SHOWstudio: Yohji Yamamoto, Marc Ascoli, Nick Knight, Peter Saville, Millie Brown, Hannah Martin, Dover Street Market, Philip Treacy, Naomi Campbell, haute couture and more

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	Newsletter \| 23 March 2011




CURRENT IN CONVERSATION WITH YOHJI YAMAMOTO
In celebration of Yohji Yamamoto's first UK solo exhibition, now open to the public at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, SHOWstudio.com has launched a two-part 'In Conversation' project to examine Yamamoto's visionary thirty-year career. Art director Marc Ascoli, photographer Nick Knight and graphic designer Peter Saville are captured in conversation with curator Magda Keaney discussing their collaboration with Yamamoto; while Yohji Yamamoto himself is recorded in conversation with SHOWstudio.com fashion director Alexander Fury. From his motivations to enter design school, to his first Paris shows, through to his most recent runway outing for A/W 2011, this in-depth conversation reveals Yohji Yamamoto open and honest about his current views on fashion both past, present, and future, while our discussion panel offer a unique perspective on their seminal work with the designer. [more]


CURRENT LIVE STUDIO: MILLIE BROWN


This week SHOWstudio.com launches the edited footage of performance artist Millie Brown's LiveStudio session. Initially broadcast as part of the Inside/Out exhibition at SHOWstudio Shop and explored the concept of abject art, this particular LiveStudio was the result of a collaboration between Brown and opera singers Patricia Hammond and Zita Syme. Artist enthusiasts will be happy to know that no artists were in fact harmed during the making of this film – it is coloured milk that Millie used in her inaugural attempt to vomit a rainbow-like spectrum on canvas to Hammond and Syme's harmonious refrains. A sight not to be missed, this footage presents a chance to revisit Millie Brown's Bruton Place takeover in the SHOWstudio.com archives. [more]


CURRNT THE MAN WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING


Inspired by a Voltaire quote – 'The man who knows everything and never dies' – and a fictional alchemist, the Comte de Saint Germain, London-based jewellery designer Hannah Martin has collaborated with designer Moritz Waldemeyer to produce a unique installation in the ground-floor windows of Dover Street Market interpreting her latest collection. The installation takes direct cue from the collection's most iconic piece, 'Euphoria of Lights – the Comte's Pyramid Ring', by employing a three-sided twelve-foot DuPont™ Corian® obelisk strung with lasers. A three-dimensional wonder in its real life form, the Comte's Pyramid Ring takes on new dimensions in a fashion film created by Ian Rodney Woolridge further exploring the collection's driving narratives, while an exclusive application designed by Holition aims to redefine luxury shopping by allowing the ring to be tried on by Martin's followers far and wide via augmented reality, available to access via SHOWstudio.com. However, for those inevitably too tempted by the real thing, we also offer four pieces of Martin's for sale through SHOWstudio Shop. [more]


FROM THE SHOP PHILIP TREACY - FEATHERED


With the Royal Wedding just weeks away, the bride-to-be has commissioned world-renowned milliner Philip Treacy to design wedding hats for members of the royal family. Here at SHOWstudio, we are one step ahead. Treacy crafted his feathered headpiece a year ago and with Spring officially in the air (not to mention wedding fever), there has been no better time to indulge in the one-of-a-kind head embellishment available in the SHOWstudio Shop. The headpiece - which is constructed upon a bed of delicately placed peacock feathers - is an interwoven flourish that clusters together specifically cut ostrich feathers. Not only can you beat the future Queen to the millinery post but, you can watch Treacy himself create the hat from scratch in our LiveStudio footage that captured the man of the moment produce his masterpiece. [more]


FROM THE ARCHIVE NAOMI


Following last week's launch of our Naomi Campbell: Statuesque project, this week SHOWstudio.com daydreams back to January 2007 and Nick Knight's stunning visual exploration of this most super of Supermodels in the finest Parisian haute couture. Captured for the Summer 2007 issue of V magazine, Naomi features a selection of extraordinary confections crafted by Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, Jean Paul Gaultier, Christian Lacroix and John Galliano for Christian Dior, works of fashion art rendered, fittingly, as masterpieces under the painterly lens of Knight. [more]


LATEST ENTRIES BLOG


JASON WU, IN FASHION; LIVE STREAM IS NOW OVER Hopefully you caught some of our live interview with with Jason Wu. Come back to see the edited film due to be launched in our In Fashion series next month. [more]

COLLECTIONS: New York A/W 2011 Round-Up Now Published! What when why wear: having thoroughly deliberated, dissected and digested the offerings of fashion's great and (not so) good for A/W 2011 [more]

NAOMI CAMBELL: STATUESQUE Statuesque is the word for Naomi Campbell, an icon of our time who, it seems, can inflame opinion in any observer. Statuesque is also the word for 'Naomi' [more]



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