Projects
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Karen Elson and Craig McDean
Devil's Plaything
Mar 7 2002
Watch supermodel Karen Elson and former Smashing Pumpkins and Hole bassist, Melissa Auf der Maur, as they performed SHOWstudio's new 'singing cover' in... -
Nick Knight and John Galliano
Past, Present & Couture
Mar 2 2002
John Galliano's first five years at Christian Dior were marked by a series of Nick Knight-shot images interpreting Galliano's groundbreaking haute cout... -
Nick Knight and Val Garland
Make It Up
Feb 22 2002
Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon met Hans Bellmer's Poupèes: twelve blonde models were made up in a vivacious, painterly fashion performance. Make-up artist ... -
John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Sophia Kokosalaki, Shelley Fox and Jens Laugesen
Outsize?
Feb 18 2002
SHOWstudio challenged fashion's finest to create the industry's Holy Grail: inspiring womenswear designs for sizes 16 and over. 12 leading designers, i... -
Julie Verhoeven
Beat The Clock
Feb 11 2002
Catch a glimpse of the hectic home environment of illustrator Julie Verhoeven as she worked on her exhibition and book, 'Fat-Bottomed Girls'. A unique ... -
Nick Knight, Hussein Chalayan, Terry Richardson, Richard Bush, Raf Simons, Jo-Ann Furniss, Tim Walker, Penny Martin, John Taylor, Jane How and David Sims
Killed
Jan 23 2002
Focusing on fashion imagery published and withdrawn at the time of the attacks of 9/11, Killed examines the criteria governing propriety in contemporar... -
Nick Knight, Simon Foxton and Jonathan Kaye
Sleep
Dec 13 2001
On 10 and 11 December 2001, nine top models arrived at The Metropolitan Hotel to participate in the first ever global, live fashion shoot. The girls we... -
Christabel Stewart
Blue Movie
Nov 21 2001
Were these girls performing in a retro erotic film or posing for a contemporary fashion shoot? Seductive shots replaced narrative in a film that define... -
Björk, Alexander McQueen, Nick Knight and Daniel Brown
Angel
Nov 21 2001
Spellbinding sound and image project generated from Nick Knight and Alexander McQueen's installation for La Beauté en Avignon, with an exclusive Björk ... -
Nick Knight and Adam Mufti
J'adore
Nov 6 2001
Jerry Springer, beauty queens, a '57 Cadillac, 'Gummo', Angela Lindvall and lots of spray paint. Put them in a blender and what did you get? This fashi... -
Penny Martin and Jason Evans
Stormtrooper In Drag
Nov 5 2001
This is not a love song: Jason Evans dressed up in a combination of Stormtrooper and polka-dot Comme des Garçons to test the parameters of identity and... -
Nick Knight, Björk and Paul Barnes
Pagan Poetry
Oct 2 2001
View the uncensored version of the video for Björk's single 'Pagan Poetry' directed by Nick Knight. Alongside the film, we showcase a gallery of abstra... -
Kate Moss and Bobby Gillespie
Diamond Blues
Sep 5 2001
Intimate Super-8 footage of Kate Moss, Bobby Gillespie and friends recording an impromptu version of the track 'Diamond Blues' one playful, summer's af... -
Peter Saville
Lilac
Jul 6 2001
When designer Peter Saville spotted an old pink Cadillac under a lilac tree in LA, he invented a spin to set the scene - describing a photoshoot that n... -
Craig McDean
Drag
Jun 9 2001
A heartfelt homage to hot wheels and muscle cars, photographer Craig McDean created this film documenting the bracket-racing circuit of North America c... -
Tricky and Steve McQueen
Interview
Mar 21 2001
SHOWstudio invited contemporary artist Steve McQueen to interview whoever he wanted: McQueen chose his favourite musician, Tricky. Listen to their conv... -
Nick Knight and Paul Hunwick
Safer Steps
Feb 9 2001
Why you should 'always give your new leather soles a bit of a rubdown with sandpaper before venturing out for a night on the town'. A cautionary story ... -
Nick Knight, Jane How and Lone Sigurdsson
Plasticine
Feb 9 2001
A unique interpretation of the Spring/Summer 2000 collections, Lone Sigurdsson worked with stylist Jane How to create plasticine replicas of the season... -
Jake & Dinos Chapman
Melting Heads
Feb 9 2001
One Chapman brother describes 'Melting Heads' as 'the most simplistic B-movie effect'. The other says they did it because 'it scares children'. Judge f... -
Nick Knight, Tom Hingston and Robert '3D' Del Naja
Crush
Feb 9 2001
The dark side of the saloon. Nick Knight placed a dozen video cameras inside four crusher-bound cars and filmed their destruction down to the final scr... -
Brooke Taylor
Supersport
Dec 20 2000
It's sunset and Anders Edstrom and Peter Taylor chance upon an elderly Japanese man singing Bruce Springsteen's 'Born In The USA' in this slightly surr... -
Mark Szaszy
Lo-fi: Mark Szaszy
Dec 20 2000
Late one night, Mark Szaszy took three friends, a steel guitar and a lot of vodka, filmed them on his old Hi 8 camera, and then lost the master copy. -
Sølve Sundsbø and Jennifer Kabat
1088% Sølve Sundsbø
Dec 20 2000
See the streets of London at very, very high speed through Sølve Sundsbø's thermal camera in this film and essay exploring the concept of speed and abs... -
Jason Evans
Corporate Aesthetics
Dec 20 2000
Snide. Patronising. Tortuous. Whenever photographer Jason Evans turns on the television, he's irritated by those 'annoying little bursts of eye candy'.... -
Fergus Purcell
Fergadellic
Dec 20 2000
Experience cult 'Silas' illustrator Fergus Purcell's sketchbook drawings as animation. A bejewelled declaration that 'I want to believe' signposts the ... -
Nick Knight and Katy England
Givenchy Couture
Dec 20 2000
Immortalising Alexander McQueen's penultimate haute couture collection for Givenchy, this fashion film showcases both McQueen's fearsome tailoring and ... -
Nick Knight, Kate Moss, Sarah Morris and Emily Dinsdale
Diamonds
Dec 20 2000
Follow Nick Knight's lens as it snoops from one Madison Avenue skyscraper to another, documenting supermodel Kate Moss in voyeuristic action in this un... -
Nick Knight and Camille Bidault Waddington
Dolls
Dec 20 2000
Take a model styled by Camille Bidault-Waddington with hair by Sam McKnight. Let a four year-old, a one year-old and two three year-olds do what ever t... -
Peter Saville, Paul Hetherington and Claire Catterall
Waste Painting
Dec 20 2000
What do you do in a carnivorous culture where whatever you create is lionised, and then discarded before anyone's had time to appreciate it? If you're ... -
David Weightman
Ordinary
Dec 20 2000
Ordinary people on an ordinary street in an ordinary town on an ordinary day. If it's all so ordinary, why does one of David Weightman's old ladies see... -
Paul Hunwick and Brian Dowling
Fire
Dec 20 2000
Ever wondered if it's worth unplugging all that electrical stuff at night? Not once you've seen what Brian Dowling found in his Mum's flat after her te... -
Nick Knight and Katy England
One In Ten
Nov 17 2000
If breast cancer affects one-in-ten women, why is it invisible in fashion photography? Nick Knight and stylist Katy England redressed the balance in a ... -
Josh Sims and Elaine Constantine
Home Dance
Nov 10 2000
'Just for those two and a half minutes, life is fantastic,' says one of the Northern Soulsters filmed by Elaine Constantine getting ready for a night o... -
Nick Knight and Jay Alexander
J-Walk
Nov 10 2000
This unique animation captures the celebrated strut of leading catwalk coach J. Alexander - the teacher behind Naomi Campbell's trademark walk - as he ... -
Nick Knight and Jane How
Sweet
Nov 10 2000
Here's something we made earlier: stylist Jane How recreated her favourite looks of Spring/Summer 2000 from sweet papers, cupcake wrappers and doilies,... -
Juergen Teller and Fuel
Go-sees
Nov 10 2000
Fuel's graphic, interactive interpretation of 'Go-Sees', Juergen Teller's photographic diary of the wannabe models who came knocking at his door. Turni...