Bulgari: Garden of Eden

Building on the success of their debut Serpenti collaboration, Katrantzou dipped into the Bulgari archives to create three embroidered and bejeweled handbags inspired by a lush Garden of Eden where the snake is the supreme ruler, encapsulating the beauty of the natural world.

A tribute to Bulgari’s unrivaled art and rich creative heritage, the limited-edition hand crafted Serpenti handbags – of 15 pieces each – open the doors to an impressive world where Bulgari’s iconic symbols and jewelry motifs are born with originality and courage, lush gardens, colorful blooming flowers and fascinating creatures. The snake’s head buckle proudly rests on the flap and looks over a scenery inspired by nature’s wonders. The collection includes real Haute Couture works with three-dimensional trompe-l’œil embroidery that interprets the admirable scenes of nature.

Bulgari: Omnia Perfume

Katrantzou reimagines the Bulgari Omnia universe as an optimistic and colorful dreamworld, collaborating with Master Perfumer Alberto Morillas on a new fragrance and bringing joy to the entire Omnia Collection.

The limited-edition eau de parfum is a ‘floral floral’ fragrance, and is inspired by the designer’s favorite flower, the gardenia. Top notes include Mandarin Orange and Fig Leaves, middle notes are Gardenia and Orange Blossom, and base notes feature Musk and White Woods.

Beyoncé

Beyoncé wore a custom Katrantzou look for the single ‘Water’ featuring Pharrell Williams and Salatiel, in her visual album ‘Black is King.’ The iridescent piece was printed with a multicolored ‘rave cloud’ inspired by electric lightning storms and the painterly colors appearing in the sky after rain.

For the Global Citizen Festival honoring Nelson Mendela, Katrantzou created a bespoke look for Beyoncé inspired by Mother Africa and female empowerment. The sweeping puff sleeve cape, sequin-encrusted bodysuit and thigh-high boots stayed true to the designer’s boldly ornate ethos, but a map print of Africa’s 54 countries added another level of visual interest. The designer first mapped out the continent on the superstar, creating a floral patchwork that was printed on a sequin base and then hand-embroidered it with Swarovski crystals.

Katrantzou also designed a custom dress for Beyoncé’s fifth and final performance in London of her iconic ‘Renaissance’ tour. The bespoke beaded peplum and bodysuit in black micro-bugle, crystal, and gold sequined hand embroidery was meant to resemble a perfume bottle and also featured a custom Stephen Jones bottle top headpiece, latex boots and gloves, creating a visually striking and avant-garde ensemble.

Marina Rinaldi

Inspired by the back covers of ancient books made by Florentine and Venetian craftsmen and admired in the great Greek and Italian libraries, Katrantzou developed a series of garments where she blends her vision and Marina Rinaldi’s identity in a very personal way.

Katrantzou is known for her magnetic prints that create silhouettes and unexpected effects on the body; in this collaboration the protagonists are marble textures that create different shadow effects. Focusing precisely on the different effects that can be perceived in the textures of the garments, the different outerwear, made with pure sartorial care, are overwhelmingly reinterpreting classics of the male wardrobe. The different shades of shadows reach their highest level thanks to a fabric made by weaving three threads that gradually fade into each other to give an additional allure to the coat with fur collar.

After the success of their first collaboration, Katrantzou designed a second exclusive capsule collection with Marina Rinaldi: A bold, eclectic and free-spirited collection, an invitation to immerse yourself in a kaleidoscopic universe of styles and colors.

Lipsy

Katrantzou joined forces with high street brand Lipsy in an eye-catching, uplifting collection inspired by the designer’s archival prints. The fresh, feminine, floral-filled collection collection is a refreshing bouquet of bold, beautiful blooms with one-of-a-kind prints that bring a breath of fresh air to skater silhouettes, tea dresses, maxis, and easy style staples, along with getaway-ready swimwear.

Art De La Table

In honor of her son’s christening at the Holy Cathedral of Agios Nikolaos in Spetses, Greece, Katrantzou hosted a spectacular celebration at a private waterfront location on the peninsula of Kouzounos. The designer created a collection of dinnerware in exquisite colors to set the tone of the event: In the landscaped garden, four giant circular tables were built around hand-crafted trees that served as centerpieces, creating a canopy of color under which the guests enjoyed a meal al fresco. Everything was matched to the plates, from the bespoke tablecloths and the embroidered napkin to the chair covers and the flower arrangements.

Following dinner and dessert, color-coded fireworks signaled the move to the dance floor, in a tent created by thousands of fairy lights overlooking the Aegean Sea.

New York City Ballet: Belles-Lettres

For the New York City Ballet Fall Gala, dancers took to the stage in costumes designed by Mary Katrantzou for ‘Belles-Lettres,’ choreographed by resident choreographer, Justin Peck and set to an untitled piano piece by César Franck.

The title of the piece was crafted from a dual perspective: the basic description of Katrantzou’s work and a category of literature valued for its elegant aesthetics. The brief was to create unique ensembles that were both visually stunning and fully functional; the result was nude, fitted leotards with intricately embroidered lavender, yellow and burgundy lace appliqués; the body acting as a host for the embroidered letters to dance around.

Opéra National de Paris: Entre Chien et Loup

Reuniting with acclaimed choreographer Justin Peck on his first commission outside the United States, Katrantzou designed costumes for his new ballet, ‘Entre Chien et Loup’ at the Opéra national de Paris. She brought Peck’s vision to life at Paris’s Opera Bastille, incorporating bright hues into block shades of black to present flashes of rainbow color through engineered pleats designed to accentuate motion.

Katrantzou took her cues from a recurrent idea in set designer John Baldessari’s work, in which faces are obscured by brightly colored dots, making them seem more like sculptural forms than individuals. When the drop curtain rises on the opening tableau, we see a group of black-clad figures, their faces covered by brightly hued dot masks, standing in front of a graphic backdrop. A brilliant orange light glows behind; the effect is visually stunning.

Greek National Opera: Don Quixote

Katrantzou was tapped to design costumes for the Greek National Opera Ballet’s ambitious new production of Ludwig Minkus’ ‘Don Quixote,’ one of the most celebrated ballets ever created, inside the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.

Don Quixote is one of the most important and popular works in the classical ballet repertoire. Guided by the singular music of Minkus, the choreography tells a story imbued with the lofty ideals of knighthood and chivalry, and never fails to touch audiences thanks to its skilful mix of comedy and romance. It is also one of the most demanding ballets in the repertoire, and considered a major challenge for classical ballet dancers due to its high level of technical difficulty – the manner in which it is performed reveals the standing of a ballet company as a whole.

Villeroy & Boch

Katrantzou teamed up with ceramics specialist Villeroy & Boch to create a vibrant and timeless tile collection, designed to function as collectable artworks as well as interior design pieces, using a combination of digital printing techniques and traditional screen-printing methods with a 3D effect added to give a handmade appearance to each piece.

Titled ‘Victorian,’ the collection features eight different decor sets of tiles joined by concentric designs with stylized borders and edges inspired by the geometry of Victorian tiles and the distinct nature of Katrantzou’s archival designs. The range uses a bold color palette of gold, white and black and many of the tiles are adorned with colorful butterflies, which Katrantzou featured to communicate optimism and to explore the theme of metamorphosis.

Nick Knight x Mary Katrantzou

To celebrate her fifth anniversary in fashion, Katrantzou collaborated with acclaimed British image-maker Nick Knight on a dizzying and elaborate six-minute fashion film for SHOWstudio celebrating Katrantzou’s visual language through Knight’s ever-curious lens.

Katrantzou’s eclectic and extensive visual language is transformed into something utterly new when paired with Knight’s lens, where computer-generated imagery and three-dimensional graphics play off the digital techniques at work in Katrantzou’s rich archive of designs set against a backdrop of constantly shifting digital landscapes.

Victoria’s Secret x Mary Katrantzou

Celebrating Victoria’s Secret’s ultra-feminine and glamorous style, Katrantzou was tapped to create a capsule collection for the American lingerie brand to showcase at the annual Victoria’s Secret Runway Show, in store and online.

Shown on the Victoria’s Secret Runway as the ‘Floral Fantasy’ section, the collection was styled with custom pieces made in the Mary Katrantzou atelier featuring embroidery-encrusted lampshade skirts, shimmering crystal and sequin embellishments, and transparent tulle dresses. The looks were finished with oversized parachute wings and Mary Katrantzou for Atelier Swarovski jewelery.

Featuring 31 pieces in total, the in-store range included bags, activewear, sleepwear and daywear as well as the lingerie seen on the runway.

Longchamp x Mary Katrantzou

Katrantzou teamed up with Longchamp to create a capsule collection of handbags bearing exclusive new digital prints based on an ‘East Meets West’ theme, available exclusively at Colette during Couture Fashion Week.

The larger tote bag is centered upon the sculptural staircase seen in Longchamp’s New York store – a design Katrantzou believes to be the true embodiment of modern, Westernized architecture – and decorated with orchids, dragons and corals. For the second, smaller bag, the designer used both Asian architecture and New York’s Carnegie Hall as her starting points, adorning both with composites of colorful flowers and lanterns. Katrantzou also created a print to cover the label’s iconic Pliage line – a collage of floating orchids and lanterns.

Adidas x Mary Katrantzou

Katrantzou teamed up with Adidas to present ‘Adidas Originals by Mary Katrantzou,’ a capsule collection of innovative apparel and footwear emblazoned in the designer’s iconic, hyper-color, kaleidoscopic patterns. For Adidas Originals, Katrantzou’s vision is translated in apparel and footwear with a feminine strength, distilling the essence of her graphic vision.

Erik Madigan Heck

Inspired by the late interior paintings of the 19th century French painters Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard, New York photographer Erik Madigan Heck has pushed his dream-like aesthetic into new territory, blurring the lines between fashion photography and fine art using digital techniques and surface manipulation of texture and colors in post-production. Combining Katrantzou’s dazzling architectural demi-couture with decadent customized sets, Heck achieves a piercing chromatic effect.

Moose Knuckles

Combining mastery of pattern and fabrication with iconic ruggedness, and taking inspiration from the intricate artwork of High Victoriana, Katrantzou’s collaboration with Canadian brand Moose Knuckles re-interprets the patterns of the era into luxurious damasks and brocades for a luxurious take on fashionable, functional outerwear.

The energy of the collection, which includes traditional bombers and parkas transformed with pointillist embroidery, leather tufts and velvet flocked damask, was encapsulated in a campaign film by fashion filmmaker Belle Leigh Smith, who delivered a cinematic world of youth and fun.

Topshop

For her third collection for Topshop, Katrantzou created a capsule of pieces in her signature prints and structural silhouettes that focus on vivid, vibrant prints which cover every garment. The 10-piece offering included designs inspired by vivid crystal brooches, Qing Long Dynasty floral motif china, lacquered Coromandel screens, and Faberge eggs.

Porcelain bowl skirted party dresses and tailored trousers in silks and satins sit alongside buttery soft cotton simple tees and quirky leggings, which can be worn together for a bold, directional look, or teamed with pared-down existing wardrobe items

Disney x Colette

Inspired by the iconic Walt Disney full length feature film, ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,’ Katrantzou designed an exclusive collection for iconic Parisian store Colette. Marking the 80th anniversary of the groundbreaking animated feature, the collection centers on the scene-stealing dwarfs reimagined in technicolor sequin motifs, boldly embroidered on t-shirts and fully sequined sweatshirts, bombers and dresses.

Combining Katrantzou’s signature witty and colorful style with easy-to-wear silhouettes, the collection aligns with Colette’s Parisian mix of modernity and originality. To celebrate the capsule collection, Katrantzou and director Pierre Dixsaut captured an immersive shimmering wonderland with model Louise Follain and producer Ed Banger Records in a video displayed in the Colette windows.

REBEL: 30 Years of London Fashion

Launched to coincide with the start of London Fashion Week, the Design Museum offers an insight into the capital’s avant-garde designers from the last 30 years in ‘Rebel: 30 Years of London Fashion.’

One of Katrantzou’s kaleidoscopic digital printed pieces is shown in a section entitled ‘Color Explosion,’ featuring a revolt of color, print and pattern. This bold introduction sets the tone for the rest of the show, which offers up a joyous romp through London life in the 90s and 00s, capturing London’s explosion of freedom and creativity in a holistic way while exploring how the capital has been able to produce such genre-defying designers time and time again.

Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today

Curated in partnership with the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, ‘Objects of Desire’ at The Design Museum, London, explores an important dimension of the Surrealist movement, arguing for its intrinsic place in the history of design as much as art.

The exhibition, which features Katrantzou’s works, uncovers how one of the 20th century’s most influential movements came to impact design through its questioning of the conventional and its commitment to exploring the mind, unconscious and mystical. It has drawn together outstanding loans to show the best in Surrealist and Surrealism-inspired design, from furniture and interior design to fashion and photography, reveling in the license offered by Surrealism to create according to rules of feeling, dream and an imaginative logic at odds with the requirements of function or the apparent rationality of dominant social norms.

Just as the boundaries between painting, fashion, sculpture, design and film were fluid for Dalí and his contemporaries, so the exhibition mediates the strangeness of individual contemporary objects through film, fashion, photography and fine art.

Swarovski: Masters of Light

On view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, Swarovski’s first-ever exhibition unveils the history of collaborations between the Austrian crystal dynasty and the greatest artists of fashion, cinema, and music. ‘Swarovski – Masters of Light,’ curated by Alexander Fury,

The space is divided into seven history-charting ‘Chambers of Wonder’ – Time Chamber, Masters of Light, Future History, Jewelry Box, Pop Icons, Mathemagical and Diamonds of the Future. Exploring Swarovski’s universe from 19th-century Vienna to 21st-century Shanghai, this exhibition features 60 outfits designed by some of the world’s most famous fashion houses. Among these remarkable garments are radiant red carpet ensembles worn by pop icons spanning different decades, showing how the collaboration between fashion and jewelry has pushed the boundaries of creativity to new heights.

Camp: Notes on Fashion

Katrantzou was featured in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’s exhibition, ‘Camp: Notes on Fashion,’ with five emblematic looks from past seasons, exploring trompe l’oeil prints, architectural shapes and exquisite embroidered details that have made the brand infamous over the last decade.

For the first time, the accompanying retail assortment presented a 300-product store-in-store experience called ‘Camp Collection,’ for which Katrantzou and other designers developed products that reflect their perspectives on the camp sensibility and exuberant aesthetic.

Femme Fatales: Strong Women in Fashion

The first exhibition in fashion history to focus exclusively on female designers, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in the Netherlands organized ‘Femmes Fatales: Strong Women in Fashion’ at a moment of increased female leadership at the helm of fashion houses in a business historically dominated by men.

The exhibition was inspired by Maria Grazia Chiuri’s first fashion show as Creative Director of Dior, which featured t-shirts aimed at participating in the social and political debates surrounding gender and power. ‘Femmes Fatales: Strong Women in Fashion’ examines the work of female couturières and designers since the 17th century, questioning if there are differences in the work itself or the designers’ vision of fashion when compared with that of their male counterparts.

In addition to works by Katrantzou and other renowned international fashion designers, the exhibition also considers the lesser-known women behind the scenes of the many fashion houses, whose far-reaching influence is something that has been completely overlooked in fashion history

Kaleidoscope Karantzou: 10 Years in Fashion

The SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film at the Savannah College of Art and Design presents an exhibition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Katrantzou’s eponymous label. This retrospective of the designer’s work from the past decade features iconic looks that reveal her innovative approach combining fashion, art and technology, while her innovative design philosophy mirrors SCAD’s signature approach to cross-disciplinary education.

Curated by Alexandra Sachs, SCAD FASH Executive Director, and Rafael Gomes, Director of Fashion Exhibitions, ‘Kaleidoscope Katrantzou’ features 180 pieces from the designer’s archive, presented on simple, glossy white mannequins in a pared-back display that allows her designs to speak for themselves.

Mary, Queen of Prints

The Dallas Contemporary presents Katrantzou’s first solo exhibition, ‘Mary, Queen of Prints,’ in curated by Museum Director Peter Doroshenko and Director of Exhibitions Justine Ludwig. The exhibition showcases 180 pieces from the designer’s archive, presented in color groupings, granting a peek into Katrantzou’s kaleidoscopic world and her masterful use of color that has been at the core of her aesthetic since the beginning of her brand.

The 180-piece show is timed to the designer’s 10th anniversary. To stage the exhibition, the museum removed its interior walls for the first time in about a decade. The dresses are arranged on mannequins that stand on color-coordinating hexagonal plinths. The results are as kaleidoscopic as you’d expect.

Editorial

Katrantzou’s work has been featured extensively in magazines around the world, gaining recognition for her artistic approach to fashion. In editorial spreads, Katrantzou’s designs stand out for their bold prints, vibrant colors, and architectural silhouettes. Editors and stylists are drawn to her collections for their ability to make a statement while also exuding sophistication and elegance – whether it’s a striking printed dress or an intricately embellished ensemble, Katrantzou’s innovative pieces add a touch of artistry and flair to fashion editorials, captivating readers with their visual impact and storytelling.

Katrantzou’s designs have been featured in editorial shoots lensed by iconic photographers such as Tim Walker, Steven Meisel, and Annie Leibovitz, among others, resulting in visually stunning images that showcase the versatility and beauty of her creations.

Fashion Shows

A spectacle of creativity and innovation, Katrantzou’s fashion shows are experiences that celebrate the boundless possibilities of fashion as an art form. Each season presents a journey into the designer’s imaginative world, where bold prints, intricate textures, and architectural silhouettes come together in a harmonious symphony of design.

Katrantzou’s runways are renowned for their theatricality and attention to detail, with every element carefully curated to enhance the storytelling behind her collections. Visual spectacles, her shows often transport audiences to surreal landscapes where reality blurs with fantasy, inviting them to immerse themselves in a world of limitless possibilities.