SHOWstudio: SKIN: SKIN: Project Blog

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By Studio, 14:21 Fri 04 May 2007

Model sitting for SKIN project

Skin is an undertaking by the company &Son, the creative consultancy run by stylists Simon Foxton and Nick Griffiths; a commercial project that rethinks traditional advertising using motion image. Ten models from a range of mixed ethnic backgrounds -five male and five female- are filmed wearing pieces from adidas’s new ‘Materials of the World’ line, a collection influenced by the indigenous fabrics of different world cultures. Over a period of ten days beginning on May 10, the living portraits will be also be displayed in the windows of a Curtain Road shop front in London’s Shoreditch where the attention of passers by will be tested to register that it is film and not stills that they are seeing. In this sense, Skin is a subtle development out of Simon Foxton's previous Sittings: Thirty Men project of 2005, and a handsome addition to SHOWstudio's ongoing study of living fashion portraiture.

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Love this one. Sorry I never got to interview Simon in Hyeres. All the best,

Diane

By brass cupcake at 19:04 Fri 04 May 2007
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this is what Britain is today,beautiful and multi cultural.
Well done Simon Foxton for a gentle but very powerfull piece of work.Mesmerising and thought provoking,I wish there was more fashion around that was as inspiring as this is.

By maria n at 09:59 Sat 05 May 2007
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These portraits are a really inspiring work indeed

By Sergey Sedykh at 09:19 Tue 08 May 2007
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Great project!

By Phantom Mana at 17:34 Sat 05 May 2007
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No index.html. Request returned an index. Also content is not loading. Just letting you know =P

I like the videos.

By Josh Baker at 03:32 Sun 06 May 2007
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You're a very clever man Mr Foxton,pity you're not running the country.

By nick knight at 10:55 Sun 06 May 2007
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'...clean....austere...balanced....harmonius... tuned to the point of humbled perfection.....' unimaginable beauty....

By Galileo's Universe at 13:52 Sun 06 May 2007
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it was an honour to be part of this project and i think the results are amazing! tried to find it up on curtain road! but i sadly could not find it! x

By Lexi at 14:54 Wed 09 May 2007
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