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]

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PICTURE/MESSAGE: Jonathan Gent

Jonathan Gent explored the world through his basilisk eye with the SHOWstudio picturephone and revealed his fervent observations in arresting pictures and fierce drawings.

• Image Archive Last updated 22 Jul 2003
• Contributors Last updated 22 Jul 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Collections] [Models] [Picture Phone] [Diary] [Haute Couture]

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SHOOT

Nick Knight

In this film contextualising couture for a W magazine shoot, the studio was not treated as the traditional, non-specific space, but as a blank canvas upon which surreal fashion performances could be staged.

• Movies Last updated 5 Jun 2003
• Images Last updated 5 Jun 2003
• Contributors Last updated 5 Jun 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Performance] [Collections] [Jonathan Kaye] [Haute Couture]

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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
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• 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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PAST, PRESENT & COUTURE

John Galliano

John Galliano's five years at Christian Dior were marked by a series of Nick Knight images that interpreted the Dior couture collections. SHOWstudio took you behind the scenes of the shoot...

• Images Last updated 2 Mar 2002
• Movies Last updated 2 Mar 2002
• Interview Last updated 2 Mar 2002
• Contributors Last updated 2 Mar 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Interview] [Music] [Photoshoot] [Christian Dior] [John Galliano] [Haute Couture] [Jeremy Healey]

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

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SWEET

Nick Knight/Jane How

Here's something we made earlier. Stylist Jane How recreated her favourite looks by Comme, Yohji, Hussein and Mugler from sweet papers, cupcake wrappers and doilies. Nick Knight recorded the result on a 3-D scanner and set it to a musicbox soundtrack by Fridge.

• Movies Last updated 10 Nov 2000
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• Interactive Last updated 10 Nov 2000
• Text Last updated 10 Nov 2000
• Contributors Last updated 10 Nov 2000

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Collections] [Stylists] [Music] [Photoshoot] [Jane How] [Haute Couture] [Kieran Hebden]

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