eternal optimist

TIM COPPENS BACKSTAGE

A model at Tim Coppens Fall 2012-3 show backstage in the New York Fashion Week.

photo by Vikram Kansara

BACKSTAGE AT THE MADWALK FASHION MUSIC PROJECT/PART II

Deux Hommes of course opened the Madwalk show and the shoes that accompanied their creations were by Stathis Samantas. (above)

DElight, beautiful as always,were waiting for their turn backstage (above) while Celia Kritharioti's models were all around(below).

BACKSTAGE AT THE MADWALK FASHION MUSIC PROJECT/PART I

Angelos Bratis' models were the first to see as soon as I arrived backstage at the Madwalk show.

Apostolos Mitropoulos was working on the last details on the models (above). So did Angelos Frentzos (below)

Loukia's models were dreamy and with amazing make-up(below)

VICKY KAGIA BACKSTAGE AT THE MADWALK FASHION MUSIC PROJECT

Vicky Kagia dressed in Celia Kritharioti couture backstage few minutes before the Madwalk - Fashion Music Project began.

YOU SEE IT FIRST - ATELIER LOUKIA SPRING 2012

Atelier Loukia Spring 2012 collection entitled Impressions previewed at the designer's atelier in Athens. 

OPERA PREVIEW

Few weeks before the new show with David Koma whose presentation moves from London to the Paris Fashion Week, designer Sarah Angold took part to the Opera Preview, an event hosted at the English National Opera, with mini opera performances, audience sing along opera and hair/makeup/dress in a full operatic gear. She sent me some exclusive backstage photos of her for the eternal optimist.

FASHIONLIVE! NOW

FASHIONLIVE! by Ozon magazine and Effex is running at The Hub,Athens. The preparations of the studio shooting have finished and now the participants of the event/workshop are experiencing a professional and perfectly set up photo shooting.

all photos by Costas Kokkinos except the last one by Platon Papagiannopoulos

MI-RO DOWNTOWN

Mi-Ro designers in a great mood at their store in downtown Athens posed for the eternal optimist. Wait and you will see what we are up to.

COPENHAGEN FASHION WEEK: LAURA BARUEL & STINE RIIS FALL 2012-13

Laura Baruel&Stine Riis Fall 2012-3 in Copenhagen Fashion Week.

catwalk photos licenced by Copenhagen Fashion Week for the eternal optimist

COSTUMES BY TASSOS SOFRONIOU FOR ANTONIS FONIADAKIS' GLORY - OPENING IN GENEVA TOMORROW

The Ballet Du Grand Theatre de Geneve asked Greek choreographer Antonis Foniadakis to produce and present the Glory show, which opens tomorrow at BFM theatre of the Swiss capital. Designer Tassos Sofroniou sent me some pre-show images of the rehearsals.

I asked the Greek designer to comment on how he worked on this big project and he responded "I designed the costumes with an intense minimalistic baroque mood. Some of them are very long on the scene and others are light, so as to highlight the complex movement of the choreography without covering the dancers" and added "In several scenes of the show the lights function as extra elements that change the line of the costumes, hence creating new extreme baroque silhouettes".

Below are two sketches of the costumes that Tassos Sofroniou sent me exclusively for the eternal optimist

Choreography/scenography/production: Antonis Foniadakis,Music: Georg Friedrich Haendel, Composition/Musical Arrangement/Scenography assistant: Julien Tarride, Costumes: Tassos Sofroniou,Lighting: Mikki Kuntu,Assistant choreographer:Omar Gordon

all show images above by Mikki Kuntu