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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Daniel Brown] [Music] [Alexander McQueen] [Animation]
Nick Knight/Sharon Dowsett/Simon Costin
A controversial partnership: religion and iconography. Costin and Dowsett asked who and what people turned to in their darkest hour and how that faith might have looked.
Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Stylists] [Beauty] [Set Design]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Live] [Audio] [Nick Knight] [Models] [Photoshoot] [Liberty Ross] [Jonathan Kaye] [Food] [Alice Hawkins] [NOKI]
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!
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Models] [Judy Blame] [Photoshoot] [Naomi Campbell]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Interview] [Collections] [Models] [Photoshoot] [Jonathan Kaye] [Lily Cole]
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]
Nick Knight/Dazed & Confused
Celebrate ten years of imagery from the pages of Dazed through your own interactive photo-montage.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Graphic Design] [Celebrity]
Nick Knight/Tom Hingston
The dark side of the saloon. Nick Knight placed a dozen video cameras inside four crusher-bound cars and filmed their destruction down to the final scrunch. 3D of Massive Attack dreamt up the soundtrack.
Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Music] [Documentary] [Tom Hingston] [Massive Attack]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Collections] [Downloadable] [Alexander McQueen] [Garment Pattern]
Nick Knight
Follow Nick Knight's lens as it snooped from one Madison Avenue skyscraper to another. Then eavesdrop on Kate Moss while she talked on the telephone to artist, Sarah Morris, about exactly where Johnny Depp hid her diamond necklace.
Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Performance] [Art] [Celebrity] [Kate Moss] [Surveillance] [Sarah Morris]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Paul Hetherington] [Art Direction] [Beauty] [Music] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Digital Image-Making] [Animation] [Camille Bidault-Waddington]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Models] [Liberty Ross] [Erotica] [Jonathan Kaye] [Downloadable] [Junya Watanabe]
Nick Knight
Linda Evangelista starred in her own moon age daydream as she performed SHOWstudio's new singing cover on accordion in Nick Knight's seductive short film, 'Eclipse'. Jeremy Healy remixed the soundtrack.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Models] [Linda Evangelista] [Music]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Politics] [Mike Figgis] [Collections] [Paris Fashion Week] [Body Image] [Gemma Ward]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Collections] [Alexander McQueen] [Katy England] [Haute Couture] [Givenchy]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interactive] [Live] [Nick Knight] [Interview] [Webchat]
Nick Knight/Adam Mufti
Trailer trash, Jerry Springer, a '57 Cadillac, Gummo, Angela Lindvall and lots of spray paint. Put them in a blender and what did you get?
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Music] [Christian Dior] [Adam Mufti] [Animation] [Jeremy Healey]
Nick Knight
Join the dots to watch J. Alexander's lesson in how to walk the catwalk, directed by Nick Knight and animated by Dominic Wright.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Graphic Design] [Animation] [Peter Saville] [J Alexander]
Gwen Stefani/Nick Knight
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Music] [Downloadable] [Gwen Stefani]
Nick Knight/Alexander McQueen/Michael Clark
Watch the filmic version of SHOWstudio's MAC III print, an image born out of an explosive creative collaboration between McQueen, Knight and Clark. Featuring McQueen's Depression-era marathon dance inspired Spring/Summer '04 collection, and Clark's choreography, this multi-faceted film captured nine views of the gracefully suspended bodies in motion, the elegantly athletic composition that was set up for Knight's Numéro magazine shoot.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Collections] [Photoshoot] [Alexander McQueen] [Michael Clark] [Dance]
Val Garland
Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon met Hans Bellmer's Poupèes: twenty blonde models were made up in a vivacious, painterly fashion performance.
Related Projects: [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Interview] [Performance] [Models] [Beauty] [Val Garland]
Nick Knight/Katy England
If breast cancer affects one-in-ten women, why is it invisible in fashion photography? Nick Knight and stylist Katy England, redressed the balance in a shoot starring seven women who have fought breast cancer and won.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Politics] [Interview] [Performance] [Body Image] [Katy England]
Björk/Nick Knight/Insert Silence/Paul Barnes
Exclusive, uncensored version of the video for Björk's new single, Pagan Poetry, directed by Nick Knight. Also featuring a magical, reactive graphic interpretation and a downloadable typeface; designed for the single sleeve.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Performance] [Music] [Paul Barnes] [Insert Silence] [Typeface]
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]
Bjšrk/Catherine Deneuve/Katy England/Tracey Emin/Marianne Faithfull/Heidi Fleiss/Emma Forrest/ Shona Heath/Courtney Love/Penny Martin/Stella McCartney/Catherine Millet/Aimee Mullins/Ross Phillips/Isabella Rossellini/Peter Saville/Emmanuelle Seigner/Liv Tyler/Elizabeth Wurtzel
Related Projects: [Photography] [Interactive] [Ross Phillips] [Nick Knight] [Digital Image-Making] [Advertising]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Interview] [Collections] [Linda Evangelista] [Philip Treacy]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Performance] [Collections] [Jonathan Kaye] [Haute Couture]
Nick Knight
Watch nine supermodels sleep in these delicate and mesmerising films compiled from Webcam footage, captured from their hotel rooms.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Performance] [Collections] [Models] [Zora Star] [Liberty Ross] [Jonathan Kaye] [Elise Crombez] [Devon Aioki] [Surveillance]
Nick Knight/Massive Attack
Nick Knight exploded the beauty myth in this exclusive film related to his motion image campaign for Massive Attack's new album 100th Window.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Music] [Massive Attack]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Collections] [Stylists] [Music] [Photoshoot] [Jane How] [Haute Couture] [Kieran Hebden]
Daniel Brown, Susannah Frankel, Nick Knight, Nick Ryan
During the shoot of a 'Balenciaga special' by Nick Knight for Pop magazine in November '05, digital artist Daniel Brown was invited on set to respond to Nicolas Ghesquiere's Spring/Summer '06 collection. Inspired by its delicately layered, translucent garments, Brown proposed a series of interactives based on the unpublished images from Knight's story (published in January '06). Using the notion of 'pictures for the blind' as a stimulus, a collaboration with synaesthete and sound designer Nick Ryan ensued, aiming to interpret the source garments and images through sound. Follow the project from its initial meetings and tests to the final interactive works below, as Brown guides you along via a series of intimate film blogs.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Audio] [Nick Knight] [Collections] [Daniel Brown] [Balenciaga]
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.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interactive] [Live] [Webcast] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Interview] [Performance] [Judy Blame] [Photoshoot] [Liberty Ross] [Jonathan Kaye] [Juergen Teller] [Sam McKnight] [Bobby Gillespie] [Lily Cole] [Shona Heath]
Hussein Chalayan, Nick Knight
With his trademark eye for unconventional beauty, pioneering designer Hussein Chalayan shed new light on making up. Nick Knight's dramatic images formed the basis of a seductive interactive, where the face of contemporary maquillage was disclosed in vivid, painterly strokes.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Daniel Brown] [Hussein Chalayan]
Simon Foxton, Nick Knight
Asked to contribute to the forthcoming 'Health of the Nation'-themed, August issue of i-D magazine, Nick Knight and Simon Foxton elected to create a photographic story about the 'brutalising city': how it is brutalised by us, how it brutalises us and as a result, how it encourages us to brutalise each other.
Realising that London was only one of many possible locations for such a shoot, Nick and Simon decided to open their project up to SHOWstudio viewers worldwide, throwing down their brief as a gauntlet to the many internationally-based photographers we know view the site and contribute to the FORUM.
Related Projects: [Photography] [Interactive] [Magazines] [Nick Knight] [Simon Foxton] [Film] [Politics]