Craig McDean
Created from footage captured during a marathon shoot for the September 2006 issue of Paris Vogue, Craig McDean’s film '48 Girls’ features forty-eight motion portraits of the most important models working today. From the ones you know of old -Karen Elson, Jessica Stam, Shalom and Gemma Ward- to the ones who only recently made your acquaintance -Du Juan, Solange or Irina Lazareanu- each sitting is captured from McDean’s perspective, providing a revealing account of the various ways a model interacts with their photographer.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Gemma Ward] [Set Design] [Karen Elson] [Craig McDean] [Paris Vogue] [Jessica Stam] [Shalom] [Du Juan] [Solange] [Irina Lazareanu] [Bill Doig] [Carine Roitfeld] [Marie-Amelie Sauve] [Emanuelle Alt] [Oribe]
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]
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.
Related Projects: [Performance] [Music] [Peter Saville] [Antony and the Johnsons] [Ei Arakawa] [Cezary Bodzianowski] [Pablo Bronstei] [Lali Chetwynd] [Martin Creed] [Enrico David] [Jutta Koether] [Linder] [Los Super Elegantes] [Jonathan Meese] [Marcus Werner-Hed] [Stephen Willats]
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]
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.
Related Projects: [Film] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Advertising] [Adam Mufti] [Olivier Alary] [Erwin Blumenfeld] [Yorick Blumenfeld]
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]
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.
Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Music] [Paul Bruty] [Antony and the Johnsons]
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]
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.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Interactive] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Politics]
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.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Mike Figgis] [Interview]
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]
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.
Related Projects: [Interactive] [Audio] [Ross Phillips] [Dorian Moore]