SHOWstudio: LiveStudio, Walter Hugo, Alexander McQueen, Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben, Katie Grand, Giles Deacon, Emanuel Ungaro, Walter Van Beirendonck, Val Garland and more

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	Newsletter | 12 May 2011
CURRENT LIVESTUDIO - WALTER HUGO
As part of his portrait series Reflecting the Bright Lights, Capturing a Moment in Silver Nitrate, artist and photographer Walter Hugo has transformed our LiveStudio into a giant camera obscura, infusing a nineteenth-century photographic technique with fresh life as he produces portraits of London’s new creative leaders as part of our SHOWstudio Shop exhibition Practice to Deceive. Bringing this historical technique into the twenty-first century, the entire process of Hugo’s photography will be streamed live throughout today as an array of the capital's premier artists, designers and cultural figures come to Bruton Place to be captured, developed and fixed in this one-off art experience. Watch the live-stream now [more]
CURRENT PLATO'S ATLANTIS
The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute is currently presenting Savage Beauty, an exhibition in honour of the incredible talent of Lee Alexander McQueen. In line with this timely celebration, we are proud to exclusively show the cinematic fashion film that opened McQueen's acclaimed Spring/Summer 2010 show, Plato’s Atlantis. The film, created in collaboration by Alexander McQueen, Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben, is now not only an experience for those lucky enough to have been in attendance at the show, but is shown in its own right as part of our Plato's Atlantis project. Under the direction of Knight, the Darwinian, ecological themes of the show are explored across the body of Raquel Zimmermann, powerfuly evoking the McQueen universe without a single shred of clothing. Alongside the fashion film, our exclusive online showcase encompasses footage of the Plato’s Atlantis catwalk show and a personal interview with McQueen himself, conducted by Knight, offering an insight into the late, great designer himself. [more]
COMING UP A/W 2011 - CINQ À SEPT
The Autumn/Winter 2011 Collections have barely finished, but we're already launching our first fashion film editorial of the season! Acclaimed fashion filmmaker Ruth Hogben collaborates with super-stylist and LOVE editor-in-chief Katie Grand to create Cinq à Sept, a film exclusively featuring Giles Deacon's second collection for the house of Emanuel Ungaro. Monsieur Ungaro himself once stated 'I dress mistresses, not wives' - which was the inspiration behind both Deacon's collection and this fashion film, titled after the time traditionally reserved for lovers' trysts. With a pack of models roaming the streets of London - trussed up in Deacon's re-imagined result wear, styled by Grand and captured by Hogben - this is, however, a resolutely British re-interpretation of the fine French art of seduction. Cinq à Sept launches on SHOWstudio.com on Monday 16 May 2011 at 10:00 BST
COMING UP IN FASHION, WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK
The next character featured in our In Fashion interview series is Walter Van Beirendonck, Belgian fashion designer and a founding member of the renowned 'Antwerp Six.' SHOWstudio.com contributing fashion writer Hywel Davis interviewed Van Beirendonck earlier this year, discussing everything from his past at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp to his plans for the future. Arriving in London in 1987 with the likes of Dries Van Noten and Ann Demeulemeester to present their collections as graduates marked the beginning of Van Beirendonck’s groundbreaking design career. Today Van Beirendonck is acknowledged for his technical innovation, exuberant imagination and unique presentations as part of Paris Fashion Week. Our In Fashion film opens up Van Beirendonck’s creativity in a unique one-on-one conversation in advance of his first large-scale retrospective exhibition at the Antwerp Fashion Museum and an exclusive SHOWstudio.com project of our own later this year. In Fashion, Walter Van Beirendonck launches on SHOWstudio.com on Tuesday 17 May 2011
FROM THE SHOP BODYSMOKERS, 2006
Russian photographer Oleg Dou makes his British debut in our current exhibition with 'Bodysmokers'; an utterly unique photograph that portrays a person dismantled by smoke. The disturbing beauty that exists in Dou's photograph comes partly from his restrained use of colour and the overwhelming transcendence of boundaries between reality and fantasy. The futuristic use of digital photography allows his images to become distorted mutations of the human body and is more visible than ever in our Practice to Deceive: Smoke and Mirrors in Fashion, Fine Art and Film exhibition in which Dou's artificial smoke succeeds in enveloping and eclipsing. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE MAKE IT UP
'Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon meet Hans Bellmer's Poupèes': that was the inspiration behind Make It Up, where acclaimed make-up artist Val Garland let her creativity run riot across the bodies of twenty blonde models. Picasso's Cubist re-imagining of the human body, combined with imagery of Bellmer's reassembled dolls, is reflected in Garland's reworking of the female form, plastered in paint and powder and captured in motion by Nick Knight. Originally streamed live - with a completely unrehearsed make-up performance - this short captures Garland in spontaneous action, free to 'make it up' as she goes along. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
LiveStudio - Walter Hugo: Wrapping up ahead of Thursday's live stream As Walter and his team set down the silver nitrate and glass plates for the day, we start to look forward to the LiveStudio session tomorrow which will see a multitude of high-profile sitters being immortalized in positive ambrotype. To see the whole fascinating process take place, tune in to... [more]
SHOWstudio Shop Director Carrie Scott interviewed by Crane.tv Last week the team of Crane.tv came to Bruton Place to capture our Shop Director Carrie Scott for their online video-magazine. Discussing the Mayfair gallery space, LiveStudio and SHOWstudio.com in general, Scott delves into the objectives and intentions of SHOWstudio.com’s exceptional vision as well as our current exhibition... [more]
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