SHOWstudio: Alexander McQueen, Plato's Atlantis, Savage Beauty, Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben, Marian Newman, Walter Hugo, Susannah Frankel, A/W 2011 and more

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	Newsletter | 6 May 2011
CURRENT PLATO'S ATLANTIS
This week the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute debuts Savage Beauty, the highly anticipated retrospective honouring the late Lee Alexander McQueen. To coincide with the exhibition's opening, we exclusively showcase the fashion film created by McQueen in collaboration with Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben that formed the cinematic opening to McQueen's Spring/Summer 2010 Plato's Atlantis show - in retrospect, his last fully-realised womenswear collection. Only previously seen by the audience at the show, the fashion film - starring Raquel Zimmermann and inspired by the apocalyptic, Darwinian themes of McQueen's collection - is now showcased not only as part of Savage Beauty, but exclusively online at SHOWstudio.com, allowing viewers worldwide to experience the stunning visuals of this unique fashion film. [more]
CURRENT NAILED RE-STREAM
Fashion may wait for no man, but occasionally you do get the chance to relive its best bits - as is the case with our Nailed shoot, with manicure supremo Marian Newman, originally live streamed on 21 April and to be re-streamed on Friday 6 May from 03:00 BST/10:00 CST. Recreating the best of the Spring/Summer 2011 collections in miniature, Newman reinterprets the collections of Emanuel Ungaro, John Galliano, Mary Katrantzou, Prada, Richard Nicoll, Rodarte and Versace as incredible, one-off nails captured in motion by Nick Knight's lens. The final unedited re-stream of footage captured during this shoot, tune in for your last chance to see Nailed in action! [more]
COMING UP LIVE STUDIO - WALTER HUGO
Photographer Walter Hugo is the latest creative to take up residence in our Bruton Place LiveStudio as part of the SHOWstudio Shop exhibition Practice to Deceive. Hugo's work, however, deviates from the standard photographic fayre: reviving a technique from photography's inception in the Victorian era, Hugo coats, exposes and fixes his silver nitrate portraits on plates of glass. What's more, to create said portraits, Hugo must create a gigantic camera obscura - which will be painstaking assembled in our LiveStudio through the course of next week. On Thursday 12 May 2011 we will live stream the entire process as Hugo photographs his choice of contemporary London's great and good - offering a digital-age window onto Dickensian photographic techniques.
FROM THE SHOP REFLECTING THE BRIGHT LIGHTS - 2010
Walter Hugo takes up residence next week in our LiveStudio, capturing portraits of London's leading twenty-first century creatives via nineteenth-century photographic methods to augment his ongoing series Reflecting The Bright Lights - a mere slither of which is currently on display as part of Practice to Deceive. Alongside this expanding portrait project chronicling young London's creative best, Hugo is offering a select group of twenty patrons the opportunity to commission their own images, shot next week in tandem with Hugo's own choice of bright young things and key talents in the capital. Capturing his sitters within a giant camera obscura, this is a rare chance not only to observe but to experience a slice of photographic history in the making. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE BELLWETHER
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Savage Beauty is, above all else, a celebration of the life and work of Lee Alexander McQueen - hence, the time felt ripe to glance back at our Bellwether project. Created to mark Alexander McQueen's CBE award, the visionary designer illustrated the showstoppers from his 2003 collections, which then magically spring to life in a film that documents the formidable technique at their core. This process film is presented alongside a compilation of McQueen catwalk moments, and text by Susannah Frankel, fashion editor of The Independent and long-term McQueen collaborator. While the Metropolitan Museum of Art's current retrospective can only be seen in New York, Bellwether stands testament to the fact that McQueen's influence on the fashion industry at large - and the power of his legacy - knows no bounds. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Plato's Atlantis Alexander McQueen Fashion Film Launched To coincide with the exhibition Savage Beauty, celebrating the life and work of Lee Alexander McQueen at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, we are proud to exclusively showcase the fashion film created by Nick Knight, Alexander McQueen and Ruth Hogben for the presentation of McQueen's final collection... [more]
Pressed for time Our last few weeks have been hectic to say the least, but we've finally had time to sit down, kick back and review the dozen or so A/W 2011 press days we've been whirling around. 'Dozens' is the word that leaps to mind when thinking of Karla Otto... [more]
PRACTICE TO DECEIVE: Video Tour Now Online! Profiling the latest 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 though-processes behind the selection of objects. From 'the smoking wall'... [more]
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