SHOWstudio: Born This Way, Lady Gaga, Nick Knight, Simon Foxton, Walter Van Beirendonck, Alister Mackie, Alexander McQueen, Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto and more

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	Newsletter | 26 May 2011
CURRENT SMOKE & MIRRORS BORN THIS WAY - REMIX
To coincide with the hotly-anticipated release of Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way, this week we launched our latest exclusive SHOWstudio.com download - Nick Knight's 'Smoke & Mirrors' remix of his already-iconic album artwork. Showcased over 30 days - via 30 A4 image downloads released on SHOWstudio.com - the gargantuan poster-sized image is already taking shape on the walls of Little Monsters worldwide. Visit SHOWstudio.com each day at 14:00 BST for a new fragment of this visual remix - and start downloading now in order to get your hands on a unique piece of Gaga memorabilia. [more]
COMING UP DREAM THE WORLD AWAKE - RE-STREAM
With Nick Knight collaborating with Simon Foxton to capture a selection of the most spectacular pieces drawn from thirty years of Walter Van Beirendonck's endlessly innovative career, our Dream The World Awake shoot was a truly one-off event. Well, not quite: every moment of spontaneous, riotous and exuberant action from this two-day shoot will be re-streamed from 19:00 BST / 11:00 PST on Wednesday 1 June 2011. Expect a rainbow rave of boys, bears and everything in-between clad in Van Beirendonck's oft-imitated but never-equalled revolutionary re-imagining of contemporary menswear. [more]
COMING UP LIVE SHOOT - ANOTHER MAGAZINE
Our next live shoot is already on the cards, as Nick Knight collaborates with Alister Mackie to craft an editorial feature for the next issue of AnOther Magazine. With references running the gamut from Siouxie Sioux to Strawberry Switchblade to the best of the Autumn/Winter season - including Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto and Alexander McQueen - tune in soon for the best of next season captured by some of fashion's finest talents.
FROM THE SHOP "AUDREYS" HOT DOG STAND, 1961
The illustrious American photographer William Claxton is renowned for his uncanny ability to capture a moment. In the two ‘smoking’ photographs in our current exhibition Practice to Deceive: Smoke and Mirrors in Fashion, Fine Art and Film, the photographer casually captures Peggy Moffitt and Steve McQueen in cool but equally raw poses we aren't usually privy to. Where "Audreys" Hot Dog Stand shows Claxton's wife, Peggy Moffitt, dressed in couture and casually leaning in to have her cigarette lit for her, the snapshot of Steve McQueen presents the film icon as he seductively inhales a cigarette on Park Avenue. Both exemplify the quiet calm that Claxton brought to his portraiture and therefore continue to endure as truly iconic images. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE LADY GAGA SUBMIT
With Born This Way already storming the charts - and Nick Knight's latest collaboration with Lady Gaga unfolding on site -  the time feels right to revisit Lady Gaga Submit, a collaboration with Gaga fans around the globe to provide footage for inclusion in her record-breaking Monster Ball tour. The perfect analogy for Gaga and her fans' give-and-take relationship, Lady Gaga Submit features over 600 videos submitted by Gaga fans to be edited by Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben for use in her blockbusting worldwide tour. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Crazy for Le Crazy Ever since I first saw Miuccia Prada's all-out homage to Josephine Baker shimmy onto teh catwalk over in Milan last September - all finger-waved hair, cocktail-frocks and speakeasy-style Jazz shoes in the colours of a twenties lithograph - I've been hankering after a good old-fashioned bit of Parisian showgirl razzmatazz... [more]
Reporting Live from the World of Walter Van Beirendonck ... It is a very strange experience examining the archives of Walter van Beirendonck - namely because you can see, in his fervent and fertile creativity, seeds of inspiration eagerly seized upon by many other designers (and we're not just talking high-street). But putting inter-designer borrowing - or, indeed, all-out... [more]
McQueen For A Night at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Inspired by Alexander McQueenand the new retrospective exhibition Savage Beauty, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art hosts a special one-off event, McQueen For A Night. Allowing college students to explore the creative fire behind some of McQueen's most incredible designs - a cross-section of which are on display at... [more]
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