PARIS FASHION WEEK A/W 09

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.

• Credits Last updated 4 Mar 2009
• Contributors Last updated 4 Mar 2009
• Project Blog Last updated 27 Feb 2009
• Reports Last updated 27 Feb 2009

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]

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HENRY & AGYNESS - LONDON, MILAN, PARIS

For London, Milan and Paris fashion weeks SS’08, Henry Holland and Agyness Deyn gallantly take up the challenge of bearing the SHOWstudio picture phone. The British designer and model who have known each other since childhood juggle a busy schedule of shows and parties in almost a month of live fashion coverage.

• Project Blog Last updated 10 Sep 2007
• Contributors Last updated 10 Sep 2007

Related Projects: [Photography] [Paris Fashion Week] [Agyness Deyn] [Henry Holland] [Spring/Summer 08]

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PARIS FASHION WEEK A/W 2007-08

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.

• Project Blog Last updated 20 Feb 2007
• Contributors Last updated 20 Feb 2007

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]

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SHOW REPORTS S/S '07 (London/Milan/Paris)

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.

• Project Blog Last updated 15 Sep 2006
• Contributors Last updated 15 Sep 2006

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Laura Bradley] [Penny Martin] [Paris Fashion Week] [London Fashion Week] [Spring/Summer 07] [Milan Fashion Week] [Nicholas Guesquiere]

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EDITING FASHION

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.

• Project Blog Last updated 20 Dec 2005
• Editors' Cut Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Show Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Show Reports Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Casting Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Characters Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Footage Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Viewers' Cut Last updated 19 Dec 2005
• Contributors Last updated 19 Dec 2005

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Nick Knight] [Politics] [Mike Figgis] [Collections] [Paris Fashion Week] [Body Image] [Gemma Ward]

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PHONECARTE: Karen Elson

Karen Elson

Supermodel Karen Elson sent frequent voicemail messages throughout her week's work at the Paris Fashion shows.

• Messages Last updated 11 Oct 2004
• Contributors Last updated 11 Oct 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Audio] [Models] [Paris Fashion Week] [Diary] [Karen Elson]

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MAISON MARTIN MARGIELA A/W 2004-05

Nigel Bennett, Martin Margiela

An exclusive preview of Nigel Bennett's film showcase of the feted design group's A/W '04 womenswear collection. Presented in four parts, the film comprised conversations with five women, from which the themes of the main line collection and its intriguing Trompe L'Oeil prints were drawn.

• Images Last updated 7 Apr 2004
• Contributors Last updated 7 Apr 2004

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Collections] [Paris Fashion Week] [Martin Margiela]

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PICTURE/MESSAGE: POSER

David Weightman

In homage to 'Peeping Tom', David Weightman's live portraiture project used a special mirror camera to document the front row at Paris Fashion Week.

• Images Last updated 8 Oct 2003
• Contributors Last updated 8 Oct 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Paris Fashion Week] [Picture Phone] [David Weightman]

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VIKTOR & ROLF

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?

• Interview Last updated 8 Oct 2003
• Contributors Last updated 8 Oct 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Interview] [Collections] [Paris Fashion Week] [Tilda Swinton]

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PICTURE/MESSAGE: Paris Fashion Week S/S '04

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.

• Images Last updated 6 Oct 2003
• Contributors Last updated 6 Oct 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Live] [Paris Fashion Week] [Stylists] [Picture Phone] [Diary]

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BELLWETHER

Alexander McQueen

To mark Alexander McQueen's CBE award, the visionary designer illustrated the showstoppers from his 2003 collections in a film that documented the formidable technique at their core.

• Movies Last updated 21 Jul 2003
• Contributors Last updated 21 Jul 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Collections] [Models] [Paris Fashion Week] [Illustration] [Alexander McQueen] [History]

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STRIKE ME PINK

Greg Kadel/Viktor & Rolf

Showcasing their most colourful and playful collection yet, Dutch designer duo Viktor & Rolf's Spring/Summer '03 show provided the setting for Greg Kadel's kaleidoscopic films.

• Movies Last updated 17 Mar 2003
• Interview Last updated 17 Mar 2003
• Contributors Last updated 17 Mar 2003

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Film] [Interview] [Collections] [Paris Fashion Week] [Music] [Greg Kadel]

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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
• Fax Report Last updated 24 Jan 2003
• 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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CORRESPONDENT: Stephen Jones

Stephen Jones

Milliner extraordinaire Stephen Jones kept his head for hats amid the pandemonium of the London, Milan and Paris fashion weeks. Acting as our Correspondent, Stephen took us behind the scenes at the shows and inveigled our way into the celebrity parties that followed.

• Diary Last updated 25 Apr 2002
• Contributors Last updated 25 Apr 2002

Related Projects: [Fashion] [Paris Fashion Week] [Picture Phone] [Documentary] [Christian Dior] [Diary] [Stephen Jones] [Millinery]

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