Filep Motwary
Filep Motwary is an Independent Fashion Curator, a published Author and Fashion Critic, Photographer, and Art Director.
Since 2018, he has been the Editor-at-Large of Vogue Greece.
He has curated several fashion exhibitions, including Amicci’s “Fashions We Keep” (2024), SYNERGY: Art into Fashion (A. G. Leventis Museum, CY 04.22 – 09.22) and the blockbuster “Haute-à-Porter” (Modemuseum Hasselt, BE, 04.16 – 09.16) for which he was also the author of the best-selling book with the same title ( Lannoo, distribution Rizzoli). “Haute-à-Porter” was ranked by Forbes as one of the top three for that year.
In 2019, he released his second book titled Theorem[a]: The Body, Emotion + Politics in Fashion, published by Skira featuring his in-depth conversations with fashion pioneers such as Hussein Chalayan, MET’s Harold Koda, Jean Paul Gaultier, Michèle Lamy, Nick Knight, Suzy Menkes, Iris Van Herpen […]
Between the years 2005 -2022, he has interviewed a stellar list of over 500 leading experts from the world of fashion and the arts, including Donatella Versace, Giorgio Armani, Maria Grazia Chiuri (Dior), Shirin Neshat, Thomas Houseago […]
He honored the position of Editor-at-Large at Dapper Dan Magazine until May 2023.
Motwary is a visiting lecturer at Polimoda University in Florence focusing on both the practice of Curating Fashion and Art Direction, since 2015.
From 2011 to 2015 he collaborated closely with Jean Pierre Blanc and the prestigious Hyères Festival in the south of France, where he worked on projects with Yohji Yamamoto, Felipe Oliveira Baptista, Karl Lagerfeld and Chanel, Kenzo […]
His latest project for the Cyprus Handicraft Service is a series of films under the title #craftingcyprus that premiered both in July 2022 and July 2023 at Révélations International Biennial of Crafts and Creation and later at the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona - now touring the world.
“A CULTURAL EQUATION”, his latest film celebrates Pharos Arts Foundation’s 25th anniversary and has just been released.
In May 2024 his series of photographs with his costumes titled “The Betrothed” was exhibited in Tbilisi.
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