> Bal Masqué

Relive the event with full footage from the night's broadcast

Kate, Pete and Suzy Menkes doing karaoke! Masked men fencing! Pure fashion debauchery! A modern reworking of Cinderella! Seven splendid bands! Regency dancing! Watch the extraordinary proceedings of Nick Knight’s Moët Tribute via a video mix captured live on the night from eight cameras, surreptitiously positioned in and around the historic Strawberry Hill venue.

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> Nick & Charlotte

Last Updated Thursday 14th December

Filmed as a personal thank-you to the wonderful Les Childs who prepared everyone for the ball with dance lessons, Nick Knight and Charlotte Wheeler perform the intricate waltz choreographed by Childs for the Möet Tribute.

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> Event Gallery

Last Updated Friday 27th October

After the Bal, we received so many great, informal snapshots of the event that we decided to make them public. View the many stolen moments sent to us by photographers, stylists, competition winners and friends of Nick Knight in this gallery of unofficial reportage.

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> Confessions

Last Updated Wednesday 25th October

Who's 'a wanker'? What male stylist can't keep their clothes on? Which former curator of a national museum smokes in Grade 1* listed buildings? And what esteemed fashion writer has 'the back of a swimmer and the head of a monkey'?!! We knew champagne + a fashion crowd would yield sensational results, but add the SHOWstudio 'Confessions' Interactive and there was controversy! View the scurrilous secrets of the Bal Masqué's guests in this highly entertaining series of confessional clips.

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> Schedule

Last Updated Friday 20th October

With a fabulous array of entertainment planned in no less than twelve rooms of Horace Walpole’s historic Strawberry Hill gothic revival villa, you’ll want to plan your evening’s viewing. Use the interactive map to see which bands are playing in the Gallery, who is staging a reworking a reworking of Cinderella in The Tribune and where you will be able to watch the ballroom dancing, see live cosmetic surgery or follow a fencing tournament and much more...

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> The Venue

Last Updated Friday 20th October

Built in the late eighteenth century in response to the English craze for ‘Neo-Palladianism’, Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill is perhaps the finest surviving example of Gothic Revival architecture in Britain. Read all about the development and history of Strawberry Hill in Kathleen Mahoney’s essay about the house as well as detailed notes on each of the specific rooms in which Nick Knight’s Moët Chandon tribute will be staged by John Iddon.

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> Who’s The Muse?

Guess the names and win an invitation
to Bal Masqué

THE COMPETITION IS NOW OVER

In the month running up to the Nick’s Moët Chandon tribute, viewers were asked to compete for a golden ticket to the Bal Masqué by guessing each of the twelve mystery muses that posed for the image on the invitation to the ball. Working from four sets of clues on each –an abstracted portrait of each by Nick Knight, a description by the designer that proposed them, a heavily disguised clip of them talking and finally a visual anagram by Shona Heath- clever Ronit Yadin from London finally guessed that the muses were as follows: Kate Moss, Sara Stockbridge, Tafari, Charlotte Stockdale, Camilla Nickerson, Katy England, KT Shillingford, Asia Argento, Roland Mouret, Morgane Dubled, Gisele Bundchen and Ali Richards.

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> You Shall Go To The Ball

Design your outfit and win an invitation
to Bal Masqué

THE COMPETITION IS NOW OVER

For three months preceding the Bal Masqué, two golden tickets to attend the Möet Tribute were up for grabs in a competition to design the best outfit and mask to wear on the night. Our congratulations to Carlos Soto and Edeline Lee, who were chosen from a strong field of entrants by Nick Knight!

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> Project Description

Last Updated Monday 11th September

Nick Knight has been chosen to receive the prestigious Moët & Chandon Fashion Tribute 2006. To mark the occasion, he is staging a lavish and spectacular Masked Ball on Tuesday 24th October. The event will be attended by a wealth of international personalities from the world of fashion, photography, film, music, and art who have worked with Nick throughout his 25+ year career. The full proceedings will be broadcast live on SHOWstudio and the run up to the event will be documented in detail on the site. Nick has challenged ten designers and one stylist with whom he has worked most closely to design an outfit, complete with mask for a ‘muse’ of their choosing, who will wear it to the ball. In addition, there is an unique opportunity for two SHOWstudio viewers to win a much-coveted ticket by designing an outfit and mask for our ‘You Shall Go to the Ball’ competition. All twelve designs will be auctioned after the event, with proceeds to go to The Princes Trust.

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> Project Blog

Nick and Charlotte's Waltz

Filmed as a personal thank-you to the wonderful Les Childs who prepared everyone for the Bal Masqué with dance lessons, Nick Knight and Charlotte Wheeler perform the intricate waltz choreographed by Childs for the Möet Tribute.

By Studio, 10:00 Friday, 15 December

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> Contributor Biographies

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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