SHOW stop(!)-her...

celebrate!-ing a 9 years on the net... SHOWstudio is a living, breathing space where fashion designers, artists, photographers, and stylists interact with the public. Brain child of prolific UK photographer extra-ordinaire, Nick Knight, SHOWstudio sees to redefine the world of design & fashion.

Autumn 2009, saw the exhibition at Somerset House in London where the public was able to go behind-the-scenes and experience live photo shoots as a part of the exhibition. You can submit a video on SHOWstudio that may be chosen for the next Lady Gaga video...watch a visio-bio on designer Rick Owens...or download patterns from John Galliano, Alexander McQueen...etc. as a part of the project archives. The Galliano & McQueen patterns are wicked fierce...

You could spend hours just looking through the archives or the blog curated by the top UK stylists...or if you are awaiting spring, buy the bunny ears Lanvin's creative genius Alber Elbaz wore for the New Yorker magazine photo shoot...

“SHOWstudio is based on the belief that showing the entire creative process—from conception to completion—is beneficial for the artist, the audience and the art itself.”

Nick Knight

PHOTO CREDITS: All SHOWstudio.

playing dress up...

in the spirit of spring...(above) is a photo of designer Alber Elbaz of Lanvin which I love...this photo reflects his gentle inventiveness. (below) is a quote from Pamela Love, whose designs I also HEART very much. (Just got her bear ring & I wear it everday as a talisman...) 

"Francesco Clemente once said to me fashion is the quest for perfection and style is the acceptance of one’s flaws. I completely agree with this. I love style. I love seeing the way different people dress, how they put things together, how they deviate from the current trends, what they are referencing, and what this says about them and who they are. Style is a way of communication. Fashion has much more to do with money, retail and commercialism. You can buy fashion. You can’t buy style. It’s just something that is part of you. A girl can have style wearing a sweater she found in her mother’s closet and her boyfriend’s hat. It’s all about how you wear it and how you feel in what you wear." -- Pamela Love - NYC.

And, on the other side of the Atlantic...

just a little peek...at Pebbles London -- where stylists and well-known fashion designers go to get inspired and bring home exotic baubbles to mix and match with their collections. inspiring & fun...

The latest from Colette...wish I'd picked up The Selby's Paris exhibition book before it sold out...Colette always has something new and these helmets and shirt have me dreaming of zipping around on a moto or at least a moped this summer... :P

ALL PHOTOS: 

Lanvin

Pebbles London

Colettte

inspiration

inspiration...Coco Chanel once said, "La mode se demode, mais le style, jamais..." I've wanted to do this blog for a long time, because she was right. Fashion goes out of fashion but true style lasts forever. Style is something you have even if you can't afford those thousand dollar Gucci shoes. Style is expression and grace and beauty and personality all rolled up into one...it's that indescribable it factor that makes someone, something, or some place unique.

i've worked in magazines as a stylist and editor, am a published writer, and have also worked in advertising and brand design....yet at the heart of it i think i am some kind of visual stylist, finding that i can't fall asleep without visions of sugar plums...inspiration running randomly through my head..so i had to capture it and leave it all somewhere..like a butterfly that is free but needs a place to rest. so here is my nest, my little bursting cocoon stuffed and filled with goodies and delights i hope you enjoy as much as i do....smile, relax, and be inspired to set sails in your own life. we connect the dots sometimes through inspiration so run off after reading this blog to be a style nomad and fill your life with beauty. for life truly is BEAUTY full.

Tim Walker (above) is an amazing fashion photographer. He creates whimsical visual landscapes with humor and wit...stunning juxtapositions of opposites and objects in impossible placements ...as if you've fallen through the rabbitt hole. Much has been written about Walker and his Alice-in-Wonderland, beautiful, other-worldly photographs but he's one of my favorite photographers so I wanted to start off this blog by writing about him. Walker's most recent exhibit was at the Design Museum in London this past Fall. Their online shop still has his prints, exhibition books, and 2009 calendars available. --- STYLE NOMAD 12/23/08

PHOTO CREDITS: All photos by Tim Walker.