To our news of the forthcoming, six-part Agent Provocateur film series launching this Friday, we can now share details of the stellar cast. From Friday night, the demure Kate Moss will star as the virgin bride and on Sunday, the holy Jake and Dinos Chapman will be introduced into the... [more]
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Centred around childlike - even doll-like - imagery and innocence suffused with colour, Camille Vivier's Political Fashion film is indeed a feast for the eyes. But with its title referencing the practice of carving dead cuttlefish into angels and devils, 'Jenny Haniver' hints at something darker... [more]
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Any male GP will tell you it's good bedside manner to train one's eyes on uncontroversial things when an young lady exposes her breasts. A knowing Freja Beha Erichsen helps us out in her contribution to Political Fashion by offering us something to read instead.... [more]
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Do you always cry at weddings? Then let us give you something to truly weep about! This Friday, we will be unveiling the first of six, audacious new film shorts made in collaboration with Agent Provocateur that, together, tell the story of "the meltdown of marriage as an ideal". Scripted... [more]
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Our latest week of Political Fashion begins with a film from master milliner Stephen Jones, expounding his own thoughts on the politics of fashion and fashionability alongside excerpts from his illustrious career.
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What better way to round of the week than with a trip to Cube PR, set a mere hop skip and a jump (on the 55, that is) away from SHOWstudio. While the free gift - a potted African violet - was definitely the strangest (but also one of the... [more]
You can talk about a model citizen, but Belgrade-born New York based model Natasa V is a true citizen of the world. In her Political Fashion film, director Barnaby Roper (literally) strips her to the bare essentials, but the most intriguing element is what she doesn’t... [more]
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Gareth Pugh is an acknowledged master of cut, but his offering for Political Fashion takes that concept and turns it on its head – or rather, on his model’s head…
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Actual garments with a political agenda are few and far between, but Ben Dunbar-Brunton’s contribution to Political Fashion focuses on Junya Watanabe’s recycled Spring menswear – inevitably making a dual statement about fashion’s own recycling of ideas and ideology, particularly when contrasted with the straight-up ethos... [more]
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The culmination of our shoot was this evening's party, thrown amidst the picturesque debris of the day's work and showcasing both Toyin's still-unfolding film and the Replay and We Are Replay Autumn/Winter ranges. Here, Toyin herself mans the camera for the final scenes of her film, as the party rages... [more]
It's the turn of the girls in one of our final shots of the day before our dust-smeared and balloon-filled Robert Adams interior is opened to the press at, well, just about now! However, the cameras will continue to roll, allowing those attending a glimpse of the final frames of... [more]
Suddenly Toyin's bullwhip-n-balloon combo makes absolute sense, the smoke machine blasting and dust billowing as her bevy of boys crack at it for all they're worth! Much kudos too to Amy, our trusty if unofficial balloon-wrangler, who saved us all from innumerable wind-machine based calamities!
Under the glassed-in rafters of our 18th century setpiece, Toyin's vision for the shoot begins to take shape. Showcasing pieces from the Replay Autumn/Winter 2008 collection for men and women, with help from stylist Stevie Westgarth, the mood seems somewhat dark and mysterious in typical Toyin fashion, with cascading crimped... [more]
A stone-fronted Georgian town house in West London, set cheek-and-jowl with the Chinese Consulate no less (and a queue snaking down the street to prove it), is the somewhat unlikely setting for today's second live shoot: a collaboration with jeanswear label Replay to be shot by long-standing SHOWstudio contributor Toyin.... [more]
With the film for the new Agent Provocateur Bridal Collaboration entering its final stages, you may be picturing Nick Knight and a pack of flame artists, huddled around a computer in a NoHo production suite? Oh, no! Today, instead, the team will attempt to capture all post-production effects 'in camera'.... [more]
"I don't agree with a word you said," the Voltaire quote goes, "but I defend to the death your right to say it". But you try skim reading the monthly glut of lifestyle magazines in one sitting and tell us how much of it is defensible.... [more]
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Whilst running a project that asks contributors and viewers to question the politics of fashion, how could we deny an Alternative Fashion Week our support? A gamut of the gorgeous and grotesque will be on parade this week at Spitalfields Market, London in daily shows scheduled at 13:15 until... [more]
When considering Political Fashion the body politic is an inescapable concept, as evidenced today by 'Even', our offering from dance and performance artist Catherine Long created with artist and filmmaker Lucy Cash.
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Wednesday night provided an odd evening's entertainment in the presentation of a very usual series of dark and pure fairytales, courtesy of ghd, Mandi Lennard and Shine. But these fairytales were no pantomime (despite the dames): the dresses for Goldilocks, Tinkerbelle and the Wicked Witch of the West came courtesy... [more]
Lily Cole’s contribution to Political Fashion seems to turn the fashion tables somewhat: her star is photographer Juergen Teller and a host of the glossies whose pages she usually graces.
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Being stuck between a rock and a hard place doesn't seem quite so bad when you're at Karla Otto - particularly when the 'rock' is an Emilio Pucci quartz-crusted clutch and the 'hard place' is the tough, tundra-ready carapace of Marni's winter tweeds.
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Photographer Greg Kadel’s Political Fashion film can interpreted as a statement on our current geo-political climate, or equally the death of hippy ‘flower power’ optimism – in either case utilising the make-up artistry of Kabuki to dramatic effect in ‘Black Balloon’.
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In celebration of the beautiful game, Nike and SHOWstudio launch 1-1: Art of Football, inviting you to celebrate your art through football, and your football through art. From today, the field is open for SHOWstudio viewers and the public at large to submit their own work in response to the... [more]
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As sexually charged as all of her inimitable creations, erotic jewellery designer Betony Vernon’s ‘L’envol’ explores sex, power and the fine line between pleasure and pain in our latest Political Fashion offering.
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It's only natural that our Political Fashion film from nail supremo Marian Newman would focus on her area of expertise: the hand, in all its communicative, decorative and indeed politic forms and gestures.
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Our first Political Fashion film this week come from the brothers Gideon and Josh Ponte, juxtaposing history, fashion and art in their offering 'Slip It To Me'.
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Nick Knight's 360 degree 'time slice' shots of Kate Moss, captured on our shoot for V last December, may still burn on your retina. But now let the voice of Kate Moss ring in your ears! For the the film they were destined to create is now complete and ready... [more]
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The genuinely gruelling round of press days continues, and yesterday gave us a chance to sample the wares of two houses whose Haute Couture histories are inextricably intertwined: Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent. Ever since the sensational Saint Laurent show in Paris in February I had been hankering after... [more]
Is Political Fashion really as simple as black and white? Jez Tozer’s contribution explores this contrast, using images of childlike innocence to graphic effect.
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The AI press day is always a must-see for anyone with a taste for putting the more cerebral on their back. This season, as always, all was not as it seemed from the intriguing and interesting wares on offer from Adam Iezzi and his always effusively-helpful team. Ann-Sofie Back's OK!-inspired... [more]
Starring Daisy Lowe and Serbo-Danish actor Momir Subotic, Aganovich’s film for Political Fashion explores ideas of domestic violence and the ever-volatile politics of the sexes.
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As creative director of Kilgour, Carlo Brandelli has fashioned attire for more than his share of international power-figures. It is apt, therefore that his Political Fashion contribution eschews spectacle to focus on the bare-bones of the tailoring pattern themselves and of course the very public figures... [more]
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At the recent Miu Miu press day it must be confessed that the Autumn/Winter 2008 collection came as something of a shock. Back-to-back with Spring’s whimsical harlequins, next season the august Mrs Prada seemed to turn her back on all frippery, focussing instead on jockeys: sleek, streamlined, taut and toned,... [more]
The protagonist of François Berthoud’s Paper Works, our latest Political Fashion film, literally crafts a woman from scratch, playing on Pygmalion and Svengali perceptions and questioning gender roles.
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True to her ‘A.D.D. maxi-maximalist’ aesthetic, Namalee Bolle provided us with not one but seven Political Fashion films which we edited together into one. The title – ‘Relentless Optimism’ – really says it all.
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To begin our sixth week of Political Fashion, we have a contribution from within our own SHOWstudio stable: Alexander Fury's essay looks at the questionable influence of fashion on politics and how contemporary politics in particular has appropriated fashion (and its systems)... [more]
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Representing a whole scion of British fashion, the Relative press day is a chance to examine both established names and up-and-coming labels side-by-side – and the joy of seeing original, beautifully constructed clothing up close is always palpable. Of course, the rails of Christopher Kane were much-thumbed, and justifiably so.... [more]
With the War on Terror still raging, Aitor Throup’s film examines Political Fashion quite literally – namely the ruck-sack, a seemingly innocent item of clothing made politically inflammatory following the 2005 shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes, and which Throup appropriates to dramatic effect.
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Questioning the way Political Fashion really works, writer and curator Alistair O’Neill tackles economic and social issues, following the timeline of the ‘one piece’ for men from sartorial manifesto to fashion’s favourite flash-in-the-pan trend.
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The press day is always worked to its fullest by Ms Mandi Lennard: this time, the theme was ‘Mandi’s Basement’ and we exited with a Sopranos-style paper lunchbag full of Brooklyn’s finest bling. Of course, this didn’t outshine the clothing on show, but Mandi has the distinct advantage of representing... [more]
Drawing on a wealth of fashion theory from Roland Barthes to Baudelaire selected by Philip Mann, Valerie Stahl Von Stromberg uses her Political Fashion film ‘Fashion and Despair’ to explore the idea of the dandy, while her imagery focuses on high-luxury trapped behind glass, desirable yet... [more]
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Drawing on his own experiences, Hywel Davies’ contribution to Political Fashion looks at the ‘you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours’ politics of fashion itself, and fashion journalism in particular, and how this compromises both the quality and integrity of the industry... [more]
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Fumiko Imano offers a whimsical, honest and refreshingly personal take on the Political Fashion question, using herself as the raw material to attempt to address the issues inevitably raised by our project brief.
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Photographer Jason Evans' Political Fashion film focuses on lifeless shop dummies: simultaneously exploring slightly sinister ideas of consumerism, voyeurism and even our sexualisation of object and flesh alike.
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