This designer finds inspiration in ancient symbols and transforms them into modern collectables
I only spent half an hour with Mary Katrantzou, the very first creative director of leather items and accessories in Bvlgari, but I can totally see her whipped this band with abandonment, offering to measure everything you can arise. Although responsible for designing bags that have little room for mundaneness such as practice and prices, the designer born in Athens is the good accomplished student. His memory of the history of the Italian jewelry house is strange and his love for learning is palpable.
This could be the result of having “grew up around culture and architecture, developing a feeling of harmony and symmetry”. This is part of your training as a designer, explains Katrantzou, drawing a line through connecting to Sotirios Voulgaris, the Shoryversmith who left his native Greece for Rome, where he established the house of Bvlgari in 1884. “He looked at Rome of this perspective, and now, I discover it in the same way.”
In addition to being old and obsessed with eating well, which links the three cultures of our conversation – Greek, Roman, Indian – is our belief in the power of symbolism. The serpenti, a totem bvlgari zoomorph which inspired the handle of its last bag, Serpenti Cuore 1968, is just as attractive for Indian fans that it remains to the Roman loyalists, representing the prosperity and the regeneration of the two. I ask KATRANTZOU if it is superstitious and it admits a dusting of it can have been installed lately. “I believe in good and bad energy, and I can feel how you will feel me and how much I can be open. We are in control and shape our destiny, but a few years ago, I realized that life shows you models that continue to repeat. So if you understand them, it helps you make decisions very differently. ”
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