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.



Tuesday, 4 July 2017

LASKARIS Couture Show AW17 at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week

Tilted PRISMA, Laskaris' AW17 Couture collection was shown at Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week.

The PRISM is the key that opens the door to the collection of the Greek designer Laskaris. A journey to a surreal world, where the dream is omnipresent, the act of creation is spontaneous, and paradoxically anchored in the present.

His couture collection for autumn-winter 2017-2018 is an experience: you are welcome to follow the light, its sublime anamorphoses, its multiple facets, which are, according to the designer, the meaning of life.

The main colors are black, red, white and gold.

Fabrics are linen, cashmere and leather.


The enamels in the collection are hand-moulded in his atelier in Athens.

The purity of the lines symbolizes the different roads that each of us must choose throughout our lives, the trajectories that are personal to us. It is the past that gives us the means to move towards the future.

The collection is strongly influenced by the Greek culture. From the soul of Chirico and Engonópoulos, Laskaris extracted hope and vital force. « My work is only a reflection of what I think, I feel, I try and I realize... Knowing how to see a situation with the eyes of the spirit is the best way to see it with the greatest objectivity possible. To see means to conceive, and that is the true nature of thought. »



And, above all, PRISM is a celebration of light, the one that composes a painting, in opposition to obscurantism, that dwells a soul...


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