Your Granny Can Fly - Traditional Textiles into Fashion

Your Granny Can Fly:
Traditional Textiles into Fashion

Come along to Lefkara and to see how the village's lace-makers have joined forces with young people & trainers & craft-workers from the UK, Romania & Slovakia to create contemporary costume - it has been a revelation.

Hylates, heritage & environmental consultancy from Limassol have teamed up with Grampus Heritage from the UK, the Devetaki Plateau Association from Bulgaria, Satul Verde from Romania and the Lefkara Municipality & Gymnasium to create a fashion show with a difference. The Lefkara Hotel, with their art in the community brand, provides valuable support & the venue for a show at 12:30 on Sunday, 10th April. Featured will be 'Your Granny Can Fly: Traditional Textile into Fashion'. Models from Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria & the UK will show some ground-breaking use of 'Lefkaritika' in modern stylish costume plus traditional textiles from the UK, Bulgaria & Romania incorporated into trendy creations. The Lefkara Gymnasium offers some wacky input with lino-cut printed costume with 'pop-art' inspiration & traditional Cypriot motifs onto linen & denim. The show is supported by the European Union's 'Leonardo da Vinci' fund within the framework of a 10-country 'Development of Innovation' initiative called 'Green Village'. The part, which supports the Lefkara show, is under 'Empowering Communities'.

Special Thanks to Aristodemos Aristodemou & Eli Raouna from Pano Lefkara, Eli Korniotou from Kato Drys, Panayiota Demetriou from Kato Lefkara, Students of Lefkara Gymnasium & their Art-Teachers Angeliki Sophocleous & Marios Varellas, Jenny Bush, Manuela Beloescu, Monica Oprean, Adriana Patkova & Thomas Hadjikyriaco, Martin Clark, Christos Avraam, Staff of Lefkara Hotel & Restaurant