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 | Newsletter | 1 February 2012 |
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| COMING UP IN YOUR FACE: HAROLD OFFEH AND ELOISE CALANDRE | |
| This Friday 3 February 2012 sees the latest in our live series of performances in conjunction with the SHOWstudio Shop exhibition In Your Face. Contemporary artists Harold Offeh and Eloise Calandre collaborate to explore concepts of portraiture and its capacity to challenge and provoke in a series of three one-off performances, throughout the day. The first, from 13:00 GMT is titled Smile, playing with the concept of this gesture of friendship and approval and transforming it to a painful endurance test. Building on this provocative theme, the second performance from 15:00 GMT explores the potentials and possibilities of facial expression, using Calandre's face as a screen for a re-projection of her face. For the final performance, broadcast from 17:00 GMT, Offeh will add to his existing body of work Covers, currently on show as part of In Your Face, recreating the cover of The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street by appearing as '3Ball Charlie', a thirties freakshow performer. By using the primary mediums of popular culture - photography and video - Offeh and Calandre's performances will explore portraiture in a new way, unravelling complex ideas of race, identity and desire. Tune in on Friday 3 February 2012 at 13:00 GMT, 15:00 GMT and 17:00 GMT to see these unique performance pieces live and direct. | |
| CURRENT DEATH CAMP | |
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 The latest offering of filmmaker and photographer Joseph Lally can now be viewed exclusively on SHOWstudio. Entitled Death Camp, Lally describes the work as 'a controversial film which states that Earth is being transformed into a death camp. That culture, humanity, nature, art and democracy are near extinction.' Naturally, the film takes a pessimistic, dark tone offering a glimpse into the problems of modern life and the depravity of mankind. Taking inspiration from the visuals of Jean Luc Godard and the writings of Bernard-Henri Lévy, Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag, Death Camp explores topics as varied as race, gender, drug use, violence and sexual exploitation. The film rejects a conventional narrative, instead relying on visuals, sound and dialogue to create a vision of the world as a death camp, where everything and everyone is doomed.[more] | |
| CURRENT DESIGN_DOWNLOAD: STEPHEN JONES | |
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 Milliner Stephen Jones is the latest master creative to offer up a pattern for SHOWstudio's Design_Download series. The series allow readers a unique opportunity to create their own version of fashion masterpieces - so get creative and send your submissions in to our gallery. This is the first time that Jones has offered a pattern for download, allowing the public at large an insight into the visionary creative behind the hats for labels such as Comme des Garçons, Giles Deacon and Marc Jacobs. This is a 'cut and sew' creation that requires no specialist millinery materials or training to realise its stunning form - once you've crafted your own work of millinery art submit your images via email - design_download@showstudio.com - or via Twitter tagged #design_download for a chance to be featured on-site in the SHOWstudio Submissions Gallery.[more] | |
| CURRENT VISIONS COUTURE | |
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 Today is the final deadline to contribute your images to Visions Couture and be a part of Nick Knight's grand designs for the fashion vitrines of Le Printemps Paris. A collaboration between SHOWstudio, Nick Knight and Daphne Guinness, the windows will fuse art, interactivity, fashion film and of course the garments themselves, from Paco Rabanne, Gareth Pugh, Maison Martin Margiela, Rick Owens and Junya Watanabe. Viewer images, grouped around the five major themes inspiring the Visions Couture visual treatments - Dark Knight, Flora, House and Garden, Death Becomes Her and Nature at Night - form a vital part of the specially-devised interactives by multimedia designer Daniel Brown, each featuring in a different window. Send us your images via email on visions_couture@showstudio or via Twitter tagged #visionscouture for a chance to be included online and in the Le Printemps windows! [more] | |
| CURRENT FASHION MIX | |
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 Our Fashion Mix series boasts two fantastic, if vastly different, playlists this week. Monday saw a motivational mix from top-model Freja Beha Erichsen, with plenty of girl power from the likes of PJ Harvey. On Friday art director and set designer Simon Costin will drop an equally inspiring set of tracks live on SHOWstudio. Stay tuned on Friday at 13:00 GMT for your latest batch of super stylish sounds.[more] | |
| CURRENT BEHIND THE SEAMS: HOLY GHOSTS | |
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 In our first Behind The Seams article of 2012, SHOWstudio contributing fashion journalist Stephanie LaCava examines the idea of fashion as religion: but rather than shopping as religious experience, LaCava unravels the religious references that abound in the latest crop of shows. Balenciaga is key - after all, his couture maison was the closest to a chapel, so it's fitting that the contemporary inheritor of his heavy mantle, Nicolas Ghesquiere, is the lynchpin of this exploration. Unpicking a veritable litany of Spring/Summer 2012 collections - namely the aforementioned Balenciaga alongside Rei Kawakubo's Comme Des Garçons and Rick Owens - LaCava examines the 'Holy Ghosts' that continue to inspire so much of fashion today.[more] | |
| FROM THE SHOP COVERS, AFTER FUNKADELIC, MAGGOT BRAIN, 1971, 2009 | |
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 Harold Offeh’s work fuses together familiar cultural references, found footage and often his own image to create pieces playing with race, identity and expression. In his Covers series, Offeh recreates three musical album covers; Grace Jones, Island Life, 1985, The Ohio Players, Honey, 1975 and Funkadelic’s Maggot Brain, 1971, placing himself as the subject. By recreating and reapproproating these iconic covers - the title itself a reference to the musical tradition of the 'cover', where a band offers their own rendition of another's greatest hits - Offeh transforms a static image which defined a collection of music into a durational performance which he himself controls. Playing with humour and expectation each of the series gives Offeh a new platform to speak through other’s images and our own expectations. Join this extraordinary artist again on 3 February 2012 for a live stream of his performance online at 13:00 GMT, 15:00 GMT and 17:00 GMT, and view his recreations-to-date at SHOWstudio Shop as part of In Your Face [more] | |
| FROM THE ARCHIVE DESIGN_DOWNLOAD: JOHN GALLIANO | |
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 Our eighth Design_Download comes from Stephen Jones - a long-time collaborator of British designer John Galliano - who, incidentally, contributed the second of our downloads back in June 2003. Galliano's pattern is still available today, offering the public the chance to unravel Galliano's fiendishly complex 'Pirate' jacket - an exclusive Galliano design that first appeared on the catwalk in his Autumn/Winter 2001 Techno-Romance collection. Deceptively deconstructed, the jacket appears to be held together by sail rivets, buckles and ties, but in actual fact is a complex example of corsetry, skilled tailoring and the Couture workmanship that have defined Galliano's ground-breaking contribution to contemporary fashion.[more] | |
| LATEST ENTRIES BLOG | |
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Join the 'Fan Club' - Ruth Hogben and Katie Grand collaborate  Here is a sneak preview of fashion film director Ruth Hogben's latest project, a creative collaboration with stylist and LOVE magazine Editor in Chief Katie Grand. Titled Fan Club, the film is a spectacular celebration of fourteen years of Louis Vuitton - a true paean of love to LV, coinciding with the publication of LOVE issue 7 'After Taste'.[more] | |
Edison Chen - ADVENTURES OF 3 EYED MICKEY  PLEASE CHECK OUT THE SLIDESHOW OF THE MYSTERY OF THE 3rd EYE[more] | |
Le Printemps image submission  There's only a few days left before we close the deadline for the Le Printemps image submission that allows SHOWstudio viewers to submit their own images and be a part of Nick Knight's Visions Couture project. Have a look at some of the submissions we've already received and send your own vision of one of the themes.[more] | |
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