Last Updated Thursday, 25 October, 2007
This 78-'page' online catalogue featuring Nick Knight's selected film stills from the 24hrs live broadcast takes a modern and energetic romp through the event, pausing periodically to take it its more definitive, classicist moments.
> MOVIES
Last Updated Thursday, 25 October, 2007
Every Thursday of the next four weeks (4, 11, 18 & 25 October 2007) a set of six new movies will be launched on SHOWstudio.com and YSL.com simultaneously. Each of the twenty-four film edits represents one of the hours of our 24hrs live broadcast on SHOWstudio in July 2007. Featuring the glorious Jessica Miller styled by Stefano Pilati himself, with myriad sets by Gideon Ponte, the films were made by Nick Knight to celebrate the launch of Yves Saint Laurent's new Edition 24 collection. Follow them in random order, paying special attention to the questions posed at the end of each film, then fill in the competition form posted on the site on 25 October 2007 to win an item from the hit Edition 24 line!
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Last Updated Thursday, 25 October, 2007
Now all our 24hrs movies are available online, it’s time for the fun to begin. Each film poses a question to the audience, based on the events and situations within, the fashion shown or the heritage of the house of Yves Saint Laurent. Simply answer all the questions correctly by 8 November 2007 and one SHOWstudio viewer has the chance to win an exclusive prize: a YSL Downtown black patent computer case!
Schedule (BST):
SUNDAY 15 JULY 2007 12:00 NOON—ONWARDS
From noon on Sunday 15th, overnight through to noon Monday 16th, watch model Jessica Miller act out your 24-scene screenplay with the help of Stefano Pilati, Nick Knight, SHOWstudio and a few unexpected guests.
19 viewers' treatments made it into the Surreal, 'cut-up' script in the end. But will one of them be yours? You can only tune in and find out...
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> BRIEF: POLITICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL
> & SOCIAL STATEMENTS
Last Updated Tuesday, 19 June, 2007
A polite call to action: SHOWstudio requires your politics! In preparation for the 24hrs live shoot on Sunday 15 July 2007, SHOWstudio is working on a system of political graphics to reflect Nick Knight and Stefano Pilati's initial Godard reference point for the project and also YSL's continuing association with the socially-engaged woman.
We are inviting you, the viewer, to contribute the content. Use the form to submit your thoughts, statements and slogans and they will be duly plastered across the set of a prestigious YSL catalogue and film shoot!
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> CALL US
Last Updated Wednesday, 11 July, 2007
You've contributed to the script and charged our set with political, philosophical and social statements now we need your help with the soundtrack. During the opening, one-hour scene of our 24HRS shoot, starting Sunday at 12:00 noon (BST), we'll be placing 50 mobile telephones on-set to create an alternative audio backdrop. This is where you come in! When you see the ((( CALL US ))) caption appear during our live broadcast we ask that you pick up your phone and start dialing one of our telephone numbers.
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Last Updated Wednesday, 11 July, 2007
View the treatments sent in by SHOWstudio viewers in response to our brief to submit a written synopsis to be acted out by model Jessica Miller for each of the 24 hours of the broadcast. The closing date has now passed, but all authors whose treatments are selected will be revealed on the day of the broadcast -15 July 2007- and credited in the final film.
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> PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Last Updated Thursday, 25 October, 2007
A unique chance for SHOWstudio viewers to influence the narrative of a high-end fashion shoot to create a catalogue and film for Yves Saint Laurent’s forthcoming ‘Edition 24’ collection. SHOWstudio is inviting submissions for a twenty-four-scene screenplay that will form the basis of a twenty-four hour, live fashion broadcast over the night of 15 July, during which Nick Knight and Stefano Pilati will transform your ideas into imagery.
Last Updated Sunday, 3 February, 2008
All About Yves
It's very difficult not to get excited about a package from Yves Saint Laurent, and the delivery of our Edition 24 Catalogues proved no exception. Glossy, chic and darkly luxurious – much like Stefano Pilati’s YSL woman herself – the catalogue is an ample record of both the 24HRS films and the Edition 24 collection itself, presented with typical Saint Laurent flair as a cloth-cosseted hardback tome destined for many a Mies Van Der Rohe coffee-table.
By Studio, 12:42 Sunday, 3 February, 2008
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> CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES
Stefano Pilati
Stefano Pilati is head designer for Yves Saint Laurent, based in Paris. Born in 1965 in Milan, Pilati first worked as an intern for designer Nina Cerruti. He took his first job in... [more]
Nick Knight
Nick Knight, Director of SHOWstudio.com, is among the world’s most influential and visionary photographers. As a fashion photographer, he has consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty and is fêted for his groundbreaking creative... [more]
> CREDITS
Last Updated Tuesday, 19 June, 2007
Concept: Nick Knight, Stefano Pilati and SHOWstudio
Direction and Photography: Nick Knight
Styling: Stefano Pilati
Editorial and Art Direction: Penny Martin, Paul Bruty and Paul Hetherington
Modelling: Jessica Miller at Next
Narration: Dan Stevens
Executive Producer: Sam Gainsbury
Producers: Anna Whiting, Anna Van Der Hurd
Producer-Styling: Deepika Patel
Casting: Nikki Carter
Set Design: Gideon Ponte
Make-up: Miranda Joyce
Hair Stylist: Sam McKnight
Nail Technician: Marian Newman
Sound: Ian Sands
Musical Composer: Philip Sheppard and John Gosling
1st Assistant Director: Henry Sheldon
2nd Assistant Director: Liam Winn
Continuity: Anjelica Preston
Construction Manager: Simon Kenney at Souvenir
Grip: Stuart Godfrey
Electrical: Marco Di Giulio
Runners: Natalie Gibbon, Emma Evans, Lou Fox and Mike Scanlon
Photographic Assistance: Simon Thistleton, Ruth Hogben and Tom Cooksey
Styling Co-Ordinator: Jo Simpson
Styling Assistance: Laura Kelly, Sarah Saxby, Alice McCraith, Genna Cottrill
Tailor: Alison Bullock
Production Assistance: Emily Carne
Design Assistance: Jenny Campbell-Colquhoun and Anna Gudbrandsdottir
Editorial Assistance: Laura Bradley, Andrew Gow, Monde Phalane and Alexander Fury
Set Design Assistance: Max Bellhouse, Henry Armand Smith, Poppy Bartlett, Zoe Padley, Josh Ponte
Make-up Assistance: Jo Frost and Laura Dominique
Hair Stylist Assistance: Eamonn Hughes and Lara-Zee
Printing and Technical Assistance: Peter Fearne
Construction Assistance: Cormack McCommon
Special Effects Technician: Richard Curtis
Sound for Musicians: Barry MacLeod and Hugo
Sound Recordist: David Harcombe
Vision Assistant/Boom Operator: Cameron Mills
Sound Assistant/Boom Operator: Paul Miller
CSS: Lovefoxxx, Ana, Carolina, Luiza, Ira, Adriano
Ballet Dancer: Adam Linder
Make-Up Artist (Act I, Scene V): Bonchi
Drinks Trolley Boy (Act II, Scene II): Yuichi Nakamura
Japanese Make-Up Artists (Act III, Scene II): Sonoya Mizuno, Nemio, Fumio Tanga, Markn, Koji Takyanagi, Itsumi Yamasaki, Youheil, Kaori Mitsuyasa, Aiko, Fumiyo, Hitomi
Arguing Couple (Act III, Scene VI): Marcus Werner Hed and Sola
Models (Act IV, Scene III): Ivey Mansel, Veronika Fasinova, Enel Soeson, Katy Polyaeva, Sarah Spickernell, Yulia Blower, Lauryn Tinker, Vanessa De Assis, James Gutherie, Jamie D, James King, Freddy B, Duncan, David R, Jeremy Kaminsky, Cosmo
Broadcast
Live Stream Vision Mixing: Ian Sands
BBC Technicians: Martin Evans, Andy Booth, Keith Marshall, Janes Byatt
Technical Development: Ross Phillips and Dorian Moore
Movies
Film Editing: Ruth Hogben
Additional Project Imagery
Photography: Nick Knight
Styling: Charlotte Stockdale
Hair: Sam McKnight
Make-Up: Val Garland
Modelling: Agyness Deyn at DNA
Thanks to Stefano Pilati, all at Yves Saint Laurent and all at Gainsbury and Whiting.