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Nick Knight, Shaun Cole and Alister Mackie

Boned

Invited by AnOther Man magazine to shoot men’s underwear for its Autumn/Winter 2007 issue, Nick Knight and Alister Mackie shot new work by a range of designers, the results offer a fresh perspective on men’s underwear, its representation in fashion imagery and on masculinity itself

More in this project

  • Overview
  • Fashion Film
  • Editorial Gallery
  • Essay
  • Shop: Nick Knight & Alister Mackie

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  • Fashion Film
    Filmed during Nick Knight's two day shoot for 'Boned', watch Taylor, Shaun, Marco and Anthony in Ruth Hogben's edit of the action on set
  • Editorial Gallery
    Nick Knight's final editorial images, featured in AnOther Man Autumn/Winter 2007
  • Essay
    Fashion historian and theorist Shaun Cole considers the male undergarment - from boxer shorts through to Beckham's thong...
  • Shop: Nick Knight & Alister Mackie
    Shop mens underwear combining the peekaboo lace, strict corsetry and seductive frills usually applied to female underpinnings

About

'To find a way not to ignore the male form, but to enhance it.' That was Nick Knight's stated aim with Boned, an editorial shoot with Alister Mackie for AnOther Man magazine that first examined and then challenged the traditional view of both male underwear and its photographic representation.

Mackie invited womenswear designers - Gareth Pugh, Marios Schwab and Christopher Kane amongst them - to create their own version of mens' underwear, combining the peekaboo lace, strict corsetry and seductive frills more usually applied to female underpinnings. The result? Not underwear per se, but more lingerie for men. Drawing on the studio photography of Horst P. Horst and Robert Mapplethorpe - the latter obsessed with the male form divine and the former famed for his seminal Mainbocher Corset - Knight twisted the aesthetic of those highly-posed, black-and-white studio shots into colour, the flushed, fleshy pastel shades of the lingerie drawer.

A modern response to the representation of the male form, the entire shoot was broadcast live - another example of the unseen, seen. The editorial shoot is featured here alongside a fashion film edited by Ruth Hogben, and an essay by curator and fashion historian Shaun Cole addressing the undressing of the male.

Credits / Contributors

  • Nick Knight Nick Knight
    Director
  • Shaun Cole Shaun Cole
    Curator
  • Alister Mackie Alister Mackie
    Stylist

 

  • Photography: Nick Knight
  • Styling: Alister Mackie
  • Models: Taylor Fuchs at IMG, Sean O'Pry at VNY and Marco Brozic
  • Film Edit: Ruth Hogben
  • Essay: Shaun Cole
  • Set Design: Glyn Owen
  • Hair: Sam McKnight
  • Make-up: Val Garland
  • Nails: Mike Pocock
  • Construction Manager: Phillip Shaw
  • Photographic Assistance: Simon Thiselton, Ruth Hogben
  • Styling Assistance: Henry Thomas
  • Hair Assistance: Eamonn Hughes, Christian Wood
  • Set Assistance: Charlie Cave
  • Thanks to Another Man, David James.

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