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 | Newsletter | 1 March 2012 |
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| CURRENT GET BACK, STAY BACK! | |
| Today sees the launch of an exciting and innovative new SHOWstudio fashion film series, Get Back, Stay Back! In a pioneering venture, supermodel Lara Stone is filmed by Nick Knight while defending herself from vicious attack, using Krav Maga, a defence system developed by the Israeli Defence Forces. Styled by Carine Roitfeld, the editorial Get Back, Stay Back! sees Stone demonstrate to women worldwide the most effective means of defence against violent assault. In a twist on our conventional views of defence training, Stone is clad not in sportswear but in high fashion. These unique films serve two functions - showcasing next season's key styles, and offering instruction to women, a high-fashion 'how to' of self-defence. These educational fashion films are now live on SHOWstudio.com. You can also see the editorial in V magazine, issue V76. [more] | |
| COMING UP FAN CLUB | |
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 Created in collaboration with stylist and LOVE magazine Editor in Chief Katie Grand, filmmaker Ruth Hogben's latest fashion film 'Fan Club' launches on SHOWstudio this Friday 2 March 2012 including a brand new one-minute edit exclusive to SHOWstudio, alongside the full-length film. Launching precisely one week before the full-length fashion film us unveiled alongside a multitude of Vuitton paraphernalia as part of the exhibition Louis Vuitton - Marc Jacobs at Paris' Les Arts Décoratifs, this film celebrates Jacobs' ground-breaking fourteen years at the helm of the most successful luxury goods company in the world. Inspired by Busby Berkley musical extravaganzas and the dream factory of 1930s Hollywood, the film showcases a modern fantasia of covetable Vuitton accessories. A must-see for fashion fans the world over. Fan Club launches on SHOWstudio on Friday 2 March 2012 | |
| CURRENT IN YOUR FACE: MUSIC - O F F LOVE | |
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 In Your Face: Music invites a selection of artists to express their personal musical language up-close and personal at our Bruton Place headquarters, broadcast online in unique live streams. Following intimate performances by electropop legend Gary Numan and Cerebral Ballzy frontman Honor Titus, Berlin-based French musician o F F Love. Known for his electronic-ambient, minimal rhythm and blues and shrouded appearance, the on-demand footage of o F F Love's set is now available on-site. [more] | |
| CURRENT COLLECTIONS: PARIS WOMENSWEAR A/W 2012 | |
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 Having barely touched down in London after a strong Milan season of strict suiting, elaborate evening-gowns and an odd surfeit of chainmail (or maybe that stellar Versace show just dazzled us), SHOWstudio is jetting off again to Paris, Europe's undisputed fashion capital, for the culmination of the Autumn/Winter 2012 fashion season. Stay in the know on all the action from powerhouses like Chanel, Balmain, McQueen and Louis Vuitton with SHOWstudio fashion director Alexander Fury's candid, comprehensive and occasionally controversial fashion coverage, accompanied by extensive collection galleries courtesy of the NOWFASHION.com team. Fashion week - live, direct and unedited. [more] | |
| COMING UP PHONECARTE: KARLIE KLOSS | |
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 For those of you experiencing Autumn/Winter 2012 visual-overload, rest assured SHOWstudio will be providing a far more innovative way to enjoy the Paris shows than simply flicking through endless images. The latest addition to our Phonecarte series kicks off this season, giving us a unique insider's view on the Autumn/Winter 2012 collections via the viewpoint of American supermodel Karlie Kloss. Our foreign affairs reporter - foreign fashion affairs at least - will provide an insider's opinion on the Autumn/Winter 2012 shows, as Karlie will be hanging on the telephone during all aspects her days at the défilés. Calling in and leaving voicemails to record her day through audio, Kloss will be providing all the gossip, whether en route to the shows or during make-up and hair, and from the last midnight fitting to the very final moment she begins her famous strut down the runway. Be sure and dial in yourself. | |
| COMING UP TUMBLR: SIMON FOXTON GUEST EDIT | |
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 SHOWstudio's recently-launched Tumblr is expanding - offering our followers an in-depth view into the inspirational images behind some of fashion's most inventive and inquisitive minds. A selection of designers, stylists, photographers, make-up artists and more will 'edit' SHOWstudio's Tumblr to make it their own for one week each month, posting images they find inspiring. Epoch-defining menswear stylist Simon Foxton, a long-standing SHOWstudio contributor and collaborator, is the first to take the reigns, showcasing his selection of images next week, from 5 - 9 March 2012. Stay tuned and follow SHOWstudio's Tumblr for more exciting imagery. | |
| CURRENT FASHION MIX | |
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 Fittingly, given that we are in the midst of fashion month, Monday's playlist really focussed on the 'fashion' in Fashion Mix, with a tribute from SHOWstudio Fashion Director Alexander Fury to his favourite catwalk soundtracks of the past two decades complied from from first-hand viewing and obsessive teenage fashion fandom. Friday's coming mix takes a more rebellious, yet equally stylish, tone as photographer and filmmaker Craig McDean drops his must-have tracks, filled to the the brim with punk classics and rock anthems. Tune in on Friday at 13:00 GMT to hear it for yourself. [more] | |
| FROM THE SHOP NEIGHBORS KNOW MY NAME, 2011 | |
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 The collective Leo GABIN, tinkering in various artistic mediums, draw inspiration from the morass of the internet's digital playground. Guided by the unpredictable nature of youth culture, Leo GABIN empowers sex, violence, and celebrity while at the same time embodying social critique and the aesthetic of street art. Exploring across mediums and ignoring restrictions of traditional barriers, Leo GABIN cultivates an approach indicative of a media savvy generation. Neighbors Know My Name is a chaotic collaboration of acrylic paint, spray paint, and silk screen on photographic print, conveying images of partying, sex, and violence while ultimately exposing the content that current-day society is putting online. It is is available for purchase online and is currently being displayed as part of the exhibition 'In Your Face' at SHOWstudio Shop, 1-9 Bruton Place until the 9th of March. [more] | |
| FROM THE ARCHIVE TRANSMISSIONS | |
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 Transmissions explores the upsurge in performance-related practice that continues to suffuse the contemporary art world. A series of reportage films and collaborations on SHOWstudio during 2005-2007, created as a diary documenting each event live, Transmissions captures a portrait of the scene though artist-created footage, short film, ephemera and live imagery, directed by curator and SHOWstudio Arts Editor Christabel Stewart. A unique archive of video and image content, Transmissions has now re-launched to allow you to view this innovative project afresh in the redesigned SHOWstudio site [more] | |
| LATEST ENTRIES BLOG | |
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In Your Face: Music - Kate Tempest is in the building!  A brand new In Your Face: Music performance streaming live at 13:30 GMT today! British poet and rapper Kate Tempest has just arrived at SHOWstudio and is currently warming up in preparation for what is sure to be a breathtaking display. [more] | |
Milan Womenswear Autumn/Winter 2012: A Retrospective Mood  Yesterday, I twice found myself in cavernous rooms looking at Prada frocks with an analytical eye. One time was at Palazzo Reale, for a presentation of the concept behind the Prada/Schiaparelli exhibition Impossible Conversations, due to open at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art on 10 May 2012. [more] | |
In Your Face: Void of Course - One Off Garments Now Available For Purchase  We had so much fun having design duo Void of Course take up residency for two days at our London headquarters as part of SHOWstudio Shop's exhibiton, 'In Your Face'. Surgically stitching and cutting to craft these unique pieces, the lunar cycle was in line for Void of Course to produce a collection of fresh and innovative one-off fashions exclusively for SHOWstudio. [more] | |
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