ADVENT

Rita Ackermann/David Bailey/Bless/Heston Blumenthal/Weebl and Bob/Hussein Chalayan/David Chipperfield/Lily Cole/Jason Evans/Simon Foxton/John Galliano/Bay Garnett/Alice Hawkins/Nick Knight/Glen Luchford/Sarah Morris/Kate Moss/Aimee Mullins/Alice Rawsthorn/Viktor & Rolf/Liberty Ross/Peter Saville/Dita Von Teese/Julie Verhoeven

Twenty-four SHOWstudio contributors made the countdown to Christmas all the more pleasurable by confiding their most desired gift in this audio advent calendar.

• Advent Last updated 24 Dec 2004
• Contributors Last updated 24 Dec 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Models] [Celebrity]

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ALWAYS AND FOREVER

Maria Chen Pascual

In a twofold presentation of short films and downloadable t-shirt design, re-immerse yourself in the Gothic Romanticism that Pascual's imagery evokes.

• Movie Last updated 20 Nov 2003
• T-shirt Last updated 20 Nov 2003
• Contributors Last updated 20 Nov 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [Downloadable]

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AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT

Bay Garnett

Political, profane or plain picture-perfect: download and print our exclusive SHOWstudio T-shirt designs.
Viewers had the chance to return over a number of weeks for T-Shirts from artists, designers, photographers and celebrities including Maria Chen Pascual, Frank Leder and Jonny Davis.

• The T-shirt Essay Last updated 15 Feb 2005
• Contributors Last updated 15 Feb 2005

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Art] [Art Direction] [Downloadable] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Celebrity]

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ANGEL

Nick Knight/Alexander McQueen/Bj?Danny Brown

Spellbinding sound and image project generated from Nick Knight and Alexander McQueen's installation for La Beautéin Avignon, with an exclusive Bjork soundtrack.

• Text Last updated 21 Nov 2001
• Movie Last updated 21 Nov 2001
• Documentary Last updated 21 Nov 2001
• Interactive Last updated 21 Nov 2001
• Contributors Last updated 21 Nov 2001

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Daniel Brown] [Music] [Alexander McQueen] [Animation]

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AUSTRIAN FASHION WEEK

Penny Martin

SHOWstudio took their Picture Phone along to document the proceedings at Austrian Fashion Week. View Gala Awards ceremonies, a visit to the Juergen Teller show at Vienna's Kunsthalle and a series of studio visits with designers that included fabrics interseason and Petar Petrov.

• Images Last updated 21 Sep 2004
• Contributors Last updated 21 Sep 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Penny Martin] [Paul Hetherington] [Picture Phone] [Diary]

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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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BARBIE KILLER IN PLAYLAND

Félix Larher

Did the bright, young things ever make it through Playland? Barbie Killer's celebrity cull took its toll in Félix Larher's heroic fantasy.

• Movie Last updated 10 Apr 2002
• Interview Last updated 10 Apr 2002
• Contributors Last updated 10 Apr 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Animation]

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BEAUTY OF TECHNOLOGY

Hamish Morrow/Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton-Jones/UVA/Thierry Dreyfus

Live imagery projected onto models to create 'virtual' clothing and prints at Hamish Morrow's S/S '04 collection unveiling.

• Live Broadcast Last updated 23 Sep 2003
• Interview Last updated 23 Sep 2003
• Contributors Last updated 23 Sep 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Performance] [Collections] [Digital Image-Making] [London Fashion Week] [Hamish Morrow] [Nick Thornton-Jones and Warren Du Preez]

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BELLWETHER

Alexander McQueen

To mark Alexander McQueen's CBE award, the visionary designer illustrated the showstoppers from his 2003 collections in a film that documented the formidable technique at their core.

• Movies Last updated 21 Jul 2003
• Contributors Last updated 21 Jul 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Collections] [Models] [Paris Fashion Week] [Illustration] [Alexander McQueen] [History]

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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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BLACK

Alexander McQueen/Michael Clark/Kate Moss

View an ambitious re-staging of many of the defining moments of McQueen's legendary fashion collection shows. Look out for a crowd-pleasing dance duet by Michael Clark and Kate Moss.

• Movie Last updated 1 Sep 2004
• Interactive Last updated 1 Sep 2004
• Webcast Last updated 1 Sep 2004
• Pictures Last updated 1 Sep 2004
• Contributors Last updated 1 Sep 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Live] [Film] [Collections] [Music] [Picture Phone] [Alexander McQueen] [Kate Moss] [Michael Clark] [Dance]

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BLUE MOVIE

Simon Pentleton/Josephene Soughan

Were these girls performing in a retro erotic film or posing for a contemporary fashion shoot? Seductive shots replaced narrative in a film that defined the ambiguous space between the cinematic sequence and the fashion story.

• Movie Last updated 21 Nov 2001
• Images Last updated 21 Nov 2001
• Contributors Last updated 21 Nov 2001

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Art] [Erotica]

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BRING & BUY

Ann-Sofie Back/Jodie Barnes/Judy Blame/Namalee Bolle/Tal Brener/Francesca Burns/Naomi Campbell/Cathy Edwards/Katy England/Nicola Formichetti/Simon Foxton/Katie Grand/Leo Gregory/Paul Hetherington/Princess Julia/Jacob K/Jonathan Kaye/Nick Knight/Erika Kurihara/Karolina Kurkova/Alister Mackie/Penny Martin/Erin O?onnor/NOKI/Nancy Rhode/Sarah Richardson/KT Shillingford/Jamie Surman

SHOWstudio recruited viewers' help in prepping a major project with i-D magazine, for the October 2005 issue. We asked you for your favourite item of clothing, which was to be customised and styled by a leading stylist, modelled by a stellar cast of fashion luminaries and curiosities, photographed by Nick Knight for i-D magazine and then auctioned for charity on eBay to raise money for Oxfam!

• Auction Last updated 7 Jul 2005
• Live Shoot Last updated 7 Jul 2005
• Polaroid Gallery Last updated 7 Jul 2005
• Viewer Submissions Last updated 7 Jul 2005
• Contributors Last updated 7 Jul 2005

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Models] [Judy Blame] [Photoshoot] [Naomi Campbell]

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BY ARRANGEMENT

Nick Knight/Jonathan Kaye

Evangelical florist and icon of pre-war femininity, Constance Spry provided inspiration for this three day Nick Knight shoot for W magazine. Stylist Jonathan Kaye picked the best of the Spring/Summer '04 collections whilst stylist Simon Foxton invited leading florists to interpret the floral themes that characterised the catwalks.

• Webcast Last updated 27 Nov 2003
• Contributors Last updated 27 Nov 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Interview] [Collections] [Models] [Photoshoot] [Jonathan Kaye] [Lily Cole]

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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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CLOSER

Raf Simons

The visionary Belgian designer revealed the passions and graphic influences central to his Autumn/Winter 2003-04 menswear show.

• Latest Image Last updated 26 Jan 2003
• Image Archive Last updated 26 Jan 2003
• Contributors Last updated 26 Jan 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Collections] [Picture Phone] [Menswear] [Raf Simons] [Jo-Ann Furniss]

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COME AS YOU ARE

Nick Knight/Dazed & Confused

Celebrate ten years of imagery from the pages of Dazed through your own interactive photo-montage.

• Interactive Last updated 6 Dec 2002
• Images Last updated 6 Dec 2002
• Gallery Last updated 6 Dec 2002
• Text Last updated 6 Dec 2002
• Contributors Last updated 6 Dec 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Graphic Design] [Celebrity]

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COMPULSIVE VIEWING: THE FILMS OF GUY BOURDIN

For the first time, discover Bourdin's grasp of the moving image in this legacy of unseen cinefilms.

• Movie Last updated 17 Apr 2003
• Biography Last updated 17 Apr 2003
• Contributors Last updated 17 Apr 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Music] [Adam Mufti] [History] [Guy Bourdin] [Olivier Alary]

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CORRESPONDENT: Lance Martins

Lance Martins

Film and music maker Lance Martins documents his eclectic visual inspirations during his travels as the coordinator of displays for Paul Smith Ltd. worldwide.

• Instalment One Last updated 9 Jul 2002
• Instalment Two Last updated 9 Jul 2002
• Instalment Three Last updated 9 Jul 2002
• Instalment Four Last updated 9 Jul 2002
• Contributors Last updated 9 Jul 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Music] [Documentary] [Diary] [Retail]

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CORRESPONDENT: Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones

Milliner extraordinaire Stephen Jones kept his head for hats amid the pandemonium of the London, Milan and Paris fashion weeks. Acting as our Correspondent, Stephen took us behind the scenes at the shows and inveigled our way into the celebrity parties that followed.

• Diary Last updated 25 Apr 2002
• Contributors Last updated 25 Apr 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Paris Fashion Week] [Picture Phone] [Documentary] [Christian Dior] [Diary] [Stephen Jones] [Millinery]

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COUTURE: THE LUXURY OF NOT CARING

Jo-Ann Furniss/Jonathan Kaye/Nick Knight

Witness the splendour of Paris Haute Couture week, via image/texts sent by mobile phone from the front row.

• Image Archive Last updated 24 Jan 2003
• Fax Report Last updated 24 Jan 2003
• Contributors Last updated 24 Jan 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Models] [Paris Fashion Week] [Stylists] [Picture Phone] [Jonathan Kaye] [Documentary] [Diary] [Haute Couture] [Jo-Ann Furniss]

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DEAD CAN DANCE

Katy England

Trick or treat? The spooks and creeps came out in force for Artist Sam Taylor-Wood's Halloween Party. Stylist Katy England caught the macabre proceedings on camera.

• Images Last updated 31 Oct 2003
• Contributors Last updated 31 Oct 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Stylists] [Parties] [Alister Mackie] [Katy England]

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DESIGN_DOWNLOAD: Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen

The third in our series of downloadable garments, Alexander McQueen allowed us to examine and assemble his pattern for a beautiful, kimono-inspired jacket from his A/W '03 collection.

• Movie Last updated 31 Mar 2004
• Interview Last updated 31 Mar 2004
• Contributors Last updated 31 Mar 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Collections] [Downloadable] [Alexander McQueen] [Garment Pattern]

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DESIGN_DOWNLOAD: John Galliano

John Galliano

Enter the creative mindset of fashion revolutionary John Galliano by downloading and making-up this intricate vintage jacket pattern, drawn from his A/W 2001 Pirates collection.

• Download Last updated 11 Jul 2003
• Images Last updated 11 Jul 2003
• Gallery Last updated 11 Jul 2003
• Text Last updated 11 Jul 2003
• Contributors Last updated 11 Jul 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interactive] [Downloadable] [John Galliano] [Craig McDean]

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DESIGN_DOWNLOAD: Martin Margiela

Martin Margiela

Many took up Maison Martin Margiela's challenge to complete what he had left unfinished. Since late June 2004, SHOWstudio viewers across the world have been downloading his simple, shift-dress pattern and adding to it to express their individual vision. Once made up, the more creatively ambitious have interpreted their designs in fashion stories, surprising and varied. To showcase this two-way fashion dialogue, a selection of the best were posted in our Atelier Gallery.

• Atelier Gallery Last updated 6 Aug 2004
• Shoot Last updated 6 Aug 2004
• Download Last updated 6 Aug 2004
• Contributors Last updated 6 Aug 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Photoshoot] [Downloadable] [Martin Margiela] [Garment Pattern]

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DESIGN_DOWNLOAD: Yohji Yamamoto

Yohji Yamamoto

To launch this new series of downloadable fashion, internationally acclaimed designer Yohji Yamamoto contributed an enigmatic pattern for viewers to download from their computers and make up into an exclusive, mystery garment, free of charge. Nick Knight's photographs of the piece held the visual key.

• Download Last updated 5 Nov 2003
• Image Last updated 5 Nov 2003
• Gallery Last updated 5 Nov 2003
• Contributors Last updated 5 Nov 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interactive] [Downloadable] [Garment Pattern] [Yohji Yamamoto]

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DEVIL'S PLAYTHING

Craig McDean/Karen Elson/Melissa Auf Der Maur

Watch supermodel Karen Elson and former Smashing Pumpkins and Hole bassist, Melissa Auf der Maur, as they performed SHOWstudio's new 'singing cover' in Craig McDean's intimate film.

• Movie Last updated 7 Mar 2002
• Contributors Last updated 7 Mar 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Models] [Music] [Karen Elson] [Craig McDean] [Melissa Auf Der Maur]

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DIAMOND BLUES

Kate Moss/Bobby Gillespie

Intimate Super-8 footage of Kate, Bobby and friends recording the track 'Diamond Blues' one playful, summer's afternoon.

• Movie Last updated 5 Sep 2001
• Contributors Last updated 5 Sep 2001

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Music] [Documentary] [Celebrity] [Kate Moss] [Bobby Gillespie]

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DIARY: PARIS/MILAN/LONDON/NEW YORK

Maria Chen Pascual, Jean Francois Carly, Sam Gainsbury, John Gosling, Lulu Kennedy, Susanne Tide-Frater

Providing worldwide fashion week coverage, four creatives took the SHOWstudio picture phone to fashion's four capital cities for the A/W '04 collections, throughout March. Photographer Jean-Francois Carly travelled to New York to report from designer Maria Chen Pascual's first ever stateside presentation, whilst Fashion East's Lulu Kennedy shared her busy week in London. Head of Creative Direction at Selfridges, Susanne Tide-Frater conveyed the more commercial perspective from Milan and finally, producer Sam Gainsbury and DJ John Gosling reported from Paris.

• Paris Pictures Last updated 5 Mar 2004
• Milan Pictures Last updated 5 Mar 2004
• London Pictures Last updated 5 Mar 2004
• New York Pictures Last updated 5 Mar 2004
• Contributors Last updated 5 Mar 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Picture Phone] [Diary]

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DOLLS

Nick Knight/Camille Bidault-Waddington

Take a model styled by Camille Bidault-Waddington with hair by Sam McKnight. Let a four year-old, a one year-old and two three year-olds do what ever they want with her make-up, and then ask them to draw on Nick Knight's prints.

• Movie Last updated 20 Dec 2000
• Images Last updated 20 Dec 2000
• Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Paul Hetherington] [Art Direction] [Beauty] [Music] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Digital Image-Making] [Animation] [Camille Bidault-Waddington]

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DREAM CLOSET

Fumiko Imano

How to wear it. When the most innovative fashions were beyond your grasp, only a film of you secretly trying them on in the top department stores and boutiques came close.

• Movie Last updated 21 Oct 2002
• Contributors Last updated 21 Oct 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Collections] [Documentary] [Retail]

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DRESS ME UP, DRESS ME DOWN

Ann-Sofie Back, Jeffrey Deitch, Jonathan De Villiers, Andrea Dworkin, Philippe Garner, Paul Hetherington, Jonathan Kaye, Richard Kern, Nick Knight, Penny Martin, Ross Phillips, Peter Saville, Liberty Ross, Christabel Stewart, Julie Verhoeven

Liberty Ross featured in a live, interactive photo shoot that was broadcast on SHOWstudio on June 28, 29 & 30 2005. Inspired by the live, pornographic video chats widely available on the web, the model was the focus of a free ‘feature show’ for which there was also a live video feed. Effectively, it acted as SHOWstudio’s interactive ‘collections story’ for the Autumn/Winter ’05-6 season.

• The Interactives Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Live Event Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Wardrobe Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Prize Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Design_Download: Junya Watanabe Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Picture Diary: Movies Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Picture Diary: Images Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• On Pornography Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Interviews Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Looks Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Movies Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Interactive: Fragments of Me Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Pre-Production Meeting Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Q&A Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Contributors Last updated 28 Jun 2005
• Project Blog Last updated 30 Mar 2005

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Models] [Liberty Ross] [Erotica] [Jonathan Kaye] [Downloadable] [Junya Watanabe]

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EDITING FASHION

Olivier Alary/Rupert Angarita-Dodds/Craig Armstrong/Apurva Asrani/Michael Blackburn/Vladimir Boboshin/Nigel Buck/William Chang/Saulyus Chyamolonskas/ Egoli Editing Team/Mike Figgis/John Galliano/John Gosling/Nick Knight/ Sam McKnight/Charles Nartey Mezo/Sharmin Nordien/Greg Perler/Christopher Seguine/ Sam Sneade/Anna Span/Joanna Swan

An offshoot from our three-month MOVING FASHION project at the end of 2005, EDITING FASHION shifted the focus of SHOWstudio's ongoing exploration of fashion film from direction to the editing process and from established, guest artists to the SHOWstudio viewer base. For this, we offered a package of source material –including exclusive film footage shot by Nick Knight and a selection of possible soundtracks by guest artists- that could be downloaded and edited by SHOWstudio Viewers. Viewers were asked to make an edit from the material provided which lasted up to two minutes. By keeping the source material the same in all cases, the emphasis was kept on the individual editor’s approach and authorship. The finished films could then be uploaded onto SHOWstudio from mid-January 2006 and screened in the Viewers’ Cut gallery.

A second phase of this project saw a number of high-profile, internationally-based, professional editors from a range of different genres tackle the same footage to create a series of five-minute shorts in early 2006.

• Project Blog Last updated 20 Dec 2005
• Editors' Cut Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Show Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Show Reports Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Casting Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Characters Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Footage Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Viewers' Cut Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Contributors Last updated 19 Dec 2005

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Politics] [Mike Figgis] [Collections] [Paris Fashion Week] [Body Image] [Gemma Ward]

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END OF SUMMER

Laura Sciacovelli

Summer dresses provided the inspiration for these sensual motion portraits with atmospheric soundtracks from experimental bands Plinth, Colleen and The Pastels.

• Movies Last updated 11 Sep 2003
• Interview Last updated 11 Sep 2003
• Contributors Last updated 11 Sep 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Music] [Junya Watanabe] [Vivienne Westwood] [Hussein Chalayan] [Laura Sciacovelli]

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FANCY PANTS

Simon Foxton/Jason Evans

Imagery for live shoot that used old sporting photos for a new direction in menswear editorial.

• Webcast Last updated 2 Feb 2004
• Contributors Last updated 2 Feb 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Webcast] [Simon Foxton] [Stylists] [Photoshoot] [Jason Evans]

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FASH-OFF

Gareth Pugh, Eugene Souleiman, Alex Box

Fêted for his commitment to creating provocative spectacles over mundane, workaday clothes, controversial young designer Gareth Pugh used the SHOWstudio live platform to stage a series of performances to mark Couture Week, the first week of July 2006. Each representing his attitude towards the different aspects of his whirlwind fashion career thus far, the afternoon broadcasts focused on themes of boredom and repetition, artifice and multiple personae, high-octane glamour and the falsity of easily dealt acclaim. Of course, no Gareth Pugh project would be complete without the attendant, out-of-control party, which he he threw to open the series.

• Performances Last updated 30 Jun 2006
• Live Shoot & Post-Production Last updated 26 Jun 2006
• Project Blog Last updated 15 Jun 2006
• Design_Download Last updated 8 Jun 2006
• Design_Download Gallery Last updated 8 Jun 2006
• Shoot and Post Production Last updated 8 Jun 2006
• Shows Last updated 8 Jun 2006
• Polaroid Diary Last updated 8 Jun 2006
• Pre-Production Meeting Last updated 8 Jun 2006
• Press Clippings Last updated 8 Jun 2006
• Contributors Last updated 8 Jun 2006

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Film] [Gareth Pugh] [Performance] [Art]

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FASHION PANOPTICON Miki Fukai

Seven London-based designers agreed to let our camera into their studios prior to the unveiling of their Spring/Summer '04 collections to document the various people and source materials that inspired them. Use these fascinating 'photo-joiners', fashioned in a 360-degree cycle, to peruse the private workspaces photographed. Like Deckard's Esper Machine in Blade Runner, an in-built zoom function allows you to indulge your curiosity by scouring every last detail of each studio's contents. Enlarge fascinating scenarios and snippets, ranging from phone-numbers scribbled on Post-It notes and fabrics laid out on cutting-tables to the revealing book collections of some of London's leading designers.

In accompanying interviews, the designers explained their choice of studio space and considered its influence on the work produced there.

• Interactive Last updated 17 Sep 2004
• Contributors Last updated 17 Sep 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Miki Fukai]

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FASHION PANOPTICON: Boudicca

Seven London-based designers agreed to let our camera into their studios prior to the unveiling of their Spring/Summer '04 collections to document the various people and source materials that inspired them. Use these fascinating 'photo-joiners', fashioned in a 360-degree cycle, to peruse the private workspaces photographed. Like Deckard's Esper Machine in Blade Runner, an in-built zoom function allows you to indulge your curiosity by scouring every last detail of each studio's contents. Enlarge fascinating scenarios and snippets, ranging from phone-numbers scribbled on Post-It notes and fabrics laid out on cutting-tables to the revealing book collections of some of London's leading designers.

In accompanying interviews, the designers explained their choice of studio space and considered its influence on the work produced there.

• Interactive Last updated 22 Sep 2004
• Contributors Last updated 22 Sep 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Boudicca]

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FASHION PANOPTICON: Eley Kishimoto

Eley Kishimoto

Seven London-based designers agreed to let our camera into their studios prior to the unveiling of their Spring/Summer '04 collections to document the various people and source materials that inspired them. Use these fascinating 'photo-joiners', fashioned in a 360-degree cycle, to peruse the private workspaces photographed. Like Deckard's Esper Machine in Blade Runner, an in-built zoom function allows you to indulge your curiosity by scouring every last detail of each studio's contents. Enlarge fascinating scenarios and snippets, ranging from phone-numbers scribbled on Post-It notes and fabrics laid out on cutting-tables to the revealing book collections of some of London's leading designers.

In accompanying interviews, the designers explained their choice of studio space and considered its influence on the work produced there.

• Interactive Last updated 21 Sep 2004
• Contributors Last updated 21 Sep 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Eley Kishimoto]

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FASHION PANOPTICON: Giles

Seven London-based designers agreed to let our camera into their studios prior to the unveiling of their Spring/Summer '04 collections to document the various people and source materials that inspired them. Use these fascinating 'photo-joiners', fashioned in a 360-degree cycle, to peruse the private workspaces photographed. Like Deckard's Esper Machine in Blade Runner, an in-built zoom function allows you to indulge your curiosity by scouring every last detail of each studio's contents. Enlarge fascinating scenarios and snippets, ranging from phone-numbers scribbled on Post-It notes and fabrics laid out on cutting-tables to the revealing book collections of some of London's leading designers.

In accompanying interviews, the designers explained their choice of studio space and considered its influence on the work produced there.

• Interactive Last updated 20 Sep 2004
• Contributors Last updated 20 Sep 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Giles]

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FASHION PANOPTICON: Peter Jensen

Peter Jensen, Marius W Hansen

Seven London-based designers agreed to let our camera into their studios prior to the unveiling of their Spring/Summer '04 collections to document the various people and source materials that inspired them. Use these fascinating 'photo-joiners', fashioned in a 360-degree cycle, to peruse the private workspaces photographed. Like Deckard's Esper Machine in Blade Runner, an in-built zoom function allows you to indulge your curiosity by scouring every last detail of each studio's contents. Enlarge fascinating scenarios and snippets, ranging from phone-numbers scribbled on Post-It notes and fabrics laid out on cutting-tables to the revealing book collections of some of London's leading designers.

In accompanying interviews, the designers explained their choice of studio space and considered its influence on the work produced there.

• Interactive Last updated 22 Sep 2004
• Contributors Last updated 22 Sep 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Peter Jensen]

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FASHION PANOPTICON: Preen

Preen

Seven London-based designers agreed to let our camera into their studios prior to the unveiling of their Spring/Summer '04 collections to document the various people and source materials that inspired them. Use these fascinating 'photo-joiners', fashioned in a 360-degree cycle, to peruse the private workspaces photographed. Like Deckard's Esper Machine in Blade Runner, an in-built zoom function allows you to indulge your curiosity by scouring every last detail of each studio's contents. Enlarge fascinating scenarios and snippets, ranging from phone-numbers scribbled on Post-It notes and fabrics laid out on cutting-tables to the revealing book collections of some of London's leading designers.

In accompanying interviews, the designers explained their choice of studio space and considered its influence on the work produced there.

• Interactive Last updated 21 Sep 2004
• Contributors Last updated 21 Sep 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Preen]

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FASHION PANOPTICON: Stephen Jones

Seven London-based designers agreed to let our camera into their studios prior to the unveiling of their Spring/Summer '04 collections to document the various people and source materials that inspired them. Use these fascinating 'photo-joiners', fashioned in a 360-degree cycle, to peruse the private workspaces photographed. Like Deckard's Esper Machine in Blade Runner, an in-built zoom function allows you to indulge your curiosity by scouring every last detail of each studio's contents. Enlarge fascinating scenarios and snippets, ranging from phone-numbers scribbled on Post-It notes and fabrics laid out on cutting-tables to the revealing book collections of some of London's leading designers.

In accompanying interviews, the designers explained their choice of studio space and considered its influence on the work produced there.

• Interactive Last updated 20 Sep 2004
• Contributors Last updated 20 Sep 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Stephen Jones]

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FLASH

Nick Knight/Natasha V

Natasha V gave the performance of a lifetime in this film short depicting Nick Knight photographing her for British Vogue magazine. In an accompanying interview, the model talked about her experience of the war in Bosnia, aggression and her idiosyncratic approach to modelling.

• Movie Last updated 18 Dec 2003
• Contributors Last updated 18 Dec 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Models] [Photoshoot]

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FLIP FLOP FLYIN' DOES SPRING/SUMMER '03

Craig Robinson

Flip Flop Flyin' boy selected his favourites from the current campaigns and constructed a quirky advertising world in which to view them.

• Images Last updated 1 Apr 2003
• Contributors Last updated 1 Apr 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interview] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Advertising]

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FLOATING SIGNS

Maison Martin Margiela

As the acclaimed fashion house of Martin Margiela prepared to open its doors for the first time in London, photographer Valerie Von Stahl Stromberg took the SHOWstudio picture phone to document the shop's arrival; hard to miss in the form of a 'sandwich-board campaign' on the cities streets.

• Movie Last updated 1 Apr 2004
• Interview Last updated 1 Apr 2004
• Contributors Last updated 1 Apr 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Picture Phone] [Documentary] [Martin Margiela]

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FORGET-ME-NOT

Peter Saville/Julie Verhoeven

Investigate the dark, erotic scenarios underlying Julie Verhoeven's intricate, interactive wallpaper. The decorative, Toile de Jouey-inspired designs belie the seamy underworld they depict.

• Interactive Last updated 3 Apr 2002
• Text Last updated 3 Apr 2002
• Interview Last updated 3 Apr 2002
• Contributors Last updated 3 Apr 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Paul Hetherington] [Art Direction] [Erotica] [Illustration] [Julie Verhoven] [Peter Saville] [Paul Bruty]

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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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FUTURE NOW 02

Jens Laugesen, Alastair McKimm, Marcus Werner Hed

Made in collaboration with Swedish filmmaker Marcus Werner Hed, this conceptual film short showcased fashion designer Jens Laugesen’s designs for the A/W ’06-7 season. The film, originally screened on 4th March 2006 in tandem with an exclusive screening at the Le Passage du Désir during Paris Fashion Week, was the fourth in a series of films featuring Jen Laugesen’s collections previously screened on SHOWstudio.

• Movie Last updated 4 Mar 2006
• Contributors Last updated 4 Mar 2006

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Jens Laugesen]

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GALLIANO HOMMES

John Galliano

Exclusive preview of Galliano's first own-brand menswear range. The legendary designer took questions from the set of his Arena shoot.

• Webcast Last updated 24 Oct 2003
• Contributors Last updated 24 Oct 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Live] [Interview] [Photoshoot] [Menswear] [John Galliano]

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GIVENCHY COUTURE

Nick Knight/Katy England/Alexander McQueen

Not any old suits, or even any old Alexander McQueen for Givenchy haute couture suits, but fibre optic haute couture suits that pulsate with light when Katy England spins them round and round on turntables for Nick Knight.

• Movie Last updated 20 Dec 2000
• Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Collections] [Alexander McQueen] [Katy England] [Haute Couture] [Givenchy]

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GLITTERBUGS

• Images Last updated 17 Aug 2004
• Audio Last updated 17 Aug 2004
• Contributors Last updated 17 Aug 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Simon Foxton] [Documentary] [Styling] [Clubs]

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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
• Text Last updated 11 Jun 2004
• Contributors Last updated 11 Jun 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Picture Phone] [Documentary]

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GROUND_ZERO.03: FAITH IN CHAOS

Jens Laugesen

Downloadable T-shirt design and GROUND_ZERO.03, Nick Knight's film of Laugesen developing his S/S '04 collection launch simultaneously as the designer's show hit the catwalk.

• Movie Last updated 2 Oct 2003
• Interview Last updated 2 Oct 2003
• T-shirt Last updated 2 Oct 2003
• Contributors Last updated 2 Oct 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Film] [Collections] [Jens Laugesen] [London Fashion Week]

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GUISER

Leigh Bowery

Guiser presented a rare selection of original and previously unpublished material that looked at, listened to and wrote about the legendary figure Leigh Bowery. The extraordinary personage of Leigh Bowery has had an enormous influence on visual culture - across fashion, art, music and performance - and SHOWstudio wanted to celebrate this legacy. Guiser brought together previously unseen film footage of Bowery being photographed by Nick Knight, with unreleased sound material from 'Minty' demo tapes as a soundtrack. Also featured was an essay by one of Leigh's contemporaries, Donald Urquhart -whose own artistic output and creativity mirrors the breadth of Bowery's output, as well as intertwining creatively with it. Urquhart's text gave personal accounts of some of the posthumous events that have commemorated Leigh Bowery.

• Movies Last updated 11 Oct 2004
• Interview Last updated 11 Oct 2004
• Text Last updated 11 Oct 2004
• Drawings Last updated 11 Oct 2004
• Competition Last updated 11 Oct 2004
• Contributors Last updated 11 Oct 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interview] [Performance] [Art] [Christabel Stewart] [Leigh Bowery] [Donald Urquart]

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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

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [Menswear]

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HOSIERY GARDEN

Aleksandra Olenska

Stylist Aleksandra Olenska constructed a live tableau in the SHOWstudio livespace over two days. Drawing on her appliqued stocking designs, seen both at Roksanda Illincic and Peter Jensen's A/W '04 shows, she created a Trompe L'Oeil 'Hosiery Garden'.

• Image Last updated 18 Mar 2004
• Contributors Last updated 18 Mar 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Performance]

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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.