SHOWstudio: Nick Knight, i-D, Judy Blame, Riccardo Tisci, Betony Vernon, Barnaby Roper, Natasha Vojnovic, Jason Evans, Tracey Emin and more

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	Newswire | 25.08.10
CURRENT 200 PORTRAITS
The third day of sitters from Nick Knight's marathon 200 Portraits for the 30th anniversary issue of i-D magazine launched today, showcasing video portraits edited from exclusive footage captured live on set during last December's shoot. The sitters immortalised in motion image this week are an exhaustive transcontinental list, including model Amber Le Bon, avant-garde haute coiffeur Charlie Le Mindu, jewellery designer Dominic Jones, set and prop designer Gary Card, statuesque Boombox and Ponystep door 'man' Jeanette, legendary stylist and accessory designer Judy Blame, pop sensation Leona Lewis, leading hairstylist Luigi Murenu, artist, musician and filmmaker Susanne Oberbeck and a bevy of international fashion design talent, including London superstar siblings Christopher and Tammy Kane, Gemma Slack, Louise Gray, Roksanda Ilincic and Givenchy's Creative Director Riccardo Tisci. Each Wednesday at 15:00 BST, SHOWstudio.com will launch a new selection of video portraits captured on a specific date, the series as a whole documenting not only this ground-breaking live shoot but a slice of twenty-first century popular culture. [more]
CURRENT THE FASHION BODY
Our Fashion Body is growing at an exponential rate, with submissions from a litany of fashion's leading names. This week, our cinematic selection include a re-imagining of the neck and collarbone by artist and erotic jeweller Betony Vernon, photographer Jason Evans' right upper arm (quite literally!), while on Friday we launch our mouth, as seen by filmmaker and photographer Barnaby Roper and model Natasa Vojnovic. Our textual explorations of this unique series come courtesy of fashion journalist Leisa Barnett and i-D's Milly McMahon, both proffering profoundly personal pieces on the impact of fashion upon the human form. Tune in each weekday to SHOWstudio.com for the launch of a new film or essay on the theme of The Fashion Body. [more]
FROM THE SHOP BLACK & WHITE BAD SETS, 2010
Worn by punks, sheriffs and collectors alike, the badge is a form of embellishment constantly at the forefront (and breast pocket) of fashion. So when the legendary designer Judy Blame compiled an exclusive limited edition of his famed Black & White Badges during a LiveStudio event for our Blackwhite exhibition we were thrilled. This monochrome collection of pins consists of a signed print and nine customised badges awash with Blame's emblematic and playful imagery, including mohawked babies, safety pins and hand-stamps. These statement pieces are unquestionably from the hand of this enduring enfant terrible and the perfect accessory to mark the end of your summer. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE IN CAMERA, TRACEY EMIN
With her monoprints on show at the venerable Royal Academy of Arts through September, the moment felt right to glance back to our own intimate one-on-one with world-renowned British artist Tracey Emin. Known predominantly for her controversial, illuminative and personal projects, Emin was the perfect candidate for our unique In Camera interview series. Her candid Q&A offered the same opportunity for revelation when the artist sat down back in June 2003 to exclusively and candidly answer a probing selection of questions posed by close friends, family, celebrity fans and the public-at-large. [more]
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SHOWstudio: Nick Knight, i-D, Katie Grand, Giles Deacon, Marian Newman, Gareth Pugh, Erdem, Terence Koh, Aitor Throup and more

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	Newswire | 18.08.10
200 Portraits
CURRENT 200 PORTRAITS
This week we release the second series of video portraits captured on the set of Nick Knight's live shoot for the 30th anniversary issue of i-D magazine. Our clutch of famous faces this week include the likes of Canadian model Alana Zimmer, stylist Chris Amfo-Okoampah, fashion photographer Emma Summerton, fashion designer Giles Deacon, The Inbetweeners actor James Buckley, 8-year old twin fashionistas Joe and Duke Brooks, menswear designer Katie Eary, superstylist Katie Grand, cult model Kirsten Owen, and club entrepreneur Richard Mortimer paired with actress Gwendoline Christie. Unique videos of each of Nick Knight's subjects, captured during this epic seventeen-day shoot of portraits based upon the magazine's theme of 'Then Now Next', will be released over the next four months. Each Wednesday at 15:00 BST, SHOWstudio.com will launch a new selection of video portraits captured on a specific date, the series as a whole documenting not only this ground-breaking live shoot but a slice of twenty-first century popular culture.
CURRENT THE FASHION BODY
We're on our fifth week of Fashion Body programming, with fashion's great and good carving up the body through cinematic and textual analysis. On Monday, meticulous manicurist Marian Newman gave us her painstaking portrayal of the left hand; today we launch the left thigh as seen by British couturier Deborah Milner and hairstylist Peter Gray, and Friday is the turn of designer Gareth Pugh to immortalise fashion's favourite focal point, the shoulders. This weeks essayists are SHOWstudio.comContributing Fashion Writer Olivia Marks examining ever-shifting erogenous zones, and Professor Shaun Cole, whose essay hones in on the honed male haunches. Tune in each weekday to SHOWstudio.com for the launch of a new film or essay on the theme The Fashion Body. [more]
COMING UP IN FASHION, ERDEM MORALIOGLU
Launching tomorrow at 15:00 BST, the latest addition to our in Fashion interview series is an intimate one-on-one with inaugural British Vogue Fashion Fund winner Erdem Moralioglu, recorded just days after his receipt of the award earlier this summer. Discussing the themes behind Erdem's stand-out collections, the inspirations behind his career to date and the trials and tribulations of any young designer making their career in fashion, the conversation runs the gamut from mid-nineties Ethan Hawke to pre-teen memories of The Nutcracker in this revealing profile of one of British fashion's fastest rising stars. Want to know when new projects launch? Follow the SHOWstudio Twitter feed at twitter.com/showstudio
FROM THE SHOP THE WHOLE FAMILY, 2008
Plenty have endeavoured to radically re-appropriate the status of the 'object' in art, yet one that offers up such an iconic collection is that of Terence Koh's 2008 solo exhibition, The Whole Family. Having featured in our Inside/Out exhibition; Koh's Untitled 13 is one of the forty-one sub-installations in The Whole Family. A tiny radio, a small plate of excrement, a broken pair of glasses, all doused and dripping in a pristine white paint. Koh undeniably challenges Haim Steinbach's work on the arrangement of objects by muting the subject and literally turning it on its head. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE THE FUNERAL OF NEW ORLEANS
As this month marks the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's merciless reign over New Orleans, it feels fitting to look back to Aitor Throup and Jez Tozer's 2007 film project - an inspired memorial to the disaster. The Funeral of New Orleans dramatises the story of five musicians who fought for survival when the Hurricane hit the city in 2005. Taking the traditional New Orleans funeral marching band as an artistic starting point, Aitor Throup's A/W 2008 collection told the story of these musicians in the wake of the devastation – a struggle in which they must protect both themselves and their instruments. Fusing fashion and film in an innovative presentation, Throup and Tozer's work wrestles between art and fashion, while simultaneously showcasing the functionality of each piece of the collection. [more]
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SHOWstudio: Nick Knight, i-D, Florence and the Machine, Tinchy Stryder, Beharti Prinsloo, Craig McDean, Judy Blame, Marios Schwab, Katy England, Anna Dello Russo and more

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	Newswire | 12.08.10
CURRENT 200 PORTRAITS
A unique and expansive series of video portraits captured during Nick Knight's marathon shoot for the 30th anniversary issue of i-D magazine, our 200 Portraits project launches today. Created in tandem with Nick Knight's seventeen-day portrait session for i-D - on newsstands today - 200 Portraits documents the shooting of each and every portrait sitter, the series building to represent twenty-first century fashion, art and popular culture in microcosm. Our series opens with a selection of video portraits from the first day of Nick Knight's shoot: S.C.U.M, Tinchy Stryder, Carri Mundane, Milly McMahon, Beharti Prinsloo, Tafari Hinds and Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine. Come to SHOWstudio.com each Wednesday at 15:00 BST for the launch of a new selection of video portraits captured each day of this ground-breaking live photographic shoot. [more]
CURRENT THE FASHION BODY
The first month of our Fashion Body films and essays is coming to an end, having showcased a dozen films and a clutch of essays around the powerful and provocative themes suggested by this exploration of the human body through fashion. This week, master stylist and accessory designer Judy Blame lead our cinematic explorations via a vision of the left wrist, followed by filmmaker Marcus Werner Hed's gender-bending expose of the left calf, while fashion photographer Craig McDean shows us the right thigh as a canvas for artistic expression on Friday. Essayist this week include Professor Sandy Black of the London College of Fashion, both posing and answering the question 'Who Is Fashion For?' while today our own Fashion Director Alexander Fury sheds light on the paradigm shift from the obsession over models' bodies to the obsession over the bodies of fashion editors at the international catwalk show. Tune in each weekday to SHOWstudio.com for the launch of a new film or essay on the theme The Fashion Body. [more]
CURRENT OBJECT FETISH
The A/W 2010 season is drawing to a close as designers are prolifically putting together their offerings for the upcoming S/S 2011 fashion weeks. We too are wrapping up the current season of Object Fetish with a splendid finale, in the form of this delectable and devilishly cheeky corseted number from fêted Londoner Marios Schwab. S&M Pastoralism is the tongue-twisting term for this equally complex number, colliding the traditional Austrian garb of Schwab's training in Salzburg with a whiplash lacing of dominatrix power. A suitably strong ending to our first season of Object Fetish analysis - S/S 2011 begins in earnest in October! [more]
FROM THE SHOP GREEN PINK CAVIAR
As the end of our Inside/Out exhibition nears, the European debut of Marilyn Minter's 2009 film Green Pink Caviar does too. The eight minute journey screening in our Bruton Place video room is a visual accumulation of sensuous colours and vivid textures. Made quite simply with just a human mouth, a pane of glass and unusually melted substances the composition is abstracted through detail. The macro lens Minter used to capture lapping tongues and neon food-dye exposes the finest of details; licking lips, wet tongues, and melting candy become a means for Minter to merge many genres of art through her interest in the human form. Make sure you don't miss it! Inside/Out closes this Friday 13 August. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE ONE IN TEN
Our ongoing film season The Fashion Body explores and embraces the human form through fashion films and essays. To echo this celebration of the human form divine, we look back almost a decade, to our 2000 project One in Ten. Statistically, one in ten women will be diagnosed with breast cancer some time during their lives. In this personally motivated project, Nick Knight and stylist Katy England invited seven breast cancer survivors to take part in a fashion editorial shoot and share the intimate tales of their battle against the deadly disease. Embracing the reconstruction of the body and its triumph over the so often fatal illness, One in Ten showcases the models not as victims but as dark and ethereal powers of seduction. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Next In Fashion interview - Anna Dello Russo! Unfortunately, due to pressing Parisian engagements for his new role at Emanuel Ungaro, we have had to postpone our planned In Fashion interview with Giles Deacon until November - after the hectic preparations of S/S 2011 have died down into, well, hectic preparations for A/W 2011! However, that does mean that we can now announce our next scheduled interviewee: none other than Anna Dello Russo, the incredible and already-iconic larger-than-life Editor-at-Large of Vogue Japan... [more]
i-D 30th Anniversary Preview! Our 200 Portraits project, showcasing video portraits of contemporary culture's great and good captured on-set during Nick Knight's 17-day photoshoot through December 2009, is due to launch on Thursday to coincide with the official newsstand release of the 30th anniversary edition of i-D... [more]
More from Mr. Altuzarra Frankly, I'm a bit of an Altuzarra addict these days. Even though the unedited footage of my In Fashion interview with Joseph himself is due to be re-streamed this afternoon at 18:00 BST, I couldn't keep away from his press day at Liberty, and a chance to get my mucky paws on a selection of those incredible boiled-wool, calfskin and goat-fur reclamations of eighties warrior woman attire... [more]
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SHOWstudio: The Fashion Body, 200 Portraits, Kate Moss, Vivienne Westwood, Lady Gaga, La Roux, Joseph Altuzarra, Viktor & Rolf, Millie Brown, Freja Beha Erichsen and more

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	Newswire | 04.08.10
CURRENT THE FASHION BODY
Igniting much debate across the Internet at large, our Fashion Body series continues to grow. This week, the ranks of our corporeal cinematic and textural explorations are swelled by photographer Sølve Sundsbø's film exposing the forearm as a formidable force in self-identification and The Independent's Harriet Walker providing a throught-provoking essay on the symbiotic nature of fashion and the body. Today we launch Peter Jensen's left knee on an idiosyncratic journey around London Town, and coming up later this week are journalist and author Liz Hoggard's take on the relationship between Tim Burton's cinematography and fashion, and Stephen Jones distinct take on his own phrenology. Tune in each weekday to SHOWstudio.com for the launch of a new film or essay on the theme The Fashion Body. [more]
CURRENT A/W 2010 - ENIKO
The latest in our A/W 2010 fashion film editorials is Eniko, wrestling control from image-maker to viewer in an interactive that showcases the best of emerging new New York talent. Photographer and filmmaker Barnaby Roper and stylist Keegan Singh bring together electric beats and selections from the A/W 2010 runways of the next generation of fashion powerhouses, including Alexander Wang, Altuzarra and Proenza Schouler. Press any letter on the keyboard to explore twenty-six choreographed clips of model Eniko Mihalik set to ten exclusive soundtracks, and create your own unique fashion film. [more]
COMING UP 200 PORTRAITS
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of i-D magazine, Nick Knight photographed not 100, but 200 of the most important people in fashion, music and popular culture today, among them Dame Vivienne Westwood, La Roux, Gareth Pugh, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, and Lady Gaga. To coincide with the magazine's newsstand release on Thursday 12 August, we launch 200 Portraits, a series of exclusive video portraits documenting the shoot, captured by Nick Knight on-set. Each week we will launch a new selection of video portraits captured on a specific date of this mammoth seventeen-day live shoot, kicking off with our first day of sitters including Tafari, S.C.U.M. and Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine. Tune in every Wednesday for the next four months for the unveiling of a new selection of video portraits.
COMING UP IN FASHION, JOSEPH ALTUZARRA RE-STREAM
Fashion Director Alexander Fury sat down with the New York based designer earlier today as a part of our In Fashion interview series. The footage was broadcast live via our LiveStudio page, but for the sake of our North American viewers who may have missed the stream in the morning, we will be broadcasting the interview again on Thursday. Tune in tomorrow at 18:00 BST, 13:00 EST, and 10:00 PST to find out what you missed.
CURRENT OBJECT FETISH
Think of Viktor & Rolf and you envision surreal and fantastic fashion oddities. Not long ago they sent models teetering down the runway with giant stretches of scaffolding, and voluminous tulle ball gowns with pockmarks and tunnels of missing fabric. This Dali-esque handbag from the Dutch duo's latest A/W collection embodies the Surrealist nature of the Amsterdam-based fashion house. The cheeky black patent leather purse entices the eye, toys with the mind and fills the heart with shopaholic lust. [more]
FROM THE SHOP NEXUS VOMITUS
Aptly titled Nexus Vomitus, the performance artist Millie Brown created this unique canvas especially for our Inside/Out exhibition during a LiveStudio event on 30 July. A truly thought-provoking piece, the composition captures a multitude of vivid vomit. A culmination of green, blue, purple and yellow fuse together like a technicolour amalgamation of liquid unison. Composed whilst two classical singers mirrored the darkening atmosphere through a series of solemn opera songs, the canvas' provenance is the physical outcome of what can only be described as an extraordinary unification between art and music. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE FREJA
Tattooed beauty Freja Beha Erichsen graces the cover of British Vogue this month - and though attired in an ultra feminine Dolly Bird number courtesy of Miu Miu on the cover of the glossy, this model du jour has become synonymous with androgynous charm. In 2008, she played muse in Nick Knight's About a Boy gender-blending fashion editorial shoot for the April issue of British Vogue, and our film Freja, captured on the set of the photoshoot, exploring the peripheries of masculine and feminine. [more]
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