Emerging Fervour

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

We did a piece on Jeni Jaques and Harlow in Chains not too long ago; and we’ve gone one better and managed to get an interview with her. There are few designers who move me with their stories behind their reasons to become designers…Jeni Jaques from Harlow in Chains is one of the very few. Her anwers to my questions are filled with so much passion and love that she would even inspire Gordon Brown to become a jewellery designer. This lady is incredible…take a peek at our interview with her.

EF: Jeni, we absolutely love your style…what inspires you to create these big statement pieces?

Jeni Jaques: Thank you!! I’ve always loved art and creation in all forms: painting, illustration, sewing/fashion design & construction, writing, photography and in recent years constructing one-of-a-kind jewelry and accessories… I’ve also always had a love for older vintage and antique items and have been collecting those since I was a young child. I love the history, mystery and sense of wonder that each and every piece holds: ‘What kind of woman wore this brooch?’; ‘Was this locket a gift from a loved one?’; ‘Did it hold a special meaning?’; ‘What journey has this piece followed to end up in my hands, to use in part to create an entirely new piece?’ It’s mysterious and slightly haunting; I love that…

Nick Knight, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Naomi Campbell, Gareth Pugh, Comme des Garçons, Kate Moss, Björk.

I know it sounds like something from the London Fashion Week but it’s even better as everyone can go!! Somerset House is about to open the doors to a major new exhibition by SHOWstudio.

A programme of live events will transform the Embankment Galleries, allowing visitors to get inside the world of fashion. This is thanks to the award-winning fashion website by Nick Knight, one of the world’s most influential fashion image-makers.

Check out what’s on and by the looks of it, you’ll have to take several trips to get the most of it!!

Check out these highlights:

• SHOWstudio’s most significant collaborations with creatives including Alexander McQueen, Peter Saville, Liberty Ross, Heston Blumenthal, Gareth Pugh, Simon Foxton, and Julie Verhoeven.
• A live photographic studio located within the exhibition space, hosting regular fashion shoots with Nick Knight and otherphotographers, laying bare the process of fashion image-making.

“You can never take too much care in selecting shoes. Too many women think that because they are low down, shoes do not matter, but it is by the feet that you can judge whether a women is elegant or not”.

I’ve just read this in the ‘Little Dictionary of Fashion’ by Christian Dior and how right is he?

John Galliano is doing this little quote justice with his Dior Fall 2009 Shoe Collection. They are the perfect piece to finish off an outfit, actually they are the outfit!