LOOKBOOK: Ebru Ercon

Ebru Ercon

Fresh from a stellar appearance at cult showcase Fashion East, designer Ebru Ercon came into the SHOWstudio live space to photograph her look book, enlisting the help of photographer Dennis Schoenberg and stylist Marie Chaix.

• Download  Last updated 5 Apr 2004
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Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Webcast] [Photoshoot] [Ebru Ercon]

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MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA A/W 2004-05

Nigel Bennett, Martin Margiela

An exclusive preview of Nigel Bennett's film showcase of the feted design group's A/W '04 womenswear collection. Presented in four parts, the film comprised conversations with five women, from which the themes of the main line collection and its intriguing Trompe L'Oeil prints were drawn.

• Images  Last updated 7 Apr 2004
• Contributors  Last updated 7 Apr 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [Paris Fashion Week] [Martin Margiela]

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ALICE DOES VEGAS

Alice Hawkins

Alice Hawkins travelled to Las Vegas to document the action as housemate Ashley Revell gambled his entire assets on one spin of the roulette table. Out of the casino, and Alice took to the streets, demonstrating her keen eye for everyday burlesque with the SHOWstudio picture phone.

• Images  Last updated 14 Apr 2004
• Contributors  Last updated 14 Apr 2004

Related Projects: [Photography] [Picture Phone] [Documentary] [Diary] [Alice Hawkins]

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H PROJECT

H Project, Zaza Rusadze

An experimental film collaboration between German fashion collaborative H Project and the film director Zaza Rusadze. Featured menswear by designers including: Bless, Samuel De Goede, Frank Leder, Raf Simons and Bernhard Willhelm.

• Movie  Last updated 15 Apr 2004
• Contributors  Last updated 15 Apr 2004

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SHOWS FILM WEEK S/S 2005: PETER JENSEN

Peter Jensen

The sole question that perplexed those lucky enough to have witnessed Peter Jensen's utterly memorable S/S '05 'show on ice' was 'why had nobody done it before?' Shot from the rink side, this short film, 'Tonya', captured the magic of the young skaters in action, showing fashion as it is experienced in everyday life; in motion.

The final film short in a week-long series marking how motion image has inveigled its way into mainstream modes of representing fashion, 'Tonya' celebrated the infamous ice queen who fell from grace and inspired Jensen's collection.

• Movie  Last updated 15 Apr 2004
• Contributors  Last updated 15 Apr 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Models] [London Fashion Week] [Peter Jensen]

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CIRCUS

Karni Arieli/Celia Topping

Photographer Arieli substituted skilled performing artists in place of models for this live fashion shoot featuring progressive knitwear design from the A/W '04 collections. She shot stills using the SHOWstudio picture phone as well as short motion-image clips of three different pairs of artists, referencing Eadweard Muybridge's chronographic sequences in their form.

• Images  Last updated 21 Apr 2004
• Contributors  Last updated 21 Apr 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Performance] [Picture Phone] [Photoshoot]

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IN CAMERA: Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Westwood

One of the most influential living fashion designers came into SHOWstudio to discuss subjects posed by viewers, ranging from her inspirations and techniques to her representation in the media and notions of iconoclasm.

• Interview  Last updated 21 Apr 2004
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Related Projects: [Interactive] [Live] [Interview] [Webchat] [Vivienne Westwood]

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LYRIC

3-D & Tom Hingston/Katy England & Bobby Gillespie/Jason Evans/Simon Foxton/Nick Knight, Kylie Minogue & Liz Neal/Felix Larher/Nick Rhodes & Gavin Elder/Julie Verhoeven

Thirteen leading creatives from the fields of fashion, music and image-making used mobile video phones to create a series of short 'motion clips' that visually interpreted the lyrics of their favoured song.

• Archive  Last updated 26 Apr 2004
• Contributors  Last updated 26 Apr 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Music] [Picture Phone] [Celebrity] [Jason Evans] [Bobby Gillespie] [Kylie Minogue] [Katy England] [Julie Verhoeven] [Tom Hingston] [Massive Attack]

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HYERES FESTIVAL 2004

Penny Martin

As a recognised showcase for new talent, the Festival International des Arts de la Mode à Hyeres brought together ten young fashion designers and photographers under the patronage of an international jury. SHOWstudio's Penny Martin reported from the festival in its nineteenth year.

• Images  Last updated 28 Apr 2004
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Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Penny Martin] [Picture Phone] [Documentary] [Diary]

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SALES, SOLDES, SALDI

Richard Rhys-Thomas/Paul Hetherington

Future Vintage! 'Try on' the enduring fashion statements from the Spring/Summer '03 collections before picking them up cheap while stocks last.

• Interactive  Last updated 29 Apr 2004
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Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Collections] [Paul Hetherington] [Graphic Design] [Illustration]

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SCREEN TEST

Duncan Cheetham/Lisa Mustafa

A one-day, live shoot in which print designer Duncan Cheetham screen printed from five of his own specially commissioned designs onto seven original outfits. Make-up artist Lisa Mustafa took the print designs and colours as her palette and inspiration.

• Webcast  Last updated 30 Apr 2004
• Contributors  Last updated 30 Apr 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Performance] [Models] [Beauty] [Photoshoot] [Textile Prints]

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BANQUET

In May 2004, a complement of mystery guests were invited to participate
in this twenty-two-course meal, prepared by the gastronomic alchemist Heston Blumenthal and photographed by Nick Knight for a visually decadent W magazine shoot. Not only can you now listen in on the diners' conversations in the Audio Webcast, you can also see what's on their plates as they consume the challenging courses in the Interactive Menu. Coinciding with the magazine's publication, this broadcast finally revealed the secret identities of all celebrity diners present in a sequence of unseen pictures from the shoot. In a final flourish, Blumenthal generously offered the coveted recipe for his trademark Smoked Bacon and Egg icecream, available to you as a T-shirt or apron
design via the Recipe Download.

• Audio Webcast  Last updated 21 May 2004
• Interactive Menu  Last updated 21 May 2004
• Pictures  Last updated 21 May 2004
• Recipe Download  Last updated 21 May 2004
• Contributors  Last updated 21 May 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Audio] [Nick Knight] [Models] [Photoshoot] [Liberty Ross] [Jonathan Kaye] [Food] [Alice Hawkins] [NOKI]

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POWER OF WITCHES

Comme des Gar�ons

Legendary designer Rei Kawakubo opened up her highly intellectual creative process for consideration in this unprecedented collaboration with SHOWstudio. Following the production of a photographic shoot from its inception to its delivery to Another Magazine for its September issue, this project demonstrated how the many creatives involved in making fashion imagery responded to the overarching conceptual direction of the celebrated Comme des Garçons visionary.

For the initial, three-day phase of the project, photographer Nick Knight and stylist Alister Mackie interpreted the emotional theatre of the Autumn/Winter '04 Commes des Garçons collection with its attenuated jacket sleeves. From there, follow the post-production of the resultant photographs in a dialogue between Knight and his imaging collaborator Allan Finamore as they extended the visual parameters of the pictures taken on set via digital manipulation. Finally, Kawakubo added the 'hand of the artist', imbuing the final images with her individual response to them.

A live discussion forum ran throughout the project, giving SHOWstudio viewers the opportunity to ask questions of the creatives active during each stage.

• Webcast  Last updated 28 May 2004
• Picture Diary  Last updated 28 May 2004
• Post Production  Last updated 28 May 2004
• Q&A  Last updated 28 May 2004
• Contributors  Last updated 28 May 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Magazines] [Interview] [Photoshoot] [Digital Image-Making] [Comme des Garcons] [Post Production]

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TECHNONATURE

Nick Knight/Kate Phelan/Stevie Stewart/David Holah

Kate Phelan and the Vogue team entered the SHOWstudio live space to shoot the prevailing themes from the A/W '04 collections. Computer-generated prints from Balenciaga and Giles Deacon, and computer-aided cutting and draping techniques from Hussein Chalayan, Gucci and Lanvin affirmed fashion's preoccupation with technology at the time.

• Webcast  Last updated 7 Jun 2004
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Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Webcast] [Collections] [Models] [Gemma Ward] [Photoshoot]

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FREEDOM OF LOVE

Brad Pitt

During a recent shoot for Vanity Fair, Nick Knight created a number of
on-set scenarios for intriguing visual and aural actions for subject Brad
Pitt to perform, so as to engage the actor in 'pique' performance. 'Freedom
of Love' is a short film which captured Pitt in action during the shoot,
energetically painting onto a huge blow up of his own face, and adding
caption, and contemplatively reading surrealist poetry. Pitt reads from
André Breton's poem 'Freedom of Love', a one stanza, sixty-line homage to his wife. The poem cites a beautiful litany of comparisons for her physical attributes, deftly playing with language that eludes any commonplace romantic imaging, instead presenting uncanny metaphors. Breton was the provocative, passionate leader of the avant-garde literary and artistic movement Surrealism, who believed in 'revolution of the mind', and in the 'marvellous' - dazzling combinations of words or visual images,
spontaneously created by automatic processes of the mind.

• Movie  Last updated 10 Jun 2004
• Contributors  Last updated 10 Jun 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Performance] [Photoshoot] [Menswear] [Brad Pitt] [Poetry] [Alister Mackie]

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GRADUATE FASHION WEEK

Mauro Cocilio

Photographer Mauro Cocilio took the SHOWstudio picture phone backstage (and front) to document the proceedings of the thirteenth Graduate Fashion Week. Thirty colleges from up and down the UK were screened by a panel of industry luminaries at the Gala Awards ceremony in London's Battersea Park where the winning designers-of-the-future were announced.

• Images  Last updated 11 Jun 2004
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Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Picture Phone] [Documentary]

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TRANSGRESSING FASHION

Lucy Orta

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 & Albert Museum in London. The event was recorded in both image and sound and, for those wishing to participate in the statement, a protest t-shirt design is available for download.

• Action  Last updated 24 Jun 2004
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• Editioned Protest Garment  Last updated 24 Jun 2004
• Interview  Last updated 24 Jun 2004
• Interactive  Last updated 24 Jun 2004
• Contributors  Last updated 24 Jun 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Politics] [Performance] [Art]

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TAKING LIBERTY'S

An interactive camera/sensor was placed in the window of the Regent Street Liberty's store to capture the 'looks' of over 17,000 participants during the period from 14 February - 4 April 2004. All the images were posted on SHOWstudio, including England's shortlist of 10 finalists - one of whom won £300 worth of Liberty's vouchers.

• Winner  Last updated 26 Jun 2004
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BILLIE JEAN

Kate Moss/Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

Intimate, spontaneous, low-tech and informal. These are not words one might associate with the work of legendary photographic duo van Lamsweerde & Matadin. Not only did this film short reveal the more lighthearted aspects of their shoots, however, as Kate Moss re-enacts Michael Jackson's classic dance routine, it demonstrated the photographers' working process as van Lamsweerde audibly encourages Moss to strike the playful poses for which this partnership has become known.

• Movie  Last updated 14 Jul 2004
• Text  Last updated 14 Jul 2004
• Contributors  Last updated 14 Jul 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Models] [Music] [Celebrity] [Kate Moss] [Dance] [Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin]

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TESTOSTERONE

Toyin/Nicola Formichetti

The Burberry Boys battled it out with the Kim Jones gang in this A/W '04 west side story. The Doi provided the soundtrack to Toyin's graceful study in teen angst and masculinity.

• Movie  Last updated 23 Jul 2004
• Contributors  Last updated 23 Jul 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Music] [Menswear] [Toyin] [Kim Jones] [Burberry] [Nicola Formichetti]

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