Caryatids of Amphiboles

Hello dear  friends of extravagant.

This is about the project which I recently finished and I present to you all the process from the beginning until the end of it. This project was a group project. My partners were three classmates of mine, Andrea Christophi, Christina Xenofontos and Antri Timotheou. 

To start with, we had to decide our company name. During lot of research we decide to name the company CTWOA or in French CDEUXA. This particular name comes from a combination of the the first letter of our first names. We agreed as a group that our company would sell expensive and luxurious pieces of clothing. Our target group would be mainly people of 20-40 years old and mainly people from a creative background.

In order to design our clothes, we had an inspiration from the Caryatids of Amphiboles. The reasons we choose Caryatids are the following:

• It is an issue that is in the news lately

• It is based on our culture.

• Evelyn Kazantzoglou. Adored by many and I would easily say that she could be my muse, she inspires me. She is a special woman. Her colors reminds me the colours of a Caryatid. I spoke with Evelyn and we agreed to meet for a coffee at Nicosia on December 2.

She is a very beautiful woman and she has her own fashion blog , host at MAD TV Cyprus, radio producer at Deejay Radio 93,5fm. Honestly I did not expect to be so simple and so sociable. She made me very comfortable. She advised me at a professional and a personal level in order to be better as a person and as a fashion designer.

For the final result we used knitted and satin in the same colors.

The knit was made like old years in the traditional way. The photo shooting took place in the castle of Larnaca because it is a historical place like Amphiboles. I researched the castle of Larnaca and I took photos of the interior and the exterior of it.

 I researched the makeup style and wool and I made the following investigation.

The result of our work is the following.

Photographer: Charis Evagorou
Model: Andria Xenofontos

On December 18 we presented our work as a group. In order to achieve that we used three models thanks to Ioannis Mallas who helped us find those models from Umbrella Fashion Modelling School. I also want to thank MARPOLINE HEALTH company which accepted my proposal and came to help us with the make-up and also my favorite aesthetic Maria Lambrou. The hair styling was leaded by Christina Xenophontos and I have to say that I really liked it.

I also want to thank the store Extreme Ladies Shoes. They accepted to sponsor our presentation with pairs of shoes.

As a team in order to look like a team we decided to wear all four girls more or less the same clothes (black pants or black skirt accompanied with white shirt). Also Andrea created labels with our names on them in order to give to the presentation a more professional look.

Soon will come the photography presentation held on December 18 and so you will be able to get a more complete picture.