Tribute post to my very favourite greek designer
/or else, epic and incoherent tribute post to
/or else, epic and incoherent tribute post to
one of the contemporary haute couture creators
that inspire me the most...
Follow this link to read Eleni Bistika's article
which appeared today in Kathimerini newspaper
(note: here translated in English)
~Λάμψη από λιακάδα και μύθο ~
κοσμήματα Λαλαούνη στη συλλογή Σοφίας Κοκοσαλάκη στο Παρίσι...
Sophia Kokosalaki RTW Spring 2010
After dabbling in urban mystique and exoticism in past seasons, Sophia Kokosalaki returned to her Greek roots with her spring collection. Starting with folkloric costumes, the designer led her modern-day Aphrodite out of the dusty museum and onto the street, with delicate cotton pique dresses and bib-front blouses tucked into bloomers or worn over pristine corseting. She worked effortless organic draping on short, pleated silk dresses — some off-the-shoulder, others with straps that crisscrossed at the back — while an embroidered blackthorn motif graced tunics in white tulle. Hellenistic gold cuffs — the product of a new jewelry collaboration with the Greek jeweler Ilias Lalaounis — rounded out the collection, which had just the right dose of sex appeal for today’s goddesses.
via www.wwd.com
This is a female designer who understands her customer well. Kokosalaki stayed loyal to her Greek heritage with asymmetric draping, folkloric tassels and black thorn embroidery, as well the clever inclusion of gold jewellery, created in collaboration Athenian jewellery maker and goldsmith Lalaounis.
Sophia Kokosalaki's Sophoclean Chic
Kokosalaki's clothes nearly always evoke a certain Greek sensibility with multi-pleated dresses that remind one of fluted columns, belt buckles of classical frieze details and her colors of archeological remains.
"If Sophocles ever came back and threw a post-show cocktail party after a performance of Oedipus Rex, this is how the ladies might appear".
*little - but still worth-mentioning - detail:
@ recent Paris Fashion Week, Sophia Kokosalaki's models
were wearing Danos shoes on the runway.
photos courtesy of fashion wire daily
