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.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Live] [Audio] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Art] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Diary] [Marcus Werner-Hed] [Sissel Tolaas] [jeremy Valender]
Nike
Until May 18 members of the public can submit their football-inspired artwork for the chance of exhibiting as part of the 1/1: Art of Football show in Basel, June 2008.
Related Projects: [Gareth Pugh] [Art] [Design] [Alice Hawkins] [Nike] [Exhibition] [Joël Tettamanti] [Khaya] [Claudio Sinatti] [Dominic Wilcox] [Erdil Yaşaroğlu] [Ewen Spencer] [Artemy Lebedev] [Boxie] [Pfadfinderei+41 //DIY] [Grégoire Alexandre] [Football] [Alexandre Farto]
Helen Storey
A product of a groundbreaking exploration of chemically-fabricated, biodegradable materials by the artist and fashion designer Helen Storey and the scientist Tony Ryan, 'Wonderland' uses fashion as a 'trojan horse' to demonstrate radical scientific findings. From 29 January–29 February 2008, Storey will construct her first fashion collection in 12 years, in front of a live audience. These garments are designed to deconstruct over time in water and this amazing quality will be showcased during the residency, during which time SHOWstudio will document the full process in picture diaries and live webcasts. When the collection is completed, our task will then be to photograph the garments in a live shoot in Spring to document their design and appearance before dissolving them for a film that will showcase their miraculous scientific secret.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Webcast] [Film] [Performance] [Art] [Design] [Diary] [Pinny Grylls] [Patricia Belford] [Helen Storey] [Tony Ryan] [Science]
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.
Related Projects: [Ross Phillips] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Art] [Installation]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Film] [Art] [Art Direction] [Fred Butler]
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]
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.
Related Projects: [Performance] [Art] [Models] [Art Direction] [Design]
Stephen Willats
'Multiple Clothing' presented a selection of clothing-based works by British artist Stephen Willats' that spanned 40 years of practice.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Performance] [Art] [Picture Phone]
Bay Garnett
Political, profane or plain picture-perfect: download and print our exclusive SHOWstudio T-shirt designs.
Viewers had the chance to return over a number of weeks for T-Shirts from artists, designers, photographers and celebrities including Maria Chen Pascual, Frank Leder and Jonny Davis.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Art] [Art Direction] [Downloadable] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Celebrity]
Jeremy Deller
Related Projects: [Politics] [Art] [Christabel Stewart]
Paul Hetherington, Penny Martin, Christabel Stewart
To reveal the process of a staple industry practise, SHOWstudio initiated 'PORTFOLIO', an opportunity to invite practitioners - both established and new - into the SHOWstudio space to disclose their books live on camera. Part of an ongoing, fortnightly project, highlights of these portfolios were captured to create an accumulating resource, both for future SHOWstudio projects and as an inventory of new talent.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Live] [Performance] [Art] [Design]
Donald Christie
Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Interview] [Art] [Donald Christie]
Leigh Bowery
Guiser presented a rare selection of original and previously unpublished material that looked at, listened to and wrote about the legendary figure Leigh Bowery. The extraordinary personage of Leigh Bowery has had an enormous influence on visual culture - across fashion, art, music and performance - and SHOWstudio wanted to celebrate this legacy. Guiser brought together previously unseen film footage of Bowery being photographed by Nick Knight, with unreleased sound material from 'Minty' demo tapes as a soundtrack. Also featured was an essay by one of Leigh's contemporaries, Donald Urquhart -whose own artistic output and creativity mirrors the breadth of Bowery's output, as well as intertwining creatively with it. Urquhart's text gave personal accounts of some of the posthumous events that have commemorated Leigh Bowery.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interview] [Performance] [Art] [Christabel Stewart] [Leigh Bowery] [Donald Urquart]
Julie Verhoeven
Follow a week in the multimedia life of artist, illustrator and designer Julie Verhoeven in this sequence of images sent from her weeklong trip to New York. Shows captured through her lens included Luella, Marc and Marc Jacobs.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Art] [Picture Phone] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Diary] [Julie Verhoven] [New York Fashion Week] [Parties]
Isabel Best, Gotscho, Emanuel Ungaro
A collaboration between Emanuel Ungaro and Parisian artist Gotscho, this short film focused on the fusing of couture garments with other objects in an exploration of absence.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interview] [Art] [Collections]
Lucy Orta
In response to the Allied forces handover of power back to Iraq on 30th June 2004, artist Lucy Orta staged a 'protest performance' at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The event was recorded in both image and sound and, for those wishing to participate in the statement, a protest t-shirt design is available for download.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Politics] [Performance] [Art]
Peter Jensen
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Art] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Peter Jensen]
Self Service Magazine
Chic Parisian magazine came to town to photograph the stars of the London scene inside the SHOWstudio live space.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Webcast] [Magazines] [Art] [Music]
Harri Peccinotti
Exclusive, behind the scenes film of legendary photographer Harri Peccinotti at work, photographing exhibits from Nike's White Dunk exhibition.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Art] [Sportswear] [Nike] [Harri Peccinotti]
Building on her recent entrée into writing and broadcasting, the model everyone loves to love hosted the SHOWstudio PICTURE/MESSAGE mobile for Paris Couture Week.
Related Projects: [Live] [Art] [Picture Phone] [Documentary] [Illustration]
Tracey Emin
Cultural icon Tracey Emin, Britain's most celebrated female contemporary artist, took the chair in another live online interview.
Related Projects: [Interactive] [Live] [Interview] [Art] [Webchat] [Tracey Emin]
Venice Biennale
While braving the heat and crowds at this year's Venice Biennale, SHOWstudio's curatorial projects director, Christabel Stewart reported live on picturephone from the self-proclaimed 'exhibition of exhibitions' as it celebrated its fiftieth year at the forefront of international art.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Live] [Art] [Christabel Stewart] [Picture Phone] [Diary]
Peter Saville
Design icon Peter Saville responded to questions in a Live interview following the opening of his exhibition at the Design Museum, London and the publication of his first book.
Related Projects: [Interactive] [Live] [Interview] [Art] [Webchat] [Art Direction] [Graphic Design] [Celebrity]
M/M (Paris)/Simon Periton/Shaun Leane/Jane Simpson/Emma Cook and others
Download, cut out and use our festive stencils to make your own cards, gift-wrap and decorations.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Art] [Paul Hetherington] [Art Direction] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Emma Cook] [Simon Periton] [Shaun Leane] [Jane Simpson]
Shelley Fox/Scanner/D-Fuse
Fox launched her collection No. 14, based on the cyclical lives of family portraiture. Her garments were showcased in a groundbreaking audiovisual environment created in collaboration with photographers Hiroshi Kutomi and Gareth McConnell, audio pioneer Scanner and with projections by D-Fuse.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Art] [Collections] [Music] [Documentary] [Hiroshi Kutomi] [Gareth McConnell] [Shelley Fox]
Daniel Brown
Top drawer! Participate in the ultimate 'draw-and-pass-it-on' game alongside a host of leading illustrators and artists.
Related Projects: [Interactive] [Art] [Daniel Brown] [Illustration]
Nick Knight
Check in each day to view a different fashion performance from one of fifty performances by the greatest models, from Jerry Hall and Linda Evangelista to Kate Moss and Angela Lindvall.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Performance] [Art] [Models] [Celebrity]
Simon Pentleton/Josephene Soughan
Were these girls performing in a retro erotic film or posing for a contemporary fashion shoot? Seductive shots replaced narrative in a film that defined the ambiguous space between the cinematic sequence and the fashion story.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Art] [Erotica]
Lone Sigurdsson
Guess the label. Try to spot which designer's work Lone Sigurdsson has been cloning in her Plasticine replicas of the A/W '01 collections.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Film] [Art] [Collections] [Jane How]
Jake & Dinos Chapman
One Chapman brother describes Melting Heads as 'the most simplistic B-movie effect'. The other says they did it because 'it scares children'. Judge for your self, whilst listening to one of five soundtracks by Add N to X.
Related Projects: [Film] [Interview] [Art] [Music] [Chapman Brothers]
Nick Knight
Follow Nick Knight's lens as it snooped from one Madison Avenue skyscraper to another. Then eavesdrop on Kate Moss while she talked on the telephone to artist, Sarah Morris, about exactly where Johnny Depp hid her diamond necklace.
Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Performance] [Art] [Celebrity] [Kate Moss] [Surveillance] [Sarah Morris]
Saville/Hetherington/Wakefield
What do you do in a carniverous culture where whatever you create is lionised, and then discarded before anyone's had time to appreciate it? If you're Peter Saville, you'll recycle your old work into new work before anyone else does.
Related Projects: [Art] [Paul Hetherington] [Art Direction] [Graphic Design] [Digital Image-Making] [Peter Saville] [Painting] [Howard Wakefield]