Any viewers who like to check out our studio web-cams on a regular basis (and don't even try to deny it) will have noticed that this evening there's a bit more activity in the studio than usual. In addition to nine SHOWstudio staff going about their daily business (which usually... [more]
Many lament that fashion is one big backslap, but with London Fashion Week shrinking to four days (if only for one season) and many Britpack designers still shivering on the bread line (or there abouts), the opportunity to sound one's own horn and trumpet the creative power of British fashion... [more]
Roksanda Ilincic was the latest designer to show as part of the Victoria & Albert museum's 'Fashion in Motion' series on Friday evening. Recognising the importance of showing a garment in motion, the successful programme of free, live fashion events allows those who don't normally have access to the twice-yearly... [more]
Featuring the maverick and morbid creations of fashion's favourite enfant terrible Gareth Pugh, our latest fashion film project Insensate is a white-knuckle excursion into a gothic fairyland conjured up courtesy of Nick Knight's cover story for October's Dazed & Confused. Indebted to the menacing monochrome dreamscapes of H R Giger,... [more]
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A slice of Parisian pomp in the centre of London proffered by an American may seem somewhat incongruous, but with Marc Jacobs' ever-changing collections for Louis Vuitton, the only thing to expect is the unexpected. Edith Piaf trickled from speakers to set the mood for Jacobs' spring celebration of French... [more]
Relocated to spacious Georgian premises just off Saville Row mere days before their press presentations, the Karla Otto girls recounted that their neighbours seem to think they are some kind of high-level luxury boutique judging by the rails of clothes rolling in and out of the doors. And with good... [more]
Not content to present his work in the conventional coffee-table format of the weighty monograph, Steven Meisel chose to inject a touch of the playful by creating a jigsaw of one of the multi-hued, graphic-strewn images from his December 2007 'Patterns' editorial for Vogue Italia. A touch sadistic, perhaps, considering... [more]
Alex and I were at the Regent Street branch of H&M early yesterday morning when the doors opened for the launch of their Comme des Garçons range. The Swedish retailer has partnered with numerous designers over the past 4 years, starting with Karl Lagerfeld followed by Stella McCartney, Viktor &... [more]
Those of you watching yesterday's Let There Be Light live stream may have spotted Nick mysteriously signing a rather large print. Well, that was actually his 'Susie Smoking' image shot for Yohji Yamamoto's Autumn/Winter 1988-'99 catalogue. The iconic photograph, featuring the model Susie Bick, is going up for auction with... [more]
We were shooting until late last night at our West London studios and were unfortunately unable to upload all of the day's highlights. Now that we're back at the SHOWstudio towers, our dedicated video editor Harry Hanrahan has worked his magic on the two remaining highlights. Alex's interview with Nick... [more]
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We've come to the end of a veritable three-day live fashion extravaganza and what a journey it's been! Our star model Lily Donaldson has entertained and amazed us all, and in the process provided a whole host of imagery for Nick Knight's upcoming editorial story for V57 (due to hit... [more]
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It's our third (and final) day on set of Nick Knight's Let There Be Light shoot and we've just switched on the live stream so tune in to catch sight of Lily in her first look of the day. There's plenty of action to pack in before the day is... [more]
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With Nick's abstract shots of this breathtakingly fragile show (and shoot) stopping plaster-cast jacket from Maison Martin Margiela our second day of live streaming and shooting is officially ended. Nevertheless, the SHOWstudio team are working on to edit today's footage - including the aforementioned Margiela masterpiece - and add... [more]
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Our project highlights and image gallery have now been updated with both the first photographs of the day - Lily sporting Prada, Balenciaga and Jil Sander - and my interview with Nick Knight, shot earlier today and unravelling some of the complex references inspiring the final imagery of our V57... [more]
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We have just launched the live stream for the 2nd day of our Let There Be Light shoot. Lily has just arrived on set with our stellar backstage team (stylist Jonathan Kaye, hair stylist Sam McKnight and make-up artist Val Garland). Her first look of the day (or 'Look 3')... [more]
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Eagle-eyed SHOWstudio viewers will have noticed that we have removed one of yesterday's Let There Be Light 'highlights'. The last look of the day featuring model Lily Donaldson in Alexander McQueen's intricate, computer digitised print look, didn't quite fit stylistically when compared with the austere, minimalism of our first two... [more]
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With Lily working our final look, our last video highlight of the day has been edited and uploaded for your viewing pleasure - starring the exoskeletal S/S 2009 Alexander McQueen pleated jacket and jumpsuit I so admired in Paris (and finally got the chance to all but rip apart at... [more]
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With the first look - a Lanvin blouse and darted trousers precariously perched atop serious Jil Sander asymmetrical platforms - being photographed before your very eyes, Nick Knight's V Magazine shoot is beginning to take shape both in Nick's viewfinder and our Let There Be Light Project Gallery.... [more]
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After having my own moment filming our first highlight to introduce the project in front of Nick's camera, I was quite happy to hand over the reins to the professionals - and Lily is of course working the first of Jonathan Kaye's looks like the star she is. Before the... [more]
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...And lo, there was light! Or something to similar effect, as we are currently setting up our stark, severe white studio in West London for the first day of Nick Knight's shoot for V57. Our model Lily Donaldson is being groomed courtesy of Val, Sam and Marian and we are... [more]
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After our veritable flurry of fashion film over the past few days, we couldn’t let the week close without revealing this tantalising taster of Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben's forthcoming film 'Insensate', showcasing Gareth Pugh’s award-winning A/W 2008 collection. Captured during Nick’s brooding and gothic ‘Dark Magic’ shoot for Dazed... [more]
Our new live event project 'Let There Be Light' broadcasts live from 12:00 Noon GMT on Monday, allowing behind the scenes access to Nick Knight's three-day shoot for V Magazine. Based on the theme of 'Light', as interpreted by Jonathan Kaye from the Spring/Summer 2009 collections, the shoot stars model-of-the-moment... [more]
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion - and indeed, what could be more strange or beautiful than Nick Knight's latest shoot of truly Unbelievable Fashion, featured in December's British Vogue? Painstakingly edited from the frantic, frenetic action captured live on set, this film... [more]
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Bringing the December cover of British Vogue to sparkling, effervescent life is the first of two movies created from footage recorded during Nick Knight's recent photo shoots for said title. A flurry of a fashion fantasia edited by Ruth Hogben, today's opener features Kate Moss as a prima ballerina coiffed... [more]
SHOWstudio is put together by a very small team of amazing devoted and highly inspiring individuals. A hand full of real diamonds that I have been privileged to have worked with. Never has the sheer ambitiousness or size of a project or the fact that it has never been done... [more]
