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	Newsletter \| 12 January 2012




CURRENT NEWGEN//TEN
Model Karlie Kloss, Topshop Creative Director Kate Phelan and image-maker Nick Knight came together for SHOWstudio's first live shoot of 2012 - NEWGEN//TEN, celebrating a decade of British high-street giant Topshop sponsoring the British Fashion Council's NEWGEN scheme. Featuring the Topshop collections created by London Fashion Week stalwarts including Richard Nicoll, Marios Schwab, Christopher Kane and Mary Katrantzou, this shoot offers a sneak peek at the final visuals of Knight's latest fashion film, to be unveiled to the public and press during London Fashion Week in February. If you missed the real-time action on Friday, we will be re-streaming the NEWGEN//TEN live shoot from 18:00 GMT / 10:00 PST today [more]


CURRENT VISIONS COUTURE


In December Nick Knight collaborated with style icon Daphne Guinness to devise the visuals for the windows of Le Printemps department store in Paris, under the overarching theme of Visions Couture. A vital element of Nick Knight's final window installations are a series of specially-devised interactives by multimedia designer Daniel Brown, which will use images to reinterpret the theme of each window. As part of the Visions Couture project, 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 - Nature at Night Submit an image (as large format possible) to #visionscouture via Twitter or email visionscouture@showstudio.com for a chance to have your image included in the interactive installations at Le Printemps, Paris. [more]


CURRENT COLLECTIONS: PITTI AND MILAN MENSWEAR A/W 2012


We may be barely a week into the new year, but the European Autumn/Winter 2012 Collections began yesterday, with Valentino's menswear catwalk debut as the centrepiece of Florence's Pitti Immagine #81. On Saturday the action shifts to Milan, with fashion powerhouses Prada, Armani, Gucci and Versace all plying their wares for modish menfolk to consider, covet, and ultimately lay down cold hard cash for. The NOWFASHION.com team will be providing real-time updates while SHOWstudio fashion director Alexander Fury reports live. [more]


CURRENT FASHION MIX


Our Fashion Mix series continues to offer a unique reflection of contemporary fashion, giving a selection of fashion figures the opportunity to showcase their greatest hits. This weeks duo are make-up artist and SHOWstudio blogger Val Garland and Vogue Hommes Japan editor Shun Watanabe. You can start the week with Watanabe's selection of mellow tunes and rock away on Friday with some of Garland's punk classics. [more]


FROM THE SHOP ANDROGYNY (SIX MEN + SIX WOMEN), 1982


Nancy Burson has created provocative insights into race, beauty and identity by pioneering the cohesion of art and science. Working with MIT engineers during the 1980’s to create photo composites which 'morphed' together faces, her work questions the make up of humanity as well as it's unity. Mankind gives a portrait made up the percentages of different races in the population, in an attempt to create an actual picture of our population's face, whereas Androgyny brings together the faces of six men and six women to represent a hybrid face of the sexes. Together this haunting series wonderfully questions the ability of one image or statistic to reflect the true nature of the world’s population. [more]


FROM THE ARCHIVE BEASTING


As fashion enters the Autumn/Winter 2012 menswear season, we glance back to Beasting, a selection of highlights from John Galliano’s outlandish Autumn/Winter 2007 collection. Nick Knight and Simon Foxton took to studio for two days to stage one of the explosive action shoots that are the hallmark of their longstanding creative collaboration, capturing the results on camera for Arena Homme Plus. That series of editorial photographs is showcased here alongside an exclusive fashion film created with Ruth Hogben. [more]


LATEST ENTRIES BLOG


Submit your images to be included in Nick Knight's Le Printemps windows! A vital element of Nick Knight's final window installations for Paris department store Le Printemps are a series of specially-devised interactive by multimedia designer Daniel Brown, which will use images to reinterpret the theme of each window. [more]

Erin O'Connor strikes a pose Today our studio was graced with a true fashion legend - British supermodel Erin O'Connor, here preened by hairstylist Christian Wood and laced into a rather formidable Rigby and Peller corset. The reason for this shoot is under wraps for the moment, but the final images (and project) will be released during the spring 2012 haute couture season in Paris later this month. Terribly appropriate, given Erin's truly couture-worthy poise... [more]

A hint of stocking, and something shocking... Despite her late night on Friday's NEWGEN//TEN shoot, the indefatigable Karlie Kloss is in front of the camera once again today, recording a fashion film with director Ruth Hogben to be released later this year. We don't want to reveal too much about the theme - although a braided-leather whip and these faded roses offer a sly wink to the hint of kink underscoring proceedings. [more]



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