Mary Katrantzou

Inspired by René Magritte and the surrealist masters, the young designer’s collection “Ceci n’est pas une chambre” (This is not a room) is an amalgamation of fine art and fashion creating a surrealist haven in the form of avant-garde couture. Katrantzou’s fascination with rooms transforms itself into the central theme of this season’s work, her vision stemming from graphic sets of Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdin’s fashion shoots. The Greek-born designer is a relative newbie to the fashion scene, but in just a few years Katrantzou has situated herself as one of fashion’s biggest up-and-coming starlets. She is well known for edgy creations featuring graphic, colorful prints that have prolifically gained popularity since the inception of her brand.

Simple window frames become the central focal point with sleeves that appear like curtains on structured, angled, colorful frocks that are swinging with modernity. They are feminine in their chassis, creating wearable visual snapshots—a woman, her body becoming a room of its own. Katrantzou has been quoted as saying, “With this collection, I wanted to put the room on the woman, rather than the woman in the room,” and she does this ideology justice.

-Soma Magazine