SHOWstudio: Gareth Pugh, Ruth Hogben, Nick Knight, Paris S/S 2012, AnOther Magazine, Henry Krokatsis, Bruce Davidson and more...

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	Newsletter | 29 September 2011
CURRENT CAFE CONVERSATIONS
As part of the SHOWstudio Shop exhibition 'The Café', over Autumn 2011 'Café Conversations' invites a selection of the most intriguing, exciting and influential movers-and-shakers in the fashion and art world to pull up a chair for coffee and conversation. The unusual aspect? The entire process is streamed live to a worldwide audience in the living online and offline art installation. Our latest conversation, featuring contemporary artist Henry Krokatsis in conversation with Dr. Ingrid Wassenaar, will be broadcast live from 12:00 BST today, Friday 30 September 2011 [more]
CURRENT GARETH PUGH SPRING/SUMMER 2012
For Spring/Summer 2012 designer Gareth Pugh collaborated with filmmaker Ruth Hogben to create a fashion film, fusing the piece with live catwalk presentation to create a unique viewer experience. Unveiled exclusively online at SHOWstudio.com at the same time as Pugh's show in Paris, Hogben's fashion film, starring Crystal Renn, is showcased alongside a process film. [more]
CURRENT COLLECTIONS: PARIS FASHION WEEK S/S 2012
Bejewelled dresses, bedazzled trousers and buckling benches galore - the final flurry of action on the four-city, four-week Spring/Summer 2012 show season, the Paris Collections kicked off on Tuesday. Fashion director Alexander Fury reports live from all the action and the shows of Chanel, Balmain, Louis Vuitton, Alexander McQueen and more - the more this season including the inaugural collection of Kanye West - aided and abetted by guest blogger Ben Knight Evans. Live tweets, reportage and imagery from the NowFashion.com team ensure you experience Paris fashion week in real-time, right now, with all the news from the catwalks of the capital of international fashion. [more]
COMING UP DYNAMIC BLOOMS
Colliding contemporary dance, abstract blooms and fashion from Lanvin, Versace, Vivienne Westwood and Christian Dior's 2010 foliate-inspired haute couture, Nick Knight and Alister Mackie transformed contemporary fashion into monolithic modern flowers for AnOther magazine's Spring/Summer 2011 issue. A unique fashion film created by Tell No One brings the incredible fashion and inspirations behind the shoot to life, showcased exclusively online alongside a gallery of the final editorial images. A fitting final flowering of Spring/Summer 2011 as we move into the new season.
FROM THE SHOP A LONDON CITY CAFE, 1960
Framing a brief moment of communicative transmission through transition, Bruce Davidson induces powerful emotion within his black and white photograph. As the photographic lens focuses on the human search for meaning, A London City Cafe provokes a sense of curiosity as we are given insight into the lives of those portrayed. By viewing this particular scene in which Davidson's subjects are documented as facing potentially ruinous social obstacles, an expressive realisation of social concern and sympathy presents itself. Davidson's visual language suggests a form of shared poetic human experience. Davidson's Vintage Silver Gelatin Print is on show as part of 'The Cafe' which runs until 5th November at SHOWstudio Shop, 1-9 Bruton Place. [more]
ARCHIVE FASH OFF
Our showcase of Gareth Pugh's S/S 2012 fashion film, created in collaboration with Ruth Hogben, is just the latest SHOWstudio project presenting the prodigious talent of this great British designer. Our first, Fash Off, launched in parallel with Paris haute couture week in July 2006, when Pugh staged an exhilarating series of art-meets-fashion performances inspired by different aspects of his meteoric rise to fashion stardom. Alongside these performance pieces, image diaries and documentary films created by Pugh himself unravel his creative process before your very eyes.  [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Proenza Schouler Presents "Snowballs" by Harmony Korine A film by Harmony Korine [more]
V Spain - Film and Photo V Magazine Spain edition x photo by Matthew Williams for Dior- Film edited by Marie Schuller. [more]
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SHOWstudio Newsflash: Exclusive Gareth Pugh S/S 2012 Fashion Film Now Live!

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	Newsletter | 28 September 2011
SHOWstudio Newsflash GARETH PUGH S/S 2012 - FASHION FILM NOW LIVE
Coinciding with the unveiling of Gareth Pugh's Spring/Summer 2012 collection in Paris, SHOWstudio offers an exclusive online showcase of Gareth Pugh's latest collaboration with filmmaker Ruth Hogben. Fusing fashion film with live catwalk presentation to create a unique viewer experience, this film -  starring Crystal Renn and featuring key pieces from the collection - forms a cinematic backdrop to Pugh's Spring/Summer 2012 presentation in Paris this evening. More than merely showing the clothes, the film evokes the mood and inspirations behind Pugh's line in an evolution of the designers ground-breaking experimentations in blurring the boundaries of modern representation and presentation of fashion. The fashion film, created in collaboration between Gareth Pugh and Ruth Hogben, is unveiled exclusively on SHOWstudio at the same moment as Pugh's collection hits the Paris catwalk, while an additional process film provides an unprecedented insight to the action on set as the film was shot in London earlier this year. Click here to view Gareth Pugh S/S 2012 [more]
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SHOWstudio: Prada, Raquel Zimmermann, Nick Knight, Dinos Chapman, Lily Donaldson, Dasha Zhukova, Milan S/S 2012, AnOther magazine, Giles and more...

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	Newsletter | 21 September 2011
CURRENT OBJECT FETISH 2011
Examining key pieces from the international collections for Autumn/Winter 2011, Object Fetish trains obsessive attention onto fashion's latest objects of desire. Showcased in the glittering confines of Selfridges department store, the season's finest finery is metaphorically unpicked through film and text, laying bare the underlying themes and motivations behind our current sartorial fixations. Looking at millinery for the first time in this series, Alexander Fury examines Prada’s faux-fur helmet, whilst Nick Knight's fashion film starring supermodel Raquel Zimmermann makes us all want to believe that we too could sport this super-retro-futuristic accessory. [more]
CURRENT AGATHE AND SERAPHINE'S HOUSE
Nick Knight and Dinos Chapman collaborate on Agathe and Seraphine's House, a shoot for the first issue of Dasha Zhukova's art-meets-fashion magazine Garage and inspired by twisted images of Chapman's daughters' dollhouse. Knight brings these visions to life - and life-size - on model Lily Donaldson in an elaborate one-off shoot. Agathe and Seraphine's House features editorial images as well as a gallery of the magazine's launch event at London's Gagosian gallery. [more]
CURRENT MILAN COLLECTIONS S/S 2012
Sport couture, silver leather and a hefty, heady dose of flower power: London Fashion Week has set the bar high for the season to come. Next up is Milan, where the five-letter likes of Gucci, Pucci, Prada and Fendi - alongside the rather wordier Bottega Veneta, Versace and of course Giorgio Armani - unleash their vision of what women should be wearing come 2012. Expect, glitter, glitz and truly Italian razzmatazz in the penultimate round of the European womenswear shows as fashion director Alexander Fury reports live alongside real-time image uploads from the NowFashion team. [more]
COMING UP PUNKATURE
Inspired by a mix of the raw and the rarefied - the beauty of Autumn/Winter 2011's best fashions juxtaposed against the savage grace of Punk - Nick Knight took to the streets with stylist Alister Mackie to shoot his editorial for the Winter 2011 issue of AnOther magazine. Catch all of the on-set action and see the twists and turns of inspiration and realisation played out in our re-stream of the 3-day shoot from Monday 26 - Wednesday 28 September from 18:00 BST.
COMING UP CAFÉ CONVERSATIONS
Following the launch of the latest SHOWstudio Shop exhibition The Café at Vogue’s Fashion Night Out earlier this month, we offer the next instalment of this unique SHOWstudio project; Café Conversations. The premise is simple: invite a selection of the most intriguing, exciting and influential movers-and-shakers in the fashion and art world to pull up a chair for coffee and conversation in our gallery space. The unusual aspect? The entire process will be streamed live to a worldwide audience, indulging our covert voyeuristic tendencies to the nth degree. The door is quite literally also thrown open to the public - come and enjoy coffee and (live) conversation as part of this living offline and online art installation.
FROM THE SHOP AGATHE AND SERAPHINE'S HOUSE, 2011
Dinos Chapman and Nick Knight's vision of Lily Donaldson as demented dolly in Agathe and Seraphine's House at London's Gagosian gallery closes today, and if seeing the images in the inaugural Garage magazine or online in our editorial gallery is not enough, signed posters of this elaborate one-off shoot are now available at the SHOWstudio Shop, alongside unsigned versions and Nick Knight's limited edition Agathe and Seraphine's House print.     [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE 24 Hrs
As part of an ongoing overhaul of our project archive including additional content and the restoration of original features, relaunching this week is 24 Hrs, a Nick Knight and Stefano Pilati collaboration for Yves Saint Laurent Edition 24. Inviting scripts from writers around the world to portray a day in the life of a YSL-clad Jessica Miller, 24 Hrs is a 4-act tale inspired by the political slogans of the early sixties' French New Wave and explores fashion's application to a relentless round-the-clock world. Also relaunched this week are Fashion DJs: SHOWstudio and Swarovski's unprecedented Abbey Street takeover taking in live performances from the Michael Clark Company, Paloma Faith and Florence Welch and a host of guests on the 1s and 2s including Naomi Campbell, Tim Blanks and Stella McCartney and Past, Present, Couture charting the first five years of John Galliano's premiership at Christian Dior Haute Couture. Examining the oeuvre of a true couture dreamer, Past, Present, Couture includes an essay on Galliano's relationship with modernity and historicism and an interview with the designer by Colin McDowell to accompany the 14 landmark images shot by Nick Knight. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
The swansong finale at Giles Inspired by Warhol, Beaton and Nudie, the Royal Courts of Justice this evening hosted the Giles collection, all set to a backdrop that some readers may recognise from Mr Deacon's recent residence at Bruton Place. Developing the silver Nudie theme, Deacon applied silver fringing to leather shifts alongside their intricate lasercut counterparts with a number of monumental swan headpieces and maribou-trimmed showstoppers completing the supermodel-heavy extravaganza. [more]
Agathe and Seraphine's House exhibition opening Stars gathered for the opening of Nick Knight and Dinos Chapman's collaboration 'Agathe and Seraphine's House' at Gagosian gallery on Davies Street, Mayfair last night. The show will be on view until Wednesday 21 September. Ten editions of Nick Knight's print, and signed posters of Nick Knight's Garage magazine cover are available to purchase from the gallery and from SHOWstudio SHOP website. [more]
House of Holland goes West There was much to admire at HoH in addition to the usual japes. For one, there was plenty of Cher à la Clueless checks rendered in a palette of colours that straddled between pastel and bright. Underneath it all though were some latex bras and boy shorts in collaboration with Kim West. Another latex name to add to the list that includes Atsuko Kudo and House of Harlot (maker of THOSE scalloped skirts at Marc Jacobs A/W 2011). [more]
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SHOWstudio: Walter van Beirendonck, Simon Foxton, Mugler, London Fashion Week, Keith Tyson and more...

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	Newsletter | 15 September 2011
CURRENT DREAM THE WORLD AWAKE
This week sees the launch of Dream The World Awake, Nick Knight and Simon Foxton's explosive Technicolor reimagining of Belgian menswear master Walter van Beirendonck's extensive archive. Coinciding with van Beirendonck's first large-scale retrospective at the Antwerp Fashion Museum - featuring Knight and Foxton's forty-one outfit photographic frieze and fashion film as a centrepiece - and the publication of the latest GQ Style featuring an editorial drawn from the imagery, both the fashion film and photographic can be exclusively viewed online here. Featuring a psychedelic gang of boys, bears and bravehearts stomping toward us against a thumping KrossBow soundtrack, this film and photographic phalanx captures the groundbreaking breadth and depth of van Beirendonck's vision perfectly. [more]
CURRENT LES SMOKINGS - MUGLER
The final instalment in our Les Smokings series - exploring the eternal appeal of the classic tuxedo - Mugler's Nicola Formichetti and Romain Kremer took over our Bruton Place studio to the soaring sounds of Madame Butterfly and hardcore techno to reinvent this sartorial staple for the twenty-first century. In fact, make that twenty-third century - Formichetti and Kremer crafted a hyper-futuristic vision of Le Smoking with lasers, glitter, latex and polythene as the unconventional building-blocks. Our process film showcases all the action from the creative frenzy of cutting, pasting and sliming as the Mugler team create a bombastic depiction of forward-thinking masculinity. [more]
CURRENT THE CAFE
The latest exhibition from SHOWstudio's Shop, The Café: Coffee Culture and Cafe Society in Fine Art, Fashion and Film is an exploration of a space classically the domain of the intellectual, the artist and the eccentric. With pieces from a Flore-worthy list of names including Keith Tyson, Steven Meisel, Diem Chau, Vincent Ramos and Nick Knight, The Café is an aptly pensive and stimulating exploration of society's public cultural forum and its perseverance in the face of an increasingly soulless 'coffee shop' culture. [more]
COMING UP COLLECTIONS: LONDON FASHION WEEK S/S 2012
New York's finest have whirred its way down a hundred or more catwalks (or 'runways' as they call them stateside) with Oscar de la Renta, Proenza Schouler and Rodarte the highlights, and Marc Jacobs' closer still to show in his late (very late) timeslot this evening. With a fashion firmament consistently growing in influence and interest, especially in a live-stream, insta-blog age, our coverage of London Fashion Week S/S 2012 begins this Friday, 16 September as Mary Katrantzou, Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders, Marios Schwab and the behemoth of Burberry Prorsum present their design innovations for Spring/Summer 2012. Fashion Director Alexander Fury and intrepid blogger Ben Evans will cover every corner of the capital to bring you the hottest developments in London's consistently exciting fashion landscape, live from catwalks! SHOWstudio's S/S 2012 London Fashion Week Coverage begins on Friday 16 September 2011 [more]
COMING UP OBJECT FETISH
We've pinned down a half-dozen of fashion's most desirable accessories, garments and general esoteric gewgaws from the year 2011 - immortalised in fashion film, they form the latest installation of our Object Fetish series, metaphorically unpicking the season's objects of obsession through film and text. Expect pieces from Parisian powerhouses, Milanese multinationals, cutting-edge New Yorkers and a few of London's leaders, representing the finest 2011 has to offer fashion-wise in a unique series of film shorts. [more]
COMING UP AGATHE AND SERAPHINE'S HOUSE
In line with the launch of Garage, Dasha Zhukova's art-meets-fashion magazine, this week sees the launch of Agathe and Seraphine's House, a story of twisted enchantment from the minds of Nick Knight and Dinos Chapman. Starring model Lily Donaldson in a demented doll's house courtesy of Gary Card, clad in Francesca Burns' selection of Autumn/Winter 2011's finest, this is a unique fashion reinterpretation of childhood via eighties skin-flick Café Flesh. After the official launch of Garage on Sunday at London's Gagosian Gallery, watch our process films charting this two-day live shoot and the intricate retouching behind the image - and view the final editorial itself. Agathe and Seraphine's House launches on 19 September 2011
COMING UP ANOTHER STREAM
Nick Knight and AnOther Magazine joined forces for 'Punkature', which as the name suggests fuses wilful and reckless fashion rebellion with the unabashed luxury of haute couture. Featuring exceptional Autumn/Winter 2011 fashions from Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Alexander McQueen and Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, our stream showcases every aspect of the process behind this editorial story, shot across three days on the streets of London town itself. Punkature broadcasts 19-21 September 2011
FROM THE SHOP CLOUD CHOREOGRAPHY: TIME TRAVELLING WITH THE CLOUDS, KEITH TYSON, 2011
At first glance Keith Tyson's 'Cloud Choreography: Time Travelling with the Clouds' appears almost encyclopedic, a meticulous rendering of clouds as though from a science journal. But look closer and they reveal themselves as markers of time, they are the particular clouds under which pivotal moments in history, culture and nature took place. A multiplicity of time and perspective is presented and then elevated through the metaphor of the cloud, constantly in flux and with no firm edges, we see first hand the production of myth and meaning. As an extension of this piece, Turner Prize winning Tyson has also collaborated with Maia Norman of innovative fashion house Mother of Pearl to create a stunning clothes line and various cloud-inspired coffee cups and saucers. All these are on view as part of SHOWstudio SHOP's exhibition 'The Cafe', 1-9 Bruton Place, W1J 6LT until 5th November. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE MORE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN
The Spring/Summer 2012 womenswear shows are well under way - and what is fashion about if not making women beautiful? Hence we glance back to More Beautiful Women, Nick Knight's homage to Warhol's screen tests, capturing the greatest models of the twentieth century during a landmark shoot for the Millennium issue of British Vogue. From Jerry Hall and Linda Evangelista to Kate Moss and Angela Lindvall, More Beautiful Women takes the subjects of some of fashion's greatest images and gives them two minutes undirected in front of Knight's camera. Free to behave as they wish - from playing up to playing down to just plain standing still - each video revealing a different insight into the mystery of the mannequin. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
New York Fashion Week: Cocktail hour I wanted to almost kiss Thom Browne after his presentation which was long but well worth the time to see a very elegant bygone soiree play out. His models play the roles of hostess, guests and tableaux characters well whilst showcasing Browne's madcap way with piling on the layers, all struck with his signature tricolore palette and detailing.  [more]
Walter van Beirendonck Dreams the World Awake Today sees the opening of Dream The World Awake, the first retrospective exhibition profiling the career of avant-garde Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck at the Antwerp Fashion Museum - and our self-same titled project showcasing Van Beirendonck's fashion film and photographic collaboration with Nick Knight and Simon Foxton. [more]
New York Fashion Week: Backstage at Preen Backstage at Preen, Make-Up Artist Val Garland blogs live. [more]
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