The number of images received for the Antony and the Johnsons shoot has increased 150% since last posting. Jacob Swan Hyam of York's bucket head is a big hit in the studio. (Has he been enjoying Erwin Wurm's One Minute Sculptures, I wonder?) Coincidentally, it falls within the brief we... [more]
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There's only one week to go before our Dublin PSP AMAZE ME micro-studio is dismantled and sent home. Looking at the entries so far, we're still waiting for somebody in Dublin to live up to our previous Antwerp, Barcelona, Berlin or London entries and amaze us. So, come on Dublin,... [more]
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They talk about 'pass on readership' in magazine circles but this is ridiculous! Watch a copy of Vogue do the rounds on the roof of the !WOWOW! squat in Gareth Pugh's thirty-second of take on fashion-in-motion.
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We've read how opinionated you all are about everyone else's work on the Forum. Now here's your chance to show us what you're made of yourselves! We've received a ton of images (that's about 100) for Nick's shoot with Antony and the Johnsons on Thursday so far. I'm a fan... [more]
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Word's caught on about our editor Sam Blair (apparently Francesca Burns has been praising his ability to make a proverbial silk purse out of the lowest-fi footage). So designer Gareth Pugh has popped in to take advantage of Sam's alchemical properties ahead of the launch of Gareth's contribution at midnight... [more]
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Today's collaborative contrubtion comes from stylist Bay Garnett and supermodel Erin O'Connor featuring a rather stunning vintage red dress and an equally fabulous model to demonstate 'fashion in motion' on the streets on London.
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It is members Tara Grant and Adaham Faraway of the South London art collective, !WOWOW! who begin another exciting week of our 'Moving Fashion' series with their alternative interpretation of the brief. Click here for an insight into a wonderful week with the children of the !WOWOW!.
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This week five more members of the international fashion community offered their take on 'Moving Fashion' with a thirty-second short featuring a moving garment. Take this opportunity to see the diverse interpretations of this enigmatic brief by photographers Toyin, Willy Vanderperre and Hiromix, shoe designer Christian Louboutin and stylist Francesca... [more]
Stop Press: Unique opportunity to take part in a Nick Knight photo shoot with Mercury Music Prize winners Antony and the Johnsons this Thursday, 1st December 2005. As part of the concept for the portrait shoot, Nick Knight will be using a selection of visual imagery as projections to inspire... [more]
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Antwerpiens, there are only two days remaining for you to validate your shortlisted PSP AMAZE ME entries. What are you waiting for? CLICK HERE to increase your chances of winning one of these and a meeting with your favourite creative.
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Sometimes it's just a case of putting yourself in the way of potential content. Take today's short by fabulous young stylist Miss Francesca Burns. There she was, enjoying the entertainment at Selfish Cunt's halloween party, and suddenly Martin rips the dress off Beatrice, leaving her bare breasted and everything!!
Now,... [more]
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It's the fashion equivalent to one of Charlie Bucket's golden tickets. A sort of 'sampler piece', featuring every one of the esteemed fashion house's stock materials and construction techniques, this bag (showcased at the Louis Vuitton press day at The Dorchester today) costs a staggering 10,000GBP. No small wonder... [more]
If you haven't already, there is only day remaining to validate your PSP AMAZE ME London entry. If you were drunk and need reminding that you were, in fact, there, CLICK HERE and follow the instructions. Who knows, you may win a meeting with one of six leading creatives and... [more]
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Today we play host a romantic thirty-second short by the Japanese photographer Hiromix, who is the first contributor in our MOVING FASHION series so far who has chosen not to add a soundtrack to the film. Clearly, Hiromix's actions speak louder than her words!
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In two 3 minute takes, gyrating to the sixties rock soundtrack of Velvet's film projected over her body, Gemma Ward completes this evenings entertainment almost before it began. You'll come to see more of Velvet and the film we made tonight, in the 'Viewer's Cut' stage of our Moving... [more]
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The first part of this evenings shoot (in the mirrored room with coloured lights and neon signs) is over, and we're onto the second part: Gemma dances whilst a film is projected over her.
Those of you who experienced difficulty viewing the live stream may find this next, slightly less optically... [more]
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Nick Knight and team have arrived at SHOWstudio to shoot the final section of the film footage that will form the second half of the MOVING FASHION project. For this, we will be offering a full hour of extraordinary, exclusive fashion rushes for you to edit into your very own... [more]
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Central Park on a spring day. An inviting graphic catwalk that is assume vivid astro focus' skate park intervention. The graphic might outshine some of the fashion in motion here, but the energetic flow isn't diminished.
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Due to a huge amount of interest in our site of late the server just buckled under the load - though I've bought it back now.
I'm doing my best to keep it under control, but to all your regulars : please bear with us.
We've just heard that we're being joined in the studio by the lovely Gemma Ward later this afternoon. All Gemma-lovers (and we know you are LEGION) should tune in around 16:30hrs onwards for a surprise appearance. More later...
The PSP AMAZE ME shortlists for Berlin and Barcelona are now open. If you were one of many visitors to our micro-studios at Berlin's Apartment or Barcelona's Centre de Cultura you could be in with a chance of winning a PSP™(Playstation®Portable). Click here to see if you made the Berlin... [more]
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For me, the very best of the Moving Fashion shorts are ones where the style or aesthetic of a photographer whose stills you love seemingly 'comes to life'. Opening up each new 30 second short holds the same mixture of anticipation, slight dread and wonderment as experienced prior to a... [more]
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Anthony Stephinson, the buyer at Two See boutique on Monmouth Street in London's Covent Garden, got in touch to let us know that he won Lot 14, Manuela Pavesi's maid's uniform in our Bring & Buy auction we did with Oxfam and i-D Magazine last September. As he explains in... [more]
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Today's MOVING FASHION contribution comes courtesy of footwear designer Christian Louboutin and is the first film in the series so far to employ a narrative theme, based around a Yellow pair of Mr Louboutin's distinctive red-soled shoes.
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When she came in to drop off her film, Toyin explained that her 'Cult of Boys' project is drawing to a close; an end precipitated by a general shift away from the angular, pained-looking young male models she prefers. This swan song with Daniel T, then, marks a departure point... [more]
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It's been another stellar week for the Moving Fashion series of thirty-second shorts with contributions ranging from the surreal and silly, elegant and ironic, to the erotic and ecstatic. Catch exclusive entries by hair stylist and artist Julien D'Ys, stylist Simon Foxton, models Karen Elson and Kate Moss and designer... [more]
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Kim Gordon shows us how to perform karaoke and retain credential in this glimpse of her recent experiment with the alchemy of playing music, with collaborator Jutta Koether.
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It is only fitting for John Galliano to bring this week's Moving Image films to a close. After all, if anyone knows how to take a bow, it is him!
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Of the many, truly wonderful creations I've seen on yet another round of press days today (Prada, Botega Veneta, Fendi, Top Shop, I've seen 'em all...) the collection at Yves Saint Laurent really took my breath away. Pom-poms in suede or raffia, puff-sleeved 'shrug' jackets with gorgeous brass eyelets, heavy... [more]
Asked what she wanted to do for her 30 second 'fashion in motion' film short, Kate Moss' response was "I just want to pogo". Who could argue?
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Now, who'd like a pair of these darlings sighted yesterday at the Celine press day? It's the tiny, gold Celine crest (based on the links in the chain surrounding L'Arc de Triomphe, I believe) and the fact that they just skim the base of your trapezium that make these no... [more]
Never one to take things too seriously, menswear superstylist and all-round darling of SHOWstudio Simon Foxton takes up the challenge to convert his special brand of colourful playfulness into 30 seconds of motion. Click here to have a good old hee-haw with Simon.
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Dublin Amaze Me launched yesterday in the city's Project Arts Centre. For the AMAZE ME finale we have gathered together an exciting panel of Ireland's finest including Philip Treacy, Pauric Sweeney, D.A.D.D.Y, Scott Burnett, The Chalets and Perry Ogden. If you are a local or happen to be in town... [more]
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'A woman's never so beautiful as when she is loved' says the old adage and Karen Elson -newly married to Jack White of The White Stripes- certainly proves the rule. Wherever you turn, there is an image of her, positively blooming. In previous SHOWstudio projects, Karen has proved she is... [more]
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We kick-start the fifth week of our MOVING FASHION series with a rather spooky contribution from hair stylist Julien D'Ys featuring five of his beautifully coiffured wigs. Julien has agreed to answer any questions, so visit the Forum and we'll do our very best to make sure he answers them!
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This week's five moving image shorts come to us from the widest range of creatives yet -a hair stylist, a manicurist, a make-up artist, a photographic curator and a fashion photographer are all represented- and an array of approaches to the brief are manifest as a consequence. Take this opportunity... [more]
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Peter Saville's solo exhibition opens at the Migros museum in Zurich tonight. A departure from the retrospective staged at the London Design Museum in 2003, the show employs a non-linear chronology to background the first public viewing of 'Estate': a collection of ephemera, artefacts and work-in-progress notebooks Saville has amassed... [more]
Time was when Peter Lindbergh was European fashion photography and Linda Evangelista was fashion. Today we can only marvel at their on-screen chemistry. We're thrilled, therefore, that Peter has contributed a historic clip from his 1991 film 'Models' that captures Linda -for some the all-time greatest supermodel- doing what she... [more]
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We have just received an update from Oxfam who are dealing with dispatch of all items from our BRING & BUY project. To everyone's frustration, the three highest bidders of the Bjork swan dress pulled out in the final moments of the auction, and then the final winner, with... [more]
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The exuberant South American artist duo Los Super Elegantes bootleg their own music and plays for a recently presented digest of their performance output over the last decade. Catch them emerging from underneath painted banners to a soundtrack expressing issues about the value of labour. They jump up to perform... [more]
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Today's MOVING FASHION film comes courtesy of Emma Reeves featuring video footage from Another Magazine's recent 'Babelogue' shoot starring actress and model Tilda Swinton, photographed in the north of Scotland by Craig McDean.
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Given that that the Key Detention Vote is scheduled to take place in British parliament this afternoon at 16:30 hrs, allowing subjects to be detained for 90 days without charge (not to mention the 'emergency powers' sanctioned by the French Government, apparently allowing a house to be entered this... [more]
AMAZE ME Rome was launched yesterday, the competition is running for 4 weeks at the lovely Libreria del Cinema based in Rome's bohemian Trastevere neighbourhood The Roman panel consists of Massimo Torrigiani the Editor-in-chief of Italian complimentary style magazine Rodeo and also Boiler magazine, fashion designer Sergio Zambon,... [more]
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In thirty-six seconds flat, make-up artist Val Garland warns SHOWstudio favourite Gemma Ward how it will all turn out if she insists on playing around with cosmetics!
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Queen of manicures Marian Newman proves there is much more to her repertoire than a quick french polish. In this film short we see Marian's dark side at last: she used to be a forensic scientist, after all. Why else the obsession with poking around under peoples' nails?
Our 'secret ways and means' (ok, our old fashion editor, Michelle Duguid, now at Vogue) have located another shot of a 'Bring and Buy' winner wearing the garment sent to them by the eBay Oxfam shop. Well done to Todd Hart of London for securing this fantastic Bodymap-alike catsuit, donated... [more]
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Today, we play host to hair stylist Oribe's enigmatic contribution to our MOVING FASHION series. Oribe has also agreed to answer any questions you may have about the film (brave man!). Visit our Forum, fire away and we'll do our very best to make sure he receives them!
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It's all kicking off on the Forum, with everyone dying to have their say about the thirty-second film shorts. Who knew we had such opinionated viewers?!
Have your say about this week's five films by art directors Fabien Baron and Shona Heath, stylists Katy England and Jonathan Kaye, and photographer Jason... [more]
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Clocked an additional link in the running chain trend at the Chanel press day today. Whereas the links were large at Gucci and Jessica Ogden's Spring/Summer '06 shows, creating big, loopy necklaces and bracelets, the Chanel ones are finer and well, more metallic. As with next season's jewellery at Margiela,... [more]
It is art director, Shona Heath who draws a close to the third week of fashion film with her thirty-second short entitled Dior Shoes. The film was inspired and created by a series of coloured illustrations that feature in the current Christian Dior window displays.
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If you were one of the inspiring contestants who took part in PSP AMAZE ME (Antwerp) there is a chance you have been shortlisted for our panellists' final decisions. Click here to see if you made it. Please remember, only validated entries will make it through to the final round.... [more]
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In fact, Rome's PSP AMAZE ME section was built in just over a day and recently added to the project. As usual it caters for five different languages and gives you the opportunity to prepare your piece-to-camera before our micro-studio is installed on Monday. If you're in Rome between ... [more]
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We've seen plenty moving apparel in this project so far, but no musical garments (that we are aware of). Trust Jonathan Kaye, then, to twist the 'fashion-in-motion' brief a little further, take advantage of a surreal moment of street entertainment sighted during the Paris shows and bring us 'the sound... [more]
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Inbetween arranging a forthcoming major Westwood restrospective in Japan, manning the 'Free Leonard Peltier' campaign and not to mention running a madly busy press showroom, Head of Press Denise Zamaroni took a moment to detail Vivienne Westwood's current passion, which underpins the S/S '06 collection. Enraged and deeply concerned by... [more]
Photographer Jason Evans spreads more of the 'enthusiasm for looking and being' evinced by his unstoppable Daily Nice website in these thirty-four seconds of unbridled menswear-in-landscape joy. The keen-eyed among you will notice that we have lopped off the 'Moving Fashion' end card from Jason's film at his request. Paul... [more]
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You can halt your crusade to find vintage Biba on eBay and in grotty thrift shops. A display of reissued Biba accessories at Naihala Lasharie's press showroom this afternoon demonstrated how the legendary label is doing its bit to reduce the athlete's foot and malformed feet caused by secondhand footwear.... [more]
Today's collaborative contribution comes courtesy of stylist Katy England and filmmaker Zanna, who have chosen to apply a simultaneous spilt-screen effect to their take on the MOVING FASHION brief.
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