SHOWstudio: Design_Download: Stephen Jones, Daphne Guinness, Nick Knight, Haute Couture S/S 2012, Versace, Chanel, Valentino, Ming Xi, Joseph Lally, Stephen Doherty and more

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	Newsletter | 26 January 2012
CURRENT DESIGN_DOWNLOAD: STEPHEN JONES
The eighth pattern in our Design_Download series celebrates the seemingly endless creativity, wit and invention of master milliner Stephen Jones. A leading figure in international fashion for three decades, Jones' work has garnered international acclaim ever since his graduation from Central Saint Martins in 1979. For SHOWstudio, Jones contributed a piece that epitomises the seemingly contradictory qualities of whimsical fantasy, stunning technique and unexpected practicality that characterise his work. A 'cut and sew' creation that requires no specialist millinery materials or training to realise its stunning form, Jones' hat is an exaggeration on the classic beret. Inspired by his own lilac hatboxes and drawn from his Autumn/Winter 2011 own-label collection, Jones titles this tour de force of millinery invention Nice Package. Follow our Design_Download brief, craft your own creation and submit your images via email - design_download@showstudio.com - or Twitter #design_download for a chance to be featured on-site in our Submissions Gallery. [more]
CURRENT VISIONS COUTURE
Le Printemps, Paris offers their take on the Spring/Summer 2012 collections, interpreting the theme of 'Visions Couture' in a ground-breaking collaboration with Nick Knight, Daphne Guinness and SHOWstudio. Ahead of the unveiling of the final vitrines in February, from 18:00 GMT/10:00 PST on 27-28 January 2012 we re-stream the entire real-time footage of this extraordinary two-day shoot, starring Guinness in a selection of exceptional pieces from Paco Rabanne, Gareth Pugh, Maison Martin Margiela, Rick Owens and Junya Watanabe. Hopefully this will be grist to the inspirational mill, as your picture submissions are a vital element of the project's final realisation. Nick Knight invites SHOWstudio viewers to submit their own images inspired by one of the following five themes: Dark Knight, Flora, House and Garden, Death Becomes Her and Nature at Night. These themes will be incorporated into a series of specially-designed interactives by multimedia designer Daniel Brown to reinterpret the theme of each window. You can still send your images (as large as possible) via Twitter with the hashtag #visionscouture, or email visionscouture@showstudio.com for a chance to have yours included in the vitrines of Le Printemps, Paris. [more]
CURRENT COLLECTION: HAUTE COUTURE S/S 2012
From Atelier Versace's glittering razzmatazz to Chanel's rhapsody in blue to Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli's twenty-first century Rousseau retreat at Valentino, the Spring/Summer 2012 haute couture Collections offered as many different visions as there are women willing to buy them. That is to say, a handful. Alongside image updates from NOWFASHION, SHOWstudio Fashion Director Alexander Fury reports live from French fashion's highest echelons, charting those shows that made the grade and those that stumbled before the final hurdle. Read our full coverage in SHOWstudio Collections. [more]
CURRENT FASHION MIX
Our Fashion Mix series continues with playlists from two of fashion's coolest girls. First we have a dance-worthy selection from New Yorker Jen Brill. The model and photo agent offers up a dynamic playlist perfect for pre-party listening. Later in the week top Australian model and elfin beauty Abbey Lee will drop her selection of fashion tracks live on SHOWstudio. Tune in on Friday at 13.00 GMT to listen to her unique track listing. [more]
COMING UP DEATH CAMP
'The history of our planet is one of a death camp. The planet history is one of violence, corruption and conspiracy.' so states photographer and filmmaker Joseph Lally, whose new film Death Camp takes a dark, morbid tone exploring the depravity of modern existence and the failure of humankind. Inspired by the visuals of Jean Luc Godard and the writings of Bernard-Henri Lévy, Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag, Death Camp features a mix of vintage footage and new material As with Lally's previous films the piece eschews a conventional narrative, instead relying on sound and striking visuals to create a vision of the world as a death camp, covering topics as varied as race, gender, drug use, violence and sexual exploitation. Death Camp launches on SHOWstudio on Monday 30 January 2012 at 17.00 GMT/10.00 EST
FROM THE SHOP SAUNA FACES, 2011
In his debut series of drawings Sauna Faces London based artist Stephen Doherty creates an intriguing and emotive set of characters against coloured paper. Drawing from people he has met and imagined Sauna Faces are touchingly intimate portraits of gay sauna goers. Doherty utilises each anecdotally named character, from Rotund Diva to Drunk Kiss,  to explore the spectrum of emotions felt within a sauna. From first timers to regular and one off users, Sauna Faces brings together the common feelings Doherty feels must be shared by these men. The loneliness, hope, and vulnerability bring together each face to reflect to the viewer Doherty’s viewpoint of their surroundings which are so rarely explored. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE MING XI COUTURE 2011
Last year the haute couture collections had a decidedly Asian theme, prominent not only in an influx of new Far Eastern clients but in the pastel embroidery and luxurious silks that inspired fashion's finest. To celebrate this Nick Knight shot Shanghai-born model Ming Xi in a selection of the most covetable creations from Spring/Summer 2011 exclusively for V magazine. As this season's couture shows draw to a close, revisit the hits of last year's collections including Jean Paul Gaultier, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel and John Galliano for Christian Dior. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Alex Fury - Haute Couture Spreing/Summer 2012: The Global Stage Couture grinds on: today there is the Margiela 'Artisinal' presentation, Gaultier, Ellie Saab and Valentino to finish. Tomorrow it stumbles on with 'haute joaillerie' presentations, a bit of pre-collection, and mainly magazines out shooting the couture warm off the backs of the mannequins. [more]
Nick Knight - Beautiful. The photography of Neil Craver My assistant Laura discovered these incredibly beautiful images by a photographer called Neil Craver, whilst researching for an up and coming underwater shoot we are organising. I loved them so much I wanted to share them. [more]
Celebrating fashion's greatest fantasists 'People enjoy fantasy. They enjoy the freedom it suggests and the proposition of a different life. Stylists are just as responsible for that as anyone in history.' - Nick Knight, foreword to Stylists: New Fashion Visionaries. [more]
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SHOWstudio: Daphne Guinness, Carine Roitfeld, Lara Stone, Menswear Collections Autumn/Winter 2012, Gary Numan, Terence Koh, Lily Cole, littlewhitehead, Naomi Campbell and more...

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	Newsletter | 19 January 2012
CURRENT VISIONS COUTURE
Re-imagining the fine French art of haute couture for the twenty-first century, Visions Couture is the theme chosen for the spring 2012 fashion windows of Paris' Le Printemps, devised by Nick Knight and SHOWstudio in collaboration with Daphne Guinness. A vital element in Knight's final vitrine installations are a series of specially-designed interactives by multimedia designer Daniel Brown, which will use images to reinterpret the theme of each window. As part of the Visions Couture project, Nick Knight invites SHOWstudio viewers to submit their own images inspired by one of the following five themes: Dark Knight, Flora, House and Garden, Death Becomes Her and Nature at Night. Send your images (as large as possible) via Twitter with the hashtag #visionscouture, or email visionscouture@showstudio.com for a chance to have yours included in the interactive installations at Le Printemps, Paris. [more]
COMING UP POWER DRESSING
From 22-23 January 2011, model Lara Stone and stylist Carine Roitfeld collaborate with Nick Knight for Power Dressing, a live fashion shoot with a difference inspired by the notion of combining self-defence with high-fashion. Specifically for this shoot, Stone trained in Krav Maga, a system developed by the Israeli Defence Forces, and is captured in a series of scenarios defending herself whilst modelling Rotifeld's choice of Spring/Summer 2012 fashion for V Magazine. The entire shoot will be streamed live, so tune in on Sunday and Monday to see all the action from the set.
CURRENT COLLECTIONS: MILAN AND PARIS MENSWEAR A/W 2012
Designers have unveiled their first Collections for Autumn/Winter 2012 - for men that is, albeit a glimpse into the moment that usually heralds a few clues for the womenswear offerings to be unveiled in a month's time. Pitti Immagine was the first, giving us a new vision of the Valentino man, quickly followed by a veritable designer deluge in Milan, with Dolce e Gabbana, Jil Sander, Prada and Versace offering visions from La Scala opulence through Modernist tailoring to serial killer chic. Paris is the next stop, with SHOWstudio Contributing fashion journalist Hywel Davies, who will be reporting live from Paris  covering the likes of Yohji Yamamoto, Dior Homme, Lanvin, Givenchy and Yves Saint Laurent alongside live image uploads from the NOWFASHION team. [more]
CURRENT IN YOUR FACE: MUSIC GARY NUMAN
Legendary singer and songwriter and one of the original pioneers of electronic music, Gary Numan accepted SHOWstudio's invitation to perform a stripped-back, intimate and entirely personal set. Streamed live on SHOWstudio, Numan's performance is now available on-demand as a part of our In Your Face: Music series. Listen to Numan's mix of new material and old classics, including of course 'Are Friends Electric?', performed here in our Bruton Place residence. [more]
CURRENT FASHION MIX
This Monday's Fashion Mix offers a playlist by one of the most provocative figures in fine art today - Chinese-Canadian artist Terence Koh. Better known as 'asianpunkboy' and a frequent follower and collaborator with high fashion figures, Koh provides SHOWstudio and our viewers with a list of his top ten tracks. Ending the week will be the English model and actress Lily Cole's playlist, launching this Friday at 13:00 GMT, offering a song selection from the past half-century of rock music including Elvis, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac and Bon Iver. [more]
FROM THE SHOP ANY LAST THOUGHTS?, 2010
SHOWstudio Shop mixed the black humour of duo littlewhitehead into our In Your Face exhibition with their daring and dark 2010 sculpture Any Last Thoughts?. littlewhitehead draw from their experience of working class, post industrial Glasgow in collaborative mixed media sculptures of life sized figures. Their piece visually explores the feeling of increasingly normalised violence as a tool of communal identity, drawing together people and places under the same darkly comic flag. With a wish to 'beat you up visually,' littlewhitehead creates a scene of amusement by drawing fragments of our darkest fears into the light. Any Last Thoughts? brings violence and crime teasingly close to the viewer to unnerve, alarm and darkly amuse. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE NAOMI CAMPBELL: STATUESQUE
Three-dimensional fashion photography - or fashion sculpture, as it can be more pithily dubbed - is the centrepiece of Nick Knight's Visions Couture concept for the vitrines of Le Printemps, Paris. But it was also the centrepiece of SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution back in 2009, courtesy of a monolithic sculpture of supermodel Naomi Campell, a triple-exposed photograph rendered in three dimensions, and thirty or so feet high. Inviting viewers to utilise Naomi's body as a conduit for global communication, exhibition goers and online viewers alike were able to 'graffiti' across her with projected light, while microphones placed in and around her body picked up visitors' audio responses and broadcast them worldwide. Our project Naomi Campbell: Statuesque documents both the final installation - showcasing a ten-minute extract of over three hours of footage captured over the three-month exhibition run, alongside a tour narrated by Nick Knight of the exhibit itself - and also the all-important process behind scanning Naomi in three-dimensions and recreating this Supermodel, super-sized. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Matthew Williams - Serge Lutens / JUN ROPE' CM Serge Lutens make up advertorials from 1978. [more]
Amanda Harlech - The Egg... The pagan egg is being collected. I am sad as I've got attached to primavera egg with its Miss Havisham ripped lace and the crown of wildflowers woven for her when she was still full of hope. [more]
SHOWstudio videos now available on your iPhone and iPad A new feature we've been working on is now live, and it means you can watch our videos on iOS devices like the iPhone and iPad.  [more]
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SHOWstudio: NEWGEN//TEN, Karlie Kloss, Nick Knight, Daphne Guinness, Pitti A/W 2012, Shun Watanabe, Val Garland, Nancy Burson, Simon Foxton and more...

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	Newsletter | 12 January 2012
CURRENT NEWGEN//TEN
Model Karlie Kloss, Topshop Creative Director Kate Phelan and image-maker Nick Knight came together for SHOWstudio's first live shoot of 2012 - NEWGEN//TEN, celebrating a decade of British high-street giant Topshop sponsoring the British Fashion Council's NEWGEN scheme. Featuring the Topshop collections created by London Fashion Week stalwarts including Richard Nicoll, Marios Schwab, Christopher Kane and Mary Katrantzou, this shoot offers a sneak peek at the final visuals of Knight's latest fashion film, to be unveiled to the public and press during London Fashion Week in February. If you missed the real-time action on Friday, we will be re-streaming the NEWGEN//TEN live shoot from 18:00 GMT / 10:00 PST today [more]
CURRENT VISIONS COUTURE
In December Nick Knight collaborated with style icon Daphne Guinness to devise the visuals for the windows of Le Printemps department store in Paris, under the overarching theme of Visions Couture. A vital element of Nick Knight's final window installations are a series of specially-devised interactives by multimedia designer Daniel Brown, which will use images to reinterpret the theme of each window. As part of the Visions Couture project, Nick Knight invites SHOWstudio viewers to submit their own images inspired by one of the following five themes: - Dark Knight - Flora - House and Garden - Death Becomes Her - Nature at Night Submit an image (as large format possible) to #visionscouture via Twitter or email visionscouture@showstudio.com for a chance to have your image included in the interactive installations at Le Printemps, Paris. [more]
CURRENT COLLECTIONS: PITTI AND MILAN MENSWEAR A/W 2012
We may be barely a week into the new year, but the European Autumn/Winter 2012 Collections began yesterday, with Valentino's menswear catwalk debut as the centrepiece of Florence's Pitti Immagine #81. On Saturday the action shifts to Milan, with fashion powerhouses Prada, Armani, Gucci and Versace all plying their wares for modish menfolk to consider, covet, and ultimately lay down cold hard cash for. The NOWFASHION.com team will be providing real-time updates while SHOWstudio fashion director Alexander Fury reports live. [more]
CURRENT FASHION MIX
Our Fashion Mix series continues to offer a unique reflection of contemporary fashion, giving a selection of fashion figures the opportunity to showcase their greatest hits. This weeks duo are make-up artist and SHOWstudio blogger Val Garland and Vogue Hommes Japan editor Shun Watanabe. You can start the week with Watanabe's selection of mellow tunes and rock away on Friday with some of Garland's punk classics. [more]
FROM THE SHOP ANDROGYNY (SIX MEN + SIX WOMEN), 1982
Nancy Burson has created provocative insights into race, beauty and identity by pioneering the cohesion of art and science. Working with MIT engineers during the 1980’s to create photo composites which 'morphed' together faces, her work questions the make up of humanity as well as it's unity. Mankind gives a portrait made up the percentages of different races in the population, in an attempt to create an actual picture of our population's face, whereas Androgyny brings together the faces of six men and six women to represent a hybrid face of the sexes. Together this haunting series wonderfully questions the ability of one image or statistic to reflect the true nature of the world’s population. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE BEASTING
As fashion enters the Autumn/Winter 2012 menswear season, we glance back to Beasting, a selection of highlights from John Galliano’s outlandish Autumn/Winter 2007 collection. Nick Knight and Simon Foxton took to studio for two days to stage one of the explosive action shoots that are the hallmark of their longstanding creative collaboration, capturing the results on camera for Arena Homme Plus. That series of editorial photographs is showcased here alongside an exclusive fashion film created with Ruth Hogben. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Submit your images to be included in Nick Knight's Le Printemps windows! A vital element of Nick Knight's final window installations for Paris department store Le Printemps are a series of specially-devised interactive by multimedia designer Daniel Brown, which will use images to reinterpret the theme of each window. [more]
Erin O'Connor strikes a pose Today our studio was graced with a true fashion legend - British supermodel Erin O'Connor, here preened by hairstylist Christian Wood and laced into a rather formidable Rigby and Peller corset. The reason for this shoot is under wraps for the moment, but the final images (and project) will be released during the spring 2012 haute couture season in Paris later this month. Terribly appropriate, given Erin's truly couture-worthy poise... [more]
A hint of stocking, and something shocking... Despite her late night on Friday's NEWGEN//TEN shoot, the indefatigable Karlie Kloss is in front of the camera once again today, recording a fashion film with director Ruth Hogben to be released later this year. We don't want to reveal too much about the theme - although a braided-leather whip and these faded roses offer a sly wink to the hint of kink underscoring proceedings. [more]
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