Marina Galiatsatou
I am a 25year old womenswear designer, i come from Athens, Greece and i have lived there until i moved to Florence,Italy in 2012.In my city there was and there is an explosion of art and culture practically everywhere and even though it’s not contemporary, it offers the base of art and architecture and much more, and i have always been interested in starting points. Before moving to Italy, i studied History and Theory of Art at the University of Fine Arts in Greece. For four years i was in an environment of full of contemporary artists ,sculptors and a lot more when at the same time i was learning about the history behind art.This has helped me grow a sensibility and has influenced me for life.Ever since i started studying fashion in Polimoda, and after working on two collections in the past years i have realised I am very interested in the construction of the garments, the manipulation of patterns, the redefinition of their rules.As a result, when i think about garments the first thing that comes to my mind is the how, how could i redefine its rules , where would i put the cuts and how this would affect essentially the whole balance
It all started when i found a photograph of woman form Shkodra, an Albanian village.She was wearing the traditional "binish" coat that impressed me so much to inspire my whole collection that has a particular attention to the overgarment. Through this woman, her coat and her environment i built the concept of my collection which can be described in a hopeless romantic way as the eternal re- search of a complete togetherness.Two different elements that co-exist and at the same time take different paths and create different forms, an inspiration i got looking at a series of bacterial dishes that stimulated me a lot.
