SHOWstudio: Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci, Alexander McQueen, Raquel Zimmermann, Suzy Menkes, Stephen Jones, Mary Katrantzou, Lady Gaga, Nick Knight, Ruth Hogben and more

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	Newsletter | 13 October 2011
CURRENT OBJECT FETISH 2011
Examining key pieces from the international collections for 2011, Object Fetish trains obsessive attention onto fashion's latest not-so-obscure objects of desire. Metaphorically unpicking a key piece from a key collection, the latest instalment focuses on Riccardo Tisci's Autumn/Winter 2011 collection for Givenchy - namely on the pin-up emblazoned satin and velvet sweatshirts that were the leitmotif of Tisci's sports-couture chic. The second instalment of our object analysis series showcases this fashion objet d'art through text by SHOWstudio Fashion Director Alexander Fury and a fashion film created by Nick Knight, with Raquel Zimmermann modelling in the luxurious confines of Selfridges department store set to an specially-created soundtrack by Frederic Sanchez. [more]
CURRENT CAFE CONVERSATIONS
As part of the SHOWstudio Shop exhibition The Café, over Autumn 2011 Café Conversations invites a selection of the most intriguing, exciting and influential movers-and-shakers in the fashion and art world to pull up a chair for coffee and conversation. The unusual aspect? The entire process is streamed live to a worldwide audience in the living online and offline art installation. Filmed just yesterday morning, our latest Café Conversation between celebrated milliner Stephen Jones and leading London fashion designer Mary Katrantzou is now live on-site, with more to come very soon. [more]
CURRENT IN FASHION, SUZY MENKES
Just before the Spring/Summer 2012 round of international collections kicked off in September, the International Herald Tribune's celebrated Fashion Editor Suzy Menkes joined SHOWstudio Fashion Director Alexander Fury as the latest subject of our In Fashion series. One of fashion's most influential journalists and a widely-respected authority on the industry Menkes shares her experiences of a life spent at fashion's forefront in this rare film portrait. A unique insight into one of the industry's most agile and inquisitive minds. [more]
CURRENT MONSTER BALL
As part of her Monster Ball world tour in 2009, Lady Gaga asked Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben to create a number of films to use as part of her on-stage performance and as interludes in the epic show. Building film into the architectonic feeling of the Monster Ball tour, these films explore notions of fame, iconicism and life in an evolving metropolis, unveiled each night on stage during Gaga's truly monster 201-date tour.  The first four Monster Ball films are now live on site - stay tuned to SHOWstudio for the next instalment, as more films from Lady Gaga's Monster Ball will be released very soon. [more]
FROM THE SHOP MENU, 2009
Menu, an artistic portrayal of poured coffee on paper, depicts a captured memory of sight through the representation of a café menu. Stephen Lapthisophon, a practising artist who is legally blind, uses his work to over-emphasise the sense of sight in aesthetic culture. By accumulating and collecting layers of meaning and associations, Lapthisophon provides a visualisation of his personal interpretations. His blindness is used as figure for the ways in which we see the world through our own specific framing mechanisms. Combining coffee with more traditional art mediums such as ink and gesso, the artist is able to examine the interaction of our internal sensory processes. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE BELLWETHER
To celebrate Alexander McQueen receiving the CBE award in 2003, the visionary designer himself illustrated a selection of showstoppers from his 2003 collections in a fashion film that documented the formidable technique at their core. An essay by Susannah Frankel and a film gallery charting the highlights of McQueen's spectacular presentations showcase the creative magic of McQueen's true genius. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
Acne Studios launch the Capsule Collection in collaboration with Daniel Silver London-based contemporary artist Daniel Silver, known for his sculptural work launched a fashion line in collaboration with Acne Studios. The collaboration between the artist with the Swedish fashion collective was developed whilst doing a shoot in Daniel's studio for Acne Paper. [more]
Lily Donaldson - Happy Survival This is one of my favorite songs. It's Nigerian and it's beautiful. [more]
Elevenses with Stephen Jones and Mary Katrantzou Master milliner Stephen Jones and leading London designer Mary Katrantzou are the duo in discussion as part of our latest Café Conversation, set to kick off at 11:00 BST today. [more]
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