SHOWstudio: A/W 2011, London and Milan Collections, Sergio Rossi, Susanna Lau, In Camera: Lady Gaga and more

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	Newsletter | 24 February 2011
CURRENT COLLECTIONS: MILAN WOMENSWEAR AW 2011
Having spent the past week bearing witness as London designers played it safe, crossing all t’s and dotting every i in their already established signatures, we turn our attention next to Milan's offerings for A/W 2011 Womenswear. SHOWstudio.com Fashion Director Alexander Fury has touched down in the Italian fashion capital to bring you comprehensive coverage via his exclusive Audio reports, inspired by Carmel Snow’s post-war radio reports  responsible for bringing the name Balenciaga to the United States and Dior’s New Look its iconic moniker. The first round of heavyweights, Gucci and Alberta Ferretti, hit the catwalks yesterday and NOWFASHION.com is once again providing unique real-time images to accompany our live reportage. There’s no rest for the wicked on this weekend’s whirlwind schedule so be sure to stay tuned to the SHOWstudio Facebook and Twitter pages for new coverage as Prada, Versace and Jil Sander are now just a stone’s throw away. [more]
CURRENT CREATURES OF THE NIGHT
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH SERGIO ROSSI Our latest film series profiles the Autumn/Winter 2011 Sergio Rossi women’s collection designed by Sergio Rossi Creative Director Francesco Russo. SHOWstudio.com Fashion Director Alexander Fury stands in as curatorial talking head, analysing the reasoning and inspiration behind ten pieces of footwear taken from Russo’s latest collection - a strikingly cross-cultural and glamorous adventure in contemporary footwear. These ten filmic explorations of the Sergio Rossi Autumn/Winter 2011 collection are exclusively showcased online at SHOWstudio.com and premiered at the SERGIO ROSSI showroom in Milan on 24 February, 2011. [more]
COMING UP IN FASHION: SUSANNA LAU
Susanna Lau, also known as Susie Bubble of blog Style Bubble, is the focus of the next installment of our In Fashion series set to launch this Friday 25 February on SHOWstudio.com.  Lau was, undoubtedly, a crucial figure in fashion's blog revolution; she was editor of Dazed Digital, the online presence of Dazed & Confused magazine, from 2008-2010 and is now focusing full-time on her blog and other freelance projects, contributing and collaborating with industry favorites.  This intimate video portrait shows Lau waxing lyrical about all things fashion during a rare slice of down time before she and SHOWstudio.com Fashion Director Alexander Fury were swept into the eye of A/W 2011, covering the Collections for SHOWstudio.com. Our In Fashion interview with Susanna Lau will be launched this Friday 25 February 2011
FROM THE SHOP SLEEP, 2001
An entire decade ago, SHOWstudio.com founder and internationally renowned fashion photographer Nick Knight, explored the notion of sleep within fashion in a groundbreaking project - appropriately enough, titled Sleep. The first ever live global fashion shoot comprised of nine super models dressed and groomed as they would be at a traditional catwalk show but instead of the runway, they fell straight into bed. SHOWstudio.com viewers logged in and observed the nocturnal dishevelment of slumber. Our current SHOWstudio Shop exhibition To Bed is exclusively showing eight film shorts taken from the Sleep web cam stills – all of which truly document each models’ unconscious fashion performances. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE IN CAMERA: LADY GAGA
Following the premier of her new single Born This Way, and with the Nick Knight-directed video due to premier on Monday 28 February, the time felt ripe to re-examine our exclusive and unedited one-on-one interview with the worldwide megastar that is Lady Gaga. In May 2010, Lady Gaga became the ninth participant in our In Camera interview series, answering questions submitted by friends, celebrities and fans worldwide in a unique live online interview. Watch the two-hour unedited interview footage here, or read through the transcript, typed real-time as the interview progressed, for a fascinating and often revelatory insight into this twenty-first century pop culture icon. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
LONDON FASHION WEEK: CASSETTE PLAYA This afternoon’s Cassette Playa collection was expectedly colourful, with some of the models sprayed gold. [more]
LONDON FASHION WEEK: MAN Back at Covent Garden’s Royal Opera House and the presentation of the MAN supported designers, Martine Rose, Felipe Rojas Llanos and Thom Murphy [more]
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SHOWstudio: A/W 2011, London and New York Collections, Ruth Hogben, Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, Celine, Thom Browne and more

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	Newswire | 17.02.11
CURRENT COLLECTIONS: NEW YORK WOMENSWEAR A/W 2011
Following a stellar New York season with stand-out shows from Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler and Rodarte to name but a few of the boldface NYC names, the focus of the fashion fraternity is about to shift to the British fashion capital and London's latest offerings for A/W 2011. With a five-day schedule jammed with forty-something shows, our Collections coverage will be literally bursting at the seams with live imagery, real-time reportage and reviews from the likes of Christopher Kane, Burberry Prorsum, Giles, Richard Nicoll and Mary Katrantzou, alongside a few new developments for the new season. Want to keep up-to-date with all the A/W 2011 shows? Follow our Twitter feed at twitter.com/showstudio [more]
COMING UP IN FASHION, RUTH HOGBEN - LIVE
In our next In Fashion interview, live this Friday 18 February from 12:30 GMT, Fashion Director Alexander Fury will be pulling celebrated London filmmaker Ruth Hogben out from behind the camera to discuss her career to date. Having assisted Nick Knight between 2005 and February 2009 as his first photographic assistant and editor of his fashion film projects, Hogben remains a key SHOWstudio.com contributor as well as creating films with  fashion's great and good including Katie Shillingford, Matthew Stone, Francesca Burns and a long-standing collaboration with Gareth Pugh. Their exceptional talents were most recently in a unique fashion film, showcasing Pugh's latest collection as part of Pitti Immagine #79, providing an inspiring start to the A/W 2011 show season now well under way. You won't want to miss a second of live face time with this rising star.   In Fashion, Ruth Hogben will broadcast live from 12:30 GMT on Friday 18 February 2011
FROM THE SHOP TWENTY TO MIDNIGHT, 2011
Showcasing her second Enchanted Doll for the SHOWstudio Shop, Canadian doll-maker Marina Bychkova has created yet another astounding piece for our current exhibition To Bed. The slumbersome porcelain figurine was born from moments of anxiety about wasted time, aging and morality and inspired by the childhood story the Tale of Lost Time. Handmade to the finest standard, Twenty to Midnight features a silver-plated, limited edition bronze casting Rococo wig sculpture with gemstone accents. Embellished further with solitaire Ruby slippers and the permanent engraving of an intricate grandfather clock on her chest, Bychkova's precious doll serves as a constant reminder that time is of the essence. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE PERFECT
As she takes to the hot seat tomorrow for our latest live In Fashion interview, we re-examine one of Ruth Hogben's editorial films for our A/W 2010 season. Inspired by the much-fêted 'reductionist' sophomore collection by Phoebe Philo for the French house Celine, Hogben's fashion film captures all the elegance and severity of these examples of minimalism at its most luxurious. Austere, strict and refined to the nth degree, Perfect lives up to its title, a superb evocation of Philo's aesthetic at its very purest. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Our next In Fashion interviewee - Ruth Hogben! Our next In Fashion interviewee is a SHOWstudio.com favourite - indeed, one of our key contributors and rapidly becoming a major name on the international fashion scene. Filmmaker Ruth Hogben, the deft hand behind our Perfect and Joie de Vivre films, and a long-term collaborator of Gareth Pugh, will be... [more]
SUSANNA LAU: Collegiate Girls It doesn't really matter what theme Thom Browne is gunning for as his signature be it through the precise way of matching pieces together or the tricolore stripe that runs through his work, always shines through. We started off with a troop of wimpled models that paraded out to… [more]
New York Fashion Week: Incredible pattern, colour and construction at Proenza Schouler Undoubtedly my favourite show so far! I want to wear it all... [more]
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A/W 2011, New York Collections, Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, Calvin Klein, Susanna Lau, Jeremy Kost, Amanda Lepore, Craig McDean, Lady Gaga and more

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	Newswire | 10.02.11
Current COLLECTIONS: NEW YORK WOMENSWEAR AW 2011
Menswear, haute couture and pre-collections have all crammed themselves into the first month of 2011 - but now the new season kicks off in earnest, with the opening shows of the A/W 2011 Collections walking the catwalks of New York from today. Contributing Fashion Writers Indigo Clarke and Lindsay Sammon will be reporting live from the shows, uploading the latest must haves from the trans-Atlantic catwalks. Log on to read all our reports and updates from NYC's big guns - Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler and Calvin Klein - dab hands - Oscar De La Renta, Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors - and bright new things - Rodarte, Alexander Wang and Altuzarra This season, alongside our live reportage, NOWFASHION.com provide unique real-time image uploads from all the major shows - while a stellar array of fashion insiders guest blog for us, including Susanna Lau a.k.a. Susie Bubble, and stylist and GQ Style Fashion Director Francesca Burns. [more]
COMING UP IN FASHION, SUSANNA LAU
As the fashion world gears up for another round - namely A/W 2011 - we are readying our latest In fashion installment, profiling prolific writer and style blog stalwart Susanna Lau. Former Commissioning Editor of Dazed Digital, star blogger and firm SHOWstudio.com fashion favourite, Lau sat down earlier this month with our Fashion Director Alexander Fury to discuss her love of fashion and career to date in our first In Fashion interview of the new year. In Fashion, Susanna Lau launches next week.
FROM THE SHOP BOUDOIR - JEREMY KOST, 2010
Known primarily for his use of Polaroid photography, Jeremy Kost has long documented the ever-provocative existence of Hollywood glamour, and considering this week centre’s around love and passion, Kost’s Boudoir image ticks all the right boxes. In a crescending mass of polaroids, infamous transgender Amanda Lepore is propped seductively upon a crimson bed leaving little to the imagination. As seductive as it is inviting, it is the perfect addition to the season of all things risqué and as things get hot under the collar this Valentines Day, our newest exhibition To Bed is sure to satisfy all your salacious needs [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE 48 GIRLS
As we anxiously await to see which models emerge as the celebrated faces of A/W 2011, Craig McDean's film '48 Girls' flashes back to the girls of 2006. Gorgeous Gemma Ward and intoxicating Irina Lazareanu were then centre-stage and for the September 2006 issue of Paris Vogue, McDean included them amongst a cast of equally stellar talents - Karen Elson, Jessica Stam, and Shalom - for a marathon shoot. Captured alongside these still photographs, these forty-eight motion portraits provide a candid accounts of the personal interaction and delicate relationship between model and photographer. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
BORN THIS WAY - Lady Gaga's latest incarnation! The latest collaboration between Nick Knight and Lady Gaga is this image, the cover art for her new single 'Born This Way' (hope you caught the hints dropped in our In Camera interview back in May). The song itself is set to premier this Friday 11 February at 09:00 EST... [more]
In Fashion, Alice Hawkins: Re-stream now over Our re-stream of yesterday's In Fashion interview with the dynamite British photographer Alice Hawkins is now over. Be sure to check back with us, though, as later this month we will upload our final edit to site, allowing you to revisit the highlights of her one-on-one with SHOWstudio.com's own Fashion Director Alexander Fury. [more]
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SHOWstudio: Phoebe Philo, Lady Gaga, Kat Marks, Kate Moss, Alice Hawkins and more

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	Newswire | 04.02.11
CURRENT 200 PORTRAITS
Last week provided the final installment to SHOWstudio.com's exclusive 200 Portraits series.  This ground-breaking series of video portraits was shot by Nick Knight as an inspired accompaniment to the series of photographic portraits he captured for i-D's 'Then Now Next' 30th anniversary issue. Now showcased in its entirety, the series serves as a celebration of some of the twenty-first century's top roster designers, musicians, actors, models and creatives. Our array of illustrious sitters include fashion icons and pop culture idols alike, with the likes of Kate Moss, Phoebe Philo, Lady Gaga, Russell Brand, P!nk, La Roux and Naomi Campbell amongst many others, providing continued one on one face time with a cast of twenty-first century notables. [more]
CURRENT THE KARASS
This week's exclusive fashion film launch showcases the innovative MA collection of fashion and jewellery designer Kat Marks - The Karass. Directed by Nick Knight and inspired by the particular elegance found in Art Deco forms, this film entwines the seductive image of a classic Vargas showgirl with the sinister sci-fi archetype of the Maschinenmensch, projecting the past into the twenty-first century in a retro-futuristic fusion. [more]
COMING UP IN FASHION, ALICE HAWKINS - RESTREAM
Our latest In Fashion live interview took place yesterday, where Fashion Director Alexander Fury spoke with celebrated British photographer and image-maker Alice Hawkins. But if you missed this illuminating and insightful conversation with one of Britain's foremost young fashion image-makers, fear not! We are re-streaming her In Fashion conversation unedited this afternoon from 16:00 GMT [more]
FROM THE SHOP CINEMATOGRAPHY COLLECTION, 2010
Central Saint Martins graduate Maiko Takeda has recently become the one-to-watch after winning the Swarovski Trend Forecast Award. Now exhibiting internationally, her UK debut happily happens to be taking place under the veil of SHOWstudio Shop’s latest show To Bed.  Stemming from her fascination with scientific and mathematical laws that we take for granted - such as shadows and gravity - Takeda's body of work is all about light and dark. In Cinematography Collection, the young artist explores the terrain within the art historical parameters of the classic nude: a frame is, to all intents and purposes, 'empty' but casts a shadow of its subject. One minute we see the seductive figure, the next we can't make out her shadow, the viewer's role as voyeur complicated as the subject of the 'shadowed painting' resists falling into that ever too familiar 'to-be-looked-at' female role. Visit To Bed and unmask Takeda’s compelling piece for yourself… [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE FUTURE TENSE
Inspired by the boundless talent of Kat Marks, it is confirmed once again that the future is bright - the same thinking that informed our 2008 'Future Tense' fashion film season. Inspired by Hywel Davies' book 100 New Fashion Designers, this project approached a variety of designers with the simple brief to produce films exploring their own creative ethos and their increased sensitivity to their power as a brand. Accompanying films by Pierre Hardy, Rodarte, Peter Jensen, Lutz, Todd Lynn and Henrik Vibskov are intimate Q&As with each participant in addition to essays and features exploring the themes raised by the designers' films and the shift towards moving fashion as seen through the lens of influential young fashion writers. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
NARS Velvet Gloss Lip Pencil Short Film by Ruth Hogben Following her collaboration with Gareth Pugh for his spectacular Pitti Immagine presentation earlier this month, fashion filmmaker Ruth Hogben's latest work is this film short showcasing the latest beauty product from NARS. The brand's Velvet Gloss Lip Pencil is captured on the pout of model Heather Marks in this exclusive beauty short - and beauty is indeed the word that leaps to mind as Marks' visage writhes across the frame in all six shades of glossy perfection. [more]
Miu Miu's fashion film foray - The Powder Room Miu Miu is an unusual fashion label - initially a secondary line (don't say diffusion) of the Prada powerhouse, it quickly blossomed into it's own distinct entity, with a fan-base as prone to passionate displays of affection as those of its sister label. That feminine love affair with Miu Miu has now been expanded and expounded into a series of short fashion films, titled 'Women's Tales' and created by female directors: the first, by Zoe Cassavetes, featured above. [more]
TO BED: Private view Last night, the latest SHOWstudio Shop show, To Bed, opened with a private view here at Bruton Place to showcase the new offerings to a selected group of guests. The work on display runs the gamut, from Jeremy Kost's intimate polaroids, to Maiko Takeda's shadow-casting frame, to Andy Warhol's 'Sleep' - one of Warhol's first video pieces, described as an 'anti-film' and consisting of five hours and twenty minutes of long take footage depicting John Giorno sleeping. [more]
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