The Victoria Karelias Collection of Traditional Greek Costumes welcomes, on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, a unique exhibition entitled “ From Avgi to Myrtis and from Myrtis to the Present: the clothes narrate”, ANA reports.
Two famous ancient females, Avgi, a Mesolithic woman of 7.000 B.C. from Trikala of Kalabaka, Thessaly, and Myrtis, a young girl of 430 B.C. from Athens, Attica, meet for the first time in the Collection’s premises, featuring 9.000 years in the history of clothing.
Avgi and Myrtis, whose garments were designed by the designers Yiannis Metzikof and Sofia Kokosalaki respectively, take their place amongst the costumes of the Collection, in an attempt to illuminate the gradual transformation of clothes from mere means of survival to a means of expressing mental processes and a carrier of complex social messages. Taken as two fixed points of reference in time, Avgi and Myrtis become the starting point of an interesting discussion about the primary role of clothing in prehistory and its evolution in historical times based on raw materials at hand, productive capabilities, and social stratification within given living conditions.
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