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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
Related Projects: [Ross Phillips] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Art] [Installation]
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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
Related Projects: [Photography] [Paris Fashion Week] [Agyness Deyn] [Henry Holland] [Spring/Summer 08]
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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
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Jez Tozer] [Aitor Throup]
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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
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Andrew Gow] [Barcelona Fashion Week]
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PITTI IMMAGINE UOMO 72
Featuring 651 exhibitors and 760 brands, the Pitti Immagine Uomo show has opened the trading calendar for mens contemporary fashion and textiles for 67 seasons. Writer Hywel Davies was in Florence to report on the exhibition’s highlights as well as to offer coverage on the mens international clothing and accessories collections.
- Project Blog Last updated 13 Jun 2007
- Contributors Last updated 13 Jun 2007
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Menswear] [Textiles] [Hywel Davies] [Florence] [Exhibition]
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ARNHEM
Fred Butler
For the first time SHOWstudio did live coverage of the Arnhem Fashion Biennale, possibly one of the best places in Europe to see what’s happening in the world of art and fashion crossover. The exposition, which took the theme of ‘Happy Fashion’ for 2007, showcased a host of designers, some new, some more established, in a highly unusual ‘multi-sensory’ setting. Art Director Fred Butler was there to send us all her impressions of the event via picture phone.
- Contributors Last updated 29 May 2007
- Project Blog Last updated 18 May 2007
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Film] [Art] [Art Direction] [Fred Butler]
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REMEMBRANCE
Viewpoint on the creative legacies of designer Steven Robinson (1968–2007) and fashion director Isabella Blow (1958–2007)
- Project Blog Last updated 24 May 2007
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Steven Robinson] [Isabella Blow] [Andrew Gow]
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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
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Design] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Adam Mufti] [Marc Jacobs] [Oscar de la Renta] [Agyness Deyn] [Miranda Joyce] [Proenza Schouler]
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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
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Nick Griffiths] [Adidas]
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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
Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Downloadable] [Bjork] [Bernhard Willhelm]
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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
Related Projects: [Live] [Ross Phillips] [Performance] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Music] [Paul Bruty] [Playstation]
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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
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [John Galliano]
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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
Related Projects: [Penny Martin] [Autumn/Winter 07-08] [Japan fashion Week]
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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
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Jonathan Kaye] [Sam McKnight] [Martin Margiela] [Val Garland] [Lily Donaldson] [Ruth Hogben] [Katy Barker]
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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
Related Projects: [Penny Martin] [Paris Fashion Week] [Christian Dior] [Chanel] [Miu Miu] [John Galliano] [Boudicca] [Alexander McQueen] [Benjamin Seroussi] [Jean Paul Gaultier] [Autumn/Winter 07-08] [Louis Vuitton] [Chloe] [Giambattista Valli] [Sonia Rykiel] [Balenciage] [Yves]
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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
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Audio] [Models] [Diary] [Irina Lazareanu]
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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
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [John Galliano] [Autumn/Winter 07-08]
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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
Related Projects: [Interactive] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Sam McKnight] [Katy England] [Val Garland] [Paul Bruty] [Jefferson Hack] [Collette]
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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
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Magazines] [Gareth Pugh] [Penny Martin] [Jens Laugesen] [London Fashion Week] [Giles] [Marc Jacobs] [Christopher Kane] [Autumn/Winter 07-08] [Clive Booth] [Ingrid Hass] [Aitor Throup] [MAN] [Central St. Martins]
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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
Related Projects: [Photography] [Penny Martin] [Christian Dior] [Chanel] [John Galliano] [Boudicca] [Stephen Jones] [Martin Margiela] [Haute Couture] [Givenchy] [Spring/Summer 07] [Benjamin Seroussi] [Armani] [Jean Paul Gaultier] [Christian Lacroix] [Elie Saab]