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 | Newsletter | 22 March 2012 |
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| CURRENT FASHION FETISH | |
| Alongside the 2012 SHOWstudio Shop exhibition Selling Sex, SHOWstudio launches a unique project under the provocative title Fashion Fetish. This series of fashion films, performances and multi-media pieces, makes a comment on the fusion of fashion with fetish, a contentious and provocative subject. One piece will be released each week for the duration of the Selling Sex exhibition from 22 March - 1 June 2012. As with the entirely female roster of artists included in Selling Sex, Fashion Fetish hands the power to female fashion professionals, asking them to address the concept of fetish and examine their individual visions of women and their relationship with appearance, adornment and clothing. This project offers a clear field, a blank canvas and an open mind to a selection of some of the most important women working in fashion today, inviting them to present their own interpretation of the abstract notion of Fashion Fetish. To begin the project, acclaimed fashion filmmaker Ruth Hogben has created a vibrant new fashion film starring modern supermodel Karlie Kloss and titled Fuck Me, presenting the notion of a woman exploring different aspects of her character and narcissistic love. In Hogben's own words, 'It explores a woman's different facets and how she can choose to be a different character on a whim. Her fetish is herself.' Tune in each week to see a new representation of the female form by fashion greats, including the likes of Lady Amanda Harlech and Daphne Guinness, Lily Donaldson, Liberty Ross, Rei Nadal and Dasha Zhukova of Garage magazine. [more] | |
| CURRENT SELLING SEX | |
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 This week SHOWstudio Shop unveils its pioneering new exhibition - Selling Sex. Part artistic display, part call to action, the exhibition takes issue with the continued male domination of the arts by featuring a talented cast of all female artists, each examining their perspectives on sex, gender, and the female nude. Opening to the public on Friday 23 March 2012, Selling Sex was born from an interest in, and objection to, continued female oppression and marginalization, a subject too often ignored amidst a climate where many believe that equality between the sexes has already been achieved. Few remember, or care to acknowledge, that even today the Louvre still has no female artists in their collection of over 35,000 artworks and as of 1989 only 5% of all the artists in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection in 1989 were women. There remain only three industries in which women earn more money than men - pornography, prostitution and modelling. We live in a society where man's vision of the world continues to dominate. Selling Sex turns this 'convention' on its head through the work of dynamic female creatives, including Kim McCarty, Sarah Lucas, Christiana Soulou and Liz Cohen. The exhibition hopes to prompt a discussion, and a greater respect, for the female perspective - allowing women to reclaim their sexuality and bodies beyond the restrictions of the voyeuristic male gaze. The exhibition questions: Is an image of a nude woman empowered in the hand's of a female artist? Does it resist traditionally-constructed gender roles? Or, do we see yet more examples of the female constantly diverting her own eye, facilitating her status as the object to be looked at versus ever being the subject doing the looking? Visit Selling Sex at Bruton Place from Friday to join the debate.Selling Sex opens at SHOWstudio Shop, 1-9 Bruton Place W1 on Friday 23 March 2012. [more] | |
| COMING UP COLLECTIONS - ROUND-UP REPORTS | |
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 With fashion season well and truly over, and fashion editors and models tucked up at home nursing their eyes, feet and livers, SHOWstudio takes a much-needed step back, offering a fresh perspective on each fashion week via capital-by-capital Collections round-up reports. Capital offering, or capital punishment - that truly is the question. In a series of in-depth summaries of the action in New York, London, Milan and Paris, SHOWstudio fashion director Alexander Fury unpicks all the action in a season of seismic sartorial upheavals. Check back this week for round-ups from each capital, or make up your own mind on the season's winners and losers by examining our live reports and catwalk galleries from the NOWFASHION.com team. | |
| CURRENT FASHION MIX | |
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 Fittingly, given the arrival of Selling Sex and Fashion Fetish, two endeavours that celebrate the work of female creatives and visionaries, this week's additions to Fashion Mix come from two females at the forefront of British fashion. On Monday model extraordinaire Erin O'Connor opened up her playlist to SHOWstudio, offering a selection full of girl power with tracks from the likes of PJ Harvey, Florence and the Machine and Peaches. Friday will see another fearsome fashion female play DJ, as acclaimed filmmaker Ruth Hogben takes to the SHOWstudio decks. Perfectly timed with the release of her latest fashion film Fuck Me - seeing Karlie Kloss explore facets of her personality and various sexual guises to open begin our Fashion Fetish programming season - Hogben's musical mix also has many diverse faces. There's something for everyone ranging from Slum Village's hip hop to The Beatles' iconic pop to Lauryn Hill's soulful vocals. Two very different mixes from two unique fashion females! [more] | |
| FROM THE SHOP LASCIVE, FROM THE 'LAMP GIRL' SERIES, 2012 | |
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 French artist Marianne Maric's 'lamp-girls' imagery was initially conceived as a reflection of the woman as objectified the media, but gradually ascending to a state of consciousness. Her photographic illustration, Lascive, captures a broader vision: the lamp-dress costume was worn by a 'living' model posed on top of a white rotating base in a dark room. The public had the choice to turn on or off the lamp, the dress, the girl, the room, employing the chance to 'immortalise' a moment when a woman became a simple household appliance. By perceiving the body as wonderful and fascinating architecture, Maric's work encompasses a tridimensional, sculptural approach to the female body. Sexy and seductive, Lascive illuminates Maric's desired portrayal of the female form. The lamp-dress costume from Maric's Lascive, will be brought to life by a live-model at the private view of Selling Sex on Thursday 22 March 2012. [more] | |
| FROM THE ARCHIVE EXPERIMENTS IN ADVERTISING | |
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 Revamped and relaunched on a redesigned SHOWstudio, Experiments In Advertising showcases the work of visionary twentieth century image-maker Erwin Blumenfeld. A unique opportunity to see the undiscovered, historic film footage of one of the most influential photographers of all time, this project examines both Blumenfeld's life and work in intimate detail. Three fashion film edits by SHOWstudio, created in collaboration with filmmaker Adam Mufti and sound designer Olivier Alary, shed light on Blumenfeld's ground-breaking experiments with fusing motion image and fashion. The raw footage contained within these film edits is also presented in three thematic galleries: 'Advertising & Layout', 'Surrealism & Process' and 'Abstraction & Distortion', alongside an essay by curator, journalist and former SHOWstudio Editor in Chief Penny Martin and illustrated chronology of Blumenfeld's life and career. An exclusive interview with his son, writer Yorick Blumenfeld, completes this in-depth examination. [more] | |
| LATEST ENTRIES BLOG | |
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Neal Bryant: Aerial Photography - OMCOPTER - Flying RED Epic SHOWstudio Tech Update  There have been several attempts at attaching cameras to remote controlled helicopters over the past couple of years. This experimentation has resulted in the mixture of success, and has often been the end of many cameras and RC helicopters. [more] | |
Amanda Harlech: Dawn...  Dawn. I am off to Tokyo. Even if I am happy to spend time in Tokyo, even if I want to see the cherry blossom and the conjuror's magic bar, I panic all night - heart beating in my ear. So much of me wants to stay and write and make my maps. Difficult to leave on this pristine morning with the frost still white on the grass and the crescent moon low and pink on the horizon. [more] | |
In Fashion, Aimee Mullins - live broadcast over  Our In Fashion interview with Aimee Mullins - discussing her athletic exploits, fashion career, starring role in Cremaster 3 and the process of storytelling in all three - is now complete. The edit of her hour-long conversation with SHOWstudio's Alexander Fury will be online shortly.[more] | |
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