>Penny Martin
Writer, Curator
Professor Penny Martin is a writer and curator of fashion and photography. She is the Editor in Chief of The Gentlewoman magazine and Professor of Fashion Imagery at London College of Fashion, before which she was Editor in Chief of SHOWstudio.com from 2001–08. Penny has lectured internationally and curated numerous exhibitions – most recently, ‘When You’re A Boy: men’s fashion styled by Simon Foxton’ at The Photographers’ Gallery, London and is co-curator of ‘SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution’ at Somerset House, London. Penny has contributed to Another, Beaux Arts, Blueprint, Contemporary, Fantastic Man, Frieze, Harper's Bazaar, i-D, Numéro, British Vogue, Japanese Vogue, Japanese Vogue Hommes magazines, La Repubblica and The Independent newspapers and BBC2's The Culture Show. She also consults to brands and individuals such as Stella McCartney, Viktor & Rolf, L’Oréal Paris, Juergen Teller, The Collective Shift and Yves Saint Laurent Beauté.
Related SHOWstudio Projects
INSIDE THE HOUSE OF VIKTOR & ROLF
(20 October 2008)Captured during the final week of their ground-breaking exhibition at London's Barbican Gallery, this series of films offers a glimpse...
EXPERIMENTS IN ADVERTISING: The Films of Erwin Blumenfeld
(25 September 2006)A unique chance to see the undiscovered, historic film footage of one of the most influential fashion photographers of all...
THE SOUND OF CLOTHES: ANECHOIC
(20 April 2006)Anechoic is a 'collections story' project that used sound instead of visuals to interpret the essence of key garments the...
SHELF APPEAL
(15 December 2004)An artificial sweetener dispenser designed by Karl Lagerfeld, a hairbrush whose bristles had been replaced by locks of human hair, coloured...
THE BELGIANS
( 5 March 2004)
END OF SUMMER
(11 September 2003)
KILLED
(23 January 2002)Selected Publications
'SHOOT', Rizzoli, 2009.
'The Oxford Companion to the Photograph', Oxford University Press, 2005.
'Fashion Now 2', Jones, T. & Rushton, S. (eds.), Taschen, 2005.
'The Englishness of English Dress', Breward, C. & Conekin, B. (eds.), Berg, 2001.