We were walking past the Architecture Foundation's 'Yard' space at lunch -site of the first of Gareth Pugh's FASH OFF performances next week- and noticed that the listing has already been hand-painted on the door. It's official then!
Each working day of next week, Gareth will stage a matinée performance. The... [more]
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The complete footage from Whitstable has now been posted. A gentle and entertaining atmosphere was pervailing at this collection of seaside events, which took their measure very much from the pace of the town. Two more Speed Cabaret acts join the event -Suzanne Andade and Victor Mount- and Edwina Ashton... [more]
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We get so many press requests for the retouching images from the Power of Witches post-production diary that we have been keen to restage what is clearly a popular (and mysterious) aspect of the image-making process. After yesterday's on-set video explorations, the task for Nick is to now sew the... [more]
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I'm glad I'm not the one who receives that Nick Knight's mobile phone bill as throughout the day he has sent us no less than seventy-two video phone clips documenting today's shoot! Log on to see rapid-fire bursts of pure balloon bliss and glimmers of those gloriously exhilarating moments of... [more]
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In the run up to next week's live performances, Nick Knight, Gareth Pugh and Nicola Formichetti just happen to be in the studio today, creating a grand, improvisatory image out of balloons, silver foil and the bodies of twenty models. Follow the day via a series of abstract video clips,... [more]
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While Nick Ryan’s working away on the sound samples, me and Nick Knight have been working on the visual execution, and in particular the sparkles and glitter. And along the way I’ve realised there’s a difference between sparkles,
sparkles, and sparkles. So after a bit back and forth communication between me... [more]
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Transmissions editorial assistant Jenny Campbell-Colquhoun went to investigate the quintessential seaside town Biennale at Whitstable, which this year had a specially comissioned performance programme curated by writer Sally O'Reilly. The first clip of events is from the endearing 'Speed Cabaret', that attempted to rethink how performance is structured, in this... [more]
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Asked to contribute to the forthcoming ‘Health of the Nation’-themed, August issue of i-D magazine, Nick Knight and Simon Foxton elected to create a photographic story about the ‘brutalising city’: how it is brutalised by us, how it brutalises us and as a result, how it encourages us to brutalise... [more]
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For the sixth installation of our prestige designer downloadable pattern series (with previous entries from Junya Watanabe, Maison Martin Margiela, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano and Yohji Yamamoto), Gareth Pugh has contributed the template for his trademark inflatable, fabric balloons for the lucky SHOWstudio viewer base to make up for free!... [more]
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For the first time, hear the incredible, 'close-up' sounds of leather, sequins, silk, taffeta, rubber, jacquard, fringed beading, feathers, PVC, tulle and crystals, imperceptible to the 'naked' human ear. Captured in the anechoic chamber in early June, the collections story recordings -featuring A/W fashions by Hermès, Stella McCartney, Prada, Christian... [more]
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'Telekinetically Altered VW' is artist Erwin Wurm's contribution to the large hall of sculpture at Art Basel (collectively presented as Art Unlimited). Wurm impressed SHOWstudio recently with his short film '59 Positions', and here presents another contortion - this time of an inanimate object by a human mind via telekinesis.... [more]
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Matias Faldbakken sums up the current cultural mood with this succinct work, shown by Oslo gallery Standard at the young art fair Liste which runs concurrently with the art world's biggest commercial event Art Basel, now in its 37th year.
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Fêted for his commitment to creating provocative spectacles over mundane, workaday clothes, controversial young designer Gareth Pugh will be using the SHOWstudio live platform to stage a series of performances to mark Couture Week, the first week of July 2006. Each representing his attitude towards the different aspects of his... [more]
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This afternoon saw the long awaited official re-opening of St Luke’s Gardens, which is SHOWstudio's local council park in London. The long waiting and the re-opening is down to another local resident, Peter Saville, who has designed a horticultural installation for the garden. Entitled "Process Garden", it features flower beds... [more]
Oh, can you imagine what fun it must be to have 'Demure' for a surname? Just ask jewellery PR Valery Demure here, who we persuaded to pose among all her Natalia Brilli samples during a visit to her East London studio this morning. There has been a recent upturn in... [more]
If you've ever wondered exactly how young designers first make it on to the catwalk schedule of fashion week and who screens the various applications for support, this is what goes on behind the scenes at the British Fashion Council. Today, the panel (from left to right, Caren Downe and... [more]
Those of you with fantastic memories will remember Rowan Mersh's debut appearance on the blog in August last year, detailing a series of works -featuring his fantastical sculptural pieces- in collaboration with photographer Wendy Bevan. Rowan has continued to keep us up-to-date with his work so we were particularly eager... [more]
Today's meeting at Swarovski HQ was a bit of a revelation. If the brand makes you think of crystal bunnies in spinning mirror cabinets, then you'd better think again! They must have heard what a haberdashery geek I am as their Head of Fashion, Pascale Montaner (pictured) had me practically... [more]
Viewing film festivals as 'highly suspect at the best of times' Mike Figgis constructed an elaborate rouse to survive Cannes 2006. Acting as a (rather famous) 'beach portraitist', he set up a make-shift studio in his hotel bedroom and a gallery at the back of his host nightclub and spent... [more]
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Every now and then we are blessed with a gallery submission for one of our design_download project series. As always we're particularly impressed with those brave enough to take on the seemingly impossible task of piecing together Galliano's pirate jacket (A/W 2001 collection). Thanks then to Emily Read of Tasmania... [more]
The continuing Sound of Clothes project may have some of you perplexed, but it seems that charismatic scent artist Sissel Tolaas -who came to see us about future projects today- has trumphed us already in terms of abstract, garment-related projects. In 1998, she staged 'Soft/Wear' in Montpellier, a project about... [more]
The Royal College of Art's Fashion MA graduate collection was unveiled to the press this afternoon in a particularly packed-out and swelteringly hot catwalk space at the Kensington-based college. Crowd pleasers were definitely Robbie Blundell's collection that was 'modelled' by dancers from the English National Ballet and Denis Antoine's confident... [more]
As The Otolith Group Kodwo Eshun and Anjelika Sagar weave together fractured histories to present what they refer to as a ‘past-potential future’ which they propose allows for a different perspective on the present. The name of the group, Otolith, refers to the particles that function in the inner ear... [more]
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Every year at the Saint Martin's BA show, it seems, there is a celebrity draw. Anita Pallenberg, Sienna Miller's sister Savannah or perhaps Paul McCartney's daughter Stella; you can feel the schaddenfreud in the air as the crowd gathers to see whether the famous people are actually any good or... [more]
Just when we thought the bi-annual, post-show series of Press Day appointments had come to an end, Penny and I were invited to peruse the Alexander McQueen A-W '06-7 accessories collection, on display at Browns Hotel today. The womenswear line -created in collaboration with Italian designer Gaetano Peroni- was particularly... [more]
I've received so many personal e-mails over night from people, frustrated that they missed aspects of the Anechoic shoot yesterday, that I am moved to blog and assure you that there is plenty more to come from this, the second of our three 'Sound of Clothes' projects.
The task is... [more]
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The recordings are now complete and it's pack up time at the anechoic chamber. For the first time in SHOWstudio history, surely, we've kept to time. All credit to Zora and Sharmin! As a treat, the NPL staff allowed us to take a sneaky peak at their Reverberation Chamber -where... [more]
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Each of the garments have now been captured; Giles' fantastic, crystal encrusted top, Jean Paul Gaultier's divine leather cape for Hermès, the simultaneously sinister and magical feather ensemble from Undercover and the pretty, jacquard mini skirt with metallic vase detail from Miu Miu each making great audio variations. A special... [more]
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The first half of today's 'audio shoot' has yielded results far stranger, more pronounced and generally extrordinary that we could have hoped for. This is mostly because our model, Zora -who confessed this morning that she is studying sound at university- understands perfectly how to generate most noise from each... [more]
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We're just setting up at the National Physical Laboratory, waiting for Zora -who is presently 'in hair and make-up'- to arrive. We're all having fun, listening to the sound of blood rushing around our heads in the hemi-anechoic chamber (hearing yourself speak is a little like talking from under a... [more]
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