SHOWstudio: Alice Hawkins, Nick Knight, Alister Mackie, Joseph Lally, Daphne Guiness, Jamie Bochert, Piers Atkinson, Katy England and more...

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	Newsletter | 2 November 2011
CURRENT MUSEUM OF COSTUME
Created to accompany the Antwerp Fashion Museum's 2011 exhibition Dreamsuits: Designs by Nudie Cohn, the Rodeo Tailor, photographer and filmmaker Alice Hawkins lends her unique eye to Cohn's equally unique couture creations, capturing their glittering surfaces on fashion film. Drawing outfits from the personal collection of iconic Belgian entertainer Bobbejaan Schoepen and his wife Josée, and featuring Bobbejaan's music as soundtrack, Hawkins' film is inspired by the idea of Cohn's work crossing the line between costume and art. A client and personal friend of Nudie Cohn, Bobbejaan Schoepen's collection of 35 complete stage outfits is the largest in Europe. For Museum of Costume Hawkins brings Schoepen's collection to life on a selection of Nudie Cohn enthusiasts - from Elvis impersonators to musicians, club entrepreneurs and even the photographer herself - immortalising the Rodeo tailor's greatest hits on film. [more]
CURRENT PUNKATURE - PROCESS FILM
The inspiration - not to mention blood, sweat and tears - behind Nick Knight's Punkature story for the Autumn/Winter 2011 issue of AnOther magazine is unraveled in the exclusively launched process film. Alongside footage exclusively filmed on set during the three-day shoot, Nick Knight himself narrates the process and evolution behind the editorial story, which includes Alister Mackie's choice of fashions from Yves Saint Laurent, Prada, Rodarte and Alexander McQueen. [more]
CURRENT EARTH MAGIC
'There was no script. I simply told people I wanted to film my subconscious.' That is director Joseph Lally's summary of his latest film Earth Magic, an art piece exclusively revealed on SHOWstudio and starring a cast of models and actors including Daphne Guinness, Jamie Bochert, Sebastian Sauvé and Erik Sage. Eschewing conventional narrative in favour of striking aesthetics, Earth Magic juxtaposes ideas of covert operations and brainwashing with Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. [more]
COMING UP FASHION MIX
SHOWstudio continues to celebrate the inextricable link between music and fashion by building on its well-established reputation of live performance and inviting fashion's great and good to compile their own 'greatest hits' playlists. Fashion Mix throws down a stylish gauntlet to designers, models, journalists and photographers to select their own favourite tracks to share with the SHOWstudio audience, with a new selection posted onto site twice a week.  The first Fashion Mix - chosen by an iconic British supermodel - Launches on Friday 4 November 2011
FROM THE SHOP CAFÉ, 2011
British milliner Piers Atkinson's Autumn/Winter 2011 collection, entitled Paris, was inspired by the dark Parisian cafés, showgirls, cabaret, and the alluring appeal of the city itself. Made exclusively for the SHOWstudio Shop, Atkinson placed a new spin on the classic beret, adorning the hats with the word 'Café' - rendered in reflective perspex and glowing neon to evoke those ever-iconic images of la cite de lumiere. The collection is a nod to a thirties Paris with seedy back alleys, lovers on park benches at dusk, and drag queens in late night cabarets. Yet the collection also encompasses the heart of the city, one which draws dreamers, poets, artists, and romantics to the light of Parsian clubs, bars, cafes and theatres, to the heat of its vices and the warmth of its conversations. [more]
FROM THE ARCHIVE ONE IN TEN
If breast cancer affects one-in-ten women, why is it invisible in fashion photography? In 2001, Nick Knight and stylist Katy England sought to redress the balance in One In Ten, a shoot starring seven women who have fought breast cancer and won. Captured for Dazed & Confused and featured in the magazine's anniversary exhibition - opening this week at Somerset House - the editorial is here augmented with Alice Rawthorne's interviews with each of the women photographed, and a fashion film created from those and previously unpublished images. [more]
LATEST ENTRIES BLOG
London Press Days The point of a press day is simple - to see people, to press flesh, and of course to flick through the frocks you saw mere weeks ago on the catwalk. The Milanese are quite canny: they've transformed the press day into a 're-see', meaning you flick through those garments hours rather than weeks after the shows. [more]
Amanda Harlech - A sense of the Past Went into the bowels of the Royal Academy on Saturday and discovered the drawing schools - a sense of the past - ghosts - and the very real acts of making that take place there every day. Strange feeling of "coming home". Going to try and sign up for a course. On my way to Rome this morning - overcast heart. When I come back all the leaves will have fallen. [more]
Not a one man show - Pitchfork's Parisian Music Festival Though the moniker’s derived from French, it didn't immediately make much sense that Bon Iver was curating this weekend's Pitchfork Music festival in Paris. [more]
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