MadWalk took place last Wednesday and was crowned a success. Music, fashion, spectacle, enthusiastic crowd and a good cause to top up with, it was all there. Happy each time an initiative supporting Greek fashion goes well. Glimpse of what went on: Presenters Vicky Kaya and Tampta in Mary Katrantzou and Ioannis Dimitrousis respectively. Deux Hommes & Giorgos Mazonakis. Mi-Ro & Onirama. Parthenis & Melisses. Yiorgos Eleftheriades & Myronas Stratis feat. Ilia Darlin. Mary Katrantzou & Matisse. Celia Kritharioti Haute Couture & Sakis Rouvas. Apostolos Mitropoulos (djing in person) & Elena Paparizou. Vrettos Vrettakos & Despina Vandi.
For loads more photos, backstage action and videos, visit madwalk.gr. MadWalk by Vodafone - The Fashion Music Project, will be on TV soon so worry not if you couldn't make it: Antenna - on Thursday 10/02 at 21:00, MAD tv - on Saturday 12/02 at 20:30 and then again on Sunday 13/02 at 14:00.
Another 'first' for Athens and 2011. Mad TV and Vodafone have joined forces into bringing Fashion and Music closer at a charity fundraising super-event. It's scheduled to take place this Wednesday, February 2nd at the Olympic Fencing Venue of Hellinikon. Eight of the most popular Greek fashion designers are going to pair with loud names of the local music industry at what is expected to be a spectacular show.
Line up: DEUX HOMMES & GIORGOS MAZONAKIS MI-RO & ONIRAMA PARTHENIS & MELISSES YIORGOS ELEFTHERIADES & MYRONAS STRATIS FEAT. ILIA DARLIN MARY KATRANTZOU & MATISSE CELIA KRITHARIOTI HAUTE COUTURE & SAKIS ROUVAS APOSTOLOS MITROPOULOS & HELENA PAPARIZOU VRETTOS VRETTAKOS & DESPINA VANDI Music support by Claydee, Mark Angelo & Playmen Closing act: Shaya & Otherview Hostesses of the night: Vicky Kaya and Tamta
Tickets cost 25 euros. Part of the earnings will go towards ELPIDA, Association of Friends of Chirldren with Cancer.
For more ticket info and preparation action, visit www.madwalk.gr
------------------------------- *are you thinking of a certain British Fashion & Music event? Me too and here's one of it's finest moments.
Last night, at about 20:30, Greek designer duo Deux Hommes held their show for a/w 10. A packed event as usual, with many loud names of fashion, media and tv on front row.
Location: hotel Grande Bretagne in the heart of Athens. Inspiration: Heroines of iconic erotic photographers of the '70s. Materials: Cashmere, silk and velvety fabrics, real fur effect using no real fur, laser-cut leather.
Impression of the current underwear-as-outerwear trend was distinct. A very good show and a strong collection, with colour palette traveling from point nude to black, making stops at chocolate brown and blurry gold.
Still views of what it was like, at the 'fashion show' section of Patricia Munster.
For a more enligtening video, visit the Global Hipster sometime later this afternoon.
Designer duo Deux Hommes, Grigoris Triantafyllou & Dimitris Alexakis, presented their s/s collection at hotel Grande Bretagne in the heart of Athens last Saturday. For them it's gonna be either mini lengths or maxi, but there's no space for the average in-between. Actually, looking at this collection, there's no space for the average at all: ethereal fabrics, perfect fits, frills, pleats at their best and descreet lace trimmings went down the melting pot and came out as an ultra feminine, curve-loving collection.
"Pop light feeling of the late '70s, haute couture elements of the Parisian maisons of that era. Exoticism and echoes of the French Rococo. A game between depth and surface, romanticism and provocation, youth and time going by" Wish you were at this show? Well, I wish I was part of it, leaving in the coral little number four shots below.
Update: Since batteredcouture asked for it, here are a couple of close-ups of the shoes. I was kindly informed they are from Omilo Lemoni;)
Presenters Vicky Kaya and Tampta in Mary Katrantzou and Ioannis Dimitrousis respectively.
Deux Hommes & Giorgos Mazonakis.
Mi-Ro & Onirama.
Parthenis & Melisses.
Yiorgos Eleftheriades & Myronas Stratis feat. Ilia Darlin.
Mary Katrantzou & Matisse.
Celia Kritharioti Haute Couture & Sakis Rouvas.
Apostolos Mitropoulos (djing in person) & Elena Paparizou.
Vrettos Vrettakos & Despina Vandi.
