Saturday, 7 March 2015

Film Director/Photographer: Nick Knight

Nick Knight, Director of SHOWstudio.com, is among the world’s most influential and visionary photographers. 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, Levi Strauss, 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. His first book of photographs, Skinheads, was published in 1982. He has since produced Nicknight, a twelve year retrospective, and Flora, a series of flower pictures, both published by Schirmer Mosel. Knight's work has been exhibited at international institutions such as the Victoria & Albert Museum, Saatchi Gallery, The Photographers Gallery and Hayward Gallery. He has also produced a permanent installation, Plant Power, for the Natural History Museum in London and was the first of Channel 4's 'Big 4' 50-foot installations outside its London HQ in 2007. A long-standing commitment to experimenting with the latest technologies led to Knight launching his award-winning fashion website SHOWstudio in 2000.


Published on 18 Dec 2014
http://showstudio.com/project/jadore

 Jerry Springer, beauty queens, a '57 Cadillac, 'Gummo', Angela Lindvall and lots of spray paint. Put them in a blender and what did you get? This fashion film by Nick Knight, showcasing imagery of and around John Galliano's polarising, so-bad-it's-rad Spring/Summer 2001 'Trailer Trash' collection for Christan Dior. J'adore...


Uploaded on 13 Sep 2011
Global Hypercolor: Watch Nick Knight's fashion film featuring Simon Foxton's decade-defying selection from Walter Van Beirendonck's archive. I absolutely love this film! The strutting and dance moves work flawlessly with the music, showing Knights true genius in shooting and editing. The film brings the garments to life, your attention never strays from them.

Direction: Nick Knight
Art Direction: Matt Williams
Edit: Marie Schuller
Music: 'Dito' by Krossbow


Published on 20 Feb 2013
Inspired by her work with Reptile Youth, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie selected rising artistic talent - and SHOWstudio discovery - Rei Nadal to direct the video for the band's latest release. Inspired by the pointed lyrics of '2013', the full nine minute video unpicks themes of dissent, unrest and anger using the signature dark yet romantic visuals that Nadal promoted on her Tumblr.

http://showstudio.com/project/2013


Uploaded on 3 Aug 2010
Captured on set during the cover and editorial shoot for the September issue of Vanity Fair, this is Nick Knight's latest fashion film for SHOWstudio.com starring the incomparable Lady Gaga in an array of custom-crafted couture from fashion's finest, including a rather incredible transparent plastic Armani Privé ensemble - a make-believe fantasy frothing with very real smoke.

Nick Knight and Lady Gaga's full editorial is featured in the latest issue of Vanity Fair, released 4 August 2010

Credits:
Film by Nick Knight
Edited by Ruth Hogben
Music by Lukid
A SHOWstudio.com film


I just absolutely love Knights work and it inspires me in so many ways in consideration to my own creative practice. His work totally embodies the intended atmosphere/feeling of the garments or designer etc. This is a key aspect of working as an illustrator; conveying to the audience the message the brief wants to present, and illustrate it through a creative medium.
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