By a way of a trailer for tomorrow's live sound shoot, we have launched the Anechoic project, complete with the 'noisy wardrobe' we will be using for your advance perusal. Our new intern Anna Gudbrandsdottir has been in today, photographing each sample garment as it arrives. As homework, get a... [more]
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This rather curious thing is from a site offering 'feminist bumper stickers' amongst other slogans. In lieu of any other ehpemara from the innovative and ongoing programme of the same name I have borrowed this motivational scrap to announce the posting of an extended view of Alexandra Bachzetsis' 'Musical'. A... [more]
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The potential for experimention is so wide with a site like ours and the workload so intense that we have had to accept that some of our craziest, most outlandish ideas for projects have 'fallen between two stools' as it were. This was certainly the case with an initial thought... [more]
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We’re trying to get the attack and decay of the audio right, so we’ve made a version of the piece that has sliders so you can affect the rates the sounds come in and out. And then we thought it’d be no bother to let you play with a few... [more]
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The inruigingly titled performance festival that is taking place in Utrecht, Holland all this week takes its name from Lithuanian-born Anarcho-communist Emma Goldman's engaging phrase 'If I Can't Dance I Don't Want To Be Part of Your Revolution'. It wants to explore the nuance that engagement with social or political... [more]
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The interconnected world of the SHOWstudio FORUM just gets curiouser and curiouser. There I was, having a chat in the studio with the Artistic Director of the NOBODY denim label yesterday, Wesley Hartwell, when he confesses to also being 'Ethan': he of the ambitious 'modernity vs postmodernity' topic strings on... [more]
After four hours of non-stop webchat and iChat AV action, Nick has sportingly made his way through a massive selection of your questions. A big sorry to those of you whose questions never made it in and very big thanks to Tomas who bravely took up the challenge to chat... [more]
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Nick Knight has just arrived in the studio. Final preparations - iChat tests, refreshments, toilet stops- are being carried out by the team ahead of the live IN CAMERA interview 16:00 UK TIME start time. Meanwhile, you can still submit any questions you have right up until the end of... [more]
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I've just opened up the SHOWstudio iChat account so we are now ready to take your requests for a one to one chat with Nick later. See below for more detailed instructions. It is also my pleasure to inform you that the project page is open for business, which means... [more]
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A huge crowd gathered at the Design Museum last night to witness the announcement of the prestigious Designer of the Year award, whose shortlist this year comprised of furniture and lighting designer Tom Dixon, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity Cameron Sinclair, illustrator Jamie Hewlett and The Guardian. Three months worth... [more]
As part of Nick's interview tomorrow we will be allowing our viewers to chat with Nick using Apple's iChat software. So if you are on a mac and have a camera and microphone then keep reading to find out how to get involved.
The first thing to do is add... [more]
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The eighth instalment of the FFF held last night at The Horse Hospital, centred around the period of the Second Word War. The intimate screening included a selection of newsreels and instructional 'make-do-and-mend' shorts as well as a one-hour long documentary focusing on the extraordinarily eventful life of the Jewish... [more]
Never having been screened in London since its initial launch in 2001 and near impossible to track down on DVD, Bruce Weber's glorious film Chop Suey delighted an audience packed with industry luminaries at the FFF screening at the ICA tonight. Ostensibly a documentary about young male model Peter Johnson,... [more]
Two short films from cheapcream capture the abstract beauty of a near empty disco dancefloor and a lone podium dancer, and the impromtu routine of a be-wigged audience member of the intimate and well-respected Fruit Farm Film Festival taking to the floor to fill an unexpectred interval when a film... [more]
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Nick Ryan dropped in this morning to take a look at the Balenciaga jacket, in order to get a final sense of the garment for his synaesthetic interpretation of the photographs. Sharmin videoed him talking through what he was looking for, and we will post the film of the session... [more]
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Sharmin and I have been interviewing prospective studio assistants all day. I don't know if we'd reached that special place but our last interviewee of the day, Jo Paterson had a little book that tickled our funny bone. Hand bound and covered in flock wallpaper Impact and Influence contained... [more]
When you're a little team, press requests can be the bane of your life to support. We don't mean to be ungrateful -all coverage very much appreciated, thank you very much- but the preparation of images takes ages and with lightning-speed turnaround times in here, any time spent by the... [more]
We're currently wading through your countless questions for Nick and enjoying every surreal and excitable one of them! Of course, you have a chance to submit new ones right up until Nick takes his seat -at 16:00hrs UK time on Tuesday 23rd- and throughout his live interview. We anticipate a... [more]
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It is our great pleasure to launch news editor Rupert Angarita-Dodds' submission as part of our Editors' Cut project. Brought to our attention by SHOWstudio contributor Hal Couzens, the highly-recommended ABC News editor has worked his magic on Nick Knight's exclusive Galliano footage, resulting a film with the 'newsy feel'... [more]
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Nick Ryan has sent through some sounds to see how they gel, so I’ve inserted them into the piece along with the glittery effects I’ve been working on (since the photographs have been revealed).
You can have a play by clicking here (Shockwave required). I should point out that... [more]
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Bas Jan Ader left a powerful legacy for performance and action-based art. According to critic Richard Dorment this photograph, 'All My Clothes' recalls an affecting biographical moment: the frantic actions of his own mother when given 15 minutes to prepare for detainment by the German Army during WWII resulted in... [more]
No, it's not just a man in a stretchy sweatshirt. It's Erwin Wurm in a 'position'. One of his spellbinding '59 Positions' (1992) to be precise, which was screened as part of another thoughtful installment of the FFF programme at London's ICA this evening. Whereas the festival so far has... [more]
With the exception of the media-reluctant Irving Penn, perhaps, William Klein is the sole surviving doyen of 1950s/60s American fashion photography. We are thrilled, therefore, to present this (very rare) opportunity to hear him speak about his esteemed career in image-making. In relaxed and charismatic form, the photographer and film-maker... [more]
See Nick Knight and Jonathan Kaye’s source photographs of the S/S ‘06 Balenciaga collection (starring Gemma Ward) that are providing the inspirational basis of Nick Ryan and Danny Brown's Synaesthetic interpretations. Contains those unpublished shots as well as the full editorial story printed in the Spring/Summer '06 issue of Pop,... [more]
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Tonight the Fashion In Film festival offered a rare opportunity to see a restored version of Howard Hawks' 1926 gem 'Fig Leaves', unearthed from MoMA's archives: a fascinating reflection of the period where womens' newly-won right to vote (in the West) and desire to work collided with a burgeoning... [more]
Here's fashion photography legend William Klein, graciously answering questions and signing books for a queue of adoring and reverential fans. All you assiduously private and mysterious snappers take note!
The inaugral event of the Fashion In Film festival, a screening of
William Klein's landmark fashion parody 'Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo' (1966), culminated with an entertaining Q&A with the influential photographer himself. Interviewed by the adept journalist Paul Ryan and film theorist Pamela Church Gibson, Klein was fascinating... [more]
Today we met with Kensui Arao and Miho Kinomura to discuss a new project to take place in the Autumn. Kensui (at the end) is a creative director with Publicis (Japan) and Miho with Studio D.O.G.Inc. in Tokyo/Los Angeles. Penny, Sharmin and myself attended from SHOWstudio and we met for... [more]
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Nick dropped in for a quick Friday afternoon chat to discuss potential new projects to take place in Paris and Tokyo during fashion week.
What do you want your clothing to communicate? Or indeed others to communicate to you though your own garments? See veteran British conceptual artist Stephen Willats classic ongoing Multiple Clothing project looking as fresh as it did three decades ago for an outing at Tate Modern.
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At last, we have a date confirmed for Nick Knight's live, IN CAMERA interview: 23 May!! We already have many, many more questions than Nick could possibly have the stamina or time to answer, but who knows? Yours might just make it in! Click HERE and we'll do our best.... [more]
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In preparation to the second installment to our 'Sound of Clothes' season of projects we have been busy selecting garments from the A/W '06-7 collections that we think will make interesting sound recordings for our 'sound based collections story'. After whittling the list down to a manageable fifteen (we only... [more]
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As more and more of the unedited footage is used up by the many editors -amateur and profesional- who have submitted their cuts, the challenge to create something striking and original gets harder. In new shorts posted today, commercials and feature film editor Sam Sneade finds new territory in the... [more]
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One of the longest running fashion websites and a key independent, UK-based peer, Fashion UK has relaunched to mark its tenth anniversary.
I was copied in on the following message from Nick Ryan to Daniel Brown that details the progress on the Synaesthesia project. This is not as unethical as that sounds: I did ask, er, Danny...
Danny,
At last, getting there. I'm sorry for the painfully slow progress but this must be one... [more]
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If you liked the short film from Berlin capturing Lali Chetwynd's 'The Fall of Man: A Puppet Extavaganza!' there's more in strore with a detailed look at the actions of Chetwynd and her group of be-striped and costumed players from Tate Britain last week, who enact their bible opener with... [more]
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The Parisian agency in charge of Hyères, PRESSING, have kindly translated the awards announced on Sunday for me:
The grand prize of the fashion jury was attributed to Anthony Vaccarello (Belgium) together with a prize of €15,000 from L'Oreal Professionel. The special prize from the jury was attributed to... [more]
As a result of some historical research undertaken as part of our Moving Fashion project, our picture researcher Imogen Cornwall-Jones turned up some amazing archive footage by Erwin Blumenfeld that has never been seen before.
So exciting and fufilling was Compulsive Viewing: the films of Guy Bourdin, our collaboration with the... [more]
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Review Jonathan Meese's controversial performance at Tate Modern, covered live on the night by video-phone, and now launched as more detailed film footage shot by Jeremy Valender. See if you find Meese's gestures, costumes, props and histrionic regurgitations inspired, un-moving or offensive. I like one audience member's description -subsequently ... [more]
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Apparently inspired by a Warhol quote that perfect photographs are captured from a fixed focal depth and have someone famous in them (I'm paraphrasing), Michel Mallard has trawled eBay looking for the 'Big Shot' camera that the artist used and for the cube flashes it requires. Michel used the ritzy... [more]
After a day of returning to London -without any connectivity- I am late with the Hyères Festival's results and alas, this blog can hardly be relied upon. I did my best with schoolgirl French at the swanky awards ceremony at the tents on the beach, presided over by a very... [more]
