PORTENT

NICK KNIGHT / SIMON FOXTON / JONATHAN KAYE / MICHAEL HOWELLS / RUTH HOGBEN

A unique collaboration from a wealth of fashion creatives, Portent is a sensual, delicate and poetic exploration of romantic Classicism through the male and female form.

• Film Last updated 9 Sep 2009
• Credits Last updated 9 Sep 2009
• Contributors Last updated 9 Sep 2009
• Fashion Credits Last updated 9 Sep 2009
• BLOG Last updated 9 Sep 2009

Related Projects: [Film]

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SOFT FURNISHINGS

Peter Saville/Nick Knight

As backdrop to an editorial story for July 2009 Wallpaper* magazine, Peter Saville's febrile imagination constructs an imaginary 'Erotic House' of Pop perversity, sexualising an entire post-modern environment and fetishising furniture, fashion and flesh alike.

• EDITORIAL Last updated 10 Jun 2009
• LIVE Last updated 23 Apr 2009
• CREDITS Last updated 22 Apr 2009
• CONTRIBUTORS Last updated 22 Apr 2009
• BLOG Last updated 22 Apr 2009

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Interview] [Peter Saville] [Francesca Burns] [Gideon Ponte] [Interiors] [Shoot]

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RICK OWENS PORTRAIT

Nick Knight/Rick Owens

An intimate portrait of Rick Owens in his own words and his own clothing, this filmic diptych explores Nick Knight's monograph of an American fashion legend.

• CONTRIBUTORS Last updated 20 Apr 2009
• CREDITS Last updated 9 Apr 2009
• FILMS Last updated 9 Apr 2009
• EDITORIAL Last updated 9 Apr 2009

Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Interview] [Rick Owens] [Panos Yiapanis]

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FASHION DJS

SHOWstudio/Swarovski

Fashion has defined the appearance and character of every important moment in musical history. And in turn, fashion continues to draw on that heady heritage for inspiration season after season. To celebrate this inextricable link between musical performance and fashion exhibitionism, SHOWstudio and Swarovski are partnering on Fashion DJs: an ambitious, three-day music and fashion event to be held at the legendary Abbey Road Studios on 9, 10 and 11 July 2008. Fashion DJs will be broadcast live on SHOWstudio.com and swarovskisparkles.tv and also transmitted via radio for London listeners, on 87.7FM.

• Film Last updated 8 Jan 2009
• Programme Last updated 1 Jul 2008
• Popvox Last updated 1 Jul 2008
• Project Blog Last updated 25 Jun 2008
• Contributors Last updated 25 Jun 2008

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Gareth Pugh] [Music] [Naomi Campbell] [Jason Evans] [Sam McKnight] [Boudicca] [Stephen Jones] [Michael Clark] [Alice Hawkins] [Katy England] [Lily Cole] [Peter Saville] [wild beasts] [Jourdan Dunn] [Francesca Burns] [Antony Price]

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BIRDS EYE VIEW 2009

Ruth Hogben/Laura Bradley/Kathryn Ferguson/Sarah Chatfield/Monica Elkelv

Part of the Birds Eye View 2009 film festival, 'Fashion and the Moving Image' celebrates the growing genre of fashion film. Captured during the event held at at London's ICA, this project showcases footage of the evening's lively panel discussion alongside recent fashion shorts directed by four of the panelists.

• Panel Discussion Last updated 7 Apr 2009
• Fashion Films Last updated 7 Apr 2009
• Transcript Last updated 7 Apr 2009
• Credits Last updated 7 Apr 2009
• Contributors Last updated 7 Apr 2009

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Laura Bradley] [Film] [Interview] [Ruth Hogben]

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TALKING FASHION GILES

Hywel Davies/Giles Deacon

Filmed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, this Talking Fashion evening brings together journalist Hywel Davies and fashion designer Giles Deacon. Providing a rare insight into the designer's working practice, this hour-long interview sees Deacon shed light on almost every aspect of his career.

• Film Last updated 12 Mar 2009
• Credits Last updated 12 Mar 2009
• Contributors Last updated 12 Mar 2009
• Project Blog Last updated 12 Mar 2009

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Design] [Giles Deacon] [Hywel Davies]

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BLACK & WHITE

Nick Knight/Ruth Hogben

Incorporating the cream of this season's monochromatic fashions, Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben's latest film was captured on set during Knight's 'Black and White' shoot for British Vogue. Set to a pulsating soundtrack, witness model Anja Rubik bring to life striking clothing and accessories courtesy of designers including Martin Margiela, Dior, Vivienne Westwood, Viktor & Rolf and Florian Ladstaetter.

• Film Last updated 26 Feb 2009
• Credits Last updated 26 Feb 2009
• Contributors Last updated 26 Feb 2009
• Project Blog Last updated 26 Feb 2009

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Christian Dior] [Sam McKnight] [Martin Margiela] [Vivienne Westwood] [Ruth Hogben] [Vogue] [Viktor & Rolf] [Anja Rubik] [Pringle] [Florian Ladstaetter]

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HATS OFF

Stephen Jones/Oriole Cullen/Michael Howells

Coinciding with the opening of the exhibition 'Hats: An Anthology' at London's Victoria and Albert museum, SHOWstudio unveils its own tribute to the enduring genius of millinery maestro Stephen Jones. Inspired by Cecil Beaton's 1971 exhibition 'Fashion: An Anthology', which formed the basis of the V&A's enviable contemporary costume collection, Jones' exhibition pays homage to Beaton whilst exploring his own milieu in mind-boggling detail. Created in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert museum, this project showcases the creation of the exhibition literally from the drawing board, exploring its inspiration with the key players.

• Fashion in Motion Gallery Last updated 15 Apr 2009
• Project Blog Last updated 25 Feb 2009
• Panorama Last updated 23 Feb 2009
• Films Last updated 23 Feb 2009
• Private View Gallery Last updated 23 Feb 2009
• Exhibition Design Last updated 23 Feb 2009
• Credits Last updated 23 Feb 2009
• Contributors Last updated 23 Feb 2009

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Film] [Interview] [Design] [Illustration] [Set Design] [Stephen Jones] [Parties] [History] [Exhibition] [Michael Howells] [Hats] [Oriole Cullen]

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UNRAVELLED

Louise Goldin

A ten part series exclusively filmed alongside award-winning designer Louise Goldin and team during the realisation of her Autumn/Winter 2009 collection, Unravelled deconstructs her creative process, working backwards from Goldin's show at London Fashion Week to reveal every facet of its development.

• Blog Last updated 19 Feb 2009
• Films Last updated 18 Feb 2009
• Credits Last updated 18 Feb 2009
• Contributors Last updated 18 Feb 2009

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Design] [London Fashion Week] [Louise Goldin] [Autumn/Winter 2009]

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ANTONY PRICE: FOR YOUR PLEASURE

Antony Price/Alexander Fury

Rock's favourite couturier, an unparalleled master of modern made-to-measure occassionwear or the most criminally overlooked designer in British fashion? We unpick the bombshell seams of Antony Price's four decades in the rag trade through profile, pictures and the very patterns of his trademark cut to lay bare this veritable and venerated fashion legend.

• FILMS Last updated 11 Feb 2009
• ESSAY Last updated 11 Feb 2009
• DESIGN DOWNLOAD Last updated 11 Feb 2009
• ARTIST PROFILE Last updated 18 Dec 2008
• PRESS Last updated 18 Dec 2008
• SKETCHES Last updated 18 Dec 2008
• Blog Last updated 18 Dec 2008

Related Projects: [Film] [Downloadable] [Antony Price] [Sketches] [Profile] [Press] [Essay]

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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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SHADOW

To showcase their inaugural A/W 2008 SHADOW project collection created in collaboration with design team Acronym, sportswear label Stone Island chose to create an atmospheric film short by the &SON team of Nick Griffiths and Simon Foxton with a soundtrack by Trevor Jackson.

• Film Last updated 19 Jan 2009
• Credits Last updated 19 Jan 2009

Related Projects: [Simon Foxton] [Film]

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CHRYSALIS

Jez Tozer/Robbie Spencer

Budding fashion, perhaps, should not emerge from its chrysalis too soon - but Jez Tozer's fashion film of the same name allows us to peer inside and sneak an advance view of Spring/Summer 2009 ahead of the fashion flock.

• FILM Last updated 22 Dec 2008
• CONTRIBUTORS Last updated 22 Dec 2008

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Yves Saint Laurent] [Givenchy] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Jez Tozer] [Robbie Spencer] [Christopher Kane]

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MAKE UP YOUR MIND

Nick Knight/Jonathan Kaye/Ruth Hogben

We play mind games with thisdecidedly Surreal fashion excursion, starring Maison Martin Margiela's Spring 2009 "Wig-Coat" in perpetual, oddly seductive motion.

• Project Blog Last updated 11 Dec 2008
• CONTRIBUTORS Last updated 10 Dec 2008
• Film Last updated 25 Nov 2008

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Martin Margiela] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Ruth Hogben]

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COMING SOON

Max Vadukul

Working once again with Max Vadukul, the first photographer to create the now seminal Yohji Yamamoto womenswear catalogues in the 1980s, these two 'Coming Soon' films utilise the innovative medium of motion image to show off Yamamoto's second line's casual yet elegant sportswear through the exuberant energy of contemporary dance.

• Project Blog Last updated 8 Dec 2008
• FILM Last updated 5 Dec 2008

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Yohji Yamamoto] [Sportswear] [Max Vadukul]

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INSENSATE

Nick Knight/Gareth Pugh/Ruth Hogben

Conjuring a macabre phantasmagoria that unfurls before your eyes like a sinister but beautiful bloom, Insensate showcases the brutal geometry and raw creative fire of Gareth Pugh's A/W 2008 collection to truly bewitching effect.

• Blog Last updated 28 Nov 2008
• Contributors Last updated 22 Nov 2008
• INSENSATE: Project Blog Last updated 21 Nov 2008
• Download Last updated 20 Nov 2008
• FILM Last updated 22 Sep 2008
• IMAGE GALLERY Last updated 22 Sep 2008

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Gareth Pugh] [Ruth Hogben] [Autumn/Winter 2008-9] [Matthew Stone]

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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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PERROQUET

Sølve Sundsbø

Born out of a lifelong fascination with science photography and nature documentaries, Parroquet showcases a body of work by fashion photographer Sølve Sundsbø, comprising eight film shorts and a selection of photographs. Keen to produce imagery that didn’t fall into the traditional genres of photography, this project’s central focus is the parroquet, a type of small, slender, long-tailed parrot. This particular subject matter couldn’t be more removed from Sundsbø’s lavish editorial spreads and striking campaign imagery, although his reasons for choosing this particular species do, in a way, relate to fashion. Possessing almost sartorial qualities, it was the bird’s trademark vibrant plumage that piqued the photographer’s interest.

• Contributors Last updated 1 Oct 2008
• Movies Last updated 1 Oct 2008
• Gallery Last updated 1 Oct 2008
• Project Blog Last updated 1 Oct 2008

Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Science] [Sølve Sundsbø] [Nature]

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VIOLENCE

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.

• Concept Last updated 24 Sep 2008
• Process Blog Last updated 16 Sep 2008
• Film Interview: Sissel Tolaas Last updated 4 Apr 2007
• Audio Interview: Sissel Tolaas Last updated 4 Apr 2007
• Interview Extras: Sissel Tolaas Last updated 4 Apr 2007
• Project Blog Last updated 15 Mar 2007
• Contributors Last updated 15 Mar 2007
• FILM INTERVIEW: SISSEL TOLAAS Last updated 2 Mar 2007
• AUDIO INTERVIEW: SISSEL TOLAAS Last updated 2 Mar 2007
• INTERVIEW: SISSEL TOLAAS EXTRAS Last updated 2 Mar 2007

Related Projects: [Photography] [Live] [Audio] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Art] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Diary] [Marcus Werner-Hed] [Sissel Tolaas] [jeremy Valender]

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ZEROPOINTZERO

Aganovich/Jez Tozer

Opting out of the frenetic On/Off schedule of London Fashion Week, Nana Aganovich and Brooke Taylor of design label Aganovich have opted to present their latest collection via online film in collaboration with Jez Tozer

• ZERO POINT ZERO: Project Blog Last updated 19 Sep 2008
• Movie Last updated 19 Sep 2008
• Artist's Statement Last updated 18 Sep 2008

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [London Fashion Week] [Jez Tozer] [Aganovich] [Brooke Taylor]

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POLITICAL FASHION

Believing fashion to be intrinsically political, Nick Knight is staging a multi-level film project, encouraging creatives to use the medium of fashion to convey their political beliefs, agendas and thoughts. From the beginning of December 2007, the first stage of 'Political Fashion Films' invites visitors to the SHOWstudio website to submit a film of between 30 seconds and 3 minutes that articulates some kind of political point using fashion. Inkeeping with previous film seasons 'Moving Fashion' and 'Editing Fashion', in February 2008, this invitation will be opened up to a wide selection of fashion industry, art world and celebrity figures, whose Political Fashion Films created to the same brief will also be broadcast on the SHOWstudio website, one film per weekday. The end of the project will be marked by a screening event to be held in London during Spring 2008. All films received before Friday 15 February 2008 will be considered for inclusion.

• Movies (Season 2) Last updated 15 Jul 2008
• Movies Last updated 6 May 2008
• Viewers Gallery Last updated 5 May 2008
• Contributors Last updated 10 Apr 2008
• Essays Last updated 3 Mar 2008
• Project Blog Last updated 28 Nov 2007
• Brief Last updated 28 Nov 2007

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Politics]

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KNEE DEEP IN YOUR EYES

Julie Verhoeven & N/A

Created in collaboration with London-based N/A, Julie Verhoeven's 'Knee Deep in Your Eyes' is a visual treat, taking you on a spiraling magical mystery tour through her inimitable illustrative world. Painting, drawing, photography, collage, decoupage, montage, reality... all come together to dazzling psychedelic effect as LP's, EP's and record sleeves embellished with bold Verhoeven designs spin incessantly through 360-degrees. Taken from a 15-minute original showcased as a backdrop to a live performance by London post-punks Ginger Bread Men at the 9th edition of Art Rotterdam in February 2008, this mesmerising surrealist feast is a compelling mix of the raw and the rarefied, blurring the line between what is real and what is make-believe.

• Project Blog Last updated 17 Jun 2008
• Contributors Last updated 17 Jun 2008
• Movie Last updated 17 Jun 2008

Related Projects: [Photography] [Live] [Film] [Performance] [Design] [Illustration] [Julie Verhoeven] [Ginger Bread men]

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WONDERLAND

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.

• Movie Last updated 25 Jun 2008
• Video Library Last updated 1 Feb 2008
• Time-lapse Last updated 28 Jan 2008
• Articles Last updated 9 Jan 2008
• Project Blog Last updated 6 Dec 2007
• Contributors Last updated 6 Dec 2007

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Webcast] [Film] [Performance] [Art] [Design] [Diary] [Pinny Grylls] [Patricia Belford] [Helen Storey] [Tony Ryan] [Science]

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EYES OF THE BEHOLDER

Toyin

In collaboration with Replay, SHOWstudio has invited photographer and filmmaker Toyin to turn her signature, romantic lens on the Italian denimwear company's Autumn/Winter '08-09 collection. Though shot in Robert Adam's exquisite, 18th century London townhouse at 33 Portland Street, Toyin and stylist Stevie Westgarth gave themselves poetic license to shift the date forward to the 19th century - the wild west to be specific - where winsome girls swooned over bare-chested boys who cracked bullwhips and wore the bowler hats of frontiersmen. But this resultant film short is no Calamity Jane-style caper. The faded elegance of the Georgian backdrop, combined with the contemporary energy of both choreography and Replay's collection, creates a spellbinding visual feast. To an electrifying soundtrack, specially composed by the Doi, sit back and witness the extraordinary models' performances that are this filmmaker's hallmark.

• Gallery Last updated 9 May 2008
• Contributors Last updated 8 May 2008
• Movie Last updated 8 May 2008
• Project Blog Last updated 8 May 2008

Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Toyin] [Autumn/Winter 08-09] [Alex Fury] [Replay] [Stevie Westgarth] [Doi]

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WHITE WEDDING

Nick Knight/Joseph Corré/Kate Moss/Jake & Dinos Chapman/Gideon Ponte/Ruth Hogben

The product of a grand collaboration with lingerie giant Agent Provocateur to mark the launch of their bridal range, 'White Wedding' is a groundbreaking exploration in extending a narrative advertising campaign to also create an experimental film series. Responding to a six-part script treatment written by Agent Provocateur founder Joe Corré, Nick Knight and a stellar cast including Kate Moss and artists Jake and Dinos Chapman have created six striking campaign stills that storyboard "the demise of a bride's 'big day' and serialise the unravelling of the religious organisation behind it".

From film footage captured whilst shooting the six shots entitled 'The Happiest Day of Her Life', 'The Garden of Eden', 'Bad News', 'Frenzy', 'Revenge' and 'Let Them Eat Kate', Nick Knight has pushed each image into new visual territories, projecting motion imagery onto interpretative props and filming it, to capture this abstraction 'in camera', rather than in post production. The result is an intriguing set of stylish shorts depicting Kate Moss running the gamut from demure virgin bride to dangerous, Lynchian siren that suggests new applications and creative potential for fashion film in advertising.

Log on each night on to SHOWstudio from Friday 2nd–Wednesday 7th May 2008 at 18:00hrs UK time to watch the marital meltdown unfold.

• Project Blog Last updated 28 Apr 2008
• Contributors Last updated 28 Apr 2008

Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Advertising] [Sam McKnight] [Kate Moss] [Katy England] [Val Garland] [Agent Provocateur] [Ruth Hogben] [Joseph Corré] [Jake and Dinos Chapman] [Gideon Ponte] [Dirty Stop Outs]

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FREJA

Nick Knight/Freja Beha Erichsen

If clothes maketh the man and your purpose is to demonstrate the masculinity of the Spring/Summer '08 womens' collections, then who better to explore their gender-bending potential than androgynous beauty Freja Beha Erichsen?

• Project Blog Last updated 19 Mar 2008
• Movie Last updated 19 Mar 2008

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Sam McKnight] [Val Garland] [Ruth Hogben] [Spring/Summer 08] [Freja Beha Erichsen] [Kate Phelan]

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SHOWTIME

Nick Knight/Victoria Beckham

Filmed amidst the nuts-and-bolts of the photographic shoot, Showtime is a sneak preview of Nick Knight’s editorial for the April 2008 edition of British Vogue starring the indomitably glamorous Victoria Beckham.

• Project Blog Last updated 6 Mar 2008
• Contributors Last updated 5 Mar 2008
• Movie Last updated 5 Mar 2008

Related Projects: [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Set Design] [Sam McKnight] [Paul Bruty] [Ruth Hogben] [Nina Ricci] [British Vogue] [Victoria Beckham] [Michael Howells] [Dolce and Gabbana] [Lucinda Chambers] [Alex Fury]

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NATALIA V

Nick Knight/Natalia Vodianova

In tandem with his shoot for supermodel Natalia V’s guest-edited issue of Russian Vogue, Nick Knight captured a short film featuring the world-famous model doing what she does best.

• Project Blog Last updated 27 Feb 2008
• Contributors Last updated 27 Feb 2008
• Movie Last updated 27 Feb 2008

Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Models] [Jonathan Kaye] [John Galliano] [Sam McKnight] [Paul Bruty] [Ruth Hogben] [Natalia Vodianova] [Russian Vogue]

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COLLECTION HOMME A/W 2008-09

Yves Saint Laurent

To show his Autumn/Winter 2008 menswear collection for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, creative director Stefano Pilati broke the mould of the traditional catwalk show by presenting his collection via film. Originally displayed on a triptych of screens, the film plays across three frames of action and is here shown in its entirety. Romantic, ethereal and yet technologically complex, the film manages to evoke the twin dynamics of familiarity and formality and the tension of old and new constantly at play in Pilati’s offerings for men.

• Project Blog Last updated 24 Jan 2008
• Movie Last updated 24 Jan 2008

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Menswear] [Yves Saint Laurent] [Stefano Pilati] [Autumn/Winter 08-09]

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MEN IN TIGHTS

Nick Knight/Bernhard Willhelm

The latest designer electing to create a film to showcase his fashion collection, Bernhard Willhelm will be in the studio on Sunday 13th and Monday 14th January 2008 with Nick Knight, creating a movie to be previewed at the Menswear shows in Paris on the 20th of this month. Of course, we can't say too much about the collection, but Bernhard has supplied us with the working title "Men in Tights" so you can draw your own conclusions and tune in from 11:30 to get a load of the nylon and lycra action on set!

• Film Last updated 1 Feb 2008
• Contributors Last updated 10 Jan 2008
• Project Blog Last updated 10 Jan 2008

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Menswear] [Bernhard Willhelm]

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FLOWERS FOR KATE

Nick Knight/Kate Moss/Jonathan Kaye

Say it with flowers: on 12 & 13 December 2007 we photographed a story for V magazine featuring the one and only Kate Moss. SHOWstudio offered its viewers an unique chance to be part of the shoot by sending a personal floral greeting to Kate.

• Movie Last updated 11 Apr 2008
• Poetry in Motion Last updated 11 Dec 2007
• Deliveries Last updated 3 Dec 2007
• Project Blog Last updated 15 Nov 2007
• Contributors Last updated 15 Nov 2007

Related Projects: [Photography] [Live] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Kate Moss] [Poetry] [Val Garland] [Spring/Summer 08] [Roddy Lumsden]

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24HRS

Nick Knight/Stefano Pilati

A unique chance for SHOWstudio viewers to influence the narrative of a high-end fashion shoot to create a catalogue and film for Yves Saint Laurent’s forthcoming ‘Edition 24’ collection. SHOWstudio is inviting submissions for a twenty-four-scene screenplay that will form the basis of a twenty-four hour, live fashion broadcast, over the night of 15 July, during which Nick Knight and Stefano Pilati will transform your ideas into imagery. The names of those authors selected will be credited in the final film to screen on SHOWstudio and YSL.com!

• Catalogue Last updated 6 Nov 2007
• Movies Last updated 25 Oct 2007
• Competition Last updated 25 Oct 2007
• Call Us Last updated 13 Jul 2007
• Live Event Last updated 12 Jul 2007
• Treatments Last updated 11 Jul 2007
• Brief: Political, Philosophical and Social Statements Last updated 29 Jun 2007
• Project Blog Last updated 19 Jun 2007
• Contributors Last updated 19 Jun 2007
• Brief Last updated 19 Jun 2007

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Live] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Politics] [Yves Saint Laurent] [Stefano Pilati]

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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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READINGS

Hussein Chalayan/Nick Knight/Antony Hegarty

To present a collection about the dynamic between icons and their audience Hussein Chalayan is staging a live broadcast of a film shoot in collaboration with Nick Knight, Antony Hegarty and the global SHOWstudio audience. We are soliciting musical directions from SHOWstudio viewers for Antony to perform during the broadcast at the end of September. The resultant footage will create the soundtrack and a film, so it's your big chance to show in Paris at last!

• Lookbook Last updated 22 Oct 2007
• Movie Last updated 3 Oct 2007
• Shoot Last updated 25 Sep 2007
• Interview: Hussein Chalayan Last updated 13 Sep 2007
• Audio Brief Last updated 11 Sep 2007
• Project Blog Last updated 10 Sep 2007
• Contributors Last updated 10 Sep 2007

Related Projects: [Photography] [Interactive] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Interview] [Music] [Hussein Chalayan] [Ruth Hogben] [Antony Hegarty]

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BONED

Nick Knight/Alister Mackie

Invited by Another Man magazine to shoot men’s underwear for its A/W '07–08 issue, Nick Knight and Alister Mackie took inspiration from imagery Robert Mapplethorpe and Horst P. Horst, only translating the monochrome power of their stills into colour. Featuring new work by a range of designers, the results offer a fresh perspective on men’s underwear, its representation in fashion imagery and on masculinity itself. Boned also features a film of the shoot, an accompanying essay by Shaun Cole and clips and interviews from the live broadcast.

• Movie Last updated 28 Sep 2007
• Gallery Last updated 28 Sep 2007
• Plain, uninteresting and out of sight? Men’s Underwear Last updated 28 Sep 2007
• Contributors Last updated 29 May 2007
• Project Blog Last updated 29 May 2007

Related Projects: [Photography] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Interview] [Sam McKnight] [Alister Mackie] [Val Garland] [Autumn/Winter 07-08] [Shaun Cole]

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THE REPLENISHING BODY

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.

• Nick's Picks Last updated 3 Oct 2007
• Polaroids Last updated 26 Sep 2007
• Celebrity Gallery Last updated 10 Sep 2007
• Public Gallery Last updated 4 Sep 2007
• Project Blog Last updated 29 Aug 2007
• Contributors Last updated 29 Aug 2007

Related Projects: [Ross Phillips] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Art] [Installation]

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THE FUNERAL OF NEW ORLEANS - PART ONE

AItor Throup/Jez Tozer

Launching simultaneously with his first on-schedule catwalk presentation as part of the MAN showcase at London Fashion Week, watch menswear designer Aitor Throup's film collaboration with photographer Jez Tozer, The Funeral of New Orleans - Part One. A narrative response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Throup's collection tells the story of how five members of a marching band protect themselves and their instruments, which are interpreted through the cut and structure of the garments. See how Throup's acclaimed research process lends itself to motion image.

• Project Blog Last updated 10 Sep 2007
• Contributors Last updated 10 Sep 2007
• Film Last updated 10 Sep 2007

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Jez Tozer] [Aitor Throup]

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ARNHEM

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.

• Contributors Last updated 29 May 2007
• Project Blog Last updated 18 May 2007

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Film] [Art] [Art Direction] [Fred Butler]

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THE NOMINEES

Nick Knight

For the 2007 CFDA Awards, America’s most prestigious fashion awards ceremony, Nick Knight was asked to make a film featuring the nominees for the Best Womenswear Designer category, a list that included Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler and Oscar de la Renta. On Friday 20 April SHOWstudio broadcasted the making of the film from a London-based studio, starring model Agyness Deyn who wore creations from each designer’s last two seasons’ collections. The finished film was later shown on the SHOWstudio website at the time of the CFDA awards ceremony in June.

• Movie Last updated 4 Jun 2007
• Contributors Last updated 18 Apr 2007
• Project Blog Last updated 18 Apr 2007

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Design] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Adam Mufti] [Marc Jacobs] [Oscar de la Renta] [Agyness Deyn] [Miranda Joyce] [Proenza Schouler]

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SKIN

&Son. (Simon Foxton/Nick Griffiths)

Skin was an undertaking by the company &Son, the creative consultancy run by stylists Simon Foxton and Nick Griffiths; a commercial project that rethought traditional advertising using motion image. Ten models from a range of mixed ethnic backgrounds -five male and five female- were filmed wearing pieces from adidas’s new ‘Materials of the World’ line, a collection influenced by the indigenous fabrics of different world cultures. Over a period of ten days beginning on May 10, the living portraits were also displayed in the windows of a Curtain Road shop front in London’s Shoreditch where the attention of passers by was tested to register that it was film and not stills that were seeing. In this sense, Skin was a subtle development out of Simon Foxton's previous Sittings: Thirty Men project of 2005 and a handsome addition to SHOWstudio's ongoing study of living fashion portraiture.

• Portraits Last updated 1 May 2007
• Project Blog Last updated 1 May 2007
• Contributors Last updated 1 May 2007

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Nick Griffiths] [Adidas]

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LE MAUVAIS GARCON

John Galliano

In this exclusive film for SHOWstudio, John Galliano lets us in on how he really makes his fashions. With Morgane Dubled starring as la merveilleuse ingénue and Monsieur Galliano as the eponymous mauvais garcon, witness the creative process of the atelier in all its histrionic glory before the showing of his A/W ’07 collection. Doctored with cigarette burns and jaundiced film reel for a straight-from-the-archive-shelf charm, this self-effacing film re-enacts the common mythologies that enshroud the figure of the fashion designer: as a fastidious creator of clothing and fantasy. Toying with many of these received ideas, the film is made in the parodic style that M. Galliano does better than anyone else.

• Project Blog Last updated 30 Mar 2007
• Contributors Last updated 30 Mar 2007
• Movie Last updated 30 Mar 2007

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [John Galliano]

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ICE CREAM

Nick Knight

Caught on film during Nick Knight’s photo shoot for the 49th issue of Visionaire's 'Decades' collaboration back in June 2006, Ice Cream features London model Lily Donaldson wearing pieces from the Maison Martin Margiela Archive, posing with some of the season’s favourite ephemera – including a rhapsody of metallic balloons and a flurry of dry ice. Watch the movie, edited by Ruth Hogben, to see how fashion’s current preoccupations with hard luminosity and liquescence are brought to life in another of our moving fashion montages and see the gallery for the prints that appeared in the magazine last summer.

• Project Blog Last updated 9 Mar 2007
• Contributors Last updated 9 Mar 2007

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Martin Margiela] [Val Garland] [Lily Donaldson] [Ruth Hogben] [Katy Barker]

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BEASTING

Nick Knight/Simon Foxton

Invited by Arena Hommes + magazine to photograph the highlights of John Galliano’s outlandish Autumn/Winter ’07-8 collection, Nick Knight and Simon Foxton were in the studio over two days, staging one of the explosive action shoots that are the hallmark of their longstanding creative collaboration. From 11:00hrs (UK time), the cameras streamed live coverage of Galliano’s prehistoric fashions, giving those with a penchant for woolen Minotaurs, skintight briefs and Samurai swordsmen an opportunity to indulge their tastes for the primeval and the preposterous in equal measure.

• Project Blog Last updated 20 Feb 2007
• Contributors Last updated 20 Feb 2007

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [John Galliano] [Autumn/Winter 07-08]

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48 GIRLS

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.

• Project Blog Last updated 11 Jan 2007
• Contributors Last updated 10 Jan 2007

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]

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BAL MASQUÉ

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.

• The Venue Last updated 20 Oct 2006
• Schedule Last updated 20 Oct 2006
• Who's The Muse? Last updated 11 Sep 2006
• You Shall Go To The Ball Last updated 11 Sep 2006
• Project Blog Last updated 31 Jul 2006
• Contributors Last updated 31 Jul 2006

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Stylists] [Design]

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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

Related Projects: [Film] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Advertising] [Adam Mufti] [Olivier Alary] [Erwin Blumenfeld] [Yorick Blumenfeld]

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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

Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Music] [Paul Bruty] [Antony and the Johnsons]

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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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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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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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DRESS ME UP, DRESS ME DOWN

Ann-Sofie Back, Jeffrey Deitch, Jonathan De Villiers, Andrea Dworkin, Philippe Garner, Paul Hetherington, Jonathan Kaye, Richard Kern, Nick Knight, Penny Martin, Ross Phillips, Peter Saville, Liberty Ross, Christabel Stewart, Julie Verhoeven

Liberty Ross featured in a live, interactive photo shoot that was broadcast on SHOWstudio on June 28, 29 & 30 2005. Inspired by the live, pornographic video chats widely available on the web, the model was the focus of a free ‘feature show’ for which there was also a live video feed. Effectively, it acted as SHOWstudio’s interactive ‘collections story’ for the Autumn/Winter ’05-6 season.

• The Interactives Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Live Event Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Wardrobe Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Prize Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Design_Download: Junya Watanabe Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Picture Diary: Movies Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Picture Diary: Images Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• On Pornography Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Interviews Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Looks Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Movies Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Interactive: Fragments of Me Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Pre-Production Meeting Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Q&A Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Contributors Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Project Blog Last updated 30 Mar 2005

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Models] [Liberty Ross] [Erotica] [Jonathan Kaye] [Downloadable] [Junya Watanabe]

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ANTIGONE UNDER HYPNOSIS

M/M (PARIS)

• Movie Last updated 25 Nov 2004
• Interviews Last updated 25 Nov 2004
• Context Last updated 25 Nov 2004
• Contributors Last updated 25 Nov 2004

Related Projects: [Film] [Interview] [Art Direction] [Graphic Design] [Opera] [Set Design]

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CHRISTIAN DIOR J'ADORE

Charlize Theron/John Galliano/Nick Knight

SHOWstudio offered an exclusive preview of the 45 second cinema cut of the Christian Dior J'Adore campaign directed by Nick Knight and starring Charlize Theron. Drawing on classic models of feminine beauty from mannerist Madonnas to Marilyn, this simple beauty shot brought to life suggests a modern resolution to possibly the most problematic challenge in fashion image-making.

• Movie Last updated 19 Nov 2004
• Contributors Last updated 19 Nov 2004

Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Celebrity] [Christian Dior] [Advertising] [Charlize Theron] [John Galliano]

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MONOGRAPHS

Donald Christie

• Movie Last updated 11 Nov 2004
• Studies Last updated 11 Nov 2004
• Interview Last updated 11 Nov 2004
• Contributors Last updated 11 Nov 2004

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SHOWS FILM WEEK S/S 2005: JENS LAUGESEN

Jens Laugesen, Alistair McKimm

The title of Jen's Laugesen's Spring/Summer '05 collection (OUTSIZE 02: CMYK) gave some preparation for the uncharacteristic surprise of colour concluding the Danish designer's predominantly monochrome show. Whereas Laugesen's own design philosophy involves creating different, generic versions from the same aesthetic whole, filmmaker Jean-François Carly adopted a more narrative approach to recording the construction and execution of the catwalk show.

The only of Shows Film Week's shorts to venture backstage, the fourth in our series took a 'behind-the-scenes' look at the production of the fashion show itself.

• Movie Last updated 14 Oct 2004
• Contributors Last updated 14 Oct 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [Jens Laugesen] [London Fashion Week]

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SHOWS FILM WEEK S/S 2005: HAMISH MORROW

Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones, Hamish Morrow, UVA

Less interested in 'next season' than in a genuine future of fashion, Hamish Morrow took a couple of collections off from showing on the catwalk in order to consolidate his research into technological glamour and functional luxury. Having chosen to represent this exploration in motion image, he
collaborated instead with Nick Thornton-Jones, Warren Du Preez and United Visual Artists on this film, 'Fashion in Zero Gravity', about the effect of gravitational pull on fashion garments and image.

The fifth in a week of fashion films relating to London Fashion Week '05, it was originally presented in the context of an exhibition project staged at Belsay Hall in Northumberland May - September 2004.

• Movie Last updated 14 Oct 2004
• Contributors Last updated 14 Oct 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [London Fashion Week] [Hamish Morrow] [Nick Thornton-Jones and Warren Du Preez]

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SHOWS FILM WEEK S/S 2005: KATARZYNA SZCZOTARSKA

Kataryna Szczotarska, Dirk Seiden Schwan

Dirk Seiden Schwan's short film for the Russian fashion designer Katarzyna Szczotarska was a refreshing and endearing portrayal of a young woman's exuberant, emotional response to the fashion she is wearing.

An exclusive edit from a longer original, 'Appoline' was the sixth fashion film in a series drawn from London Fashion Week, S/S '05 season.

• Movie Last updated 14 Oct 2004
• Contributors Last updated 14 Oct 2004

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SHOWS FILM WEEK S/S 2005: EMMA COOK

Emma Cook, Shona Heath

Making a welcome return to the London schedule after a season's hiatus, Emma Cook delighted audiences with a highly-feminine, though directional and extremely wearable, collection that showcased expert draping gathered up by Art Nouveau detailing and accessories.

The third installment to a week of films relating to the Spring/Summer '05 season, this decorative film short by Shona Heath backgrounded Emma Cook's catwalk show and revealed the collection's source aesthetic as well as referencing the pool of innovative image-makers that have surrounded this progressive designer's work.

• Movie Last updated 13 Oct 2004
• Contributors Last updated 13 Oct 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [London Fashion Week] [Emma Cook]

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SHOWS FILM WEEK S/S 2005: ANNE-SOFIE BACK

As visible shoulder pads, twisted denim dungarees and wet T-shirts that revealed red lace bras proceeded (in reverse order) down Ann-Sofie Back's S/S '05 catwalk, it was clear that this Swedish designer's antipathy to conventional representations of femininity was ongoing. As her peers made their money back on bankable, pretty accessories like dainty high heels and lady-like handbags, Ann-Sofie's broken sunglasses, slit bowler hats worn as necklaces and rope belts served to complicate already challenging visions of campus-girl imperfection.

How then, would she market that classic money-spinner, the fragrance? In a season that was peppered with scent adverts and launches-Dior's J'Adore, Chanel's No. 5, Viktor & Rolf's Flowerbomb-Ann-Sofie collaborated with photographer Benjamin Huseby to imagine the perfume campaign that could capture her brand's key values of subverted sophistication, awkwardness and hard-to-reach beauty. Were she ever to create a fragrance, that is.

The second in a week of films related to the recent Spring/Summer '05 collections, 'Sandra' unpacked this popular, pre-Christmas genre of fashion image-making with the quintessential self-awareness and wit that characterises an Ann-Sofie Back project.

• Movie Last updated 12 Oct 2004
• Contributors Last updated 12 Oct 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Ann-Sofie Back] [Benjamin Alexandre Huseby]

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SHOWS FILM WEEK S/S 2005: SWASH

Swash, Stephen White

Highlight of London Fashion Week S/S '05 for many, Swash's sunny, poplin prints and cheeky cut-out trousers brought a breath of fresh air to the catwalk and what's more, a welcome sense of humour. This film, The Hoteliers, showcased the collection that put them on the London schedule: a previous, capsule collection of motorcycle capes and trousers designed for the nineteenth Festival International des Arts de la Mode à Hyères prize, which they won in May 2004. Situating their characteristic, virtuoso tailoring, classic fabrics and fun print designs (by illustrator Yuko Kondo) in a fantastical, English pastoral setting, Stephen White's film short exemplified the growing trend for designers to present their garments in a motion image and sound context.

The first in a full week of films related to the recent Spring/Summer '05 collections, The Hoteliers represented this innovative way of re-imagining editorial fashion image-making.

• Movie Last updated 11 Oct 2004
• Contributors Last updated 11 Oct 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Swash]

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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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PEACE: H PROJECT 02

H Project

Accompanied by ecstatic sound of The Master of Gospel and the Joy Georgia Mass Choir, the second of our H Projects films was dominated by nature as Thymaya Payne and Zara Rusadze took menswear to the forest.

• Movie Last updated 20 Aug 2004
• Contributors Last updated 20 Aug 2004

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TESTOSTERONE

Toyin/Nicola Formichetti

The Burberry Boys battled it out with the Kim Jones gang in this A/W '04 west side story. The Doi provided the soundtrack to Toyin's graceful study in teen angst and masculinity.

• Movie Last updated 23 Jul 2004
• Contributors Last updated 23 Jul 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Music] [Menswear] [Toyin] [Kim Jones] [Burberry] [Nicola Formichetti]

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BILLIE JEAN

Kate Moss/Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

Intimate, spontaneous, low-tech and informal. These are not words one might associate with the work of legendary photographic duo van Lamsweerde & Matadin. Not only did this film short reveal the more lighthearted aspects of their shoots, however, as Kate Moss re-enacts Michael Jackson's classic dance routine, it demonstrated the photographers' working process as van Lamsweerde audibly encourages Moss to strike the playful poses for which this partnership has become known.

• Movie Last updated 14 Jul 2004
• Text Last updated 14 Jul 2004
• Contributors Last updated 14 Jul 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Models] [Music] [Celebrity] [Kate Moss] [Dance] [Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin]

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LYRIC

3-D & Tom Hingston/Katy England & Bobby Gillespie/Jason Evans/Simon Foxton/Nick Knight, Kylie Minogue & Liz Neal/Felix Larher/Nick Rhodes & Gavin Elder/Julie Verhoeven

Thirteen leading creatives from the fields of fashion, music and image-making used mobile video phones to create a series of short 'motion clips' that visually interpreted the lyrics of their favoured song.

• Archive Last updated 26 Apr 2004
• Contributors Last updated 26 Apr 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Music] [Picture Phone] [Celebrity] [Jason Evans] [Bobby Gillespie] [Kylie Minogue] [Katy England] [Julie Verhoeven] [Tom Hingston] [Massive Attack]

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CIRCUS

Karni Arieli/Celia Topping

Photographer Arieli substituted skilled performing artists in place of models for this live fashion shoot featuring progressive knitwear design from the A/W '04 collections. She shot stills using the SHOWstudio picture phone as well as short motion-image clips of three different pairs of artists, referencing Eadweard Muybridge's chronographic sequences in their form.

• Images Last updated 21 Apr 2004
• Contributors Last updated 21 Apr 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Performance] [Picture Phone] [Photoshoot]

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H PROJECT

H Project, Zaza Rusadze

An experimental film collaboration between German fashion collaborative H Project and the film director Zaza Rusadze. Featured menswear by designers including: Bless, Samuel De Goede, Frank Leder, Raf Simons and Bernhard Willhelm.

• Movie Last updated 15 Apr 2004
• Contributors Last updated 15 Apr 2004

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SHOWS FILM WEEK S/S 2005: PETER JENSEN

Peter Jensen

The sole question that perplexed those lucky enough to have witnessed Peter Jensen's utterly memorable S/S '05 'show on ice' was 'why had nobody done it before?' Shot from the rink side, this short film, 'Tonya', captured the magic of the young skaters in action, showing fashion as it is experienced in everyday life; in motion.

The final film short in a week-long series marking how motion image has inveigled its way into mainstream modes of representing fashion, 'Tonya' celebrated the infamous ice queen who fell from grace and inspired Jensen's collection.

• Movie Last updated 15 Apr 2004
• Contributors Last updated 15 Apr 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Models] [London Fashion Week] [Peter Jensen]

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MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA A/W 2004-05

Nigel Bennett, Martin Margiela

An exclusive preview of Nigel Bennett's film showcase of the feted design group's A/W '04 womenswear collection. Presented in four parts, the film comprised conversations with five women, from which the themes of the main line collection and its intriguing Trompe L'Oeil prints were drawn.

• Images Last updated 7 Apr 2004
• Contributors Last updated 7 Apr 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [Paris Fashion Week] [Martin Margiela]

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SHOWS FILM WEEK A/W '04: QUIET PLEASE

Jens Laugesen/Jean Francois Carly/Marcus Werner Hed

• Movie Last updated 26 Mar 2004
• Interview Last updated 26 Mar 2004
• Contributors Last updated 26 Mar 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Models] [Jens Laugesen] [London Fashion Week] [Marcus Werner Hed]

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SHOWS FILM WEEK A/W '04: CINDY

Peter Jensen

• Movie Last updated 26 Mar 2004
• Interview Last updated 26 Mar 2004
• Contributors Last updated 26 Mar 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Art] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Peter Jensen]

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SHOWS FILM WEEK A/W '04: BLAAKISTAN

BLAAK

• Movie Last updated 25 Mar 2004
• Interview Last updated 25 Mar 2004
• Contributors Last updated 25 Mar 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week]

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SHOWS FILM WEEK A/W '04: TV

Patrik Söderstam

• Movie Last updated 24 Mar 2004
• Interview Last updated 24 Mar 2004
• Contributors Last updated 24 Mar 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Collections] [Menswear] [London Fashion Week]

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SHOWS FILM WEEK A/W '04: DIGITAL ECHOES

Hamish Morrow/Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones/UVA

• Movie Last updated 24 Mar 2004
• Interview Last updated 24 Mar 2004
• Contributors Last updated 24 Mar 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Performance] [London Fashion Week] [Nick Thornton-Jones and Warren Du Preez]

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SHOWS FILM WEEK A/W '04: HEARTS ON FIRE

Maria Chen Pascual/Jean Francois Carly/Marcus Werner Hed

• Movie Last updated 23 Mar 2004
• Interview Last updated 23 Mar 2004
• Contributors Last updated 23 Mar 2004

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THE BELGIANS

Photographer John François Carly selected seven Belgian designers - Véronique Branquinho, Jean Paul Knott, Véronique Leroy, Haider Ackerman, Martin Margiela, AF Vandevorst and Bruno Pieters - as the focus of seven fashion films; each featuring garments from their respective A/W '03 Collections. Accompanying interviews exposed the interlinking strands that bind 'the Belgians' together, making them the current cerebral force of fashion.

• Designers Last updated 5 Mar 2004
• Contributors Last updated 5 Mar 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Collections] [Martin Margiela] [Jean-Francois Carly] [Raf Simons]

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SKIN WEAR

Zac Posen/Craig McDean

Designer Zac Posen constructed a 'dress' from the very bodies of the redoubtable Martha Graham dancers in Craig McDean's balletic film with collaboration from model Erin O'Connor.

• Movie Last updated 17 Feb 2004
• Contributors Last updated 17 Feb 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Models] [Dance] [Zac Posen] [Craig McDean]

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FLASH

Nick Knight/Natasha V

Natasha V gave the performance of a lifetime in this film short depicting Nick Knight photographing her for British Vogue magazine. In an accompanying interview, the model talked about her experience of the war in Bosnia, aggression and her idiosyncratic approach to modelling.

• Movie Last updated 18 Dec 2003
• Contributors Last updated 18 Dec 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Models] [Photoshoot]

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ALWAYS AND FOREVER

Maria Chen Pascual

In a twofold presentation of short films and downloadable t-shirt design, re-immerse yourself in the Gothic Romanticism that Pascual's imagery evokes.

• Movie Last updated 20 Nov 2003
• T-shirt Last updated 20 Nov 2003
• Contributors Last updated 20 Nov 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [Downloadable]

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WHITE DUNK

Harri Peccinotti

Exclusive, behind the scenes film of legendary photographer Harri Peccinotti at work, photographing exhibits from Nike's White Dunk exhibition.

• Movie Last updated 28 Oct 2003
• Images Last updated 28 Oct 2003
• Contributors Last updated 28 Oct 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Art] [Sportswear] [Nike] [Harri Peccinotti]

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GROUND_ZERO.03: FAITH IN CHAOS

Jens Laugesen

Downloadable T-shirt design and GROUND_ZERO.03, Nick Knight's film of Laugesen developing his S/S '04 collection launch simultaneously as the designer's show hit the catwalk.

• Movie Last updated 2 Oct 2003
• Interview Last updated 2 Oct 2003
• T-shirt Last updated 2 Oct 2003
• Contributors Last updated 2 Oct 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Film] [Collections] [Jens Laugesen] [London Fashion Week]

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SCREEN PRINTS

Eley Kishimoto

SHOWstudio collaborated with Eley Kishimoto on a series of screen-based works that marked 10 years of their cult patterns and which were broadcast across London during Fashion Week.

• Movies Last updated 22 Sep 2003
• Interactive Last updated 22 Sep 2003
• Contributors Last updated 22 Sep 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Stylists] [Jason Evans] [Eley Kishimoto] [Textile Prints] [Norbert Schoerner] [Laurent Fetis] [Elisabeth Arkiphoff] [Shona Heath] [Rory Crichton] [Adam Mufti] [Frauke Stegmann]

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END OF SUMMER

Laura Sciacovelli

Summer dresses provided the inspiration for these sensual motion portraits with atmospheric soundtracks from experimental bands Plinth, Colleen and The Pastels.

• Movies Last updated 11 Sep 2003
• Interview Last updated 11 Sep 2003
• Contributors Last updated 11 Sep 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Music] [Junya Watanabe] [Vivienne Westwood] [Hussein Chalayan] [Laura Sciacovelli]

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ARTICLES OF FAITH

Nick Knight/Sharon Dowsett/Simon Costin

A controversial partnership: religion and iconography. Costin and Dowsett asked who and what people turned to in their darkest hour and how that faith might have looked.

• Interactive Last updated 4 Sep 2003
• Interviews Last updated 4 Sep 2003
• Contributors Last updated 4 Sep 2003

Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Stylists] [Beauty] [Set Design]

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PEOPLE, NOT CLOTHES

Jamie Morgan

The seminal idiom of Morgan's 80s style photography endures in this diverse showcase of his adventures in motion imagery.

• Movies Last updated 22 Aug 2003
• Contributors Last updated 22 Aug 2003

Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Interview]

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POP POUPPEE

Mario Sorrenti/Jane How

Cheese and liquorice were among the unlikely materials that modelled the likenesses of contemporary icons for this W magazine jewellery shoot.

• Movies Last updated 4 Aug 2003
• Contributors Last updated 4 Aug 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Stylists] [Jane How] [Mario Sorrenti]

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MADE IN HOLLYWOOD

Wm Doig/Craig McDean

Fasten your holster belt: we're in for a bumpy ride... Craig McDean filmed Amber Valetta in a humble salute to Nudie's Rodeo Tailors.

• Movies Last updated 4 Jul 2003
• Text Last updated 4 Jul 2003
• Contributors Last updated 4 Jul 2003

Related Projects: [Film] [Performance] [Models] [Set Design] [Craig McDean] [History]

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RAPHI

Toyin/Kim Jones

As Kim Jones' garments slithered across the bare torso of the young male model in Toyin's film short, it became apparent that clothing may not have been the photographer's motivating obsession...

• Movies Last updated 11 Jun 2003
• Interview Last updated 11 Jun 2003
• Contributors Last updated 11 Jun 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Interview] [Performance] [Models] [Menswear] [Kim Jones]

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COMPULSIVE VIEWING: THE FILMS OF GUY BOURDIN

For the first time, discover Bourdin's grasp of the moving image in this legacy of unseen cinefilms.

• Movie Last updated 17 Apr 2003
• Biography Last updated 17 Apr 2003
• Contributors Last updated 17 Apr 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Music] [Adam Mufti] [History] [Guy Bourdin] [Olivier Alary]

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CLAUDIA'S DREAM

Félix Larher

Filmmaker Larher revealed a Claudia Schiffer you've never seen, who daydreams of flirting with her pals King Kong and The Pink Panther.

• Movies Last updated 15 Apr 2003
• Images Last updated 15 Apr 2003
• Contributors Last updated 15 Apr 2003

Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Performance] [Models] [Celebrity] [Claudia Schiffer]

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STRIKE ME PINK

Greg Kadel/Viktor & Rolf

Showcasing their most colourful and playful collection yet, Dutch designer duo Viktor & Rolf's Spring/Summer '03 show provided the setting for Greg Kadel's kaleidoscopic films.

• Movies Last updated 17 Mar 2003
• Interview Last updated 17 Mar 2003
• Contributors Last updated 17 Mar 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Interview] [Collections] [Paris Fashion Week] [Music] [Greg Kadel]

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SPECIAL CASES

Nick Knight/Massive Attack

Nick Knight exploded the beauty myth in this exclusive film related to his motion image campaign for Massive Attack's new album 100th Window.

• Movie Last updated 25 Feb 2003
• Contributors Last updated 25 Feb 2003

Related Projects: [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Music] [Massive Attack]

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OOF!

Patrik Söderstam

Swede Sucess: Having joined a substantial number of fashion houses during this particular season, young Swedish designer Söderstam launched his graduate collection via a film presentation.

• Movie Last updated 19 Feb 2003
• Contributors Last updated 19 Feb 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Music] [Menswear] [Illustration]

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PALE BLUE EYES

Greg Kadel

Malgosia's pale blue eyes provided the motivation for this gentle motion portrait.

• Movie Last updated 9 Dec 2002
• Contributors Last updated 9 Dec 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Models] [Music] [Greg Kadel]

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SHELLEY FOX 14

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.

• Movie Last updated 27 Nov 2002
• Interview Last updated 27 Nov 2002
• Contributors Last updated 27 Nov 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Art] [Collections] [Music] [Documentary] [Hiroshi Kutomi] [Gareth McConnell] [Shelley Fox]

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DREAM CLOSET

Fumiko Imano

How to wear it. When the most innovative fashions were beyond your grasp, only a film of you secretly trying them on in the top department stores and boutiques came close.

• Movie Last updated 21 Oct 2002
• Contributors Last updated 21 Oct 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Collections] [Documentary] [Retail]

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STRANGER THAN FICTION

Serge Leblon

Obedience training. Sun burnt corpses. Gun-wielding predators. Belgian photographer Leblon suffused the improbable stuff of everyday life in the delicate, luminous tones of his fashion imagery in four, beautifully unsettling film shorts.

• Movie Last updated 30 Sep 2002
• Contributors Last updated 30 Sep 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Serge Leblon]

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SHIVERS

Craig McDean/Jo Reynolds

All things to all men, everyone's favourite new model Jo Reynolds is difficult to pigeonhole. One minute she's giving good face in the latest fashion campaign, the next she's fronting a band or launching her own jewellery line. Watch her as she gave Nick Cave's classic track 'Shivers' her full attention in this sensual performance.

• Movie Last updated 23 Sep 2002
• Contributors Last updated 23 Sep 2002

Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Performance] [Music] [Craig McDean] [Jo Reynolds]

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HOUSE

David Chipperfield Architects

Follow the design process and visual realisation of this David Chipperfield house. The animation and time-lapse movie documented the build, while Deyan Sudjic's essay and audio interview with David Chipperfield detailed the motivations and architectural soap opera that surrounded it.

• Movies Last updated 26 Jul 2002
• Images Last updated 26 Jul 2002
• Interview Last updated 26 Jul 2002
• Text Last updated 26 Jul 2002
• Contributors Last updated 26 Jul 2002

Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Graphic Design] [Architecture] [David Chipperfield] [Animation]

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CORRESPONDENT: Lance Martins

Lance Martins

Film and music maker Lance Martins documents his eclectic visual inspirations during his travels as the coordinator of displays for Paul Smith Ltd. worldwide.

• Instalment One Last updated 9 Jul 2002
• Instalment Two Last updated 9 Jul 2002
• Instalment Three Last updated 9 Jul 2002
• Instalment Four Last updated 9 Jul 2002
• Contributors Last updated 9 Jul 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Music] [Documentary] [Diary] [Retail]

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MORE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN

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.

• Movie Last updated 13 Jun 2002
• Interview Last updated 13 Jun 2002
• Contributors Last updated 13 Jun 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Performance] [Art] [Models] [Celebrity]

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ECLIPSE

Nick Knight

Linda Evangelista starred in her own moon age daydream as she performed SHOWstudio's new singing cover on accordion in Nick Knight's seductive short film, 'Eclipse'. Jeremy Healy remixed the soundtrack.

• Movie Last updated 20 May 2002
• Contributors Last updated 20 May 2002

Related Projects: [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Models] [Linda Evangelista] [Music]

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MONUMENT

Camille Vivier

Love's flame burns eternal as the lifespan of the romance represented outlasts the Santeria candle pictured in Camille Vivier's short film.

• Movie Last updated 17 Apr 2002
• Text Last updated 17 Apr 2002
• Contributors Last updated 17 Apr 2002

Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Interview] [Music] [Camille Vivier]

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BARBIE KILLER IN PLAYLAND

Félix Larher

Did the bright, young things ever make it through Playland? Barbie Killer's celebrity cull took its toll in Félix Larher's heroic fantasy.

• Movie Last updated 10 Apr 2002
• Interview Last updated 10 Apr 2002
• Contributors Last updated 10 Apr 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Animation]

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DEVIL'S PLAYTHING

Craig McDean/Karen Elson/Melissa Auf Der Maur

Watch supermodel Karen Elson and former Smashing Pumpkins and Hole bassist, Melissa Auf der Maur, as they performed SHOWstudio's new 'singing cover' in Craig McDean's intimate film.

• Movie Last updated 7 Mar 2002
• Contributors Last updated 7 Mar 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Models] [Music] [Karen Elson] [Craig McDean] [Melissa Auf Der Maur]

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MAKE IT UP

Val Garland

Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon met Hans Bellmer's Poupèes: twenty blonde models were made up in a vivacious, painterly fashion performance.

• Movie Last updated 22 Feb 2002
• Interview Last updated 22 Feb 2002
• Contributors Last updated 22 Feb 2002

Related Projects: [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Interview] [Performance] [Models] [Beauty] [Val Garland]

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BEAT THE CLOCK

Julie Verhoeven

Catch a time-lapse glimpse of Illustrator Julie Verhoeven as she worked on her exhibition and book, 'Fat-Bottomed Girls'.

• Images Last updated 11 Feb 2002
• Movies Last updated 11 Feb 2002
• Contributors Last updated 11 Feb 2002

Related Projects: [Film] [Performance] [Documentary] [Illustration] [Julie Verhoven]

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TOTALITY

Warwick Saint & Hal Couzens

Experience the full magnitude of the total solar eclipse in Warwick Saint and Hal Couzens' compelling films and images from their pilgrimage to Zambia.

• Movies Last updated 20 Dec 2001
• Images Last updated 20 Dec 2001
• Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2001

Related Projects: [Photography] [Film]

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BLUE MOVIE

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.

• Movie Last updated 21 Nov 2001
• Images Last updated 21 Nov 2001
• Contributors Last updated 21 Nov 2001

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Art] [Erotica]

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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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J'ADORE

Nick Knight/Adam Mufti

Trailer trash, Jerry Springer, a '57 Cadillac, Gummo, Angela Lindvall and lots of spray paint. Put them in a blender and what did you get?

• Movie Last updated 6 Nov 2001
• Contributors Last updated 6 Nov 2001

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Music] [Christian Dior] [Adam Mufti] [Animation] [Jeremy Healey]

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STORMTROOPER IN DRAG

Jason Evans

This is not a love song. Jason Evans dressed up to test the parameters of identity and propriety.

• Movie Last updated 5 Nov 2001
• Contributors Last updated 5 Nov 2001

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Performance] [Music] [Jason Evans] [Gender]

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PAGAN POETRY

Björk/Nick Knight/Insert Silence/Paul Barnes

Exclusive, uncensored version of the video for Björk's new single, Pagan Poetry, directed by Nick Knight. Also featuring a magical, reactive graphic interpretation and a downloadable typeface; designed for the single sleeve.

• Movie Last updated 2 Oct 2001
• Interactive Last updated 2 Oct 2001
• Images Last updated 2 Oct 2001
• Typeface Last updated 2 Oct 2001
• Contributors Last updated 2 Oct 2001

Related Projects: [Photography] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Performance] [Music] [Paul Barnes] [Insert Silence] [Typeface]

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DIAMOND BLUES

Kate Moss/Bobby Gillespie

Intimate Super-8 footage of Kate, Bobby and friends recording the track 'Diamond Blues' one playful, summer's afternoon.

• Movie Last updated 5 Sep 2001
• Contributors Last updated 5 Sep 2001

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Music] [Documentary] [Celebrity] [Kate Moss] [Bobby Gillespie]

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SAFER STEPS

Andy Sticks

Why you should 'always give your new leather soles a bit of a rubdown with sandpaper before venturing out for a night on the town'. A cautionary story by poet, Andy Sticks.

• Movie Last updated 9 Feb 2001
• Contributors Last updated 9 Feb 2001

Related Projects: [Film] [Performance] [Poetry]

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PLASTICINE

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.

• Interactive Last updated 9 Feb 2001
• Images Last updated 9 Feb 2001
• Movie Last updated 9 Feb 2001
• Contributors Last updated 9 Feb 2001

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Film] [Art] [Collections] [Jane How]

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MELTING HEADS

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.

• Movie Last updated 9 Feb 2001
• Text Last updated 9 Feb 2001
• Contributors Last updated 9 Feb 2001

Related Projects: [Film] [Interview] [Art] [Music] [Chapman Brothers]

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CRUSH

Nick Knight/Tom Hingston

The dark side of the saloon. Nick Knight placed a dozen video cameras inside four crusher-bound cars and filmed their destruction down to the final scrunch. 3D of Massive Attack dreamt up the soundtrack.

• Movie Last updated 9 Feb 2001
• Text Last updated 9 Feb 2001
• Contributors Last updated 9 Feb 2001

Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Music] [Documentary] [Tom Hingston] [Massive Attack]

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LO-FI: Mark Szaszy

Mark Szaszy

Late one night, Mark Szaszy took three friends, a steel guitar and a lot of vodka, filmed them on his old Hi 8 camera, and then lost the master copy.

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

Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Documentary] [Mark Szaszy]

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1088% Solve Sundsbo

S¿lve Sundsb¿

See the streets of London at very, very high speed through Sølve Sundsbø's thermal camera.

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

Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [City]

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CORPORATE AESTHETICS

Jason Evans

Snide. Patronising. Tortuous. Whenever Jason Evans turns on the telly, he's irritated by those 'annoying little bursts of eye candy'. So he came up with his own version.

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

Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Politics] [Music] [Jason Evans] [Advertising] [TV]

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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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DIAMONDS

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.

• Movies Last updated 20 Dec 2000
• Text Last updated 20 Dec 2000
• Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000

Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Performance] [Art] [Celebrity] [Kate Moss] [Surveillance] [Sarah Morris]

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HOME DANCE

Elaine Constantine

'Just for those two and a half minutes, life is fantastic,' says one of the Northern Soulsters filmed by Elaine Constantine getting ready for a night out on the floor.

• Movie Last updated 10 Nov 2000
• Text Last updated 10 Nov 2000
• Contributors Last updated 10 Nov 2000

Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Models] [Music] [Dance] [Elaine Constantine] [Northern Soul]

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