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Nick Knight

Co-founder and co-curator of SHOWstudio, Knight is among the world's most influential photographers. He haswon numerous awards for his editorial work for Vogue, Dazed & Confused, i-D, The Face and Visionaire, as well as for fashion and advertising projects for clients including Alexander McQueen, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Levi Strauss, Yohji Yamamoto and Yves Saint Laurent. Knight has also shot record covers for Björk, David Bowie and Massive Attack.


Past, Present & Couture

CONCEPT: John Galliano PHOTOGRAPHY: Nick Knight
ART DIRECTION: Tom Hingston
HAIR: Sam McKnight @ Premier
MAKE-UP: Val Garland @ Untitled
MANICURIST: Marian Newman @ Amalgamated Talent

Shot at Bigsky Studios
Scanning by Idea Digital Media
Retouching by Metro Imaging

PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSISTANCE: Ben Dunbar-Brunton,
Oliver Sinclair, Darren Sleebush, Naomi Walker, Dominic Cooper .
FILM AND SOUND DESIGN: Adam Mufti
MUSIC: All music taken from Christian Dior's Haute Couture shows, sourced and mixed by Jeremy Healey.
MODELS: Rosemary Ferguson (Ford), Inga (Viva), Erin O'Connor (Ford), Liberty Ross (Marylin), Alek Wek (IMG), Jacquetta (Viva), Stella Tennant (Marylin), Ai Tominaga (Marylin), Karen Elson (Elite), Diana B (IMG), Kasia (Viva) Ricky Hards (UGLY Models)


John Galliano at Dior 1997-2002

Images
To mark John Galliano's fifth year at Christian Dior, Nick Knight used a single garment from each Dior couture show to intepret the vision and spirit of Galliano's couture collections in this arresting series of images.

Movies
Step behind Nick Knight's camera and view the construction of each image in twelve films documenting the fashion shoot, whilst Jeremy Healey's 'audio toiles' provide the soundtrack to each collection.

Interview
John Galliano talks to Colin McDowell about the couture industry, his working processes and the inspiration behind each of his couture collections for Christian Dior. Read, download or listen to their conversation.

Text
'John Galliano: Modernity and Spectacle' by Caroline Evans.



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