SHOWstudio: Nick Knight, Dinos Chapman, Lady Gaga, Born This Way, Stephen Jones, Giles Deacon, Richard Nicoll, Craig Lawrence, Mugler and more

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	Newsletter | 1 June 2011
COMING UP NICK KNIGHT / DINOS CHAPMAN - LIVE SHOOT
Nick Knight collaborates with celebrated contemporary artist Dinos Chapman to create an editorial spread for the first issue of Garage, the new magazine edited by Dasha Zhukova. Mixing art with fashion and inspired, in classic Chapman style, by twisted visions of his Dinos' daughter's dollhouse, Knight will shoot Lily Donaldson in a selection of A/W 2011's finest styled by Francesca Burns, the action unfolding in a doll's house specially devised by set designer Gary Card. We're streaming every moment of this two-day shoot live on SHOWstudio.com, so tune in next Monday and Tuesday 6-7 June 2011 for a front-row seat!
CURRENT SMOKE & MIRRORS BORN THIS WAY - REMIX
Our piece-by-piece build-up of Nick Knight’s ‘Smoke & Mirrors’ visual remix of his cover art for Lady Gaga’s third studio album Born This Way is slowly, but surely, unfolding on-site. A larger-than-life 30-piece jigsaw of colour-saturated imagery, this latest download celebrates both our Practice to Deceive exhibition and the latest fruit of the ongoing collaboration between Gaga and Knight. Visit SHOWstudio.com each day at 14:00 BST to download a fragment of this modern-day memorabilia for yourself.  [more]
CURRENT DREAM THE WORLD AWAKE - RE-STREAM
For any viewers who missed last week's live shoot - with Walter Van Beirendonck, Simon Foxton and Nick Knight whipping up a veritable army of colour-clad male models to celebrate three decades of the Belgian designer's ever-innovative menswear - we will be re-streaming the entire progress of this marathon two-day shoot from 19:00 BST / 11:00 EST today and tomorrow. Tune in for a full, unedited re-cap of all the action before the final images hit the pages of GQ Style and the catalgue to accompany the Antwerp Fashion Museum's retrospective exhibition. [more]
COMING UP LIVE STUDIO - STEPHEN JONES
Amidst the hand-picked designers paying tribute to our SHOWstudio Shop exhibition Florist late last year was none other than master milliner Stephen Jones, fusing flower arrangement and couture hat creations in a unique live residency. From the footage recorded during Jones' 90-minute 'Glamour on a Budget' broadcast, we have created a three-part film encapsulating all the tongue-in-chic action from this leading British design talent, showcasing Jones' skills not only as a milliner but as a bona fide raconteur. A festive treat to be savoured no matter the season! LiveStudio - Stephen Jones launches on Friday 3 June 2011
COMING UP LES SMOKINGS
Inspired by the 'smoke and mirrors' theme of our Practice to Deceive exhibition, SHOWstudio.com and SHOWstudio Shop have invited a selection of fashion designers, including Giles Deacon, Craig Lawrence, Richard Nicoll and the design team of Mugler, to reinvent the classic Le Smoking tuxedo in a series of live-streamed events throughout June and July 2011. Twisting one of the exhibition's key themes, 'Les Smokings' dispels the smoke and mirrors of the fashion industry, exposing the entire creative process as these design talents take up residency in our LiveStudio to craft one-off tuxedo jackets before a web audience. While fashion documentary and performance art fuse in these live broadcasts, the unique Le Smoking created by each practitioner will be added to the Practice to Deceive exhibition at Bruton Place, displayed as one-off works of fashion art.
FROM THE SHOP SOUND SCULPTURE ROBE, 1966
When the work of renown French brothers, Francois and Bernard Baschet, was featured in William Klein's 1966 film Qui êtes vous, Polly Maggoo? - a satirical swipe at the fashion industry - their position in the art world shifted. Creators of both sound sculptures and musical instruments, their collaborations had never been quite so literally fashionable. Klein's visuals drew allusions between the work of the Baschets and the contemporary 'Space Age' fashions of the mid-sixties, using these art pieces to parody the couture creations of Cardin, Courrèges and Rabanne. Sculptural feats in their own right, don't miss seeing these slices of art and fashion history, on view for the first time in the UK, at our Bruton Place headquarters. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE HATS OFF
Given this week marks not only the broadcast of our edited footage of Stephen Jones' 'Glamour on a Budget' LiveStudio residency, but also the birthday of the master milliner himself, time felt ripe to doff our proverbial titfer to his enduring genius and re-examine our Hats Off project. Celebrating Jones' 2009 exhibition Hats: An Anthology at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, this in-depth project features interviews with Jones himself, co-curator Oriele Cullen and set designer Michael Howells alongside panoramic views of the exhibits, galleries from the private view and Fashion In Motion events, and a unique glimpse at Howells' painstaking preliminary sketches and blueprints. [more]
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