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Fashion design
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Yannis Tseklenis is considered as the name and the talent that has put Greece on the contemporary fashion map. His creations since 1965 have been carried by leading stores in more than 20 countries and Tseklenis has won a niche in the wardrobe of thousands of well-dressed women, men and children.
Yannis Tseklenis has established a name in the international fashion market for designing thematic fabric and fashion collections. Some indicative sources that he has used have been: The Ancient Greek Vases, the Byzantine manuscripts, the Greek wood carvings and paintings, African Art, Indonesian Art, Heraldry, the Insects, Cartoons, the Persian Tapestries, Chinese Art , Spanish Art, Aegean Art, the Unicorn Tapestries and the paintings of the Impressionists, of Dominicos Theotokopoulos, of Henri Rousseau and Yannis Gaitis.
The Tseklenis signature could be also found on distinguished lines of linens, wall and floor tiles, luggage, hosiery, career uniforms and interiors of cars, aircraft and hotels.
Recently he has been mainly active in supervising artistically the creation of hotels, housing settlements and the design of public transport vehicles and other relative equipment.
1937
Born in Athens.
1953
Wins Athens College prize for painting.
1956
Gets employed in family couture-fabric retail business.
1957
Wins Eastern Mediterranean Cup of Star Class in sailing.
Starts car racing.
1961
Establishes Spectra Advertising. Among the company's
clients: METAXA,
AEGEAN MILLS, GENERAL MOTORS.
1962
By appointment of the late King Paul decorates the ATHENS
CATHEDRAL for the
wedding of Princess Sofia of Greece to Juan Carlos of Spain.
1963
Exhibits his printings in ARCHITECTONIKI in Athens.
1964
Decorates the ATHENS CATHEDRAL for King Constantine's wedding
to Princess
Anna Maria of Denmark.
1965
Succeeds to the ownership of the family business and tries his
hand in fabric design.
Presents his work during the Mediterranean Fashion Festival.
Achieves an opening in the US Market.
Designs fabrics for Elizabeth Arden Couture of New York.
1966
Licenses his prints to the US firm Puritan Fashions
Corporation.
1967
Establishes the TSEKLENIS chain of boutiques in Greece.
1968
Licenses his print dresses designs to Berketex (UK).
American Celanese employs him to design for
10 knitters manufacturers in
Germany.
Starts a small garment manufacturing operation in Athens.
1969
Designs menswear to be included in the TSEKLENIS boutiques
primarily.
Licenses his collection to the US firm David Crystal Inc.
Licenses his hosiery designs to Berkshire Hellas.
1970
Organises the first Group Fashion showings in Athens.
Licenses his ladies dresses to Frank Usher (UK).
Licenses his hosiery designs to Madison S.A.
1971
Branches out his boutiques to Beirut and Kuwait to be followed
by a boutique
in Riyadh.
Designs the uniforms of Olympic Airways hostesses.
Launches his first collection of furnishing fabrics in Athens,
Paris and London.
1972
Licences his swimwear to Benger Ribana in Germany.
Establishes TSEKLENIS MANUFACTURING LTD in Athens.
1973
Opens permanent showrooms in London and New York and
supplies the top stores
of UK and Us.
1974
Inaugurates the ultra-modern TSEKLENIS garment manufacturing
plant near Athens.
Designs the uniforms for two Greek Banks and Air Malta.
1975
Adds to the TSEKLENIS chain of boutiques the new CARAVEL
boutique in Athens.
At this point the world's top stores in 24 countries carry the
TSEKLENIS creations.
1976
Presents a Persian inspired collection in Iran, and
expands the TSEKLENIS
collaboration with Iranian firms.
1977
Enters Memorial Hospital in New York and undergoes an
operation of amputation of
his left arm to prevent a reoccurrence of cancer.
Starts his collaboration with Greece's largest department
stores MINION SA,
designing school-gear.
In August, because of a prolonged problem with the Greek
banking system, the
entire operation in Greece, factory and boutique chain closes
down.
He moves to New York where he signs with the International
Management Group, which
represent him thereafter internationally for licensing his
fabrics, children wear, and
sportswear.
.
1978
The absence of the TSEKLENIS firm from the Greek industry and
market becomes
a socioeconomic issue in Greece. Is thus offered acceptable
terms to return and
reactivate his operation.
1979
In collaboration with the MINION stores he establishes
"TSEKLENIS
INTERNATIONAL FASHION ENTERPRISES" , and starts producing
and distributing
lines for Ladies, Menswear, Accessories, Bodywear,
Action-Sportwear and Linens.
7 TSEKLENIS boutiques are being installed in the MINION
stores.
The METROPOLITAN MUSUEM OF ART of New York, acquires the
TSEKLENIS
fashion films for the Museum's film library.
The Hellenic
Ministry of Industry assigns him to organise and head for 2 years
the
"HELLENIC DESIGN CENTRE" , an institution that
offers designs to Greek
manufacturers, encouraging greek talent.
FIAT assigns him to design the interiors and face- lifting of
the FIAT 126 Personal.
1980
Achieves a comeback in the US market and opens a new showroom
on Fifth
Avenue.
1981
Starts a licensing program and licenses the TSEKLENIS
swimwear, actionwear and
rainwear
to leading greek firms.
Re-enters the UK market and sells to the top stores of London.
1982
Works along with Thessaloniki Fair for the organization of
the Hellenic Collections in
September
1982.
Launches TSEKLENIS JEANS.
1983
Illustrates the publication of Roula Alavera's poem AKIDIA
and exhibits the originals
in
Athens and Tsessaloniki.
1984
Opens the "TSEKLENIS PLATEAU" in Athens an
avant-garde space that houses his
activities.
Launches a line of wall and floor tiles.
Launches a line of bed sheets.
Art-directs Tsilifonis' film "The City Never
Sleeps", and is awarded the first prize at
the Thessaloniki Film Festival and a prize of the Hellenic
Cinema Centre.
Designs uniforms for the Municipal and the Hellenic Police.
1985
Opens 4 new boutiques in Greece.
1987
Is
appointed chairman of Piraiki-Patraiki cotton manufacturing SA.
He sets forth a
marketing plan to launch products with greek brands.
1988
Launches his two fragrances, PAN for men, and NYMPHE for
women.
Designs the interiors of the entire OLYMPIC AIRWAYS fleet of
aircraft.
1989
Resigns from Piraiki-Patraiki.
Designs a line of silver goblets, plates,
platters and candlesticks.
1990
Designs a complete line of ceramics for the table.
1991
Launches
the "Electronic House 2000" a futuristic project in
collaboration with the
architect Ingrid Fragantoni.
1992
Becomes more active in interior and environmental design
and art-directs the
establishment and the construction of the VEDEMA HOTEL complex
in Santorini.
1993/4
Art directs the creation of the presidential cottages in the
Lagonissi Hotel complex.
Designs the uniforms for the Hellenic Railways, the Hellenic
Festivals and the
Hellenic Duty Free Shops.
1995
Designs special lines of silk scarves and silk accessories
among which a special
line for the jewellery museum of
'Ilias Lalaounis'.
Designs Biomagnetic Hosiery and Shoes for Slim International.
Designs Aircraft Interiors for the Hellenic Aerospace
Industries.
1996
Designs the total look of the interior and exterior of several
types of trains
and buses
of the Hellenic Railways Organisation ( OSE )
1997
Donates his entire collection of prot?type
garments from most of his 70 fashion
lines to the Peloponnesean Folklore Foundation.
1998
Designs the buses and the trolleys of the city of Athens.
1998/9
Art directs the refurbishment of the luxurious hotel complex
ZANNOS MELATHRON
in Santorini.
1999
Designs the new suburban trains of the Hellenic Railways
Organization ( OSE )
Assigned
by the national television presents through channel 1, 13
episodes
directed
by his son Constantinos, with a title “The good and reverse
side” criticising
the
aesthetic in Greece.
Organizes the JEAN DESSES and YANNIS TSEKLENIS retrospectives
in Athens.
Publishes the TSEKLENIS’ SCRAP BOOK.
2000
Design the fleet of natural gas burning buses of Athens.
Participates as artistic consultant in the development of the ???????R???
new building
In Neo Faliro
2001
Designs and supervises the upgrading of SANTORINI –
KASTELLI RESORT HOTEL
in
Kamari, Santorini.
2002
Designs LA MALTESE Restaurant in Imerovigli, Santorini.
Designs and supervises the face lifting of the renown hotel
DANAI BEACH RESORT
in
Chalkidiki.
2003
Designs the personel uniforms of the hotels GRANDE
BRETAGNE in Athens and
MELITON PORTO CARRAS in Chalkidiki.
Designs private villas in Athens and Hydra.
2004
Designs and supervises a
stone house settlement on the island Tinos consisting of 22
villas.
Awards
- SILVER
CROSS OF THE ORDER OF PHOENIX
- MAIDEN OF CYCLADES (HELLENIC FASHION CENTRE)
- GOLD MEDAL OF FASHION (HELLENIC FASHION INSTITUTE)
Yannis Tseklenis is married to Efi Melas and has a son,
Constantinos, from his first marriage.
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