The first balloon from Gareth Pugh's FASH-OFF Design_Download popped into my inbox earlier this month courtesy of the industrious Christine Peters. I can't help feeling that her impressive, lace interpretation of the brief looks lonely bobbin (sorry) about by itself though. Click here to see Christine's submission then why not... [more]
We are extremely excited to announce the launch of the third installment in our series of projects devoted to exploring the ‘Sound of Clothes’. Following a synaesthetic investigation into images featuring garments from the S/S '06 Balenciaga collection and a specialist Anechoic sound-recording of ‘noisy’ garments, this project gives special... [more]
Le Retour De La Colonne Durutti is currently being used as the (inspired) title for a group exhibition at Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery in Berlin, curated by Gyonata Bonvincini. The Durruti Column was a notorious 'column' (a formation of troops following each other) of anarchist fighters during the Spanish Civil War... [more]
Nick Ryan's unfortunately been very busy working on other projects, so progress here has been slowed. However, we’ve been told to expect the audio any day now. In the meantime, Nick Knight and me have been discussing the visual interface, and its came to light that it wasn’t clear what... [more]
Following our groundbreaking live hemi-anechoic recording session carried out at the National Physical Laboratory in early June, we are pleased to announce the launch of a series of film shorts. Created using the footage and detailed sound recordings captured on the day, the abstract shorts have been masterfully edited by... [more]
These neon wedges were some of the many delights on show as part of the Louis Vuitton Cruise Collection, unveiled to the press earlier today. The 'Cruise' range – destined for stores in November 2007- had a particularly youthful feel and was displayed against a backdrop of inspirational sporting apparatus... [more]
Forever. This title by artist Giles Round, who used a basic squared paper to create the colourful text drawing, encapsulates a rather romantic angle on 'Glory Hole', an exhibition exploring the realities of and attitues to gay sex in the public-private arena around a city - London in this case.... [more]
Asking professional editors to squeeze our EDITING FASHION project into their busy schedules and attempting to send the material to far-flung geographical locations has meant the project has not always run to time. Our Russian contributor, Vladimir Boboshin has maintained extreme patience throughout, battling in true stalwart style with Moscow’s... [more]
With previous editions of A Magazine cleverly and successfully guest-edited by designers Maison Martin Margiela, Yohji Yamamoto and Haider Ackermann, the designer invited to curate the fourth issue of the Belgian fashion magazine has a lot to live up to. Jun Takashi, the designer at the helm of Undercover, has... [more]
Nick and Simon spent the weekend going through the 600+ photographic contributions -including an abandoned shopping trolley, Polaroid captured pot-holes, a bent bicycle, derelict buildings, animal carcasses and this poignant image courtesy of Jono Rotman- sent in by SHOWstudio viewers worldwide, in response to their "brutalising city" brief. They have... [more]
Those of you that have been following Nick's FASH-OFF Shoot and Post-production diary may be disappointed to learn that your daily wire from the Knight household is nearing its end. It's not all doom and gloom though. With roughly '80%' of the process completed we're busying ourselves looking into the... [more]
Another chance to view the charming interior-world-through-the-glass project that has seen a few incarnations as maquette, in the Round Room at Edinburgh's Talbot Rice gallery, and most recently at the Galerie Meertricht next to Berlin's Volksbuhne. Lucy McKenzie, Birgit Megele and Lucy Desamory's 'Jeu de Societe' is now discreetly visible... [more]
Nick and Simon have expressed excitement and admiration for the quality of imagery submitted to the WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? gallery. So much so that they think it deserves an edit and layout, identical to the one their images were exacted to in their printed story. So, just so... [more]
A brief mention from the fifth ITS festival, held annually in Trieste, Northern Italy. I am here on behalf of SHOWstudio, on the student Photography jury of seven good men and women. Up for the generous award of 10,000 euro, are seven students from France, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, USA, UK... [more]
It is with great excitement that we are (finally!) able to announce that Nick Knight has been chosen to receive The 2006 Möet & Chandon Fashion Tribute. Launched in 1998, the prestigious award has previously been awarded to Vivienne Westwood, Philip Treacy and Matthew Williamson. Instead of the staple dinner,... [more]
We gave you precisely twenty days in all to respond to Nick and Simon's brief before the August 'health' issue of i-D was published, with their original shoot printed in it. Not long, granted, but more than you get for the average editorial commission, we can tell you! A great... [more]
You'd better be on your best behaviour is all I can say! The steady creep of Flikr's coverage of every inch of your life (it would seem) continues... FORUM regular Maria Elisa sent us a link to her Flikr page, featuring a host of images from the !WOWOW! Party last... [more]
Last (but one) Friday night in New York a poetry-performance night happened in a bar on Ludow in the Lower East side. A tiny venue with a small crowd and just three brief performances, it relied more on a relaxed atmosphere than the usual hype and circumstance that fuels the... [more]
The 'Doors' technology section of The Sunday Times newspaper ran an article yesterday on how early-adopters are now looking to the Internet instead of print to consume their fashion (well, dear reader, you knew that already!). As an example of our interactive projects and specifically our Design_Download series, they asked... [more]
With a virtuoso masterclass in hair-teasing and special effects prosthetics, the grand finalé to the FASH OFF matinée performances went off with a bang! The heroic Pugh endured hours of primping, not to mention the weight of bags and bags and bags of hair like a true prize-winner on a... [more]
Eugene's attempt to transform Gareth has reached a crucial point (where we can barely recognise the young designer). Particularly as Alex Box has since painted in the face and fixed him with an endearing rubber snout.
Using his trademark balls of matted hair, the experimental hair stylist Eugene Souleiman is starting to work his magic on Gareth to build up the poodle silhouette. As the final performance of the FASH OFF performance series, 'Poodle' is perhaps the most complex to create, has the longest prep period... [more]
Between the Human Disco Balls, Make-up-athons and Poodle grooming you could be forgiven for overlooking this week's launch of the FASH-OFF Shows section. Featuring Gareth Pugh's previous three collections shown during London Fashion Week as well as his self-styled 'Haute Couture' television commercial for HSBC it might give you just... [more]
Rem Koolhaas must have been watching Gareth's 'Black Ball' performance yesterday because when we arrived at the opening of the Dutch architect's summer pavilion for the London's Serpentine Gallery, he'd erected what is effectively a huge balloon filled with hot air! Well, to be precise, the egg structure is filled... [more]
OK, after a bit of a slow start things are up and running. Click here to watch the preparations for today's performance unfold. At 13:00 (BST) Hair stylist Eugene Souleiman will turn Gareth into a human poodle, positioned on a chesterfield cushion.
Sorry, today's Poodle Performance is running about 15-20 minutes behind schedule. The video stream will be live soon. Have yourself a cup of tea and come back soon.
Day four of Gareth Pugh's week of Fash-Off performances has now come to a close. His spectacular, spell-binding Make-up-athon was followed by 'The Black Ball' this afternoon, which involved him standing inside one of his infamous parachute silk balls whilst it was inflated with air. The stalwart performed for a... [more]
The first act has now finished, Gareth having achieved four discrete 'looks': 'gold leaf star' (above), 'sad clown', 'red base with white icing; and then the 'treacle, jam and toothpaste' finalé in his to-camera session. There is now to be a short interval, during which the team will erect the... [more]
Spotted on the Yohji Yamamoto menswear catwalk at the weekend, a 'Nick Knight Photography' T-shirt!! We gave the international press office a ring this morning to find out what prompted such an unexpected act of affirmation and seemingly, he was working on a big sequence of word play with initials... [more]
Currently streaming is a relentless make-up session, inspired by a memorable Joanna Lumley performance. Here pictured is Gareth perfecting his black base for what at time of blogging is an accomplished masterclass in gold leafing. Tune in to see what he does with the jam and treacle spotted earlier in... [more]
Gareth's FASH-OFF Polaroid Diary has been updated with some new portraits taken at the first of this week's live performances, the !WOWOW! Party. Here's one of Mandi Lennard cooling off to whet your appetite.
A short film of the climax of yesterday's matinée never quite made it though the system overnight and is now lost in the ether. But the results of Gareth and Alex's seven-hour endurance make-up session yesterday to create the human disco ball were so spectacularly beautiful and sad, it is... [more]
Alex had to lay a few, er, 'foundation garments' before she began applying the sparkly, outer layer. Ready yourselves for the spin, coming up!
Make-up artist Alex Box and her assistants Pablo and Neil have been cutting up sections of mirrored perspex like there's no tomorrow this morning, all to transform Gareth into the human disco ball he sometimes feels like, apparently. Overheard this morning: "Maybeys you could cover me up totally, so it's... [more]
Having finally acheived that illusive task -the full nine layers- with only eight minutes to go, Gareth's packed up his cards for the day, ready for the Human Mirror Ball in the morning. Log on tomorrow from 10:00 (UK time) to see Alex Box transmogrify the designer into a one-man... [more]
A performance that emulates a film presented in real time, Liam Gillick's 'Construccion de Uno' borrows from the structure of the classic 1974 documentary 'Week-end a Souchaux' by Groupe Medvedkin. The last in our series that herald from the Tate Triennial live works programme, this Saturday evening performance was... [more]
The second of this week's live matinée programme is underway, as Gareth builds a house of cards. All afternoon! Watch him at work here. All we're missing is Norris McWhirter!
Well, it's been emotional, but the party is now at an end. View the images in the gallery for visual highlights of the day, but of course, we'll be online again tomorrow for a second matinée performance. Log on at 13:00 (UK time) for Gareth's 'House of Cards'.
Pattern-cutter Myque (left) enjoys a quick chat with the Curator of the Yard host space, Elias as our Laura sits and practices her door bitch lines... In truth, the party is exploding out of the gallery into Yard's own yard, due to the 32ºC, searing Old Street heat.
Sharing the same -assiduous- PR as Gareth, cake-maker to the London fashion industry Treacle were only too happy to provide treats for today's alchoholic tea-party (click here to see). Here's !WOWOW!'s very own cupcake, Matthew Stone, perfecting the display. What you can't see here, is that his Jenny Holzer-style dot... [more]
A slight oversight on our part has meant that the uptake on the What Are You Looking At? project was looking a bit slow. That is, until we coloured in the page numbers in the Gallery this morning and found that there is a full thirteen pages of them!! Check... [more]
