{"id":245968,"date":"2025-12-18T16:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=245968"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:04:42","slug":"ancient-kallos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/ancient-kallos\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Kallos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"25\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"25\">By Christos Zabounis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"27\" data-end=\"267\">A few years ago, on a boat, my sister complimented a well-dressed lady on her beautiful dress. \u201cIt\u2019s Greek. <em data-start=\"137\" data-end=\"153\">Ancient Kallos<\/em>,\u201d declared the lady &#8211; Latin American by origin, but married to an Egyptian friend of ours from the <em data-start=\"251\" data-end=\"259\">Forbes<\/em> list. This anecdotal introduction is not meant to showcase the social connections of the writer\u2019s family, but rather to highlight the international footprint of the Greek fashion house. The \u201ctwo girls from Thessaloniki,\u201d as they are known in the industry, are celebrating this year ten years of activity with a coffee-table book presenting their collections, photographed in different locations across our country. From Kythnos to Aegina, from Mykonos to Tinos, from Crete to Spetses, from Paros to Corfu, and from Mani to Hydra, the evolution of the brand has been <em data-start=\"832\" data-end=\"845\">foudroyante<\/em>, as the French say. Leading Greek photographers were invited to convey through their images the spirit of <em data-start=\"952\" data-end=\"968\">Ancient Kallos &#8211; <\/em>a spirit the reader gradually discovers, page by page. The \u201ccoat of arms,\u201d if you will allow the term, is the traditional embroidery, two examples of which adorn the fabric cover of this collectible volume. The identity, as Lambrini Stavrou &#8211; one of the two \u201cgirls\u201d &#8211; points out, is \u201ca journey into the folk architecture of the Cyclades, not as external references, but as a part of who I am.\u201d As for the other girl, Stella, she modestly thanks her sister for her inspiration and inexhaustible energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Christos Zabounis A few years ago, on a boat, my sister complimented a well-dressed lady on her beautiful dress. \u201cIt\u2019s Greek. Ancient Kallos,\u201d declared the lady &#8211; Latin American by origin, but married to an Egyptian friend of ours from the Forbes list. This anecdotal introduction is not meant to showcase the social connections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":245965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18496],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245970,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245968\/revisions\/245970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}