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NIGGAS IN PARIS VIDEO LAUNCHED

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:22:16 +0000

CHECK OUT THE NIGGAS IN PARIS VIDEO FIRST PROJECT I HAVE WORKED ON WITH KANYE, THE VIDEO IS LIVE NOW AT: http://kanyewest.com/

NEWGEN//TEN: Nick Knight Fashion Film premieres Friday 17 February 2012

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:49:19 +0000

Nick Knight's fashion film, previewed during our NEWGEN//TEN live shoot and starring Karlie Kloss attired in an array of Topshop's finest designer collaborations from the past decade, launches on SHOWstudio and Topshop.com on 17 February 2012. The fashion film launches just in time for the kick-off of London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2012 and in celebration of ten years of Topshop sponsoring the British Fashion Council's NEWGEN scheme, and supporting a new generation of ground-breaking and truly exception Great British designer talent. Tune in on Friday 17 February for more - including on-demand footage of the entire shoot's process, exclusive to SHOWstudio

In Your Face: Music

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:02:26 +0000

In Your Face: Music continues tomorrow, Friday 10 February 2012 with the addition of two very different performers. The first artist to take to the stage at SHOWstudio's Bruton Place residence is French-based o F F Love known for his electronic-ambient music and his use of auto-tune. Join us at 12:00 GMT for some of o F F Love's minimal rhythm and blues. Tune in again at 14:30 GMT for our second livestream performance, by British artist Vula. Most famous for her vocals on 'Oh My Gosh' by dance music duo Basement Jaxx, Vula has collaborated with various artists across the UK, including Adele. Her In Your Face session will include several a cappella tracks, expressing the astonishing power of her voice. Tune in tomorrow Friday 10 February from 12:00 GM for our new In Your Face: Music performances.

Beautiful Rebel

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:06:42 +0000

Here are some screenshots of "Beautiful Rebel" Ryan McGinley's film for Edun's SS12 featuring six different species of African butterflies. So pretty

Off The Press: Band Of Outsiders Spring/Summer 2012 campaign

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:37:38 +0000

It seems there are two sides to contemporary advertising imagery: one pushing posed, airbrushed perfection to the idealised extremes of Soviet propaganda, the other taking a decidedly lo-fi, low-key - dare we say wonky? - approach to commercial imagery. Band Of Outsiders' campaigns, shot by creative director Scott Sternberg himself on traditional, unretouched polaroids, epitomise the latter approach. As with Juergen Teller's work for Marc Jacobs, the focus is placed resolutely on the clothing, and occasionally on the names wearing it. The latest Band Of Outsiders campaign features boldface Hollywood name Michelle Williams in a pastel, pastoral flower-strewn frock sat on a river bank. Far from her acclaimed turn as Marilyn, or indeed tradition Hollywood cameo appearances in advertising campaigns - cue preening to the nth degree, alongside idealising and idolising in equal measure. By contrast, the simplicity of these shots reminded me of a twenty-first century take (well, more twentieth-century circa 1968) on Marie Antoinette's hameau, or Les Demoiselles des bords de la Seine by Courbet. Fine art references feel very appropriate, as the other campaign star is a less well-known face, but a very well-known name - American Pop artist Ed Ruscha, dressed in the understated, classic garments the Band Of Outsiders label is known for. Playing Sudoku in a nylon windcheater or cracking open a fridge/freezer in cotton pyjamas and bathrobe are hardly conventional representations of the Great Artist at work, or indeed conventional fashion imagery. It's advertising, yes, but it doesn't advertise it.

Visions Couture Interactives Now Launched!

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:14:32 +0000

Far from forcing our viewers to brave the cold, hard streets of Paris, we bring Nick Knight and Daphne Guinness' Visions Couture windows for Le Printemps direct to you! The latest element to launch is Daniel Brown's specially-devised interactives - each situated in a different window and featuring a selection of images inspired by each of the five vitrine themes - Flora, Dark Knight, House and Garden, Death Becomes Her and Nature at Night - submitted by SHOWstudio viewers worldwide. Simply ensure your webcam is enabled and use your own motion to affect the imagery from your own home, experiencing Visions Couture first hand!

Visions Couture now live!

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:47:06 +0000

Le Printemps is live! Today, the Visions Couture windows devised by SHOWstudio, Nick Knight and Daphne Guinness are unveiled in Paris, showcasing three-dimensional photographic renderings of Daphne modelling creations by Paco Rabanne, Gareth Pugh, Maison Martin Margiela, Rick Owens and Junya Watanabe, alongside interactives devised by multimedia artist Daniel Brown, and Nick Knight's unique fashion films capturing Guinness in motion in each designer's inimitable creations.

Today, the first element of the project launched on SHOWstudio, showcasing the five fashion films created by Nick Knight from footage captured during the marathon two-day shoot and set against soundtracks recorded in Daphne Guinness' own voice. We also showcase a gallery of submissions from the public based around the windows' five radically different visual themes, and a live stream from vitrine #052 of Le Printemps, allowing a peek at the Parisian publican encountering with Brown's unique interactive elements in these window display.

Later this week will will launch three-dimensional renders, created from scans taken of Daphne Guinness' body that allowing you to rotate the sculptural forms seen in the windows of Le Printemps through 360-degrees, alongside interactive that allow you to experience the Le Printemps windows from the comfort of your own home. A true vision of couture for the twenty-first century.

SAUDI DRIFT

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:39:26 +0000

Listen to Lily Donaldson's Fashion Mix

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:00:59 +0000

Our Fashion Mix series has a new stylish playlist from British supermodel Lily Donaldson. Fittingly, given her central role in the crop of fresh London faces, Donaldson serves up some Brit classic from the likes of Marc Bolan and Peter Greens. But this is balanced by less-known tracks from up-and-coming artists, including Eddie Okwedy. It's a perfect combination - have a listen!

Louis Vuitton 'Fan Club' now online

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:32:09 +0000

How to celebrate fourteen years of Marc Jacobs helming the house of Louis Vuitton? Well, in retrospect, a phalanx of Louis-leotarded lovelies performing a Busby Berkley song-and-dance routine seems the natural choice, and was just what director Ruth Hogben and LOVE magazine Editor In Chief Katie Grand concocted in their latest fashion film collaboration, Fan Club, which premieres on the LOVE website today. Adorned with frills, feathers - in the form of fans, naturally enough - and all the fripperies of Jacobs' tenure, Hogben and Grand's models perform intricate, geometric dance routines to showcase the accessories that have not only become trademarks of Jacobs' incarnation of Louis Vuitton, but have helped redefine the way we consider fashion today. After all, pre-MJ LV, could you imagine the phrase 'It Bag' being uttered, much less defining fashion? Or indeed the concept of a must-have shoe - you get a dozen or so pairs here, from the towering, platform-free bow-fronted pumps of Winter 2010 to this season's sugarplum pastel mules in silver-tipped patent. But Fan Club isn't just a showy vehicle for those multi-bajillion earning accessories - it's about the fandom of modern fashion, and the fact that much like those Depression-era Berkley extravaganzas, fashion can transport us from drab and dreary reality into a more magical place. That's certainly the case with Fan Club - an infatuated paean to both Vuitton and fashion as a whole if ever there was one

Fan Club showcases exclusively on http://www.thelovemagazine.co.uk/ to coincide with the publication of LOVE 7 'After Taste' Spring/Summer 2012

Your Visions Couture submissions are now online!

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:14:32 +0000

The Visions Couture submissions gallery is now live! All of the images in this gallery have been selected by Nick Knight to feature in the windows of Le Printemps, Paris. The starting point for each image comes from one of our five themes: Dark Knight, Flora, House and Garden, Death Becomes Her and Nature at Night.

If you’re lucky enough to be in Paris, head over to Le Printemps department, where SHOWstudio’s magnificent window display featuring Daphne Guinness will launch on 7 February 2012. There’s still plenty more Visions Couture excitement to come, stay tuned for more announcements later in the week…

I FINK U FREEKY

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:01:45 +0000

In Your Face I See Myself: Final performance today

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:29:20 +0000

Our third and final performance from Harold Offeh and Eloise Calandre commences at 5pm today. Offeh will expand his series of video works 'Covers'- two of which are currently on show as part of our exhibition In Your Face.

In 'Covers' Offeh re creates iconic album covers by staging them as durational performances, and casting himself as the main subject. Previous pieces in the series have seen Offeh as Grace Jones on Island Life, The Ohio Players, Honey and Funkadelic's Maggot Brain, and now he will add to the series with his appropriation of the cover of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street.

This cover featured '3ball Charlie', a freakshow performer who worked the sideshows of carnivals. Charlie would stuff a tennis ball, a golf ball and a billiard ball in his mouth whilst whistling a tune, juggling and balancing on top of several other balls. Offeh will re stage the cover in his performance at 5pm today but in a comical twist, replaces the balls with gobstoppers.

By using the primary mediums of popular culture- photography and video, Offeh and Calandre unravel complex ideas of race, identity and desire. Tune in to SHOWstudio at 5pm today to see this iconic image re made.

Second In Your Face performance by Eloise Calandre and Harold Offeh is now live!

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:48:31 +0000

Eloise Calandre and Harold Offeh are gearing up for their second performance of the day. This piece sees a film of Calandre's face projected back onto her face. Simultaneously moving and stationery, the effect is a baffling image where her features are changed and distorted. Continuing the exploration into the capabilities of portraiture this piece challenges the idea of a fixed sense of self.

Streaming live now.

Simon Costin Fashion Mix now up!

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:57:00 +0000

Simon Costin is the latest contributor to offer up his personal fashion playlist for your listening pleasure. The set designer and art director drops an eclectic mix of tracks, featuring artists as varied as Kate Bush and Bach. It's a suitably innovative mix for one of fashion's most creative men. Listen here.

Harold Offeh and Eloise Calandre

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:55:42 +0000

Harold Offeh and Eloise Calandre are in SHOWstudio as we speak testing and perfecting their performances which will take place at 13:00, 15:00 and 17:00 GMT today. Exploring the possibilities of portraiture, the pair have composed three pieces which will be streamed live on SHOWstudio as a counterpart to our current exhibition In Your Face.

The first piece at 13:00- Smile sees Offeh transform a familiar and pleasant expresssion into a painful 34 minute endurance task. At 15:00 we'll see Calandre using her own face as a screen for a re-projection of her features and finally from 17:00 GMT, Offeh will build on his existing body of work Covers, recreating the cover of The Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street by appearing as '3Ball Charlie', a thirties freakshow performer.

Tune in at 13:00 when it will all begin!