SHOWstudio: Daphne Guinness, Nick Knight, Future Couture, Maggie Cheung, Cerebral Ballzy, Peter Phillips, Irving Penn and more...

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Newsletter | 22 December 2011
CURRENT
FUTURE COUTURE
When Nick Knight was approached to create installations to grace the windows of Paris' Le Printemps department store during February 2012 Paris Fashion Week, the first model that leapt to mind was Daphne Guinness - a living embodiment of Le Printemps' Spring/Summer theme of Future Couture. Watch our live broadcast over 21-22 December 2011 to witness every step of the process as Knight captures the Divine Daphne in creations by contemporary fashion's finest including Gareth Pugh, Rick Owens, Maison Martin Margiela, Junya Watanabe and Paco Rabanne. The resulting imagery and films will be showcased online exclusively on SHOWstudio and in the windows of Le Printemps from February onwards. [more]
CURRENT
HAUTEUR SPACE
Nick Knight looked to the timeless language of elegance expounded in the work of Er, Aubrey Beardsley, Lillian Bassman and Irina Ionesco - amongst others - to explore the future-fantastic visions of Spring/Summer 2012 for January 2012 W magazine. This editorial immortalises creations by Louis Vuitton, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, Haider Ackermann and Alexander McQueen, including previously unpublished stills. [more]
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MAGGIE CHEUNG, CENTRE STAGE
Filmed during Nick Knight's shoot for Vogue China in 2009, our latest fashion film stars actress, philanthropist and composer Maggie Cheung. A collage of utterly sensual moving imagery, Gabrielle Hackworthy's insightful interview and fashion from the likes of Lanvin, Stella McCartney and Louis Vuitton, Centre Stage is a portrait of a fascinating, fascinated and, indeed, beautiful woman.
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IN YOUR FACE: MUSIC
As part of SHOWstudio Shop's current exhibition, In Your Face: Music invites a variety of artists to put on a personal and emotional performance, addressing their music and their audience head-on. Premiering with Brooklyn-based punk band Cerebral Ballzy, lead singer Honor Titus' set is expectedly raw, full-on and full-frontal.
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MEAN STREETS
Exploring the visual codes of the archetypal Rockabilly girl and placing her in the neon jungle of the twenty-first century city, Mean Streets is a tactile and graphic fashion film shot by Nick Knight earlier this year as part of an editorial shoot for British Vogue. Featuring 2011's unrivalled tops of runway and page, Karlie Kloss and Joan Smalls, Mean Streets also features a gallery of editorial images, including previously unpublished stills.
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CURRENT
FASHION MIX
Inviting some of the most influential figures in fashion to reveal their own greatest hits, from Cathy Horyn to Gareth Pugh to Liberty Ross, Fashion Mix's latest selection comes from Undercover's Jun Takahashi. Fresh from our stream of Future Couture, Friday sees Daphne Guinness compile her own soundtrack and promises to be an eclectically elegant offering.
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COOMING UP
BEHIND THE SEAMS: DRESSED TO KILL
As part of a continuing exploration and dissection of the world of modern fashion, our latest Behind The Seams piece looks to the NEWGEN initiative and the latest subjects benefitting from the scheme's vital injection of advice, support and finance to emerging designers in London. Whilst incredibly fortunate to receive such invaluable help at a crucial early stage, SHOWstudio fashion director Alexander Fury explains how it is fashion as a whole that truly reaps the benefit.
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FROM THE SHOP
MICKEY MOUSE, 2005
Just in time for Christmas, this unique artefact of fashion history, hand-stiched by renowned make up artist Peter Philips, currently global creative director of Chanel cosmetics, is now available. Captured by Irving Penn in the December 2005 editorial Magic in the Make Up for US Vogue, this black lace mask captures the romance and childlike excitement in the transformative possibilities of fairytale and make up. Originally modelled by Lisa Cant, Peter Philips has created a piece which incorporates a 20th century icon of affection with the elegance expected of fashion masters. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE
ADVENT
In case you need assistance in deciphering the perfect Christmas present for your loved ones, Advent offers a selection of inspirational gift suggestions from some of fashion's finest. Twenty-four SHOWstudio contributors - including David Bailey, John Galliano, Kate Moss, Dita Von Teese and Viktor & Rolf - made the countdown to Christmas all the more pleasurable by confiding their most desired gift in this audio advent calendar, unveiled one per day over December 2004.
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