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TWELVE DAYS
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.
- Live Event Last updated 7 Dec 2006
- Project Blog Last updated 6 Dec 2006
- Contributors Last updated 6 Dec 2006
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TRANSMISSIONS
Various artists including: Antony and the Johnsons/Ei Arakawa/assume vivid astro focus/Cezary Bodzianowski/Pablo Bronstein/Lali Chetwynd/Martin Creed/Enrico David/Jutta Koether/Linder/Los Super Elegantes/Jonathan Meese/No Bra/Peter Saville/Marcus Werner-Hed/Stephen Willats/Cerith Wyn Evans/
'Transmissions presents a diaristic exploration of the upsurge in performance-related practice that is continuing to suffuse the contemporary art world. The performative elements many artists are using as a strategy within their larger working method are creating a fascinating discourse between music, performance and artworks. A series of documents and collaborations on SHOWstudio will capture a portrait of this scene though artist-captured footage, short film, ephemera and live imagery.
- Project Blog Last updated 27 Jul 2005
- Contributors Last updated 25 Jul 2005
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TOKYO STYLE CLASH
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!!
- Game Last updated 20 Oct 2006
- Project Blog Last updated 11 Oct 2006
- Panelists Last updated 30 Sep 2006
- Event Last updated 26 Sep 2006
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PHONECARTE: Lily Cole
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.
- Voicemails Last updated 28 Sep 2006
- Contributors Last updated 28 Sep 2006
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EXPERIMENTS IN ADVERTISING: The Films of Erwin Blumenfeld
A unique chance to see the undiscovered, historic film footage of one of the most influential fashion photographers of all time. Three beautiful film edits by SHOWstudio, created in collaboration with Adam Mufti and Olivier Alary, are joined by an essay featuring Erwin Blumenfeld’s comprehensive film holdings as well as an illustrated timeline of the photographer’s life and career and an exclusive interview with his son, writer Yorick Blumenfeld.
- An Interview With Yorick Blumenfeld Last updated 26 Sep 2006
- Erwin Blumenfeld: A Chronology Last updated 26 Sep 2006
- Fashion Films: 1958-64 Last updated 26 Sep 2006
- Experiments in Advertising; Unseen Films Last updated 26 Sep 2006
- Contributors Last updated 26 Sep 2006
- Project Blog Last updated 25 Sep 2006
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SHOW REPORTS S/S '07 (London/Milan/Paris)
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.
- Project Blog Last updated 15 Sep 2006
- Contributors Last updated 15 Sep 2006
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FASH-OFF
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.
- Performances Last updated 30 Jun 2006
- Live Shoot & Post-Production Last updated 26 Jun 2006
- Project Blog Last updated 15 Jun 2006
- Design_Download Last updated 8 Jun 2006
- Design_Download Gallery Last updated 8 Jun 2006
- Shoot and Post Production Last updated 8 Jun 2006
- Shows Last updated 8 Jun 2006
- Polaroid Diary Last updated 8 Jun 2006
- Pre-Production Meeting Last updated 8 Jun 2006
- Press Clippings Last updated 8 Jun 2006
- Contributors Last updated 8 Jun 2006
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Film] [Gareth Pugh] [Performance] [Art]
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ANTONY
In November 2005, SHOWstudio offered its international audience the unique opportunity to have their own photographic work featured in a Nick Knight photo shoot with Antony Hegarty, lead singer of Mecury Music prize winning group Antony and the Johnsons. As part of the concept for the portrait shoot on 1st December 2005, Nick Knight used a selection of photographic imagery, submitted by SHOWstudio viewers, to inspire an experimental musical performance. The visuals were projected onto Antony, resulting in a beautiful photographic spread that appeared in the February edition of i-D magazine. Incorporating a gallery with 500+ contributions from SHOWstudio viewers, documentation of the initial brief, shoot and the published story in i-D magazine, the project’s spectacular finalé piece took the form of an atmospheric film –featuring Antony and a myriad of inspirational imagery courtesy of SHOWstudio’ viewers- created by Nick Knight and edited by Sam Blair.
- Project Blog Last updated 15 Aug 2006
- Contributors Last updated 15 Aug 2006
- Gallery Last updated 25 Nov 2005
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THE SOUND OF CLOTHES: BLOW, CLAP, TALK & HUM
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.
- Project Blog Last updated 26 Jul 2006
- Interactive: Blow Last updated 24 Jul 2006
- Interactive: Clap Last updated 24 Jul 2006
- Interactive: Talk Last updated 24 Jul 2006
- Interactive: Hum Last updated 24 Jul 2006
- Contributors Last updated 24 Jul 2006
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Audio] [Ross Phillips] [Laura Bradley]
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WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?
Simon Foxton, Nick Knight
Asked to contribute to the forthcoming 'Health of the Nation'-themed, August issue of i-D magazine, Nick Knight and Simon Foxton elected to create a photographic story about the 'brutalising city': how it is brutalised by us, how it brutalises us and as a result, how it encourages us to brutalise each other.
Realising that London was only one of many possible locations for such a shoot, Nick and Simon decided to open their project up to SHOWstudio viewers worldwide, throwing down their brief as a gauntlet to the many internationally-based photographers we know view the site and contribute to the FORUM.- Spreads Last updated 2 Sep 2006
- Project Blog Last updated 22 Jun 2006
- Gallery Last updated 22 Jun 2006
- Spoken Brief Last updated 22 Jun 2006
- Upload Last updated 22 Jun 2006
- Contributors Last updated 22 Jun 2006
Related Projects: [Photography] [Interactive] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Politics]
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CANNES 2006
Mike Figgis, Nick Knight
Viewing film festivals as ‘highly suspect at the best of times’ Mike Figgis constructed an elaborate rouse to survive Cannes 2006. Acting as a (rather famous) ‘beach portraitist’, he set up a make-shift studio in his hotel bedroom and a gallery at the back of his host nightclub and spent the week photographing and exhibiting prints of the various directors, actresses, producers and writers attending the festival. In the gallery, filmed interview and essay below, Figgis shared with SHOWstudio his resultant images, his thoughts on the festival and the history of how photography has influenced his image career.
- Gallery Last updated 12 Jun 2006
- Cannes Diary Last updated 12 Jun 2006
- Interview Last updated 12 Jun 2006
- Contributors Last updated 12 Jun 2006
Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Mike Figgis] [Interview]
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THE SOUND OF CLOTHES: ANECHOIC
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'.
- Project Blog Last updated 20 Apr 2006
- Movies Last updated 20 Apr 2006
- Interactive Last updated 20 Apr 2006
- Contributors Last updated 20 Apr 2006
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Audio] [Ross Phillips] [Performance] [Collections] [Models] [Zora Star] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Dorian Moore]
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THE SOUND OF CLOTHES: SYNAESTHESIA
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.
- Interactive Last updated 13 Nov 2006
- Pre-production Meeting Last updated 15 Jun 2006
- Project Blog Last updated 4 Apr 2006
- Contributors Last updated 4 Apr 2006
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Audio] [Nick Knight] [Collections] [Daniel Brown] [Balenciaga]
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IN CAMERA: Nick Knight
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.
- Project Blog Last updated 16 Mar 2006
- Transcript Last updated 16 Mar 2006
- Gallery Last updated 16 Mar 2006
- Event Gallery Last updated 16 Mar 2006
- Contributors Last updated 16 Mar 2006
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interactive] [Live] [Nick Knight] [Interview] [Webchat]
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FUTURE NOW 02
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.
- Movie Last updated 4 Mar 2006
- Contributors Last updated 4 Mar 2006
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Jens Laugesen]
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SCORE
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.
- Live Gallery Archive Last updated 16 Feb 2006
- Ticker Last updated 27 Jan 2006
- Bulletin Last updated 27 Jan 2006
- Contributors Last updated 25 Jan 2006
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Interview] [Collections] [Linda Evangelista] [Philip Treacy]
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VOICE BOX
Ross Phillips
Voice Box was a live audio installation created inside the SHOWstudio premises over the 2005-6 festive period by the SHOWstudio viewer base. The project asked viewers to make a voice or sound recording via telephone which was then ‘tied’ to the time it was submitted and repeated at that time each day from 23 December 2005—3 January 2006. This gradually produced a collaborative, time-based sound work.
- Project Blog Last updated 20 Dec 2005
- Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2005
Related Projects: [Interactive] [Audio] [Ross Phillips] [Dorian Moore]
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EDITING FASHION
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.
- Project Blog Last updated 20 Dec 2005
- Editors' Cut Last updated 19 Dec 2005
- Show Last updated 19 Dec 2005
- Show Reports Last updated 19 Dec 2005
- Casting Last updated 19 Dec 2005
- Characters Last updated 19 Dec 2005
- Footage Last updated 19 Dec 2005
- Viewers' Cut Last updated 19 Dec 2005
- Contributors Last updated 19 Dec 2005
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Politics] [Mike Figgis] [Collections] [Paris Fashion Week] [Body Image] [Gemma Ward]
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MOVING FASHION
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.
- Movies Last updated 9 Nov 2005
- Project Blog Last updated 29 Sep 2005
- Nick Knight on Moving Fashion Last updated 29 Sep 2005
- Contributors Last updated 29 Sep 2005
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Collections] [Models] [Stylists] [Art Direction] [Hair] [Beauty] [Music]
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PSP AMAZE ME
Luca Agnelli/Ana Laura Alaez/Montxo Algora/Tina Berning/Isabella Blow/Scott Burnett/The Chalets/D.A.D.D.Y/Wayne Daly/David Delfin/Sarah Doukas/Droog/ Giorgio De Mitri/Graham Fink/Nacho Gayan/Inge Grongnard/Paul Hetherington/Terry Jones/Silvia Kadolsky/Jordi Labanda/Filippo La Mantia/Frank Leder/Lontano/Linda Loppa/Tim Marlow/Marcus Mittermeier/Sharmin Nordien/Perry Ogden/Ross Phillips/Javier Peres/Bruno Pieters/Fabrizio Russo/Pauric Sweeney/Geoff Travis/Philip Treacy/Massimo Torrigianni/Bettina Von Zwehl/Marcel Wanders/Sergio Zambon/2 Many DJs
AMAZE ME was inspired by the brief issued by art director Alexi Brodovitch to photographer Richard Avedon — simply to “amaze him”.
The challenge asked you, the public, to respond to a brief set by a panel of six leading creative industry figures. Viewers had the chance to come along to one of our micro-studio booths and make a 30 second video pitch.
The best six entries won a PSP™(Playstation®Portable), plus an exclusive opportunity to work with the panellist they attempted to amaze.
- Dublin Last updated 26 Aug 2005
- London Last updated 26 Aug 2005
- Berlin Last updated 26 Aug 2005
- Antwerp Last updated 26 Aug 2005
- Rome Last updated 26 Aug 2005
- Barcelona Last updated 26 Aug 2005
- Contributors Last updated 26 Aug 2005
Related Projects: [Performance] [Art] [Models] [Art Direction] [Design]