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Nick Knight
Nick Knight is among the world’s most influential and visionary photographers, and founder and director of award-winning fashion website SHOWstudio.com. As a fashion photographer, he has consistently challenged conventional notions of beauty and is fêted for his groundbreaking creative collaborations with leading designers including Yohji Yamamoto, John Galliano, Alexander McQueen. Advertising campaigns for the most prestigious clients such as Christian Dior, Lancôme, Swarovski, Tom Ford, Calvin Klein or Yves Saint Laurent as well as award-winning editorial for W, British Vogue, Paris Vogue, Dazed & Confused, Another, Another Man and i-D magazines have consistently kept Knight at the vanguard of progressive image-making for the past three decades. He has directed award winning music videos for Bjork, Lady Gaga and Kanye West. His first book of photographs, Skinheads, was published in 1982, winning a DandAD award in 1996. He has since produced Nicknight, a twelve year retrospective, and Flora, a series of flower pictures, both published by Schirmer Mosel. His latest book entitled Nick Knight was published by Harper Collins in 2009 .His work has been exhibited at such international art institutions as the Tate Modern, Victoria & Albert Museum, Saatchi Gallery, the Photographers' Gallery, Hayward Gallery and the Gagosian Gallery. In 1993, he also produced a permanent installation, Plant Power, for the Natural History Museum in London. A long-standing commitment to experimenting with the latest technologies led to Knight launching his fashion website SHOWstudio in 2000, with an aim, in Knight's own words, of 'showing the entire creative process from conception to completion.' SHOWstudio has pioneered fashion film and is now recognised as the leading force behind this new medium, offering a unique platform to nurture and encourage fashion to engage with moving image in the digital age. Since its inception, SHOWstudio has worked with the world’s most sought-after filmmakers, writers and influential cultural figures to create visionary online content, exploring every facet of fashion through moving image, illustration, photography and the written word. Knight lives with his wife and three children in London. He was awarded the OBE in 2010 for his services to the arts. He is an honorary professor of the University of the Arts London and was awarded an honorary PHD by the same university.
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Join Gigi Hadid on Her Interstellar Haute Couture Voyage with Fei Fei Sun
A never-before-seen fashion film of Gigi Hadid and Fei Fei Sun, captured by Nick Knight in 2019. Both models are caught as if somewhere between outer space and the beaming lights of a city skyline, feeling future-driven and timeless simultaneously, and wearing Chanel couture from the last collection created by the late Karl Lagerfeld, as well as from Armani Privé, Iris van Herpen, Christian Dior, Maison Margiela, Givenchy and Valentino.
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Maison Margiela Artisanal Co-Ed Collection Autumn-Winter 2020 | Instalment 1
Maison Margiela presents the first instalment of its Artisanal Co-ed Collection for Autumn-Winter 2020. Showcased as moving imagery over four ascending stages.
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Disrupt, distort, disguise
Named after Zanaughtti's instagram moniker, '@uglyworldwide' sees Zanaughtti distort, enhance and experiment with her physical appearance in a series of ten high-octane looks. Accessorising herself with fake bugs, helmets, tennis balls and anything she happens upon, Zanaughtti walks through the streets of central London, shocking – or amazing – those she passes. Music: Black Motorcycle by Fotomachine Music Supervision: Dean Bryce for Don’t Sleep
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Duran Lantink's designs are transformed in this splicing, slicing fashion film - Cut 'n' Shut
Nick Knight captures Dutch designer Duran Lantink’s reconstructed clothing in this innovative fashion film! In a response to overconsumption, Lantink approaches fashion with a mend and make-do attitude, splicing together deadstock or what would be discarded garments to create exciting, new designs.
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Supermodel Adwoa Aboah in Full Bloom
Adwoa Aboah blossoms in the likes of Alexander McQueen, Vivienne Westwood and Marc Jacobs in an ode to the grit and glamour of the metropolis in this fashion film. A figurehead of contemporary London modelling, Aboah was captured by Nick Knight for Vogue Hong Kong’s November 2019 cover story. Soundtrack from Camden musician Bakar, this film embodies the attitude of the city.
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OF GRACE AND LIGHT
For Valentino Haute Couture Fall Winter 20, Pierpaolo Piccioli brings the human and digital worlds together in collaboration with Nick Knight, featuring music by FKA Twigs at Cinecittà Studios in Rome.
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S.W.A.L.K. | Maison Margiela Artisanal Co-Ed Collection Autumn-Winter 2020
Maison Margiela presents the Artisanal Co-Ed Collection for Autumn-Winter 2020. Creative director John Galliano detects a desire for transparency: a new consciousness clarified by the illumination of the creative process and the human values it represents. Through the format of film, the Artisanal practice is captured by image-maker Nick Knight. Content Editor: Calum Knight
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Kendall for the TB Summer Monogram campaign
A journey from reality to fantasy, the CGI Burberry campaign blends real-life capture with a digital reverie inspired by geometric skateparks and swimming pools.
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Nick Knight on designing Kanye West’s YZY SPLY website
'Working with someone who knows exactly what they want is refreshing', explains image-maker Nick Knight in a documentary revealing the creative process behind creating Kanye West’s Yeezy Supply website. Worked on tirelessly by Knight and various members of the SHOWstudio team, the project began to materialise when Knight directed the music video for BLKKK SKKKNHEAD in 2013. Here, SHOWstudio’s director explains how over the years West’s artistic output has changed. In turn, the website, which began as one dictated by a 'non-artistic approach' characterised by a low-fi aesthetic partly inspired by highly functional medical supply shopping sites, became somewhat more poetic. It is a website with no words, an intimate experience which features real people the user can try clothes on and learn more about. 'There's been over 10,000 hours of work and at least twice that many images, considered and made, to give what I believe is a beautifully simple website' Nick Knight.
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Grace Elizabeth and Anok Yai dance a couture duet for Vogue Japan
Nick Knight showcases Grace Elizabeth and Anok Yai dancing a couture duet as they swirl and giggle in this ethereal fashion film for Vogue Japan’s January 2020 issue. Dressed in frou-frou feathered and structured couture, material and model float and twirl to become one.