Issue #03:
Out Of The Shadows
All tagged feature
Now at the top of lists of must-stops for designers and stylists when they visit Athens, Callista Crafts did not pop up overnight. For the past six years, its cofounders Eleni Konstantinidis and Celia Sigalou have been returning to the traditional methods of leatherworking in their construction of elegant and minimalist bags for the local and international market.
While Australian fashion’s finest were being dazzled on the runways installed in the Royal Exhibition Building for Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival, a couple of blocks north in a Fitzroy backstreet, interested consumers and industry observers were being shown into a graffiti covered building.
From dainty earrings to bold statuettes, artist Holly Ryan's sculpture and jewellery forms cross between disciplines. She draws from sources as diverse as the coarse, natural beauty of the Sunshine Coast, the mystical feminine, and rituals of wabi sabi, a Japanese philosophy of transience and imperfection across both creative pursuits.
It's funny because I wouldn't say that I'm obsessed with beauty at all or that I'm inherently drawn to the beauty industry,” noted Geraerts. We are in the offices of creative agency Love + Money, on Melbourne’s Gertrude Street, which share premises with It’s All Fluff and have helped create much of the brand’s visual identity.
