At Marathon
Street already worked long famed for its time, "Atelier Couture Maria
Diamanti", a place of
exceptional aesthetics which ladies and misses visiting frequently to choose
and order creations designed and built specially for them, from delicate
fabrics with excellent seam quality. Owner of Maria Diamanti’s , fashion and
hat designer. On the occasion of the great desire of many girls to be initiated into the
secrets of the most intensively exploited in the occupation era, the
"Atelier Couture Maria Diamanti", welcomes a new activity, patterns
and sewing lessons. So the classical Marathon Street expand to accommodate the
establishment of one of the few in Greece official sewing schools. The rooms
are filled with girls who move keeping figurines , scoops, fabrics and wear
aprons with embroidered initials "elastic spiral-N.a." IE. Cutting-Tailoring,
Maria Diamanti.
In 24 years of operation, the school graduated a large number of students who will professionally in fashion. In the war
the Atelier and the faculty are recruited so parallel activities, sew clothing
for soldiers. In 1959 the school closes and the Atelier passes into the hands
of the daughter of the founder, and his activities are limited to the
manufacture of handmade clothes on request. Work that way for over 40 years.
1975 born in Athens, the
granddaughter of Maria Diamanti.
She takes the name of her grandmother and
naturally-growing inside the Atelier-trained from Grandma and aunt in the art
of tailoring. For game itself sew
clothes for her dolls and when bored catching chatting with clients waiting for
rehearsal. Finish high school and is studying fashion design and costume design
in fashion College Theatre Romanos of fashion college, from where he graduated
having excelled in 1995, with the best new designer of delivered by Michael
Polatov and a proposal for cooperation with the school, which accepts and so
remains there to work as a trainer of new designers. Teaches patterns, fabric
theory and edited the student demonstrations for 5 years. Then teach for three
years in the school's fashion design department Cristi while making costumes
for performances and artists.
Keramikos, 2012 ... Creates
the staff of Studio, just a few meters away from that first the historical
Marathon Street Atelier and as she is the grandmother's name, the Studio is
called "maria DiamanDi". In personal space anymore, creates clothes
designed and sewn exclusively for the woman who has ordered. Studying each
person individually, elements of appearance, temperament, proposes unique
creations, designed exclusively for the person and not adapted to it. "There are
no season, neither tendencies, there is only inspiration and experimentation,
fine fabrics ... Each garment is a unique work of art with a lot of hand work, creating timeless. Is extremely
dismal each season to throw her clothes earlier because they did not submit to
the dictates of fashion. According my vision something that I like, I want it forever ".
In March 2013, one year after the day it reopened, following a requirement
of many people who wish to be trained either for personal creative activities,
whether for business, in the design and manufacture of clothing, the Atelier
maria DiamanDi celebrated his first birthday in welcoming the courses to create
clothing and accessories.
In March 2013, one year after the day it reopened, following a requirement
of many people who wish to be trained either for personal creative activities,
whether for business, in the design and manufacture of clothing, the Atelier
maria DiamanDi celebrated his first birthday in welcoming the courses to create
clothing and accessories.
Today.. Five years have passed since the day that the historic
Studio/sewing School of Maria Diamanti reopened at keramikos reviving lessons
to create clothing and fashion accessories and theater from the 1935
grandmother deliver! and continue with a new project.
And unceasingly continues the creative meetings and educates young
participants in a wide range of courses which include
• Fashion design
• Fashion Designing [women – men – children's clothing]
• Cutting – Sewing
• Construction fashion accessories and Theatre [.. such as hats, bags,
gloves, theatrical mask]
• History of costume
• Fabric history
• Fashion Vocabulary
• Embroidery
maria DiamanDi
Marathonos 31, Keramikos, 10435
mdiamadi@yahoo.gr
Facebook: " Maria DiamanDi - Maria DiamaDi " - Facebook Page:
" Maria Diamandi "
mob. 6933093100
Wanting these knowledge to present to the general public and to explain the
different way of experiencing both in planning and in execution of the costume
and accessories if they came into contact with the creation and the history of,
organise Exhibition themed costume as art form in fashion and cinema of the
past decades and the title "FASHION REWIND".
As reported by same Maria Diamanti..
"When long before my group and I decided to do this report, for
several months, all they did was study.. I studied fashion decades books,
studied the work of well-known fashion photographers who worked with designers
decades of 40s, 50s and 60s. I studied figurines era from our family collection and trust me.
.. is great – I saw movies that established fashions, I got lost in an infinite
number of images in the internet.. For a long time through the research I did,
live over again every season Fashion
Icons Women that mark fashion history such as Audrey Hepburn Melina Mercouri , Jackie O’, all the work of Avedon
for Dior, the ΄΄ROMANTSO΄΄, the ΄΄GYNAIKA΄΄, the pictures from my grandmother's creations, my friends were good. And
after ... had to choose!
My team consists of fifteen people.. the amateur section that is me. People
with whom we are together for two hours each week here and long. .. The
business come, trained and flee. At the end of two years is usually ready to
open their own wings. The amateurs but those who love to manufacture clothing
for the satisfaction of creation alone, they are always the ones with whom I'm
working on such project, through which they made and their education.
But we in my group we have a beginning. We do not use seamstresses. That show every time in such presentations are made
by me and my trainees, if anyway these people trained as designers, as a
pattern maker but also the art of Couture necessarily! In our previous report
was requested to address the garment as a means of expression and its
construction as a process out of the ordinary that don't always require the seam
but also various other alternative techniques as well as different of the usual
raw materials. But this year GO BACK!! BACK in the time when the Audrey took on the Breakfast at Tiffany's inside the black Givenchy dress, BACK in 1962, when Jackie visited India
wearing the salmon-pink Oleg Cassini
dress, BACK at Dior's New Look, BACK to the hats that he
photographed the Avedon in 1952 in Paris.
BACK to re-creating some of these legendary masterpieces not only like clothes
that resemble those originals but just the way they sewed people then.
So we press REWIND to fashion
and go BACK on a report that it is hymn to sewing technique of the past,
dedicated to every dressmaker who spent days and nights hand made tailoring , I spent hundreds of bobbins for hand klapes (technical aid
clothing cloth holder with special stitches), to every dressmaker who dressed
buttons and buttonholes, hand built into every seamstress who made fabric
Handmade flowers to decorate a dress. Dedicated to the two most cherished seamstresses
of my life, my grandmother and my aunt ... »
Participating students: Konstantina Arhondi,
Magda Ciobanka, Anna Dimogerontaki, Despina Zagoudi, Chrisanthi Kornelaki,
Georgia Koutentaki, Areti Kontogianni, Maria Lekka, Alexandra Mpakousi,
Vassilis Panayiotou, Victoria Patio, Evanthia Stefanopoulou, Fenia Cello.
