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]
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.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Toyin] [Autumn/Winter 08-09] [Alex Fury] [Replay] [Stevie Westgarth] [Doi]
On April 11 2007 SHOWstudio staged a live ‘happening’ in association with PlayStation 3, viewed by an on-site audience of fifty SHOWstudio viewers at a secret location and a global audience via webcast.
The SHOWstudio Revue created a dynamic performance space in which six different ‘zones’ were defined by dramatic or musical action. The project also drew a live audience into the complicity of the director/performer relationship by asking each member to record the event on camera. Excerpts of the footage were screened live using PlayStation 3s throughout the night and were included in the editing of an exclusive film unveiled by the SHOWstudio team later that month.
Related Projects: [Live] [Ross Phillips] [Performance] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Music] [Paul Bruty] [Playstation]
Nick Knight/Gemma Ward/Giles Deacon/Christopher Kane/Marios Schwab/Rebecca & Mike/Fred Butler/Paul Bruty/Simon Foxton/Alexis Marguerite Teplin
Over three days, 7, 8 & 11 December 2006 twelve friends of SHOWstudio came down to the live space to create one of 12 Days of Christmas videos, each decorating a Nick Knight silhouette of Gemma Ward with Swarovski crystal. In addition to webcasting the live event, each contribution was filmed from above and the footage was edited into a special film that was offered on SHOWstudio on each of the twelve days of Christmas (26 December – 6 January). Starting 7 December, set up day, viewers watched inspired hands at work to get a sneak preview of the final result.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Gareth Pugh] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Gemma Ward] [Jonathan Kaye] [Paul Bruty] [Francesca Burns] [Marios Schwab] [Christopher Kane] [Rebecca and Mike] [Fred Butler] [Alexis Marguerite Tepli]
A unique chance to see the undiscovered, historic film footage of one of the most influential fashion photographers of all time. Three beautiful film edits by SHOWstudio, created in collaboration with Adam Mufti and Olivier Alary, are joined by an essay featuring Erwin Blumenfeld’s comprehensive film holdings as well as an illustrated timeline of the photographer’s life and career and an exclusive interview with his son, writer Yorick Blumenfeld.
Related Projects: [Film] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Advertising] [Adam Mufti] [Olivier Alary] [Erwin Blumenfeld] [Yorick Blumenfeld]
In November 2005, SHOWstudio offered its international audience the unique opportunity to have their own photographic work featured in a Nick Knight photo shoot with Antony Hegarty, lead singer of Mecury Music prize winning group Antony and the Johnsons. As part of the concept for the portrait shoot on 1st December 2005, Nick Knight used a selection of photographic imagery, submitted by SHOWstudio viewers, to inspire an experimental musical performance. The visuals were projected onto Antony, resulting in a beautiful photographic spread that appeared in the February edition of i-D magazine. Incorporating a gallery with 500+ contributions from SHOWstudio viewers, documentation of the initial brief, shoot and the published story in i-D magazine, the project’s spectacular finalé piece took the form of an atmospheric film –featuring Antony and a myriad of inspirational imagery courtesy of SHOWstudio’ viewers- created by Nick Knight and edited by Sam Blair.
Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Music] [Paul Bruty] [Antony and the Johnsons]
Laura Bradley, Paul Hetherington, Nick Knight, Penny Martin, Ross Phillips, Zora Star
Anechoic is a 'collections story' project that used sound instead of visuals to interpret the essence of key garments from the A/W '06-7 season by leading fashion brands. A live recording session in a specialist recording studio -a hemi-anechoic chamber- on 1 June 2006 was used to create a series of groundbreaking interactives that for the first time in fashion media, detailed the precise sound of fashion materials such as feathers, sequins, glass crystals and beads, nylon, taffeta, leather, velvet, jacquard, zips and metallic chains. The live broadcast was also filmed, providing motion image footage of model Zora Star working in the unconventional, futuristic studio environment, which was then edited to create abstract shorts of each audio 'shot'.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Audio] [Ross Phillips] [Performance] [Collections] [Models] [Zora Star] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Dorian Moore]
Penny Martin
SHOWstudio took their Picture Phone along to document the proceedings at Austrian Fashion Week. View Gala Awards ceremonies, a visit to the Juergen Teller show at Vienna's Kunsthalle and a series of studio visits with designers that included fabrics interseason and Petar Petrov.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Picture Phone] [Diary]
Richard Rhys-Thomas/Paul Hetherington
Future Vintage! 'Try on' the enduring fashion statements from the Spring/Summer '03 collections before picking them up cheap while stocks last.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Collections] [Paul Hetherington] [Graphic Design] [Illustration]
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]
Peter Saville/Julie Verhoeven
Investigate the dark, erotic scenarios underlying Julie Verhoeven's intricate, interactive wallpaper. The decorative, Toile de Jouey-inspired designs belie the seamy underworld they depict.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Paul Hetherington] [Art Direction] [Erotica] [Illustration] [Julie Verhoven] [Peter Saville] [Paul Bruty]
Nick Knight/Camille Bidault-Waddington
Take a model styled by Camille Bidault-Waddington with hair by Sam McKnight. Let a four year-old, a one year-old and two three year-olds do what ever they want with her make-up, and then ask them to draw on Nick Knight's prints.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Paul Hetherington] [Art Direction] [Beauty] [Music] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Digital Image-Making] [Animation] [Camille Bidault-Waddington]
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]