SHOWstudio: Walter van Beirendonck, Simon Foxton, Mugler, London Fashion Week, Keith Tyson and more...

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	Newsletter | 15 September 2011
CURRENT DREAM THE WORLD AWAKE
This week sees the launch of Dream The World Awake, Nick Knight and Simon Foxton's explosive Technicolor reimagining of Belgian menswear master Walter van Beirendonck's extensive archive. Coinciding with van Beirendonck's first large-scale retrospective at the Antwerp Fashion Museum - featuring Knight and Foxton's forty-one outfit photographic frieze and fashion film as a centrepiece - and the publication of the latest GQ Style featuring an editorial drawn from the imagery, both the fashion film and photographic can be exclusively viewed online here. Featuring a psychedelic gang of boys, bears and bravehearts stomping toward us against a thumping KrossBow soundtrack, this film and photographic phalanx captures the groundbreaking breadth and depth of van Beirendonck's vision perfectly. [more]
CURRENT LES SMOKINGS - MUGLER
The final instalment in our Les Smokings series - exploring the eternal appeal of the classic tuxedo - Mugler's Nicola Formichetti and Romain Kremer took over our Bruton Place studio to the soaring sounds of Madame Butterfly and hardcore techno to reinvent this sartorial staple for the twenty-first century. In fact, make that twenty-third century - Formichetti and Kremer crafted a hyper-futuristic vision of Le Smoking with lasers, glitter, latex and polythene as the unconventional building-blocks. Our process film showcases all the action from the creative frenzy of cutting, pasting and sliming as the Mugler team create a bombastic depiction of forward-thinking masculinity. [more]
CURRENT THE CAFE
The latest exhibition from SHOWstudio's Shop, The Café: Coffee Culture and Cafe Society in Fine Art, Fashion and Film is an exploration of a space classically the domain of the intellectual, the artist and the eccentric. With pieces from a Flore-worthy list of names including Keith Tyson, Steven Meisel, Diem Chau, Vincent Ramos and Nick Knight, The Café is an aptly pensive and stimulating exploration of society's public cultural forum and its perseverance in the face of an increasingly soulless 'coffee shop' culture. [more]
COMING UP COLLECTIONS: LONDON FASHION WEEK S/S 2012
New York's finest have whirred its way down a hundred or more catwalks (or 'runways' as they call them stateside) with Oscar de la Renta, Proenza Schouler and Rodarte the highlights, and Marc Jacobs' closer still to show in his late (very late) timeslot this evening. With a fashion firmament consistently growing in influence and interest, especially in a live-stream, insta-blog age, our coverage of London Fashion Week S/S 2012 begins this Friday, 16 September as Mary Katrantzou, Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders, Marios Schwab and the behemoth of Burberry Prorsum present their design innovations for Spring/Summer 2012. Fashion Director Alexander Fury and intrepid blogger Ben Evans will cover every corner of the capital to bring you the hottest developments in London's consistently exciting fashion landscape, live from catwalks! SHOWstudio's S/S 2012 London Fashion Week Coverage begins on Friday 16 September 2011 [more]
COMING UP OBJECT FETISH
We've pinned down a half-dozen of fashion's most desirable accessories, garments and general esoteric gewgaws from the year 2011 - immortalised in fashion film, they form the latest installation of our Object Fetish series, metaphorically unpicking the season's objects of obsession through film and text. Expect pieces from Parisian powerhouses, Milanese multinationals, cutting-edge New Yorkers and a few of London's leaders, representing the finest 2011 has to offer fashion-wise in a unique series of film shorts. [more]
COMING UP AGATHE AND SERAPHINE'S HOUSE
In line with the launch of Garage, Dasha Zhukova's art-meets-fashion magazine, this week sees the launch of Agathe and Seraphine's House, a story of twisted enchantment from the minds of Nick Knight and Dinos Chapman. Starring model Lily Donaldson in a demented doll's house courtesy of Gary Card, clad in Francesca Burns' selection of Autumn/Winter 2011's finest, this is a unique fashion reinterpretation of childhood via eighties skin-flick Café Flesh. After the official launch of Garage on Sunday at London's Gagosian Gallery, watch our process films charting this two-day live shoot and the intricate retouching behind the image - and view the final editorial itself. Agathe and Seraphine's House launches on 19 September 2011
COMING UP ANOTHER STREAM
Nick Knight and AnOther Magazine joined forces for 'Punkature', which as the name suggests fuses wilful and reckless fashion rebellion with the unabashed luxury of haute couture. Featuring exceptional Autumn/Winter 2011 fashions from Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Alexander McQueen and Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, our stream showcases every aspect of the process behind this editorial story, shot across three days on the streets of London town itself. Punkature broadcasts 19-21 September 2011
FROM THE SHOP CLOUD CHOREOGRAPHY: TIME TRAVELLING WITH THE CLOUDS, KEITH TYSON, 2011
At first glance Keith Tyson's 'Cloud Choreography: Time Travelling with the Clouds' appears almost encyclopedic, a meticulous rendering of clouds as though from a science journal. But look closer and they reveal themselves as markers of time, they are the particular clouds under which pivotal moments in history, culture and nature took place. A multiplicity of time and perspective is presented and then elevated through the metaphor of the cloud, constantly in flux and with no firm edges, we see first hand the production of myth and meaning. As an extension of this piece, Turner Prize winning Tyson has also collaborated with Maia Norman of innovative fashion house Mother of Pearl to create a stunning clothes line and various cloud-inspired coffee cups and saucers. All these are on view as part of SHOWstudio SHOP's exhibition 'The Cafe', 1-9 Bruton Place, W1J 6LT until 5th November. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE MORE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN
The Spring/Summer 2012 womenswear shows are well under way - and what is fashion about if not making women beautiful? Hence we glance back to More Beautiful Women, Nick Knight's homage to Warhol's screen tests, capturing the greatest models of the twentieth century during a landmark shoot for the Millennium issue of British Vogue. From Jerry Hall and Linda Evangelista to Kate Moss and Angela Lindvall, More Beautiful Women takes the subjects of some of fashion's greatest images and gives them two minutes undirected in front of Knight's camera. Free to behave as they wish - from playing up to playing down to just plain standing still - each video revealing a different insight into the mystery of the mannequin. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
New York Fashion Week: Cocktail hour I wanted to almost kiss Thom Browne after his presentation which was long but well worth the time to see a very elegant bygone soiree play out. His models play the roles of hostess, guests and tableaux characters well whilst showcasing Browne's madcap way with piling on the layers, all struck with his signature tricolore palette and detailing.  [more]
Walter van Beirendonck Dreams the World Awake Today sees the opening of Dream The World Awake, the first retrospective exhibition profiling the career of avant-garde Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck at the Antwerp Fashion Museum - and our self-same titled project showcasing Van Beirendonck's fashion film and photographic collaboration with Nick Knight and Simon Foxton. [more]
New York Fashion Week: Backstage at Preen Backstage at Preen, Make-Up Artist Val Garland blogs live. [more]
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