FILEP MOTWARY
Photographer – Journalist – Costum Designer – Curator
Cyprus-Syria origins FilepMotwary started off his career assisting as a stylist for the Greek editions of L’Officiel and Vogue.
For four years he worked as head designer at the Athenian atelier LOUKIA for the haute couture and prêt-a-porter collections.
He moved to Paris and worked for prestigious Houses like John Galliano, Christian Dior and Chloe in mid 2000.
Motwary continues to create costumes for bespoke projects alone or in collaboration with jewelry designer Maria Mastori with whom they worked together on six pret-a-porter collections, from 2006 to 2010.
His costumes have been presented in several of museums, including ModeMuseum Hasselt in Belgium, Atopos, La GaiteLyrique in Paris, Centraal Museum Utrecht in The Netherlands, Muséed’Art et d’Histoire de Saint-Brieucin Brittany France.
Since 2005, he founded the three times awarded blog Un nouVeauiDEAL and has been included in Prestel’s “The World’s Top Fashion Blogs” edited by Susie Bubble and William Oliver, published by PRESTEL (2011).
He is the Fashion Features Editor of Dapper Dan Magazine and counts approximately 350 interviews since 2004 with pioneers such as Gareth Pugh, Thom Browne, Rick Owens, Christian Lacroix, Paolo Roversi, Helmut Lang, Dries Van Noten, Haider Ackermann, Yohji Yamamoto, Christophe Lemaire, Juergen Teller…
As a photographer he collaborates with the digital Joyce.com in Hong Kong since 2011, Vogue.fr, Vogue.it, New Yorker’s THE CUT, Boycott, Harper’s Bazaar, Wmagazine, Totem, Kenzo, Chloe, Sacai, TheStimuleye, among others.
He also collaborates closely with the founder and director of the Villa Noailles and Hyères Festival, Jean Pierre Blanc.
In February 2014, Motwary was invited by Premiere Vision and Zoom by Fatexto exhibit a series of large-scale photographs as a solo show, titled “STREET IT BOYS”.
Motwary is the curator of educational event FASHION ON SCREEN, a short films festival presented in Athens organized by Fashion Workshop, counting its second edition in spring 2015.
He is now working on a project to be revealed in late 2015.
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