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Last Updated Monday, 4 June, 2007
Last April you got to see Agyness posing live for the CFDA Nominations Film, wearing the creations of three of America’s most talked-about designers. Now the film appears on the site, launched just a few hours after its official ceremony screening, to announce the winner of the CFDA award for womenswear designer of 2007. See the finished product directed by Nick Knight with edit by Adam Mufti.
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Last Updated Saturday, 5 May, 2007
For the 2007 CFDA Awards, America’s most prestigious fashion awards ceremony, Nick Knight was asked to make a film featuring the nominees for the Best Womenswear Designer category, a list that included Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler and Oscar de la Renta. On Friday 20 April SHOWstudio broadcasted the making of the film from a London-based studio, starring model Agyness Deyn who wore creations from each designer’s last two seasons’ collections. The finished film was later shown on the SHOWstudio website at the time of the CFDA awards ceremony in June.
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Last night our film The Nominees was unveiled before the cream of the US fashion industry at the 25th Anniversary of the CDFA Fashion Awards, held at the magnificent New York Public Library. Of the three nominees showcased by the lithe and lovely Agyness Deyn, it was Oscar de la Renta and Proenza Schouler who scooped the coveted Womenswear Designer of the Year award in a tie.
Other winners included Ralph Lauren, who took Menswear Designer of the Year and Derek Lam the Accessories. Swarovski are the awards' major sponsor and they had three awards of their own: the Womenswear, which was won by Phillip Lim; Mens, which was won by Rag & Bone and the Accessories, which went to Loeffler Randall.
Of course, some awards were determined in advance: Pierre Cardin received the 'International Award', whilst Robert Lee Morris got the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award. No strangers to working together, Ralph Lauren got American Fashion Legend Award and photographer Patrick Demarchelier the Eleanor Lambert Award. The penultimate Eugenia Sheppard award went to fashion writer Robin Givhan before the grand finalé where the Board of Director’s Award was handed to tireless promoter of all things Red, Bono.
By SHOWstudio, 14:13 Tuesday, 5 June, 2007
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Live Broadcast 20th April 2007, 11:00 - 22:00 BST
On 20th April 2007, SHOWstudio set up a live stream of Nick Knight shooting model Agyness Deyn in fashions by Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler and Oscar de la Renta for a film to introduce the nominees for the 2007 CFDA Best Womenswear Designer prize, screened at the awards ceremony in June.
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Nick Knight
Nick Knight, Director of SHOWstudio.com, is among the world’s most influential and visionary photographers. As a fashion photographer, he has consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty and is fêted for his groundbreaking creative...
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Jonathan Kaye
Jonathan Kaye is a stylist who lives and works in London. Since graduating from his MA at St. Martin's College of Art and Design in 1998, he has collaborated with photographers including Nick...
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Adam Mufti
Adam Mufti is a filmmaker based in London whose elegant approach and continuing working relationship with Nick Knight has enabled many film collaborations with key image-making figures including Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Brad...
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Miranda Joyce
Miranda Joyce is a self-taught British make-up artist who has been working in the fashion industry since the mid-eighties. Her first vocation was as saxophone player in British Two Tone/Ska girl band, The...
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Sam McKnight
Sam McKnight's work has regularly appeared in British Vogue and other international publications since 1980. That date marked the beginning of a remarkable career that would form the blueprint of what we now...
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> Credits
On Set
Concept and Direction: Nick Knight
Styling: Jonathan Kaye
Hair: Sam McKnight
Make-up: Miranda Joyce
Nails: Marian Newman
Modelling: Agyness Deyn
Photographic Assistance: Simon Thiselton, Ruth Hobgen and Takashi Kamei
Hair Assistance: Christian Wood
Make-up Assistance: Laura Dominique
Production: Gainsbury and Whiting
Film
Edit: Adam Mufti
Music: John Gosling
SHOWstudio
Editorial Direction: Penny Martin
Project Design: Paul Bruty
Technical Development: Dorian Moore
Editorial Assistance: Andrew Gow