A gentle reminder that the deadline for our design_download contest is Midnight (GMT) tonight! We've already received a mountain of entries, so get to work stitching your frocks and styling your photoshoots to get your submission to us on time! Your entry could be one of the chosen few selected... [more]
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I visited the hub of SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution, the Embankment Galleries of Somerset House, for the first time late on Thursday afternoon in the heavy midst of exhibition installation. The entire project is shaping up magnificently: the structure is in place, tech is being prepared and the statue of Naomi... [more]
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Last night the SHOWstudio team and a few welcome faces from the past, gathered at one of our favourite drinking establishments to wish a fond farewell to Dorian Moore. Having joined as Chief Technical Officer back in June 2003, Dorian has been a much-valued member of the studio, applying his... [more]
Our Creative Technical Director Ross Phillips has just left for a brief meeting with a certain prestigious London department store (no clues, honest...) about a special project planned as part of the Fashion Revolution. Later this afternoon, I'm hot-footing it to Somerset House to see catch my first real-life glimpse... [more]
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I spent most of yesterday afternoon down at Somerset House and things are progressing very nicely. The structure is mostly built and looks great, 'Naomi' has arrived and there is a room full of technology waiting to be set up. We got one of the projectors up and running and... [more]
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One of the centrepieces of the Fashion Revolution will be a unique sculpture devised by Nick - carved from data captured from a three-dimensional scan of a model's body, with a unique interactive element created by long-term SHOWstudio collaborator Daniel Brown. Here are a few components of the sculpture in... [more]
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Our new Back End Developer Paul Herron may be barely a month into his tenure here at SHOWstudio but, ever the taskmaster, we already have him slogging his guts out. Here is a nifty little concoction he has crafted (with his own fair hands) to display a selection from our... [more]
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Alongside the other exhibits chosen for SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution, Nick has curated a selection of fifteen fashion film to play in a cinema space at Somerset House. Films have been selected from a variety of different SHOWstudio projects spanning the last decade or so, showing both the increasing sophistication and... [more]
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We just took delivery of the newest addition to the SHOWstudio shop: this Chinoiserie parasol, an archive piece from John Galliano's first advertising campaign for Christian Dior way back when in 1997. As any fashion obsessive worth their salt will remember, this collection (Galliano's first Ready-to-Wear outing for the august... [more]
The build is afoot at Somerset House for our Fashion Revolution, due to throw its doors open to the public in under a month. This week, the heavy lifting is finally underway as the framework - quite literally - of the exhibition in the Embankment Galleries comes together in readiness... [more]
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There's just two weeks left for viewers the world over to print, pin and pose your creations for submission to our design_download competition. The prize is prestige that money cannot buy - inclusion alongside the likes of McQueen, Galliano, Westwood et al in SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution, where your work will... [more]
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...well, I'm not sure if we should call it a ball, but it'll certainly be a great party! A raft of invites for the SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution Private View at Somerset House arrived at SHOWstudio today (it may be our party but we need invites too), while the rest will... [more]
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The SHOWstudio team wished a fond farewell to long-standing Design Intern Kate Swingler on Friday evening. Recommended by tutor and regular SHOWstudio contributor Hywel Davies, Kate joined us back in January and has shown dedication and enthusiasm to every task she has undertaken, be it on our Unravelled: Louise Goldin... [more]
A lovely end to a very busy week - this bevvy of beauties just landed on our Fashion Features Editor Laura Bradley's (immaculately tidy) desk. Not the real thing, mind you, but glossy model cards for Karen Elson, Lily Cole, Lily Donaldson and Irina Lazareanu, from Independent, Storm, Select and... [more]
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Mandi Lennard - the industrious, indomitable powerhouse PR of stellar fashion talent including Gareth Pugh, Roksanda Ilincic and Katie Grand - is the latest addition to our In Fashion interview series. Our Fashion Features Editor Laura Bradley pinned her down last month for an exclusive one-to-one,... [more]
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The initial leg of our VMAN Model Search ended in July with our live shoot featuring our first finalist, D'Marco Jones. However, as our other finalist was unable to attend the shoot, the search is now on for a second model to feature in the VMAN 16 editorial shoot alongside... [more]
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Following yesterday's six-hour meeting here at Bruton Place to discuss the all-important AV requirements, I was over at Somerset House this morning to go through the various other elements, with the exhibition and marketing teams. During this visit I was lucky enough to witness the start of the exhibition build... [more]
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Captured during a shoot for the October 2006 'Happiness' issue of i-D, Frieze is an explosion of neon colour, dazzling light and frantic animation showcasing the unique talent of Gareth Pugh. An inspired improvisation on the day - directed by Nick Knight, styled by Nicola Formichetti and starring Pugh himself... [more]
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These plans and 3-D model, lovingly crafted by our exhibition designer Ab Rogers and his stalwart team, hopefully give you some insight into how our Fashion Revolution is shaping up for its installation at Somerset House next month. Here, you see a view of the first 'room' installed in the... [more]
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With the grand opening of SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution barely six weeks away, we have launched our own Fashion Revolution project to keep you in the loop with all the behind-the-scenes goings-on in preparation for this blockbuster show at Somerset House. Earlier this week, superstylist Simon Foxton (fresh from his own... [more]
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We always get excited when entries start flying in for another SHOWstudio competition - not least the design_download competition for our upcoming Fashion Revolution exhibition, challenging viewers to create their own bespoke masterpiece from our designer pattern archive. We've extended the deadline to 31 August 2009 and are throwing open... [more]
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We got a good tip from Monocle about an interesting Ann Demeulemeester shop in Seoul so I thought I'd post a picture as well as a few others that we saw on our travels.
Maybe it's due to the ever-more urgent demands for a faster turnaround of both fashion imagery and product, or an increasingly unashamed display of dandyism from the postmodern male, but formal presentation of menswear - often considered the bashful brother of its high-octane female counterparts - has become increasingly important... [more]
I am in South Korea installing our Replenishing Body portraits as part of an interactive installation. The Incheon International Digital Art Festival (Indaf) is part of the larger 'Global Fair and Festival' which is a Korean take on global culture and how we will all live in the future. We... [more]
