I couldn't find a discussion about Björk upcoming record, so I just as well started one..
Now, there are so many expectations to a new Björk record. It's how she choose to do the touring, the cover, the font, the dresses, the videos and so on...and therefore also alot to discuss for fans of hers
I find it very interesting that she this time got a sculpture made for the cover. To construct the shoot so you can enjoy it in different ways is very exciting. I loved the way her tour-dvds where simple shoots of televisions showing the dvds contents with gadgets and promotional spinoff-products stored around it. It was a way to acknowledge how Björk fans have it home (instead of just showing off some fancy studio). Hort took also an interesting take when they set up a room where they hung up the tracklist as different "logos", where each song got their design on a poster for themself.
I'm glad she choose Bernhard Willhelm over Alexander McQueen (his classic references too witches and elfs is so "cliché-inspired").
But all this led me to think that showstudio should represent Bernhard earlier, and why it's almost only the good old St.Martin-classics thats represented...I miss Jeremy Scott, Marjan Pejoski, Bless, Cassette Playa, C-Neeon, Henrik Vibskov...
ok, I see that my topic here points in different directions...I leave it for you now to discuss
I guess I just miss some humour, and is a bit tierd of that expencive elegance...how many of us can afford it?
I miss reality here, and I'm very exited about the Sissel Tolaas-prosject and how she will use showstudio
That Pejowski swan dress is my all-time favourite! Stunnning! The egg bag was great too..and to think she was on all the worst dressed lists. Made me love it even more.
You're so right, Tor: we SHOULD have more Bernhard Willhelm on the site. It's something I was trying to convince him of when I went to his showroom in Paris - http://showstudio.com/project/parisfw_aw0708/blog/20059 . Like a lot of designers he said that he just doesn't use computers... So, of course we won't give up (there is in fact an audio project that we very much hope to feature him in) but with some designers it just takes longer than others.
...And again, you're right: it's far easier for us to collaborate in the kind of indepth way that we like to at SHOWstudio with designers or artists that are based in London or who spend decent lengths of time here. If we were just shooting their clothes for a day as a magazine would then that's easy enough done without their direct involvement. But to get considered pieces stretching over several days, grand performances or live broadcasts, we generally need them close to hand and for a week or more, making it impossible for some figures based overseas.
Until we have offices all over the world, budgets and an editorial department consisting of more than two that is...! Whilst resources are at a premium, we've got to be sure we make the right choices so it's good to hear your wish lists. Keep them coming.
Thanks for feedback Penny! Here’s some of my thought (a rather long reply, sorry for that, but I hope you’ll find some food for thought in it)
I love the ambition showstudio have, like with the Naomi-sculpture and all the clothes and sound investigations. I feel very privileged when I get to follow process from thought too product, and especially when the creator wants to invent and push boundaries within the project. I was at a lecture by the legendary performance (turned architect) –legend Vito Acconci today here in Stavanger, and he was exited about the progression towards a more including and less ego&signature-obsessed way of working in the artfield. That’s something I see and like, especially in Nicks projects, that’s there is a will to include “amateurs” in a professional project.
Yet I also love the fact that showstudio has those smaller project, like “Twelve Days” or your “Shelf Appeal”. It’s simple, unpretentious experimenting with how to play with images for the Internet. I have got many tips from watching that. I won’t be able to work with 3D-scan, so it’s fun to see how delicate a composition for a webcam can turn out. And in these smaller, less time demanding project there’s definitely a possibility to include more non-London-citizens.
For me I find the way fashiondesigners are being mystified and hailed as genius a bit, well, old-fashion. Everybody know that most of the big houses work as a big team, and as far I know Martin Margiela is the only one who face that fact and now only utter on behalf of a team. Are any other designers going to follow this?
Those Galliano-finales is for me just embarrassing included in the rather interesting “Moving Fashion”. Then I thought Kate Moss staged herself more interesting, I guess that’s because we actually can relate to that “just jumping around for fun”-feeling. Now, it was touched in “Who’s the muse”, but I think the regular contributor to showstudio should discuss further what an icon and a muse is, and what place it has now, both in the fashion- and artworld.
Hehe
cute
But what I meant with humour, well, maybe Heatherette is funny, but I don't find it original. They just use whatever pop-culture is obsessed with at the moment, may it be Paris Hilton or Anna Nicole (r.i.p) and just throw it all together like anybody can do for a crazy halloween-costume or anything like that.
But I think that Jeremy Scott does it in a way so the image stays a little longer...he actually got some graphic skills there, even though he don't have the savile row-tailoring.
Bernhard on the other hand, know how to cut and drape, we all know that. And his humour is more quirky than trashy
