Fashion Fetish - SHOWstudio - The Home of Fashion Film

Alongside the 2012 SHOWstudio Shop exhibition 'Selling Sex', SHOWstudio launches 'Fashion Fetish,' a series of fashion films, performances, multi-media pieces and accompanying essays by women in fashion - including Ruth Hogben, Daphne Guinness, Liberty Ross, Aimee Mullins, Asia Argento and Dasha Zhukova - that comment on the contentious and provocative fusion of fashion with fetish.

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Essay: Dolls
Victoria Turk explores modern attitudes towards female sexual expression and image in this thought-provoking response to Alice Hawkins' film
Alice Hawkins
Photographer Alice Hawkins revisits her past as a Soho shop girl in this cheeky new film created with her favourite customer Rory
Essay: Furries
Writer and cultural critic Alison Bancroft responds to Lily Donaldson's 'Fashion Fetish' film with an essay on fetish, furries and trouble
Lily Donaldson
Model Lily Donaldson channels seedy amateur erotic footage in an amusing film inspired by animal fetish group the 'furries'
Essay: Fairytales
Writer Katharine Zarrella dissects the transformative power of clothing in 'Fairytales from the Closet', a response to Dasha Zhukova's film
Dasha Zhukova
Chloë Sevigny and Derek Blasberg star in Dasha Zhukova's 'Fashion Fetish' film
Essay: Objectum Sexuality
Erika Eiffel, Objectum Sexuality activist and partner of the Eiffel Tower, draws on Luci Schroder's film to explain human-object love
Luci Schroder
The up-and-coming director explores irrational love in her witty take on Fashion Fetish.
Essay: Head Shaving
Writer and academic Emer O'Toole draws on her own hair history to unpick Ellie Grace Cumming's 'Fashion Fetish' film
Ellie Grace Cumming
Stylist Ellie Grace Cumming teams with Sarah Piantadosi to explore trichophilia in a unique 'Fashion Fetish' film
Essay: Transfiguration
Aimee Mullins provides an essay to go alongside her own film, explaining that her concept came from an objection to popular 'pretty' imagery
Aimee Mullins
Actress, athlete and model Aimee Mullins takes inspiration from the Jackie 60 fetish troupe 'The House of Domination' in her unique film
Essay: Models
Fashion historian Becky Conekin draws on her research into models to dissect the messages in Erica Schreiner's 'Fashion Fetish' film
Erica Schreiner
Artist and filmmaker Erica Schreiner directs, edits and stars in an ethereal 'Fashion Fetish' film
Essay: Mesh
Academic and writer Roberta McGrath draws on her expertise in visual representation to unpick Liberty Ross and Polly Borland's dark film
Liberty Ross
Liberty Ross collaborates with Polly Borland to explore the interplay between primitive sexual fetishism and childlike play in 'Dollywood'
Essay: Bloggers
Harriet Walker gets to grips with the craze for online self-objectification, in response to Anna Trevelyan's blogger-inspired film
Anna Trevelyan
Stylist Anna Trevelyan and filmmaker Grace Ladoja take inspiration from the digital generation to create a 'Fashion Fetish' film short
Essay: Eyes
Valerie Steele - 'the Freud of fashion', to quote Suzy Menkes - explores Daphne Guinness' fetish for adorned eyes
Daphne Guinness
Daphne Guinness offers her unique take on 'Fashion Fetish' in a haunting film
Essay: Age
Caryn Franklin draws on her work at 'All Walks Beyond the Catwalk' to unpick Marie Schuller's commitment to diversity in 'Visiting Hour'
Marie Schuller
Filmmaker Marie Schuller explores fetish, fantasy and the female nude in this unique trio of films
Original Script
Showing the process behind Asia Argento's 'Don't Bother To Knock', Emma Forrest offers the original script that guided the films' dialogue
Asia Argento
Actress and director Asia Argento fuses fact and fantasy in this provocative series of short films, presented as a 'video diary'
Essay: Latex
Stephanie LaCava talks to VPL's Victoria Bartlett to investigate her passion for all things latex
Poppy De Villeneuve
Director, filmmaker and photographer Poppy De Villeneuve creates a film short examining her unique take on 'Fashion Fetish'
Essay: Peep Show
Susannah Frankel reports on Rei Nadal's Tumblr curation, unpicking fashion and the internet's thirst for individuality
Rei Nadal
Artist Rei Nadal offers a unique take on 'Fashion Fetish' by curating the SHOWstudio Tumblr for a one-week period from 2-8 April 2012
Essay: Red Lips
In response to Ruth Hogben's 'Fashion Fetish' film, Lou Stoppard unpicks the ever-fashionable obsession with the painted, pouted lip
Ruth Hogben
Ruth Hogben's provocative fashion film 'Love Me' starring Karlie Kloss