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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.
London-based Andrew Tomlinson is a set and production designer whose work encompasses fashion, film and photography. During his degree in Technical Arts Design at Wimbledon School of Art, Tomlinson met renowned Set Designer Michael Howells, who went on to mentor and hire him. He worked with Howells for ten years before starting to pursue his own solo projects. Tomlinson has collaborated with photographers including Nick Knight, Paolo Roversi, Annie Leibovitz, Mario Testino, Terry Richardson and Julian Broad. His work regularly features at London Fashion Week, the Port Eliot Festival and in 2010 at the Cannes Film Festival when he created the set for award winning '28 Days Feature Challenge' film ‘The Horror of the Dolls’, directed by Shane Davey.
Anya Ziourova is the Fashion Director at Vogue Hong Kong. She started out as Sittings Fashion Editor for Vogue China and Vogue Japan from 2006 to 2010. Afterwards she moved to Allure Russia and Tatler Russia, where she held the position of Fashion Director and Creative Consultant until 2015. Text from SHOWstudio.
Myles Henrik Hall is a London-based creative, born in New York city in 1999. At the age of 14, Hall starting working under the direction of Matthew Williams, founder of the conceptual fashion brand ALYX. In this role, Hall assisted Williams on personal projects as well as the brand. In 2018, Hall interned at SHOWstudio, soon becoming Junior Film Editor under the managing Head of Fashion Film, Raquel Couceiro. Hall's main motivations are presenting and understanding the nuances of fashion through film.
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.
Raquel Couceiro is Head of Fashion Film at SHOWstudio. Born and raised in Lisbon, Portugal, Couceiro creates and edits films, for brands such as SHOWstduio, Beats, Nike.. Couceiro's work focuses on exploring a breadth of film techniques and combining various fields of multimedia and art in the hope of breaking traditional boundaries and create strong visual languages. Couceiro has previously worked in the broadcast industry in Havana, Bogota and Lisbon before moving to London in 2012.
