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Last Updated Monday 16th April 2007
Beasting, Nick Knight and Simon Foxton's intense photoshoot of last February is brought to film at last, featuring some of the outré pieces from John Galliano's A/W '07 menswear collection and edited by Ruth Hogben.
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Last Updated Monday 16th April 2007
The Beasting Gallery shows the arresting images from Nick Knight's shoot for Arena Homme + featuring the A/W 2007 collection of John Galliano's menswear line. The shots of brawny male physiques in action, as featured in the April issue of the magazine, invoke a sense of militaristic ritual and raw pagan energy.
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Schedule (GMT):
WEDNESDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2007 11:00—ONWARDS
THURSDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2007 11:00—ONWARDS
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Last Updated Wednesday 21st February 2007
Invited by Arena Hommes + magazine to photograph the highlights of John Galliano’s outlandish Autumn/Winter ’07-8 collection, Nick Knight and Simon Foxton will be in the studio over two days, staging one of the explosive action shoots that are the hallmark of their longstanding creative collaboration. From 11:00hrs (UK time), the cameras will be streaming live coverage of Galliano’s prehistoric fashions, giving those with a penchant for woolen Minotaurs, skintight briefs and Samurai swordsmen an opportunity to indulge their tastes for the primeval and the preposterous in equal measure.
The Film
Beasting, Nick Knight and Simon Foxton's intense photoshoot of last February is brought to film at last, edited by Ruth Hogben. Stills from the shoot will also be displayed in the Project Gallery. As an accompaniment to the April issue of Arena Homme+, the cover of which can now be seen peering out from magazine racks across the land (and allegedly from the top shelf in certain outlets too) the image depicts the beast of six arms that Nick and Simon captured during their two day shoot, a brawny spectacle that wears the outré headpieces and garments of John Galliano's A/W 07 menswear collection. The film and photoshoot, both visual paeans to hypermasculinity, manage to blur the boundaries between physical combat and sexual frenzy, taking us through the mysterious rituals of exclusive masculine space - a domain in which war-impulse, erotic charge and horseplay become indistinguishable.
By Andrew Gow, 16:00 Friday, 13 April
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> Contributor Biographies
Last Updated 17/4/2007
Simon Foxton
Simon Foxton is one of Britain's leading stylists. After graduating from St. Martin's College of Art and Design in 1983, he set up his own design label, Bazooka. He started styling for i-D...
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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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> Credits
Photography: Nick Knight
Styling: Simon Foxton
Fashion Editing: Jo-Ann Furniss
Make-up: Florrie White at D&V
Models:
Day 1 Leon and Charlie at D1 Models, Shayne at Bookings, Andrew, Matthew and David
Day 2 Leon and Charlie at D1 Models, Shayne at Bookings, Sinden.
Photographic Assistance: Simon Thiselton and Ruth Hogben
Styling Assistance: Charles and Elgar
Film Edit: Ruth Hogben
Production: Charlotte Wheeler and Kaylie Mountford
Technical Development: Paul Bruty
Project Design: Paul Bruty
Photographed at Park Royal Studios
With kind thanks to Jo-Ann Furniss and Arena Homme +