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 | Newsletter | 7 December 2011 |
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| CURRENT IN YOUR FACE | |
| Featuring major pieces by artists and designers including Robert Mapplethorpe, Marina Abramovic, Douglas Gordon, Santiago Sierra, Nick Knight, Stephen Jones, Nasir Mazhar, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel and Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, the latest SHOWstudio Shop exhibition In Your Face is now open to the public.This exhibition collides pieces from the worlds of fashion, fine art and music that explore the straight-up, the confrontational and occasionally the aggressive. To quote from Nick Knight: 'To push people to reconsider their opinions is good. But sometimes you have to do that in a direct and upfront way, in your face.' [more] | |
| COMING UP DESIGN_DOWNLOAD | |
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 Launched in 2002, SHOWstudio's Design_Download series has a simple and direct aim: to help demystifying the fashion process by offering prestigious designer garment patterns for download via the Internet. After exploring patterns from some of the most important fashion designers of our time - including John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Yohji Yamamoto and Maison Martin Margiela - the latest Design_Download will be launched on SHOWstudio this month, allowing viewers the unique chance to make a one-off garment designed by a true British fashion legend.More information on our mystery festive Design_Download pattern will be revealed soon… | |
| CURRENT FASHION MIX | |
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 Our Fashion Mix series continues to offer a musical reflection of the fashion scene today, giving a selection of fashion figures the opportunity to showcase their greatest hits. This week's top song choices were offered by set designer, art director and graphic artist Gary Card on Monday, while the leading Polish model - Monika 'Jac' Jagaciak's selection of fashion tracks will be live on SHOWstudio this Friday at 13:00 GMT. [more] | |
| CURRENT BEHIND THE SEAMS: FASHION HEROES | |
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 With Kate Moss covering Paris Vogue in a jumpsuit and Diamond Dogs coif (for the second time, that is: Nick Knight having first photographed Moss in Bowie drag back in 2003), this week's Behind The Seams article explores the aesthetic legacy and eternal influence of the great David Bowie. From Thin White Duke through to Ziggy, Bowie's countenance can still be seen stamped across contemporary fashion, with his ghost haunting catwalks from designers as diverse as Balmain, Dries Van Noten and Richard Nicoll. [more] | |
| COMING UP IN YOUR FACE: INTERVIEW | |
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 Dinos Chapman, one half of controversial art duo the Chapman Brothers, is the first of our In Your Face: Interview series - a twist on the coaxing and cajoling tradition of coercive interviewing prevalent in art and fashion journalism that presents the interview as a confrontational conversation to profile a series of figures from the worlds of art, fashion and celebrity.The up-close and personal interview with Dinos Chapman launches on Friday November 9 2011. | |
| COMING UP IN YOUR FACE: MUSIC | |
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 Performers including Gary Numan, Ladyhawke, Luke Pritchard and Cerebral Ballzy have accepted SHOWstudio's invitation to perform their most emotive and emotional songs, in a stripped-back, intimate and entirely personal set. Streamed live on SHOWstudio and then available on-demand, each In Your Face: Music performance is a unique one-off and a musical reflection of the latest SHOWstudio Shop exhibition. The opening performances, from skater punk five-piece Cerebral Ballzy and electronic pioneer Gary Numan, stream live next Wednesday and Thursday respectively. | |
| COMING UP IN FASHION, LOUISE WILSON AND DAVID KOMA RE-STREAM | |
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 This Friday 9 December 2011, we will be re-streaming both of this week's live In Fashion interviews entirely unedited. From 18:00 GMT/10:00 PST, journalist and author Hywel Davies speaks with one of the most influential women in contemporary fashion, Professor Louise Wilson OBE of Central Saint Martins MA; while from 19:00 GMT/11:00 PST, SHOWstudio fashion director Alexander Fury talks with influential up-and-coming London designer David Koma. Tune in on Friday for these exclusive broadcasts. | |
| FROM THE SHOP IDOLS, 2011 | |
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 Fraser Hamilton's Idols collection uses monumental, sculptural and statuesque archetypes as - monoliths, totem poles, obelisks and heads, hands and busts - miniaturised into jewellery, hence subverting their inherent stature. Some items are upturned into personal idols while others adapt to the body treating it as a sort of sculpture park; figures recline on fingers, pendants with limbs and earrings with heads reach in bosoms or whisper into ears. These one-off pieces have been carved out of a solid block of wax, cast in bronze, and then plated in gold and silver. Each transformed element treats the body as a playground attempting to narrate its object status or stand tall as a monumental idol - uniquely designed for women or men who enjoy making a statement.[more] | |
| FROM THE ARCHIVE DESIGN_DOWNLOAD: ALEXANDER MCQUEEN | |
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 With a new Design_Download set to launch later this month, it felt fitting (pardon the pun) to chose a piece from our existing archive of exclusive one-off designer pieces. From one of the world's foremost fashion designers came the third in our series of downloadable garments - Alexander McQueen allows us to examine and assemble his pattern for a beautiful kimono-inspired jacket from the Autumn/Winter 2003 collection. The brutally sharp tailoring, for which this label is synonymous, is seen in the jacket’s strong linear construction and carefully layered fabric sections. A collision of Western Victoriana and Eastern traditional dress, this garment, like so much of McQueen’s work, references historical detailing, whilst remaining quintessentially modern. [more] | |
| LATEST ENTRIES BLOG | |
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Amanda Harlech - Paris - 6th December 2011  Chanel's show date for its metiers d'art spirit of India, Paris - Bombay.The set at the Grand Palais is an elegant Moghul palace hung with chandeliers. A vast table piled with roses, tiers of fruits the colour of an 18c miniature, gilded glass and ropes of tuberoses. A silver train carrying decanters chugs around the perimeter of the table cloth. Karl has created his other world with genius set designer Stephen - alias Lulu. [more] | |
Marie Schuller - Second Interview in Marrakech: Roland Joffe  SHOWstudio continues covering the Marrakech International Film Festival. The second interview of the day was held with legendary director Roland Joffé who told us in detail how he bribed his way into Cambodia with Coca Cola products prior to shooting his Oscar nominated film The Killing Fields in the country. [more] | |
Libery Ross - COLLAGE by John Stezaker  Check out these amazing collages by English artist John Stezaker. I admire the simplicity of his artworks and love the idea of two different photographs (of old movie stars or found postcards) combined into one striking and intriguing image. Awesome! [more] | |
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