Greece-based company "Folli Follie," which designs jewelery, watches and fashion accessories, announced on Thursday the opening of its first shop in Moscow in cooperation with Bosco di Ciliegi, a leader in luxury brands distribution in the Russian market. "I am certain our new shop in Moscow will become a benchmark and that more will follow in the wider region," Georgios Koutsolioutsos, Folli Follie's vice-chairman, said in a statement.
DF: The company operates in 25 countries and has over 340 shops around the world.
posted on Tuesday, September 25
Athens Fashion Week is a relative new comer to the fashion industry, only having commenced two years ago, but the ripple effects are already being felt; and many see a bright future for the growth of the industry in Greece and beyond.
More than 40 catwalk presentations are scheduled for the sixth Athens Collections, scheduled to run from Oct. 24 to 28. American menswear designer John Varvatos is opening the event, presenting the spring/summer 2008 collection that he showed Sept. 10 in New York.
DF: Greek designers who were also almost barely known beyond Greece, are now also making their international presence shown. Click story below for more details.
IHIT - Athens
posted on Friday, September 21
In a small little village -right in the middle of the island of Naxos, art potter, Katharina Bolesch runs a great little workshop and gallery. The mighty olive is the backbone of Katharina's pottery, but she also includes associated motifs such as lizards, octopuses, bees and frogs, as well as that other great Naxian symbol, the vine.
DF: Each piece of work is entirely handmade. Worth checking out and making a mental note next time you're on the island.
fish-olive-creations
posted on Tuesday, September 11
Why wallpaper when you can wonderwall? Offering a quick and easy way to put some character on your walls, wonderwall.gr in Athens specializes in spicing up interior and exterior spaces with self-adhesive graphics. The graphics can be easily put up and then taken down and moved around as soon as you get that itch to redecorate.
wonderwall.gr
posted on Monday, September 3
An Athens exhibition appropriately titled "Rip!" is exploring paper's potential use as a fabric. "Few people are aware that clothes from paper exist, it takes you to another dimension, another planet", says Vassilis Zidianakis, a fashion scholar and curator of the Athens-based Atopos cultural organization.
These dresses appeared in America in 1966 for the first time, to promote the products of a large paper manufacturing company and soon passed into the hands of designers and fashion houses, creating a new fashion fully expressive of the sixties Pop culture.
The non profit ATOPOS has over one hundred authentic paper dresses of the time in its collections, having managed to collect and preserve the largest number of these fragile garments existing today in a museum collection.
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[reuters]
posted on Monday, April 16
The Oscar for Artistic Direction that was awarded to 30 year old Vasilis Fotopoulos in 1964 for the film “Zorba the Greek†--directed by Mihalis Cacoyiannis, has just been added to the Benaki museum's collection. The donation was made by the brother of the internationally acclaimed scenic designer and artist.
Also, it was reported that this year's Oscar goodie bags included some fine Greek olive oil, courtesy of the Greek tourism organization.
posted on Wednesday, February 28
There is a new reason for Greece's fashion fans to jump for joy. Abrand new 13,000 meter shopping mall owned by Elmec Sport AE, opened inearly December located at Athens Airport retail park. The newdevelopment is called Factory Outlet and boasts over 120 shops sellingover 400 international fashion labels marked down 30-70% off theregular prices. Shopping malls are still somewhat of a new concept inGreece, outlet malls even more so, however, the Greek public so far hasbeen very eager to save a few bucks. The new outlet mall is locatednext to IKEA and is accessible via car (900 parking spaces) or by busor metro. Some of the bigger namesrepresented at the outlet include Marc Jacobs, Chloe, Toi&Moi, Gap,Nike, and Converse.
DF: Originally slated to open in Fall of 2005, Factory outlet openedwith much fanfare last month to loads of happy Christmasshoppers....better late than never!
posted on Friday, January 19
Paris Hilton is planning to marry on again, off again boyfriend Stavros Niarchos and have Britney Spears as her matron of honor.
British newspaper, the Daily Star, has Paris confirming the upcoming nuptuals. "It's true. I am going to get married. I want a fairytale wedding and Britney's going to be my matron of honor. She can advise me."
DF:
You can read this story as many times as you want. It will never make any sense.
posted on Monday, December 18
Hennes & Mauritz, otherwise known as H&M, is the Swedish fashion chain that boasts over 1,300 outlets worldwide. With its bargain priced stylish collections of chic womens, mens, and childrens clothing and accessories, the company has become a household name to millions. H&M has now set its eyes on the untapped Greek market and is planning on opening its first store in Athens sometime in Spring of 2007. The location is still under raps, however, we assume it will be somewhere on Ermou St. and will compete with the widely popular clothing chain out of Spain, Zara.
H&M has successfully used celebrity designers like Stella McCartney, Karl Lagerfeld, and Madonna to accent its offerings and create buzz for the company.
DF: No doubt the Greek market holds loads of potential for H&M....for we know there are millions of Greeks out there thirsty for new styles...
posted on Tuesday, December 12
In a unique partnership with world renowned shoe and accessory giant Nine West (a Jones Apparel brand), designer Sophia Kokosalaki has created an exclusive collection for the company. This Greek-born darling is one of London's fastest rising stars in fashion. The designer regularly presents her collections in Paris as well as in Greece. Known for her edgy sculptural designs and her superior craftsmanship, Sophia has been featured on DF before and shows much promise of becoming a household name in fashion.
The limited edition collection she has designed for Nine West is currently available only in 20 select stores. The stunning styles feature great leather shoes and boots as well as wool capes and military style coats. The accessories Sophia has designed for Nine West are equally as exciting. Beautiful leather lace-up gloves and handbags with detailed hardware are just some of the standouts we saw. The Kokosalaki pieces are a little pricier than the regular items in the Nine West line, but so far have been a big hit. Be sure and check out the collection before it's gone.
DF: Can you say Greek designer breaking into the mainstream? Nice work Sophia...
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posted on Monday, November 27