>MEN IN TIGHTS
By Studio, 02:00 Sat 02 Feb 2008
After closing Paris menswear week and with its first transatlantic screening at the Tribeca Grand this very evening, Nick Knight's film of Bernhard Willhelm's Autumn/Winter 2008 collection Men In Tights will be available to view on SHOWstudio from the morning of Saturday 2 March - full-length and uncut! Having watched the action unfold on set, sit back and see how the edit has come together and exactly what has been made of all those mad madcap dance moves. And you lucky people barely need to click a button!
By Studio, 11:54 Fri 18 Jan 2008
These images from Bernhard Willhelm's invitation to his A/W '08-09 menswear show this Sunday night should signify that something unexpected and masculine this way comes. For from Saturday, Hywel Davies will be focusing the SHOWstudio picture phone on the menswear shows happening in Paris over the weekend, including Bernhard's motion installation extravaganza, based on the Men In Tights live shoot last weekend.
We won't have the finished Men in Tights film to show you until it has previewed in New York at the Tribeca Grand at the start of fashion week. At time of writing this, it's scheduled to broadcast on SHOWstudio on Saturday, 2nd February so stay tuned for copious beards, aertex underwear and some outrageous dancefloor action!
By Alex Fury, 17:30 Mon 14 Jan 2008
Well, the time has flown by and we're already finished! Well, almost - there is still the small matter of editing together the wealth of footage from the past two days into a film in time for the Menswear shows in Paris later this month.
By Alex Fury, 17:07 Mon 14 Jan 2008
You didn't think we'd leave it there, did you? Penny has taught me better than that! I managed to corner the very very nice Damien for a little longer to talk through the ins and outs of choreography in Bernhard's creations before he had to get back to orchestrating the action!
By Alex Fury, 17:01 Mon 14 Jan 2008
After his own stellar performance on the dancefloor, I was lucky enough to get the chance to speak with the choreographer of Men in Tights Damien Jalet about how his collaboration with Bernhard Willhelm came about, and the unique demands of this project.
By Alex Fury, 16:49 Mon 14 Jan 2008
Just to clear up any discrepancies, Mr Knight is not sleeping on the job - he just couldn't resist trying out the neon dancefloor for himself.
By Alex Fury, 16:20 Mon 14 Jan 2008
Poppy's fabulous flashing fluorescent dancefloor makes a welcome reappearance today as Damien gets hands-on to position our dancers' legs (and our dancers) at the perfect angle.
By Alex Fury, 14:48 Mon 14 Jan 2008
Looking through a rail of clothes from a collection titled Men in Tights was always going to be an entertaining experience. Indeed the whimsical collection is typically Willhelm, mixing sportswear fabrics and detailing with the vaguest hint of raunch. Nevertheless, alongside the slightly outré lycra bodysuits and tight aertex briefs are covetable knits, cutaway and layered racer-back T-shirts, and trademark graphic prints - including the above image of a familiar balletic dancer, albeit with unicorn's horn.
By Alex Fury, 13:42 Mon 14 Jan 2008
By Alex Fury, 13:34 Mon 14 Jan 2008
It's all gone a little bit 'Page Three' on the set. But credit where credit's due, Robin is working those balloons something rotten!
By Alex Fury, 13:06 Mon 14 Jan 2008
Eric and Damien get to grips with Poppy's props.
By Alex Fury, 12:44 Mon 14 Jan 2008
In a slight change from the frenetic pace we've established, Nick, Bernhard, Damien et al have been working on some (almost) still poses to be incorporated into the film - and our models are 'voguing' for all they're worth!
By Alex Fury, 11:31 Mon 14 Jan 2008
Robin's dizzying office acrobatics
Oh, we've all twirled around crazily on an office chair - at least I have in those few quiet moments at SHOWstudio - but I for one have never managed it with quite as much elegance as choreographer Damien Jalet and dancer Robin Dingemans are able to muster.
By Alex Fury, 10:14 Mon 14 Jan 2008
As with yesterday, we've managed to get up to speed a wee bit earlier than expected this morning and of course wouldn't want you to miss a moment, so our live feed for the second day of Men In Tights has already begun. Sit back and enjoy - but don't try these moves at home, kids.
By SHOWstudio, 18:14 Sun 13 Jan 2008
A little 'still life' tableaux completes the day. We've danced the boys off their feet so they're now off home for a well-earned rest. We start up again tomorrow from 10.30 so log on early, lest you miss any pure Willhelm gold.
By SHOWstudio, 17:21 Sun 13 Jan 2008
A word of caution to anyone thinking of inviting Lee for a sleepover...
By Penny Martin, 16:20 Sun 13 Jan 2008
A very busy Bernhard broke from overseeing writhing lycra on the dancefloor to comment on what it's like to prepare a film rather than a catwalk show. Listen to him speak and avail yourself of the chance to find out why they call him the nicest man in fashion.
By Penny Martin, 15:03 Sun 13 Jan 2008
Well, doesn't that always happen in your average provincial disco of a Saturday night?
By SHOWstudio, 14:59 Sun 13 Jan 2008
By SHOWstudio, 14:44 Sun 13 Jan 2008
Poppy's done us proud with a musically-interactive dancefloor. Right, first one to find Billie Jean on their iPod's got first go at the moonwalk!
