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 | Newswire | 14.07.10 |
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| COMING UP THE FASHION BODY | |
| On Monday 19 July 2010, we launch The Fashion Body, a bold and innovative season of fashion film that explores and embraces the union of the body, fashion, and moving image. Nick Knight challenged a selection of fashion's elite to create a unique film around the unifying theme of The Fashion Body. The brief was simple - to devise a short film focused on an individual section of the body, using items from the latest fashion collections to adorn it. Over thirty photographers, models, designers, stylists and filmmakers - including Lady Gaga, Lily Cole, Rick Owens and Craig McDean - have contributed to this celebration of the human form, each creating an exclusive film. Over summer 2010, SHOWstudio.com is exclusively showcasing this unique fashion film series, launching films each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Interspersed amongst the films will be essays from a range of leading authors, journalists and academics specially commissioned around the theme of The Fashion Body. Envisaged from the start as an installation - a complete and whole fashion body - the individual works not only function as distinct cinematic and literary entities, but also as part of a larger panorama of fashion-focused moving image. Tune in on Monday morning for the first film of The Fashion Body. | |
| CURRENT PROENZA SCHOULER RE-STREAMING | |
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 The live stream of our In Fashion interview with Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough of Proenza Schouler was rudely interrupted yesterday by an unfortunate Internet outage in Mayfair. We apologise to anyone who experienced technical difficulties - and to make amends we will re-stream the unedited interview with this leading design duo once again this afternoon from 16:45 BST. [more] | |
| CURRENT A/W 2010 - PERFECT | |
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 Since she was appointed creative director at Celine in 2008, Phoebe Philo has invigorated the erstwhile-dusty designer label to become one of the most sought-after brands on the market. Our first fashion film editorial of the A/W 2010 season, Perfect celebrates the utmost precision of craft and perfection of design in Philo's latest influential offerings for Celine A/W 2010. Ruth Hogben's fashion film draws unlikely parallels between seventeenth-century Dutch paintings, 1950's Irving Penn and the New Minimalism gripping fashion, of which Philo is undoubtedly the key instigator. [more] | |
| CURRENT OBJECT FETISH | |
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 Christopher Kane has never been one to shy away from the challenge of turning cheap clichés into chic couture. The Women's Institute, juvenile delinquents and Priscilla Presley were among some of Kane's eclectic mix of inspirations for his A/W 2010 collection, and the result was an awe-inspiring, Elvis-evoking mix of pretty and pleather, primroses and prim. Our pick for this week's Object Fetish is a mishmash of tautly-tailored groupie leather and lace, speckled with hordes colourful jewels - an exuberant example of Kane's signature high-low mix. [more] | |
| FROM THE SHOP SEETHE, 2010 | |
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 Ariana Page Russell has gone beyond the boundaries of self-mutilation by using her skin condition, dermographica, to embellish her body as you would a canvas. Remarkable photographs of Russell's skin sensitivity vary over her two series, Dressing and Save Face, both of which illustrate the scarlet and pink hues of patterns constructed onto the planes of her body. Made either by a simple scratch or printed temporary tattoos from scanned skin images, they all exemplify an unheard body art. An example from each series - titled Sugarplum and Seethe - feature in our Inside/Out exhibition, which undoubtedly bring the human body inner workings to the surface. [more] | |
| LATEST ENTRIES BLOG | |
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Shooting, shooting... shot!  Our Shady Characters shoot is now complete - and for an editorial focussed all around silhouette, what better point to end on than this slighty eerie monochrome outline of model Tafari captured by Nick Knight, striking a pose in an outfit redolent of the quintessential Victorian dandy thanks to the ever-inventive hand of Simon Foxton... [more] | |
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