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Athens Fashion Week – Vassilis Zoulias

constructive |kənˈstrəktiv|

Mary Katrantzou (Μαίρη Κατράντζου) + Kazimir Malevich (Казимир Северинович Малевич)adjective

 

The latter (1878 – 1935) was the pioneer of geometric abstract art

& the originator of the Avant – garde Suprematist movement.

The first (1980 – ) is a Greek born designer,

recently graduated from St. Martins Fashion college

and is being launched as ‘a name to remember’.

I always feel a bit itchy when facing

new – born talents in the fashion industry but when it comes

to an undefiable, unresistable clarity

of a new identity,

a new fashion specie

all i can do is raise my hands up.

(smiling)

Between constructivism and de-constructivism

Russian Avant-garde and Suprematism,

with marvellous colourful pallettes,

flirting with the Biba era and Furstenberg prints

 ’Mary Katrantzou’ 

is not a name to remember,

but one, rather constructive*

to learn by heart.

 

 

1 serving a useful purpose *; tending to build up : constructive criticism.

2 Law derived by inference; implied by operation of law; not obvious or explicit : constructive liability.

3 Mathematics relating to, based on, or denoting mathematical proofs that show how an entity may in principle be constructed or arrived at in a finite number of steps

 

Sources: Wikipedia, Dictionary, Mary Katrantzou.