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 | Newswire | 10.11.10 |
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| 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 | |
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 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 | |
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 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 | |
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 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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 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 | |
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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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