Mary Katrantzou

“Mary Katrantzou, who started Fashion Week with the news that her collection for Topshop had sold out, consolidated her credentials with a collaboration with the French atelier Lesage, the artisanal embroiderers to Paris couturiers. Its handiwork came in ornate beading atop Katrantzou’s provocative prints. Spoons, typewriters and even pencil erasers were digitally rendered on corseted dresses that spoke of highly complex pattern-cutting.” —Harriet Walker, The Independent

“Katrantzou’s conceits were so beautifully conceptualized … that her elevation of the quotidian to the sublime was, once again, easily one of the finest pieces of theater in London fashion week.” —Tim Blanks, Style.com

Buzz Words:
aesthetic pleasure, the feeling you got as a kid when you opened a brand new box of crayons, drama, coiling abstract geometry, elevation of the quotidian to the sublime, signature surrealist prints with a bit of bold angularity, eye-poppingly rich, ornate yet whimsical, fantastical creations, neoprene color, full-bodied patterns, most sculptural of silhouettes, not just playful, but oh so smart, elevated everyday items to couture status, quirky, far from silly, truly exceptional, so much depth, richness and invention, so unique, hands-down so jaw-droppingly, unapologetically beautiful, surreal fantasias, superdeluxe. brilliantly entertaining, inventive as ever, brilliantly put together and endlessly new, witty, wittily brought to life, more outrageous, borderline mad, admirably creative, fun and different, husband-befuddling brilliance, barmy, brilliant and amongst the best of the week