Nicolas Petrou
{{Short description|Cypriot-American fashion designer and couturier}}
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|birth_name = Nicolas Petrou
|birth_place = Nicosia, Cyprus
|education = Central Saint Martins
|label_name = Petrou\Man
|years_active = 1993–Present
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|parents = Spyridon Petrou and Eleftheria Efthimiou
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Nicolas Petrou is a Cypriot-American fashion designer and couturier based in New York City.
Early life and education
Nicolas Petrou was born in Nicosia, Cyprus to Spyridon Petrou and Eleftheria Efthimiou. After graduating from high school, he moved to London where he completed his foundations studies in art and design at Harrow College. He then attended the Regent's American College in London before enrolling in the fashion design graduate program at
Central Saint Martins. He graduated from Saint Martins with a Master of Arts degree in 1992.
Career
Petrou moved to New York in 1993 where he began designing for several fashion houses, receiving rave reviews for his collections. In 1995, the New York Times applauded Nicolas Petrou and his then design partner, Michael Lund as fresh, new talents.{{cite news |title=Review/Fashion; Fur Tradition Versus Fur Fun|newspaper=The New York Times|year=1995 |accessdate=April 10, 2014|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/23/style/review-fashion-fur-tradition-versus-fur-fun.html}} His collections have been featured in fashion and other prestigious publications, including the cover of WWD, T Magazine of The New York Times, Dazed and Confused, Seventh Man, V- MAN, Vogue, Elle, Bazaar, Numero, W, Interview, Metal and The New York Times.{{cite web |title=PETROUMAN|publisher=notjustalabel.com|year=2011 |accessdate=April 10, 2014|url=http://www.notjustalabel.com/petrouman}} Additionally, Petrou has dressed many celebrities, such as Lady Gaga"Nicolas Petrou: Postmodern Avant-Garde Designer",The Examiner,2010 and Beyoncé.{{cite magazine |title=Lady Gaga and Beyoncé Wear Giant Ruffles on the 'Telephone' Set|magazine=New York Magazine|year=2010 |accessdate=April 16, 2014|url=http://nymag.com/thecut/2010/02/lady_gaga_and_beyonce.html}} In 2011, Petrou was featured in the fashion book, Not A Toy: Radical Character Design in Fashion and Costume by Atopos and Vassilis Zidianakis.Atopos and Vassilis Zidianakis, Not A Toy: Radical Character Design in Fashion and Costume, Publisher: Pictoplasma (July 15, 2011)
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Petrou launched his private label, PETROU with a store on Madison Avenue in 2006.{{cite web |title=Petrou Opens on Madison Avenue=NY Mag|year=2012 |accessdate=April 10, 2014|url=http://nymag.com/shopping/openings/21656/}} The store featured a high-end womenswear line.{{cite web |title=Petrou Launching Line, Madison Avenue Store=Women's Wear Daily|year=2006 |accessdate=April 10, 2014|url=http://www.wwd.com/retail-news/retail-features/petrou-launching-line-madison-avenue-store-525403}}
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In 2009, he launched a high end menswear collection under the name PETROU\MAN that sells in the US and Hong Kong.{{cite web |title=Where Nicolas Petrou Find Vintage Comme Des Garçons|publisher=Racked.com|year=2009 |accessdate=April 10, 2014|url=http://ny.racked.com/archives/2012/04/11/new_york_city_has_more_222.php}} The high-end menswear collection offers a "fresh twist in men's wardrobe".{{cite web |title=Nicolas PETROU\MAN-ifique|publisher=Yatzer|year=2012 |accessdate=April 10, 2014|url=http://www.yatzer.com/Nicolas-PETROU-MAN-ifique}} The debut collection, which Dazed Digital described as a deconstruction of sportswear, featured masked skins with colorful patterns, including star-spangled motifs.{{cite web |title=Petrou Man Womenswear S/S10=Dazed Digital|year=2009 |accessdate=April 10, 2014|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/4670/1/petrou-man-womenswear-s-s10}} His second collection "was inspired by the lives of nomads and applied their travels to his signature mix of sportswear...creating a rich, unusual texture achieved through his combination of fabrics and prints".{{cite web |title=Petrou/MAN Womenswear A/W10=Dazed Digital|year=2010 |accessdate=April 10, 2014|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/6622/1/petrou-man-womenswear-a-w10}} For his Spring 2011 collection, he mainly used beige and navy, mixed with tribal and ethnic prints and elaborate headpieces of colorful birds, butterflies, and tin toys. In an interview with Dazed Digital, Petrou said that the collection was a mélange of Western style with Pacific Islander and African influences.{{cite web |title=Petrou Man Womenswear S-S11=Dazed Digital|year=2010 |accessdate=April 10, 2014|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/8332/1/petrou-man-womenswear-s-s11}}
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In March 2013, Petrou launched his spinoff label, a diffusion line called audience by PETROU\MAN. The debut collection received rave reviews and one of the pieces was included in "The Top 10 Items from Fall/Winter 2014" list of The New York Times T Magazine.{{cite web |title=The Collections, The Top 10 Items from Fall/Winter 2014 Men's Trade Shows=T Magazine|year=2014 |accessdate=April 10, 2014|url=http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/24/the-collections-the-top-10-items-from-fallwinter-2014-mens-trade-shows/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0}} Inspired by abstract painting, Petrou experimented with tie-dye and acid-wash techniques on mixed textures of cotton and wool to create unique silhouettes.{{cite web|title=AUDIENCE BY PETROU-MAN, 2014 AW COLLECTION=Chasseur Magazine|year=2014|accessdate=April 10, 2014|url=http://chasseurmagazine.com/2014/01/30/audience-by-petrouman-2014-aw-collection/|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140416235906/http://chasseurmagazine.com/2014/01/30/audience-by-petrouman-2014-aw-collection/|archivedate=April 16, 2014}}
Collaborations
Nicolas Petrou has collaborated with various artists, such as Stephen Shanabrook and Veronika Georgieva, as well as Henrik Vibskov for the cover of Dazed & Confused, which was photographed by Kacper Kasprzyk and styled by Robbie Spencer.{{cite web |title=Faceless=Dazed|year=200 |accessdate=April 10, 2014|url=http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/6442/1/faceless}} He also designed costumes for New York-based dance company, Chamecki Lerner.{{cite web|title=Collaboratos=Chamecki Lerner|year=2010|accessdate=April 10, 2014|url=http://www.chameckilerner.com/bio.html|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909042818/http://chameckilerner.com/bio.html|archivedate=September 9, 2014}} He is also one of the founders and creative director of The Market NYC.{{cite web |title=Q&A WITH ALEX PABON, FOUNDER OF THE MARKET NYC |publisher=New York Vintage |year=2013 |accessdate=February 14, 2013 |url=http://newyorkvintage.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/qa-with-alex-pabon-founder-of-the-market-nyc}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|www.petrouman.com/PETROUMAN_NICOLAS_PETROU.html}}
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Category:Alumni of Central Saint Martins
Category:Alumni of Regent's University London
Category:American businesspeople in fashion
Category:American fashion designers
Category:American LGBTQ businesspeople
Category:LGBTQ fashion designers
Category:American people of Greek Cypriot descent
Category:Cypriot emigrants to the United States