A Fashion Revolution is Brewing
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By Abbie
in Culture Features
on December 09, 2009
Ever wanted to see photographer Nick Knight in action? Now's your chance. He's shooting 100 portraits of London's 'Beau Monde' including Alexander McQueen and Nickolas Kirkwood at Somerset House for Fashion Revolution.
It is no secret that the fashion landscape is no longer confined to the 8.5" x 11" borders of the printed page and that the democratic powers of the internet have been pushing the evolution of fashion that much faster–but innovative British photographer Nick Knight made these observations nine years ago when he started SHOWstudio.com.
The website is committed to fashion in motion, which it presents via experimental and interactive short films, interviews and live fashion broadcasts. Nick Knight and his team have produced over 300 projects, collaborating on many with some of the fashion industry's heaviest hitters: Kate Moss, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen, to name a few. For his contributions to the fashion world, Knight has been awarded with a Moët & Chandon Fashion Tribute and a Webby Award for Best Fashion Website.
One of my favorite vignettes from the site is the chimerical Dark Annie, featuring the always beautiful Carmen Kass as a "sinister high fashion harlequin" in this innovative representation of Fall/Winter 2009 trends, created by Nick Night and stylist Panos Yiapinis. Another favorite is from a Live Studio session in which viewers are invited to watch designer Gareth Pugh craft a dress from beginning to end, a part of the design process that is rarely made visible to the public.
This month, the London based arts and culture center Somerset House is holding an exhibition titled "Fashion Revolution" that displays some of SHOWstudio's most successful projects and features a Live Studio Room in which online viewers and patrons of the exhibit will be able to watch Nick Knight photograph 100 portraits of London's 'Beau Monde' over the course of the twenty days that the exhibit will be up. Today's subjects include Nicholas Kirkwood and Alexander McQueen. Not sure you can get much more StyledOn than that!
What's your favorite SHOWstudio project?
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