> Project Description
Last updated 11.38 Wednesday 30th March
Over the month of April, Simon Foxton will style 30 models as ‘living magazine pages’. Each day, a different male model will be groomed and seated in front of a SHOWstudio webcam. There will be a separate outfit/look for each one, with no mixing of brands. Accessories will be ‘stylists’ own’, thus each will be single-brand statement. The model will take questions from SHOWstudio viewers via telephone.
The process sections below detail this project’s production, from initial meetings and castings, through to a historical section on the stylist at the heart of it, containing images, interviews and essays. Regular content updates will be posted on the Updates section on SHOWstudio’s front page.
Added 14:00 Friday 13 March 2005
Commissioned as a complimentary project to sit against the live Sittings, Jean-Francois Carly's film short profiles the transformative power of fashion. Captured backstage at Raf Simon's A/W '05-6 Menswear show, the series of juxtapositions reveals the profound impact clothing and grooming can make upon the emotions and behaviour of the individual.
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NEW Added Wednesday 27th April 2005
An integral part of Simon's creative method is keeping a scrapbook. Finding and keeping, cutting and collating, the process of this very personal type of image collection allows years of visual snippets to be rationalised into idiosyncratic 'essays'. Perfect for reference, era nostalgia or inspiration, see how Simon's pages follow interesting formal and thematic patterns, page by page, as well as traversing the sacred and profane.
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Added Tuesday 19 April 2005
Cultural commentator Michael Bracewell, who also honed his craft in the emergent style press of the early 80s, unpacks the Warholian approach to masculinity central to the SITTINGS: THIRTY MEN project.
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Added Monday 11 April 2005
The interior of Simon's home -and the legendary shed- are captured by photographer Jez Tozer in this 360 QTVR to enable us to navigate another facet of the Foxton persona: the avid collector.
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> Contributor Profile: Simon Foxton
Added 15:07 Friday 11 March 2005
View imagery from Simon’s 25 year career in fashion image-making, ranging from his influential graduate collection, through his own label Bazooka and editorial imagery for magazines including i-D, Big, Arena and Vogue Hommes International, to consultancies for brands such as Levis and Mandarina Duck.
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Read previous interviews and texts on Simon’s work
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Added 18:00 Monday 21 March 2005
A unique record of that rarely-documented but highly important linchpin of the fashion industry: the fashion PRs. Simon documents his thoughts on the development of the project as it unfolds; especially about the process of ‘calling in the clothes’.
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> Casting
Added 18:00 Monday 17 March 2005
View the video performances of male models from a live casting held at SHOWstudio by Simon Foxton on 17 & 18 March 2005 in preparation for April’s live webcast.
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12:47 Tuesday 23 February
Watch a video stream of the all-important first stage pre-production meeting with Simon Foxton, Nick Knight, Penny Martin & Paul Hetherington to see and hear the ideas develop into a project brief.
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Added 15:40 Wednesday 23 February 2005
Trace the origins of the photographic treatment in this ‘mood board’ of portrait images drawn from Simon's extensive archive of books, magazines and his own renowned scrapbooks.
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> Credits
Styling and Direction: Simon Foxton
Concept: Nick Knight
Editorial and Creative Direction: Penny Martin and Paul Hetherington
Research and Development: Christabel Stewart
Design: Paul Bruty
Technical Development: Ross Phillips and Dorian Moore
Styling Assistance: Mohson Iqbal
Studio Assistant: Jez Tozer
Editorial Assistance: Alessandra, Maria Eisl and Wendy Bevan
Design Assistance: Wayne Daly
Thanks to Sarah, Catherine and Alex at Katy Barker for
their help with production
'I Feel' Movie Credits
Based On 'All Shadows & Deliverance' Collection By Raf Simons, Autumn/Winter 2005-6, at La Vilette, Paris. 29th January 2005
Concept And Cinematography: Jean-Francois Carly
Creative Direction: Jean-Francois Carly, Penny Martin and Paul Hetherington
Film Edit: Maxim Young
Grooming: Peter Philips & Team at Art + Commerce
Hair: Tomohiro Ohashi At Olga (Paris)
Cinematographic Assistance: Christopher Thomas Eaton
Special Thanks: Peter Saville, Kuki De Salvertes, Tristan Nardini, Marcus Werner Hed, Raf Simons & Team
