Featuring live fashion shoots with leading photographers, new short films, experimental projects and video castings where members of the public can model themselves, Fashion Revolution, conceived by leading photographer Nick Knight, is Somerset House’s first major fashion exhibition.
Still from Portent © Nick Knight and Ruth Hogben, 2009Launched on 17 September at Somerset House to coincide with London Fashion Week, SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution is the first in a series of exhibitions produced by Somerset House to focus on the subject of fashion. This exhibition is the brainchild of Nick Knight, considered as one of the world’s most influential fashion photographer and director of SHOWstudio.com, the award-winning fashion website he launched in 2000.
Knight’s advertising campaigns have included clients such as Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Lancôme, as well as award-winning photography for Vogue, Dazed & Confused and i-D magazines. His work has been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Saatchi Gallery. Not to be missed is the live photographic studio located within the exhibition space, hosting regular shoots with Nick Knight and other leading fashion photographers, laying bare the process of image-making.
Some of the London’s “beau monde” photographed so far have included Vivienne Westwood, Boy George, La Roux, Naomi Campbell, Russell Brand and Pink, while the live shoots planned between 15th and 20th of December will feature models Kate Moss, Daisy Lowe, Alice Dellal, Yasmin Le Bon, Georgia Jagger, Alec Wek and designers Paul Smith and Hussein Chalayan amongst many others. For a complete list of the live fashion shoots: http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/fashion/showstudio/1067.asp
SHOWstudio: Fashion Revolution, Embankment Galleries, Somerset House, The Strand, WC2 (Temple, Embankment, Charing Cross). Open daily 10am-6pm (£5)
From above left, clockwise: Gareth Pugh, 2008 © Nick Knight 2008; Tramps, Past, Present & Couture-Christian Dior, Couture Fall/Winter 2001-02 © Nick Knight 2001; Natalia V © Nick Knight for Russian Vogue, 2008; Design-Download: John Galliano © Craig McDean, 2003
