Mary Katrantzou

The mind-blowing vistas suggested by Mary Katrantzou’s shows transpose interior design – her digital manipulations of images of opulent rooms, furniture and objects d’art – onto the female form, to startlingly elegant effect. This summer, leading creative genius of the digital print revolution visited Port Eliot, taking her camera through the rooms to record paintings, wallpaper, rugs, porcelain, embroideries, faded velvet and Georgian chandeliers to generate a dress inspired by the house.

The Port Eliot Dress will be displayed in the house, while pieces from Mary’s hit autumn-winter collection (fantasies about the homes of women collectors of Meissen porcelain, Quinlong dynstasy and Fabergé) will be dotted around, merging into the background in a fashion ‘at home’. Mary, who was born in Athens, studied at Rhode Island School of Design, took her MA at Central Saint Martin’s. She works in London, is the winner of the 2011 Swiss Textile Award, sells to the best stores in the world, and has private collectors hammering on her doors for her lampshade skirts and fish-bowl dresses.

“For her first stand-alone show, Mary Katrantzou came up with a conceit so dazzling, so artful, but so elementary that it made you wonder why no one else had attempted it”
–Style.com

“So rich in exquisite motif it was literally a feast for the eyes.”
– The Telegraph

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Talking at ss11 London