We are ardent supporters of photographer Alice Hawkins so it gave us great pleasure to go and support her at last night's opening of her latest exhibition 'The Good, The Bad, The Belle' at Spring Projects. Following her recent successful debut solo show at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art... [more]
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Showcasing the cream of this season's striking monochromatic looks, Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben's latest film offers up a captivating 'moving fashion' alternative to Knight's 'Black and White' editorial in the March issue of British Vogue. Set to a pulsating soundtrack, witness Anja Rubik bring to... [more]
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We've been shadowing Louise Goldin and her team for nearly five months, recording the various stages of the realisation of her Autumn/Winter 2009 collection. The 25-look collection was finally unveiled to press and buyers on Monday afternoon and we were there to capture the final piece of the proverbial puzzle.... [more]
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Following Monday night's spectacular opening of 'Hats: An Anthology' at the Victoria & Albert museum, we are proud to present Hats Off, our very own tribute to millinery extraordinaire Stephen Jones. Created in collaboration with the V&A, our multi-layered project incorporates revelatory interviews with the key exhibition's key players, a... [more]
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Is it day five? Maybe you know better than me. Unfortunately, the combination of sleep deprivation, mild malnourishment and the packed London schedule (and they say we don't need five days?!) have resulted in a mild case of strep throat, thus my conspicuous blog absence this morning. But take heart!... [more]
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A number of designers this season have chosen to eschew conventional catwalk show presentations, and are instead turning their attention to the medium of film. Continuing out commitment to pioneering 'moving fashion' we will be showcasing a selection of films created by London based designers, over the couple of days.... [more]
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Marios Schwab gallery updated in our London Fashion week coverage
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Ever rushed home from a family holiday to tape the coverage of the haute couture collections? I did in 1999 for Galliano's famous, infamous and downright fabulous Autmn/Winter collection for Dior. Think Matrix meets bloodsports crossed with the Raj and you get an inkling. Here is Stephen Jones' ferrociously fantastic... [more]
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Long-term collaborator Giles Deacon is one of many guests eager to congratulate the milliner. Deacon headed straight to the V&A after his own show which this season incorporated Jones' leather and suede flyer saucer hats.
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Luckily it was somewhat easier to pin down our own Charlotte and Nick Knight (for now...)
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I ran over to nab Stephen during a quiet moment: but frankly, tonight there will never be a quiet moment. Here he is captured at work, being interviewed by Jade Parfitt for vogue.tv
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There is no 'official' dress code tonight, but really everyone realises millinery is obligotry. The V&A set the standard high, as beautifully illustrated here by Melanie and Laura.
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Or rather, let me eat cake! We're here at the set-up for the gala opening of Stephen Jones' V&A exhibition 'Hats: An Anthology', soon to be showcased in our own homage, Hat's Off, documenting just about everything behind the scenes of this ball-busting extravaganza of a show. I'll be blogging... [more]
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Luella gallery updated in our London Fashion week coverage
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Better late than never! A hectic morning means I literally had no chance to even think, but rest assured, the results of a morning's slog (and venue-to-venue jog) will soon be in our Collections project!
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It's virtually impossible to attend every event during London Fashion Week. Luckily we've been sent over a selection of pictures from photographer Matt Irwin's 'Punk. Perfect. Awful' exhibition opening held on Friday night. Guests included models Liberty Ross and Alice Dellal and designer Gareth Pugh, taking a well-deserved break from... [more]
Well, more ten twenty sixes, but that's not quite so snappy. Luella is the first show of the day, held in Covent Gardens' flower cellars and due to begin any moment...
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Barbie looms large at Danielle Scutt's show - both as sponsor and here, in a lifesize (and rather creepy) mannequin at the show's entrance.
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A rather less sociable start (especially on the Sabbath), but there's nothing like hot fresh talent to get you out of bed in the morning. Today, it's the turns of Richard Nicoll, Christopher Kane, Danielle Scutt and, first up, Todd Lynn. Log into our Collections project to see all the... [more]
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After a somewhat relentless first full day of shows, the end is in sight! Well, the end of the runway at least, courtesy of Vivienne Westwood Red Label...
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They say there's no place like home, but my home for this week (or good enough) is the Topshop show space, providing a venue for the likes of Christopher Kane, Marios Schwab and tonight Peter Jensen and Ann-Sofie Back. Variety may be the proverbial spice of life, but during fashion... [more]
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Central St Martins gallery updated in our London Fashion week coverage
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It's a mercifully gentle afternoon start to SHOWstudio's first day of in-depth coverage for Autumn/Winter 2009 - and this season we're doing things a little differently. Our Collections project will contain all the catwalk reports, alongside show videos and Chris Moore's accomplished catwalk photography, while I will update the blog... [more]
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...So I'll eat my words! After a minor scuffle with the British Fashion Council security, I was swept into the Saint Martins M.A. with minimal fuss courtesy of much beloved M.A. graduate (and our own star of Unravelled!) Louise Goldin.Taking time out from preparations for her own collection on Monday,... [more]
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The tents, the tantrums, the talons! London Fashion Week is back once again, and of course SHOWstudio are logging and blogging the action every step of the way! This seasons it's off to a gentle start (for SHOWstudio at least) with just one show on our inaugural day. Then again,... [more]
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The Violence process blog has been updated with an email from Sissel. You can read the articles she mentions here and here.
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Iceland's Reykjavik Art Museum is the setting for a major new exhibition featuring fifteen original chess sets and boards made by a 'who's who' of contemporary art, including Damien Hirst, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Tracy Emin and many others. These stunning pieces differed greatly from artist to artist... [more]
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The Violence 2 is a lot more interesting than the first prototype.
My first impression was that there was something more animal about it. It smelt more menacing/ dangerous and I wondered if it was my desire to feel this or wether there was the beginning of a instinctive reaction... [more]
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Riding on a wave of ever-building excitement since her first show as part of Fashion East back in 2006, award-winning designer Louise Goldin has garnered a reputation for outstanding creative vision and a uniquely futuristic outlook. Offering Goldin's intriguing and experimental work an... [more]
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'Awful' is seldom a word used by any aspiring photographer to describe their work, but neverthless it's one of just three adjectives chosen by Matt Irwin for his latest solo exhibition - the other being, perhaps more understandably, 'Punk' and 'Perfect'. With equal honesty, Irwin describes his start as... [more]
Apparently, Katie Grand had already figured out what she would do next after her 'Love In' at Dover Street - she's working at least a season ahead of the rest of the pack. Her latest work-out involves the 'remix' of Prada's Bond Street flagship as part of the brands 'Iconoclast'... [more]
With London's turn to host fashion's great and good due to begin at the end of this week, the time is ripe to showcase the best of British in the latest update to our Antony Price project. Appropriately, this latest update includes an an exhaustive catalogue of Price's own fashion... [more]
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For a magazine monikered 'Love', could there be a better occasion for launch than Valentine's day? Katie Grand evidently reasoned not, as she picked February 14 to unveil the beyond-eagerly awaited inaugural issue of her latest venture, her first magazine under the Conde Nast banner. To celebrate, Katie naturally turned... [more]
Throughout both Wednesday and Thursday of this week, my good self and a bevvy of SHOWstudio recording equipment decamped to the V&A to document the final stages of the preparatory work for Stephen Jones' upcoming no-holds-barred extravaganza of an exhibition - Hats: An Anthology. As if designing his eponymous line... [more]
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A difficulty that arises in promoting Fashion Film vis-à-vis editorial is the tricky question of credits. To have, or not to have? To write, or not to write? Moving image, while offering the undeniable advantage of the garment in motion, also begs the questions of how exactly to place these... [more]
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Advertising is about nothing if not eliciting desire: and if the medium of advertising itself achieves that, surely you're onto a winner. For the past four seasons, Yves Saint Laurent has taken brand awareness to another level, packaging its advertising imagery in a 'Manifesto' and handing out the resulting pamphlet... [more]
Celebrating spring's flirtation with fringe, our latest project showcases the threaded, shredded and tasselled layers of this season's foremost creations bristling in unadulterated movement. Shot during Nick Knight's 'Fringe Festival' cover story for the March 2009 collections issue of British Vogue, Fringed celebrates fashion in motion... [more]
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