Mary Katrantzou
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Mary Katrantzou (* 1983 in Athens , Greece ) is a Greek fashion designer who lives and works in London .
Life
Katrantzou is the daughter of an interior designer and a textile engineer. She began studying architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003 . She later went to London to study at London's Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design . After completing her bachelor's degree in “Textile Prints for Interior Decorations”, her master's degree focused on creating prints for fashion textiles. As early as 2006, she created a curriculum for the textiles department of the college. In 2008, their designs opened the college's annual graduate performance show.
In the following years, Katrantzou's creations were sold internationally in the fashion boutiques of department stores such as Selfridges or Neiman Marcus , and a collection for Topshop in 2011 was sold out within a few days. She has now designed three collections for Topshop. Fashion magazines such as Vogue or GraziA reported on their fashion creations . Mary Katrantzou helped design the spring / summer 2013 collection of the jeans label Current / Elliot.
In 2012, the American photographer Erik Madigan Heck created a series with images of Katrantzou's designs for the Texan department store chain Neiman Marcus, entitled The Art of Fashion . In 2014 she designed for the fashion brands Moncler and Adidas and, with more than 50 employees, also manufactured according to her own designs. She also designed costumes for the New York City Ballet .
Prizes and awards
- 2010: Swiss Textile Award.
- 2011: British Fashion Council Awards, Category: Emerging Talent.
- 2012: Elle Style Awards , Category: Next Young Designer.
Web links
- Website of the fashion designer
- Vogue article about collaboration with Topshop
- Vogue article about collaboration with Current Elliot (German)
- Portrait of the fashion designer (German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Around the World in Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin, January 2015, pages 44 and 45
- ↑ Virtual, digital, real in Welt am Sonntag from 23 August 2015, page 55
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Katrantzou, Mary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek fashion designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Athens , Greece |