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In Architecture & Fashion on October 9, 2010 at 14:53
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i contacted mary katrantzou exactly 2yrs. before, on
8.10.08 thru mail. her graduation collection had
just been picked up by Relative PR+her clothes
were about to be on sale. i started my ‘press request for LOOK mag’ mail
with a formal ‘Dear Sir/Madame’ intro, referring to her in
3rd person+i got a personal reply writing in a ‘Hi,Matina’ mode
+expressing her interest to ‘further introduce her work in greece’.
she sent me a press announcement+i sent her an interview questionnaire
that was never filled. i assume that she had already embarked the ‘recognition roller-coaster’.
i never wrote the piece.
i saw an article on her some months later in Vogue Hellas&
now her name is listed among Margiela+Dior in the Style.com
designers list.
if you search the term ‘trompe l’oeil interiors’ on google, clothes from
her SS2011 collection will appear in pg.15 of the search results.
last year in collette i was feeling the lycra stamped dresses on my left hand.
they were featuring artdeco perfume bottles that re-shaped the female silhouette.
this featured season, is the turn of interiors.
of the woman that enters a futuristic room with references in the past,
she wraps it around her , in a 3dstudiomax new, interactive, material-blending feature
& she hits the road.
A Room
In Architecture & Fashion on October 9, 2010 at 14:48
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as if someone had just shouted:
‘darling, put a room on!’
a blend of tiffany lamps,
laura ashley fabrics,
a swimming pool,
louis XV chairs’ legs or
even a a louis ghost chair of Philippe Starck.
‘She’d been looking at the highly stylized
seventies photography of Helmut Newton
+Guy Bourdin when it occurred to her
that the interiors in the pictures
were just as important as the models’
writes Tim Blanks in his review.
+’i wanted to put the room on the woman,
rather than the woman in the room’
replies Mary after the show.
old issues of Architectural Digest + World of Interiors,
were high on her list of inspiration.
+she eventually, managed to combine two
practices that follow parallel roads but rarely, intersect.
clothing+architecture in the ‘strawberry fields’ of fashion.
Chalayan has tried it before,
Margiela, Kawakubo+Miyake also,
but noone had committed, really.
different interpretations+diverse vocabularies
but with her Spring Summer 2011 collection,
one may travel back to the Pre-Raphaelites artists,
that painted women+interiors with the same textures,
colours+materials.
As one single piece.
On
In Architecture & Fashion on October 9, 2010 at 14:43
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Term Definition:
_ A Tiffany lamp
is a type of lamp with many different types of glass shade.
Tiffany lamps are considered part of the Art Nouveau movement.
The first Tiffany lamp was created around 1895.
Its designer was not, as had been thought for over 100 years,
Louis Comfort Tiffany,
but a previously unrecognized artist
named Clara Driscoll was identified in 2007
by Rutgers professor Martin Eidelberg
as being the master designer behind the most creative and valuable l
eaded glass lamps produced by Tiffany Studios.
[wikipedia.com]
_ Mary Katrantzou
Mary Katrantzou is a Greek-born fashion designer based in London.
She has worked with Sophia Kokosalaki and studied at the Rhode Island School of design
before transferring to Central Saint Martins to complete a BA in Textile Design.
Armed with a distinction in MA Fashion,
Katrantzou opened the Central Saint Martin’s A/W 2008 Show
with a collection that featured trompe l’oeil digital prints of oversized jewellery
on bonded jersey dresses inspired by Constructivism and early ’70s references.
The samples were later sold to Bill Blass.
[showstudio.com]
* All Mary Katranztou pix, from style.com *
Rent
In Architecture & Fashion on October 8, 2010 at 20:09
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if you have never seen the tour eiffel before,
the best first viewing spot is the terrace
of the Elle Decoration Suite, in the penthouse of
Cite de l’Architecture et Patrimoine.
first from the fractured reflections of its
peak, in the mirrors on the floor+then, from the
end of the building, where the windows end+
oh.la la!
this year was the turn of Jean-Paul Gaultier
to fill the place with his fashion aura.
Navy, Nature & Transparency
were the 3main elements of this
spatial sewing with fabrics.
Jean-Paul came after Lacroix+Margiela,
& one is only to wait the fourth surname
to fill the carre.
Suite
In Architecture & Fashion on October 8, 2010 at 19:50
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on a sunny wednesday morning the entrance
to the public was prohibited as the parisien
creme-de-la-creme was about to launch its heels
in the place, the same night.
but the security guard, was a darling one to conveince.
he kept watching us shooting pictures+as if he
was counting, after plenty of dozens he whistled the
end of the ‘click’ game. in a picture for the
press kit of the exhibition, Jean-Paul appears wearing his
characteristic navy blouse.
+as he sits on the navy sofa, he is naturally embedded to
his own work of art.
leaving a piece of himself, behind.
Feeling
In Architecture & Fashion on August 28, 2010 at 12:47
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