Mary Katrantzou Spring 2017 Ready-to-wear Fashion Show on Vogue Runway

Greek fashion designer (born 1983)

Mary Katrantzou

Born	(1983-01-29) 29 January 1983 (historic period 39) Athens, Hellenic republic
Pedagogy	Rhode Island School of Design Cardinal St. Martins (BA, MA)
Label(s)	Mary Katrantzou
Awards	Swiss Textiles Honour British Manner Award for Emerging Talent BFC/Vogue Designer Fashion Fund

Mary Katrantzou (built-in 29 January 1983) is a Greek style designer who lives and works in London.

Early life [edit]

Mary Katrantzou was born in Athens, Greece to an interior design mother and a male parent who trained in textile engineering.^{[ citation needed ]}

Katrantzou moved to the United States in 2003 to study architecture at the Rhode Isle School of Design, but later on transferred to Central Saint Martins College of Art and Pattern where she completed her bachelor'southward degree in 2005 and her master'due south degree in 2008.^[1]

Career [edit]

During her studies, she managed to sell some of her prints to Bill Blass.^{[ commendation needed ]} Graduating from her available class in 2005, Katrantzou switched her focus from prints for interiors to fashion prints.^[2] Whilst collaborating with Sophia Kokosalaki in 2006, she built up a portfolio for the Central Saint Martins master'south fashion textiles course.^{[ citation needed ]}

In February 2008, Katrantzou opened the Saint Martins MA Fashion evidence at London Fashion Week. Her collection was nominated for the Harrods and the L'Oreal Professional person Award. Katrantzou's graduating show in 2008 mapped out her signature style. It was themed effectually trompe 50'oeil prints of oversized jewellery featured on jersey-bonded dresses.^[2] These pieces created the illusion of wearing giant neckpieces that would be too heavy in reality. She too designed jewellery made out of wood and metal that were exact replicas of the prints.^{[ commendation needed ]}

Katrantzou'southward first Prêt-à-porter collection was shown at the autumn/winter London Fashion Week in 2008.^[1] She was awarded NEWGEN sponsorship from the British Fashion Council for half dozen seasons (S/S 2009 – A/W 2011).^{[ commendation needed ]}

Katrantzou's first set-to-article of clothing collection for Autumn/Wintertime 2009 debuted at London Mode Week in February 2009,^[3] with the back up of the BFC and the New Gen scheme.^[4] Despite a small collection of nine dresses, Katrantzou picked up 15 stockists including Browns, Joyce and Colette. The designer achieved testify condition the following season, in Autumn/Winter 2009.^[1]

For her spring/summertime 2011 collection Ceci n'est pas une chambre, a title inspired by Rene Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe, she challenged the viewer by printing on her designs fragments of images borrowed from old issues of Architectural Digest and World of Interiors.^[5] Equally she worked with volume, depth and perspective, the clothes caused an engaging iii-dimensional quality. "With digital press you get that precision engineering where everything is marked effectually the body in a perfect manner."^[2]

Her collections are now sold in over 200 fashion shops, including Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, Barneys, Neiman Marcus, Colette, 10 Corso Como, Joyce, Luisa via roma, Mytheresa, Hiphunters, Stylebop, Opening Ceremony and Net a Porter, and in 47 countries. A collection for Topshop launched for London Fashion Week autumn/winter 2010 and was bachelor in shops in February 2011 and sold out within the first few days of its release.^[5] Katrantzou's work has appeared in publications including Vogue, Dazed & Confused, and Grazia.^{[ citation needed ]} She is one of the designers of Città dell'arte Fashion.^{[ commendation needed ]}

February 2012 saw the release of her collaboration with Longchamp creating a capsule collection of bags and totes.^[6] To promote them Vogue Japan gave away a plastic bill of fare case with Katrantzou'south prints with their May result. Iii prints featured in this collaboration over several unlike shapes and sizes.^{[ citation needed ]}

In April 2014, Katrantzou announced she would be working with Adidas 'for the foreseeable hereafter', both clothing and footwear.^[7]

Katrantzou sold a minority stake in her business concern to Yu Capital, the investment division of Hong Kong-based Yu Holdings, in October 2017. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, just it was said to have been part of Yu Holdings' founder and principal executive Wendy Yu'south "wider program to human activity as bridge for Western brands targeting Chinese consumers."^[8]

In 2018, Katrantzou celebrated the label's 10 year anniversary by showcasing her tenth-anniversary collection during September's London Style Week. Katrantzou's bear witness was at The Roundhouse in London, Information technology is her imagination of the ordinary with initial brilliant prints which the designer is known for.^[nine]

At the end of 2019, Katrantzou returned home to Athens, where she showcased the SS20 drove.^[10] ^[11] The show was dedicated to jubilant the 30th anniversary of the founding of ELPIDA, the Clan of Friends of Children with Cancer, established past Mrs Marianna 5. Vardinoyannis.^[12]

Awards [edit]

In 2010, Katrantzou was awarded the Swiss Textiles Award, succeeding Alexander Wang.^[thirteen]

In Nov 2011, Katrantzou was awarded the British Manner Laurels for Emerging Talent: womenswear^[14] and in Feb 2012 was awarded Young Designer of the Yr at the Elle Way Awards.

She received the 2015 BFC/Vogue Designer Way Fund including a 12-calendar month menstruum of mentorship and a £200,000 grant.^[xv]

In 2015 she was awarded the British Fashion Awards – New Establishment.^[16]

Personal life [edit]

She is the daughter of Katherine Gouma and Mr Katrantzos.^[17]

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Way Example Report: Mary Katrantzou" Retrieved 24 July 2015
^ ^a ^b ^c "An exclusive interview with Mary Katrantzou - artflyer.internet". Alexia interviews influential people in the arts | artflyer. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
^ "Mary Katrantzou Fall 2009 Ready-to-Habiliment Fashion Show". Vogue . Retrieved three September 2018.
^ "An exclusive interview with Mary Katrantzou - www.artflyer.net". Alexia interviews influential people in the arts | artflyer. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
^ ^a ^b Cohn, Alison S. "Scorecard | Mary Katrantzou Wins!". T Magazine . Retrieved 23 September 2011.
^ "Mode.com – Store Luxury Mode Online". www.mode.com. Archived from the original on 28 February 2009. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
^ "Idoleyes.com". Idoleyes.com. Retrieved two June 2017.
^ Chitrakorn, Kati (22 Jan 2018). "Mary Katrantzou Raises Investment to Heave Concern in People's republic of china". Business of Fashion.
^ Moss, Victoria (16 September 2018). "Mary Katrantzou cements her extraordinary vision with tenth anniversary collection". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
^ "Mary Katrantzou shows a Greek Epic at the Temple of Poseidon". 4 October 2019.
^ Jones, Jo (iv October 2019). "Mary Katrantzou: SS20 fashion show at Greece's Temple of Poseidon – in pictures". The Guardian.
^ "Mary Katrantzou on Staging Her SS20 Show in the Ancient Greek Temple of Poseidon". 5 September 2019.
^ ALEXANDER, HILARY (5 Nov 2010). ""Mary Katrantzou wins Swiss Textiles Honour 2010"". The Daily Telegraph, UK . Retrieved 23 September 2011.
^ Alexander, Ella. "The BFA Winners". British Vogue . Retrieved twenty May 2017.
^ "Mary Katrantzou Wins 2015 BFC/Faddy Manner Fund". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 20 May 2017.
^ Milligan, Lauren. "British Style Awards: Winners". Retrieved 3 September 2018.
^ Chandris, Eugenia (3 March 2017). "A Conversation With Mary Katrantzou". HuffPost . Retrieved xiv September 2018.