Mary Katrantzou

Mary Katrantzou, the Greek-born designer, who just presented her second collection under her very own name, certainly has a reason to hold an after-party and most of all, to celebrate. Namely, perfume bottles were the main inspiration for Ms. Katrantzou’s collection last season. For Spring/Summer 2010, we see the same strong graphical element in her refined work, but of a more abstract nature: multicolored trompe l’oeil patterns [...] Read the rest of this entry » Read Full Story

AM Designer of the Month for this April is Mary Katrantzou , a young and very talented london based designer, originate from Athens, Greece. Attended Rhode Island School of Design before completed both her BA and MA at Central Saint Martins. Her design signatures are a hyperrealist aesthetic, bold graphics and industrial jewellery. She has previously worked for Sophia Kokosalaki, a well-known Greek fashion designer with her own label based in London. As Best Graduate award winner at the London Fashion Awards from her previous Spring 2009 offerings, she has proven her ingenuity for her debut Fall 2009 runway collection, inspired by Vintage perfume ... Read Full Story

AM Designer of the Month for this April is Mary Katrantzou , a young and very talented london based designer, originate from Athens, Greece. Attended Rhode Island School of Design before completed both her BA and MA at Central Saint Martins. Her design signatures are a hyperrealist aesthetic, bold graphics and industrial jewellery. She has previously worked for Sophia Kokosalaki, a well-known Greek fashion designer with her own label based in London. As Best Graduate award winner at the London Fashion Awards from her previous Spring 2009 offerings, she has proven her ingenuity for her debut Fall 2009 runway collection, inspired by Vintage perfume ... Read Full Story

“A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future” Coco Chanel We absolutely adored this collection the second we laid eyes on it. It's designer Mary Katrantzou 's first runway collection for London Fashion Week. Known for her use of prints, Katrantzou described her influences as "the refractive quality of my mother's glass perfume bottles" and you should have no problem seeing that in the trompe l’oeil effect of these clothes. Some might say she got too literal in her interpretation but these are dresses the likes of which we've never seen before and that's enough to win us over. They're not just unique; ... Read Full Story

Mary Katrantzou is among the second wave of breakout stars of the digital print revolution that has been sweeping London’s designers since Basso & Brooke began experimenting a few years ago. The shift from mechanical screen printing to computer manipulations of color and pattern has meant designers like Katrantzou can achieve hitherto impossibly complex feats of imagination, and she’s moving as fast as pixels and ink jets can be pushed to decorate a beautiful silk dress. For Spring, the wavy, multicolored trompe l’oeil patterns were an intensification of the research into perfume bottles Katrantzou used last Fall. This time, she’d gotten sucked into the ... Read Full Story