Sunday, September 16: Mary Katrantzou
Designer: Mary Katrantzou

• “Katrantzou deserves to make bank on her bank-note dresses, a stunning set of shimmering gowns that surely must also mark her debut as a red-carpet contender.” {The Cut/New York Magazine}
• “Mary Katrantzou pushed the envelope and put her stamp on it.” {ELLEuk.com}
• “Prints this intriguing must be handled with care, and this is where Katrantzou shows her greatest strength. … Each pattern was so well placed and well thought out that the overall effect was graphic, crisp, and actually quite flattering.” {fashionologie}
• “Her new palette was fresh and light, but with the unusual subject matter–postage stamps and money–it still had Mary Katrantzou hallmarked all over it.” {Grazia Daily Magazine}
• “T[ook] a rich, cultured aesthetic and use[d] modern technology to make it into something more accessible.” {The Guardian}
• “Mary Katrantzou … condens[ed] her riotous decoration on 3-D prints into a tightly focused graphic style. … The result was striking, deceptively simple and in phase with the body in a way that Ms. Katrantzou has never managed before.” {International Herald Tribune}
• “Her hyper prints seemed more toned down this season as she dipped into the faded colors and patterns of postage stamps and currencies, like the old British pound note, that are no longer in circulation.” {On The Runway/The New York Times}
• “Looking at Mary Katrantzou’s Spring 2013 collection makes a person go slack-jawed wondering how can she possibly design and execute print after awe-inspiring print, season after season.” {Racked National}
• “An absolute fashion tour de force. She’s already proved she can make a ravishing print out of almost anything, and she has applied those prints to some extraordinary silhouettes, but form and content blended so effortlessly today that this felt like the point she’d been aspiring to since she started.” {Style.com}
• “The results were lovely, refreshing, wearable, and grown-up, from beginning to end. … Put it this way: Going by the ecstatic audience reaction as it spilled out into the gardens of Bedford Square, she’ll be minting money with this collection.” {Vogue.com}
• “After last season’s stunning drama, you couldn’t help but wonder how this could go to the next level–but Katrantzou continually manages to add new layers and dimensions to simply surprise us and win us over. This felt fresh and clean.” {Vogue.com UK}
• “The aesthetic elements of international banknotes … gave fresh currency to the designer’s signature prints, presented on white backgrounds.” {WWD}