My very first formal collection, created in Athens while I was still working as a statistician.
This work was prepared after being accepted to participate in Athens Fashion Week, which gave me the motivation to approach it with professionalism, creating sketches, drawings, and even a portfolio book.
Inspiration
The collection was inspired by the sea seashells and the shine they give to the surface of the sand.
I imagined stones, sea-nets, and seashells in different sizes and textures, as adornments for garments that captured both fragility and strength.
What I learned
At the time, some professional mentors told me:
“If buyers want to order your designs, you must guarantee you can reproduce them with the same fabric.”
And I thought: “But I created these from deadstock remnants and sea nets… I could never find the same materials again. “Maybe this kind of standardized fashion business is not for me.”
That realization stayed with me. I was already leaning toward uniqueness, scarcity, and material-led design, though I didn’t yet have the words for it.
The Beginning
Although I didn’t end up showing the collection (the dates overlapped with our relocation to Amsterdam), this project remains my first seed. It was not yet the Fitol concept, but it opened the path and showed me what mattered most.
My very first formal collection, created in Athens while I was still working as a statistician.
This work was prepared after being accepted to participate in Athens Fashion Week, which gave me the motivation to approach it with professionalism, creating sketches, drawings, and even a portfolio book.
Inspiration
The collection was inspired by the sea seashells and the shine they give to the surface of the sand.
I imagined stones, sea-nets, and seashells in different sizes and textures, as adornments for garments that captured both fragility and strength.
What I learned
At the time, some professional mentors told me:
“If buyers want to order your designs, you must guarantee you can reproduce them with the same fabric.”
And I thought: “But I created these from deadstock remnants and sea nets… I could never find the same materials again. “Maybe this kind of standardized fashion business is not for me.”
That realization stayed with me. I was already leaning toward uniqueness, scarcity, and material-led design, though I didn’t yet have the words for it.
The Beginning
Although I didn’t end up showing the collection (the dates overlapped with our relocation to Amsterdam), this project remains my first seed. It was not yet the Fitol concept, but it opened the path and showed me what mattered most.
