Athens Xclusive Designers Week was opened for the eighth consecutive year in Athens. Now like previous years, the international fashion week, held from 23rd to 26th of October, presented important names from the world and Greek fashion. The Athens Xclusive Designers Week podium excited the residents and guests of the capital with the latest design trends for the 2011 spring-summer season. The event did not escape the lens of GRReporter. The media found a front row for the presentation of Christine & Joe’s collection. Special guests of the show were Ioanna Soulioti, Fofi Mastrokosta, Anita Nathanail and Orthoula Papadakou that Christine & Joe officially called the "real housewives of Athens".
On the podium of Athens Xclusive Designers Week the designers presented the idea that a woman should be feminine and sexy. The summer 2011 collection is called Get Real and its style involves chic-rock elements that could be woven into each woman’s image. This is a really dynamic collection that makes a coup in the fashion house itself. Get Real is inspired by appliqués in lace cut, chopped and placed on tulle, embroidered leather and other satin fabrics. The fabrics are cut and sewn in a specific manner and wild and challenging accents refine feminine, often romantic patterns or fabrics. The designers showed dresses for cocktail parties on the podium of Athens Xclusive Designers Week, but also leather jackets and tight trousers of shiny fabric.
The collection is in various colors but light gray appears the main. Particular importance is attached to the classic black. The two designers see in woman a graceful but a dynamic creature whether in short, extravagant or long romantic dresses. The models presented the power of women in special ‘angel’ shoes Christine & Joe called Angle Boots. These were impressively high-heeled shoes of silver, black or beige coatings.
Christine values art especially. She is an actress and fashion artist since she was 18. Her collections are inspired by Rome, where she lived for 5 years. Joe made her first workshop in the Athens district of Kolonaki at the age of 22. Today she is eminent designer and famous Greek singers, actors and celebrities rely on her taste. Joe's hand is apparent in numerous movies, TV productions and theatre stages.
Collections of new designers – Asel & Eleonora, Lucky 13, Ourania_Kay, Nikomia, Christina Skarpeli, Dimitris Kouras and Pinelopi Lagadinou – were presented this year on the podium of the fashion event, which is becoming more and more popular since 2007.
The famous Alexios Romanos, Celebrity Skin, Ratt by Rita Attalla, Vassilis Zoulias, Afroditi Hera, Stelios Koudounaris, LaQuan Smith showed their collections too.
This year, Marcel Marongiu, a representative of the fashion house Guy Laroche designing clothes for Madonna, Alicia Keys, Dido and other world celebrities, was invited to attend the event.
Athens Xclusive Designers Week has repeatedly enabled the Greek audience to see the high-end collections of the world's fashion catwalks and famous names. The fashion week in Athens was attended by Vivian Westwood, Emanuel Ungaro, Angelos Frentzos, Barbara Bui. The event is gradually proving to be one of the most important in the fashion world in Greece. It attracts more than 20 000 visitors from the country and abroad every year.