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The final London live panel is in action. Catch Lou Stoppard, Camilla Morton, Caryn Franklin, Hywel Davies and Kim Howells as they dissect the Meadham Kirchhoff Autumn/Winter 2013 collection. 

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Today marks the last day of London collections and the last day of our amazing illustrator, Amelie Hegardt’s interpretations of the shows. Hegardt’s abstract pastel smudges and contrasting ink marks have captured the best of Christopher Kane (pictured here), J.W. Anderson, GILES and Erdem. Her personal illustration style has focused on moods and tones rather than details and silhouettes, offering an interesting and alternative perspective to the polished views of catwalk images. 

Following on from Hergardt’s coverage of London will be emerging fashion illustrator Fiona Gourlay. Gourlay embarks on illustrating the lavish luxury of Milan’s major shows on Wednesday 20 February 2013. Gourlay is a fashion-based illustration student at the London College of Fashion, and will use her focus on mixed media and traditional hand drawing to illustrate this season Milan highlights. 

Make sure to visit our Tumblr for the lastest updates from Hegardt from London and stay tune for contributions from Gourlay on Milan. Also visit our collections page for SHOWstudio's exclusive reportage! 

On Tuesday, 19 February 2013 tune in for the our last live panel discussion for London Fashion Week. Join our favourite chairwoman Lou Stoppard at 13:00 GMT to discuss Meadham Kirchhoff's striking collection. 

After enjoying the Louise Gray live panel yesterday fashion commentator Caryn Franklin is back to offer her extensive fashion knowledge on Meadham Kirchhoff’s Autumn/Winter 2013 collection. SHOWstudio friend and fashion writer Camilla Morton is also back, along with SHOWstudio menswear report and senior lecturer in fashion communication and promotion at Central Saint Martins Hywel Davies. Rounding up the panel is East London based stylist and lover of all things blue, Kim Howells. 

Make sure to tune in for the live commentary on what promises to be an energetic Meadham Kirchhoff fashion show!

Bella Frued comments on the Simone Rocha A/W 13 collection in this exciting soundbite taken straight after the live panel discussion, looking closely at the young Irish designer. 

Creative director of the London College of Fashion Rob Phillips shares his thoughts on the Simone Rocha collection. Watch the soundbite now!

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The Simone Rocha live panel discussion is in full swing. Tune in as film-maker Kathryn Ferguson, creative director at the London College of Fashion Rob Philips and fashion designer Bella Freud join Lou Stoppard in discussing what Rocha offers up this season.

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Having recently participated in our Book Club on Pattern, Simone Rocha shows her latest womenswear collection in London on 19th February 2013. To mark the ocassion, SHOWstudio will be hosting a live panel discussion to dissect the looks, live, as they debut on the runway!

Rocha is known for her unique use of contemporary textures, often used on more classic structured pieces. Last season, her collection featured laser cut fabrics and a monochromatic pallette peppered with neon and gold.

Simone also participated in a live In Fashion interview exclusively for SHOWstudio. Brush up on your knowledge before tuning in!

Joining our chairwoman Lou Stoppard will be film-maker Kathryn Ferguson, Rob Philips creative director at the London College of Fashion, fashion designer Bella Freud.

Tune in from at 09:00 GMT to watch the live panel discussion!

Following on from the J.W. Anderson's latest womenswear collection which showed in the Tanks space at Tate Modern, stylist Karl Plewka provided their honest opinion on the show directly after participating in our live panel discussion.

Plewka thought the collection was Jonathan's best to date and wished him all the best for his future collections.

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Our roving reporter, Kiki Georgiou, has been fervently covering the London collections exclusively for SHOWstudio. 

For those of you who don’t know, Kiki Georgiou is a Greek freelance writer based in London. She is also contributing fashion editor for Glamour magazine and writes regularly for titles including Vogue, Tank and Style.com. 

Her London Fashion Week Autumn/ Winter 2013 show reports continue to come in. So far you can recap with reports for Central Saint Martin’s MA graduate collections along with reviews on Sister by Sibling, J.JS Lee, Preen, Mary Katrantzou, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll. 

Keep an eye our collections page for Kiki's most recent reports!

Tune in at 20:30 GMT on Sunday 18 February 2013 for the J.W Anderson live panel discussion. 

Following on from his flamboyant menswear show, all eyes will be on Jonathan Anderson as he unveils his latest womenswear collection. SHOWstudio too will be directing their gaze at J.W. Anderson with a live panel discussion. Lou Stoppard will be joined by stylist Karl Plewka, fashion journalist Harriet Quick, director at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion Dilys Williams and head of college at London College of Fashion Frances Corner.

In preparation for his next show, you can watch SHOWstudio’s filmed re-see, which looked at J.W. Anderson’s controversial menswear A/W 13 collection in detail, breaking down his intentions, concepts and architectural forms.

Make sure to watch the live panel discussion from 20:30 GMT to see what he's got in stock for his girl Autumn/Winter 2013.

SHOWstudio and Lane Crawford invite you to get creative with Nick Knight's stunning Spring/Summer 2013 imagery for the retailer. Create your own campaign from the visuals with this dynamic interactive for the chance to win a shopping voucher valued at HK$4888.

Nick Knight's amazing campaign saw Ming Xi transformed into a digital model using 3D scanning and motion capturing. See the fashion film - and the incredible looks by Givenchy, Alexander McQueen, Proenza Schouler and Haider Ackermann - and enter the compeition via our project page now! Be creative!

The wonderful Daphne Guinness is the first artist to participate in SHOWstudio's new gallery venture -  the SHOWcabinet. Newly located in Belgravia's iconic Pantechnicon Building on Motcomb Street, the cabinet plays host to an array of items from Daphne's world and will be open from Thursday 21st February.

Over the past twelve years, SHOWstudio.com has collected and collated an array of wonderous and awe inspiring online content from filmmakers, writers and cultural figures. Through moving image, illustration, photography and the written word, the website provides a dynamic archive which reflects the endlessly changing creative sphere that it operates within and documents. We now intend to reflect this online wunderkammer within our physical space. The SHOWstudio SHOWcabinet manifests itself as part cabinet of curiosities, part commissioned installation space. Each month one artist or designer will be commissioned to create a piece which adheres to the dimensions of the central compartment of the cabinet. From tailoring to taxidermy, millinery to photography, the initiative provides a unique platform for artists from all disciplines.

Initially conceived of in Renaissance Europe, the curiosity cabinet or wunderkammer was originally a room rather than a piece of furniture. It housed objects and artefacts that defied easy categorisation and was often complete with exotic items from seemingly disparate and unrelated topics. It housed objects as diverse as historical relics, botanical specimens, works of art and scientific implements and presented a romantic vision of a dynamic and ever transforming world. The SHOWcabinet will embrace these characteristics and showcase the most innovative and diverse objects and artefacts from the worlds of fashion, art and beyond.

Our debut SHOWcabinet is centred around The Honorable Daphne Guinness.  On the shelves Guinness launches her debut single 'Fatal Flaw'. Released as a limited edition 7-inch vinyl with unseen artwork by Nick Knight and penned by Guinness herself, this considered track affords unparalleled proximity to this elusive icon. Alongside the vinyl sits Guinness' armoured glove, anchoring her cabinet's central themes of beauty, brutality, revolution and romance. Created in collaboration with famed jeweler Shaun Leane, and titled 'Contra Mundum' or 'Against The World', this handcrafted, intricately made objet d’art took five years to complete and is perhaps one of the most technically advanced pieces of artisan jewellery in the world. A rare 17th century copy of Shakespeare’s tragedies is also unearthed next to a collection of Shelley's poetry and Pancha Tantra, a limited edition book of Walton Ford's illustrations. Other items, like a Diptyque Fig candle (her favourite), and the perfume Guinness created in cooperation with perfumer Antoine Lie and in collaboration with the house of Comme des Garcons add another dimension to the installation. Daphne’s love of the zodiac is also expressed with an arrangement of scorpions behind glass – precisely assembled by Guinness to represent her own star sign. Iconic designs created by Gareth Pugh and Norikata Tatehana also appropriately mingle in Guinness’ cabinet, representing the high fashion she has always championed.

The following cabinets feature leather designer Una Burke whose installation will revolve around prosthetics and couturier Iris Van Herpen who will create one of her signature water dresses in one of SHOWstudio's most ambitious LiveStudios to date. 

The SHOWcabinet opens this week and visitors can see Daphne Guinness' installation from Thursday 21st February from 11am at 19 Motcomb Street, Belgravia, SW1X 8LB.

Stationed between her own studio and our brand new Motcomb Street head-quarters, our in house illustrator for London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2013, Amelie Hegardt, has been hard at work putting pencil to paper and drawing the latest designs to show in the capital.

David Koma's collection of dark, leather panelled dresses were the focus of one of Hegardt's earlier drawings. She chose the shapes and silhouettes of the designs to create simple, elegant suggestions of structure.

Mary Katrantzou's iconinc printed designs were next to fall under the illustrator's watchful gaze. Hegardt highlighted Katrantzou's monochromatic pallette and a new focus on form and structure.

Next up, Scottish designer Jonathan Saunders presented a collection of beautiful, coloured pieces against a back drop of forest green. Hegardt focused on line and form and highlighted the make up choices and hair styling of Saunders' show.

Most recently, Marios Schwab's gothic designs using velvet and chiffon provided a colour pallette and texture for Hegardt to explore. Swathes of water colour and expressive pencil line demonstrated the features of the latest design outing. She's putting her own spin on drawing the collections,by sketching out personal responses to the shows, rather than just reproducing catwalk images!

Visit Tumblr and our Collections page to keep up to date with Hegardts latest contributions.

In previous panels when our chairwoman Lou Stoppard has asked what those on the panel are looking forward to most at LFW, the resounding response has been Louise Gray. Today marks the day that Louise Gray shows her Autumn/ Winter 2013 collection and SHOWstudio celebrates this much anticipated event with a live panel discussion. 

Tune in at 13:00 GMT on Monday 18 February 2013 for the Louise Gray live panel discussion where Lou Stoppard is joined by fashion journalist, author and founder of All Walks Caryn Franklin. Writer and editor Daryoush Haj Najafi, Grazia's fashion news and features editor Hannah Almassi and founder of Style Salvage Steve Salter will conclude our expert set of panelists. 

Don’t miss the debates on the Scottish designer’s brightly coloured aesthetic often adorned with embellishment, modern folk detailing and playful trompe l’eoile effects. 

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Maggie Norden provided SHOWstudio a quick, candid response to the Jonathan Saunders show, directly after her contribution to the live panel discussion.

Make sure you listen and watch Norden's reponse and stay tune for our on demmand footage.

Writer and blogger Sasha Wikins, aka Liberty London Girl, offered a unique insight after today's live panel discussion on the Jonathan Saunders show.

Take a look at the writers personal thoughts now.