What better way to round of the week than with a trip to Cube PR, set a mere hop skip and a jump (on the 55, that is) away from SHOWstudio. While the free gift - a potted African violet - was definitely the strangest (but also one of the... [more]
The culmination of our shoot was this evening's party, thrown amidst the picturesque debris of the day's work and showcasing both Toyin's still-unfolding film and the Replay and We Are Replay Autumn/Winter ranges. Here, Toyin herself mans the camera for the final scenes of her film, as the party rages... [more]
It's the turn of the girls in one of our final shots of the day before our dust-smeared and balloon-filled Robert Adams interior is opened to the press at, well, just about now! However, the cameras will continue to roll, allowing those attending a glimpse of the final frames of... [more]
Suddenly Toyin's bullwhip-n-balloon combo makes absolute sense, the smoke machine blasting and dust billowing as her bevy of boys crack at it for all they're worth! Much kudos too to Amy, our trusty if unofficial balloon-wrangler, who saved us all from innumerable wind-machine based calamities! [more]
Under the glassed-in rafters of our 18th century setpiece, Toyin's vision for the shoot begins to take shape. Showcasing pieces from the Replay Autumn/Winter 2008 collection for men and women, with help from stylist Stevie Westgarth, the mood seems somewhat dark and mysterious in typical Toyin fashion, with cascading crimped... [more]
A stone-fronted Georgian town house in West London, set cheek-and-jowl with the Chinese Consulate no less (and a queue snaking down the street to prove it), is the somewhat unlikely setting for today's second live shoot: a collaboration with jeanswear label Replay to be shot by long-standing SHOWstudio contributor Toyin.... [more]
With the film for the new Agent Provocateur Bridal Collaboration entering its final stages, you may be picturing Nick Knight and a pack of flame artists, huddled around a computer in a NoHo production suite? Oh, no! Today, instead, the team will attempt to capture all post-production effects 'in camera'.... [more]
Wednesday night provided an odd evening's entertainment in the presentation of a very usual series of dark and pure fairytales, courtesy of ghd, Mandi Lennard and Shine. But these fairytales were no pantomime (despite the dames): the dresses for Goldilocks, Tinkerbelle and the Wicked Witch of the West came courtesy... [more]
Being stuck between a rock and a hard place doesn't seem quite so bad when you're at Karla Otto - particularly when the 'rock' is an Emilio Pucci quartz-crusted clutch and the 'hard place' is the tough, tundra-ready carapace of Marni's winter tweeds. Representing talents as diverse as Givenchy, Nike and... [more]
The genuinely gruelling round of press days continues, and yesterday gave us a chance to sample the wares of two houses whose Haute Couture histories are inextricably intertwined: Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent. Ever since the sensational Saint Laurent show in Paris in February I had been hankering after... [more]
The AI press day is always a must-see for anyone with a taste for putting the more cerebral on their back. This season, as always, all was not as it seemed from the intriguing and interesting wares on offer from Adam Iezzi and his always effusively-helpful team. Ann-Sofie Back's OK!-inspired... [more]
As our 'Wonderland' shoot draws to a close, our water tanks of dye (and the polymer on Alice's face) are all that remain of three of Helen Storey's groundbreaking outfits. [more]
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Helen Storey's definitely 'dry clean only' jeans have their first (and last) handwash. [more]
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Alice ready to disintegrate Helen Storey's blue jeans, our final outfit of the day. [more]
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Before our last look of the day, our star model Alice Dellal takes some time out to talk about her 'Wonderland' experiences. [more]
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Alice emerges. [more]
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The print on the fringe dress disintegrates, dispersing dye throughout the water tank as Alice swims through her underwater ballet. [more]
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Alice and Helen's leopard-print fringe dress 'Mabel' ready and waiting for their Ophelia moment. [more]
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No-one was entirely sure what was going to happen as Alice hit the water. The estimated twenty minutes actually amounted to around three before Helen's suit was completely dissolved. As Alice was lowered in, and the suit began to break away from itself, the pattern climbing through the current, clinging... [more]
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