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 | Newsletter | 8 February 2012 |
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| CURRENT VISIONS COUTURE | |
| This week sees the culmination of the Visions Couture project as Le Printemps Paris reveals its spring 2012 windows, created under the direction of Nick Knight and exploring some of the finest of Spring/Summer 2012 through fashion film, sculpture and interactivity. Our project offers global viewers a unique chance to experience Visions Couture, showcasing fashion films and interactives from each of the windows, and shortly launching renders of the statuesque re-creations of Daphne Guinness that allow you to twist around her form in three-dimensions. Daniel Brown's interactive explore the five vitrine themes - Flora, Dark Knight, House and Garden, Death Becomes Her and Nature at Night - through viewer-generated imagery, each affected by the motion of your own body on webcam. Nick Knight's fashion films offer a showcase of creations by some of contemporary fashion's key visionaries - Paco Rabanne, Gareth Pugh, Maison Martin Margiela, Rick Owens and Junya Watanabe. Combining next season's clothes with pieces drawn from Daphne Guinness' own legendary wardrobe, the films are not only a feast for the eyes, but for the ears too, as each is set to a truly one-off soundtrack of operatic arias or spoken word poetry in Guinness' own voice. A fitting accompaniment to this truly exceptional and immersive high fashion experience. [more] | |
| CURRENT DESIGN_DOWNLOAD: STEPHEN JONES | |
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 In his own words, millinery maestro Stephen Jones has been adding the 'exclamation mark' to the collections of designers as diverse as Comme des Garçons, John Galliano and Marc Jacobs, for over thirty years with his always witty, often whimsical and usually fantastical headwear. For 2012, Jones offers SHOWstudio viewers the chance to download a piece from his latest Autumn/Winter collection - a classic beret-inspired cut-and-sew style that can be made by anyone and everyone. True haute millinery for the masses, we invite Jones' global fanbase to download his millinery (re)invention, craft your own version and send images of your hats to design_download@showstudio.com to be included in our Design_Download submissions gallery. A challenge, but never a chore - pay homage to one of the true great of British fashion. [more] | |
| COMING UP IN YOUR FACE: MUSIC | |
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 The latest addition to In Your Face: Music, this Friday SHOWstudio will be featuring more performers ready to express their unique musical language at SHOWstudio's Bruton Place headquarters. Following intimate and personal performances by electropop legend Gary Numan and Cerebral Ballzy frontman Honor Titus are British singer/songwriter Vula and French-based musician o F F Love. Starting off with o F F Love's performance at 12:00 GMT and continuing with Vula at 14:30 GMT, we will be streaming these one-off performances live this Friday 10 February 2012. [more] | |
| COMING UP COLLECTIONS: NEW YORK AUTUMN/WINTER 2012 | |
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 We've barely recovered from the excitement of the menswear collections and springtime Paris couture, but the Autumn/Winter 2012 Collections shows already loom large on the fashion horizon. The action kicks off in New York, where fashion's finest battle their way through the concrete jungle to get a glimpse of the latest looks from designer powerhouses including Calvin Klein, Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, Rodarte and Altuzarra. Keep up-to-date with the biggest fashion stories from the Big Apple via our real-time Collections coverage, photography courtesy of the NOWFASHION.com team and reportage from contributing fashion journalists Indigo Clarke, Stephanie LaCava and Kiki Georgiou. Our Autumn/Winter 2012 begins in February! | |
| CURRENT FASHION MIX | |
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 Our Fashion Mix series plays on this week, with two track lists from British modelling superstar Lily Donaldson and innovative fashion design duo Boudicca. On Monday, Donaldson offered up some classic British sounds from the likes of Marc Bolan and Peter Greens, fitting given her status as one of London's bright young things. Friday will see a synergy of old and new as the innovative and uncoventional Zowie Broach and Brain Kirkby drop a wide-ranging mix, containing everything from James Blake to Joy Division to their beloved Morrisey, whose lyrics are a constant source of inspiration. Listen out on Friday at 13:00 GMT to hear Boudicca's musical must-haves for yourself. [more] | |
| COMING UP IN FASHION: LOUISE WILSON | |
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 Mere days before the start of the Autumn/Winter 2012 London collections, next Wednesday sees the launch of our In Fashion interview with Professor Louise Wilson OBE, the leader of the acclaimed Central Saint Martins Fashion MA. A formative influence on designers as diverse as Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane and Mary Katrantzou, Wilson discusses her life and work with journalist and author Hywel Davies in a candid and frank one-on one. Provocative and inspirational, this unmissable interview with one of the most influential figures in contemporary fashion will launch next week exclusively on SHOWstudio. In Fashion, Louise Wilson launches on Wednesday 15 February 2012. | |
| FROM THE SHOP AAA - AAA, 1978 | |
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 Recently describing herself as the 'grandmother of performance art' Marina Abramović has spent her life pioneering performance art as a visual art form. Exposing herself to pain, danger and even death Abramović uses her self within her work to undergo a spiritual and emotional transformation before of the viewer. In her seminal piece AAA-AAA, Abramović explores her relationship as a lover with long term partner Ulay. Facing each other they begin to scream, moving themselves and their mounting noise towards each others open mouths, marrying ideas of romance and conflict while leaving the viewer wary of the dynamics between the two subjects. AAA-AAA explores the limits of the struggle to form a bond within relationships and a gives a unique insight into the life of a revolutionary artist. SHOWstudio are delighted to give the chance to view this extraordinary film until 9 March 2012 as part of ‘In Your Face’ [more] | |
| FROM THE ARCHIVE TAKING LIBERTY'S | |
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 As Visions Couture launches in the vitrines of Parisian department store Le Printemps, revisit Taking Liberty's, our residency in the windows of London's Victorian landmark retailer Libertys. Exploring the spontaneous creativity and exuberance of London’s streets. Originally broadcast in 2004, an interactive camera and sensor was placed in the window of Liberty’s on Regent Street, inviting passers-by to capture their ‘look’ for a competition judged by stylist Katy England, who was invited to draw up a shortlist of ten finalists. A phenomenal response from over 17,000 participants proved the street as fertile a breeding ground for fashion imagery as the photographic studio. Indeed, the project spawned a reprise - Taking More Liberty's - as part of SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution in October 2009, with the best look this time judged by fashion designer Gareth Pugh. A further example of British street style at its best - compare and contrast with the Parisian public interacting with Daniel Brown's unique multimedia designs as part of Visions Couture! [more] | |
| LATEST ENTRIES BLOG | |
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Louis Vuitton 'Fan Club' now online by Ruth Hogben and Katie Grand  How to celebrate fourteen years of Marc Jacobs helming the house of Louis Vuitton? Well, in retrospect, a phalanx of Louis-leotarded lovelies performing a Busby Berkley song-and-dance routine seems the natural choice, and was just what director Ruth Hogben and LOVE magazine Editor In Chief Katie Grand concocted in their latest fashion film collaboration, Fan Club, which premieres on the LOVE website today. [more] | |
Your Visions Couture submissions are now online!  The Visions Couture submissions gallery is now live! All of the images in this gallery have been selected by Nick Knight to feature in the windows of Le Printemps, Paris. The starting point for each image comes from one of our five themes: Dark Knight, Flora, House and Garden,
Death Becomes Her and Nature at Night.[more] | |
Motilo Ball, With Love  With Valentine's Day on the horizon, Nick Knight and SHOWstudio Shop took the opportunity to team up with Motilo this week for their fabulous 'With Love' Ball. Nick Knight's 'Rose' piece stole the show when it was exhibited centre stage in the ballroom to greet a star studded crowd.[more] | |
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