Our live stream may be complete, but the Soft Furnishings shoot continues into a third day to complete Nick Knight and Peter Saville's erotic editorial story for the July 2009 'Sex' issue of Wallpaper*. SHOWstudio are still on the scene, editing three days of shoot footage into highlight clips that... [more]
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Nick Knight and team have shot late into the night to capture the perfect image to close Peter Saville's erotic escapades for Wallpaper* - or at least, a perfectly perverse ending to our Soft Furnishings live stream. For these final shots of our second day shooting, Mariacarla and Alana donned... [more]
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We've been on set for just over 14 hours now and we're very close to completing the intended 12 looks for Peter and Nick's 20-page editorial for the upcoming sex-themed issue of Wallpaper*. Today, Gideon Ponte's Erotic House construction has so far formed the backdrop of 8 suggestive scenarios featuring... [more]
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As promised we've just launched our first Soft Furnishings interview, with esteemed graphic designer Peter Saville. Talking to Alexander Fury after yesterday's shoot, Peter speaks at length about his ideas and intentions for the 'Erotic House'. Revealing the shoot's concept is loosely based on his 1990s Mayfair residency The Apartment,... [more]
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After a late finish last night, the team are now assembled on set ready for another packed day of shooting for Nick Knight and Peter Saville's Erotic House story for the July issue of Wallpaper*. We have just switched on today's LIVE STREAM which will reveal visual and audio action... [more]
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As our shoot ploughs on into the night, the action on the Soft Furnishings set takes a harder tone as Alana Zimmer and Mariacarla play doctors and nurses in Gideon Ponte's sterile, surreal white-tiled cube. This is the final shot from our first day of shooting, taking us a third... [more]
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Proceedings are well underway on day one of our live broadcast of Soft Furnishings - The Erotic House of Peter Saville. We've been streaming live action direct from the studio since noon, but shooting began later than planned -our stellar team headed by Peter Saville and Nick Knight were intent... [more]
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In the unseasonably cold early hours of this morning Peter Saville's Erotic House began to take shape - with more than a little help from Gideon Ponte and a veritable platoon of assistance. Above are just three examples of the dozen-or-so sets Gideon will be creating during the course of... [more]
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From 14:00 GMT tomorrow, SHOWstudio will be broadcasting live to expose every intimate detail of Soft Furnishings, a fashion shoot with a difference sprung from the fertile imagination of graphic design legend Peter Saville and captured by Nick Knight for the July 2009 issue of Wallpaper* magazine. Inspired by the... [more]
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We are pleased to discover that Fred Butler's oversized counterfeit Chanel bag which featured in her Conspicuous Consumption film, part of last year's Political Fashion series, is now on public display in the window of Soho boutique Kokon to Zai. Created specifically for her SHOWstudio film, the bag is based... [more]
SHOWstudio's three-day fashion and music extravaganza Fashion DJs was an unforgettable live spectacle for all involved - not only for the wealth of musical performance, but also the dizzying visual feast. Celebrating and showcasing the latter, the latest addition to our Fashion DJs project is an exhaustive array of images... [more]
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Over ten weeks, we have spanned Louise Goldin's entire creative process and unravelled her working methods backwards: this week, the latest and final installment of our Unravelled series is, paradoxically, the first, filmed with Marcus Werner Hed and Jeremy Valender back in December 2008. In an exclusive one-on-one interview, Goldin... [more]
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This season, KCD's London press day was an odd bolt of transatlantic decadence, with Marc Jacob's Danceteria-inspired outburst of eighties excess, Christophe Decarnin's blast of luxe lunacy chez Balmain and the commercial crumbs of Olivier Theysken's swansong for the beleagured house of Nina Ricci. While the opinions of many clashed... [more]
The punk-couture touch Giles gave to both his A/W 2009 mainline collection and his Atelier Swarovski range are of course part of Alexander McQueen's leitmotif. While his mainline press day displayed his couture tendencies, his lower-priced McQ line understandably leaned toward the lo-fi punk aesthetic. This season, with fresh input... [more]
Aiding and abetting talents from the very hautest of Parisian couture to the edgiest of London's avant-garde, Swarovski seemed a fitting place to kick off this weeks veritable marathon of press day viewings. Showcasing their Atelier jewellery line, alongside the more esoteric Runway Rocks showpieces and their New York and... [more]
This week's Unravelled installment takes us back in time to December 2008, and the second stage of Louise Goldin's then-embryonic Autumn/Winter 2009 collection. As charted in our London fashion Week show report, Goldin's initial inspirations were zoomorphic architecture and the children's cartoon Transformers - but from this her imagination took... [more]
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Hopefully our twitter updates and my own distinctly lo-fi cameraphone coverage of Stephen Jones' millinery Fashion In Motion on 3 April whetted your aesthetic appetite for more from this frankly spectacular event. Well, fret ye not: our Hats Off has now been updated with a new Fashion in Motion Gallery,... [more]
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Britain has indeed got talent - if we needed more proof of this reality television maxim, back-to-back visits to the Starworks and Alexander McQueen showrooms made the point very clearly.
McQueen's standout Paris spectacular was a highpoint of the season, reinventing his well-established ouvre with an energy and verve seldom approached... [more]
One of the very many great things about SHOWstudio's new based in Mayfair is our new proximity to many an exhibition and gallery opening. Fittingly, our first opening since moving was fashion focussed, courtesy of photographer Miles Aldridge. 'Doll Face' is Aldridge's latest exhibition at Hamiltons Gallery, coinciding with the... [more]
To coincide with publication of the latest issue of Arena Homme + featuring Nick Knight's monograph of Rick Owens (as documented on SHOWstudio earlier this year), we launch our own video portrait of this American fashion legend. Documenting both the progress of the shoot and Owens' A/W 2009 menswear collection... [more]
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Filmed entirely inside Louise Goldin's studio, our latest Unravelled installment takes us literally back to the drawing-board as we continue to map out Goldin's design process backwards to its original inspiration. This week's installment, 'Design', takes her creations back to their two-dimensional origins, revealing Goldin's working methods and key inspirations... [more]
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Held as part of Birds Eye View 2009 film festival, 'Fashion and the Moving Image' celebrates the growing genre of fashion film, focusing on films created by female filmmakers. Captured during the event held at at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, this project incorporates footage of the evening's lively panel... [more]
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Last night saw the grand opening of the temporary in-store Barbie boutique at Dover Street Market in situ for the next two weeks. Having taken over the store's ground floor windows with an oversized Barbie head sculpture, the boutique incorporates merchandise curated by Henry Holland such as watches, a diamond... [more]
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Ground-breaking is a much-overused adjective, especially in the oft overhyped and hyperbolic world of fashion. But the Victoria and Albert museum's Fashion In Motion events - animating the staid galleries of this august institution and offering a rare chance for the public to experience the full-fledged glamour of a fashion... [more]
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The latest collaboration between Fashion Targets Breast Cancer and Topshop allows you to wear your allegiance to the charity on your sleeve - or, if we're literal, across your chest. Taking inspiration from the charity initiative's trademark target - previously featured as a print across the chest of t-shirts sported... [more]
The merger of two independently successful PR companies, RelativeMO represent a stellar list of clientele, including Giles, Julien Macdonald and Unravelled star Louise Goldin. So, where to start? On climbing the vertiginous stairs of RelativeMO’s central London venue, I was greeted by the spangly, jangly and unashamedly brash creations of... [more]
Still exhausted from London and Paris fashion weeks, last Wednesday the indomitable Mandi Lennard and her team opened doors to let us eye their roster’s fashionable wares for Autumn/Winter 2009. Immediately, I was drawn in to Ruth Hogben’s film showcasing Gareth Pugh’s latest collection (and featured last month... [more]
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A follow-on - and arguably a step up - from our earlier foray into sweat-soaked post-fight t-shirting, our latest Violence update lives up to the project name (and is not for those of a delicate constitution). A week ago, Tristan Thomson and Antony Parsons filmed the fights and the aftermath... [more]
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What a welcome! Here is a photograph we snapped at the end of our new road as the widespread protests against today's G20 summit in London took to the street of Mayfair and right past the door of SHOWstudio (well, almost). Lucky for us they didn't spot our illuminated dollar-sign...... [more]
Although London-based, for a minimum of two months each season Louise Goldin spends a gruelling five days of her seven day working week in Italy, supervising production of her samples, coordinating her previous season's production, selecting yarn, developing stitches, knitting samples and generally working herself to the bone in order... [more]
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After eight years in London's East End, SHOWstudio are pleased to announce our relocation to the very heart of London's Mayfair - and the final details of our new home! Our new home is 1-9 Bruton Place: formerly a barn, a brothel, the studios and galleries of Francis Bacon and... [more]
