SHOWstudio: Asia Argento, Victoria Beckham, Nick Knight, Cara Delevingne, Aimee Mullins, Alice Hawkins, Marie Schuller, Rebecca Wilson, Anna Dello Russo, Lady Gaga, Judy Blame, Ruth Hogben, Rei Nadal and more...

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Newsletter | 26 April 2012
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FASHION FETISH: ASIA ARGENTO

From Florence to fetish, there is something for everyone in Asia Argento's provocative Fashion Fetish offering. Continuing the series' trend for innovative creative displays, the actress and director contributes Don't Bother To Knock, a series of film shorts exclusively for SHOWstudio. Presented as a 'video diary', these videos - captured during Argento's London promotion of the feature film Marie Antoinette in 2006 - combine DIY reportage aesthetics with meticulous direction from Argento and Nick Knight. Intertwining reality with fantasy, the films are aided by a script devised by author Emma Forrest, their original display as entries on the SHOWstudio blog adding weight to the dupe. User comments are displayed alongside the shorts, forming a corresponding narrative of viewer perceptions of Argento's actions and the suspension - or not - of disbelief as they navigate the fiction/fact labyrinth of this unique film series.

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RANGE ROVER EVOQUE SPECIAL EDITION WITH VICTORIA BECKHAM

Nick Knight's latest fashion film is a collaboration with award-winning British designer Victoria Beckham. Teaming with Land Rover, Beckham serves as guest creative designer for a special edition of their latest model, a new bespoke hand-finished Range Rover Evoque - the model displayed to perfection in a fashion film directed by Knight and inspired by the fantasy cityscapes of graphic novellas. Beckham stars as her own model, sporting her eponymous fashion line alongside her equally sleek and streamlined automobile. The designer comments: 'I want everyone who gets into this car to feel special and empowered by its quality and craftsmanship. I like that it feels luxurious but also has quite a classic edge to it as well as a contemporary feel.' Who can't be won over by fabulous fashion and a fast car combined?

 

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PUSSYCAT, PUSSYCAT

On Friday 20 April 2012, SHOWstudio was the stage for Nick Knight's first ever Instagram fashion shoot - Pussycat, Pussycat - showcasing a priceless array of fine jewellery from Van Cleef and Arpels, Fabergé, Cartier, Solange Azagury-Partridge and the acclaimed postmodern bijoux of Delfina Delettrez alongside a menagerie of furry friends in the able hands of model Cara Delevigne. Captured instantaneously by Knight and relayed to global viewers via Instagram, Tumblr, Twitter and SHOWstudio.com, the shoot also offered snippets of intellectual fashion analysis delivered off-the-cuff by SHOWstudio fashion director Alexander Fury. The resulting images celebrate not only the cutesy-poo popularity of internet GIFs and memes, but next season's dressed-to-excess extravagance, teaming those gems with equally precious garms from the likes of Mary Katrantzou, Valentino Haute Couture and Rochas. Couture never looked quite so cute.

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COMING UP
IN FASHION: AIMEE MULLINS

Filmed earlier this year, a brand new In Fashion interview edit featuring Aimee Mullins launches tomorrow, Friday 27 March, at 12:00 BST. The actress, model, athlete - and one of People magazine's fifty most beautiful people in the world - is in conversation with SHOWstudio fashion director Alexander Fury. She can be heard discussing her experiences as an bilateral amputee, as well as her sporting exploits, fashion career, and acting roles, alongside the process of storytelling in all three. As with all our In Fashion interviews, this is a frank and honest dialogue, providing a unique insight into the mind of a woman who has undoubtedly shaped the ever-changing landscape of contemporary fashion, athletics and culture.

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FASHION MIX

Perfectly coordinated with our Selling Sex exhibition, both playlists in our Fashion Mix series this week come from female image-makers. On Monday, photographer Alice Hawkins opened up her record collection, offering up a tribute to her sartorial and musical heroine Dolly Parton. A self-confessed Dolly-addict, Hawkins has already created a previous ode to the singer in her Ponystep story 'Dolly Parton is my religion', and even based her own wedding dress on the blond songstress. Truly a super mix from a super fan, Hawkins playlist is the perfect pick-me-up when working nine to five. On Friday, prior to her Fashion Fetish contribution next week, film-maker Marie Schuller will take to the SHOWstudio DJ both, offering up the songs and sounds that inspire her own creative work. Featuring everything from Sharivari by A Number of Names and Dirt by The Stooges, these fashionable tracks are not to be missed. Tune in on Friday at 13:00 BST to here Schuller's playlist for yourself.

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VOTE FOR SHOWSTUDIO

Voting in the 16th Annual Webby Awards closes today! As a nominee for Best Fashion Website, SHOWstudio is eligible to win a Webby People's Voice Award, which is chosen online by you. You only have until the end of the day, Thursday 26 April, to cast your votes, so hurry over to pv.webbyawards.com/ballot/7 to show your support for SHOWstudio.

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FROM THE SHOP
BLOW ME, 2011

Blow Me defies the conventional utility of ceramics by combining materials to become a teasingly coquettish collage. Scottish based artist Rebecca Wilson uses slip-casting techniques to produce high-quality items which defy the throwaway nature of their subject matter. Wilson often brings transient materials into the making process and in doing so interrupts the formality of traditional techniques. Her ceramics turn everyday items into a collage of pleasurable extravagance. She constructs new objects by casting discarded knickknacks, most commonly found in charity shops and car boot sales, into luxurious porcelain and bone china. The incongruous nature of provocative sexuality printed onto a staple of household propriety charms each viewer. The concurrence of porcelain with eccentric, dispensable and incidental materials creates an ironic play of worth between what we desire and what we choose to indulge in.

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FROM THE ARCHIVE
THE FASHION BODY

Appropriately coinciding with Selling Sex's exploration of the female nude, SHOWstudio digs up this gem from our 2010 archives. Originally commissioned to feature as part of the 2009 exhibition SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution at Somerset House, The Fashion Body focused on exploring and celebrating the human body, offering a unique combination of fashion and moving image. Over forty creatives - including designers, photographers, models, filmmakers and stylists - were tasked with contributing a personal and distinctive fashion film. Each focused on a different area of the body, using fashion items from the latest collections to adorn it. Alongside the final films, a series of essays explored our notions of fashionability and the body through the individual voices of almost thirty journalists, authors and academics. Not only functioning as distinct cinematic entities, the Fashion Body films are each a vital part of a larger panorama of fashion-focused moving image, built up organically over time to mirror the human body's own growth. From Anna Dello Russo's nose and Lady Gaga's left eye, to Ruth Hogben's buttocks and Judy Blame's left wrist - check out SHOWstudio's very fashionable form.

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LATEST ENTRIES
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Rei Nadal: Water Sculptures

I recently discovered the artist Shinichi Maruyama. What I loved about his work is, given the ephemeral nature of his sculptures, they can only exist through a photographic or film media support.

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'Selling Sex' receives a glowing four star review in today's Independent

SHOWstudio Shop was delighted to receive a glowing four-star review in The Independent for our current exhibition 'Selling Sex'.

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Wayne McGregor's Carbon Life at the Royal Opera House

With costumes by Gareth Pugh and music led by famed cool-kid Mark Ronson, this dance masterpiece was always going to make a splash.

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