SHOWstudio: Haute Couture, Lady Gaga, Lady Amanda Harlech and more...

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	Newsletter | 6 July 2011
CURRENT COLLECTIONS: HAUTE COUTURE AUTUMN/WINTER 2011
aaa Formula One fashion. That's haute couture all over, and for the first time since 2007 SHOWstudio.com are in Paris documenting the action from the Haute Couture Collections for A/W 2011. With geisha girls at Armani Privé, angels at Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, and a neon Coco-topped Place Vendôme at Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld (never mind the stellar collection he showed around it), the haute couture is fashion fantasy at its finest - and our coverage continues with collections from Valentino, Elie Saab, Jean Paul Gaultier and Azzedine Alaïa's first show since 2003. Watch the SHOWstudio.com BLOG and Collections for live updates from the Paris Haute Couture Collections [more]
CURRENT SMOKE & MIRRORS BORN THIS WAY - REMIX
Following the release of Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way, SHOWstudio.com offered a unique mosaic 'Remix' of the original cover art photographed by Nick Knight. Divided into a 30-part puzzle, each piece released over May and June, we invited fans to download the A4 pieces to form a monolithic homage to the Mother Monster herself. We've had great submissions pouring in from Gaga's global fanbase showcasing their reinterpretation of our remix - but we want to see yours! Email us photographs of your posters to have it showcased in our online 'Remix' gallery. The best will also win a Born This Way twelve-inch signed by Nick Knight. The full Smoke & Mirrors Born This Way - Remix of Lady Gaga's album artwork is available to download now! [more]
COMING UP IN FASHION, AMANDA HARLECH - LIVE
Former fashion editor of Harper's & Queen (as it was then), right-hand woman of John Galliano for a decade, and now Karl Lagerfeld's aristocratic English touchstone at the house of Chanel, the iconic Lady Amanda Harlech is the latest industry insider to be interviewed as part of our in-depth In Fashion series. Harlech will be interviewed live on Monday 11 July 2011, discussing her life in fashion and her closer-than-close work with two of the most influential and creatively-prolific designers of our time.
FROM THE SHOP FOR INSURANCE PURPOSES ONLY, 2000
Distinguished British photographer and printer Brian Dowling painstakingly documents the damage from a house fire at his mother’s flat in his series For Insurance Purposes Only. With the entire series shown in our current exhibition, Dowling captures the darkened corners of a ravaged flat to reveal life and beauty amidst the sheer destruction. Bright flowers burst life from blackened tabletops, fallen ash smothers walls and furniture, while a calendar hangs on the wall resiliently. As seen together in Practice to Deceive: Smoke and Mirrors in Fashion, Fine Art and Film, these heartbreaking photographs demonstrate a strength and grace of the human condition in an unparalleled way. [more]
FROM THE SHOP MOURNING, 2010
Best known for her long-term collaboration with Karl Lagerfeld, Lady Amanda Harlech wears many hats (yes literally, but also figuratively).  She has made her name as a fashion icon, muse, and now also as an artist. As seen in her sculpture Mourning – a piece made exclusively for the SHOWstudio Shop’s Black/White exhibition – a drawer filled with the black and white traces of a broken heart become a grave memorial to love and life.  Bursting with ephemera like a hat from Galliano’s ’88 collection, velvet ribbon, photographs from another era, and hand painted white flowers, the simple drawer and the sharp contrast of these varied objects become a landscape full of new consequence. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE GIVENCHY COUTURE
As SHOWstudio.com Fashion Director Alex Fury takes in fashion's latest and greatest masterpieces at the haute couture shows in Paris, the time seems right to reflect on the work of one of the art's greatest masters. Enjoying a passionate if turbulent relationship with haute couture in an official sense, Alexander McQueen's oeuvre at Givenchy Couture remains among the most potent of his legacy. Dovetailing neatly into our ongoing Les Smokings project, 'Givenchy Couture' is one of SHOWstudio's earliest projects, featuring a film documenting a couple tuxedo-ed in the most luxurious fashion, from McQueen's penultimate haute couture collection for the house for A/W 2000. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Haute Couture A/W 2011: Good Girls at Givenchy, Geisha Girls at Armani, and Coco Forever at Chanel As a couture newbie, the question I've been asked most at the shows over the past day is 'Oh! Isn't it different?' The answer is yes, and no. The people watching the shows are different for sure - the ranks of store buyers missing, and polished matriarchs dotted about the [more]
Haute Couture A/W 2011: Haute Of Fashion Haute couture is dead. Haute couture is dying. Haute couture is booming. Haute couture is irrelevant. Whatever haute couture is, it certainly isn't boring. And today, the four-day, three-ring circus that is the Parisian haute couture shows begins for Autumn/Winter 2011. [more]
Daphne Guinness and Shaun Leane Against The World! 'Wearing' your jewels isn't exactly a new idea: I'm not going to trace it back to its origins, but it's somewhere between Ancient Mesopotamia and the first hieroglyphics in Egypt. However, its latest incarnation is something else entirely, courtesy of a unique collaboration between Daphne Guinness and Shaun Leane. Titled [more]
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