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POLITICAL FASHION
Believing fashion to be intrinsically political, Nick Knight is staging a multi-level film project, encouraging creatives to use the medium of fashion to convey their political beliefs, agendas and thoughts. From the beginning of December 2007, the first stage of 'Political Fashion Films' invites visitors to the SHOWstudio website to submit a film of between 30 seconds and 3 minutes that articulates some kind of political point using fashion. Inkeeping with previous film seasons 'Moving Fashion' and 'Editing Fashion', in February 2008, this invitation will be opened up to a wide selection of fashion industry, art world and celebrity figures, whose Political Fashion Films created to the same brief will also be broadcast on the SHOWstudio website, one film per weekday. The end of the project will be marked by a screening event to be held in London during Spring 2008. All films received before Friday 15 February 2008 will be considered for inclusion.
- Movies (Season 2) Last updated 15 Jul 2008
- Movies Last updated 6 May 2008
- Viewers Gallery Last updated 5 May 2008
- Contributors Last updated 10 Apr 2008
- Essays Last updated 3 Mar 2008
- Project Blog Last updated 28 Nov 2007
- Brief Last updated 28 Nov 2007
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1-1
Nike
Until May 18 members of the public can submit their football-inspired artwork for the chance of exhibiting as part of the 1/1: Art of Football show in Basel, June 2008.
- Exhibition Last updated 13 Jun 2008
- Associates Gallery Last updated 5 Jun 2008
- Finalists Last updated 2 Jun 2008
- Favourites Gallery Last updated 23 May 2008
- Project Blog Last updated 27 Mar 2008
- Contributors Last updated 27 Mar 2008
- Video Brief Last updated 27 Mar 2008
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WONDERLAND
Helen Storey
A product of a groundbreaking exploration of chemically-fabricated, biodegradable materials by the artist and fashion designer Helen Storey and the scientist Tony Ryan, 'Wonderland' uses fashion as a 'trojan horse' to demonstrate radical scientific findings. From 29 January–29 February 2008, Storey will construct her first fashion collection in 12 years, in front of a live audience. These garments are designed to deconstruct over time in water and this amazing quality will be showcased during the residency, during which time SHOWstudio will document the full process in picture diaries and live webcasts. When the collection is completed, our task will then be to photograph the garments in a live shoot in Spring to document their design and appearance before dissolving them for a film that will showcase their miraculous scientific secret.
- Movie Last updated 25 Jun 2008
- Video Library Last updated 1 Feb 2008
- Time-lapse Last updated 28 Jan 2008
- Articles Last updated 9 Jan 2008
- Project Blog Last updated 6 Dec 2007
- Contributors Last updated 6 Dec 2007
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EYES OF THE BEHOLDER
Toyin
In collaboration with Replay, SHOWstudio has invited photographer and filmmaker Toyin to turn her signature, romantic lens on the Italian denimwear company's Autumn/Winter '08-09 collection. Though shot in Robert Adam's exquisite, 18th century London townhouse at 33 Portland Street, Toyin and stylist Stevie Westgarth gave themselves poetic license to shift the date forward to the 19th century - the wild west to be specific - where winsome girls swooned over bare-chested boys who cracked bullwhips and wore the bowler hats of frontiersmen. But this resultant film short is no Calamity Jane-style caper. The faded elegance of the Georgian backdrop, combined with the contemporary energy of both choreography and Replay's collection, creates a spellbinding visual feast. To an electrifying soundtrack, specially composed by the Doi, sit back and witness the extraordinary models' performances that are this filmmaker's hallmark.
- Gallery Last updated 9 May 2008
- Contributors Last updated 8 May 2008
- Movie Last updated 8 May 2008
- Project Blog Last updated 8 May 2008
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MARKETA UHLIROVA
- Interview Last updated 8 May 2008
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WHITE WEDDING
Nick Knight/Joseph Corré/Kate Moss/Jake & Dinos Chapman/Gideon Ponte/Ruth Hogben
The product of a grand collaboration with lingerie giant Agent Provocateur to mark the launch of their bridal range, 'White Wedding' is a groundbreaking exploration in extending a narrative advertising campaign to also create an experimental film series. Responding to a six-part script treatment written by Agent Provocateur founder Joe Corré, Nick Knight and a stellar cast including Kate Moss and artists Jake and Dinos Chapman have created six striking campaign stills that storyboard "the demise of a bride's 'big day' and serialise the unravelling of the religious organisation behind it".
From film footage captured whilst shooting the six shots entitled 'The Happiest Day of Her Life', 'The Garden of Eden', 'Bad News', 'Frenzy', 'Revenge' and 'Let Them Eat Kate', Nick Knight has pushed each image into new visual territories, projecting motion imagery onto interpretative props and filming it, to capture this abstraction 'in camera', rather than in post production. The result is an intriguing set of stylish shorts depicting Kate Moss running the gamut from demure virgin bride to dangerous, Lynchian siren that suggests new applications and creative potential for fashion film in advertising.
Log on each night on to SHOWstudio from Friday 2nd–Wednesday 7th May 2008 at 18:00hrs UK time to watch the marital meltdown unfold.
- Project Blog Last updated 28 Apr 2008
- Contributors Last updated 28 Apr 2008
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FREJA
Nick Knight/Freja Beha Erichsen
If clothes maketh the man and your purpose is to demonstrate the masculinity of the Spring/Summer '08 womens' collections, then who better to explore their gender-bending potential than androgynous beauty Freja Beha Erichsen?
- Project Blog Last updated 19 Mar 2008
- Movie Last updated 19 Mar 2008
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SHOWTIME
Nick Knight/Victoria Beckham
Filmed amidst the nuts-and-bolts of the photographic shoot, Showtime is a sneak preview of Nick Knight’s editorial for the April 2008 edition of British Vogue starring the indomitably glamorous Victoria Beckham.
- Project Blog Last updated 6 Mar 2008
- Contributors Last updated 5 Mar 2008
- Movie Last updated 5 Mar 2008
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NATALIA V
Nick Knight/Natalia Vodianova
In tandem with his shoot for supermodel Natalia V’s guest-edited issue of Russian Vogue, Nick Knight captured a short film featuring the world-famous model doing what she does best.
- Project Blog Last updated 27 Feb 2008
- Contributors Last updated 27 Feb 2008
- Movie Last updated 27 Feb 2008
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COLLECTION HOMME A/W 2008-09
Yves Saint Laurent
To show his Autumn/Winter 2008 menswear collection for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, creative director Stefano Pilati broke the mould of the traditional catwalk show by presenting his collection via film. Originally displayed on a triptych of screens, the film plays across three frames of action and is here shown in its entirety. Romantic, ethereal and yet technologically complex, the film manages to evoke the twin dynamics of familiarity and formality and the tension of old and new constantly at play in Pilati’s offerings for men.
- Project Blog Last updated 24 Jan 2008
- Movie Last updated 24 Jan 2008
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MEN IN TIGHTS
Nick Knight/Bernhard Willhelm
The latest designer electing to create a film to showcase his fashion collection, Bernhard Willhelm will be in the studio on Sunday 13th and Monday 14th January 2008 with Nick Knight, creating a movie to be previewed at the Menswear shows in Paris on the 20th of this month. Of course, we can't say too much about the collection, but Bernhard has supplied us with the working title "Men in Tights" so you can draw your own conclusions and tune in from 11:30 to get a load of the nylon and lycra action on set!
- Film Last updated 1 Feb 2008
- Contributors Last updated 10 Jan 2008
- Project Blog Last updated 10 Jan 2008
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FLOWERS FOR KATE
Nick Knight/Kate Moss/Jonathan Kaye
Say it with flowers: on 12 & 13 December 2007 we photographed a story for V magazine featuring the one and only Kate Moss. SHOWstudio offered its viewers an unique chance to be part of the shoot by sending a personal floral greeting to Kate.
- Movie Last updated 11 Apr 2008
- Poetry in Motion Last updated 11 Dec 2007
- Deliveries Last updated 3 Dec 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 15 Nov 2007
- Contributors Last updated 15 Nov 2007
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24HRS
Nick Knight/Stefano Pilati
A unique chance for SHOWstudio viewers to influence the narrative of a high-end fashion shoot to create a catalogue and film for Yves Saint Laurent’s forthcoming ‘Edition 24’ collection. SHOWstudio is inviting submissions for a twenty-four-scene screenplay that will form the basis of a twenty-four hour, live fashion broadcast, over the night of 15 July, during which Nick Knight and Stefano Pilati will transform your ideas into imagery. The names of those authors selected will be credited in the final film to screen on SHOWstudio and YSL.com!
- Catalogue Last updated 6 Nov 2007
- Movies Last updated 25 Oct 2007
- Competition Last updated 25 Oct 2007
- Call Us Last updated 13 Jul 2007
- Live Event Last updated 12 Jul 2007
- Treatments Last updated 11 Jul 2007
- Brief: Political, Philosophical and Social Statements Last updated 29 Jun 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 19 Jun 2007
- Contributors Last updated 19 Jun 2007
- Brief Last updated 19 Jun 2007
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DESIGNER PURIKURA
Showcasing a new genre of amateur print photography that has emerged from South East Asia over the past decade - Purikura- we have invited a Tokyo-based team to interpret the Autumn/Winter collections using nothing more than a souped-up Photo-Me booth. See how photographer Kenji Hirasawa, stylist Takumi Iwata, illustrators Kai Ohta and Yumiko Suzuki envisage model Ayako Hayamizu in looks by Givenchy, Martin Margiela, Balenciaga, Comme des Garcons, Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane, Christian Dior, Chanel, Prada and Yves Saint Laurent in their own inimitable way in five, fun film shorts that detail the amazing construction of the resultant 'fashion spreads'.
- Collections Report Last updated 16 Oct 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 12 Oct 2007
- Contributors Last updated 12 Oct 2007
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READINGS
Hussein Chalayan/Nick Knight/Antony Hegarty
To present a collection about the dynamic between icons and their audience Hussein Chalayan is staging a live broadcast of a film shoot in collaboration with Nick Knight, Antony Hegarty and the global SHOWstudio audience. We are soliciting musical directions from SHOWstudio viewers for Antony to perform during the broadcast at the end of September. The resultant footage will create the soundtrack and a film, so it's your big chance to show in Paris at last!
- Lookbook Last updated 22 Oct 2007
- Movie Last updated 3 Oct 2007
- Shoot Last updated 25 Sep 2007
- Interview: Hussein Chalayan Last updated 13 Sep 2007
- Audio Brief Last updated 11 Sep 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 10 Sep 2007
- Contributors Last updated 10 Sep 2007
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BONED
Nick Knight/Alister Mackie
Invited by Another Man magazine to shoot men’s underwear for its A/W '07–08 issue, Nick Knight and Alister Mackie took inspiration from imagery Robert Mapplethorpe and Horst P. Horst, only translating the monochrome power of their stills into colour. Featuring new work by a range of designers, the results offer a fresh perspective on men’s underwear, its representation in fashion imagery and on masculinity itself. Boned also features a film of the shoot, an accompanying essay by Shaun Cole and clips and interviews from the live broadcast.
- Movie Last updated 28 Sep 2007
- Gallery Last updated 28 Sep 2007
- Plain, uninteresting and out of sight? Men’s Underwear Last updated 28 Sep 2007
- Contributors Last updated 29 May 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 29 May 2007
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THE REPLENISHING BODY
Ross Phillips
An interactive video installation created in collaboration with Evian, The Replenishing Body consists of a giant grid of screens which can each record a short loop of film. Participants can create and orchestrate a giant composite moving creature, or simply a collage of moving snapshots by recording a close-up section of their body part. The Project will comprise two parts. First, guests will be invited to the studio to trial run the installation and film themselves in a series of abstract portraits. To commence the second part of the project, Sunday 16 September will see the installation move to Beyond the Valley gallery on Newburgh Street where SHOWstudio welcomes you to try the installation for yourselves.
- Nick's Picks Last updated 3 Oct 2007
- Polaroids Last updated 26 Sep 2007
- Celebrity Gallery Last updated 10 Sep 2007
- Public Gallery Last updated 4 Sep 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 29 Aug 2007
- Contributors Last updated 29 Aug 2007
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HENRY & AGYNESS - LONDON, MILAN, PARIS
For London, Milan and Paris fashion weeks SS’08, Henry Holland and Agyness Deyn gallantly take up the challenge of bearing the SHOWstudio picture phone. The British designer and model who have known each other since childhood juggle a busy schedule of shows and parties in almost a month of live fashion coverage.
- Project Blog Last updated 10 Sep 2007
- Contributors Last updated 10 Sep 2007
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THE FUNERAL OF NEW ORLEANS - PART ONE
AItor Throup/Jez Tozer
Launching simultaneously with his first on-schedule catwalk presentation as part of the MAN showcase at London Fashion Week, watch menswear designer Aitor Throup's film collaboration with photographer Jez Tozer, The Funeral of New Orleans - Part One. A narrative response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Throup's collection tells the story of how five members of a marching band protect themselves and their instruments, which are interpreted through the cut and structure of the garments. See how Throup's acclaimed research process lends itself to motion image.
- Project Blog Last updated 10 Sep 2007
- Contributors Last updated 10 Sep 2007
- Film Last updated 10 Sep 2007
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080 BARCELONA
Andrew Gow
It has been said that Catalonia’s longstanding separatist identity is best characterised by its offerings to the creative arts. The capital, Barcelona, has been ascribed a design temperament at odds with the rest of Spain – a mixture of ‘Reason and Craziness,’ Seny i Rauxa, that delights in the biomorphic forms of art-nouveau and surrealism yet which maintains an unwavering reputation for technical excellence. Fashion has been central to Barcelona’s mercantile history since the end of the eighteenth century with its textile industry maintaining it as a hub for high quality clothing production. From the 9th to the 11th July Andrew Gow will be there offering coverage of the city's fashion week.
- Project Blog Last updated 4 Jul 2007
- Contributors Last updated 4 Jul 2007