Emerging Fervour

Curator Ria Hawthorne is presenting an exhibition at the Design Museum paying tribute to the big names in fashion illustration.

This exhibition showcases fashion illustrators at their creative heights: Georges Lepape at the beginning of the century, Gruau in the 40′s and 50′s, Antonio throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, to current artists Mats Gustafson, Aurore de la Morinerie and Francois Berthoud. Film-clips, news reels, music and photography will sit alongside the original illustrations to reflect not only the spirit and the style of the decades but also the wider social and cultural changes of the century.

Le Pape

Francois Berthound

Mats Gustafson

‘Drawing Fashion’ also includes a rare collection of work from classic advertisements, vintage Vogue covers and illustrations from Chanel, Dior, Comme des Garçons, McQueen and Viktor & Rolf.

For information on tickets, check out Ticketweb. Drawing Fashion runs until March 2011 – I hope I’ll be in London before then!

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Filep Motwary

Born in Cyprus in 1977 to Cypriot and Syrian parents, Filep is a fashion designer, blogger, illustrator, photographer and journalist.

Motwary’s taste for fashion began in 99, when he began working as an assistant stylist for magazines such as L’Officiel Hellas, after graduating from Athens Fashion School. A year later, Filep was hired by Couture designer Loukia as her first Studio assistant designer, a collaboration that lasted until 2004.

Paris called after this and he spent a year working as an intern for John Galliano, Dior and Chloé.

Finally, Filep returned to Greece in 2005, launching his personal collection of womenswear, in a mutual collaboration with Jewellery designer, Maria Mastori. In the same year, Filep created his fashion blog, Un nouVeau iDEAL, check it out.

To contact Filep, email motwary@gmail.com. Filep’s collection can also be found in Athens, London, Crete, Kolonaki and Thessaloniki.

Maria Mastori

Born in Athens in 1959, Maria is a jewellery designer and as a teenager she took art and design courses along with taking lessons for jewellery design and production. Since 1984 she has been taking part in group exhibitions with her works.

The collaboration between Maria and Filep started in the summer of 2005 and is still going strong. Together, they have presented their collection at the Hellenic Fashion Week. Maria’s work is available in Paris, Athens, Thessaloniki and Myconos.

For purchasing enquiries, contact Maria Mastori’s studio’s at:

20 Alopekis street , 10675

Athens Greece

Tel/Fax: 0030 210 7295077

Check out Motwari and Mastori’s SS10 ‘Sarka’ collection below

Last week the Baselworld exhibition closed its doors after 8 days where 1’915 exhibitors from five continents showed the 100,700 trade buyers from 100 countries that streamed into the halls what we can expect in the watch & jewellery industry this season.

The list of exhibitors reads like a dream for the riches (or thieves!). Tag Heuer, Breitling, Chopard, Gucci, Dior, Chanel, Tiffany’s & Co, Bulgari, Rolex, Omega; on and on goes the list.

Although I was working at the exhibition and didn’t get much time to browse, whenever I had a break and walked the halls, I was still taken aback by the sheer luxury that shouts from every stand. Some of them can take 6 weeks if not longer to build and will take 3 weeks to take down and looking at these constructions of mini houses it is no surprise. Some, such as Breitling, have 3 stories and are bigger than many of our flats. They have stairs, bridges, race cars, aquariums, you name it, and there is surely a stall that has it! It’s sheer decadence but then these are the big players of the industry with the bigger budgets. There are also some smaller brands which house in little stalls; it’s their work rather than the stall that have to draw the buyers in.