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 | Newsletter | 19 January 2012 |
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| 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 | |
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 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 | |
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 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 | |
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 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 | |
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 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 | |
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 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 | |
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 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 | |
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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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