PARIS FASHION WEEK A/W 09

Documenting next season as it happens, SHOWstudio updates live and direct from the cream of the Paris 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 4 Mar 2009
• Contributors Last updated 4 Mar 2009
• Project Blog Last updated 27 Feb 2009
• Reports Last updated 27 Feb 2009

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Gareth Pugh] [Paris Fashion Week] [Yves Saint Laurent] [John Galliano] [Alexander McQueen] [Martin Margiela] [Vivienne Westwood] [Yohji Yamamoto] [Hussein Chalayan] [Givenchy] [Autumn/Winter 2009] [Rick Owens]

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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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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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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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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

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Balenciaga] [Christian Dior] [Yves Saint Laurent] [Chanel] [Alexander McQueen] [Martin Margiela] [Comme des Garcons] [Prada] [Givenchy] [Christopher Kane] [Photograhy] [Kenji Hirasawa] [Takumi Iwata] [Kai Ohta] [Yumiko Suzuki] [Yasuhiro Tsuchiya] [Ayako Ha]

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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

Related Projects: [Penny Martin] [Paris Fashion Week] [Christian Dior] [Chanel] [Miu Miu] [John Galliano] [Boudicca] [Alexander McQueen] [Benjamin Seroussi] [Jean Paul Gaultier] [Autumn/Winter 07-08] [Louis Vuitton] [Chloe] [Giambattista Valli] [Sonia Rykiel] [Balenciage] [Yves]

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BLACK

Alexander McQueen/Michael Clark/Kate Moss

View an ambitious re-staging of many of the defining moments of McQueen's legendary fashion collection shows. Look out for a crowd-pleasing dance duet by Michael Clark and Kate Moss.

• Movie Last updated 1 Sep 2004
• Interactive Last updated 1 Sep 2004
• Webcast Last updated 1 Sep 2004
• Pictures Last updated 1 Sep 2004
• Contributors Last updated 1 Sep 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Live] [Film] [Collections] [Music] [Picture Phone] [Alexander McQueen] [Kate Moss] [Michael Clark] [Dance]

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MAC III

Nick Knight/Alexander McQueen/Michael Clark

Watch the filmic version of SHOWstudio's MAC III print, an image born out of an explosive creative collaboration between McQueen, Knight and Clark. Featuring McQueen's Depression-era marathon dance inspired Spring/Summer '04 collection, and Clark's choreography, this multi-faceted film captured nine views of the gracefully suspended bodies in motion, the elegantly athletic composition that was set up for Knight's Numéro magazine shoot.

• Movie Last updated 30 Jul 2004
• Contributors Last updated 30 Jul 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Collections] [Photoshoot] [Alexander McQueen] [Michael Clark] [Dance]

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DESIGN_DOWNLOAD: Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen

The third in our series of downloadable garments, Alexander McQueen allowed us to examine and assemble his pattern for a beautiful, kimono-inspired jacket from his A/W '03 collection.

• Movie Last updated 31 Mar 2004
• Interview Last updated 31 Mar 2004
• Contributors Last updated 31 Mar 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Collections] [Downloadable] [Alexander McQueen] [Garment Pattern]

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IN CAMERA: Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen

In the first interview in the newly-launched live SHOWstudio space, McQueen came clean on all manner of subjects, from which fashion items make him cringe and his opinion on fur to his views on fashion as entertainment.

• Interview Last updated 16 Dec 2003
• Transcript Last updated 16 Dec 2003
• Images Last updated 16 Dec 2003
• Contributors Last updated 16 Dec 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Live] [Interview] [Webchat] [Alexander McQueen]

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BELLWETHER

Alexander McQueen

To mark Alexander McQueen's CBE award, the visionary designer illustrated the showstoppers from his 2003 collections in a film that documented the formidable technique at their core.

• Movies Last updated 21 Jul 2003
• Contributors Last updated 21 Jul 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Collections] [Models] [Paris Fashion Week] [Illustration] [Alexander McQueen] [History]

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OUTSIZE?

SHOWstudio challenged fashion's finest to create the industry's Holy Grail: inspiring womenswear designs for sizes 16 and over. 12 leading designers took up the gauntlet.

• Text Last updated 18 Feb 2002
• Images Last updated 18 Feb 2002
• Contributors Last updated 18 Feb 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Politics] [Body Image] [John Galliano] [Alexander McQueen] [Sophia Kokosalaki] [Shelley Fox] [Jessica Ogden] [Marjan Pejovski] [Bodymap]

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ANGEL

Nick Knight/Alexander McQueen/Bj?Danny Brown

Spellbinding sound and image project generated from Nick Knight and Alexander McQueen's installation for La Beautéin Avignon, with an exclusive Bjork soundtrack.

• Text Last updated 21 Nov 2001
• Movie Last updated 21 Nov 2001
• Documentary Last updated 21 Nov 2001
• Interactive Last updated 21 Nov 2001
• Contributors Last updated 21 Nov 2001

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Daniel Brown] [Music] [Alexander McQueen] [Animation]

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GIVENCHY COUTURE

Nick Knight/Katy England/Alexander McQueen

Not any old suits, or even any old Alexander McQueen for Givenchy haute couture suits, but fibre optic haute couture suits that pulsate with light when Katy England spins them round and round on turntables for Nick Knight.

• Movie Last updated 20 Dec 2000
• Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Collections] [Alexander McQueen] [Katy England] [Haute Couture] [Givenchy]

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