When we opened the 'Commission and Collaborate' section of our FORUM, we couldn't have hoped it would work out better... Last night Bella Freud opened an exhibition featuring her S/S '08 collection, photographed by SHOWstudio viewer Elle Muliarchyk, who Bella found via our Viewers Profiles section!! All the stars were... [more]
October's White Cubicle gallery presentation was by Wolfgang Tillmans, and focussed on a special presentation of an image by Richard Branson. I understood -and this could have been distorted in the telling- that the image had once been Tillmans own portrait of choice for his toilet, and this had led... [more]
It was a bittersweet celebration last night as our longest-serving intern to date, the fabulous Anna Gudbrandsdottir, left SHOWstudio after an extraordinary 18 MONTHS of hard work. Departing to further her own photography -not to mention honing her burgeoning DJing activities- Icelandic Anna was much beloved for her cool, unflappable... [more]
With the final films from the 24hrs project available today, you are finally able not only to view the project in its entirety, but also to win the exclusive YSL prize! At the end of each film, a question is posed: answer all these correctly and you have the chance... [more]
Plexiglass stars were in the ascendant this morning at YSL's S/S '08 press day and the PRs were sporting the contentious heels (with guide marks for your toes!) assiduously to prove their 5.5" spikes can indeed be endured! Best of all, I departed with the prize for our 24hrs... [more]
An exclusive launch on SHOWstudio, take a look at Hussein Chalayan's online look book for his S/S '08 Readings collection.
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Thursday’s Swarovski Fashion Rocks marked its return to London soil for the first time since 2003. In turn, we are showcasing both Nick Knight’s latest collaboration for the event -a film of Naomi Campbell- and also the first film he created for Fashion Rocks in 2005.
The original 2005 film features... [more]
The big crowd-pleasers were obviously Iggy Pop, Beth Ditto and Whitney Houston (all pictured below), as well as Dame Edna, would you believe. But the real fashion moment for me was Valentino's swansong 'Lifetime Achievement' moment, when Gwyneth Paltrow arrived to give his his crystalline tribute.
They played a video... [more]
The Picture Phone packed up midway through sending this last night, but here it is for the record...
Jonny Borrell of 'Razorlight for Burberry' clearly thinks he's in the Rolling Stones. Not only is he pulling some Jagger-like moves, like Keith Richards at the O2 stadium, he is -shocker- smoking!
Yes, I'm at The Albert Hall, furtively texting reports: you're not officially allowed to take pictures. Shirley Bassey's here too -'collaborating' with Marchesa. And what's their tune? Big Spender, of course!
To start off a very big day for Swarovski, cousins Markus Langes-Swarovski and Nadja Swarovski gave a presentation to contextualise tonight's Fashion Rocks music and fashion jamboree within the company's overall historical legacy. Beginning with the crystals that were used to accent Queen Victoria's veils (designed by the House of... [more]
Showcasing a new genre of amateur print photography that has emerged from South East Asia over the past decade - Purikura- we have invited a Tokyo-based team to interpret the Autumn/Winter collections using nothing more than a souped-up Photo-Me booth. See how photographer Kenji Hirasawa, stylist Takumi Iwata, illustrators Kai... [more]
Today saw the unveiling of Channel 4's first 'Big 4'; a 50-foot-high metal structure of the British TV channel's iconic logo positioned outside its HQ on Horseferry Road in London's Victoria. Big 4 will have four different incarnations during Channel 4's 25th anniversary year, the first being Nick Knight's... [more]
Cabinet gallery has curated a veritable museum for Frieze, with a carefully orchestrated exhibition of historical and contemporary works, including a complete set of Wendingen magazines. The piece de resistance though, is the hour long audio guide (pictured).
This years' Frieze Projects has been curated by Neville Wakefield. Spectacle is provided by Richard Prince's rotating car dealership style display of car and model, whilst a more sublte approach to the carnivalsque nature of such peopled events is brought by Janice Kerbel. Her 'Remarkable' poster set, changing every day,... [more]
She dances! She poses! She sits still for the make-up artists! She struts... Watch Jessica Miller excel in the second of 4 batches of 6 films drawn from our 24hr broadcast. Then take note of the questions at the end of each. On the 25th of this month, a form... [more]
Panda bags! Gavin brownies! Vintage clothes! Relph and Payne bootlegs! Hope Atherton clothes! Signed bills! Rob Pruitt's flea market for the Frieze Art Fair takes over the whole of Gavin Brown's Enterprise, and provides a microcosmic, affordable hub of activity to the main fair, with some of the art worlds... [more]
One of the myriad art events this week that tie in with the opening of the Frieze Art Fair in London tomorrow night, new work by the architect Zaha Hadid was unveiled at the David Gill Galleries this afternoon. Inspired by the formation of sand dunes, her 'Dune Formations' are... [more]
Aggy collects her award for model of the year at the marie awards - shame she didn't understand a word!
If I'm honest, the idea of a homage to Isabella Blow sounded like an opportunity for a lot of people in the industry to pretend they knew someone they didn't and to speculate on things that weren't actually any of their business. Fortunately, the show itself kept mawkishness to a... [more]
The fluttering wings of a bird of prey hang over the mouth of the catwalk, gradually whipping up a frenzy to begin a collection 'inspired by extreme glamour'.
On arrival at Alexander McQueen's show, the venue is thick with the smell of Fracas. That's not me being poetic: it's the fragrance Isabella Blow used to wear. And the first hint that tonight's collection will be a homage to the departed fashion editor...
Martine Sitbon gets a big applause for a collection of light, colourful and sometimes metallic or irridescent dresses, which is what they love her for.
Thierry Dreyfus is doing the lighting for Martine Sitbon's Rue du Mail show. I'm sitting waiting for it to start, basking in glow of his colour scheme.
Et voila…the ‘Readings’ movie has launched, in conjunction with Hussein’s Paris fashion week show and Anthony’s soundtrack proves to be powerful counterpoint to the designs. But the tale is only half told without a look at the ‘making of’ movie, showing the blood, sweat and lasers behind the film's dazzling... [more]
After his A/W ' 07 manifesto - an expanded version of the campaign - it was intriguing to imagine how Pilati might develop the hybrid woman envisioned -part bourgeois, part unruly maverick- if she was indeed a blueprint for YSL's future. Last night's show was so different in focus from... [more]
Repetto dance shoes staged a project to mark their 60-year history, where they -you guessed it- asked a list of famous people to customise their classic ballet pump. A substantial number of the great and the good obliged, from Gaultier, who incorporated his into a tutu, to Chloé Sevigny, who... [more]
Today is the first of four Thursdays (4, 11, 18 & 25 October 2007) when we will release a set of six new movies, timed in with the launch of YSL's newly redesigned ysl.com website. Each of the twenty-four film edits represents one of the hours of our 24hrs live... [more]
So 'on trend' she must have been pinching herself, Stella opened with vivid floral prints on light silk -tiered dresses, jumpsuits and romper suits- all before a 'soil-free, vertical garden' created by esteemed French botanist Patrick Blanc. The eveningwear faded to pale: tiered frills were teamed with Tuxedo jackets, wide-legged... [more]
The fashion crowd aren't naturally receptive to a film in place of a catwalk show so Hussein and co. were rather holding their breath tonight. But the general consensus was that there was enough detail shown of the 30 or so looks filmed to constitute a thorough representation of the... [more]
The Readings movie has been launched! Watch the glorious mix of Hussein Chalayan's S/S'08 collection and Anthony Hegarty's music, inspired by SHOWstudio's viewers, as the film airs simultaneously in Paris.
Here's Pierre, officially the calmest, most modest designer in the industry - you may recognise him from Michael Janssen's series of posters for Gap. The designer has four shoe designs launching at Gap in November - on your marks, get set...
Look out for the launch of the ‘Readings’ collaboration between Nick Knight, Anthony Hegarty and Hussein Chalayan filmed last week. Hot off the editing desk, the showcase movie is awaiting its premiere this evening in Paris at Hussein’s show and will be launched simultaneously on the site at approximately 7pm.... [more]
Nick Knight has picked his three favourite images of those to emerge from our weeklong ‘Replenishing body’ digital installation at Beyond the Valley. Congrats to the winners, who all explored the creative potential of the interactive grid to produce some darn fine results….A big thanks also to everyone that... [more]
'You see he loves a tricorn and a wide-legged pant' sighed one wit as we left Jean Paul Gaultier's show. Add to that, filligree leather breeches, camo bustiers, pearly king shirts, bosoms bursting out of buckled belts-as-bras and women smoking pipes, then you have the wild and varied picture of... [more]
You usually get a one-or-two-word concept out of the Comme House to explain what the collection was about (for instance, Junya's was 'the origins of Africa' this morning, so disregard all talk of Chanel and treat as a fashionable red herring). Apparently Rei Kawakubo would give no verbal clue as... [more]
Oh, they stretch the limits of irony, that Viktor & Rolf! A parade of 'good bad taste' came spewing out of the mouth of Shalom-as-Joan Crawford: black lace over pink chiffon; pink and black patent, harlequin lace-up shoes; violin emblems all over the shop; pierrot collars under shangtung silk tuxedos... [more]
Tao Kurihara's sweet, slightly Puritanical show was entitled 'My Holy Tribes'. That was all she was giving away...
After last season's grungey hybrid tea-dresses, Junya's fantastic S/S was a departure into block colour, with marvellous, pleated muslin dresses in vivid hues to open, bursting out of one of the Hotel Intercontinental's ornate doors to a singalong Motown soundtrack. Of course, no Junya show is complete without the taught... [more]
These camera phones can't cope with such strong lighting but you might just catch the floral fabrics and strong, drapey silhouettes of this final set of showpieces.
This was the finale to Yojhi's beautiful but very, very long show- a sequence of rubberised silver work suits. You might think this meant the rest of the collection was about utility or rockabilly androgyny but in fact this emerged from a romantic experiment with late Victorian dress: you couldn't... [more]
A slick progression from A/W -you'll notice the Ming the Merciless shoulders remain, if a little more star-shaped- Maison Martin Margiela's S/S '08 was far more refined (and dare one say it, commercial) than ever. But curiously, it was those bits that really stood out: the opening section of skin-tight... [more]
Man Like Me played a great set for the opening of projectspace176 in North London last week - a new open to the public private collection building that will hold exhibitions and events akin to that of Saatchi's now established venture.
There was mention of Prada as we left the show (it must have been the pyjama bottoms) but then that dark, child-like vision Miucciahas Prada showed in Milan has always been Jun Takahashi's strong suit. Remember the devil children with tights for hair of yore? Today creepy emblems were in... [more]
Jun Takahashi had us don black leis (hula garlands to you and me) on our way into the Undercover show. Here's the art director Giorgio di Mitri being all mysterious in his.
A little clip of the super nice girls on the dior show.
