SHOWstudio's 2009-10 fashion film and essay season, The Fashion Body sought to explore and celebrate the human body through a unique combination of fashion and moving image. Over thirty fashion creatives were challenged to contribute a personal and distinctive fashion film to the season, each focusing on a different area of the human body and using fashion items to adorn it.
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The Gay Man's Guide to the Woman's Body
In a multi-billion dollar industry that saturates the zeitgeist so thoroughly, how is it that queer men have taken such absolute power over women's bodies? -
A Body of Scent
Our bodies create scent. Fashionable or not, it's a fact. -
The Impossible Elevation Of The Body In A Gay Man's World (and the fact I like to eat like a normal man)
Being gay and not having the perfect body sucks. And even if you are not fat, you either have to have a six-pack or be waif thin. -
Blogger Body Watch
Having experienced a string of inane comments/emails and numerous accusations of dressing in a way that supposedly doesn't flatter the body to its best advantage, it does leav... -
Models of Perfection
That is the lure of The Fashion Body: it speaks to our innate desire for transformation; our longing to shed our own mundane, prosaic skin (and lives) and inhabit a figure - a... -
Flat On Your Face
From Renaissance oil-paintings and their sumptuous, hyperreal depiction of rich fabrics, to a proliferation of nineteenth-century fashion almanacs, twentieth century magazines... -
Would you be a trans-human?
We already live in a world where, thankfully, those who were born the wrong gender can be re-aligned; but imagine the bringing together of plastic surgery to allow, one day, p... -
The Bearded Man
After Zeus, Socrates, Jesus, Leonardo da Vinci, and a herd of musicians in the seventies, the bushy face is back in fashion. -
Hello Boys!
What I find annoying and, on a bad day, insulting in its cheap-and-easy, headline-making, single-mindedness is the media’s way of dealing with the issue. Hence, 'Breasts... -
Such Stuff Dreams Are Made On
A woman on the cusp of the biggest change of her life. Scared, excited, and anxious: she is about to shed the body she has despised for so long and metamorphose into ‘an... -
The Fashion Body
Clothing has always had such an effect on me because of its power to transform not just how I look, but how I feel. -
The physical body, the mind and spirit (not just the Holy Ghost)
Riccardo Tisci's relentless championing of transgender friend and muse Lea T in campaigns and on the catwalk - a bold move for such an established house - has since created the ... -
The Fashion Body, Edited
The editorial fashion body is one that is up for grabs. It's even possible that Internet egalitarianism may have killed the editorial fashion body entirely and reallocated focus... -
She's In Fashion
Said top plus this skirt, multiplied by that jacket and divided by those shoes equals the ‘fashion’ body - i.e. today’s buzz look. -
Doctor My Eyes?
Fashion lies; big wow. And with the brave new world of coffee-break plastic surgery, faces lie too. -
My Fashion Body
Sexy women sell magazines; a phenomena which will be employed for eternity. If it's not broken, then why fix it? So what if your body doesn’t fit the fashion mould? A seed... -
Immaculate Conception
The female fashion body is immaculate. It was neither born, nor does it give birth. It is perfect in its otherness; it is supernatural. -
Working Girls
Perhaps it's indicative of our general need to probe behind the perfect images of fashion - witness the lust for behind-the-scenes documentaries and revealing romans à cl... -
Who Is Fashion For?
Fashion is both an internal and external experience of the body, a three way communication between designer, wearer and those who observe, each adding their own patina of taste. -
Men’s Bottoms
Men’s bottoms are a contested and emotive sight/site. Their visibility in fashion and fashion related imagery presents a variety of readings that are influenced by the mul... -
The Fashion(able) Body
But the point here is not one of body politics but how fashion prefers one part of the body to another, or, in fact, how current attitudes towards our bodies dictate what we wear. -
The Fashion Body
Tim Burton is a director who understands the subversive power of dress. From Edward Scissorhands to The Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd, he creates fantastical onscreen worlds, wh... -
The Fashioned Body
The history of a material covering for the neck is formed from the need to protect the throat from cold, but it evolved into dressing the neck as a pedestal for the head and a f... -
The Fashion Body
So could it be that, with the influence of fashion film, fashion is about to get much more real? It already has! Untouched is the new selling point, and has fed right back into ... -
A Model Society
Fashion's relationship with the body is a tricky one, whereby we expect, at the very least, the fundamentally humanoid, but we dislike the overtly human. -
Barbie’s Legs
Will my dear daughter soon want a Barbie body - those long Barbie legs? In China, young women pay small fortunes to have their legs broken and stretched on a rack to achieve max... -
The Fashion Body As Memento Mori
Fashion moves over the body in a similar way to an explorer scanning a map, seeking out peaks and inclines, shortcuts and vistas, though the landscape itself is never fixed.