After all the hard work we put into setting up the AMAZE ME pod in Dover Street Market it seems a shame to take it down... so we're not. So if you haven't already been down consider this your second chance to impress one of the six judges and win... [more]
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The second set of Daniel Brown's interactives have been posted. Featuring cutting edge Autumn/Winter fashion (Rochas, Roksanda Ilincic and Stella McCartney amongst many others) these three outfits were styled by "Peter King', 'Squirrel' and 'Chester' in their 15 minutes of fame in the live chatroom. A further three are due... [more]
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An off-site meeting was held last night to discuss work on a great new project that launches in the middle of next month, devoted to fashion film. The ability to show the moving garment was one of the many reasons Nick set up SHOWstudio - nearly five years ago! -... [more]
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Whilst the forum has been developing its discussion on US documentary film-maker Jenny Livingston's excellent 'Paris is Burning' from the late 1980s, this library copy of an abridged version (for a British documentary series called Arena) was unearthed for me at the London College of Fashion. Livingston's film remains... [more]
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Berliners, click here to see who's on your PSP AMAZE ME panel. Select a brief and visit our micro-studio, hosted by Apartment, between 19 OCT - 16 NOV for your chance to win critical acclaim and a hand-held games console.
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E-mail Missive Received from Oxfam:
I just wanted to update everyone on how the auction went, and most
importantly to say THANK YOU! to all of you who helped and
contributed, especially all at SHOWstudio, who decided to give the clothes
to Oxfam in the first place.
So, the total... [more]
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The auction ended last night at eight o'clock, as over one hundred and eighty items finally went under the eBay hammer. Word from Oxfam is that the sale has raised a magnificent total of more than £19,000!!! You generous people. To see what each lot went for, check the AUCTION... [more]
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Only a few hours to bid on items in our online charity fashion auction. Of course seasoned eBay'ers will hold off bidding until the eleventh hour, but is that really in the spirit of charity? Don't forget you need an eBay account to bid, so if you've just been window... [more]
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Only two more days to bid for a unique piece of fashion history! Bjork's
swan dress is currently sits at a fantastic 6,000GBP. If you can't quite stump up that kind of cash, there are still real bargains to be had: brand new Stella McCartney over-the-knee boots from the current collection... [more]
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Inteviewing for Unit F's Contemporary Fashion Archive, Diane Pernet came by first thing. We exchanged 'blog portraits': here she is, adjusting her camera phone.
Multimedia artist Daniel Brown has been working on a series of interactive images as the final –‘Dress Me Down’– part of this project. Featuring Liberty Ross in various states of undress, the footage used features the chosen favourites taken from each of Jonathan Kaye’s nine key Autumn fashion looks. SHOWstudio... [more]
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If you've been reading the fashion press this week, you'll have seen them go crazy for the news of the swan dress, which is currently sitting at a fantastic £6,200 (and there's still three days to go)! If you can't quite stump up that kind of cash, there are still... [more]
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If you thought the recent flirtation with 80s pop culture was a fleeting phase (with every new band looking and sounding like a second-rate Jam, Specials or Siouxie and the Banshees and rumours of Pam Hogg, Bodymap and Rifat Ozbek revivals on heavy rotation), tonight's Fashion East saw it developed... [more]
Dashing off to speak at the On|Off 'London as a Fashion Capital' symposium at The Royal Academy this afternoon, on a panel convened by the cultural studies writer Angela McRobbie and featuring SHOW contributor Zowie Broach from BOUDICCA, among others. It's difficult to switch gears when in shows mode, to... [more]
There is one thing you can say for London Fashion Week, it has some choice venues. Take Sunday night's excursion into the dark and opulent world of the Freemason's Hall for Giles' immaculate show of 60s couture shapes revised with an almost Aesthetic Movement hand. So rarely is the building... [more]
Without trying to steal cheapcream's fire, Transmission's latest addition is a bumper set of 24 short, looped videos by (avaf recommended artist film-maker) Paul, Marc & Raymond that documents the recent Rirkrit Tirivanija 'Retrospective' at London's Serpentine Gallery in August. The multiple views provide a sense of the many ways... [more]
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Only twenty fours hours after the auction start, the highest bid on Björk's swan dress stands at £4300 ($7700) which is as amazing as the dress itself! For those on a more modest budget there are still plenty of bargains –McQueen, Boudicca, YSL, Margiela, Blur– all cheap as... [more]
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Like the slave employed to sit behind the Roman Emperor on his Imperial processions and whisper in his ear 'remember, you are mortal', some elements of London Fashion Week (which started today) prevent you from getting carried away with the sheer fabulousness of it all. Such as sitting behind an... [more]
GET BIDDING!! www.oxfam.org.uk/bringandbuy/
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BRING & BUY AUCTION STARTS THIS SUNDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2005, FROM 20:00hrs (UK). ENDS SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2005, 20:00hrs (UK)
You've been familiarising yourself with the 180+ fantastic donations to the Bring & Buy project for over six weeks now since the live shoot, both through the AUCTION section of the... [more]
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The run up to Fashion Week is an ecologist's nightmare; tons and tons of quality paper coming in the door, advertising events, catwalk shows and parties sporting the latest die-cut, foil-blocked, laser-cut and spot-varnish graphic design flourishes. Credit is due to Jessica Ogden, then, for not only the most beautiful... [more]
After visiting Ebru's presentation last night (which turned out to double up as a look book shoot for her very desirable summer linen/denim-cross garments that will be unleashed on www.catwalking.com on Monday morning), I joined the 'friends of Peter Jensen' to witness the Danish designer's participation in the VH1 Fashion... [more]
Another crop of videos have been added to the London entries in our AMAZE ME project. I'd recommend searching out the one above. Paul Bruty asked me to let you know that Italian and German have been added to the list of available languages, allora vai a vederlo!
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Pete Orrey, who is organising next week's auction at Oxfam's end, has just been in touch to let us know that some of the donations to the sale contravene company policy. Jung-Won Vark's 'Semen Wiper' shirt (Lot 19) violates their policy on selling soiled items (really, what did you expect,... [more]
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The microscope of forum opinion has turned its attention briefly to our offshoot 'Sideshow Bob' project Transmissions this week. Additional biographical and factual information has been added about assume vivid astro focus today, which should shed extra light on the artist. However, it may be that until more of the... [more]
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The fashion press may have its eye on New York (the lighting rig crashing down on top of you at Diane Von Fursternberg's show on Sunday would tend to grab your attention!), but things are starting up in London already. SHOW contributor Ebru Ercon stages her off-schedule presentation today, a... [more]
The AMAZE ME microstudio is now installed and running in Antwerp, in the futuristic basement of quirky urbanwear store Fish and Chips.
Residents and visitors to this stylish Belgian city, arguably the most fashionable city in the world at present –designers Martin Margiela, Véronique Branquinho, Bruno Pieters, AF Vandervorst, Raf Simons,... [more]
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No doubt you will have seen Eisuke Negishi and Paul H's fantastic photographs of all 180+ lots in the Auction section of the BRING & BUY project by now. What you won't be aware of is the neo-Fordist production line we had to put in place to get the... [more]
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The new issue of i-D magazine is just out, and is well worth the cover price - just for the cover alone.
SHOWstudio's BRING & BUY shoot is featured, as part of the entire issue guest edited by Nick Knight. Gemma Ward features on the most striking cover seen on the... [more]
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We've been down to the pod and brought back the first crop of videos. Look out for some great dancing, fancy whistling and wild jumping.
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The upcoming project billed for 'Transmissions' is the guest-edited feature 'cheapcream' by artist assume vivid astro focus. The moniker -avaf for short - is an umbrella name for a diverse -often collaborative or inclusive- artistic output, the assumed name a bid to avoid the personality driven parameters that dominate much... [more]
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As usual, everything goes well until you install the machine and let the public play with it. A couple of bugs made themselves known at the weekend which led to the pod being tinkered with this morning. The operation went well and it's now in rude health, eagerly awaiting your... [more]
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Today is set up day for the AMAZE ME installation at Dover Street Market in London. As with everything that comes flat packed, assembly is never as strightforward as the instructions make out – and this doesn't have instructions. The four week installation will officially begin on Monday, but if... [more]
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The posters and flyers for the forthcoming AMAZE ME project are hot off the press, so we thought we'd offer a little insight into their devlopment. The designs have progressed through a series of stages over the last few months; a typographic solution was initially proposed, but in the end... [more]
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