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 | Newsletter | 15 February 2012 |
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| CURRENT OBJECT FETISH | |
| The latest addition to our Object Fetish series comes just in time for London Fashion Week, and the first on-schedule showing of fresh talent Simone Rocha. In advance of her latest offering for Autumn/Winter 2012, we profile her 'floating' brogues, the stand-out accessory from her Autumn/Winter 2011 show with Fashion East. A re-imagining of the classic gentleman's brogue, propped on tip-toe with a slab of perspex to render them innately feminine, Rocha's shoes are emblematic of her entire approach to fashion - an antidote to the fussy, over-feminised garments seen on other catwalks. Supermodel Raquel Zimmermann models this perfect example of twenty-first century fashion Minimalism for Nick Knight's camera inside the mothership of retail, Selfridges & Co. [more] | |
| CURRENT IN YOUR FACE: HAROLD OFFEH AND ELOISE CALANDRE | |
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 Those who missed Harold Offeh and Eloise Calandre's live performances in conjunction with the SHOWstudio Shop exhibition In Your Face can now watch three unique films showcasing each of the one-off art pieces. The two contemporary artists collaborated to explore portraiture, unpicking its capacity to challenge in a series of provocative, specially-staged vignettes. The first piece, entitled Smile, plays with the concept of social convention and this gesture of happiness and by transforming the smile into a painful endurance test. Building on this thought-provoking theme, the second performance explores the potentials and possibilities of facial expression, using Calandre's face as a screen for a re-projection of her features. For the final performance, Offeh builds on 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. Each unique and equally challenging, the unmissable works unravel complex ideas of race, identity and desire. [more] | |
| CURRENT IN FASHION, LOUISE WILSON | |
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 Our latest In Fashion interview launches today, just before the Autumn/Winter 2012 London collections kick off with this Friday's Central Saint Martins MA show - and, appropriately enough, profiles the leader of said internationally-acclaimed course, Professor Louise Wilson OBE. 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 this candid and honest conversation. Provocative and inspirational, this unmissable interview with one of the most influential figures in contemporary fashion is now launched exclusively on SHOWstudio. [more] | |
| COMING UP NEWGEN//TEN | |
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 SHOWstudio's NEWGEN//TEN shoot brought together the very best of Topshop-supported talent, showcasing designer pieces from the one-off collections created for Topshop by some of the greatest of Great British fashion - from Christopher Kane to Marios Schwab to Mary Katrantzou - over the past decade. Nick Knight's fashion film, starring model Karlie Kloss in Topshop Creative Director Kate Phelan's selection of those ground-breaking collaborations, launches on SHOWstudio and Topshop.com on 17 February 2012, as well as featuring in the windows of Topshop's Oxford Circus flagship. This truly exceptional fashion film launches in sync with London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2012 and the ten year anniversary of Topshop's sponsorship of the British Fashion Council's NEWGEN scheme, a vital element behind the flourishing London fashion scene today. | |
| COMING UP IN YOUR FACE: VOID OF COURSE | |
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 A new addition to the In Your Face series of live broadcasts comes from Irish fashion design duo Void of Course. Having already contributed to SHOWstudio's In Your Face exhibition with their triple-masked leather helmet, Void of Course extend their input to a live performance in-house at SHOWstudio's Bruton Place headquarters. Inspired by the somewhat anti-fashion references of Silence Of The Lambs' serial killer Buffalo Bill, Francis Bacon, surgery and mental deterioration and staged over the course of Milan fashion week (a riposte to that art versus commerce debate if ever there was one) this will undoubtedly be a performance to remember. Tune in to the live stream from 10.30 GMT on 22-23 February 2012. | |
| CURRENT COLLECTIONS: NEW YORK AUTUMN/WINTER 2012 | |
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 The New York Collections draw to their close after a marathon leg of shows - from the edgy appeal of Alexander Wang to establishment favourite Oscar de la Renta, and trend-setting Marc Jacobs back in his Monday PM slot and on finest form. Our intrepid trio of reporters - Indigo Clark, Stephanie LaCava and Kiki Georgiou - have reported live from the shows, alongside image updates in real-time from the NOWFASHION team and live blogs from Stylebubble founder Susanna Lau. London kicks off on Friday, but there's still the closing shows from talents including Proenza Schouler and Calvin Klein before the Autumn/Winter action shifts back to Europe. Tune in for the final flurry of fashion over the next forty-eight hours. [more] | |
| CURRENT FASHION MIX | |
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 The two playlists gracing our Fashion Mix series this week couldn't be more different. On Monday already-iconic American beauty Karlie Kloss offered up a selection of hits, including cult classics from Aerosmith and Carly Simon. On Friday things take a more alternative turn with creative director and photographer Matthew Williams dropping some rave-worthy tunes - remix-heavy, with songs such as Rick Ross' BMF and LUNICE's I See U reworked to perfection. Listen out at 13:00 GMT on Friday for the latest aural outpourings from our fashion cognoscenti. [more] | |
| COMING UP LEO | |
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 Launching exclusively on SHOWstudio on Wednesday 22 February 2012, in line with the London Fashion Week menswear showcase, Jez Tozer's fashion film series Leo takes a fresh look at contemporary menswear. Compiled from six parts, each aesthetically representing a different emotional state, Tozer's film stars aerialist Leo Hedman in a sequence of gravity-defying acrobatic moves, alongside equally startling fashion. Selected by stylist Anna Trevelyan, the outfits come courtesy of London's latest crop of menswear talents, including Nasir Mazhar, Void of Course, Matther Miller and Alex Mattsson, framed by the established designs of Walter Van Beirendonck and Mugler. An exciting collection of some of the seasons key looks linked by incredible performances, a focused approach and a tight conceptual narrative, tune in next week to see the thought-provoking pieces for yourself. | |
| FROM THE SHOP PAX6, 2011 | |
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 London based artist and photographer Walter Hugo’s most recent work explores the unobserved around us by placing it skilfully and strikingly In Your Face. Titled after the recently discovered gene, which controls the development our sensory organs in the womb and potentially dictates the nature of a person, having an impact upon their choices and ultimately their place within the world, Hugo’s work combines this with a Victorian obsession with anthropometry and specimen taking. Taking reference from both, and utilising the most modern silicon casting techniques alongside early photographic hand painted emulsions, he adeptly combines old and new technologies. PAX6 is a trio of plaster heads that have been cast from the faces of the homeless. Hugo has then photographically printed images of each individual on their own face, using his personally evolved technique with silver nitrate emulsion, and thus creating a perfect blend of sculpture and three-dimensional image. The beautiful and eerie nature of this forced observation of the so frequently forgotten compels questions of fate, environment and situation. [more] | |
| FROM THE ARCHIVE DESIGN_DOWNLOAD: GARETH PUGH | |
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 As preparations for Gareth Pugh's Autumn/Winter 2012 show in Paris enter their final stages, revisit one of the designer's most iconic designs - the trademark inflatable balloons first featured in his Central Saint Martins BA graduation collection. Pugh was the sixth contributor to offer up a pattern for SHOWstudio's Design_Download series, allowing his followers a chance to engage with his theatrical, conceptual work. Like many of Pugh’s designs, the bold fabric spheres featured in the pattern are inspired by graphic shape and dramatic proportion, walking a fine line between outré fashion statement and sartorial performance art. Download the pattern to make your very own Pugh-ian creation or peruse the SHOWstudio submissions gallery to see how other readers put together the piece. The perfect way to pay homage to one of the most daring innovators of the style community. [more] | |
| LATEST ENTRIES BLOG | |
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Liberty Ross - Blow-Up  Nick, this reminds me of you! x [more] | |
Susanna Lau - Beauty and Theyskens  Not that I'm saying Olivier Theyskens is the Beast as clearly he is blessed in the looks department but what I meant by the title was the fairy tale element of this Theyskens' Theory collection, namely the stiffened polyester (which looked like satin) dresses that ballooned out in all the right places. [more] | |
SHOWstudio Pop Up Shop in Pintemps, Paris  SHOWstudio Shop has been reborn Parisian, as a Pop Up inside the 147 year old ‘grands magasin’ Le Printemps to accompany Nick Knight's Visions Couture window displays. [more] | |
Casey Spooner - HELLO my first SHOWstudio blog entry  I have long been a fan of Nick Knight. I remember in High School using one of his images for Jil Sander as inspiration for an assignment in French class. I am super excited to be a contributor for SHOWstudio. To kick off my blogging I am going to share some recents projects to get you up to speed. [more] | |
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