Projects
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Sølve Sundsbø
Perroquet
Oct 2 2008
Born out of a lifelong fascination with science photography and nature documentaries, 'Perroquet' showcases a body of work by fashion photographer Sølv... -
Alice Hawkins
Picture/message: Alice Hawkins
May 21 2003
The Female Gaze: photographer Alice Hawkins asked her sitters how they would like to be represented to their lovers for her two-week residency, using t... -
Jonathan Gent
Picture/message: Jonathan Gent
Jul 22 2003
Artist Jonathan Gent explored the world through his basilisk eye with the SHOWstudio cameraphone, revealed his fervent observations in arresting pictur... -
Björk, Nick Knight, Tracey Emin, Emmanuelle Seigner, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Courtney Love, Catherine Millet, Catherine Deneuve, Aimee Mullins, Heidi Fleiss, Isabella Rossellini, Liv Tyler, Marianne Faithfull, Ross Phillips and Stella McCartney
Pirelli Calendar
Dec 1 2004
For the 2004 Pirelli calendar, photographer Nick Knight and art director Peter Saville shifted the focus from men's desires to those of women. From fou... -
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... -
Nick Knight, Alexander McQueen, Ruth Hogben and Raquel Zimmermann
Plato’s Atlantis
Oct 6 2009
Under the direction of Nick Knight and with support from IMG, SHOWstudio streamed Alexander McQueen's Spring/Summer 2010 presentation, 'Plato's Atlanti... -
Jane How
Pop Poupée
Aug 4 2003
Taking inspiration from Andy Warhol - the man(nequin) himself even making a cameo as a model - stylist Jane How and photographer Mario Sorrenti recreat... -
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben, Michael Howells, Simon Foxton and Jonathan Kaye
Portent
Sep 9 2009
A unique collaboration from a wealth of fashion creatives, 'Portent' is a sensual, delicate and poetic exploration of romantic Classicism through the m... -
Valerie Stahl von Stromberg, Twin, Toyin, Swash, Metz & Racine, Mauro Cocilio, Donald Christie, Basso and Brooke and Aleksandra Olenska
Portfolio
Nov 30 2004
To reveal the process of a staple fashion industry practise, over the course of 2004 SHOWstudio initiated 'PORTFOLIO', an opportunity to invite practit... -
Nick Knight, Val Garland, Sam McKnight, Rei Kawakubo, Erin O'Connor, Allan Finamore and Alister Mackie
Power Of Witches
May 28 2004
Developed in collaboration with Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons, 'Power of Witches' lays bare every step in the creation of a fashion image, showing ... -
Nick Knight, David Bradley, Alister Mackie and Ellie Grace Cumming
PUNKATURE
Sep 19 2011
Inspired by a mix of the raw and the rarefied - the beauty of Autumn/Winter 2011 best fashions juxtaposed against the savage grace of Punk - Nick Knigh... -
Nick Knight, Alex Fury and Cara Delevingne
Pussycat, Pussycat
Apr 18 2012
SHOWstudio turns to the latest web tools - Instagram, Twitter, and Tumblr - to offer up Nick Knight's first ever Instagram photo shoot, inspired by Int... -
Nick Knight and Victoria Beckham
Range Rover Evoque Special Edition Featuring Victoria Beckham
Apr 20 2012
Victoria Beckham teams with Land Rover, serving as guest creative designer for a special edition of their latest model, the Range Rover Evoque. Beckham... -
Toyin, Kim Jones and Andrew Daffy
Raphi
Jun 11 2003
As Kim Jones' garments slithered across the bare torso of the young male model in Toyin's film short, it became apparent that clothing may not have bee... -
Walter Hugo
Reflecting The Bright Lights
Jun 28 2011
Offerings a unique twenty-first century insight into nineteenth-century photographic methods, artist Walter Hugo captures portraits of a new generation... -
Rei Nadal
Rei, I Don't Exist
Apr 3 2012
Artist Rei Nadal offers a unique take on 'Fashion Fetish' by curating the SHOWstudio Tumblr for a one-week period from 2-8 April 2012 inclusive. Her wo... -
Nick Knight and Andrew Gow
Remembrance
May 24 2007
Examining the creative legacies of fashion director Isabella Blow (1958–2007) and John Galliano's right-hand man Steven Robinson (1968–2007), Andrew Go... -
Nick Knight, Rick Owens and Panos Yiapanis
Rick Owens Portrait
Apr 9 2009
An intimate portrait of Rick Owens in his own words and his own clothing, this filmic diptych explores Nick Knight's monograph of an American fashion l... -
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 ... -
Ruth Hogben and Saloni Lodha
Saloni Spring/Summer 2013
Feb 15 2013
London-based Indian designer Saloni Lodha commissioned star filmmaker Ruth Hogben to capture her Spring/Summer 2013 collection in a fashion film starri... -
Atsuko Kudo and Simon Walter Hoare
Selling Sex: Atsuko Kudo
May 18 2012
Coinciding with the display of her 'Armour for Prostitutes' in SHOWstudio's 'Selling Sex' exhibition, latex doyenne Atsuko Kudo provides a lesson in dr... -
MC Angel, Girls On Top, DJ Cheekyhalf, Shay D, Rhimes Lecointe, Paula Varjack and AiNA ROXX
Selling Sex: Lyrically Challenged Collective
May 9 2012
As part of the exhibition 'Selling Sex', poet and rapper MC Angel orchestrated a unique performance from SHOWstudio's Bruton Place headquarters. Recrui... -
Slow Knights, Edward Quist and Derek Gruen
Shame
Apr 4 2013
Musician Derek Gruen (or Del Marquis to Scissor Sisters fans) and director Edward Paul Quist exclusively release the video for 'Shame', a dark track ta... -
Nick Knight, Jonathan Kaye and Akufen
Shoot
Jun 5 2003
Contextualising the Spring/Summer 2003 haute couture collections as photographed for W magazine, 'SHOOT' proves that couture is far more than just dres... -
Simon Foxton, Penny Martin, Michael Bracewell and Charlotte Cotton
Sittings: Thirty Men
Apr 1 2005
Over April 2005, Simon Foxton styled 30 models as 'living magazine pages', seated in front of a webcam. Via telephone, the 'Sittings' models could take... -
Zac Posen, Erin O'Connor and Craig McDean
Skin Wear
Feb 17 2004
In this fashion film with a difference, New York designer Zac Posen constructed a 'dress' for model Erin O'Connor from the lithe limbs and bodies of th... -
Nick Knight, Peter Saville, Mariacarla Boscono, Gideon Ponte, Francesca Burns and Alana Zimmer
Soft Furnishings
Apr 20 2009
As backdrop to an editorial story for July 2009 Wallpaper* magazine, Peter Saville's febrile imagination constructs an imaginary 'Erotic House' of Pop ... -
Gotscho, Emanuel Ungaro and Isabel Best
Solo Gotscho/Ungaro
Aug 4 2004
A collaboration between Emanuel Ungaro and Parisian artist Gotscho, this short film documents an exhibition at the Grand Foyer de l'Opéra Comique in Pa... -
Self Service
Stars And Styles
Jan 26 2004
Chic Parisian magazine Self Service came to London town to photograph the stylish stars of the London scene inside the SHOWstudio live space. -
Nick Knight, Simon Foxton, Bea Sweet, Lou Stoppard and Younji Ku
Studs
Jul 27 2012
Nodding to fashion's ongoing preoccupation with pushing gender boundaries comes 'Studs', a series of nine unique photo studies. Exploring the idea of a... -
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... -
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,... -
Tara Dougans
Tara Dougans' Couture
Jan 20 2013
Continuing SHOWstudio's exploration of fashion illustration, Nick Knight invited art director and illustrator Tara Dougans to take up residency at our ... -
Nick Knight and Gemma Ward
Technonature
Jun 7 2004
Kate Phelan and the Vogue team enter the SHOWstudio live space for three days to shoot the prevailing themes from the Autumn/Winter 2004 collections fo... -
Betony Vernon and Lou Stoppard
The Boudoir Bible
Jan 29 2013
Armed with a selection of her beautifully crafted sex objects, Betony Vernon visited SHOWstudio to talk about her new book, 'The Boudoir Bible', with L... -
Pieter Hugo
The Entertainers
Mar 3 2005
A gallery of images, selected from Pieter Hugo's 2005 body of work 'The Hyena & Other Men', captured during his time with a Nigerian tribe whose people... -
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben, Lady Gaga, Gareth Pugh, Liberty Ross, Stephen Jones, Raquel Zimmermann, Simon Foxton, Sam McKnight, Marie Schuller, Vanessa Pelz-Sharpe, Amy Ireland, Susanna Lau, Steven Klein, Sølve Sundsbø, Tim Walker, Simon Costin, Shaun Cole, Sandy Black, Roger Tredre, Rick Owens, Rebecca Suhrawardi Austin, Rachael Adams, Phyllis Posnick, Paul Vincent, Mary Katrantzou, Olivia Marks, NOKI, Nicholas Kirkwood, Natasa Vojnovic, Milly McMahon, Max Berlinger, Margo Fortuny, Louise Gray, Marcus Werner Hed, Lucy McRae, Boudicca, Betony Vernon, Peter Jensen, Louise Goldin, Peter Gray, Liz Hoggard, Judy Blame, Lily Cole, Leisa Barnett, Lee C. Wallick, Lauren David Peden, Kristian Schuller, Kiki Georgiou, Jessica Bumpus, Jason Evans, Jane Audas, Indigo Clarke, Harriet Walker, Fred Butler, Frances Corner, Fleur Britten, Elliott James Sainsbury, Dr Brandt, Deborah Milner, Dean Mayo Davies, Daniel Brown, Craig McDean, Christopher Breward, Cator Sparks, Bart Hess, Anna Dello Russo, Alistair O'Neill, Alice Hawkins, Alex Fury, Ellie Grace Cumming, Jez Tozer and Marian Newman
The Fashion Body
Jul 16 2010
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 fas... -
Alice Hawkins
The Good Life
Nov 24 2010
Proper doesn't have to mean prim - Alice Hawkins gives the bourgeoisie mood of the Autumn/Winter 2010 collections a terribly British spin in a tongue-i... -
Nick Knight, Kat Marks and Alex Fury
The Karass
Feb 1 2011
A futuristic ode to retro, Kat Marks' ground-breaking collection of fashion-cum-jewellery pieces transform woman into a hybrid of seductive Vegas showg... -
Ian Wooldridge and Hannah Martin
The Man Who Knows Everything
Mar 16 2011
In March 2011 London jeweller Hannah Martin marked her latest collection with a site-specific installation at London's Dover Street Market, an exclusiv... -
Daphne Guinness, Joseph Lally and Tom Guinness
The Murder of Jean Seberg
Jun 12 2011
Inspired by the controversial and shocking death of the all-American actress Jean Seberg in 1979, Daphne Guinness collaborates with filmmaker and photo... -
Dean Chalkley
The New Faces
Mar 9 2012
Focusing on the sartorial passion and commitment of young British Mods in the twenty-first century, 'The New Faces' is a documentary showcasing the con... -
Ross Phillips, Marie O'Connor and Laura Bradley
The Sound Of Clothes: Blow, Clap, Talk & Hum
Jul 24 2006
A playful series of interactive that harness the human voice to bring the season's chicest accoutrements to life, 'Blow, Clap, Talk & Hum' relies on th... -
Nick Knight, Susannah Frankel, Nick Ryan and Daniel Brown
The Sound Of Clothes: Synaesthesia
Apr 4 2006
Using the notion of 'pictures for the blind' as a stimulus, Nick Knight and digital artist Daniel Brown collaborated with synaesthete and sound designe... -
Erica Schreiner
The Tale of the Bravest Warrior
Mar 28 2013
To celebrate Easter with an appropriate quantity of eggs, SHOWstudio launches 'The Tale of the Bravest Warrior', an exclusive new film by acclaimed you... -
Nick Knight, Björk, Alexander McQueen, Ruth Hogben and Edward Enninful
To Lee, With Love, Nick
Dec 7 2010
'This film is my way of speaking about a very unique and important person who changed my life. My desire was to speak in some way about the dark and th... -
Le Guo, Sheng Qi, Voon Pow Bartlett, Haili Sun and Carrie Scott
Today/Tomorrow: Chinese Art
Aug 6 2012
As part of the exhibition 'Death', SHOWstudio plays host to contemporary artists Le Guo, Sheng Qi and Haili Sun, and academic Voon Pow Bartlett for a d... -
Nick Knight, Alexander McQueen, Liberty Ross, Sam McKnight, Michelle Duguid, Bobby Gillespie, Erin O'Connor and Katy England
Transformer
Sep 19 2002
In July 2002 Nick Knight extended an invitation to friends and colleagues including Alexander McQueen, Erin O’Connor, Juergen Teller, Katy England and ...