SHOWstudio: A/W 2011, Ruth Hogben, Katie Grand, Giles Deacon, Emanuel Ungaro, Walter Van Beirendonck, Lady Gaga, Nick Knight, Born This Way, Bernhard Willhelm and more

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	Newsletter | 18 May 2011
CURRENT A/W 2011 - CINQ A SEPT
Our first fashion film editorial of the A/W 2011 season, Ruth Hogben's Cinq à Sept summarises the flirtatious sensuality of Giles Deacon's re-energised re-imagining of the classic Parisian label Emanuel Ungaro. Featuring Deacon's sophomore collection for the esteemed couture house, styled by LOVE editor-in-chief Katie Grand and unleashed to run rampant across London town. Inspired by Ungaro's classic brand of femininity - with a wild streak - Hogben captures the spirit of both Ungaro old, and Deacon's 'Feral Lace' collection, to picture-perfection. [more]
CURRENT IN FASHION, WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK
Belgian fashion maverick Walter Van Beirendonck is the latest luminary to be profiled as part of our In Fashion interview series. Earlier this year, journalist and author Hywel Davis sat down with Van Beirendonck and offered an insight into the much-acclaimed creative mind of this Antwerp-based innovator. A prelude to Van Beirendonck's first retrospective exhibition at the MoMu in Antwerp - and our own exclusive project celebrating his talent - Van Beirendonck discusses his bold design signatures, aesthetic motivations, and the ideas behind landmark shows that have become an avant-garde highlight of Paris Fashion Week. An intimate and revealing look inside one of menswear's most acclaimed and influential talents. [more]
COMING UP BORN THIS WAY - REMIX
On Monday 23 May 2011 SHOWstudio.com is giving the global Lady Gaga fanbase a chance to download an exclusive piece of Gaga memorabilia. In conjunction with the release of her new album, Born This Way, Nick Knight offers a visual 'remix' of his original artwork for the album - scaled up to gargantuan proportions and offered as a downloadable poster. Spliced into 30 A4 pieces, a different section of the poster will be offered for download each day - the first section released on the 23 May. When all thirty pieces are jigsawed together, the finished poster will reveal a never-before-seen reworking of Knight's already iconic image. A unique chance for fans to craft their own timeless piece of Gaga-inspired art. BORN THIS WAY - REMIX is launched on Monday 23 May 2011 [more]
COMING UP DREAM THE WORLD AWAKE
Inspired by the larger-than-life talent of the irrepressible Walter Van Beirendonck - and his equally bold and exciting archive - on 23-24 May 2011 SHOWstudio.com will stream all the action as Nick Knight collaborates with celebrated stylist Simon Foxton to capture the best of Van Bierendonck in a one-off shoot. Plucking vintage pieces from the vast back-catalogue of W&LT and Walter Van Beirendonck, the resulting images will grace the pages of GQ Style and also the catalogue accompanying 'Dream The World Awake', the Antwerp Fashion Museum's retrospective of Van Beirendonck's three decades of experimentation and innovation. Expect colour, confusion and possibly a few inflatables as this dynamic two-day shoot unfolds before your very eyes! [more]
FROM THE SHOP HENRY KROKATSIS
Henry Krokatsis, artist of the acclaimed series 'Like a Gang of Virtue', has developed and created both functional and subversive art. Exhibiting in our current show 'Practice to Deceive: Smoke and Mirrors in Fashion, Fine Art and Film', with his complex piece 'Untitled (Deer PF.e)', Krokatsis' composition of vintage mirrors ensures the voyeur looks beyond their own reflection and onto the material surface of the work. The decorative mirrored sculpture is built with a huge amount of technical and industrial skill whilst paradoxically conjuring visions of innocence and childhood. To surpress your mirrored image to the backdrop and alternatively recognise the reappropriated pieces of history, visit the reflective exhibition in our Bruton Place headquarters. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE MEN IN TIGHTS
Trained at the right hand of Water Van Beirendonck, German designer Bernhard Willhelm has a similarly innovative and inventive sense of fun when it comes to his fashion - hence, who better to glance back to during our celebration of Van Beirendonck's continuing influence than one of his most acclaimed protégés? In 2008, Wilhelm chose to showcase his Autumn/Winter menswear collection via an innovative film short created in collaboration with Nick Knight. The title, Men In Tights, gives a preview of Willhelm's trademark tongue-in-cheek humour, further underlined by the flurry of lycra-clad limbs, strapped and wrapped torsos and a stretch leotard (or six), showcased in breathtaking, avant-garde choreography specially devised by Damien Jalet. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Dream the World Awake - Live Walter Van Beirendonck shoot 23-24 May 2011! The first retrospective of Walter Van Beirendonck's three decades of creation is set to open at Antwerp's MoMu this September, launching a selection of this Belgian's uncompromising, outrageous and more often than not multicoloured visuals, on an unsuspecting public. When we captured Walter for our In Fashion series earlier this [more]
LiveStudio - Walter Hugo: Re-Stream now over Our re-stream of Walter Hugo's LiveStudio portrait sittings is now over. The edited footage of the broadcast will be available to view later this year. [more]
Walter Hugo: Stuart Hammond sitting Today's only sitter, and the last to visit Walter Hugo and his Camera Obscura for his SHOWstudio residency is Stuart Hammond. Books editor of Dazed & Confused, skateboard enthusiast and co-founder of the infamous Palace Waywards Book Club of sadly-defunct (now legendary) skateboard mag +1, Hammond rounds off what has [more]
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