In the world of image making and fashion ‘Nazism’ there are leaders and followers. Nick Knight’s powerhouse site SHOWstudio is to be celebrated at an upcoming show at Somerset House, London for it’s weighty influence and momentum gained over the past 9 years.
The shared experience of cross-pollination amongst creatives in the fashion world [designers, film-makers, fashion photographers etc.] through Knight’s website, and in the form of this circle of collaborative participants, is now focusing on aspiring designers. True to the ethos of transparency and divulged creative process [from start to finish] seven fashion innovators have provided their work as a springboard of inspiration.
For the exercise John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Yojhi Yamamoto, Matin Margiela, Junya Watanabe, Gareth Pugh and Antony Price have each exposed the trade secrets of one choice garment from their masterful collections in a competition to find the next trailblazers in Fashion.
Just two weeks are left to budding fashion designers planning to enter in the SHOWstudio award, London. The gauntlet has been thrown down and for the last two months many a hopeful has been busy behind their sewing machine, stitching their aspirations into being.
All of us are now eagerly awaiting the results of this very public ‘inspiration experiment’. The most successful garment will have the honor of being shown at Somerset House’s exhibit: SHOWstudio:fashion revolution, opening September 18th.
Those in attendance promise to include a panel of fashion experts including Nick Knight, Alistair O’Neill (Senior Lecturer & Senior Research Fellow of Fashion History and Theory at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design) Penny Martin (Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Fashion Imagery at the London College of Fashion) and Claire Catterall (Curator at Somerset). Those privy to the judges conversations are in for a treat. For even more celebrity value also expect Naomi Campbell, Comme des Garcons, Kate Moss and Bjork.
No doubt this will grow something live and kicking.
image at http://www.showstudio.com/project/designdownload/john.galliano