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 | Newsletter | 30 June 2011 |
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| CURRENT THE MURDER OF JEAN SEBERG | |
| Friday saw the premiere of The Murder of Jean Seberg, directed by Joseph Lally and starring Daphne Guinness. An art film uniquely created for the Internet and inspired by a dream, Lally's piece explores the controversial death of this all-American actress in 1979 through expressionistic vignettes and text inspired by Jean-Luc Godard. Alongside the film, exclusive text interviews with both Lally and Guinness unravel the hidden layers of meaning behind this feature-length art piece. [more] | |
| CURRENT REFLECTING THE BRIGHT LIGHTS | |
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 Our video edit charting the progress and process behind the LiveStudio residency of artist Walter Hugo has now launched. Composed of footage captured during our one-day live broadcast, this film offers a unique twenty-first century insight into nineteenth-century photographic methods as Hugo captures portraits via a giant 'camera obscura', fixes them in silver-nitrate and develops on glass plate - a 'positive' rather than a 'negative', and each a true one-off.Walter Hugo is offering a strictly limited number of private commissions alongside this series. For more information please contact SHOWstudio Shop. [more] | |
| CURRENT VENUS | |
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 Exploring and exploding the boundaries of sex and sexuality in all their forms, Venus launched last week on SHOWstudio.com. Alongside Nick Knight's latest fashion film, crafted from footage originally captured during his shoot with Nicola Formichetti for the Winter/Spring 2011 issue of Arena Homme Plus and starring Kirsten McMenamy, we showcase a selection of images by cult illustrator Mel Odom, who colour-saturated dreamscapes inspired the visual treatments. Unravelling the ideas behind the shoot, the illustrations and the often-misunderstood idea of transgenderism in general, interviews with Knight, Odom, and transsexual model and actor Danni Daniels chart the concepts that originally brought this ground-breaking and gender-blending shoot to life.[more] | |
| COMING UP COLLECTIONS: HAUTE COUTURE AUTUMN/WINTER 2011 | |
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 Fashion may have been considering the fellas for the past two weeks, but from Monday it's all about les femmes, as the SHOWstudio collections vault the manche and take Paris by storm for the latest Haute Couture collections. Teaming up once more with NOWFASHION.com to provide live image uploads for our first bout of couture coverage since 2007, Fashion Director Alex Fury will be reporting from the shows of Armani Privé, Chanel, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci and more as fashion's formula one create some of the most beautiful, labour-intensive and expensive clothing in the world. Whet your appetite with our extensive menswear coverage, and come back next week for all the action live and direct from Paris. | |
| FROM THE SHOP SILVER NUDIE, 2011 | |
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 On Monday 27 June 2011, Brit couture star Giles Deacon was the second designer to take part in our Les Smokings live project, crafting a one-off garment inspired by our Practice to Deceive exhibition and the fine French art of Le Smoking (the tuxedo jacket that is, not the nicotine habit). During this one-day live session, Deacon & Co. transformed our studio, quite literally, into smoke and mirrors, plastering the walls in tin-foil, drafting in a smoke machine, and slicing a unique tuxedo from silvered leather. Giles and team crafted their own idiosyncratic interpretation whilst answering questions from the viewing public. His slim-cut masterpiece, dripping with miles of silver leather fringe and and detailed with iron bolts, is now suspended for viewing, trying and indeed buying as part of the current SHOWstudio Shop exhibition.[more] | |
| FROM THE ARCHIVE SHOOT | |
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 With Paris - and SHOWstudio.com Fashion Director Alex Fury - gearing up for the Autumn/Winter 2011 Haute Couture shows and the surreal circus it brings to town, we have chosen to revisit SHOOT, a project contextualising couture. A series of surreal vignettes represent the political and financial machinations behind these most totemic of garments - while also surmising couture's unmatched ability to hold elegance and poise amongst madness and mayhem. Photographing gowns from the likes of John Galliano at Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, Azzedine Alaïa, Atelier Versace and Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel for a 2003 story appearing in W Magazine, SHOOT explores the theatre that some of fashion's finest magicians manage to conjure season after season. [more] | |
| LATEST ENTRIES BLOG | |
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Resort 2012: Peter Jensen  After two weeks of Collections crammed with machismo-oozing menswear (well, maybe a few too many skirts, 'skorts' and beaded kaftans to qualify as 'macho') it's pleasant to get back to good old-fashioned frock-watching - especially the newly-minted season of Resort, where rhetoric is abandoned for simple, honest-to-goodness saleability and wearability. Sometimes, it's nice when a dress is just pretty, without layers of hidden meaning... [more] | |
Les Smokings - Giles Deacon Stream Now Over!  A masterpiece of silver leather, iron bolts and miles of fringe - and rotating in a Barbarella-style mirror-scape to boot - Giles Deacon's Le Smoking is now complete! Email shop@showstudio.com to make further enquiries or to purchase [more] | |
Rei Kawakubo's Pearls of Wisdom  The pearl necklace (no innuendo please) is a bourgeois stalwart - where would chic Parisian matriarchs and dowager duchesses be without them? Hence the staid pearl sautoir is ripe fashion fodder to be twisted by rebel intellectual Rei Kawakubo - so much so, she launched an entire line of Comme... [more] | |
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Inspired by the controversial and shocking death of the all-American actress Jean Seberg in 1979, Daphne Guinness collaborates with filmmaker and photographer Joe Lally to create The Murder of Jean Seberg, an atmospheric film exploring Seberg's cinematic legacy, haunting beauty and the tragedy of her story. Guinness stars as Seberg herself alongside Michael Brager, while Lally directs and edits this expressive film that twists the traditional biopic into a unique Internet art film. 
Last week Craig Lawrence became the first designer to take up residence in our Bruton Place studio to craft a tuxedo jacket live as part of the SHOWstudio Shop exhibition Practice to Deceive. The second designer to take up the challenge is British design leader Giles Deacon, a highlight of both London and Paris fashion weeks under his eponymous label and as chief designer for the house of Emanuel Ungaro. Creating a bespoke version of the classic Le Smoking in his own inimitable fashion, Deacon and team will be in the studio on Monday 27 June from 10:00 BST to create the second tuxedo jacket of this series. The entire process, from conception to completion, will be streamed live, with Deacon taking questions from the public has he re-interprets and re-invents this iconic garment. 
For those who missed our live stream, last week saw the inimitable Daphne Guinness visit our Bruton Place studio to become our latest In Fashion interviewee. An authority on haute couture and true fashion original, Guinness spoke of Spanish childhood summers, the art-form of couture and working with some of fashion's greatest visionaries. Following our streams, the edit of Guinness' one-on-one with SHOWstudio.com fashion director Alexander Fury will launch next week, joining our selection of some of the most influential and intriguing figures in fashion.
The Italian leg of Menswear Spring/Summer 2012 is officially underway with SHOWstudio Fashion Director Alex Fury in Florence for the 80th edition of Pitti Immagine. Showcasing collections from New York heavyweights Band of Outsiders and Kate and Laura Mulleavey of Rodarte in unique locations in and around Florence, Pitti is the perfect gear-up for the first offerings from S/S 2012 - with Milan scheduled to kick off the season well and true this Saturday! 
Inspired by Nick Knight and Nicola Formichetti's Heroes and Pin-Ups shoot for Arena Homme Plus, our latest project explores the subject of transgenderism in contemporary fashion. Showcasing an exclusive fashion film created from footage captured during this two-day shoot, Transgender lays bare the influences and references behind the editorial, including an online gallery of the fashion story and unpublished images, and a selection of drawings from artist Mel Odom, one of the triggers for Knight and Formichetti's imaginations. These visuals are framed by exclusive written interviews with Knight and Odom, and also with transsexual performance artist, model and adult star Danni Daniels, to explore every facet of the subject matter.
