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Last updated 20:30 Sun 06 Sep 2009

FILEP MOTWARY:

FASHION DESIGNER, BLOGGER, ILLUSTRATOR,

PHOTOGRAPHER, JOURNALIST

De was born in Cyprus in 1977, Mother Cypriot Nationality , Father Syria Nationality

His fist moments in fashion, after graduating for a fashion school in Athens (1999), was working as an assistant stylist for magazines such as L'Officiel Hellas.

About a year later he was hired by Couture designer Loukia as her first Studio assistant designer, a collaboration that lasted until 2004.

During the same year Filep represented Greece, in a project launched by Absolut Vodka, entitled Absolut Country, supported by Kesselskramer in Amsterdam. He moved to Paris where he spent a period of a year working as an intern for John Galliano, Dior and Chloe.

In 2005 he returned to Geece, launching his personal collection of womenswear, in a mutual collaboration with Jewellery designer, Maria Mastori. In the same year, Filep introduced his fashion blog,

Un nouVeau iDEAL, perhaps the only real fashion page in Greece.

Since then Filep and Maria presented five collections during the Hellenic Fashion Week.

His interest in art, typography and history, soon found him involved in magazines again. Twice a year, he is the editor of the Fashion issue of Isterografo, a supplement that comes with Phileleftheros, the most respected newspaper on the island of Cyprus. He is also consulting young designers and participates in several projects around the world.
So far he has interviewed a number of highly respected individuals from the planet of fashion:
Dries Van Noten, Mary Katrantzou, Viktor and Rolf, Nicola Formichetti, A.F Vandevorst, N.A Taralis, Veronique Branquinho, Maria Luisa, Hussein Chalayan, Manish Arora, Matthias Vriens, gASPARD Yuekievich, Juun J. , cATHERINE bABA, mICHEL gAUBERT, Rick Owens, Walter Van Beirendonck, Bernhard Willhelm, Bill Georgoussis, Jean Jacques Picart, Diane Pernet, Matt Irwin, Daniel Sannwald, Jean Charles de Castelbajac, Charles Anastase, Nikoline Liv Andersen, Bruce Labruce, Rene Habermacher/Ioannis Tsipoulanis (Noumero), Ali Mahdavi, Alexandre Herchovitch, Kuki De Salvertes, Sandra Backlund, Katerina Jebb, Jackie Nickerson, Vassilis Zidianakis (curator of the PLEATS exhibition at the Benakis Museum in Athens) Lydia Kammitsis, Miguel Villasbobos, Francois Sagat, Jean Baptiste Biche..

Again in Spring of 2009 he started contibution for L'Officiel in Greece. In June 2009, Filep was offered a blog/collaboration with worldknown THE POP.

Website: http://www.unnouveauideal.typepad.com