SHOWstudio Shop has been reborn Parisian, as a Pop Up inside the 147 year old ‘grands magasin’ Le Printemps to accompany Nick Knight's Visions Couture window displays.

Yesterday, people waited at the entrance in order to be the first to see the unique items now on offer across the channel. And who can blame them- with a roster that includes Nick Knight, Daphne Guinness, Gareth Pugh, Giles Deacon and Peter Jensen, the pop up affords the unprecedented opportunity to own a true piece of fashion history. Peter Philip's beautiful Mickey Mouse mask used during an Irving Penn shoot sits alongside Nick Knight's innovative 3-D sculptures of Daphne Guinness from the Visions Couture project. Creations by Craig Lawrence, Judy Blame and David Bradley feature with films that document their making live here at SHOWstudio. Gareth Pugh's covetable Monochrome scarf (excellent Valentines gift?!), Silver Cube and Carson's Arse are all there.

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Salem’s Jack Donoghue by Matthew Williams and his graphic artist QIL. Look for more of Jack and Matthew in the upcoming issue of L’Officiel Hommes and more gifs later this week!  http://www.lofficielhommes.fr/

I just posted a photo of Tim Hailand and Bernhard Wilhelm and the story of a crazy night.

http://caseyspooner.tumblr.com/post/17561489816/bernhard-wilhelm-and-tim-hailand-the-olympic

Suno's Erin Beatty and Max Osterweis have emerged out of their initial African print trip to find their own unique niche in endearing print collaging. It was slightly less obvious this season what the overall theme was but perhaps, skirting away from a theme was done on purpose. Instead we picked up on personal highlights, which for me included a pair of goldfish print trousers, a folksy illustrated apron dress of a cottage scene and then a razzle dazzle jacket and dress in black tinsel and gem-like embroidery. Perhaps there needed to be more of an assertion of what makes Suno well... Suno and as a print fanatic, I'll relish seeing that happen in the future.  

Rag & Bone have been on a retail high with buyers telling me that their pieces sell like hotcakes off the shop floor. Meanwhile their shows have been on a directional up for a few seasons now. For A/W 2012, they've settled down into an exercise of excellent outerwear options that girls in the audience wanted to take off the runway, and wear straight out in to the frigid New York cold. Shades of grey, burgundy and touches of bronze and several geometric patterns have winter wrapped up with the one bit of quirk falling upon a tapestry floral that closed the show.  No prizes for guessing which pieces I gravitated towards.  

Give me a Chinese themed collection and I could analyse it to death until the cows come home. There was much to probe in to at Jason Wu - Mao's communist garb, The Last Emperor and Qing dynasty pomp and then the dissemination of the Chinese image in Hollywood. It wasn't a straightforward exercise of Chinoiserie and that can only be down to Wu's own Taiwanese background. Controversial, but I'm going to say this now - this complex pondering of how Chinese culture can be convincingly incorporated into fashion without it becoming a camp pagoda fest, can only come from someone who is ACTUALLY Chinese. Wu dug deep into his roots and came out with gold in parts, particularly in the opening looks of Mao green military chic. Sumptuous Qing costume embroidery were successfully transplanted to form fitting jackets and dresses. For this amount of food for thought on my part, I'll forgive Wu for the unleashing of the red tasselled hats, reminiscent of many a Chinese costume drama that my mum used to subject me to.

Pamela Love can mine a reference and often find gold. Here she looks to the industrial settings of the Southwest USA and factory workers to dig up vaguely deco motifs to be worked into statement bangles and necklaces. Love's jewellery benefits from being loaded up in excess. Well, that's the wish anyway.

Peter Som's clothing schtick is designing well-mannered, slightly cutesy but never overly quirky clothes, normally aided by a splattering of prints and a girlish demeanour. Som changed his tact this season however with a collection that latched on to the current wave of 1950s couture shape revival. Cue sculpted sleeves and a ton of peplums. There was also a street-appropriate elegance evident in the super light silk dresses that trailed off at the back as well as super slick leather trousers in bottle green and burgundy. There was nothing coquettish about any of this and this change-up got a unanimous nod of approval.

Erickson Beamon dreamed up a cafe in 1930s Berlin where the girls are slightly deviant and the guys even more so. Vicki Beamon and Karen Erickson took the matter of dressing these Weimar guys and gals into their own hands by making clothing for the first time. The bias cut gowns of lace and chiffon may not have a life span beyond this mise en scene of a presentation but the jewellery that includes beautiful encrusted collars definitely stands strong.  

Creatures of the Wind have just scooped up the runner's up prize of the CFDA Vogue Fashion Fund which means more eyeballs are on the Chicago based duo Shane Gabier and Chris Peters. Their A/W 2012 collection thankfully didn't undergo the sanitisation process that so often happens to New York raw talent, goaded by people to edit, reduce and in some cases, diminish. A mish-mash of textures was unified by their influence of the book The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies. This otherworldly reference resulted in a real textural gamut - lime mohair tinged with pink lace, a folksy patchwork cape and as seen here, a bubble gum pink leather and striped knit ensemble - all set off with suitably odd but no less covetable shoes by Tabitha Simmons. It was a breath of fresh air (or wind?) at New York to see such daring clothes collaging.

I have long been a fan of Nick Knight.

I remember in High School using one of his images for Jil Sander as inspiration for an assignment in French class.

I am super excited to be a contributor for SHOWstudio.

To kick off my blogging I am going to share some recents projects to get you up to speed.

Last year, Adam Dugas and I did a year long series of artists portraits.

It was therapeutic to discuss process and philiosophy with a wide range of creatives:

James Franco, Elizabeth LeCompte, Franc Fernandez, Michael Stipe, Michael Bevilacqua, Cody Critcheloe, Sam Sparro, Chloe Sevigny, Justin Vivian Bond, Mick Rock, Luis Venegas, Kembra Pfahler, Frances McDormand, Ryder Ripps, Marina Abramovic, Marilyn Minter, Justin Theroux, Peggy Noland, Jake Shears, Viva Ruiz, Vanessa Walters, Viva Ruiz, Matthu Placek, Dora Budor & Maja Cule, Raul de Nieves, Basil Twist, GHE20 G0TH1K, Nico Muhly, Laurel Nakadate, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Kendell Geers, Shannon Funchess, Machine Dazzle, Denis O'Hare, Amber Martin, K8 Hardy, Mary Katrantzou, Wladziu Valentino Liberace, Angela DiCarlo and Robert Knoke

Here is a link to our column called Ladies & Gentlemen for ImagineFashion.com:

http://imaginefashion.com/ladies-gentlemen

Seeing the selection of songs model Karlie Kloss gave SHOWstudio as her Fashion Mix it was obvious why her energetic personality never loses it's tempo. The speed this American model worked at on  the recent TEN/NEWGEN SHOWstudio shoot was outstanding and we can now link it to the strong rock beat on her playlist - with offerings from the likes of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Tom Petty. You can listen to the Kloss rock mix now!

This season, happily for me, NYFW was off to a very chilled start - seemed to take a few days to warm up in fact, and seeing I only just returned from Jamaica the day before it worked for my brain space mon! Yesterday was the first day of real fashion action for me with Band of Outsiders/ Boy showing a flawless collection of fashion-focused basics in the vein of good-old-fashioned American sportswear set against a cinematic Wild West themed background and soundtrack. Directly afterwards, Alexander Wang sent out a darkly dramatic collection of textural outerwear and separates in a strict palette of black, white and oxblood red - modelled by seemingly every big name girl in action from Gisele and Shalom to Abbey Lee, Kristina and the gorgeous Carman Kass. It was a great start to what is sure to be a strong NYFW - as usual I cannot wait to see what Marc Jacobs comes out with, Preen up tomorrow AM are always a highlight, Phillip Lim is continuing to be seen as something of an authority on chic separates for the working woman on the go, Olivier Theyskens for Theory's hugely successful line that expertly fuses art and functionality is always a must-see, Jeremy Scott can be counted on to deliver a necessary dose of good-time insanity and Proenza Schouler is easily the show I look forward to most each season... Of course, for a real NYC glamour moment you cannot go past master designer Oscar de la Renta! Hope you enjoy my thoughts on all these collections and more as they take place today through to mid next week - NYFW here we go-go-go!

New York's been feeling a little, well, warm lately. I love the heat and hate the cold, though something about this weather seems to be stirring me up. Fashion week has arrived to prepare me for ice and snow by way of clothes for fall - next year, but no matter. Fur, coats, capes and pants are what I need now to ground me in this winter season. I'm excited to see what CFDA/ Vogue Fashion Fund winner Joseph Altuzarra is going to dream tomorrow night and what Thakoon and Zac Posen have in store for Sunday, as well as my favorite ladies: Carolina and Vera.

Love, SLC

Hello from the city that refuses to acknowledge fur leg warmers as a faux pas even when a snowstorm is about to hit. It's New York, baby, the sun is out and everything goes.

This is my first time in the fashion trenches Stateside and it's an interesting season for American designers. S/S 2012 received a rather lukewarm reception, with a lot of designers seemingly feeling that they had to follow the trends - digitised floral prints head-to-toe were very much a London thing - rather than set them; or simply put forward an interesting answer to humankind's greatest question: is colour-blocking still cool? (answer: perhaps, but actually uttering the word 'blocking' after colour ain't)

But don't listen to me. I've just seen Lindsay Lohan get in a yellow cab outside The Standard in nothing more than undergarments and a fur coat. Surely Marc Jacobs can't beat that!

The Visions Couture fashion festivities roll on with the launch of our five incredible interactive three-dimensional scans of Daphne Guinness. These renders, scanned by Kev Stenning of Rapido3D directly from Guinness' body on-set, were used to create the monolithic three-dimensional sculpture forms for each vitrine of Les Printemps. Our re-creations give viewers a unique perspective on Nick Knight's designs for the window displays, allowing viewers to rotate Guinness' form through 360-degrees and admire every angle of outfits from Paco Rabanne, Gareth Pugh, Maison Martin Margiela, Rick Owens and Junya Watanabe. Simply move your mouse over each scan to explore all the looks for yourself. It's all the excitement from Boulevard Haussmann directly on your own computer!

The Printemps 3D scans are presented to you via Web GL.  Web GL is a new technology that brings 3D graphics to browsers. At this time, only the most current Chrome and Firefox browsers fully support it, so you can view the scans in one of these free browsers.