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 | Newsletter | 26 January 2012 |
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DESIGN_DOWNLOAD: STEPHEN JONES |
| The eighth pattern in our Design_Download series celebrates the seemingly endless creativity, wit and invention of master milliner Stephen Jones. A leading figure in international fashion for three decades, Jones' work has garnered international acclaim ever since his graduation from Central Saint Martins in 1979. For SHOWstudio, Jones contributed a piece that epitomises the seemingly contradictory qualities of whimsical fantasy, stunning technique and unexpected practicality that characterise his work. A 'cut and sew' creation that requires no specialist millinery materials or training to realise its stunning form, Jones' hat is an exaggeration on the classic beret. Inspired by his own lilac hatboxes and drawn from his Autumn/Winter 2011 own-label collection, Jones titles this tour de force of millinery invention Nice Package.
Follow our Design_Download brief, craft your own creation and submit your images via email - design_download@showstudio.com - or Twitter #design_download for a chance to be featured on-site in our Submissions Gallery. [more] |
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VISIONS COUTURE |
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 Le Printemps, Paris offers their take on the Spring/Summer 2012 collections, interpreting the theme of 'Visions Couture' in a ground-breaking collaboration with Nick Knight, Daphne Guinness and SHOWstudio. Ahead of the unveiling of the final vitrines in February, from 18:00 GMT/10:00 PST on 27-28 January 2012 we re-stream the entire real-time footage of this extraordinary two-day shoot, starring Guinness in a selection of exceptional pieces from Paco Rabanne, Gareth Pugh, Maison Martin Margiela, Rick Owens and Junya Watanabe.
Hopefully this will be grist to the inspirational mill, as your picture submissions are a vital element of the project's final realisation. Nick Knight invites SHOWstudio viewers to submit their own images inspired by one of the following five themes: Dark Knight, Flora, House and Garden, Death Becomes Her and Nature at Night. These themes will be incorporated into a series of specially-designed interactives by multimedia designer Daniel Brown to reinterpret the theme of each window. You can still send your images (as large as possible) via Twitter with the hashtag #visionscouture, or email visionscouture@showstudio.com for a chance to have yours included in the vitrines of Le Printemps, Paris. [more] |
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CURRENT
COLLECTION: HAUTE COUTURE S/S 2012 |
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 From Atelier Versace's glittering razzmatazz to Chanel's rhapsody in blue to Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli's twenty-first century Rousseau retreat at Valentino, the Spring/Summer 2012 haute couture Collections offered as many different visions as there are women willing to buy them. That is to say, a handful. Alongside image updates from NOWFASHION, SHOWstudio Fashion Director Alexander Fury reports live from French fashion's highest echelons, charting those shows that made the grade and those that stumbled before the final hurdle. Read our full coverage in SHOWstudio Collections. [more] |
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FASHION MIX |
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 Our Fashion Mix series continues with playlists from two of fashion's coolest girls. First we have a dance-worthy selection from New Yorker Jen Brill. The model and photo agent offers up a dynamic playlist perfect for pre-party listening. Later in the week top Australian model and elfin beauty Abbey Lee will drop her selection of fashion tracks live on SHOWstudio. Tune in on Friday at 13.00 GMT to listen to her unique track listing. [more] |
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COMING UP
DEATH CAMP |
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 'The history of our planet is one of a death camp. The planet history is one of violence, corruption and conspiracy.' so states photographer and filmmaker Joseph Lally, whose new film Death Camp takes a dark, morbid tone exploring the depravity of modern existence and the failure of humankind. Inspired by the visuals of Jean Luc Godard and the writings of Bernard-Henri Lévy, Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag, Death Camp features a mix of vintage footage and new material As with Lally's previous films the piece eschews a conventional narrative, instead relying on sound and striking visuals to create a vision of the world as a death camp, covering topics as varied as race, gender, drug use, violence and sexual exploitation.
Death Camp launches on SHOWstudio on Monday 30 January 2012 at 17.00 GMT/10.00 EST |
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FROM THE SHOP
SAUNA FACES, 2011 |
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 In his debut series of drawings Sauna Faces London based artist Stephen Doherty creates an intriguing and emotive set of characters against coloured paper. Drawing from people he has met and imagined Sauna Faces are touchingly intimate portraits of gay sauna goers. Doherty utilises each anecdotally named character, from Rotund Diva to Drunk Kiss, to explore the spectrum of emotions felt within a sauna. From first timers to regular and one off users, Sauna Faces brings together the common feelings Doherty feels must be shared by these men. The loneliness, hope, and vulnerability bring together each face to reflect to the viewer Doherty’s viewpoint of their surroundings which are so rarely explored. [more] |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE
MING XI COUTURE 2011 |
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 Last year the haute couture collections had a decidedly Asian theme, prominent not only in an influx of new Far Eastern clients but in the pastel embroidery and luxurious silks that inspired fashion's finest. To celebrate this Nick Knight shot Shanghai-born model Ming Xi in a selection of the most covetable creations from Spring/Summer 2011 exclusively for V magazine. As this season's couture shows draw to a close, revisit the hits of last year's collections including Jean Paul Gaultier, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel and John Galliano for Christian Dior. [more] |
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LATEST ENTRIES
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Alex Fury - Haute Couture Spreing/Summer 2012: The Global Stage
 Couture grinds on: today there is the Margiela 'Artisinal' presentation, Gaultier, Ellie Saab and Valentino to finish. Tomorrow it stumbles on with 'haute joaillerie' presentations, a bit of pre-collection, and mainly magazines out shooting the couture warm off the backs of the mannequins. [more] |
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Nick Knight - Beautiful. The photography of Neil Craver
 My assistant Laura discovered these incredibly beautiful images by a photographer called Neil Craver, whilst researching for an up and coming underwater shoot we are organising.
I loved them so much I wanted to share them. [more] |
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Celebrating fashion's greatest fantasists
 'People enjoy fantasy. They enjoy the freedom it suggests and the proposition of a different life. Stylists are just as responsible for that as anyone in history.' - Nick Knight, foreword to Stylists: New Fashion Visionaries. [more] |
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From 22-23 January 2011, model Lara Stone and stylist Carine Roitfeld collaborate with Nick Knight for Power Dressing, a live fashion shoot with a difference inspired by the notion of combining self-defence with high-fashion. Specifically for this shoot, Stone trained in Krav Maga, a system developed by the Israeli Defence Forces, and is captured in a series of scenarios defending herself whilst modelling Rotifeld's choice of Spring/Summer 2012 fashion for V Magazine. The entire shoot will be streamed live, so tune in on Sunday and Monday to see all the action from the set. 
