SHOWstudio: Nick Knight, Kate Moss, i-D, Stephen Jones, Alice Hawkins, Tricia Ronane, Matthew Williams, Gareth Pugh, Tim Walker, Rick Owens, Lady Gaga, Anna Dello Russo and more

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	Newswire | 25.11.10
COMING UP A/W 2010 - THE GOOD LIFE
A distinctly British take on the bubbling, bourgeoisie undercurrent of the A/W 2010 Paris shows, the latest addition to our fashion film editorial series launches this Friday. Starting with the sixteenth arrondissement allusions of Loewe, Celine and Yves Saint Laurent and giving them a seventies Surbiton twist, stellar British photographer Alice Hawkins takes inspiration from the suburban society aspirations of Margot Leadbetter - the heroine of classic British sitcom The Good Life - in this exclusive fashion film created for SHOWstudio.com. Filming real-life middle-class women in a selection of Paris' finest fashion, Hawkin's film is an affectionate and tongue-in-cheek portrait of our quintessentially English class-consciousness, framed by next season's key sartorial statements. An homage to social climbers everywhere. The Good Life launches this Friday 26 November at 11:00 GMT.
CURRENT 200 PORTRAITS
One of i-D's iconic trio of cover stars, our latest exclusive cinematic portrait features the ever-inspiring supermodel Kate Moss. Captured during Nick Knight's December 2009 shoot, this unique film short pays homage to Moss' unique influence on contemporary fashion and style and is a fitting counterpart to her latest i-D cover. Each week SHOWstudio.com launches 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
The daily installation of our Fashion Body film season has now come to and end - affording the perfect opportunity to stop and look back over this unique body of work. This wide-ranging project includes one-off fashion film created by the likes of Tim Walker, Stephen Jones, Anna Dello Russo, Gareth Pugh, Rick Owens and Lady Gaga, presented alongside essays by the likes of Professor Christoper Breward and star blogger Susanna Lau. The project's final step will launch on Friday 3 December - the final film of the season, created by SHOWstudio.com founder and director Nick Knight, and a custom interactive created by multimedia designer Daniel Brown, envisaging each fashion body film as part of a living, moving entity created from fashion-focussed motion image. Click here to view all fashion body films and essays. [more]
COMING UP LIVESTUDIO - STEPHEN JONES
Leading British milliner and OBE, Stephen Jones is the latest fashion personality to join the Bruton Place LiveStudio for a live-streamed performance during our Florist exhibition. Jones' residency is the first in a series of live streamed performances where a host of influential industry figures will craft floral-themed artefacts to celebrate both the new SHOWstudio Shop exhibition and SHOWstudio.com's ten-year anniversary. On Tuesday 30 November, Jones' one day residency will showcase a rare opportunity to observe the master milliner at work, and also to pose questions to him live throughout the creative process. Tune in from 12.00 GMT on Tuesday 30 November for all the live action. [more]
FROM THE SHOP I LOVE YOU NOT, 2010
One to watch on the contemporary art scene is Matthew Williams, LA-based artist and Creative Director to the world’s biggest pop star - Lady Gaga. Contributing a floral piece for our newest exhibition, Florist, Williams has crafted a piece designed to make a single flower last a lifetime. Titled I Love You Not – reminiscent of the petal-plucking childhood game – this authentic 'American Beauty' rose has been cast in resin, then spliced into four respective blocks to represent each part of a flower, including a detached singular petal. Suspending the bloom in mid-air, the transparent resin makes exquisite shapes and bubbles around the natural curves of a stalk, corolla or flower-head, rendering not only the rose but the negative space around in three-dimensions, the entirety frozen in time. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE ALICE'S ADVENTURES
Reversing the very essence of self portraiture -  it's no small feat, but back in 2004 provocative photographer Alice Hawkins deployed her signature spin of subversive wit in a collaboration with SHOWstudio.com for Jalouse. Serving as the studio's slave - and model for the day - Hawkins acted as a 'living canvas' for the SHOWstudio.com team to unleash their fantasy personae. From 'Alice bound to please' to 'Alice bourgeois, kept yet ultimately dissatisfied', images from the live webcast complement a portfolio of polaroids representing each fictional character - a fitting accompaniment to her latest fashion film, released on SHOWstudio.com this Friday. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Exclusive! Acne Fashion Film for Cruise 2011 From transsexual-targeted ranges to presentations inside Princess Margaret's apartments via silver-crusted denims and high-profile designer collaborations, Swedish label Acne is known for continually treading its own path - after all, the name of the label is a neat acronym from 'Ambition to Create Novel Expressions'. The latest creative expression from... [more]
Gareth Pugh to show at Pitti Immagine 79 Much to their chagrin, I pap-snapped twin talents Gareth Pugh and Ruth Hogben together yesterday at a press conference (and lunch) to announce that Gareth would be the latest Guest Designer at the august menswear fair. Pugh is planning an as-yet-abstract 'site-specific' performance and event in a unique building in... [more]
Christian Dior Accessories Press Day Assaulting the senses with a rush of colour, the Christian Dior Accessories press day was the perfect sartorial escape for a rainy November's day in London. High octane glamour and tropical fantasy - Dior's S/S 2011 South Pacific vibes transpired into an energetic and luxurious array of accessories. The... [more]
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SHOWstudio: Nick Knight, Louise Goldin, Daniel Brown, Tim Noble, Sue Webster, Jonathan Newhouse, Ronnie Cooke Newhouse, Matt Irwin, Cole Mohr, Rosie Huntingdon-Whiteley, Stephen Jones and more

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	Newswire | 18.11.10
CURRENT THE FASHION BODY
With films from London designers Louise Goldin and Mary Katrantzou charting the right foot and hips respectively, this week we reach the end of our Fashion Body film and essay programme, and hence the end of this whirlwind trip around the human form through fashion film. Alongside essays by academics and journalists including Professor Christopher Breward, Susanna Lau, Harriet Walker and Fleur Britten, the series has featured filmic shorts from a flurry of influential and visionary names, from photographers Steven Klein and Tim Walker to designers Gareth Pugh and Rick Owens, hair extraordinaire Sam McKnight and music icon Lady Gaga.  On Friday 3 December, the final step of our Fashion Body project will launch: an interactive specially created by multimedia designer Daniel Brown envisaging each fashion body film as part of a constantly-moving and whole Fashion Body, released alongside our forty-first and final Fashion Body film, from SHOWstudio.com founder and director Nick Knight. Click here to view all Fashion Body essays and fashion films. [more]
CURRENT 200 PORTRAITS
Showcasing 200 of contemporary culture's most flamboyant and visionary creatives, the thirteenth day of Nick Knight's landmark shoot for i-D magazine's 30th anniversary issue has been launched. The latest selection of icons and personalities sitting for Knight's cameras (both photographic and video) include artist duo Tim Noble and Sue Webster, photographer Matt Irwin, models Rosie Huntingdon Whitely and Cole Mohr and power couple Ronnie Cooke Newhouse and Jonathan Newhouse, chairman of Condé Nast International. 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]
COMING UP LIVESTUDIO: STEPHEN JONES
Master milliner, OBE and a leading light of British fashion, Stephen Jones will be showcasing his unique savoir-faire in a live performance at SHOWstudio.com's Mayfair home on 30th November 2010. In tandem with SHOWstudio.com's latest exhibition 'Florist',  featuring works by Guy Bourdin, Daniel Brown, Michael Howells, Nick Knight, Jeffry Mitchell and Mary Temple, Stephen Jones' residency is the first in a series of eminent industry figures joining the LiveStudio in creating unique floral artefacts for the exhibition whilst helping to celebrate SHOWstudio.com's ten year anniversary.
FROM THE SHOP LIGHT FRAGMENT, 2009
Award winning American artist Mary Temple has paved the way in installation art for almost a decade. The much-deserved recipient of the 2010 Basil Alkazzi Award for Excellence in Painting produces visual illusions that are often overlooked by the viewer. The breathtaking piece Light Fragment is no exception. At a first glance it is seemingly an intricate shadow cast by a tree upon a shard of wall and wooden floor, yet after closer examination, the presumed light source is non-existent and the shadow is in fact a painting. Executed with such precision and created with such ability, Temple’s ability to capture people’s perceptions through art is a rare feat. See for yourself at our new exhibition – Florist. [more]
FROM THE SHOP FASHION PANOPTICON: STEPHEN JONES
Back in 2004, the doors to Stephen Jones' studio opened to offer a glimpse into the space from which Jones' couture hats are born. Having made hats for the likes of Boy George, Grace Jones and the Spandeau Ballet, Jones's creations for designers such as John Galliano, Comme des Garçons and Jean Paul Gaultier have come to equate his name with a joyful mix of wit and beauty. Alongside an interactive tour of the space, a short interview follows, with Jones describing his inspiration as 'elegant yet frivolous, historic yet moderne!' [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
BoF Fashion Pioneers - Nick Knight We are proud to announce that our founder and director Nick Knight will be the latest addition to Fashion Pioneers, a series of live interviews by fellow online fashion portal The Business of Fashion. Featuring the most innovative creatives in the fashion industry, visionary image-maker and director of SHOWstudio.com Nick... [more]
Florist opening at SHOWstudio shop Saying it with flowers - whether an elaborate, overflowing cornucopia of flora or a faded clutch of petrol-station blooms - is recognised as a true sign of affection, and our Florist show is executed in a similar vein. Celebrating ten years of SHOWstudio.com innovation, a clutch of fashion creatives have... [more]
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SHOWstudio: Nick Knight, Anna Dello Russo, Lulu Kennedy, Katie Shillingford, Horse Meat Disco, Karen Langley, Alexander Fury, Pixie Geldolf, Marie Schuller, Guy Bourdin, Jeffry Mitchell, Jonathan Kaye, Proenza Schouler and more

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	Newswire | 10.11.10
CURRENT THE FASHION BODY
Our Fashion Body film season enters its penultimate week of fashion film programming with a trio of films literally jam-packed with sensational sartorial offerings. Our week began with the nose, captured by Creative Director and Editor-At-Large of Vogue Japan, style icon Anna Dello Russo - suitably enough on the cusp of her first perfume launch. Photographer Kristian and filmmaker Marie Schuller conjure a surreal atmosphere of theatrics to frame their vision of the waist (itself framed by an archival Mr Pearl corset) while this Friday our Fashion Director Alexander Fury presents a fetishised view of the forearm (think glove love). Alongside essays from New York-based journalists Cator Sparks and Lee C. Wallick, our Fashion Body continues to celebrate and investigate our physical experiences of fashion. Tune in each weekday to SHOWstudio.com for the launch of a new film or essay on the the theme of the Fashion Body. [more]
CURRENT 200 PORTRAITS
Celebrating the creatives, icons, and up-and-coming sensations, Nick Knight's shoot for i-D's 30th anniversary issue captured 200 of such prodigies defining our time and future. Our cinematic portraits series continues, presenting the thirteenth day of sitters. This week features the likes of stylists Katie Shillingford and Karen Langley, socialite Pixie Geldolf, owners of East London boutique Start Philip Start and punk singer Brix Smith-Start, disco sensation Horse Meat Disco, photographer and filmmaker Tyrone Lebon and Phoebe, and of course the visionary patron of young designers and founder of London's Fashion East, Lulu Kennedy. 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 FLORIST
As SHOWstudio.com approaches its tenth anniversary, in a celebration of a decade of revolutionary creation and innovative vision, the SHOWstudio.com's Shop opens its newest exhibition this Thursday 11 November 2010. Entitled 'Florist', the selected works will look to the contemporary art and fashion world's take on the traditional still life and beyond, presenting works from Guy Bourdin, Daniel Brown, Michael Howells, Nick Knight, Jeffrey Mitchell and Mary Temple. The static exhibition will be complemented by contributions from a dazzling cast of inspirational performers, designers, photographers, musicians and models throughout winter until the exhibition's close on 11 January 2011. Floral tributes from the likes of Craig McDean, Gareth Pugh, Dame Vivienne Westwood and Julie Verhoeven will create additions to form a blooming exhibition this season. [more]
FROM THE SHOP O (PICKLE JAR), 2005
Exploring the intersections of fine art, decoration and craft, Jeffry Mitchell’s work takes conventional attitudes toward ceramic art as a point of departure. Contributing to our latest exhibition Florist with a highly intricate ceramic sculpture bedecked with glossy floral motifs, the sculptor infuses earthenware with extravagance. Bursting with silver elephants and partially glazed with platinum the piece is evocative of a Dutch pickle jar and the perfect piece to kick off the ever-changing floral show. The densely packed imagery creates a joyful, unfolding narrative that balances the typically banal medium and occupies a world of festivity that broadly celebrates life. [more]
COMING UP IN FASHION, PROENZA SCHOULER
Our next In Fashion interview comes from New York - and one of the city's youngest and most explosive talents. Design duo, Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, named the co-founded label after their mothers' maiden names, following a highly acclaimed collaborative graduation collection at Parsons School of Design. With devotees such as New York style icon Chloë Sevigny and actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, Proenza Schouler has hit New York with their trademark brooding sexuality, their designs embodying the art of pared down chic. In an exclusive interview, the duo face our Fashion Director Alexander Fury, to be launched next week. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE BY ARRANGEMENT
As the first project to be broadcast live from SHOWstudio.com in 2003, the eponymous pre-feminist icon and evangelical florist Constance Spry was inspiration for W magazine's three-day shoot by Nick Knight and stylists Jonathan Kaye and Simon Foxton. Alongside exclusive film stills from the shoot's live broadcast, showcasing Kaye's choice of key pieces from Spring/Summer 2004, Penny Martin's webcast entries reflect upon fashion images and historical photography in tandem with the shoot. Presented with leading florists' contributions invited by Simon Foxton to interpret the season's floral themes, it all makes for compulsive viewing of a sensual tribute to Spry's pioneering aesthetic and philosophy.  [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Mary Katrantzou wins the 2010 Swiss Textiles Award! One of my highlights of London Fashion Week (and, in fact, of the S/S 2011 season) was Mary Katrantzou's spectacular, spellbinding collection - a riot of 'devil-may-care extravagance and energy' (although my prediction that no woman will wear Katrantzou's fringed lampshades was proved spectacularly wrong by the powerhouse that is... [more]
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SHOWstudio: Nick Knight, Stephen Jones, Simon Costin, Phyllis Posnick, Irving Penn, Alice Dellal, Henry Holland, PINK, Charles Guislain, Peter Jensen, Laurie Simmons, Kate Moss and more

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	Newswire | 03.11.10
CURRENT THE FASHION BODY
Our Fashion Body film series continues to grow, featuring films and essays from a mix of fashion's most inspiring and influential designers, stylists, photographers, models and journalists. Our cinematic body this week is augmented by a Northern Soul revival courtesy of SHOWstudio.com's Amy Ireland, a surreally art-directed penis from the mind of Simon Costin, and a terribly fashionable right ear, lending itself to a conversation between visionary image-maker Nick Knight and American Vogue's Phyllis Posnick, long-time collaborator of iconic photographer Irving Penn. Set alongside essays by Vogue.com's New York fashion correspondent Lauren David Peden and star blogger Susanna Lau (a.k.a. Susie Bubble), indulge in the latest offerings from our expansive Fashion Body. Tune in each weekday to SHOWstudio.com for the launch of a new film or essay on the the theme of the Fashion Body. [more]
CURRENT 200 PORTRAITS
Immortalising no fewer than two hundred of today's most brilliant creatives defining the start of the new millenium, this week we showcase a selection of sitters from the twelfth day of Nick Knight's 'Then, Now, Next' shoot for i-D's 30th anniversary issue. Faces this week include the likes of rebellious singer P!nk, Brazilian model sensation Alice Dellal, London-based designer Henry Holland, style muse Charles Guislain, actor/model Jamie Dornan, accessories designer Fred Butler, musician Rowdy Supertsar, photographer Brett Lloyd and Luis Venegas, publisher of the unique transversal style magazine Candy. 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 STEPHEN JONES, IN FASHION
'It was this weird and anachronistic thing that I chanced upon', says Stephen Jones, leading British milliner and latest addition to our In Fashion series. From collaborating with the world's most eminent designers - including John Galliano, Marc Jacobs and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons - to creating hats for the world's most illustrious personalities such as Princess Diana, Beyonce Knowles, Dita von Teese and Visage frontman Steve Strange, Jones' jubilant and irrepressible creativity spans over three decades, and thousands of hats. In a revealing interview, the man whose fantasy and bravado tops the most fashionable heads speaks with SHOWstudio.com's Fashion Director Alexander Fury on the ins and outs of a beyond-illustrious, multi award-winning career. [more]
FROM THE SHOP Peter Jensen and Laurie Simmons
As fashion collaborations go the 2009 union of Danish designer Peter Jensen and New York based photographer Laurie Simmons is one of extraordinary substance. Instead of a traditional catwalk show or presentation, the two creatives combined forces to produce miniature versions of Jensen’s designs. The pair painstakingly minimized the outfits to fit doll-like measurements and placed the collection on cardboard cut-outs of varying posed models. Simmon’s then took to her camera, documenting the embroidered models in her signature dollhouse style. These remarkable paper dolls are the perfect pint-sized addition for those of us who can but aspire to collect these artists on a – parden our pun – larger scale. [more]
UPCOMING FLORIST
The latest SHOWstudio.com Shop exhibition opens its doors on 11 November with a burst of color just before SHOWstudio.com approaches it's tenth year of revolutionary creation and innovation on the 24th. Running through the dead of winter until 11 January 2011, 'Florist' looks to the traditional still life while incorporating contemporary examples from the worlds of art and fashion. Major works by Guy Bourdin, Daniel Brown, Michael Howells, Nick Knight, Jeffrey Mitchell and Mary Temple will mingle together in our Bruton Place headquarters while a sensational cast of leading designers, photographers, artists, models and musicians will joining us in creating an exhibition that will metamorphose and bloom throughout the winter. To help celebrate SHOWstudio.com's ten years of innovation, experimentation and creation, we commissioned key contributors to 'say it with flowers'. From Craig McDean to Yohji Yamamoto to Dame Vivienne Westwood to Julie Verhoeven, a host of artists, fashion designers, musicians and models have all come together to create not only their own floral tribute but also an exhibition that will literally bloom as the month's progress; from week to week new submissions will be added to the show - a perfect tonic to to the dormant season, and a reflection of the ever-expanding, ever-changing nature of the World Wide Web.
FROM THE ARCHIVE FLOWERS FOR KATE
With our Florist show opening in a week's time, our 2007 project 'Flowers For Kate' felt like the perfect antidote to the encroaching chill of winter. Celebrating the iconic beauty of Kate Moss, Nick Knight invited the public to send their own floral tribute to this British style icon, commemorating the results in a unique fashion film and shoot for V Magazine. Poetry composed on set by Roddy Lumsden accompanies an image-gallery of personalised floral greetings to Kate from the likes of John Galliano and Christopher Bailey Created from 360-degree imagery and set to a soundtrack of Kate's recital of Lumsden's final poem - simply entitled 'Bloom' - the final film showcases the foliate forms of S/S 2008's key collections. A hypnotic blossom, exposing a beautiful communion between fashion and nature. [more]
Latest Entries BLOG
Emporio Armani and Giorgio Armani Press Days As the temperature drops to freezing (well, in the SHOWstudio.com office at least), paradoxically the S/S 2011 round of press days has just begun in earnest. First up today is the Armani Empire, straddling New Bond Street with press days for Emporio to our left and Armani mainline to the... [more]
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