In the spirit of the festive season, SHOWstudio have approached a dozen stellar examples of international fashion talent to help us celebrate Christmastide in style.
Related Projects: [Interactive] [Richard Nicoll] [Peter Jensen] [Todd Lynn] [Danny Brown] [Roksanda Ilincic] [Ann-Sophie Back] [Nicholas Kirkwood] [Marios Schwab] [Rodarte] [Mary Katrantzou] [Emilio de la Morena] [Sandra Backlund] [Scott Wilson]
Our new film season Future Tense embraces and celebrates the creative visions of the latest generation of twenty-first century fashion designers, using the medium of moving image. In collaboration with Hywel Davies, whose forthcoming book 100 New Fashion Designers was our departure point, we’ve approached a wide variety of fashion stars to create films of between 30 seconds and three minutes, expressing their individual design vision.
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Penny Martin] [Peter Jensen] [Pierre Hardy] [Rodarte] [Hywel Davies] [Alex Fury] [Lutz] [Todd Lynn and Henrik Vibskov] [Daryoush Haj-Najafi]
Tokyo Style Clash was your chance to battle it out and really see if you were 'HOT or NOT?'. From the 14th until the 16th October, a roster of photographers were set up in the front window of BEAMS' store in Harajuku, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo, waiting to take the portraits of anyone who thought they might be a style contender! All photographs were then used to create an interactive game to be played on SHOWstudio by our viewers and an invited panel including Undercover designer Jun Takahashi, Nick Knight, great Dane Peter Jensen, model Lily Cole and Paris fashion princess Sarah Colette. So it was over to our celebrity panel and the SHOWstudio viewers to play the game to decide who really had the hottest look in Tokyo!!
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Peter Jensen] [Retail] [Lily Cole] [Jun Takahashi] [Sarah Colette] [Fumiko Imano] [Game]
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]
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]
Peter Jensen
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Film] [Interview] [Art] [Collections] [London Fashion Week] [Peter Jensen]