Liberty has come on set for the very last stint of the live Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down and the VEILED session is about to begin. Who can beat Chester's take on Volume. His Preen Dress, Watanabe leggings and Stella McCartney coat are seen modelled by Liberty above... We'll... [more]
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Due to increasing demand to view the live video stream I've added another server - from my personal stash - to the array you can choose from upon entering the project. This server is also located in the US, in Texas.
Some people have reported better chances when choosing different servers,... [more]
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Hundreds of you have been logging on to style Liberty over the past couple of days and Nick's stills of your assembled looks are amassing in the Viewer's Gallery. Above is JimmyC's take on FRINGED, with Liberty giving Christian Wijnants' gown a good thrashing. Still to come tonight is BIKER,... [more]
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With an informed audience like SHOWstudio's, it's not quite good enough to say that 'pornographic webchats were our initial inspiration' and then not look into the critical ramifications of finding pornography 'inspiring'.
And so, to complement the live Liberty shoot, we've commissioned a bit of reading for you. Six people... [more]
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If you have any problems viewing the live stream or using the chatroom can you please post them in the forum under the topic CHAT ROOM PROBLEMS. We'll keep an eye on it and do our best to fix what we can. Thanks. EDIT: Please list your machine type/processor... [more]
I meant to give you all heads up on this a few days ago, but I've been wrestling with Java implementation issues for the last few days. The live broadcast is a mix of a QuickTime and Java chat. The chat is the most problematic - and untested - of... [more]
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Everyone's on set (well, nearly) and Liberty is currently 'in hair and make-up', preparing for her 'Victorian' persona. You will be able to register for chat shortly: certainly by 10.30 when the shoot starts. We're having a few teething problems with the chat application, but that's to be expected. Bear... [more]
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It's all hands on deck getting all the tech in place for tomorrow's live shoot (and it's been tight, but it's looking to be exciting). In advance of the live console being launched later tonight, I've been putting together a newswire for our subscribers that outlines the instructions for participating.... [more]
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No, it's not a big slag heap you can spot in the corner of the studio. Those are bags of clothes. Jonathan and Sarah have come into the studio to photograph the samples that have started to pour into the studio in advance of next week's live event.
Sanderson Bob's 'Looks'... [more]
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The missing piece from the Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down bonanza is the end product: what exactly will happen to the sequence of images of Liberty being undress once Nick captures them. Quietly, gradually, Daniel Brown has been working on a solution for us. Have a look at these... [more]
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A new day, a new gallery submission. This time two versions of John Galliano's incredibly intricate design_download from Lucy Copping in Wales. Click here to view.
The introduction of our downloadable Watanabe pattern to DRESS ME UP, DRESS ME DOWN appears to have inspired the seamstresses among you into a pattern-cutting frenzy. During a week of unprecedented submissions to our design_download gallerys we have received no fewer than three new sets of images in as many... [more]
Controversy abounds as the Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down event hits the headlines of the UK national press. The redoubtable fashion writer Susannah Frankel has in fact done us proud with a thoughtful and sensitive article in which the notions of control and the exact nature of the photographer/model... [more]
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If the first half of the DRESS ME UP, DRESS ME DOWN project was meant to prompt a model -usually the subject of the photographer's control- into taking control of her own representation, then it has more than achieved its goal. Liberty has astounded us with her rapid-fire creativity that... [more]
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As promised, the exclusive garment pattern for Watanabe's beautiful red dress is now launched. Perhaps the most coherent and poetic expression of fashion’s current fascination with new volumes, restrained silhouettes and Edwardian elegance, Junya Watanabe’s Autumn/Winter ’05-6 collection addressed so many of the themes to be explored in the live... [more]
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As well as completing the Q&A, Liberty has also sent us three new video fragments for her interactive piece. We should be seeing a few more from her over the next few days so be sure to check back.
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Finally back from a frantic trip shooting a video commercial with her husband, Liberty has at last found time to complete her Q&A. Of the answers on loneliness, criticism, personal creativity and what to do when it all gets too much -all topics central to the relentless world of modelling-... [more]
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The 'DRESS ME UP, DRESS ME DOWN' Movie page has been updated with images and footage from Nick's shoot for the first issue of the mighty 'POP' Magazine. Liberty wears cardboard accessories from John Galliano's A/W 2000 collection.
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It's just as well that Nick has been videoing all his shoots over the years as we can now provide access to a veritable archive of short film clips of Liberty Ross on set during one of her most explicit shoots, for British Vogue in 2001. We've arranged these into... [more]
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It seems a lengthy conversation about Bruce Weber has spiralled on the FORUM. For the devotees (and let's face it, the campaigns suggest there are as many as ever), you may be interested to know that he has recently agreed to do something for us over the Summer. Watch this... [more]
Of the looks many and varied presented at the Autumn/Winter '05-6 shows earlier this year, Jonathan Kaye has sifted them all down to nine key themes that will constitute the different 'shots' of the live stylathon to take place with Liberty Ross at the end of the month: Biker, Ecclesiastical,... [more]
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Beat the collectors frenzy at the prestigious Basel Art Fair this coming 13th June by participating in an unusual e-bay auction. Kunstverein München are holding a fundraising auction online to helps its renovation work and programme, with work by a very impressive selection of contemporary art practitioners including Wolfgang Tillmans... [more]
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"We are utterly delighted to announce that as part of the Liberty Ross 'Dress Me Up, Dress Me Down' project, the brilliant Japanese designer Junya Watanabe has offered to contribute a garment pattern from his forthcoming Autumn/Winter 2005-6 (not-yet-in-the-shops) collection." –17 May 2005
I'm no seamstress but the Watanabe pattern, which... [more]
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To tie in with the launch of their Joshua Reynolds exhibition, Tate Britain, London is holding a special GLAMOUR 'Late at the Tate' tonight, as part of which I am to hold a gallery talk in conversation with designer Roland Mouret. The gist is that Roland selects his favourite... [more]
Julie and Jeffrey's shoot is now over, but to see the Picture Phone images from today, click here and have a look in the 'Picture Diary'. We also shot some video footage and as the piece is to tie in with Liberty's project's overall theme of photographic control, we interviewed... [more]
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Last time SHOWstudio witnessed Julie Verhoeven and Jeffrey Deitch together the context was somewhat racy, and not a little controversial. Standing abreast of Terry Richardson's ever-attended erection -one of the images from 'Terryworld', Richardson's divisive exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York last Autumn- Julie and Jeffrey look demure and... [more]
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We don't generally cover each and every graduate presentation, but I think it's worth blogging last night's St. Martins show as its themes were quite marked. We've been focusing on fashion performance for some time at SHOWstudio (think: Transformer, fashion films, the live shoots and picture message projects), but rarely... [more]
I’ve arrived in Shanghai today, here to give a SHOWstudio
presentation as part of Rick Poynor’s excellent ‘Communicate’ graphics exhibition, which the British Council is touring to four cities in China.
The seminar for the opening of the exhibition in Shanghai is focusing on web and interactive design, this is... [more]
This series of mysterious packages, sent to Nick at SHOWstudio, had us flummoxed. Until we worked out that the key to the sequence lay in the 'Nick' badge, pinned to the deer. One of the more, er, arresting pleas for assisting experience but it's missing a contact address... Do you... [more]
