The Olympic Flame lighting ceremony will take place on April 16 in Ancient Olympia, marking the start of the Torch Relay for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. A simple and symbolic ceremony that takes place before each Olympiad at the site of Ancient Olympia and heralds the start of the Games. The internationally renowned Greek designer Mary Katrantzou designed the new clothing that the priestesses will wear in the Touching ceremony. The well-known designer has been leading the way over the years for imaginative prints, while she often includes elements of Greek history and culture in her collections, with her designs now enjoying international recognition.
She stated that she was inspired by the ancient Greek Ionic style capitals. Succeeding in bringing Greek history to 2024. Despite all that, the Greek designer, by all accounts, did not succeed and that’s because she did what she knows how to do very well. In other words, he created Greek prints – since he specializes in them – without emphasizing the movement of the fabrics. Let’s remember that the official costumes we saw until now, from 2016 to 2022, were designed by the Cypriot designer Eleni Kyriakou and were reminiscent of the folds in the fabrics of the statues, while they were careful even in their detail, which is not visible from afar.
The native fashion designer Marianiki Bania made a relevant post on her social networks yesterday, leaving spikes for the dress she designed herself in 2019 for the Fashion Week in Athens and which is very reminiscent of the new outfits that the priestesses will wear at the Touching of the Olympic Flame ceremony:
“I’m glad that I had done the same idea with the columns years ago, in 2019, specifically at the Fashion Week in Athens first. Then I was asked by Mr. Giorgos Koutoulias to have Natasha Vellianitis wear it in 2020 at the Miss Tourism Planet contest, where she won first place among 13 countries. And later, in 2022 I was asked for an ancient Greek event at the Four Seasons hotel where it was worn by the singer Rozana Mylan and received very good reviews from Petros Kurtis. I don’t like the clothes that Mary Katrantzou made for the Olympic Flame at all. They look dull. Without any shine and pride, as befits our country and the History it carries. To be honest, they remind me of the columns in old abandoned and neglected buildings covered in all the dust and fumes” said the native designer Marianiki Bania exclusively to “P” and pelop.gr.
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