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Greek fashion steps gently on French catwalks

11 March 2009 / 15:03:51  GRReporter
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Designer Sophia Kokasalaki proved that she can stay true to her style, which never betrayed her in the last 10 years. At the same time, she makes new things – conceptual and unexpected. This is how the world media describes the Greek designer Sophia Kokasalaki, who during the fashion week in Paris celebrated her 10 year presence in the fashion stage.


Kokasalaki works with materials, which she knows very well – leather, tulle, stockinet, in order to create new collection for women, who love back, chains, and dresses, which harmonically hold the body. The show of the designer, who dressed Bjork with an eccentric dress, which looked like an ocean for the opening of the Olympic Games during 2004, took place on Saturday, on the fourth day of the fashion show, and presented her vision for the season fall-winter 2009-2010. During the same day, the fashion show of Jean Paul Gautier “the French fashion bad boy” took place. Sunday was dedicated to the fashion houses Sonia Rykiel, Hussein Chalayan, and Emanuel Ungaro. The eternal Karl Lagerfeld presented “Space Odyssey” with metal ornaments and obvious references to the 80’s.


The Sophia Kokosalaki fashion house was both by the owner of Diesel and this is why her 2009 collection makes her dream come true – to create women’s clothes for the everyday living. And so, the 35 year old designer showed her fans a jeans collection – black jeans from a soft, Japanese cloth, which can be found in boutiques from Tokyo to New York.


For her spring collection Sophia says: “I always wear jeans and they are always black.” Her collection consists of few models: jackets, mini skirts, pants and shorts, which all tell simple, everyday stories – from those, which suit the temperament of the young designer.


“I love this name…” is one of the typical comments a person can read in a presentation for Kokosalaki’s collection. The Greek designer’s family name is very hard for foreigners to pronounce but she never changed it. This never caused her any problems. Sophia Kokosalaki has her own signature. Every year, she shows her clothes on the runways in Paris, right next to the world runway dinosaurs and she lives with the satisfaction that her creations are sold in boutiques all around the world.


Her new collection is sheer, comfortable, modest and it has something inside, which refers you to London – after all the designer lives and creates in the English capital, where she graduated from Saint Martin’s College. And whether Kokosalaki will limit herself in only creating jeans or she will start making accessories and jewelry, this only the time will show.

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