Tuesday 23 January 2018

Laskaris Couture Show summer 2018 at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week

Titled and inspired by 'Olympias', the Princess of the Molossian of Epirus, the wife of Philip II, King of the Macedonians, and the mother of Alexander the Great.

The collection begins with the birth of Olympias in Pasaronas, an ancient city of Epirus. it is said that she used to sleep with the snakes and nurse the reptiles so these are shown  made of skins, embroidered with handmade enamels or depicted on clothes with dazzled Swarovski.

 The emblem of Epirus, an oak, gives its green colour to mark the collection which is composed of ivory, pastel and bright green in Grecian style.

 Olympias served in the Oracle of Dodoni,where had already been initiated into the bacchanalian mysteries. Thus, the entire collection is reminiscent of ancient Greek costumes of priestesses

 Then, the Olympias' life journey leads us to Samothrace, where the designer Laskaris was born and where Olympias became a priestess of the Kavarion Mysteries. The legend says that Philip II had been initiated into the mysteries, where he met and fell in love with Olympias, in a mystic ritual orgy of Kavarion Mysteries.

The collection is influenced by the columns of the Temple of Samothrace, where the charismatic Great Alexander was conceived, during the ritual. The clothes are crafted by handmade meanders, destructurized columns, draped worked with real stones, beams of light, nervir and copper.


 Olympias told Philip II, that one night, Zeus came to her dreams in the form of a snake and left her pregnant to Alexander the Great, which is why the Great Alexander was the son of god. Olympias then had only one mission: to make Alexander the most powerful man, as he became

. The last phase of the collection identifies Olympias as the wife of Phillip II in Pella and in Aigia – today's Vergina -, where the leather, embossed flowers in the wreaths of the collection have been influenced.

 The sandals of the collection are traditionally handmade, manufactured by Laskaris.



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