At the intersection of desire and curiosity our gallery was born from a conviction that fashion illustration is not an afterword to fashion. This belief mirrors the ethos of SHOWstudio’s Shop Gallery, established by Nick Knight - one of the most visionary image makers of our time - who long insisted that illustration communicates the unexplainable.

Nick Knight’s work and by extension SHOWstudio’s DNA, sprang from a radical willingness to rethink how fashion is seen, narrated, and felt. His experiments with live content, film, digital innovation, and interpretive visual languages expanded the ways we conceive fashion beyond the runway.

Fashion illustration holds a similar promise. Once sidelined by the rise of photography in the 20th century, the illustrated perspective has gone to the backend of contemporary appreciation. Despite it being capable of expressing the invisible logic embedded within the conception of good fashion. It is a way of knowing, interpreting, and feeling. 

Our gallery champions this language coded in every line made by its illustrator, in its venture for truth-seeking and fantasy. Shop positions fashion and its illustrations as an art of conceptualisation as much as image.

We seek to Elevate illustration as a critical, independent artistic practice in fashion culture.

- Shop Gallery