PARIS FASHION WEEK A/W 09

Documenting next season as it happens, SHOWstudio updates live and direct from the cream of the Paris collections for A/W 2009. SHOWstudio fashion director Alex Fury will upload show reports throughout the day, accompanied by images captured by veteran catwalk photographer Chris Moore to illustrate the shows and showcase a selection of SHOWstudio's favourite designers through comprehensive image galleries.

• Credits Last updated 4 Mar 2009
• Contributors Last updated 4 Mar 2009
• Project Blog Last updated 27 Feb 2009
• Reports Last updated 27 Feb 2009

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Gareth Pugh] [Paris Fashion Week] [Yves Saint Laurent] [John Galliano] [Alexander McQueen] [Martin Margiela] [Vivienne Westwood] [Yohji Yamamoto] [Hussein Chalayan] [Givenchy] [Autumn/Winter 2009] [Rick Owens]

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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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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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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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SHELF APPEAL

Penny Martin

An artificial sweetener dispenser designed by Karl Lagerfeld, a hairbrush
whose bristles had been replaced by locks of human hair, coloured contact
lenses that sported the letters 'CD' across the iris: each of these fashion
curios occupied the weird territory between fashion garment and accessory,
making them qualify for SHELF APPEAL. For the bi-monthly 'Editor's Choice'
slot that ran from December 2003-4, Penny Martin selected her then current object of desire, got it into the SHOWstudio live space and gave it a good old written examination.

• Text Last updated 15 Dec 2004
• Archive Last updated 15 Dec 2004
• Contributors Last updated 15 Dec 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Penny Martin] [Christian Dior] [Yves Saint Laurent] [Chanel] [Bottega Veneta] [Miu Miu] [Marni]

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