Greek designer Mary Katrantzou has been appointed as the first creative director for leather goods and accessories at Bulgari. Katrantzou announced the news herself on her Instagram page. She will also continue to work at her own eponymous brand. The position is newly created by Bulgari, yet Katrantzou has been linked to the label before through...
2 Apr 2024
The British Fashion Council is commemorating three decades of its NewGen talent initiative with a collaboration with seven of its NewGen alumni designers on a bag collection crafted in partnership with Bags of Ethics. The bag collection features designers Ahluwalia, Christopher Kane, Erdem, Giles Deacon, Halpern, Mary Katrantzou and Roksanda,...
17 Sept 2023
Fashion designer Mary Katrantzou is launching a vibrant and colourful tile collection with international ceramics specialist Villeroy & Boch. The collaboration marks Villeroy & Boch’s first designer collaboration in more than 20 years and takes inspiration from recurring themes in Katrantzou’s eponymous fashion label, including butterflies as...
3 Feb 2022
London-based designer Mary Katrantzou has launched a bi-annual resort wear capsule collection, Mary-Mare, which will initially launch online due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The all-year-round holiday capsule collection, which was sold to buyers during last year’s Paris market in June, has been in the pipeline for 18-months and offers...
4 May 2020
Greek-born, London-based designer Mary Katrantzou made history this week when she became the first to stage a catwalk show at the Temple of Poseidon, just outside Athens in Greece. Many brands have tried and failed to showcase inside the ancient Greek monument, but only Katrantzou could get Greece’s Central Archaeological Council (KAS) and...
8 Oct 2019
London - It has been one month since buyers, influencers and members of the press flocked to London for the Autumn/Winter 2018-2019 edition of bi-annual fashion week - which proved to be a standout event. It was a fashion week of many firsts and lasts, with Christopher Bailey presenting his final collection for heritage fashion house Burberry,...
16 Mar 2018
Mary Katrantzou unveiled an exclusive capsule collection of coats in collaboration with luxury Canadian outerwear brand Moose Knuckles Canada at her autumn/winter 2018 catwalk show during London Fashion Week. The collection, which draws inspiration from the preciousness of Victorian interiors and the radical lines of Bauhaus, includes...
21 Feb 2018
As London Fashion Week opened Friday morning, an attempted terrorist attack took place on the Underground by Parsons Green station, the fifth terror incident to take place in Britain in under six months. As the UK terror threat level is raised to its highest rating by prime minister Theresa May and armed forces walk the streets, London Fashion...
18 Sept 2017
With New York Fashion Week leaning towards the more commercial side of the industry, favoring more sportive wear, overseas in London designers favour a more edgy and avant-garde style. FashionUnited listed the five main fashion trends to emerge from London Fashion Week. 1. Focus on the waist Emilia Wickstead, Issa, J.W Anderson and Roksanda...
24 Feb 2015
PVC, foam pyramids and paisley prints were laid side by side in Mary Katrantzou's new collection shown at London Fashion Week on Sunday, on brightly coloured, richly textured dresses, trousers and coats. The Greek designer took as her inspiration the concept of horror vacui -- the fear of empty spaces, the idea in visual art of packing in as...
23 Feb 2015