The history of a material covering for the neck is formed from the need to protect the throat from cold, but it evolved into dressing the neck as a pedestal for the head and a frame for the face.
This week our Fashion Body seems more naked... [more]
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If you're looking for the perfect fusion of fashion and fetish, it's natural to turn to the corset. The whaleboned foundation of feminine fashion for centuries (and underpinning quite a few male sartorial excursions also) this undergarment was triumphantly reclaimed as outerwear, in 1992 dubbed by none less than Karl... [more]
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This week, our Fashion Body is taking a decidedly sexual twist - first Ruth Hogben's buttocks were prominently showcased on Monday, and today photographer Alice Hawkins' chest takes centre stage. Or rather, her vision of the chest does, captured on a whirlwind topless road-trip across the... [more]
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We here at SHOWstudio.com have a penchant for embracing the unusual, whether it’s taxidermy mice à la Charlie Le Mindu or urinals courtesy of Lady Gaga. This week, we are inviting controversial vomiting artist Millie Brown to our LiveStudio - this Friday 30 July, Millie, the puking performance artist who... [more]
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So could it be that, with the influence of fashion film, fashion is about to get much more real? It already has! Untouched is the new selling point, and has fed right back into still photography.
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To open the second week of our latest season of fashion film, our fashion body takes a distinctly sexual turn with filmmaker Ruth Hogben's 'English' - a visual quest, it seems, to redefine our contemporary callipygian ideal. In layman's terms? Hogben's film focusses on the buttocks,... [more]
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Life is a cabaret - at least, it is when it's dressed by Gareth Pugh]. Known for his deliciously dark and slightly gothic take on contemporary fashion, Pugh is frankly the last name you'd associate with a piece titled Joie De Vivre. But in Ruth Hogben's... [more]
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For the third film of our fashion body series we turn to internationally-acclaimed photographer Tim Walker to provide us with his vision (pardon the pun) of the right eye. Eschewing his trademark phantasmagoria - and indeed fashion frippery in general - Walker instead opts for beetling... [more]
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Will my dear daughter soon want a Barbie body - those long Barbie legs? In China, young women pay small fortunes to have their legs broken and stretched on a rack to achieve maximum height. All in the belief that they will find a 'better' husband.
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Could the strict suited-and-booted attire of the classic British gentleman be considered a fetish? Perhaps for the French - and just as the fashionable Français were seized with Anglomania in the late eighteenth century, it seems Jean Paul Gaultier has a passion for all things British, at least judging by... [more]
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In discussing his design approach, Rick Owens once stated 'It's about an elegance being tinged with a bit of the barbaric' - a fitting summary not only for his clothing creations, but also for the designer's cinematic contribution to The Fashion Body. Concisely and aptly-titled 'Piss',... [more]
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Fashion moves over the body in a similar way to an explorer scanning a map, seeking out peaks and inclines, shortcuts and vistas, though the landscape itself is never fixed.
As literary accompaniment to The Fashion Body film season, our essay programme takes a wider look at... [more]
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To open our latest fashion film season, The Fashion Body, we turn - naturally - to SHOWstudio.com director and visionary image-maker Nick Knight. His film short features one of the most communicative and expressive parts of the body – our hands - in this instance captured... [more]
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This Monday 19 July 2010 we launch the first short in our latest series of fashion film, The Fashion Body - a bold and innovative season of fashion film that explores and embraces the union of the body, fashion, and moving image. Nick Knight challenged a selection of fashion's elite... [more]
The shortlist has been announced for the 2010 CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund - a hefty $200k prize awarded to the best of the best of new New York fashion talent - and the names include Joseph Altuzarra, coincidentally the next designer scheduled for the SHOWstudio.com In Fashion treatment from yours... [more]
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This afternoon was a treat here at SHOWstudio.com towers: a show and tell session with the wonderful Rebecca and Mike, who dropped by to show us their rather incomparable wares. Think laser-tracking, zero-gravity circulatory diagrams, a natty way with an airmail envelope and the goal-post sized gilded baroque frame they... [more]
If you've passed by our Bruton Place HQ since the SHOWstudio Shop Inside/Out show opened last month you may have noticed a rather unusual item in the window - this urinal, aptly titled Armitage Shanks . What you may not have noticed at first glance is the aphorism scrawled across... [more]
The re-stream of our latest In Fashion broadcast with Proenza Schouler is now complete. The on demand edited footage will be on the site shortly!
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Our re-streaming of yesterday's interview with Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler has just begun - click here to watch the unedited footage of their interview, the latest addition to our In Fashion series.
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The latest addition to our Object Fetish series for A/W 2010 is this calf-and-cabochon dress plucked from the collection of ever-influential London leader Christopher Kane. Selected as an example of an odd undercurrent of S&M pastoralism running through the collections, and more specifically a prime instance of Kane's much-celebrated fusion... [more]
