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.
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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.
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For this season’s PHONECARTE, chanteuse and model of the moment Irina Lazareanu led you through Paris Fashion Week as she dialed in direct from between the shows and told us all her fashion secrets.
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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.
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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.
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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'.
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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.
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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.
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Sam McKnight
Revisit the vital tidbits of information, rumour and nuance from the Spring/Summer '05 campaigns via Sam McKnight' report, phoned in to the SHOWstudio answer phone service from behind closed-sets.
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Karen Elson
Supermodel Karen Elson sent frequent voicemail messages throughout her week's work at the Paris Fashion shows.
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In May 2004, a complement of mystery guests were invited to participate
in this twenty-two-course meal, prepared by the gastronomic alchemist Heston Blumenthal and photographed by Nick Knight for a visually decadent W magazine shoot. Not only can you now listen in on the diners' conversations in the Audio Webcast, you can also see what's on their plates as they consume the challenging courses in the Interactive Menu. Coinciding with the magazine's publication, this broadcast finally revealed the secret identities of all celebrity diners present in a sequence of unseen pictures from the shoot. In a final flourish, Blumenthal generously offered the coveted recipe for his trademark Smoked Bacon and Egg icecream, available to you as a T-shirt or apron
design via the Recipe Download.
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