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TOKYO STYLE CLASH
Tokyo Style Clash was your chance to battle it out and really see if you were 'HOT or NOT?'. From the 14th until the 16th October, a roster of photographers were set up in the front window of BEAMS' store in Harajuku, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo, waiting to take the portraits of anyone who thought they might be a style contender! All photographs were then used to create an interactive game to be played on SHOWstudio by our viewers and an invited panel including Undercover designer Jun Takahashi, Nick Knight, great Dane Peter Jensen, model Lily Cole and Paris fashion princess Sarah Colette. So it was over to our celebrity panel and the SHOWstudio viewers to play the game to decide who really had the hottest look in Tokyo!!
- Game Last updated 20 Oct 2006
- Project Blog Last updated 11 Oct 2006
- Panelists Last updated 30 Sep 2006
- Event Last updated 26 Sep 2006
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PHONECARTE: Lily Cole
Model Lily Cole acted as your insider guide to Paris Fashion Week. Phoned in directly from backstage at the shows, prior fittings at the atelier, en route to the venues and afterwards at the hotel, each intimate BLOG entry communicated that unexpected and evocative aspect of fashion reportage: the sound of fashion week.
- Voicemails Last updated 28 Sep 2006
- Contributors Last updated 28 Sep 2006
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TRANSMISSIONS
Various artists including: Antony and the Johnsons/Ei Arakawa/assume vivid astro focus/Cezary Bodzianowski/Pablo Bronstein/Lali Chetwynd/Martin Creed/Enrico David/Jutta Koether/Linder/Los Super Elegantes/Jonathan Meese/No Bra/Peter Saville/Marcus Werner-Hed/Stephen Willats/Cerith Wyn Evans/
'Transmissions presents a diaristic exploration of the upsurge in performance-related practice that is continuing to suffuse the contemporary art world. The performative elements many artists are using as a strategy within their larger working method are creating a fascinating discourse between music, performance and artworks. A series of documents and collaborations on SHOWstudio will capture a portrait of this scene though artist-captured footage, short film, ephemera and live imagery.
- Project Blog Last updated 27 Jul 2005
- Contributors Last updated 25 Jul 2005
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TWELVE DAYS
Nick Knight/Gemma Ward/Giles Deacon/Christopher Kane/Marios Schwab/Rebecca & Mike/Fred Butler/Paul Bruty/Simon Foxton/Alexis Marguerite Teplin
Over three days, 7, 8 & 11 December 2006 twelve friends of SHOWstudio came down to the live space to create one of 12 Days of Christmas videos, each decorating a Nick Knight silhouette of Gemma Ward with Swarovski crystal. In addition to webcasting the live event, each contribution was filmed from above and the footage was edited into a special film that was offered on SHOWstudio on each of the twelve days of Christmas (26 December – 6 January). Starting 7 December, set up day, viewers watched inspired hands at work to get a sneak preview of the final result.
- Live Event Last updated 7 Dec 2006
- Project Blog Last updated 6 Dec 2006
- Contributors Last updated 6 Dec 2006
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BAL MASQUÉ
Nick Knight
Nick Knight was chosen to receive the prestigious Möet & Chandon Fashion Tribute 2006. To mark the occasion, he staged a lavish and spectacular Masked Ball on Tuesday 24th October. The event was attended by a wealth of international personalities from the world of fashion, photography, film, music, and art who had worked with Nick throughout his 25+ year career. The full proceedings were broadcast live on SHOWstudio and the run up to the event was documented in detail on the site. Nick challenged ten designers and one stylist with whom he had worked most closely to design an outfit, complete with mask for a ‘muse’ of their choosing, who would wear it to the ball. In addition, there was a unique opportunity for two SHOWstudio viewers to win a much-coveted ticket by designing an outfit and mask for our ‘You Shall Go to the Ball’ competition. All twelve designs were auctioned after the event, with proceeds going The Princes Trust.
- The Venue Last updated 20 Oct 2006
- Schedule Last updated 20 Oct 2006
- Who's The Muse? Last updated 11 Sep 2006
- You Shall Go To The Ball Last updated 11 Sep 2006
- Project Blog Last updated 31 Jul 2006
- Contributors Last updated 31 Jul 2006
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NAOMI
Nick Knight/Naomi Campbell
As a Christmas treat SHOWstudio viewers had a unique opportunity to get to grips with the physicality of one of the most successful, beautiful and, er, topical of the Supermodels: Miss Naomi Campbell! Viewers watched Nick Knight scan that legendary hard body using cutting edge 3-D scanning technology live on set. The event was streamed on the SHOWstudio site, providing the chance to see the creation of fashion imagery, live in the making.
- Gallery Last updated 26 Jul 2007
- Project Description Last updated 5 Apr 2007
- 3-D Renders Last updated 27 Mar 2007
- Video Briefs Last updated 26 Jan 2007
- Event Gallery Last updated 22 Dec 2006
- Live Event Last updated 19 Dec 2006
- Project Blog Last updated 18 Dec 2006
- Contributors Last updated 18 Dec 2006
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48 GIRLS
Craig McDean
Created from footage captured during a marathon shoot for the September 2006 issue of Paris Vogue, Craig McDean’s film '48 Girls’ features forty-eight motion portraits of the most important models working today. From the ones you know of old -Karen Elson, Jessica Stam, Shalom and Gemma Ward- to the ones who only recently made your acquaintance -Du Juan, Solange or Irina Lazareanu- each sitting is captured from McDean’s perspective, providing a revealing account of the various ways a model interacts with their photographer.
- Project Blog Last updated 11 Jan 2007
- Contributors Last updated 10 Jan 2007
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HAUTE COUTURE S/S 2007
Penny Martin
For the first time in four years, the SHOWstudio Picture Phone journeyed to Paris Haute Couture Week, to document the unconstrained aesthetic ambition, extraordinary luxury and fastidious workmanship of the most exclusive end of the fashion industry. Sent directly from the opulent venues, taxis en route to the shows and after les defilés, Penny Martin captured the magic of the most outrageously imaginative and decadent of fashion weeks.
- Project Blog Last updated 18 Jan 2007
- Contributors Last updated 18 Jan 2007
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LONDON FASHION WEEK A/W 2007-08
For the shows of Autumn/Winter '07/08, Penny’s brand of guerrilla phone reportage was beefed up by a newly appointed two-man army. HQ Girl Friday, Ingrid Hass, and MOET photographer-cum-party-flaneur, Clive Booth, joined her as they journeyed through the pageantry and pandemonium that is London Fashion Week. This season, produced the same quick-fire show commentaries and first-hand video footage as well as unprecedented high-resolution photos from the front line. Highlights included a peek into the glittering netherworld of Gareth Pugh, coverage of favourites Christopher Kane and Giles as well as our obligatory tour of all the most important tent corners.
- Project Blog Last updated 5 Feb 2007
- Contributors Last updated 5 Feb 2007
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CAN YOU HELP?
Nick Knight
Jefferson Hack asked Nick Knight to rework his original cover shot for the first issue of ANOTHER magazine and Nick requested your help. The results were exhibited at Colette, Paris at the end of February 2007.
- Project Blog Last updated 26 Feb 2007
- Contributors Last updated 26 Feb 2007
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BEASTING
Nick Knight/Simon Foxton
Invited by Arena Hommes + magazine to photograph the highlights of John Galliano’s outlandish Autumn/Winter ’07-8 collection, Nick Knight and Simon Foxton were in the studio over two days, staging one of the explosive action shoots that are the hallmark of their longstanding creative collaboration. From 11:00hrs (UK time), the cameras streamed live coverage of Galliano’s prehistoric fashions, giving those with a penchant for woolen Minotaurs, skintight briefs and Samurai swordsmen an opportunity to indulge their tastes for the primeval and the preposterous in equal measure.
- Project Blog Last updated 20 Feb 2007
- Contributors Last updated 20 Feb 2007
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PHONECARTE: Irina Lazareanu
For this season’s PHONECARTE, chanteuse and model of the moment Irina Lazareanu led you through Paris Fashion Week as she dialed in direct from between the shows and told us all her fashion secrets.
- Voicemails Last updated 22 Feb 2007
- Contributors Last updated 22 Feb 2007
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PARIS FASHION WEEK A/W 2007-08
Week 4 in the show season meant only one thing: that Paris was ready to unfurl herself to a global audience of fashion pilgrims yet again. SHOWstudio brought the city of pleasure and gold to your screens as Penny and our photographer Benjamin Seroussi stormed the Palais Royale, teetered along the left bank and on through the heavenly seraglios of Chanel, Dior and McQueen.
- Project Blog Last updated 20 Feb 2007
- Contributors Last updated 20 Feb 2007
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ICE CREAM
Nick Knight
Caught on film during Nick Knight’s photo shoot for the 49th issue of Visionaire's 'Decades' collaboration back in June 2006, Ice Cream features London model Lily Donaldson wearing pieces from the Maison Martin Margiela Archive, posing with some of the season’s favourite ephemera – including a rhapsody of metallic balloons and a flurry of dry ice. Watch the movie, edited by Ruth Hogben, to see how fashion’s current preoccupations with hard luminosity and liquescence are brought to life in another of our moving fashion montages and see the gallery for the prints that appeared in the magazine last summer.
- Project Blog Last updated 9 Mar 2007
- Contributors Last updated 9 Mar 2007
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JAPAN FASHION WEEK A/W 2007-08
Penny Martin
Little known on the western hemisphere, Japan Fashion Week spent its fourth season in Tokyo in March 2007. Marking a new stop in SHOWstudio’s fashion itinerary, Penny Martin was there to uncover the creative output of a country whose aesthetic legacy has informed some of the most striking evocations of form to be displayed on the global catwalk.
- Contributors Last updated 8 Mar 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 8 Mar 2007
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LE MAUVAIS GARCON
John Galliano
In this exclusive film for SHOWstudio, John Galliano lets us in on how he really makes his fashions. With Morgane Dubled starring as la merveilleuse ingénue and Monsieur Galliano as the eponymous mauvais garcon, witness the creative process of the atelier in all its histrionic glory before the showing of his A/W ’07 collection. Doctored with cigarette burns and jaundiced film reel for a straight-from-the-archive-shelf charm, this self-effacing film re-enacts the common mythologies that enshroud the figure of the fashion designer: as a fastidious creator of clothing and fantasy. Toying with many of these received ideas, the film is made in the parodic style that M. Galliano does better than anyone else.
- Project Blog Last updated 30 Mar 2007
- Contributors Last updated 30 Mar 2007
- Movie Last updated 30 Mar 2007
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REVUE
On April 11 2007 SHOWstudio staged a live ‘happening’ in association with PlayStation 3, viewed by an on-site audience of fifty SHOWstudio viewers at a secret location and a global audience via webcast.
The SHOWstudio Revue created a dynamic performance space in which six different ‘zones’ were defined by dramatic or musical action. The project also drew a live audience into the complicity of the director/performer relationship by asking each member to record the event on camera. Excerpts of the footage were screened live using PlayStation 3s throughout the night and were included in the editing of an exclusive film unveiled by the SHOWstudio team later that month.
- Guest List Last updated 2 Apr 2007
- Audition Gallery Last updated 2 Apr 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 1 Mar 2007
- Contributors Last updated 1 Mar 2007
- Submissions Last updated 1 Mar 2007
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VOLTA
Bjork/Nick Knight/Bernhard Willhelm
The release of a new Björk album can only mean two things: new musical territory, the likes of which the world has never experienced, and a cover image to match. 'Volta', Björk’s sixth studio album, was released on 7 May 2007 and its cover image, shot by Nick Knight, certainly was unlike anything we’ve ever seen! From April, we offered you a sneak peek in advance of the launch with a special download jigsaw: an opportunity, on completion, to possess your very own, giant Nick Knight/Björk/Bernhard Willhelm original.
The overall image was composed of 48 pieces, 34 of which have image content and 14 left blank. Each segment was given in random order, leaving viewers to piece the overall image together themselves. Only one piece could be downloaded on a single day but the next was waiting for you without skipping a segment, which meant if you missed a few days, the next piece would always be the next in the jigsaw chronology. You may have just about worked out the image puzzle by the time you bought the album!
- Download Gallery Last updated 26 Jun 2007
- Download Last updated 12 Apr 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 10 Apr 2007
- Contributors Last updated 10 Apr 2007
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SKIN
&Son. (Simon Foxton/Nick Griffiths)
Skin was an undertaking by the company &Son, the creative consultancy run by stylists Simon Foxton and Nick Griffiths; a commercial project that rethought traditional advertising using motion image. Ten models from a range of mixed ethnic backgrounds -five male and five female- were filmed wearing pieces from adidas’s new ‘Materials of the World’ line, a collection influenced by the indigenous fabrics of different world cultures. Over a period of ten days beginning on May 10, the living portraits were also displayed in the windows of a Curtain Road shop front in London’s Shoreditch where the attention of passers by was tested to register that it was film and not stills that were seeing. In this sense, Skin was a subtle development out of Simon Foxton's previous Sittings: Thirty Men project of 2005 and a handsome addition to SHOWstudio's ongoing study of living fashion portraiture.
- Portraits Last updated 1 May 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 1 May 2007
- Contributors Last updated 1 May 2007
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THE NOMINEES
Nick Knight
For the 2007 CFDA Awards, America’s most prestigious fashion awards ceremony, Nick Knight was asked to make a film featuring the nominees for the Best Womenswear Designer category, a list that included Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler and Oscar de la Renta. On Friday 20 April SHOWstudio broadcasted the making of the film from a London-based studio, starring model Agyness Deyn who wore creations from each designer’s last two seasons’ collections. The finished film was later shown on the SHOWstudio website at the time of the CFDA awards ceremony in June.
- Movie Last updated 4 Jun 2007
- Contributors Last updated 18 Apr 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 18 Apr 2007