This month Nick Knight and his team at SHOWstudio shot Dynamic Blooms, a photography series that captures the movement and color of some of this season’s hottest gowns by portraying them as blossoming flowers. Knight and his collaborator Alistor Mackie filmed the shoots as well as photographing them, and SHOWstudio has edited the film down to their seven favorite video sequences. Video #4 compiles moments from the shots of two Fall 2010 Dior Haute Couture gowns.
In interviews about the Dior Haute Couture collection, John Galliano cited Nick Knight’s flower photography as one of his chief inspirations. Galliano’s collection, in turn, inspired Knight to create Dynamic Blooms. Knight has often photographed women as flowers before: the two shots below are from two different V Magazine spreads in Spring 2007 and 2008.
But Galliano’s interpretation of Knight’s flowers has encouraged Knight to a new level of abstraction in his art–he is now creating photographic flowers from models wearing couture interpretations of his photographs of actual flowers. Not only are the women portrayed as flowers, but the clothes they wear are brought to life as billowing versions of the blooms that inspired them. The resultant images, which appear in the videos after the footage of the shoots themselves, also focus more on the clothes themselves than on the models who wear them, unlike his previous women-as-flowers photographs, therefore keeping Knight’s flower work fresh.
Image from Knight's 2001 book Flora
The remaining Dynamic Bloom videos capture the shoots of Lanvin, Versace, Valentino, Bottega Veneta, Jill Sander, Haider Ackermann and Chloe gowns and can be seen here.
Photos via Fash-Essentric and The Independent.
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