10 years of Showstudio – The party

Hettie Judah — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:15:07 +0000

We rediscovered 10 years of old Showstudio projects at the opening party of the exhibition at Somerset House on Monday; there were plenty of highpoints, including Alexander McQueen turning a bridegroom into a bride for Transformer and Julie Verhoven’s erotic interactive wallpaper, and we loved the way they managed to keep the audience-participation tone of the website. But the film that held us rooted to the spot was Gareth Pugh’s extraordinary, almost masochistic make-up fest. The quality’s not great and you’d do better playing your own music in the background, but check it out – birthdays will never be the same again:

A selection of Showstudio’s groundbreaking and genre-defining photography and art direction over the years:

Banquet © Nick Knight, 2004

Design_Download: John Galliano © Craig McDean, 2003

Erin O'Connor, Transformer © Nick Knight, 2002

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10 years of Showstudio – The party