In July 2002 Nick Knight extended an invitation to friends and colleagues including Alexander McQueen, Erin O’Connor, Juergen Teller, Katy England and Bobby Gillespie to participate in 'Transformer', a SHOWstudio project that challenged each to devise an act of transformation that held personal significance for them, inspired by the continual metamorphic potential of fashion imagery.
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Fashion Films
View four fashion film shorts showcasing transformations from Erin O'Connor, Katy England and Bobby Gillespie and Alexander McQueen
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Image Gallery
View animations of the final 'Transformer' polaroid images, showing the evolution of each metamorphic story from the series of sixteen
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Webcast
Watch the timelapse video of Nick Knight's June 2002 'Transformer' shoot alongside the real-time Q&A submissions from the viewing public
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Essay
Shaun Cole explores the 'cultural construction of gender' - a key theme of 'Transformer' - in his essay 'Not Sure If You're A Boy Or A Girl'
