Spring/Summer 2010 Paris Menswear Week has now come to a close (our final show being yesterday evening courtesy of Paul Smith) and all of Hywel Davies' on-the-spot reports and Chris Moore's sterling images are now loaded the latest addition to SHOWstudio.com, our Collections section. Designed to comprehensively house all of... [more]
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Exploring the line between masculine and feminine, cropped jackets, high waisted trousers and draped tops were presented by Qasimi as part of his menswear presentation. Redefining masculinity may be the concept here - but it's not easy to pull off these looks - for brave boys only!
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London based Khalid Al Qasimi created a film as a back drop to his menswear presentation. Directed by Mariano Vivanco and styled by Robbie Spencer, the film's focus was of model posing by the sea. In various states of Qasimi dress and undress, the sensual film showcased the collection of... [more]
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Focusing just on the garments, Margiela's presentation was pure minimalism. A simple statement of perfectly formed and expertly executed clothes.
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As models walk onto the podium a front light isolates them individually to the audience. A dresses joins him to add a piece of clothing to complete the look, while a live voice over describes the clothes in accurate detail.
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The first look from Margiela's menswear spring collection.
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We're on the penultimate day of Spring/Summer 2010 Paris Menswear Week, with Hywel Davies' catwalk reports and Chris Moore's imagery coming thick and fast. With updates from the heavyweight shows of Raf Simons, John Galliano and Commes des Garcons and big names including Dior Homme and Lanvin still to show,... [more]
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Hair raising antics at Willhelm as models await the beginning of the show.
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The art studio inspired set for Willhelm's spring collection.
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The finale of the Kenzo show involved huge jars of sand being poured onto the catwalk.
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On the outskirts of Paris the graffiti clad venue awaits for Galliano's spring / summer presentation.
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After live feeds of a string of conversations with the likes of Tim Walker, Marios Schwab and Mandi Lennard, our first In Fashion interview with leading British photographer Tim Walker is now live on the site. In conversation with former SHOWstudio Editor in Chief Professor Penny... [more]
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Roksanda Ilincic's collections have become known for their couture-like standards, drawing on old-school techniques like stand drapery and hand-whipped hems and the frippery of corsages and chantilly lace overlays for their impact, all swathed in yards of expensive and expansive silks, velvets and furs. All in all, hers is an... [more]
After Yves Saint Laurent's video presentation last night, the four-day Paris Menswear season kicks off in earnest today. For Spring/Summer 2010, journalist and author Hywel Davies once again mans the SHOWstudio cameraphone - this time taking up the challenge to record all of live action on the SHOWstudio Twitter feed.... [more]
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From today until Monday, Paris hosts the menswear Spring/Summer 2010 collections. The catwalk shows are the finale to menswear season that started last week with the Pitti event in Florence. A vast trade show of often monotonous menswear, each season the organisers invite a contemporary designer to raise the profile... [more]
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Nick Knight and Alexander McQueen's latest collaboration - the 'Crane Vs. Tiger' imagery for the S/S 2010 Alexander McQueen PUMA campaign - was unveiled at Milan Men's fashion week yesterday. To accompany this, we invite SHOWstudio viewers to take up the challenge of collaborating with these British mavericks and the... [more]
Back by popular demand, Boudicca's second annual Cake Off took place on Saturday afternoon - and as a big fan both of the sweet stuff and Zowie Broach and Brian Kirkby's art couture, any excuse to indulge both simultaneously is more than welcome.
This year, the ranks were swelled with the... [more]
Students graduating from fashion design courses receive a substantial amount of press attention at this time of year, not least those from Central Saint Martins. The college's Private View on Thursday night gave the opportunity to take a look at the work coming from the other pathways, including Fashion Communication... [more]
After just over an hour today's In Fashion interview- with Mandi Lennard in conversation with Laura Bradley - is now over. Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances our second live broadcast with London designer Richard Nicoll isn't able to go ahead as planned this afternoon, but we hope to snag him... [more]
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We have just started to stream our latest In Fashion interview, with Fashion Features Editor Laura Bradley speaking to leading publicist Mandi Lennard. The interview is recorded and broadcast live from the SHOWstudio space in Mayfair - with todays live stream to be shortly followed by a ten-minute edit of... [more]
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Shops at this time of year are usually just starting their summer sale, meaning their stock amounts to little more than the garments that failed to shift during the season. Ever the innovator, Rei Kawakubo has chosen the month of June to launch a new Comme des Garçons womenswear line... [more]
Diane Arbus is hardly commonplace inspirational fodder for a fashion collection - then again, 'commonplace' is never a word that could be applied to Peter Jensen or his creative routes. For this, his first resort collection, Jensen looked to Diane Arbus prints but interpreted them in his own whimsical way.... [more]
From 12:00 Noon GMT this Friday we will once more be streaming the latest of our In Fashion interviews live. This week, not just one but two fashion luminaries are pinned down for individual one-on-one interviews in our live studio space. First up, London PR Guru Mandi Lennard (the lady... [more]
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With Somerset House slated as the new home of London Fashion Week from this September (coincidentally just as our own SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution exhibition kicks off in the self-same venue), what better place to host a new welter of talent ready to swell the ranks for Spring/Summer 2010? The British... [more]
This Sunday, the Truman Brewery paid host to the Art Car Boot Fair - which does pretty much what it says on the tin, offering work from contemporary artists at a believable (and affordable) price to the general public, in the grand old british tradition of the Car Boot Sale.... [more]
There are just twelve more hours to go until the official deadline of our VMAN Model Search at 00:00 Midnight GMT Tonight! With sudden final flurry of contestants over this weekend, our submissions have soared to over a thousand hopeful souls baring all (well, within the limits of decency) to... [more]
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We briefly touched on our forthcoming major exhibition at the end of last year. Today, we can finally reveal SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution will open at London's Somerset House on 18 September and will run until 22 December, it's opening coinciding with the start of London Fashion Week, taking place in... [more]
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As Graduate Fashion Week drew to a close, yesterday morning the Royal College of Art staged its own MA Fashion show at the Henry Moore gallery. The thirty-six strong class of 2009 delivered collections packed full of technical brilliance, with the execution and finish to match. In menswear Bronwen Marshall’s... [more]
With the 'Sex' issue of Wallpaper* hitting newsstands today, we are able to simultaneously publish our own online gallery of the final Soft Furnishings editorial devised by Nick Knight and Peter Saville. Alongside these glossy spreads, we update the project with our final film highlight - a three-minute 'Making Of'... [more]
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Tomorrow our faithful Newsletter subscribers will receive something extra in their inbox - a link to an exclusive preview of one of Nick Knight's editorial images of Carmen Kass from this week's Clown shoot. Captured during the two-day editorial shoot for AnOther Magazine's Autumn/Winter 2009 issue, our Newsletter subscribers will... [more]
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With barely a week left until the submission deadline, we're approaching the 800th hopeful upload to our VMAN Model Search! Check out our ever-expanding Contestants Gallery for eye-catching head shots, long shots and chiseled profiles - alongside some frankly mind-boggingly original video submissions. Of course, there is still plenty of... [more]
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To mark the start of London Jewellery week, we felt it appropriate to showcase the considerable talents of London fine jewellery maverick Hannah Martin. Focussing on luxury adornment for men - in itself something of an anomaly - Martin's latest collection takes as its unconventional inspiration the dodgy dealings of... [more]
After our twelve hours of shooting (on top of yesterday's nine hour session) Nick and Panos now have everything they need for their upcoming editorial story destined for the Autumn issue of AnOther Magazine. After shooting Carmen in a plethora of Panos Yiapanis' clown-inspired looks, for most of the day... [more]
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For tonight's next look, Nick's wanted to photograph Carmen in the street in some puddles - as it hasn't rained for the past week, his assistants have had to fake it with buckets of water. Here's a scene you don't see every night on your way home: Carmen Kass dressed... [more]
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With daylight fading fast in our Bruton Place studio space, what could be a better accessory than a neon 'lip' sign for our model Carmen Kass? Another example of Panos and his team's ingenious handiwork, the specially-devised red glowing lips are currently being used to create fantastical trompe l'oeil effects... [more]
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Here is one of the leitmotifs of the photographer's trade: the polaroid wall, in this case covered in glossy eight-by-ten images of Carmen Kass in this morning's outlandish array of Dolce and Gabbana and Prada pieces mixed in with Panos' inimitable array of customised garments. Nick Knight's images are shaping... [more]
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Carmen Kass takes to the stage in Panos Yiapanis' second look of the day: a devoré velvet tunic, cardigan, bloomers and those love-or-hate thigh-high tan waders from the A/W 2009 Prada collection. This high-fashion ensemble is however subverted into something far more unsettling, and thoroughly in keeping with our Clown... [more]
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The team are back at our Bruton Place studio ready for another day of shooting for Nick and Panos' clown-themed story for the upcoming issue of AnOther Magazine. Model Carmen Kass already being prepped in hair and make-up, Panos and his team are busy working on items for today's looks,... [more]
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Although I was conspicuously absent from the SHOWstudio office this past Thursday, you couldn't keep me away from those grad shows - maybe it's that old fashion obsession of snagging the newest of the new first? I evidently wasn't the only one obsessing: after my Daphne Guinness sighting at the... [more]
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We've just completed our final shot of the day on the cold dark streets of Bruton Place - but Carmen seems to have taken Nick's instructions of 'More demonic!' and 'A bit more mad in the face!' to heart - or rather, let them go to her head! That is... [more]
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Silent film legend Lon Chaney Sr. once stated 'There is nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight'. We're testing this theory to the max this evening, as Carmen Kass takes to the street in Panos Yiapanis' uncompromising vision of a maniacal masquerade clown. Rest assured, this is no laughing... [more]
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With Carmen Kass' face contorted by transparent plastic tape to resemble a Royston Vasey resident and Sam McKnight's teased beehive towering hevenwards, we're off on outfit number two. This time. Kass is an explosion of riotous colour, clad in a draped tunic-dress and bejewelled leggings by Louis Vuitton, velvet shorts... [more]
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With our first outfit in the bag - and daylight fast diminishing - Panos, Hannah, Marian and Sam are putting the final touches to Carmen Kass' second look of our two-day Clown shoot. Despite our project title, Nick Knight's glossy 8x10 polaroids above testify that the shoot's aesthetic is veering... [more]
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'Haute Couture Harlequin from Hell' were the first words that leapt to my mind upon seeing the countenance of Carmen Kass in Panos Yiapanis' first hardcore concoction for our Clown shoot. Other than a few additions from Panos' dedicated army of crafty helpers, she's in head-to-toe A/W 2009 Alexander McQueen,... [more]
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It's taken a turn for the Dickensian in our basement as Panos Yiapanis and his willing army of helpers set to work with needles, thread, glue-guns and a hardware shop of metal in the creation of magical mystery garments for for Carmen Kass' Clown couture looks. Here are a few... [more]
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Besides racks crammed with everything from Parisian big-wigs Balenciaga and Balmain to London mavericks Louise Goldin and Christopher Kane, Panos and a vertiable army of artisans have set to work crafting unique accessories to help create Carmen's 'Clown' persona for this shoot. Festooned with studs, crystals, spears and spikes to... [more]
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Following a morning (and a day!) of heavy preparation in SHOWstudio's Bruton Place studio space, our first in-house live shoot with Carmen Kass is now broadcasting! Nick Knight is shooting Kass in a somewhat unusual guise - as the project title betrays, today's shoot for AnOther Magazine is inspired by... [more]
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Our in-house studio space at Bruton Place is being prepped at this very moment for tomorrow's LIVE shoot for AnOther Magazine with none other than the legendary Carmen Kass! From 13:00 GMT tomorrow, SHOWstudio will stream all the action from the set with Kass, Nick Knight and Panos Yiapanis collaborating... [more]
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Following on from Central St Martins’ BA show on Tuesday, the London College of Fashion’s BA Design and Technology students made their catwalk debut last night at Covent Garden's spacious Flower Cellars. Whilst many collections promoted similar colour palettes -pastels combined with black for graphic impact- a handful of designers... [more]
Following the launch of our brand new live In Fashion interview series on Wednesday, this afternoon designer Marios Schwab will be interviewed by SHOWstudio Fashion Director Alex Fury. We've just turned on the LIVE STREAM so you can watch the team setting up ahead of the in-depth interview scheduled to... [more]
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These are hard times for established fashion houses, let alone fledgling names fresh from fashion college, but the presence of Daphne Guinness in the front row - along with a veritable life-raft of fashion cognoscenti- is good indication that last night's Central Saint Martins B.A. show defies both convention and... [more]
Whilst Alex Fury sat through forty collections at last night's Central Saint Martins BA show, I made an early exit to attend the opening of the Design Museum's latest exhibition Super Contemporary. Celebrating visionary design in London, the extensive summer exhibition plays host to commissions by fifteen of the capital's... [more]
After a tête-à-tête lasting an impressive seventy-something minutes, our first live In Fashion interview broadcast with Tim Walker and Professor Penny Martin has now finished. However, the edited interview - the first in the expansive series - will be uploaded onto the site next week. In the meantime,... [more]
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As both Tim Walker and Professor Penny Martin have just arrived at SHOWstudio's ready and raring for the first of our In Fashion interviews, the project's live video stream is now broadcasting! Stay tuned as Tim's live interview is due to begin any moment...
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This afternoon, SHOWstudio and Nick Knight will film the first of our new in-depth interview series with fashion professionals - aptly titled In Fashion. Our inaugural interview focusses on internationally-celebrated fashion photographer Tim Walker, whose interview will be broadcast live at 16:30 GMT (Times Subject to change) this very afternoon... [more]
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