Documenting next season as it happens, SHOWstudio updates live and direct from the cream of the Paris collections for A/W 2009. SHOWstudio fashion director Alex Fury will upload show reports throughout the day, accompanied by images captured by veteran catwalk photographer Chris Moore to illustrate the shows and showcase a selection of SHOWstudio's favourite designers through comprehensive image galleries.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Gareth Pugh] [Paris Fashion Week] [Yves Saint Laurent] [John Galliano] [Alexander McQueen] [Martin Margiela] [Vivienne Westwood] [Yohji Yamamoto] [Hussein Chalayan] [Givenchy] [Autumn/Winter 2009] [Rick Owens]
Nick Knight's latest fashion film, Fantasia, is a free-wheeling exploration of joyous, unbridled movement in model and clothing alike.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Gareth Pugh] [John Galliano] [Alexander McQueen] [Yohji Yamamoto] [Lily Donaldson] [Jourdan Dunn] [Ruth Hogben] [Vogue] [Hussein] [Chalayan] [Viktor & Rolf]
Nick Knight/Natalia Vodianova
In tandem with his shoot for supermodel Natalia V’s guest-edited issue of Russian Vogue, Nick Knight captured a short film featuring the world-famous model doing what she does best.
Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Models] [Jonathan Kaye] [John Galliano] [Sam McKnight] [Paul Bruty] [Ruth Hogben] [Natalia Vodianova] [Russian Vogue]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [John Galliano]
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.
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]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [John Galliano] [Autumn/Winter 07-08]
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.
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]
Charlize Theron/John Galliano/Nick Knight
SHOWstudio offered an exclusive preview of the 45 second cinema cut of the Christian Dior J'Adore campaign directed by Nick Knight and starring Charlize Theron. Drawing on classic models of feminine beauty from mannerist Madonnas to Marilyn, this simple beauty shot brought to life suggests a modern resolution to possibly the most problematic challenge in fashion image-making.
Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Celebrity] [Christian Dior] [Advertising] [Charlize Theron] [John Galliano]
John Galliano
Exclusive preview of Galliano's first own-brand menswear range. The legendary designer took questions from the set of his Arena shoot.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Live] [Interview] [Photoshoot] [Menswear] [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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interactive] [Downloadable] [John Galliano] [Craig McDean]
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...
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Interview] [Music] [Photoshoot] [Christian Dior] [John Galliano] [Haute Couture] [Jeremy Healey]
SHOWstudio challenged fashion's finest to create the industry's Holy Grail: inspiring womenswear designs for sizes 16 and over. 12 leading designers took up the gauntlet.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Politics] [Body Image] [John Galliano] [Alexander McQueen] [Sophia Kokosalaki] [Shelley Fox] [Jessica Ogden] [Marjan Pejovski] [Bodymap]