Projects
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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 ... -
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. -
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, 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... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
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, 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... -
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... -
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... -
Peter Saville and Julie Verhoeven
Forget-me-not
Apr 3 2002
Inspired by innocent Toile de Jouy - but offset with Japanese rope suspension bondage - Peter Saville and Julie Verhoeven collaborated to create intric... -
Simon Foxton and Alasdair McLellan
Rent
Jun 21 2002
For your pleasure. Fashioned from calling cards, nine working boys gave us their denim look. Who will you pick? Alasdair McLellan provided the photos, ... -
Nick Knight, Olivier Alary, Guy Bourdin and Adam Mufti
Compulsive Viewing: The Films Of Guy Bourdin
Apr 17 2003
'Compulsive Viewing: The Films Of Guy Bourdin' showcases eleven unique fashion films, edited in 2002-2003 from never-before-seen, archival film recorde... -
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... -
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... -
Alexander McQueen and Susannah Frankel
Bellwether
Jul 21 2003
To celebrate Alexander McQueen receiving the CBE award in 2003, the visionary designer himself illustrated a selection of showstoppers from his 2003 co... -
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, Simon Costin and Sharon Dowsett
Articles Of Faith
Sep 4 2003
A controversial partnership: religion and iconography. Costin and Dowsett asked who and what people turned to in their darkest hour and how that faith ... -
Nick Knight, Tom Hingston, Susan Bright, Robert '3D' Del Naja, Nick Rhodes, Liz Neal, Kylie Minogue, Katy England, Julie Verhoeven, Jason Evans, Félix Larher and Bobby Gillespie
Lyric
Apr 26 2004
Kylie Minogue, Nick Rhodes, Bobby Gillespie and Julie Verhoeven were just some of the leading fashion, music and art creatives who came together for th... -
Nick Knight and Brad Pitt
Freedom Of Love
Jun 10 2004
Nick Knight used André Breton’s poem 'Freedom of Love' as the guiding text for this short film of Brad Pitt, created while shooting the actor for Vanit... -
Tim and Barry, Lucy Orta and Jason Evans
Transgressing Fashion
Jun 24 2004
In response to the Allied forces handover of power back to Iraq on 30th June 2004, artist Lucy Orta staged a 'protest performance' at the Victoria & Al... -
Alexander McQueen, Nick Knight and Michael Clark
Blade of Light
Jul 30 2004
Watch the filmic version of SHOWstudio's MAC III print, an image born out of an explosive creative collaboration between McQueen, Knight and Clark. -
Alexander McQueen
Black
Sep 1 2004
'Black' saw British maverick Alexander McQueen return to the London catwalk after a three-year absence in June 2004, for one night only. A retrospectiv... -
Nick Knight, Leigh Bowery and Donald Urquhart
Guiser
Oct 11 2004
Celebrating the extraordinary legacy of the equally extraordinary Leigh Bowery, 'Guiser' brings together previously unseen footage of Bowery during a s... -
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... -
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... -
Nick Knight, Peter Saville, Liberty Ross, Richard Kern, Philippe Garner, Jonathan Kaye, Jonathan De Villiers, Ann-Sofie Back and Andrea Dworkin
Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down
Jun 28 2005
Exploring the idea of control in fashion image-making, 'Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down' offered SHOWstudio viewers the chance to dress Liberty Ross in a li... -
Junya Watanabe
Design Download: Junya Watanabe
Jun 28 2005
Internationally-acclaimed designer Junya Watanabe was the mastermind behind the fifth pattern offered as part of our Design Download series of online c... -
Nick Knight, Kate Moss, John Galliano, Gareth Pugh, Stephen Jones, !WOWOW!, Val Garland, Simon Foxton, Sam McKnight, David Bailey, Willy Vanderperre, Toyin, Tom Hingston, Steven Klein, Stella Tennant, Stella McCartney, Sølve Sundsbø, Shona Heath, Peter Lindbergh, Patrick Demarchelier, Liz Collins, Linda Evangelista, Lily Cole, Katy England, Katie Grand, Karen Elson, Julien D'Ys, Jonathan Kaye, Jason Evans, Hiromix, Glen Luchford, Gemma Ward, Francesca Burns, Fabien Baron, Emma Reeves, Eamonn Hughes, Christian Louboutin, Alister Mackie, Alice Hawkins, Kate Phelan, Tim Walker, Bay Garnett and Marian Newman
Moving Fashion
Sep 29 2005
The printed page has determined the way fashion looks since women's magazines were first introduced. Nick Knight's key motivation for founding SHOWstud... -
Nick Knight, John Galliano, Sam McKnight, William Chang, Vladimir Boboshin, Saulyus Chyamolonskas, Sam Sneade, Rupert Angarita-Dodds, Reza Bahrami, Olivier Alary, Nigel Buck, Mike Figgis, Michael Blackburn, John Gosling, Joanna Swan, Greg Perler, Gemma Ward, Egoli Editing Team, Craig Armstrong, Christopher Seguine, Charles Nartey Mezo, Ben Trill, Apurva Asrani and Anna Span
Editing Fashion
Dec 19 2005
An offshoot from 2005's three-month 'Moving Fashion' project, the fashion film season 'Editing Fashion' shifted the focus of SHOWstudio's exploration o... -
Nick Knight, John Galliano, Ruth Hogben and Simon Foxton
Beasting
Feb 20 2007
Invited by Arena Homme Plus magazine to photograph the highlights of John Galliano’s outlandish Autumn/Winter 2007-2008 collection, Nick Knight and Sim... -
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... -
Aitor Throup and Jez Tozer
The Funeral Of New Orleans - Part One
Sep 10 2007
For his first catwalk presentation, menswear designer Aitor Throup collaborated with photographer Jez Tozer to create 'The Funeral of New Orleans - Par... -
Nick Knight, Shaun Cole and Alister Mackie
Boned
Sep 27 2007
Invited by AnOther Man magazine to shoot men’s underwear for its Autumn/Winter 2007 issue, Nick Knight and Alister Mackie shot new work by a range of d... -
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben and Bernhard Willhelm
Men In Tights
Jan 10 2008
To showcase his Autumn/Winter 2008 menswear collection, Bernhard Willhelm created a fashion film with Nick Knight during January 2008. In advance of th... -
Nick Knight, Kate Moss, Ruth Hogben, Jake & Dinos Chapman and Gideon Ponte
White Wedding
Apr 28 2008
The product of a grand collaboration between Nick Knight and lingerie giant Agent Provocateur to mark the launch of the label's bridal range, 'White We... -
Gareth Pugh, Sølve Sundsbø, Rebecca & Mike, Pfadfinderei, Khaya, Joël Tettamanti, Grégoire Alexandre, Ewen Spencer, Erdil Yaşaroğlu, Dominic Wilcox, Claudio Sinatti, Boxie, Artemy Lebedev, Alexandre Farto and +41 //DIY
1-1 The Art of Football
Jun 2 2008
In Summer 2008 SHOWstudio partnered with Nike to challenge established and emerging artists, designers and creatives to devise new work inspired by the... -
Nick Knight and Sissel Tolaas
Violence
Sep 25 2008
An ongoing collaboration with scent artist Sissel Tolaas, SHOWstudio investigates the concept of creating a fragrance on the Internet. Based on a provo... -
Ruth Hogben, Sarah Chatfield, Monica Elkelv, Laura Bradley and Kathryn Ferguson
Birds Eye View 2009
Apr 7 2009
Part of the 2009 Birds Eye View film festival, 'Fashion and the Moving Image' celebrates the emerging genre of fashion film. Including footage captured... -
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 ... -
Ruth Hogben, Doc Rowe and Simon Costin
Britannica
May 20 2009
Inspired by the launch of Simon Costin's touring Museum of British Folklore, Britannica showcases an interview with the inimitable Costin himself, alon... -
Nick Knight, Kate Moss, Björk, Alexander McQueen, Peter Saville, Lady Gaga, Tracey Emin and Juergen Teller
In Camera
Aug 21 2009
Launched in 2003, 'In Camera' introduced a completely new premise to the interview format. Allowing a global online audience - as well as the interview... -
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... -
Charlie Le Mindu
Head-Dressing
Mar 11 2010
Avant-garde hairstylist and designer Charlie Le Mindu took up residence in the LiveStudio to create a headpiece. The studio space was simultaneously de...