Projects
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Nicolas Niarchos
'System = Power = Ideology': One or many Maos?
Jul 23 2012
Coinciding with the display of the Gao Brothers' challenging bronze ‘The Execution of Christ’ in SHOWstudio’s ‘Death’ exhibition comes a uniquely prese... -
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... -
Nick Knight, Peter Saville, Simon Foxton, Value and Service, Shona Heath, Scott King, Peter Davies, Maria Chen Pascual, Liz Neal, Julie Verhoeven, Judy Blame, Jens Laugesen, Frauke Stegmann, Frank Leder, Fergus Purcell and Bay Garnett
And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Feb 15 2005
The fashionable likes of Peter Saville, Julie Verhoeven, Bay Garnett, Judy Blame and Nick Knight created a selection of T-shirt graphics exclusively fo... -
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 ... -
M/M (Paris) and Christophe Rousset
Antigone Under Hypnosis
Nov 25 2004
In 2004, the Parisian art directors collaborated with esteemed conductor Christophe Rousset and theatre director Éric Vigner on a maverick re-staging o... -
Antony Price and Alex Fury
Antony Price: For Your Pleasure
Feb 17 2009
Rock's favourite couturier, an unparalleled master of modern made-to-measure occassionwear or the most criminally overlooked designer in British fashio... -
Stephanie LaCava, Alex Fury, Timothy Long, Lou Stoppard, Anders Christian Madsen and Jessica Bumpus
Behind The Seams
Nov 18 2011
Unpicking the intricacies of the contemporary fashion world, 'Behind The Seams' explores the ideas, inspirations and individuals shaping the landscape ... -
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... -
Kate Moss, Jo-Ann Furniss and Inez & Vinoodh
Billie Jean
Jul 14 2004
Icon meets icon - Kate Moss re-enacts Michael Jackson's classic 'Billie Jean' dance routine, shot by legendary photographic duo Inez van Lamsweerde and... -
Carson McColl
Black Saint
Jun 17 2010
Inspired by the simple concept of black and white, musician, artist and poet Carson McColl took up residence in the LiveStudio space in June 2010 to un... -
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... -
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... -
Lou Stoppard, Bronwyn Cosgrave, Charlotte Sinclair, Judith Watt, Chloe Fox, Simone Rocha, David Koma, Yasmin Sewell and Hettie Judah
Book Club
Nov 15 2012
As fashion tides turn towards all things digital thanks to the rise of blogs, Twitter and e-commerce, SHOWstudio assesses the continued success of prin... -
Nick Knight, Jonathan Kaye and Gemma Ward
By Arrangement
Nov 27 2003
Evangelical florist and icon of pre-war femininity, Constance Spry provided inspiration for this three day Nick Knight shoot for W magazine. Stylist Jo... -
Mike Figgis
Cannes 2006
Jun 12 2006
Viewing film festivals as ‘highly suspect at the best of times,’ Mike Figgis constructed an elaborate ruse to survive Cannes 2006. In this gallery, fil... -
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... -
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'.... -
Nick Knight and Jo-Ann Furniss
Couture: The Luxury Of Not Caring
Jan 24 2003
Witness the splendour of Paris Haute Couture week, via image/texts sent by mobile phone from the front row. -
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... -
Antony Price and Alex Fury
Design Download: Antony Price
Feb 11 2010
Selected from Antony Price's Spring/Summer 1989 collection and dubbed 'The Macaw' by its creator, the 2009 addition to the Design Download series is a ... -
John Galliano and Jane Audas
Design Download: John Galliano
Jul 11 2003
Our second Design Download pattern, released in June 2003, came from the archives of fashion revolutionary John Galliano - the 'Pirate' jacket that fir... -
Yumiko Suzuki, Yasuhiro Tsuchiya, Takumi Iwata, Paul Hetherington, Kenji Hirasawa, Kai Ohta, Ayako Hayamizu, Andrew Gow and Penny Martin
Designer Purikura
Oct 12 2007
Showcasing a new genre of amateur print photography that has emerged from South East Asia over the past decade - Purikura - SHOWstudio invited a Tokyo-... -
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, 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... -
Marie Schuller, Liam Paton, Sue-Wen Quek, Bobby Luo, Firdaos Pidau, Kenzo Takada and Didier Grumbach
Eastern Promises
Jan 25 2013
To affirm SHOWstudio's commitment to exploring new fashion frontiers, Marie Schuller headed to Singapore for French Couture Week 2012. Following in the... -
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... -
Yorick Blumenfeld, Penny Martin, Paul Hetherington, Paul Barnes, Olivier Alary, Erwin Blumenfeld and Adam Mufti
Experiments In Advertising: The Films Of Erwin Blumenfeld
Sep 25 2006
A unique chance to see the undiscovered, historic film footage of one of the most influential fashion photographers of all time. Three landmark fashion... -
Liberty Ross, Ruth Hogben, Daphne Guinness, Marie Schuller, Lily Donaldson, Marti Domination, Rei Nadal, Poppy de Villeneuve, Ellie Grace Cumming, Betony Vernon, Asia Argento, Anna Trevelyan, Amanda Harlech, Polly Borland, Dasha Zhukova, Lou Stoppard, Susannah Frankel, Stephanie LaCava, Erica Schreiner, Emma Forrest, Valerie Steele, Caryn Franklin, Aimee Mullins, Harriet Walker, Luci Schroder, Becky Conekin, Emer O'Toole, Roberta McGrath, Erika Eiffel, Alice Hawkins, Alison Bancroft, Katharine K. Zarrella, Victoria Turk and Tom Guinness
Fashion Fetish
Mar 22 2012
Alongside the 2012 SHOWstudio Shop exhibition 'Selling Sex', SHOWstudio launches 'Fashion Fetish,' a series of fashion films, performances, multi-media... -
Penny Martin
Fashion In The Mirror
Sep 9 2008
Penny Martin, Michel Mallard, Raphaëlle Stopin and Jonathan de Villiers in conversation in association with the 2008 exhibition 'Fashion In the Mirror'... -
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... -
Kate Moss, Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben, Roddy Lumsden and Jonathan Kaye
Flowers For Kate
Nov 15 2007
Say it with flowers: in December 2007 Nick Knight photographed a story for March/April 2008 V magazine featuring the one and only Kate Moss. SHOWstudio... -
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... -
Txell Miras, Todd Lynn, Tillmann Lauterbach, Thomas Engel Hart, Telfar Clemens, Steve J & Yoni P, Spijkers en Spijkers, Slow and Steady Wins the Race, 6 7/8 (Six and Seven Eighths), Siv Støldal, Sinha-Stanic, Seung Hwan Jeon, Seïko Taki, Sandra Backlund, Rubecksen Yamanaka, Romy Smits, Romina Karamanea, Roland Maas, Rodarte, Rie Rasmussen, Christopher Raeburn, Rad Hourani, Pulver, PPQ, Postweiler Hauber, Pierre Hardy, Peter Bertsch, Petar Petrov, Osman Yousefzada, Olanic, Njide Ugboma, Natalia Brilli, Nasir Mazhar, Nakkna, Modernist, Mikio Sakabe, Mary Katrantzou, Mary Fellowes, Marcus Werner Hed, Malcolm Pate, Mads Perch, Lutz, Louis de Gama, Louise Amstrup, Leisa Barnett, Laitinen, Kosmetique Label, Kay Barron, Kai Kühne, Jolibe, John Bland, Jessica Trosman, Jean-Pierre Braganza, Jean-Francois Carly, Jan Taminiau, Isaac Lock, Ioannis Dimitrousis, Ian Wooldridge, Husam El Odeh, House of Flora, Henrik Vibskov, Heather Blake, Gregor Hohenberg, Giles Price, Frank Leder, Flora McLean, Finsk, Felipe Oliveira Baptista, Felder Felder, Emilio De La Morena, El Delgado Buil, Deryck Walker, Daryoush Haj-Najafi, Customers Own Property, Chris Liu, Christina Rozakis, Cecilia Sorensen, Cathy Pill, Cassette Playa, Carola Euler, Bo Van Melskens, Borba Margo, Bora Aksu, Ashish Gupta, Antoine Peters, Andreas Emenius, Alice McCall, Basso and Brooke, Peter Jensen, HALTBAR, Hall Ohara and 0044
Future Tense
Aug 6 2008
If the best way to predict the future is to invent it, the next best is to give it a helping hand. With this idea in mind, in 2008 SHOWstudio launched ... -
Simon Foxton
Glitterbugs
Aug 17 2004
Profiling the early-noughties London club night Matinée, and its conspicuously fashionable attendees - dubbed 'Glitterbugs' - through images, text and... -
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... -
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... -
Ebru Ercon
Lookbook: Ebru Ercon
Apr 5 2004
Fresh from a stellar appearance at cult showcase Fashion East, designer Ebru Ercon came into the SHOWstudio live space to photograph her look book, enl... -
Bill Doig and Craig McDean
Made In Hollywood
Jul 4 2003
Fasten your holster belt: we're in for a bumpy ride... Craig McDean filmed Amber Valetta in a humble salute to Nudie's Rodeo Tailors. -
Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben, Delta Maid, Jonathan Kaye and Alex Fury
Make Up Your Mind
Dec 11 2008
We play mind games with this decidedly Surreal fashion excursion, starring Maison Martin Margiela's Spring 2009 'Wig-Coat' in perpetual, oddly seductiv... -
Susan Bright and Camille Vivier
Monument
Apr 17 2002
Love's flame burns eternal as the lifespan of the romance represented outlasts the Santeria candle pictured in Camille Vivier's short film. -
Ada Fung and Stephen Willats
Multiple Clothing
Mar 8 2005
'Multiple Clothing' presented a selection of clothing-based works by British artist Stephen Willats' that spanned 40 years of practice. -
Nick Knight, Raquel Zimmermann, Marie Schuller, Frederic Sanchez and Alex Fury
Object Fetish 2011
Sep 19 2011
Examining key pieces from the international collections for 2011, Object Fetish trains obsessive attention onto fashion's latest not-so-obscure objects... -
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 ... -
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... -
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... -
Erin O'Connor
Picture/message: Erin O'Connor
Jul 30 2003
Revealing the working processes of the models, designers, stylists and fashion creatives behind the scenes at the Autumn/Winter 2003 Paris haute coutur... -
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...