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Nick Knight, Daphne Guinness, Marie Schuller, Kev Stenning, Daniel Brown, Andrew Tomlinson and Alexander Fury

Visions Couture

Daphne Guinness is the iconic model for 'Visions Couture' - featuring Spring/Summer 2012's finest mixed with Guinness' own legendary wardrobe, captured by Nick Knight. The resulting fashion films - set to soundtracks recorded by Guinness herself - unique interactives and three-dimensional sculptures form the centrepiece of the fashion windows of Paris' Le Printemps department store in Spring 2012

More in this project

  • Overview
  • Gareth Pugh: Fashion Film
  • Gareth Pugh: 3D Scan
  • Gareth Pugh: Interactive
  • Rick Owens: Fashion Film
  • Rick Owens: 3D Scan
  • Rick Owens: Interactive
  • Junya Watanabe: Fashion Film
  • Junya Watanabe: 3D Scan
  • Junya Watanabe: Interactive
  • Paco Rabanne: Fashion Film
  • Paco Rabanne: 3D Scan
  • Paco Rabanne: Interactive
  • Maison Martin Margiela: Fashion Film
  • Margiela: 3D Scan
  • Maison Martin Margiela: Interactive
  • Submissions Gallery
  • Shoot
  • Windows

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  • Gareth Pugh: Fashion Film
    Nick Knight's fashion film captures Daphne Guinness as a 'Dark Knight' in Gareth Pugh, set to a unique soundtrack sung by Guinness herself
  • Gareth Pugh: 3D Scan

  • Gareth Pugh: Interactive
    Use your webcam to interact with Daniel Brown's specially-devised image piece, showcasing images based around the theme 'Dark Knight'
  • Rick Owens: Fashion Film
    Nick Knight transforms Daphne Guinness into a high fashion high priestess, clad in Rick Owens against her soundtrack of Dante's 'Inferno'
  • Rick Owens: 3D Scan

  • Rick Owens: Interactive
    Daniel Brown's interactive explores image submissions from SHOWstudio viewers inspired by the brief 'Death Becomes Her'
  • Junya Watanabe: Fashion Film
    'Nature at Night' inspired Nick Knight's UV treatment of Daphne Guinness in Junya Watanabe. Guinness herself sings an operatic accompaniment
  • Junya Watanabe: 3D Scan

  • Junya Watanabe: Interactive
    Move to interact with Daniel Brown's image and video interactive, created for the windows of Le Printemps Paris
  • Paco Rabanne: Fashion Film
    Against an operatic aria sung by Daphne Guinness, Nick Knight's fashion film transforms her into an abstract, Paco Rabanne-petalled bloom
  • Paco Rabanne: 3D Scan

  • Paco Rabanne: Interactive
    View the foliate-inspired viewer submissions incorporated into Daniel Brown's fourth unique interactive for Le Printemps
  • Maison Martin Margiela: Fashion Film
    The Spring 2012 Maison Martin Margiela collection inspired Nick Knight's surreal fashion film starring and soundtracked by Daphne Guinness
  • Margiela: 3D Scan

  • Maison Martin Margiela: Interactive
    Daniel Brown's interactive allows you to magically morph between viewers' images inspired by the 'House and Garden' theme
  • Submissions Gallery
    View a gallery of original image submissions from SHOWstudio viewers, selected by Nick Knight and featured in Daniel Brown's interactives
  • Shoot
    On demand footage from Nick Knight's Visions Couture shoot featuring Daphne Guinness will be available to watch soon
  • Windows
    See the fashion film, sculpture and interactives that form Nick Knight's 'Visions Couture' windows for Le Printemps in-situ in this gallery

About

When Nick Knight was approached to create installations to grace the windows of Paris' Le Printemps department store during February and March 2012, the first model that leapt to mind was Daphne Guinness - a living embodiment of Le Printemps' Spring/Summer theme of 'Visions Couture', captured in sculpture, interactives and a selection of fashion films set against soundtracks of opera and spoken-word poetry recorded in Guinness' own voice.

The resulting fashion films, interactives and three-dimensional sculptures - a set of each capturing the Divine Daphne in creations by contemporary fashion's finest including Gareth Pugh, Rick Owens, Maison Martin Margiela, Junya Watanabe and Paco Rabanne - form the centrepiece of the fashion windows of Paris' Le Printemps department store in Spring 2012. Guinness herself recorded the musical accompaniments for each of Knight's unique filmic explorations of Spring 2012 fashion, with Guinness' voice sitting as entirely one-off soundtracks for these exceptional video pieces.

A live shoot broadcast over 21-22 December 2011 allowed viewers to witness every step of the creative process, and the vitrines imagery is showcased here. A camera situated in the window of Le Printemps Paris broadcasts the public at large interacting with the window pieces throughout February and March 2012.

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Credits / Contributors

  • Nick Knight Nick Knight
    Director
  • Daphne Guinness Daphne Guinness
    Creative Maverick
  • Marie Schuller Marie Schuller
    Filmmaker
  • Kev Stenning Kev Stenning
    3D Imaging Specialist
  • Daniel Brown Daniel Brown
    Multimedia Designer
  • Andrew Tomlinson Andrew Tomlinson
    Set Designer
  • Alexander Fury Alexander Fury
    Writer
  • Creative Direction: Nick Knight
  • Photography: Nick Knight
  • Model: Daphne Guinness
  • Fashion Direction: Daphne Guinness and Alexander Fury
  • Hair: Christian Wood
  • Make-up: Petros Petrohilos
  • Nails: Adam Slee
  • Set design: Andy Tomlinson
  • 3-D Scanning: Kev Stenning at Rapido3D
  • Film Edit: Marie Schuller
  • CGI (Rick Owens): Tom Wandrag
  • Soundtrack: All performed by Daphne Guinness
  • Photographic Assistance: Laura Falconer, Chloe Orefice, Robinson Barbosa and Jeff Yiu
  • Fashion Co-ordination: Ellie Cumming
  • Fashion assistance: Vanessa Minshull
  • Hair assistance: Tom Berry
  • Make-up assistance: Louise O'Neil
  • Editorial assistance: Ben Knight Evans
  • Camera operator: John Simmons
  • DIT: Joe Colley
  • Technical operator: Jon Emmony
  • Technical assistance: Paul Herron and Sally Northmore
  • Streaming Camera: Yvoni Lada and Penny Tu
  • Runners: Andrew Smith, Daniel Kallberg and Ben Worthington
  • Production: Gainsbury and Whiting
  • Location: Park Royal Studios
  • Nick Knight photographed and filmed Visions Couture using the Canon 5D mk ii. Many thanks to Canon www.canon.co.uk
  • Thanks to all at Le Printemps, Paris

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