Captured earlier this summer in an exclusive and candid conversation with our Fashion Director Alexander Fury, British fashion favourite Gareth Pugh is the latest addition to our In Fashion interview series. Pugh discusses his history, influences, design background and his hopes for the future - not only of his own... [more]
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Fashion is very good at providing its own fashion's-eye view of proceedings, but what is it like being at the very eye of that fashion storm, the undeniable focus of the world's attention? Few creatives are as well-placed as Lady Gaga to explore those ideas, as... [more]
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Our latest intern at SHOWstudio.com is Barbie, joining the team from this Sunday for twenty days in the lead-up to London Fashion Week. Throughout her time at SHOWstudio.com, Barbie will post live video updates to the SHOWstudio.com BLOG documenting her experiences - including ticket requests for London Fashion Week, studio... [more]
Said top plus this skirt, multiplied by that jacket and divided by those shoes equals the ‘fashion’ body - i.e. today’s buzz look.
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The video portraits captured on day four of Nick Knight's landmark live shoot for the 'The Now Next' issue of i-D magazine are now online.
The fourth round of sitters showcased include Alex Box, Ash Stymest, Ashley, Bernhard Willhelm, Craig Lawrencem, Danielle Scutt, Dr... [more]
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We could think of no better way to open September - the start of the S/S fashion month - than with this addition to our ever-growing Fashion Body, from innovative image-maker Jez Tozer and London fashion leader Louise Gray. In their hands, our Fashion Body has... [more]
Fashion lies; big wow. And with the brave new world of coffee-break plastic surgery, faces lie too.
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When we approached leading accessory designer and art director Fred Butler to provide the nape for our fashion body, her immediate and unexpected response was: 'This is my one fetish in human anatomy!' Hence, Butler's film focusses on her ideal nape, in the shape of a... [more]
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We're never ones simply to pay lip service to the idea of the Fashion Body, and hence our final film of the week is a powerful visual exploration of the mouth from filmmaker Barnaby Roper and model Natasa Vojnovic. Set to an abstracted and intricate soundtrack... [more]
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Sexy women sell magazines; a phenomena which will be employed for eternity. If it's not broken, then why fix it? So what if your body doesn’t fit the fashion mould? A seed is planted.
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Here are our first sneak previews of the twin Vogue Hommes Japan covers devised by Nick Knight and Nicola Formichetti earlier this summer at the Bruton Place LiveStudio. The latest issue - with two versions sporting different cover shots of the newly-discovered Jo Calderone - hits newsstands in mid-September,... [more]
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This week we launch our latest selection of video portraits captured by Nick Knight live on 3 December 2009 during the ground-breaking shoot of his latest portrait series for the 30th anniversary issue of i-D magazine.
Sitters immortalised in video this week include Amber... [more]
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Today's Fashion Body film offers a rare treat: an example off a photographer - an oddly camera-shy breed - turning the tables and becoming the subject for his own work. Our right upper arm is provided by photographer Jason Evans quite literally, his own bicep inked-up... [more]
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The female fashion body is immaculate. It was neither born, nor does it give birth. It is perfect in its otherness; it is supernatural.
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The artist and cult erotic jeweller Betony Vernon provides us with the latest addition to our Fashion Body. Vernon's film examines the collarbone - not a traditional erogenous point, per se, and even then a point of tactile rather than aesthetic eroticism. Vernon's Minerva neckpiece, however,... [more]
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Renown for his sometimes sinister and often outrageous inflated silhouettes, it felt natural to turn to British fashion star Gareth Pugh to provide us with his ever-inventive view of the shoulders for our Fashion Body. Ever one to buck the trend, however, rather than indulging fashion's... [more]
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As the trickle of A/W 2010 product into fashionable retailers worldwide becomes a flood, the time is ripe to launch the latest addition to our In Fashion series - a tête-à-tête well ahead of London Fashion Week with one of its brightest stars, Erdem Moralioglu. The inaugural winner of British... [more]
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Men’s bottoms are a contested and emotive sight/site. Their visibility in fashion and fashion related imagery presents a variety of readings that are influenced by the multitude of cultural ambiguities and attitudes that surround relationships with the human rear end.
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Today marks the launch of our second batch of video portraits, documenting the actors, designers, stylists and models that sat for Nick Knight on 2 December 2009 in an intimate and revealing series of portraits for i-D magazine.
Our latest sitters include Alana Zimmer,... [more]
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Today's Fashion Body film comes from British couturier Deborah Milner and acclaimed hair stylist Peter Gray, both known for their extreme abstractions away and around the body. Their vision of the left thigh, however, is as stripped, bare and close-to-the-bone as can be, with calligraphy scrawling... [more]
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