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The finest Spring/Summer 2011 fashions at your fingertips - manicurist extraordinaire Marian Newman worked with Nick Knight and SHOWstudio fashion director Alexander Fury to interpret the best of the international collections in a unique series of nail creations.
Inspired by the keynote themes of collections by Giles Deacon for Emanuel Ungaro, John Galliano, Mary Katrantzou, Richard Nicoll, Rodarte, Prada and Versace and utilising a diverse range of materials, Newman created a series of sometimes outré, often outrageous and always utterly one-off manicures.
Showing off the 'mani-couture' nails in the attitudes and affectations of fashion's favourite dirty little habit, smoking, Nick Knight's arresting fashion film undermines the lingering misconception of smoking as an elegant underline to a fashionable silhouette. As a harsh - even brutal - counter to the faultless chic of Newman's manicures, the films themselves are embedded in imagery of downtrodden cigarette packets, health warnings intact.
