SHOWstudio: Nailed, Marian Newman, Judy Blame, Practice to Deceive, Ruth Hogben, Agent Provocateur, Kate Moss and more

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	Newsletter | 27 April 2011
COMING UP NAILED RE-STREAM
Nailing down the very best of the spring/summer season, last week manicure maestro Marian Newman took up residence with trusted assistants, a rainbow of polish and several thousand acrylic tips to reinterpret this seasons finest fashions in miniature. Less nail art than a masterpiece at your fingertips, Newman reworked the inspirations behind SHOWstudio.com's choice of seven landmark collections - Emanuel Ungaro, John Galliano, Mary Katrantzou, Prada, Richard Nicoll, Rodarte and Versace - presented against key pieces from the collections, filmed by Nick Knight and captured in the attitudes and affectations of fashion's favourite dirty little habit, smoking. If you missed any of the action, we will be re-streaming the entire Nailed experience tomorrow, Thursday 28 April, from 18:00 BST / 10:00 PST - a chance to catch every unedited moment of this one-off shoot. [more]
CURRENT LIVESTUDIO - JUDY BLAME
Our latest LiveStudio process film documents the one-day residency of legendary British accessory designer, stylist and all-round creative catalyst Judy Blame. Inspired by the theme of our 2010 SHOWstudio Shop exhibition Blackwhite, Blame crafted a monochrome array of artefacts in his trademark postmodern bricolage style - oft-imitated but never equalled. Edited from hours of footage, and including Blame's dialogue with the SHOWstudio.com viewers via our Q&A, this film offers a unique glimpse inside the febrile mind of one of Britain's most celebrated fashion talents. [more]
CURRENT PRACTICE TO DECEIVE
Profiling the current SHOWstudio Shop show Practice to Deceive: Smoke & Mirrors in Fashion, Fine Art and Film, our Gallery Director and Curator Carrie Scott offers a guided tour around the exhibition, explaining the themes and thought-processes behind the selection of objects. From 'the smoking wall' - and iconic imagery from Joseph Szabo, William Klein and Fernand Fonssagrives - through the sculptural mirrored surfaces of work by Dan Graham, Henry Krokatsis and Francois and Bernard Baschet, to an exclusive glimpse at Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben's fashion film of Jo Calderone, showcased in the very space where the short was actually shot. An enticing and inviting look at our latest exhibition, open to the public until 16 July 2011. [more]
CURRENT IN FASHION, RUTH HOGBEN
Our latest In Fashion interview profiles a talent fast rising in the fashion world - and indeed one at the forefront of the new medium of fashion film - Ruth Hogben. A talent behind an array of films gracing SHOWstudio.com - not least her latest A/W 2011 video collaboration with superstylist and LOVE editor-in-chief Katie Grand, due to launch on site later this season - Hogben sat down with fashion director Alexander Fury to discuss her life, the influences on her work, and her passion for fashion in this exclusive and intimate one-on-one. Our next In Fashion interview, with fashion designer Walter Van Beirendonck, launches on site later this spring. Click here to view all In Fashion interviews. [more]
FROM THE SHOP LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE, 2011
With the Royal Wedding just around the corner, we look behind the formalities of archaic royal courts through Jenifer Corker's re-appropriated fire screens. Commissioned especially for Practice to Deceive: Smoke & Mirrors in Fashion, Fine Art and Film, Corker's decorated screens reference a long forgotten tradition. Immaculately embroidered, the screens' function was to protect ladies of the court: ostensibly to shield their prized alabaster complexions from the blush of a fire, but equally to conceal them from the gaze of a stranger while they gossiped about the latest scandals of court. As reference to a long forgotten tradition, Corker's screens both conceal the truth and resist the voyeur making them both literal and figurative smoke screens. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE WHITE WEDDING
With the most talked-about wedding of the century (so far) firmly slated for this Friday, it felt a more-than-appropriate time to glance back at a bridal-themed project from our own archives: White Wedding. The product of a grand collaboration with lingerie giant Agent Provocateur to mark the launch of their bridal range, White Wedding is a groundbreaking exploration in extending a narrative advertising campaign to also create an experimental film series. Responding to a six-part script treatment written by Agent Provocateur founder Joe Corré, Nick Knight and a stellar cast including Kate Moss and artists Jake and Dinos Chapman have created six striking campaign stills that storyboard 'the demise of a bride's "big day" and serialise the unravelling of the religious organisation behind it'. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Nailed Live Stream Now Over! Another about turn for our shoot as we move from ethereal wonderment to visceral sensuousness. Our final look sees Isabel and Sara united in the barely punctuated dark by Marian Newman's handiwork - a single interconnecting set of nails, fusing our two models together like conjoined twins. Echoing the cut-work... [more]
Look Four: Prada We're back from our lunch break and ready to bring you our fourth look: the Carmen Miranda stylings of Prada! Our model Sara looks totally tropical in head-to-toe-to-fox-fur stripes as she brandishes an oh-so-appropriate cigar with just the right dash of Latin panache. The eagle-eyed among you may be able... [more]
More From Look One! A few more shots from our opening Ungaro number - with cocktail cigarettes by Sobranie. We're live streaming outfit number two, Mary Katrantzou S/S 2011, right now! [more]
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