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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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SALES, SOLDES, SALDI
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.
- Interactive Last updated 29 Apr 2004
- Contributors Last updated 29 Apr 2004
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Collections] [Paul Hetherington] [Graphic Design] [Illustration]
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SCORE
Judy Blame, Emily Drake, Linda Evangelista, Irina Funtikova, David James, Grace Jones, Nick Knight, Clinton Morrison, Adam Mufti, Sharmin Nordien, Ivan Putrov, Philip Treacy, Rachel Yankey
SHOWstudio was invited to create an event to mark Philip Treacy’s debut, A/W '06, collection in collaboration with British sports brand UMBRO. Drawing on historic, chronophotographic images by Eadweard Muybridge, Nick Knight and Judy Blame collected a colourful cast of dancers, gymnasts, Premiership footballers and iconic fashion models to stage a spectacular exploration of Treacy’s ‘luxury sportswear’ concept. Viewers had the chance to tune in on Thursday 2nd February 2006 and watch a balletic motion study, choreographed to an innovative musical score and which created the basis for a kinetic audio installation that was unveiled on 16 February during London Fashion Week.
- Live Gallery Archive Last updated 16 Feb 2006
- Ticker Last updated 27 Jan 2006
- Bulletin Last updated 27 Jan 2006
- Contributors Last updated 25 Jan 2006
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Interview] [Collections] [Linda Evangelista] [Philip Treacy]
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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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SCREEN TEST
Duncan Cheetham/Lisa Mustafa
A one-day, live shoot in which print designer Duncan Cheetham screen printed from five of his own specially commissioned designs onto seven original outfits. Make-up artist Lisa Mustafa took the print designs and colours as her palette and inspiration.
- Webcast Last updated 30 Apr 2004
- Contributors Last updated 30 Apr 2004
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Performance] [Models] [Beauty] [Photoshoot] [Textile Prints]
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SEASON'S GREETINGS
Hywel Davies/Edward Enninful/Paul Hetherington/Yoko Ikeno/Jonathan Kaye/Zoe Whitley/Panos Yiapanis/Nancy Rohde
You've desired them in the magazines. Stroked them in the shops. Now construct the key pieces from the Autumn/Winter '02 collections into your new look for the season using our dress-up-doll. Once you have styled one of four top models, you can send your fashion plate as a 'seasonal greetings card' to friends and family! Leading stylists Edward Enninful, Jonathan Kaye, Nancy Rohde and Panos Yiapannis selected their 'top ten' garments from the current fashion collections, which were interpreted by illustrator Yoko Ikeno. Writer Hywel Davies considered the biannual imperative to refresh our capsule wardrobes in an accompanying essay and the stylists discussed the selection process in interviews with Zoe Whitley.
- Text Last updated 21 Oct 2002
- Interview Last updated 21 Oct 2002
- Contributors Last updated 21 Oct 2002
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Collections] [Stylists] [Jonathan Kaye] [Illustration] [Panos Yiapannis] [Nancy Rhode] [Edward Enninful]
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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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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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SHIMMER
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.
- Webcast Last updated 16 Jan 2004
- Contributors Last updated 16 Jan 2004
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Stylists] [Beauty] [Val Garland]
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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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SHOOT
Nick Knight
In this film contextualising couture for a W magazine shoot, the studio was not treated as the traditional, non-specific space, but as a blank canvas upon which surreal fashion performances could be staged.
- Movies Last updated 5 Jun 2003
- Images Last updated 5 Jun 2003
- Contributors Last updated 5 Jun 2003
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Performance] [Collections] [Jonathan Kaye] [Haute Couture]
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SHOW REPORTS S/S '07 (London/Milan/Paris)
Penny Martin, Laura Bradley
The shows, the 're-sees', the preposterous rumours and the parties: let the SHOWstudio picture phone be your guide as the team braved the queues at the biannual fashion collections. From 18 September until 8 October 2006, the team blogged the Spring/Summer '07 shows and all the fabulous fashion fuss and frippery that went with them.
- Project Blog Last updated 15 Sep 2006
- Contributors Last updated 15 Sep 2006
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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: 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: 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
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Collections] [Music]
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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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [London Fashion Week]
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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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SHOWS FILM WEEK S/S 2005: RICHARD NICOLL
Jason Evans, Richard Nicoll
Shown in its second season as part of the hit showcase Fashion East, Richard Nicholl teamed up with photographer Jason Evans to create this sequence of intimate portrait images to demonstrate Nicholl's distinctive way of draping and twisting fabric. Intercut with moments of pure motion fun from Evans, the piece was the seventh in a series of very different approaches to fashion editorial using film, screened in relation to London Fashion Week S/S '05.
- Movie Last updated 15 Oct 2004
- Contributors Last updated 15 Oct 2004
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Collections] [Jason Evans] [Richard Nicoll] [London Fashion Week]
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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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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
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SITTINGS: THIRTY MEN
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.- Movie: I Feel Last updated 1 Apr 2005
- Scrapbooks Last updated 1 Apr 2005
- Essay: Michael Bracewell Last updated 1 Apr 2005
- Panopticon Last updated 1 Apr 2005
- Contributor Profile: Simon Foxton Last updated 1 Apr 2005
- Picture Diary Last updated 1 Apr 2005
- Casting Last updated 1 Apr 2005
- Pre-Production Meeting Last updated 1 Apr 2005
- Source Material Last updated 1 Apr 2005
- Contributors Last updated 1 Apr 2005
- Project Blog Last updated 23 Mar 2005
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Simon Foxton] [Performance] [Models] [Stylists] [Menswear]
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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
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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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SLEEP
Nick Knight
Watch nine supermodels sleep in these delicate and mesmerising films compiled from Webcam footage, captured from their hotel rooms.
- Images Last updated 13 Dec 2001
- Movies Last updated 13 Dec 2001
- Contributors Last updated 13 Dec 2001
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Performance] [Collections] [Models] [Zora Star] [Liberty Ross] [Jonathan Kaye] [Elise Crombez] [Devon Aioki] [Surveillance]
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Solo GOTSCHO/UNGARO
Isabel Best, Gotscho, Emanuel Ungaro
A collaboration between Emanuel Ungaro and Parisian artist Gotscho, this short film focused on the fusing of couture garments with other objects in an exploration of absence.
- Movies Last updated 4 Aug 2004
- Images Last updated 4 Aug 2004
- Interview Last updated 4 Aug 2004
- Contributors Last updated 4 Aug 2004
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interview] [Art] [Collections]
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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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SPRAY ON CHRISTMAS
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.
- Download Last updated 20 Dec 2002
- Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2002
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Art] [Paul Hetherington] [Art Direction] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Emma Cook] [Simon Periton] [Shaun Leane] [Jane Simpson]
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STARS AND STYLES
Self Service Magazine
Chic Parisian magazine came to town to photograph the stars of the London scene inside the SHOWstudio live space.
- Webcast Last updated 26 Jan 2004
- Contributors Last updated 26 Jan 2004
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Webcast] [Magazines] [Art] [Music]
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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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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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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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SUPERSPORT
Anders Edstrom/Peter Taylor
It's sunset. Anders Edstrom and Peter Taylor chance upon an elderly Japanese man singing Bruce Springsteen's Born In The USA.
- Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000
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SWEET
Nick Knight/Jane How
Here's something we made earlier. Stylist Jane How recreated her favourite looks by Comme, Yohji, Hussein and Mugler from sweet papers, cupcake wrappers and doilies. Nick Knight recorded the result on a 3-D scanner and set it to a musicbox soundtrack by Fridge.
- Movies Last updated 10 Nov 2000
- Images Last updated 10 Nov 2000
- Interactive Last updated 10 Nov 2000
- Text Last updated 10 Nov 2000
- Contributors Last updated 10 Nov 2000
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Collections] [Stylists] [Music] [Photoshoot] [Jane How] [Haute Couture] [Kieran Hebden]