BARBIE BLOG: Leaving day tea and cake with the SHOWstudio team
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The latest installment of video portraits are now live on site, showcasing a slice of action from Nick Knight's seminal 'Then Now Next' shoot for the 30th anniversary issue of i-D.
Our sitters this week comprise Connie Grossman, Daphne Selfe, Dylan Jones, Jason Evans, Nasir... [more]
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It seems what we British prudish call our 'private parts' are something of a Fashion Body film theme of the week - our second outing comes from self-dubbed 'Body Architect' Lucy McRae, focussing on the female genitalia. McRae collaborated Champagne Valentine to create this film, and... [more]
We already live in a world where, thankfully, those who were born the wrong gender can be re-aligned; but imagine the bringing together of plastic surgery to allow, one day, people to change into someone completely different.
Elliott James Sainsbury's contribution to our Fashion Body essay series... [more]
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Vivienne Westwood once stated 'Fashion is about eventually being naked', a pithy underline of the sexual connotations behind the way adorn our body through clothing. Therefore what would our Fashion Body be without genitalia (our our case, both sets). In our first Fashion Body film of... [more]
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Following his stellar stint as our roving backstage blogger during the S/S 2011 collections, Sam McKnight is the latest addition to our In Fashion series, interviewed by the esteemed face (and voice) of style.com, Tim Blanks. Captured earlier this summer at SHOWstudio.com's Bruton Place HQ, McKnight speaks about his stellar... [more]
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Coming as it does at the end of the international round of collections, the Frieze art fair earlier this month felt like the perfect time to launch the latest collection from Mother of Pearl, the clothing collection designed by Damien Hirst's wife Maia Norman - and not just for that... [more]
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Dr. Fredric Brandt is arguably more qualified than anyone to contribute to our Fashion Body - dubbed 'the Baron of Botox', he is world-renown for his pioneering non-surgical cosmetic treatments. It felt fitting for us to surrender the the forehead of our fashion film body to... [more]
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'I design for anyone who's daring enough to wear my clothes', says Craig Lawrence, one of London's brightest new designers. Lawrence has become something of a young prodigy, having been awarded the British Fashion Council's NEWGEN award four seasons running and whose college years at Central Saint Martins were spent... [more]
Following an explosive shoot, featuring yet another ground-breaking collaboration between visionary photographer Nick Knight and provocative stylist Nicola Formichetti, the latest cover of Arena Homme + has been revealed. Featuring dancer Benjamin Warbis as glossy overbuy, the shoot was a playground to a dazzling array of larger-than-life personalities in a variety... [more]
I always smile wryly when I hear a midwestern drawl dragging the Italian fashion capital's vowels out from Milan to 'Mil-yawn'. How apt for our third stop in the fashion month, where creativity traditionally plays second-fiddle to commerce, and has recently been relegated to third behind that other dirty c-word... [more]
After Zeus, Socrates, Jesus, Leonardo da Vinci, and a herd of musicians in the seventies, the bushy face is back in fashion.
In the latest addition to our Fashion Body essay series, journalist Margo Fortuny examines the resurgence of the beard in men's fashion. A seasonal flirtation... [more]
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With over one hundred unique films already online from Nick Knight's landmark 30th anniversary shoot for i-D magazine, the time feels ripe to stop and reflect on one of the issue's trio of stelar cover stars. The truly iconic British Supermodel Naomi Campbell is the... [more]
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Brian Kirkby and Zowie Broach, the design team behind agit-prop London label Boudicca told us they went through many different conceptual treatments for this video, examining the rich cultural ramifications of the left ribs (after all, the very source of man according to the Bible). The... [more]
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We're back on home turf for the latest addition to our Collections, with a round-up of the London womenswear shows. From a jam-packed spring schedule of shows and presentations, our Fashion Director Alexander Fury selects his pick of the shows, including stellar offerings from Mary Katrantzou, Richard Nicoll, newcomer Michael... [more]
Clothing has always had such an effect on me because of its power to transform not just how I look, but how I feel.
Today's Fashion Boyd essay comes from editor, journalist and our own New York-based Contributing Fashion Writer Indigo Clarke, offering a resolutely personal... [more]
Over the next four days, SHOWstudio.com Fashion Director Alexander Fury will post his thoughts on the latest round of collections for S/S 2011 from the international fashion capitals. First on the agenda is New York, with highlights from the likes of Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler and a stand-out offering from... [more]
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The latest contribution to our Fashion Body comes from model Lily Cole, reflecting her passion for the environment and issues of ethical fashion. Appropriately enough just after Wool Week, Cole draws an allusion between the tagged ears of livestock and our earring-laden lobes in her film... [more]
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