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Nick Knight, Zora Star, Ross Phillips, Penny Martin, Paul Hetherington, Laura Bradley and Dorian Moore

The Sound Of Clothes: Anechoic

Anechoic is a 'collections story' that uses sound instead of visuals to interpret the essence of key garments from the Autumn/Winter 2006 collections by leading fashion brands. Part of a series of projects devoted to exploring 'The Sound of Clothes', these interactives and fashion films explore sound 'generated' by the garments themselves.

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    View the eleven fashion films created from motion image and audio footage captured during the hemi-anechoic studio recording
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    View a gallery of images captured on-set inside the hemi-anechoic chamber during the process of this unique shoot
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About

Over spring 2006, SHOWstudio embarked upon a series of projects devoted to exploring 'The Sound of Clothes'. Beyond overlaying imagery with non-specific sound - such as favourite songs or ambient music - the aim of the series is to explore a range of audio possibilities, such as discovering the actual sound a garment makes.

Anechoic is a 'collections story' that uses sound instead of visuals to interpret the essence of key garments from the Autumn/Winter 2006 collections by leading fashion brands. A live recording session in a specialist recording studio - a hemi-anechoic chamber - in June 2006 was used to create a series of groundbreaking interactives that for the first time in fashion media, detail the precise sound of fashion materials such as feathers, sequins, glass crystals and beads, nylon, taffeta, leather, velvet, jacquard, zips and metallic chains.

Footage captured during the live broadcast, featuring model Zora Star working in the unconventional, futuristic studio environment, was edited to create abstract shorts of each audio 'shot'.

 

Credits / Contributors

  • Nick Knight Nick Knight
    Film Director
  • Zora Star Zora Star
    Model
  • Ross Phillips Ross Phillips
    Multimedia Designer
  • Penny Martin Penny Martin
    Writer
  • Paul Hetherington Paul Hetherington
    Art Director
  • Laura Bradley Laura Bradley
    Writer
  • Dorian Moore Dorian Moore
    Multimedia Designer
  • Concept: Penny Martin and Paul Hetherington
  • Creative Direction: Nick Knight and Paul Hetherington
  • Model: Zora Star at Take Two
  • Fashion Direction: Penny Martin and Laura Bradley
  • Technical Direction: Dorian Moore
  • Interactive Design: Ross Phillips
  • Hair: Sam McKnight 
at Premier
  • Make-up: Makky at Streeters
  • Film edit: Harry Hanrahan
  • Make-up Assistance: Becky Williams
  • Production: Sharmin Nordien
  • Location: Recorded at National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex
  • Thanks to Daniel Simmons and Richard Lord at NPL, Ash at Take Two, Jonathan Kaye and Michelle Duguid

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