross Phillips
An interactive video installation created in collaboration with Evian, The Replenishing Body consists of a giant grid of screens which can each record a short loop of film. Participants can create and orchestrate a giant composite moving creature, or simply a collage of moving snapshots by recording a close-up section of their body part. The Project will comprise two parts. First, guests will be invited to the studio to trial run the installation and film themselves in a series of abstract portraits. To commence the second part of the project, Sunday 16 September will see the installation move to Beyond the Valley gallery on Newburgh Street where SHOWstudio welcomes you to try the installation for yourselves.
- Nick's Picks Last updated 3 Oct 2007
- Polaroids Last updated 26 Sep 2007
- Celebrity Gallery Last updated 10 Sep 2007
- Public Gallery Last updated 4 Sep 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 29 Aug 2007
- Contributors Last updated 29 Aug 2007
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HENRY & AGYNESS - LONDON, MILAN, PARIS
For London, Milan and Paris fashion weeks SS’08, Henry Holland and Agyness Deyn gallantly take up the challenge of bearing the SHOWstudio picture phone. The British designer and model who have known each other since childhood juggle a busy schedule of shows and parties in almost a month of live fashion coverage.
- Project Blog Last updated 10 Sep 2007
- Contributors Last updated 10 Sep 2007
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THE FUNERAL OF NEW ORLEANS - PART ONE
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.
- Project Blog Last updated 10 Sep 2007
- Contributors Last updated 10 Sep 2007
- Film Last updated 10 Sep 2007
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080 BARCELONA
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.
- Project Blog Last updated 4 Jul 2007
- Contributors Last updated 4 Jul 2007
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PITTI IMMAGINE UOMO 72
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.
- Project Blog Last updated 13 Jun 2007
- Contributors Last updated 13 Jun 2007
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ARNHEM
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.
- Contributors Last updated 29 May 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 18 May 2007
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REMEMBRANCE
Viewpoint on the creative legacies of designer Steven Robinson (1968–2007) and fashion director Isabella Blow (1958–2007)
- Project Blog Last updated 24 May 2007
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THE NOMINEES
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.
- Movie Last updated 4 Jun 2007
- Contributors Last updated 18 Apr 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 18 Apr 2007
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SKIN
&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.
- Portraits Last updated 1 May 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 1 May 2007
- Contributors Last updated 1 May 2007
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VOLTA
Bjork/Nick Knight/Bernhard Willhelm
The release of a new Björk album can only mean two things: new musical territory, the likes of which the world has never experienced, and a cover image to match. 'Volta', Björk’s sixth studio album, was released on 7 May 2007 and its cover image, shot by Nick Knight, certainly was unlike anything we’ve ever seen! From April, we offered you a sneak peek in advance of the launch with a special download jigsaw: an opportunity, on completion, to possess your very own, giant Nick Knight/Björk/Bernhard Willhelm original.
The overall image was composed of 48 pieces, 34 of which have image content and 14 left blank. Each segment was given in random order, leaving viewers to piece the overall image together themselves. Only one piece could be downloaded on a single day but the next was waiting for you without skipping a segment, which meant if you missed a few days, the next piece would always be the next in the jigsaw chronology. You may have just about worked out the image puzzle by the time you bought the album!
- Download Gallery Last updated 26 Jun 2007
- Download Last updated 12 Apr 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 10 Apr 2007
- Contributors Last updated 10 Apr 2007
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REVUE
On April 11 2007 SHOWstudio staged a live ‘happening’ in association with PlayStation 3, viewed by an on-site audience of fifty SHOWstudio viewers at a secret location and a global audience via webcast.
The SHOWstudio Revue created a dynamic performance space in which six different ‘zones’ were defined by dramatic or musical action. The project also drew a live audience into the complicity of the director/performer relationship by asking each member to record the event on camera. Excerpts of the footage were screened live using PlayStation 3s throughout the night and were included in the editing of an exclusive film unveiled by the SHOWstudio team later that month.
- Guest List Last updated 2 Apr 2007
- Audition Gallery Last updated 2 Apr 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 1 Mar 2007
- Contributors Last updated 1 Mar 2007
- Submissions Last updated 1 Mar 2007
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LE MAUVAIS GARCON
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.
- Project Blog Last updated 30 Mar 2007
- Contributors Last updated 30 Mar 2007
- Movie Last updated 30 Mar 2007
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JAPAN FASHION WEEK A/W 2007-08
Penny Martin
Little known on the western hemisphere, Japan Fashion Week spent its fourth season in Tokyo in March 2007. Marking a new stop in SHOWstudio’s fashion itinerary, Penny Martin was there to uncover the creative output of a country whose aesthetic legacy has informed some of the most striking evocations of form to be displayed on the global catwalk.
- Contributors Last updated 8 Mar 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 8 Mar 2007
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ICE CREAM
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.
- Project Blog Last updated 9 Mar 2007
- Contributors Last updated 9 Mar 2007
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PARIS FASHION WEEK A/W 2007-08
Week 4 in the show season meant only one thing: that Paris was ready to unfurl herself to a global audience of fashion pilgrims yet again. SHOWstudio brought the city of pleasure and gold to your screens as Penny and our photographer Benjamin Seroussi stormed the Palais Royale, teetered along the left bank and on through the heavenly seraglios of Chanel, Dior and McQueen.
- Project Blog Last updated 20 Feb 2007
- Contributors Last updated 20 Feb 2007