Nick Knight/Lily Donaldson/Jonathan Kaye
Allowing unprecedented insight into Nick Knight’s latest photo shoot, SHOWstudio shed light on every nitty-gritty detail as he works with model-of-the-moment Lily Donaldson and a stellar backstage team to creates the editorial images for February 2009’s V Magazine.
Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Balenciaga] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Alexander McQueen] [Martin Margiela] [Val Garland] [Lily Donaldson] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Azzedine Alaïa] [Pierre Hardy] [Jil Sander]
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.
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]
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?
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Sam McKnight] [Val Garland] [Ruth Hogben] [Spring/Summer 08] [Freja Beha Erichsen] [Kate Phelan]
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.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Live] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Kate Moss] [Poetry] [Val Garland] [Spring/Summer 08] [Roddy Lumsden]
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.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Interview] [Sam McKnight] [Alister Mackie] [Val Garland] [Autumn/Winter 07-08] [Shaun Cole]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Martin Margiela] [Val Garland] [Lily Donaldson] [Ruth Hogben] [Katy Barker]
Nick Knight
Jefferson Hack asked Nick Knight to rework his original cover shot for the first issue of ANOTHER magazine and Nick requested your help. The results were exhibited at Colette, Paris at the end of February 2007.
Related Projects: [Interactive] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Sam McKnight] [Katy England] [Val Garland] [Paul Bruty] [Jefferson Hack] [Collette]
Nick Knight/Naomi Campbell
As a Christmas treat SHOWstudio viewers had a unique opportunity to get to grips with the physicality of one of the most successful, beautiful and, er, topical of the Supermodels: Miss Naomi Campbell! Viewers watched Nick Knight scan that legendary hard body using cutting edge 3-D scanning technology live on set. The event was streamed on the SHOWstudio site, providing the chance to see the creation of fashion imagery, live in the making.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Naomi Campbell] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Val Garland]
Val Garland/Sam McKnight/Marian Newman
Nick Knight's stalwart hair and make-up team threw open their studio doors during a three-day collections shoot. Drawing on the S/S '04 key theme of iridescence, a relay of live stills influenced by the classic beauty imagery of Penn and Watson disclosed the key looks of the season.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Stylists] [Beauty] [Val Garland]
Val Garland
Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon met Hans Bellmer's Poupèes: twenty blonde models were made up in a vivacious, painterly fashion performance.
Related Projects: [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Interview] [Performance] [Models] [Beauty] [Val Garland]