Alice Hawkins/SHOWstudio
A collaboration for Jalouse magazine's 69th issue, photographer Alice Hawkins adopted the fantasy identities created for her by members of SHOWstudio in a series of strikingly different self-portraits.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Raf Simons
The visionary Belgian designer revealed the passions and graphic influences central to his Autumn/Winter 2003-04 menswear show.
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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.
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Simon Foxton/Jason Evans
Imagery for live shoot that used old sporting photos for a new direction in menswear editorial.
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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.
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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.
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John Galliano
Exclusive preview of Galliano's first own-brand menswear range. The legendary designer took questions from the set of his Arena shoot.
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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'.
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Alexander McQueen
In the first interview in the newly-launched live SHOWstudio space, McQueen came clean on all manner of subjects, from which fashion items make him cringe and his opinion on fur to his views on fashion as entertainment.
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Bj�rk
Icelandic pop princess and progressive image-maker supreme, Björk answered your questions in a live interview during October 2003.
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David Bailey
Celebrated photographer David Bailey answered questions from visitors in the first of SHOWstudio's live interviews.
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Juergen Teller
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Kate Moss
Beauty icon Kate Moss gave her candid responses to over 100 of your questions in this transcript of her first interview since the birth of her baby.
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Nick Knight
Nick Knight became the eighth participant in our series of ‘In Camera’ interviews. The SHOWstudio director and leading fashion photographer of twenty-five years answered viewers’ questions during a live webcast at the beginning of May 2006.
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Peter Saville
Design icon Peter Saville responded to questions in a Live interview following the opening of his exhibition at the Design Museum, London and the publication of his first book.
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Tracey Emin
Cultural icon Tracey Emin, Britain's most celebrated female contemporary artist, took the chair in another live online interview.
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Vivienne Westwood
One of the most influential living fashion designers came into SHOWstudio to discuss subjects posed by viewers, ranging from her inspirations and techniques to her representation in the media and notions of iconoclasm.
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Ebru Ercon
Fresh from a stellar appearance at cult showcase Fashion East, designer Ebru Ercon came into the SHOWstudio live space to photograph her look book, enlisting the help of photographer Dennis Schoenberg and stylist Marie Chaix.
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3-D & Tom Hingston/Katy England & Bobby Gillespie/Jason Evans/Simon Foxton/Nick Knight, Kylie Minogue & Liz Neal/Felix Larher/Nick Rhodes & Gavin Elder/Julie Verhoeven
Thirteen leading creatives from the fields of fashion, music and image-making used mobile video phones to create a series of short 'motion clips' that visually interpreted the lyrics of their favoured song.
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Jessica Ogden
Always one to go her own sweet way, designer Jessica Ogden has offered to shed light on this sacred territory of new ideas. Accompany Ogden on her weeklong trip to Chennai (formerly Madras), India, via this sequence of captioned images, which were sent to SHOWstudio daily.
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Sam McKnight
Revisit the vital tidbits of information, rumour and nuance from the Spring/Summer '05 campaigns via Sam McKnight' report, phoned in to the SHOWstudio answer phone service from behind closed-sets.
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Val Garland
Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon met Hans Bellmer's Poupèes: twenty blonde models were made up in a vivacious, painterly fashion performance.
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Jason Evans
To tide us over the tense, festive period and into the unchartered New Year, photographer Jason Evans delivered some much-needed daily optimism. Sending an image each day from his month-long trip down under and more, Evans took the SHOWstudio picture phone to north and south New Zealand, Los Angeles, San Francisco, southern California and Hong Kong. Those who lamented the completion of Evans' acclaimed 'Beauty Where You Find It' project and enjoyed the sheer joy of his 'Daily Nice' website will appreciate the idiosyncratic eye, capacity for fun and unexpected tastes that have become the Evans hallmark.
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Alice Hawkins
The Female Gaze: photographer Hawkins asked her sitters how they would like to be represented to their lovers for her two-week residency, using picture phones.
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Building on her recent entrée into writing and broadcasting, the model everyone loves to love hosted the SHOWstudio PICTURE/MESSAGE mobile for Paris Couture Week.
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Sean Bidder, Norman Jay, Gerald Jenkins, Liz Johnston Artur, Marc Lebon, Jo Ratcliffe
Three photographers braved the throngs to capture the full experience of Good Times at the 2003 Notting Hill Carnival via picture and videophones.
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Paris Fashion Week S/S '04
Direct from the Paris shows, stylist Tabitha Simmons used the SHOWstudio picture phone to select and send the cream of the S/S '04 collections.
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Venice Biennale
While braving the heat and crowds at this year's Venice Biennale, SHOWstudio's curatorial projects director, Christabel Stewart reported live on picturephone from the self-proclaimed 'exhibition of exhibitions' as it celebrated its fiftieth year at the forefront of international art.
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Paul Hetherington, Penny Martin, Christabel Stewart
To reveal the process of a staple industry practise, SHOWstudio initiated 'PORTFOLIO', an opportunity to invite practitioners - both established and new - into the SHOWstudio space to disclose their books live on camera. Part of an ongoing, fortnightly project, highlights of these portfolios were captured to create an accumulating resource, both for future SHOWstudio projects and as an inventory of new talent.
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Comme des Gar�ons
Legendary designer Rei Kawakubo opened up her highly intellectual creative process for consideration in this unprecedented collaboration with SHOWstudio. Following the production of a photographic shoot from its inception to its delivery to Another Magazine for its September issue, this project demonstrated how the many creatives involved in making fashion imagery responded to the overarching conceptual direction of the celebrated Comme des Garçons visionary.
For the initial, three-day phase of the project, photographer Nick Knight and stylist Alister Mackie interpreted the emotional theatre of the Autumn/Winter '04 Commes des Garçons collection with its attenuated jacket sleeves. From there, follow the post-production of the resultant photographs in a dialogue between Knight and his imaging collaborator Allan Finamore as they extended the visual parameters of the pictures taken on set via digital manipulation. Finally, Kawakubo added the 'hand of the artist', imbuing the final images with her individual response to them.
A live discussion forum ran throughout the project, giving SHOWstudio viewers the opportunity to ask questions of the creatives active during each stage.
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Judy Blame, Emily Drake, Linda Evangelista, Irina Funtikova, David James, Grace Jones, Nick Knight, Clinton Morrison, Adam Mufti, Sharmin Nordien, Ivan Putrov, Philip Treacy, Rachel Yankey
SHOWstudio was invited to create an event to mark Philip Treacy’s debut, A/W '06, collection in collaboration with British sports brand UMBRO. Drawing on historic, chronophotographic images by Eadweard Muybridge, Nick Knight and Judy Blame collected a colourful cast of dancers, gymnasts, Premiership footballers and iconic fashion models to stage a spectacular exploration of Treacy’s ‘luxury sportswear’ concept. Viewers had the chance to tune in on Thursday 2nd February 2006 and watch a balletic motion study, choreographed to an innovative musical score and which created the basis for a kinetic audio installation that was unveiled on 16 February during London Fashion Week.
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Duncan Cheetham/Lisa Mustafa
A one-day, live shoot in which print designer Duncan Cheetham screen printed from five of his own specially commissioned designs onto seven original outfits. Make-up artist Lisa Mustafa took the print designs and colours as her palette and inspiration.
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Val Garland/Sam McKnight/Marian Newman
Nick Knight's stalwart hair and make-up team threw open their studio doors during a three-day collections shoot. Drawing on the S/S '04 key theme of iridescence, a relay of live stills influenced by the classic beauty imagery of Penn and Watson disclosed the key looks of the season.
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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.
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Simon Foxton
Thirty men in thirty days: Simon Foxton's fashionable month ran from April
1st, each day he styled a different model to pose in front of a live webcam and
take your calls.
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Nick Knight
Watch nine supermodels sleep in these delicate and mesmerising films compiled from Webcam footage, captured from their hotel rooms.
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Self Service Magazine
Chic Parisian magazine came to town to photograph the stars of the London scene inside the SHOWstudio live space.
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An interactive camera/sensor was placed in the window of the Regent Street Liberty's store to capture the 'looks' of over 17,000 participants during the period from 14 February - 4 April 2004. All the images were posted on SHOWstudio, including England's shortlist of 10 finalists - one of whom won £300 worth of Liberty's vouchers.
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Nick Knight/Kate Phelan/Stevie Stewart/David Holah
Kate Phelan and the Vogue team entered the SHOWstudio live space to shoot the prevailing themes from the A/W '04 collections. Computer-generated prints from Balenciaga and Giles Deacon, and computer-aided cutting and draping techniques from Hussein Chalayan, Gucci and Lanvin affirmed fashion's preoccupation with technology at the time.
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Nick Knight/Simon Foxton/Jonathan Kaye/ Sam McKnight
SHOCKER: Supermodel gets fat! Alexander McQueen turns into a golden eagle! Bobby Gillespie dresses in ladies' underwear! See the bizarre and fantastical transformations that took place during your average Nick Knight fashion shoot. In films drawn from Webcam footage, movies from video documentation and animations from the original Polaroids, watch the models as they arrived, the stylists at work and the celebrities laze around as 16 amazing fashion stories unfolded.
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by Viktor & Rolf
Who better to have shown you around Viktor & Rolf's historic Louvre retrospective than the designers themselves in a live tour one hour prior to the launch?
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