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 | Newsletter | 14 December 2011 |
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| CURRENT IN YOUR FACE: DINOS CHAPMAN | |
| Dinos Chapman, one half of the controversial contemporary-art gruesome twosome the Chapman Brothers, is the inaugural sitter in our new series of interviews designed as online accompaniment to the SHOWstudio Shop exhibition In Your Face. Twisting the notion of the coaxing, cajoling and coercive interview that has become the mainstay of art and fashion journalism, our In Your Face interview series seeks to provoke and question some of the leading figures in contemporary culture. With compelling visuals - cropped tightly to the face to create a frame that is often arresting and sometimes uncomfortable to watch - and unedited, candid conversation, this is a one-off insight into the life and work of Chapman in his own words. [more] | |
| CURRENT IN YOUR FACE: MUSIC | |
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 Honor Titus, frontman of skater punk five-piece Cerebral Ballzy, was the first participant in our new performance series inspired by the SHOWstudio Shop exhibition In Your Face, performing an emotionally-changed, raw and intense set streamed live from SHOWstudio's Bruton Place base. Tomorrow, Thursday 15 December, electropop pioneer Gary Numan becomes the second musician to contribute to the series, streaming live from 13:00 GMT. [more] | |
| CURRENT BEHIND THE SEAMS: FASHION IMMORTALITY | |
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 Chanel, Dior, Lanvin - the founders may have passed but the power of their names live on. With styles spinning ever-faster, models shifting season-by-season and a roster of continually changing designers (Dior being the latest prize in fashion's favourite game of musical chairs), it seems the only permanence in fashion are the age-old and yet ageless brand names themselves. By contrast, the fickle world of fashion has decreed that the houses will live forever. In the latest of our Behind The Seams series, Alexander Fury looks not behind the seams but inside the collar and examines the enduring power of the designer label. [more] | |
| CURRENT FASHION MIX | |
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 Celebrating the synergy of fashion and music, our Fashion Mix project showcases a selection of fashion figures' all-time favourite hits. This week, British model Liberty Ross and fashion director of V and V Man magazines Jay Massacret offer their own choice of ten tracks fit for the most fashionable of festive parties. [more] | |
| COMING UP IN YOUR FACE: BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY | |
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 The next sitter for our In Your Face: Interview series is influential and inflammatory French philosopher, intellectual and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy. Captured before delivering a lecture for Intelligence Squared at the Royal Geographical Society in London, Lévy speaks candidly on his career, beliefs and tempestuous life in the public eye. Lévy's In Your Face interview will launch on Friday 16 December. | |
| COMING UP MAGGIE CHEUNG, CENTRE STAGE | |
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 Captured on camera during Nick Knight's shoot for Vogue China in 2009, this film showcases an exclusive interview with Chinese actress, composer and philanthropist Maggie Cheung. Alongside fashion film of Cheung in creations from Balenciaga, Lanvin, Stella McCartney and Louis Vuitton, she discusses her life and work in an intimate and revealing video portrait, to be launched on SHOWstudio next week. | |
| FROM THE SHOP FROM THE SERIES 'HAND-TAINTED POSTCARD', 2009 | |
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 Creating a daring juxtaposition between the innocence and nostalgia of vintage postcards and artist Tim Shaw’s view of macho symbols and images from mass media today, Hand-Tainted Postcard merges two worlds both conceptually and visually. Using unexpected mediums in each work, these postcards marry traditional images with silicone, pornography and fish skin to give each piece a rich identity of excessive ambiguity and yet, because the work pulls from mainstream imagery, there is something seductively familiar about each portrait. [more] | |
| FROM THE ARCHIVE BRING & BUY | |
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 Patti Smith, Yoko Ono, Tilda Swinton and Björk - these were just some of the names that donated garments to SHOWstudio's Bring & Buy in July 2005. All piece received were featured in a unique Nick Knight shoot for the October 2005 issue of i-D, starring the likes of Erin O’Connor, Naomi Campbell and Karolina Kurkova modelling unique fashions realised by an army of international stylists. The truly one-off clothes were then auctioned on eBay in aid of Oxfam - but our project profiles the entire process from receipt of the packages through to the shoot itself, captured on fashion film by Nick Knight and edited by Ruth Hogben. [more] | |
| LATEST ENTRIES BLOG | |
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New preview of "The Legend of Lady White Snake" film  Inspired by one of China's most beloved legends, the film is a meditation on obsession and metamorphosis. Directed by Indrani. [more] | |
Librty Ross - Lips Like Sugar  Video by Echo And The Bunnymen [more] | |
In Fashion, Louise Wilson and David Koma Re-stream now broadcasting!  The re-stream of our latest In Fashion interviews have begun! From 18:00 GMT we will be showcasing Hywel Davies' one-on-one conversation with Central Saint Martin's MA Fashion professor Louise Wilson OBE, and from 19:00 GMT London designer and former student of Wilson David Koma will be speaking with Alexander Fury. Watch the full, unedited interviews in our In Fashion project. [more] | |
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