I took plenty portraits of Spanish, London-based photographer Robi Rodriguez during our portfolio session, and he's certainly photogenic. But later I snuck back down into the photography competition galleries to steal a shot of his male model as it was the work that stuck in my mind most. The project... [more]
Not all the exhibitions at Hyères can be crammed into the Villa Noailles so on the Saturday night, there is always a little jamboree in the town's main square to celebrate an opening at the Tour de Templiers: a magical, medieval tower with a terrifying stone staircase that leads to... [more]
"The Fall of Man: A Puppet Extravaganza!" was performed in Berlin this weekend as part of the city-wide 'Save the Weekend' art initiative. The religious/political tinged group theatrics worked convincingly in Giti Nourbakhsch's new down-at-heel space.
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Actually, no, it's Jason Schmidt's. Inkeeping with the giant 'V' he did for the title of that name, Michel asked him if he would use one of the villa's many balconies from which to direct an 'H' shot for the festival. Very kindly, he let me stand behind him as... [more]
Numéro Editor Jonathan Wingfield (left) has taken a weekend out of the pressurised business of launching a new magazine to see some new books and relax. His new, uh, how shall we put this, 'gentleman's title', Paradis will be available at the end of menswear week in Paris. Here, he... [more]
Jason discussed his forthcoming book over lunch: Steidl are publishing his series of artists' portraits: a body of work that now runs to approximately 300 images. (Good Lord! Which photographers' books are Steidl not publishing?!) I'm always fascinated by photographers' motivations for photographing famous people: how do you conceal that... [more]
It's not only photographers that are accorded the key exhibition spaces of the Villa. The largest 'gallery' (in fact a converted swimming pool) is often given to a fashion designer. The first year SHOWstudio visited Hyères it was Karl Lagerfeld and this year, the presentation is by Belgian designer Ann... [more]
Joint winners of the 2004 fashion prize Swash are at Hyères for pleasure this time. Undeterred by the cyclonic downpour last night, they braved the fashion show, staged at the beach. And their tip for this year's winner? Toshio's intrigued by Julien Dossena's Californian-inspired collection: 'I like the cowboy boots'.... [more]
The Curator of the festival, Michel Mallard, is good at finding a place for 'photographers at a certain stage of their career' as this year's contender for that slot, Jason Schmidt, put it earlier today. His show, 'Standing Tall', actually consists of relatively few shots -fashion pictures he has taken... [more]
Well, esteemed fashion blogger Diane Pernet has arrived, so the festival can commence.
It seems a bit unfair to post my first blog report from the 21st Festival International De Mode & De Photographie À Hyères with an image by one of the greatest historical fashion photographers -Saul Leiter- attached. After all, the annual fashion and photography festival, staged at Mallet-Stevens' charming, Modernist... [more]
We've been looking for someone to work on the third of the 'Sound of Clothes' suite: a series of interactives that use sound as an interface for provoking visual intertainment, which will be created by our Ross. Coincidentally, textile designer and animator Marie O'Connor sent in a splendid showreel... [more]
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This 'DJ Bag' -we were told at the Louis Vuitton press day this morning- is what is known as an 'extraordinaire'. It's a lavishly produced showpiece, of which only two will be made. Whilst fanciful fashion consumers will applaud the blue sky thinking of Mr Jacobs, our Ross thinks the... [more]
I’ve taken Nick Ryan’s image breakdown map and started using it to implement the interface. I uploaded a video clip of this interface last week, but
you can now use it yourself by clicking here (you need Shockwave). A couple of things worth mentioning, firstly that we still haven’t put... [more]
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Think you've seen the Galliano Editing Fashion footage edited into every possible permuation? Think again! Let Michael Blackburn's trailer edit (pictured above) draw you in with enigmatic questions, intrigue you with reflective sequences, only to work you up into a sweat with a techno finalé.
Meanwhile, Christopher Seguine's take on... [more]
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Regular FORUM poster F:lux -real name Lucy SHOCKER!- made SHOWstudio one of her stops today in a trip-down-South to show her work. The highlight for me was an interesting body of work documenting film shoots. Her parting words were that she didn't want me to divulge that she brought in... [more]
Key shapes taken from James Sterling's postmodern architectural language as developed for the Clore Gallery extension to the Tate built in the late 1980s are the forms that detail Pablo Bronstein's modernised Baroque dance routine, 'Plaza Minuet', choreographed along a marked arena in the Duveen Gallery of Tate Britain. Architectural... [more]
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Since January I have been teaching a module at Westminster University which gathers together students from fashion, music, video and interactive design and gets them working together. The brief I issued this year was to take a classic white t-shirt and advertise/showcase/display it in some way. The final projects are... [more]
We received this development on the Synaesthesia project today from Nick Ryan:
I have been working on the image for the last week - thinking about the areas of this photograph, textures and shapes, which should have unique sounds associated with them. This seems to have generated a graphical 'score'. The... [more]
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Is it a hairstyle or a goat skin-covered cycling helmet? The answer is: both!! Resembling a fashionably cropped version of Andy Warhol's wig with chin straps (it's even got a fringe!), this wonderfully peculiar accessory is available in all good Prada stores from September.
Dorian and I just returned from our trip to the National Physical Laboratory, where we were shown around their hemi-anechoic chamber, which you can see in the picture above. Sealed by 3 sets of doors and separated from the main building by an air gap and rubber pads, the room... [more]
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Remember this face? Well you should do: the last time stylist Grace Woodward was on SHOWstudio (in May 2003), she was featuring in the rather memorable Allen Jones sequence of Alice Hawkins' project The Female Gaze (scroll down for extreme nail-and-glove action!). Today she left the gloves at home and... [more]
There's been plenty written about 'Super Super' magazine on the FORUM, so we thought you might also like a peek at its Contributing Fashion Editor, Carri Mundane, who came by to drop in a new, high energy film showcasing her colourful fashion brand, Cassette Playa.
A common misconception about stylists is that they get to keep the clothes (some notable ones do, according to the disgruntled PRs, but I'd better not libel myself by naming names. You can guess). Another is that they spend all their time on beaches, re-arranging fifteen-year-olds' bikini straps. Truth is,... [more]
I'm sure you're just dying to know who won our Easter competition. No? Well, here it is anyway
In joint first place Penny(C) and Steven (F)
Second was me (D)
Then...
Paul H (A)
Sharmin (E)
Laura (H)
Dorian (B)
Eisuke (G)
So congratulations to Penny and Steven who split the winnings and get an incredible £4 each.
Until... [more]
We were treated to the infectious enthusiasm of Anina.net this morning, who came in to discuss her project 360 Fashion. Essentially a ring of fashion-centred blogs that the self-proclaimed 'Tech Model' curates, the 360 Fashion project is an adjunct to sometimes Isis model Anina's evangelical commitment to pioneering fashion... [more]
We've been thinking about the visual interface for the piece, and have come
up with various ideas that I'm hoping to present. The first, a clip of which
I preview here, takes a literal 'blind' metaphor, the screen starting blank
and building up as the user 'feels around' and via... [more]
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Paul Bruty, Dorian and myself often like to play a game we have called the 'Kinder egg challenge'. One of us goes round to the newsagent and buys four kinder eggs. We then choose an egg each and make whatever toy is inside. The toys are then anonymously placed in... [more]
The first viewing of our most recent EDITORS' CUTS had the team down tools in the studio yesterday afternoon, as they gathered to watch two refreshingly different edits courtesy of our Iranian editor Reza Bahramy and animation editor Greg Perler. Bahramy's version demonstrates how the footage -although featuring different characters... [more]
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With fashion designers so vulnerable to criticism when partnering with a sportwear brand, the attitude with which the garments are promoted is crucial. The glamorous Karmela Oreta at Y-3 explained at the brand's press day on Tuesday that ever since the launch of Yohji Yamamoto's collaboration with Adidas, humour has... [more]
The word regeneration has a number of implications each of which point towards growth, amplification or positive change. In the enormous Tate turbine hall artist Daria Martin created a one hour performance-based scenario which involved a collaboration with experimental electronic harpist Zeena Parkins. Martin created a giant cake slice stage... [more]
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Witness the highest heels in Christendom, spotted at the Bottega Veneta press day!
As our six-month foray into fashion in motion continues to bear fruit -look out for an excellent couple of Editing Fashion shorts this afternoon from animation editor Greg Perler and Iranian filmmaker and editor Reza Bahramy- it is exciting to see other organisations focusing on fashion film too. Academics from... [more]
Nobody will own up to being the hand model for this rather porcine image of one of Moschino's fabulous gloves with the sock-like wool cuffs for A/W (might have been me but I'm not telling)... Laura and I had to sneak into the privacy of the accessories room to... [more]
We were informed at the Armani press day that the redoubtable Italian design house was actually behind the costumes used in Star Wars: Episode III - 'Revenge of the Sith' and spent years crafting the footwear for the wookies... No, not really, but I wouldn't Chewie look dapper in this... [more]
Following last Friday's sold-out 'Anna Piaggi In Conversation' held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, it is our great pleasure to launch an exclusive film of the Topshop-sponsored event courtesy of SHOWstudio contributor Marcus Werner Hed. Introduced by the current 'Fashion-ology' exhibition's curator Judith Clark, the amusing and intimate conversation... [more]
While maybe not ‘directly’ relevant to this project, we have all been looking at Martin Wattenberg’s Shape of Song. In this digital art-piece, Wattenberg has used software to analyse and visualise repetition within songs of various genres of music. Beautiful stark graphic imagery emerges, and especially in the case of... [more]
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For the first in the series of Tate Triennial performances "artist and ideologue" Linder Sterling restaged a work entitled 'The Working Class Goes to Paradise'. Three bands play in and out of sync for over two hours, whilst Linder and a troupe of women all dressed in black weave around... [more]
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Wildlife documentary editor, Nigel Buck’s unique five-minute edit of Nick Knight's EDITING FASHION footage has received numerous complimentary postings on our FORUM. Click here to view his notable interpretation alongside equally impressive shorts from West African soap opera editor Charles Nartey Mezo, Pornography editor Anna Span, feature film editor Mike... [more]
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Faced with the usual ‘chicken-vs.-egg where to start’ with this project, I recalled a news-item I saw on the television several years ago. The item focused on a blind or partially-sighted (my memory fails me) meteorology student who, with the help of friends, had written a simple piece of software... [more]
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Rumours had reached us that the goody bags had run out already at the Chanel press day, but so committed are we to the world-of-Karl that we braved the reputed lack of cosmetic gifts and bottled water and actually went to see the clothes. A near-perfect, light wool LBD with... [more]
The transportation of computer hard drives to our editors in far-flung geographical locations has proven to be one of the most time-consuming (and sometimes stressful) parts of our EDITING FASHION project. Over the last month, Sharmin and I have spent many hours on the phone to our courier company of... [more]
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We are pleased to announce the launch of our new project SYNAESTHESIA which will become the first instalment of an exploration into 'The Sound of Clothes' this spring. Nick Knight and stylist Jonathan Kaye's images for the Spring/Summer '06 edition of Pop magazine, featuring Nicolas Ghesquière's exquisite Balenciaga S/S' 06... [more]
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Today three more professional editors join the Editors’ Cut section of EDITING FASHION. Visit each of their individual Process Sections to familiarise yourself with the careers of Californian based, trailer editor Michael Blackburn, ABC news editor Rupert Angarita-Dodds and the editing team from South African soap-opera ‘Egoli’ ahead of their... [more]
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There has been some discussion about meeting your creative heroes on the FORUM of late: whether it's best to avoid someone whose work you admire, lest they end up disappointing you. Studying the precisely structured garments comprising Marios Schwab's -highly economical, extraordinarily elegant- collection, one might imagine their creator to... [more]
The much-in-demand Mr Gareth Pugh paused his break-neck schedule for an hour to pop in and discuss future plans. Nick was intrigued to hear about Gareth's semi-biographical approach to developing his ideas and particularly the 'Sunderland women' that inspire his collections. Gareth obliged by showing off his own, gold 'jointed... [more]
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Parisian artist Matthieu Laurette - who orchestrated a special project last year that had Peter Saville leading a tour of folk eager to hear his comments on what people wore at the Frieze Art Fair last Autumn- is currently selling us money at face value (at London's unashamedly West... [more]
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