Nothing breaks or heals like the heart, something Greek designer Dimitra Petsa is currently discovering after getting out of an eight-year relationship.
“I'm really rediscovering what it means to fall in love and reflecting that self-love on myself,” said the designer backstage, who participated in her immersive show by writing a poem that she read to the audience.
“It's very important for me to put myself out there and be as sensitive as the models because designers will dress a model, but they won't put themselves in the same position they put them in. This is a way for me to connect with them. and it feels like we all support each other,” she added.
The collection remixed the Madonna-whore complex with Petsa's Greek Orthodox upbringing. She made her own tama, a small plaque engraved with images or sentences, marked with an eye, a leg or a tear that some of her models also wore on their faces.
It was a timely collection on the theme of love, as Greece became the first Orthodox Christian country to legalize same-sex marriage.
Di Petsa's signature wet trompe l'oeil illusion dresses evolved this season with new shades of royal blue and silver.
While last season she designed for special occasions and experimented with wearables, for fall 2024 she embraced it with confident dresses or pants made of cactus leather that had a slight sheen when the light hit them.
“I wanted to play with juxtapositions, like hard and soft or sensitivity and power,” Petsa said.
