SHOWstudio: Daphne Guinness, Giles Deacon, Walter Hugo, Kirsten McMenamy, Nicola Formichetti, Haute Couture, Chanel, Givenchy, Armani and more

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	Newsletter | 30 June 2011
CURRENT THE MURDER OF JEAN SEBERG
Friday saw the premiere of The Murder of Jean Seberg, directed by Joseph Lally and starring Daphne Guinness. An art film uniquely created for the Internet and inspired by a dream, Lally's piece explores the controversial death of this all-American actress in 1979 through expressionistic vignettes and text inspired by Jean-Luc Godard. Alongside the film, exclusive text interviews with both Lally and Guinness unravel the hidden layers of meaning behind this feature-length art piece. [more]
CURRENT REFLECTING THE BRIGHT LIGHTS
Our video edit charting the progress and process behind the LiveStudio residency of artist Walter Hugo has now launched. Composed of footage captured during our one-day live broadcast, this film offers a unique twenty-first century insight into nineteenth-century photographic methods as Hugo captures portraits via a giant 'camera obscura', fixes them in silver-nitrate and develops on glass plate - a 'positive' rather than a 'negative', and each a true one-off. Walter Hugo is offering a strictly limited number of private commissions alongside this series. For more information please contact SHOWstudio Shop. [more]
CURRENT VENUS
Exploring and exploding the boundaries of sex and sexuality in all their forms, Venus launched last week on SHOWstudio.com. Alongside Nick Knight's latest fashion film, crafted from footage originally captured during his shoot with Nicola Formichetti for the Winter/Spring 2011 issue of Arena Homme Plus and starring Kirsten McMenamy, we showcase a selection of images by cult illustrator Mel Odom, who colour-saturated dreamscapes inspired the visual treatments. Unravelling the ideas behind the shoot, the illustrations and the often-misunderstood idea of transgenderism in general, interviews with Knight, Odom, and transsexual model and actor Danni Daniels chart the concepts that originally brought this ground-breaking and gender-blending shoot to life. [more]
COMING UP COLLECTIONS: HAUTE COUTURE AUTUMN/WINTER 2011
Fashion may have been considering the fellas for the past two weeks, but from Monday it's all about les femmes, as the SHOWstudio collections vault the manche and take Paris by storm for the latest Haute Couture collections. Teaming up once more with NOWFASHION.com to provide live image uploads for our first bout of couture coverage since 2007, Fashion Director Alex Fury will be reporting from the shows of Armani Privé, Chanel, Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci and more as fashion's formula one create some of the most beautiful, labour-intensive and expensive clothing in the world. Whet your appetite with our extensive menswear coverage, and come back next week for all the action live and direct from Paris.
FROM THE SHOP SILVER NUDIE, 2011
On Monday 27 June 2011, Brit couture star Giles Deacon was the second designer to take part in our Les Smokings live project, crafting a one-off garment inspired by our Practice to Deceive exhibition and the fine French art of Le Smoking (the tuxedo jacket that is, not the nicotine habit). During this one-day live session, Deacon & Co. transformed our studio, quite literally, into smoke and mirrors, plastering the walls in tin-foil, drafting in a smoke machine, and slicing a unique tuxedo from silvered leather. Giles and team crafted their own idiosyncratic interpretation whilst answering questions from the viewing public. His slim-cut masterpiece, dripping with miles of silver leather fringe and and detailed with iron bolts, is now suspended for viewing, trying and indeed buying as part of the current SHOWstudio Shop exhibition. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE SHOOT
With Paris - and SHOWstudio.com Fashion Director Alex Fury - gearing up for the Autumn/Winter 2011 Haute Couture shows and the surreal circus it brings to town, we have chosen to revisit SHOOT, a project contextualising couture. A series of surreal vignettes represent the political and financial machinations behind these most totemic of garments - while also surmising couture's unmatched ability to hold elegance and poise amongst madness and mayhem. Photographing gowns from the likes of John Galliano at Christian Dior, Christian Lacroix, Azzedine Alaïa, Atelier Versace and Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel for a 2003 story appearing in W Magazine, SHOOT explores the theatre that some of fashion's finest magicians manage to conjure season after season. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Resort 2012: Peter Jensen After two weeks of Collections crammed with machismo-oozing menswear (well, maybe a few too many skirts, 'skorts' and beaded kaftans to qualify as 'macho') it's pleasant to get back to good old-fashioned frock-watching - especially the newly-minted season of Resort, where rhetoric is abandoned for simple, honest-to-goodness saleability and wearability. Sometimes, it's nice when a dress is just pretty, without layers of hidden meaning... [more]
Les Smokings - Giles Deacon Stream Now Over! A masterpiece of silver leather, iron bolts and miles of fringe - and rotating in a Barbarella-style mirror-scape to boot - Giles Deacon's Le Smoking is now complete! Email shop@showstudio.com to make further enquiries or to purchase [more]
Rei Kawakubo's Pearls of Wisdom The pearl necklace (no innuendo please) is a bourgeois stalwart - where would chic Parisian matriarchs and dowager duchesses be without them? Hence the staid pearl sautoir is ripe fashion fodder to be twisted by rebel intellectual Rei Kawakubo - so much so, she launched an entire line of Comme... [more]
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