SHOWstudio: Nick Knight, i-D, Barbie, Val Garland, Marian Newman, Sam McKnight, Susie Lau, Alice Hawkins, Boy George, Charlie Porter, Coco Sumner, Lady Lloyd, Sami Knight and more

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Newswire | 24.09.10
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MILAN COLLECTIONS S/S 2011
With New York and London now under wraps, all eyes are on Milan for the next injection of energy for S/S 2011. Frida Giannini's Gucci collection has already provided a highlight of the season to date, and with Italian powerhouses such as Dolce e Gabbana, Prada , Pucci and Versace still to show, it's shaping up to be a stellar season. Fashion Director Alexander Fury uploads reports and blogs real-time from the catwalk, while our intrepid backstage blogging from make-up artist Val Garland and hairdresser Sam McKnight gives us a unique insider view of all the action, up close and personal.

Check Collections for live reports and Chris Moore's real-time image uploads from the catwalks, and our BLOG for Spring seduction Italian style. Belissima! [more]
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200 PORTRAITS
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A tribute to culture and a celebration of the times, Nick Knight's landmark 'Then Now Next' shoot for the 30th anniversary of i-D magazine immortalised no less than 200 creatives, pinning down the talent set to define the opening of the new millenium. This week reveals a flurry of inspirational figures in the midst of camera motion, in a series of unique video portraits captured on set: the eternal Boy George, glamorous club doyennes and DJs Lady Lloyd and Tasty Tim , Charlie Porter of Fantastic Man, fashion photographer Alice Hawkins and Italian style sensation Mavi 'Power" Staiano.

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]
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LOUISE GOLDIN S/S 2011
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Continuing SHOWstudio.com's remit to offer unique means to interact and view fashion via motion image and the Internet, Nick Knight and Louise Goldin invite you, the public, to direct the video showcasing her S/S 2011 collection. In a unique event scheduled for late October this year, a Skype link-up with give a selection of SHOWstudio.com viewers, celebrities, friends and fans the chance to direct an as-yet-unnamed supermodel in a selection of Goldin's 'Sports Couture' creations for S/S 2011.

To register to take part in this unique event, email LOUISEGOLDIN@SHOWSTUDIO.COM with your Skpe username and email. [more]
COMING UP
GARETH PUGH S/S 2011
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With the authority of Paris looming in on us soon for fashion week,SHOWstudio.com teams exclusively with Gareth Pugh once more, this time for a unique broadcast of Gareth's S/S 2011 collection live from Paris.

Tune into SHOWstudio.com on 29 September 2010 at 17.00 BST for an exclusive streaming of Gareth Pugh's vision of S/S 2011.
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BARBIE BLOG
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As we say goodbye to London Fashion Week for another season, so does Barbie, our latest intrepid intern who somehow managed to make her way into a selection of the week's hottest shows. From front row seats and celebrity sightings, Barbie is now a fully fledged fashion diva! Before she heads across the seas to provide much-needed support for Paris Fashion Week, Barbie has a few more intern-duties to fulfil here at SHOWstudio.com HQ, as well as preparing herself for life à la Française!

Check our BLOG for all her comings and goings in the final few weeks of her internship! [more]
FROM THE SHOP
DEVON, MAGDALENA, TIIU, 2008
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Since the Danish duo's inspirational retrospective at the Barbican back in 2008, the notoriety of Viktor and Rolf's high-fashion miniatures has continued to rise but never before have their dolls portraits been captured. Photographed by in house photographer Peter Stigter, three eminent dolls from the Black Hole, NO and Bedtime Story collections feature in our current exhibition In Wolves Clothing: Re-imagining the Doll.

These limited edition prints, each signed by Viktor & Rolf, not only capture the intricate tailoring that went into designing the miniature replicas of the catwalk pieces, but also highlight the personality that each tiny figure exudes. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE
EXPERIMENTS IN ADVERTISING: THE FILMS OF ERWIN BLUMENFELD
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Legendary fashion photographer Erwin Blumenfeld's iconic imagery has been inspiring designers and fellow snappers for decades, most recently seen in a stand-out collection from London's Jonathan Saunders on Tuesday. A ripe time, then, to re-examine our video project Experiments in Advertising: The films of Erwin Blumenfeld. Launched in 2006, this multi-faceted project exhibits never-before-seen film footage of one of the most significant fashion photographers of the twentieth century. Three films, an essay and a timeline of Blumenfeld's career have all been edited by SHOWstudio.com to feature in the project; not forgetting an exclusive interview with Yorick Blumenfeld, Erwin's son. [more]
Sam McKnight's view of Fendi
I had just finished my final review of the day - charting Miuccia Prada's latest season-shaking offerings - when Sam McKnight uploaded his first video blog of today from Karl Lagerfeld's latest collection for Fendi, captured this morning here in Milan. Watch Sam's backstage antics - and then, as the saying goes, read all about it, and every show so far, in our Collections or scrutinise the shows for yourself via Chris Moore's accomplished selection of catwalk snaps. I'm off to get some shut-eye before the next round tomorrow. [more]
VAL GARLAND: Milan: Angelo Marani
Angelo Marani show , first show of milan and the day ... Breakfast today is parmesan cheese? grapes and some weird looking processed ham, is it really ham? ... Will not be indulging ... Two brazil nuts in car will have to do... [more]
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