VMAN/Nick Knight/Simon Foxton
Partnering with VMAN and Ford Models, in Summer 2009 we offered our male viewers the chance to become the next face of men's fashion. The lucky winner Rico Nieves received a contract with Ford Models and was photographed by Nick Knight and styled by Simon Foxton for the cover of VMAN 16.
Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Menswear] [Magazine] [Model]
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.
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]
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.
Related Projects: [Simon Foxton] [Film]
&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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Nick Griffiths] [Adidas]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [John Galliano] [Autumn/Winter 07-08]
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]
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.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Interactive] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Politics]
Simon Foxton
Thirty men in thirty days: Simon Foxton's fashionable month ran from April
1st, each day he styled a different model to pose in front of a live webcam and
take your calls.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Simon Foxton] [Performance] [Models] [Stylists] [Menswear]
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Simon Foxton] [Documentary] [Styling] [Clubs]
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.
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]
Simon Foxton/Jason Evans
Imagery for live shoot that used old sporting photos for a new direction in menswear editorial.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Webcast] [Simon Foxton] [Stylists] [Photoshoot] [Jason Evans]
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.
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]
Nick Knight/Simon Foxton/Jonathan Kaye/ Sam McKnight
SHOCKER: Supermodel gets fat! Alexander McQueen turns into a golden eagle! Bobby Gillespie dresses in ladies' underwear! See the bizarre and fantastical transformations that took place during your average Nick Knight fashion shoot. In films drawn from Webcam footage, movies from video documentation and animations from the original Polaroids, watch the models as they arrived, the stylists at work and the celebrities laze around as 16 amazing fashion stories unfolded.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interactive] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Interview] [Performance] [Judy Blame] [Photoshoot] [Liberty Ross] [Jonathan Kaye] [Juergen Teller] [Sam McKnight] [Bobby Gillespie] [Lily Cole] [Shona Heath]
SImon Foxton/Alasdair McLellan
For your pleasure. Fashioned from calling cards, nine working boys gave us their denim look. Who will you pick? Alasdair McLellan provided the photos, Simon Foxton the styling.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Simon Foxton] [Menswear] [Styling] [Sportswear] [Alasdair McLellan]
Nick Knight
Watch nine supermodels sleep in these delicate and mesmerising films compiled from Webcam footage, captured from their hotel rooms.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Performance] [Collections] [Models] [Zora Star] [Liberty Ross] [Jonathan Kaye] [Elise Crombez] [Devon Aioki] [Surveillance]