Explore the captivating stills from Raquel Couceiro and Myles Henrik Hall's fashion film 9.

What happens when avatar aesthetics spill over into real life? A tour of nine different heroines (and anti-heroines) from the world of cosplay.

Nine of pop culture's most recognisable female characters are brought to life, using a mix of contemporary fashion and cosplay clothing.

Live from London, fashion editor Georgina Evans reviews the Nicholas Daley A/W 20 show with content editor Calum Knight.

From Japanese street video company DID comes a film exploring the playful moments in daily life.

Live from London, fashion editor Georgina Evans reviews the Preen by Thornton Bregazzi S/S 20 Womenswear show with content editor Calum Knight.

Hussein Chalayan talks through his A/W 19 Womenswear collection with Georgina Evans in this unique take on a re-see.

Edward Crutchley talks through his S/S 18 collection with Lara Johnson-Wheeler in this unique take on a re-see.

This fashion film award finalist, submitted to SHOWstudio from Tokyo, Japan, explores Japanese pop and subcultures.

Stylist YaoYao Lin chose to become Sailor Moon in our face-mapping experiment. Clothes by Joyrich.

Niamh White interviews V&A curator of Japanese art Julia Hutt about Noritaka Tatehana's work and its place in the history of Japanese craft.

View a gallery of stills taken from Blue Movie, exaggerating the complex and erotic mises-en-scène within this short film.

Collaborators Kenji Hirasawa and Takumi Iwata draw on Japanese culture - in this case a Taiko drum - in their signature colour saturated style.

Designer Purikura: Penny Martin on the cult of 'Purikura' and why SHOWstudio selected it to depict the Autumn/Winter 2007 collections.

A/W 07 looks from Christopher Kane and Prada were captured in the kitsch photo-me booth.

Watch our Tokyo-based team embellish Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci and Yves Saint LaurentA/W 07 with their Pukrikura photo booth.

SHOWstudio invited a Tokyo-based team to interpret the Autumn/Winter 2007 collections using nothing more than a souped-up Photo-Me booth, ingenuity and kitsch graphics galore!

Footage taken during a 1974 ‘kimonos’ editorial shoot for Vogue Paris by Guy Bourdin.

Forget-Me-Not: Helen Clifford on the legacy of desire within decorative design.

The incongruous aesthetics of Toile de Jouy and Japanese rope suspension bondage come together in an erotic, interactive collaboration by Julie Verhoeven and Peter Saville.

Josephene Soughan and Simon Pentleton's film borrows from Japanese 'Pink' pornography to explore the overlap between fashion and erotic imagery.

Blue Movie: Christabel Stewart on the cultural and historical context of the erotic short film.

A project exploring the ambiguous space between the fashion story and erotic imagery.