HATS OFF

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.

• Fashion in Motion Gallery  Last updated 15 Apr 2009
• Project Blog  Last updated 25 Feb 2009
• Panorama  Last updated 23 Feb 2009
• Films  Last updated 23 Feb 2009
• Private View Gallery  Last updated 23 Feb 2009
• Exhibition Design  Last updated 23 Feb 2009
• Credits  Last updated 23 Feb 2009
• Contributors  Last updated 23 Feb 2009

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Film] [Interview] [Design] [Illustration] [Set Design] [Stephen Jones] [Parties] [History] [Exhibition] [Michael Howells] [Hats] [Oriole Cullen]

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LONDON FASHION WEEK A/W 09

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.

• Credits  Last updated 20 Feb 2009
• Contributors  Last updated 20 Feb 2009
• Project Blog  Last updated 20 Feb 2009
• Reports  Last updated 20 Feb 2009

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [City] [Marios Schwab] [Alex Fury] [Peter Pilotto] [Autumn/Winter 09-10] [Louis Goldin] [Chris Moore] [David David]

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UNRAVELLED

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.

• Blog  Last updated 19 Feb 2009
• Films  Last updated 18 Feb 2009
• Credits  Last updated 18 Feb 2009
• Contributors  Last updated 18 Feb 2009

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Design] [London Fashion Week] [Louise Goldin] [Autumn/Winter 2009]

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ANTONY PRICE: FOR YOUR PLEASURE

Antony Price/Alexander Fury

Rock's favourite couturier, an unparalleled master of modern made-to-measure occassionwear or the most criminally overlooked designer in British fashion? We unpick the bombshell seams of Antony Price's four decades in the rag trade through profile, pictures and the very patterns of his trademark cut to lay bare this veritable and venerated fashion legend.

• FILMS  Last updated 11 Feb 2009
• ESSAY  Last updated 11 Feb 2009
• DESIGN DOWNLOAD  Last updated 11 Feb 2009
• ARTIST PROFILE  Last updated 18 Dec 2008
• PRESS  Last updated 18 Dec 2008
• SKETCHES  Last updated 18 Dec 2008
• Blog  Last updated 18 Dec 2008

Related Projects: [Film] [Downloadable] [Antony Price] [Sketches] [Profile] [Press] [Essay]

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FRINGED

Nick Knight/Lily Donaldson

Featuring highly-strung fashions from Giorgio Armani, Louis Vuitton, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen springing into vibrant life, 'Fringed' animates the fettered and shredded surfaces of some of the world's most fabulous garments on the equally energetic Lily Donaldson.

• Project Blog  Last updated 5 Feb 2009
• Film  Last updated 4 Feb 2009
• Credits  Last updated 4 Feb 2009
• Contributors  Last updated 4 Feb 2009

Related Projects: [Film] [Balenciaga] [Alexander McQueen] [Lily Donaldson] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Louis Vuitton]

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FROM FASHION AND BACK

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'.

• Credits  Last updated 30 Jan 2009
• Contributors  Last updated 30 Jan 2009
• Project Blog  Last updated 30 Jan 2009
• Films  Last updated 30 Jan 2009

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interview] [Hussein Chalayan] [Exhibition] [Alex Fury]

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LET THERE BE LIGHT

Nick Knight/Lily Donaldson/Jonathan Kaye

Allowing unprecedented insight into Nick Knight’s latest photo shoot, SHOWstudio shed light on every nitty-gritty detail as he works with model-of-the-moment Lily Donaldson and a stellar backstage team to creates the editorial images for February 2009’s V Magazine.

• Gallery: Shoot  Last updated 21 Jan 2009
• Film  Last updated 21 Jan 2009
• Contributors  Last updated 10 Nov 2008
• Project Blog  Last updated 10 Nov 2008
• Gallery  Last updated 10 Nov 2008
• Highlights  Last updated 7 Nov 2008

Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Balenciaga] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Alexander McQueen] [Martin Margiela] [Val Garland] [Lily Donaldson] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Azzedine Alaïa] [Pierre Hardy] [Jil Sander]

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SHADOW

To showcase their inaugural A/W 2008 SHADOW project collection created in collaboration with design team Acronym, sportswear label Stone Island chose to create an atmospheric film short by the &SON team of Nick Griffiths and Simon Foxton with a soundtrack by Trevor Jackson.

• Film  Last updated 19 Jan 2009
• Credits  Last updated 19 Jan 2009

Related Projects: [Simon Foxton] [Film]

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CHRISTMASTIDE

In the spirit of the festive season, SHOWstudio have approached a dozen stellar examples of international fashion talent to help us celebrate Christmastide in style.

• Crystals  Last updated 26 Dec 2008
• Contributors  Last updated 26 Dec 2008
• Project Blog  Last updated 16 Dec 2008

Related Projects: [Interactive] [Richard Nicoll] [Peter Jensen] [Todd Lynn] [Danny Brown] [Roksanda Ilincic] [Ann-Sophie Back] [Nicholas Kirkwood] [Marios Schwab] [Rodarte] [Mary Katrantzou] [Emilio de la Morena] [Sandra Backlund] [Scott Wilson]

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CHRYSALIS

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.

• FILM  Last updated 22 Dec 2008
• CONTRIBUTORS  Last updated 22 Dec 2008

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Yves Saint Laurent] [Givenchy] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Jez Tozer] [Robbie Spencer] [Christopher Kane]

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MAKE UP YOUR MIND

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.

• Project Blog  Last updated 11 Dec 2008
• CONTRIBUTORS  Last updated 10 Dec 2008
• Film  Last updated 25 Nov 2008

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Martin Margiela] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Ruth Hogben]

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COMING SOON

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.

• Project Blog  Last updated 8 Dec 2008
• FILM  Last updated 5 Dec 2008

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Yohji Yamamoto] [Sportswear] [Max Vadukul]

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INSENSATE

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.

• Blog  Last updated 28 Nov 2008
• Contributors  Last updated 22 Nov 2008
• INSENSATE: Project Blog  Last updated 21 Nov 2008
• Download  Last updated 20 Nov 2008
• FILM  Last updated 22 Sep 2008
• IMAGE GALLERY  Last updated 22 Sep 2008

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Gareth Pugh] [Ruth Hogben] [Autumn/Winter 2008-9] [Matthew Stone]

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FANTASIA

Nick Knight's latest fashion film, Fantasia, is a free-wheeling exploration of joyous, unbridled movement in model and clothing alike.

• Project Blog  Last updated 6 Nov 2008
• Film  Last updated 5 Nov 2008

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]

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INSIDE THE HOUSE OF VIKTOR & ROLF

Captured during the final week of their ground-breaking exhibition at London's Barbican Gallery, this series of films offers a glimpse behind the scenes and into the creative universe of Viktor & Rolf.

• Project Blog  Last updated 24 Oct 2008
• SYMPOSIUM  Last updated 22 Oct 2008
• CONTRIBUTORS  Last updated 21 Oct 2008
• INTERVIEW  Last updated 20 Oct 2008
• VIKTOR & ROLF S/S 2009 SHOW  Last updated 20 Oct 2008

Related Projects: [Interview] [Penny Martin] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Viktor & Rolf]

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SPRING/SUMMER 2009

Alexander Fury

What, when, why, wear: Spring/Summer 2009 in handy microcosm from our place at the London and Paris shows.

• Contributors  Last updated 9 Oct 2008
• SPRING/SUMMER 2009: Project Blog  Last updated 9 Oct 2008
• Season Report  Last updated 9 Oct 2008

Related Projects: [Gareth Pugh] [London Fashion Week] [Giles] [Martin Margiela] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Marios Schwab] [Christopher Kane] [Louise Goldin] [Jeremy Scott]

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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

Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Science] [Sølve Sundsbø] [Nature]

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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

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Audio] [Models] [Diary] [Lily Donaldson]

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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

Related Projects: [Photography] [Live] [Audio] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Art] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Diary] [Marcus Werner-Hed] [Sissel Tolaas] [jeremy Valender]

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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

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [London Fashion Week] [Jez Tozer] [Aganovich] [Brooke Taylor]

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