Chris Moore/Alexander Fury
Documenting next season as it happens, SHOWstudio updates live and direct from the cream of London's 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] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [City] [Marios Schwab] [Alex Fury] [Peter Pilotto] [Autumn/Winter 09-10] [Louis Goldin] [Chris Moore] [David David]
Louise Goldin
A ten part series exclusively filmed alongside award-winning designer Louise Goldin and team during the realisation of her Autumn/Winter 2009 collection, Unravelled deconstructs her creative process, working backwards from Goldin's show at London Fashion Week to reveal every facet of its development.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Design] [London Fashion Week] [Louise Goldin] [Autumn/Winter 2009]
Alexander Fury
What, when, why, wear: Spring/Summer 2009 in handy microcosm from our place at the London and Paris shows.
Related Projects: [Gareth Pugh] [London Fashion Week] [Giles] [Martin Margiela] [Spring/Summer 2009] [Marios Schwab] [Christopher Kane] [Louise Goldin] [Jeremy Scott]
Aganovich/Jez Tozer
Opting out of the frenetic On/Off schedule of London Fashion Week, Nana Aganovich and Brooke Taylor of design label Aganovich have opted to present their latest collection via online film in collaboration with Jez Tozer
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [London Fashion Week] [Jez Tozer] [Aganovich] [Brooke Taylor]
Giles Price/Magda Keaney
Andy Warhol famously coined the 'Fifteen Minutes of Fame' cliche, but only in fashion do those fifteen minutes come around every six months. While all eyes usually focus on the flurry of the catwalk presentation, Fifteen Minutes of Fashion not only turns the lens backstage, but on the designers themselves. Taken during the S/S 2009 London Fashion Week presentations, these diptych images capture leading British designers five minutes before their show, and five minutes after their creations exited the runway. Curated by Magda Keaney and featuring the striking photography of Giles Price, the resulting portraits offer an arresting before-and-after contrast reflecting each designer's behind-the-scenes response to the realisation and reception of their latest collection.
Related Projects: [Richard Nicoll] [London Fashion Week] [Eley Kishimoto] [Vivienne Westwood] [Christopher Kane] [Louise Goldin] [Spring/Summer 09] [Osman Yousefzada] [Erdem] [Meadham Kirchhoff] [Basso & Brooke] [Peter Pilotto] [Louise Gray] [House of Holland]
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.
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]
Penny Martin, Laura Bradley
The shows, the 're-sees', the preposterous rumours and the parties: let the SHOWstudio picture phone be your guide as the team braved the queues at the biannual fashion collections. From 18 September until 8 October 2006, the team blogged the Spring/Summer '07 shows and all the fabulous fashion fuss and frippery that went with them.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Laura Bradley] [Penny Martin] [Paris Fashion Week] [London Fashion Week] [Spring/Summer 07] [Milan Fashion Week] [Nicholas Guesquiere]
Jason Evans, Richard Nicoll
Shown in its second season as part of the hit showcase Fashion East, Richard Nicholl teamed up with photographer Jason Evans to create this sequence of intimate portrait images to demonstrate Nicholl's distinctive way of draping and twisting fabric. Intercut with moments of pure motion fun from Evans, the piece was the seventh in a series of very different approaches to fashion editorial using film, screened in relation to London Fashion Week S/S '05.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Collections] [Jason Evans] [Richard Nicoll] [London Fashion Week]
Jens Laugesen, Alistair McKimm
The title of Jen's Laugesen's Spring/Summer '05 collection (OUTSIZE 02: CMYK) gave some preparation for the uncharacteristic surprise of colour concluding the Danish designer's predominantly monochrome show. Whereas Laugesen's own design philosophy involves creating different, generic versions from the same aesthetic whole, filmmaker Jean-François Carly adopted a more narrative approach to recording the construction and execution of the catwalk show.
The only of Shows Film Week's shorts to venture backstage, the fourth in our series took a 'behind-the-scenes' look at the production of the fashion show itself.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [Jens Laugesen] [London Fashion Week]
Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones, Hamish Morrow, UVA
Less interested in 'next season' than in a genuine future of fashion, Hamish Morrow took a couple of collections off from showing on the catwalk in order to consolidate his research into technological glamour and functional luxury. Having chosen to represent this exploration in motion image, he
collaborated instead with Nick Thornton-Jones, Warren Du Preez and United Visual Artists on this film, 'Fashion in Zero Gravity', about the effect of gravitational pull on fashion garments and image.
The fifth in a week of fashion films relating to London Fashion Week '05, it was originally presented in the context of an exhibition project staged at Belsay Hall in Northumberland May - September 2004.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [London Fashion Week] [Hamish Morrow] [Nick Thornton-Jones and Warren Du Preez]
Kataryna Szczotarska, Dirk Seiden Schwan
Dirk Seiden Schwan's short film for the Russian fashion designer Katarzyna Szczotarska was a refreshing and endearing portrayal of a young woman's exuberant, emotional response to the fashion she is wearing.
An exclusive edit from a longer original, 'Appoline' was the sixth fashion film in a series drawn from London Fashion Week, S/S '05 season.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [London Fashion Week]
Emma Cook, Shona Heath
Making a welcome return to the London schedule after a season's hiatus, Emma Cook delighted audiences with a highly-feminine, though directional and extremely wearable, collection that showcased expert draping gathered up by Art Nouveau detailing and accessories.
The third installment to a week of films relating to the Spring/Summer '05 season, this decorative film short by Shona Heath backgrounded Emma Cook's catwalk show and revealed the collection's source aesthetic as well as referencing the pool of innovative image-makers that have surrounded this progressive designer's work.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [London Fashion Week] [Emma Cook]
As visible shoulder pads, twisted denim dungarees and wet T-shirts that revealed red lace bras proceeded (in reverse order) down Ann-Sofie Back's S/S '05 catwalk, it was clear that this Swedish designer's antipathy to conventional representations of femininity was ongoing. As her peers made their money back on bankable, pretty accessories like dainty high heels and lady-like handbags, Ann-Sofie's broken sunglasses, slit bowler hats worn as necklaces and rope belts served to complicate already challenging visions of campus-girl imperfection.
How then, would she market that classic money-spinner, the fragrance? In a season that was peppered with scent adverts and launches-Dior's J'Adore, Chanel's No. 5, Viktor & Rolf's Flowerbomb-Ann-Sofie collaborated with photographer Benjamin Huseby to imagine the perfume campaign that could capture her brand's key values of subverted sophistication, awkwardness and hard-to-reach beauty. Were she ever to create a fragrance, that is.
The second in a week of films related to the recent Spring/Summer '05 collections, 'Sandra' unpacked this popular, pre-Christmas genre of fashion image-making with the quintessential self-awareness and wit that characterises an Ann-Sofie Back project.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Ann-Sofie Back] [Benjamin Alexandre Huseby]
Swash, Stephen White
Highlight of London Fashion Week S/S '05 for many, Swash's sunny, poplin prints and cheeky cut-out trousers brought a breath of fresh air to the catwalk and what's more, a welcome sense of humour. This film, The Hoteliers, showcased the collection that put them on the London schedule: a previous, capsule collection of motorcycle capes and trousers designed for the nineteenth Festival International des Arts de la Mode à Hyères prize, which they won in May 2004. Situating their characteristic, virtuoso tailoring, classic fabrics and fun print designs (by illustrator Yuko Kondo) in a fantastical, English pastoral setting, Stephen White's film short exemplified the growing trend for designers to present their garments in a motion image and sound context.
The first in a full week of films related to the recent Spring/Summer '05 collections, The Hoteliers represented this innovative way of re-imagining editorial fashion image-making.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Swash]
Marius W Hansen
View photographer Marius W Hansen's live Picture/Message project, broadcast from the Queens Ice Bowl where Peter Jensen presented his S/S '05 collection 'Tonya' on ice.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [Picture Phone] [London Fashion Week]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Peter Jensen]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Boudicca]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Preen]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Giles]
Peter Jensen
The sole question that perplexed those lucky enough to have witnessed Peter Jensen's utterly memorable S/S '05 'show on ice' was 'why had nobody done it before?' Shot from the rink side, this short film, 'Tonya', captured the magic of the young skaters in action, showing fashion as it is experienced in everyday life; in motion.
The final film short in a week-long series marking how motion image has inveigled its way into mainstream modes of representing fashion, 'Tonya' celebrated the infamous ice queen who fell from grace and inspired Jensen's collection.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Models] [London Fashion Week] [Peter Jensen]
Jens Laugesen/Jean Francois Carly/Marcus Werner Hed
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Performance] [Models] [Jens Laugesen] [London Fashion Week] [Marcus Werner Hed]
Peter Jensen
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Art] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Peter Jensen]
BLAAK
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Collections] [London Fashion Week]
Patrik Söderstam
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Collections] [Menswear] [London Fashion Week]
Hamish Morrow/Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones/UVA
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Performance] [London Fashion Week] [Nick Thornton-Jones and Warren Du Preez]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Film] [Collections] [Jens Laugesen] [London Fashion Week]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Performance] [Collections] [Digital Image-Making] [London Fashion Week] [Hamish Morrow] [Nick Thornton-Jones and Warren Du Preez]
London Fashion Week S/S '04
Mauro Cocilio and Gerald Jenkins captured the frenetics of London Fashion Week S/S '04 including backstage images from Boudicca, Sophia Kokosalaki and Gibo.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Models] [Picture Phone] [London Fashion Week] [Boudicca] [Sophia Kokosalaki] [Gibo]