Supermodel Lily Donaldson channels seedy amateur erotic footage in an amusing film inspired by animal fetish group the 'Furries', part of the Fashion Fetish film series on SHOWstudio.
Phoebe English A/W 2012
Captured under a hazy light and submerged in water, Phoebe English presents her Autumn/Winter 2012 collection in a new short film directed by Marie Kristiansen. Playing with English's signature fusion of natural and synthetic surfaces, the piece seeks to examine the theatrical and kinetic possibilities of her sculptural creations.
Love Is A State of Mind by Luci Schroder
Alongside the 2012 SHOWstudio Shop exhibition 'Selling Sex', SHOWstudio launches 'Fashion Fetish,' a series of fashion films, performances, multi-media pieces and accompanying essays by women in fashion - including Ruth Hogben, Daphne Guinness, Liberty Ross, Aimee Mullins, Asia Argento and Dasha Zhukova - that comment on the contentious and provocative fusion of fashion with fetish. SHOWstudio's newest installment is a film by Luci Schroder called Love Is A State of Mind.
Dollywood
As part of SHOWstudio's Fashion Fetish film season, Liberty Ross collaborates with photographer Polly Borland to create Dollywood, a subversively sinister view of eroticism. Liberty explains, 'I wanted to make a film that blurred the line of primitive sexual fetishism with naive and childlike play. To me the act of dressing up, tying up and fetishism has its primal urges in childhood.' Inspired by Borland's current artwork, the provocative work tackles the taboos surrounding fetish, questioning the extent to which sexual acts have their basic roots in youthful urges.