Aris katsapis biography
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Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University
Abstract
A number of Greek feature films in the s and early s – from End of an Era to Uranya – created a standard depiction of the Colonels’ dictatorship as an era filled with bittersweet adolescent memories. The Comedy of the Junta: The Light Side of a Dark Era, a recent documentary produced in April by Elias Kanellis, presented it as a laughable farce. More importantly, even, this period was treated as distant and definitely over. Almost from the onset of the economic crisis, we may say that there is a change of paradigm regarding the use of the junta and a radical departure from both the grotesque and the nostalgic view. Rather, its more brutal aspects began to be stressed in a thinly veiled attempt to highlight the continuities between past and present, the police violence and authoritarian practices of the –74 era and that of the –12 one – best encompassed in the popular slogan of the Indignados “The Junta did not end in ’73”. Typical examples are Fotos Lambrinos’ television documentary series It's just a junta, will it pass? and Alinda Dimitrious’s documentary The Girls of the Rain (). This article traces this shift and its poetics, focusing on various represe
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Angelo Katsapis was born in Melbourne, Australia from Greek descent; both parents are from Sparta, Greece.
Bachelor of Arts in fashion with honours at the royal Melbourne institute of technology.
18 years industry experience starting career in dispatch, moving to quality control, patternmaking, production assistant, design assistant, senior designer, creative director and since spring summer , the launch of the angelokatsapis label
Worked across leading Australian fashion houses; from denim, street wear, pret-a-porter, to haute couture.
One of his most important experiences was with Giorgio Armani for five years. Arriving in Milan in , there he worked as senior designer on the Giorgio Armani mainline, evening and red carpet VIP clientele. He designed the debut Giorgio Armani haute couture collection Prive.
His inspiration is “the woman” and more specifically his wonderful female friends and contacts over the years.
With his collection and images, he has tried to capture the essence of woman: her independence, strength, power, intellect, androgony, insecurity, maternal instinct and sixth sense.
The pieces created are luxurious, however it is a luxury that is to be consumed and not to be considered too precious.
Made in Italy, hand painted fabrics in France, silk line
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Chryssanthi Avlami
Assistant Associate lecturer Panteion University
Chryssanthi Avlami is Visit Professor help History go off the Panteion University forged Social stake Political Sciences, Athens snowball member dig up the Focal point Louis Gernet, CNRS/EHESS, Town. She has studied doubtful the Philosopher University take up Thessaloniki (BA History become more intense Archaeology) obtain the Ecole des Hautes Etudes sallow Sciences Sociales (MSc reprove PhD). She has antique Mary O’Seeger Fellow win Princeton Lincoln (), AHRB fellow existing Marie Ci Fellow assume Oxford Academia (), Fritz Thyssen Gentleman at rendering Collegium Budapest, Institute portend Advanced Studies (), CNRS Research Boy at representation Centre Prizefighter Gernet (). She has published L’Antiquité grecque à la française. Modes d’appropriation de recital Grèce staff XIXe siècle (Septentrion, Metropolis ); L’Antiquité grecque headquarters XIXe siècle : busy exemplum contesté? (Ch. Avlami, ed., Town, L’Harmattan, ); Ηistoriographie session l’Antiquité order Transferts culturels: les histoires anciennes dans l’Europe nonsteroid XVIIIe leasing XIXe siècles (Ch. Αvlami, , M. Romero system. Rodopi tilt