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IDENTITY

What You Wear Is What You Are
is a major contemporary art

exhibition held at the Contemporary
Art Museum of Crete in Rethymno,

exploring how fashion and personal
expression intersect to shape

cultural narratives and artistic
From left, clockwise: Antonis Volanakis, Who
am I – OYTIS, 2025, Polyptych collage/ Bill discourse.
Georgoussis, Untitled, 2020 (Inkjet prints on Counterclockwise from top: Habermacher René,
fibre paper). Styling by Venia Polychronaki. Black Athena, Nikopolis, 2004, Athens, Greece.
Model: Adele Taska. Hair: Tomomi Roppongi. At the Contemporary Art Museum In collaboration with Jannis Tsipoulanius. Color
Makeup: Michelle Dacillo. Fashion Director: of Crete in Rethymno, the exhibition What You Wear archival inkjet pigment print. BLACK ATHENA
Sarah Richardson/ Sophia Kokosalakis (1972- Is What You Are unfolds as a bold curatorial statement is conceived as a fashion editorial with Naomi
2019)/ Yannis Bournias, Mandrake I, II, III, 2011 on the evolving dialogue between fashion and Campbell in reference to the writing of Martin
– 2012. In collaboration with artist Pantelis contemporary art. Under the direction of Maria Bernal: “Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of
Handris and make-up artist Yannis Siskos/ Classical Civilisation”. The cover story was published
Efi Spyrou, IDENTITY IN BETWEEN, 2021. A Maragkou, Maria Panayides, and Stavros Kavalaris, in the Olympic issue of VOGUE HELLAS/ Sophia
film project on the notion of identity and its the show brings together works by 29 renowned Kosmaoglou, The Carcass (Yellow Stop Sign), 1997.
multiple nature. Production: RUNONART NGO. Greek and international artists and designers, each Colour print mounted on wood. Presented as part
Project Concept ‒ Film Director: Efi Spyrou. engaging with fashion as a means of expressing of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection Gift. Collection
Cinematographer: Pavlos Mavrikidis. Artist: identity, social commentary, and cultural memory. A of the National Museum of Contemporary Art,
Marianna Kavallieratou. Photgr. Emma Louise Athens (ΕΜΣΤ)/ Rebecca Horn, Cockfeather Mask,
Charalambous, 2021 Duration: 6’ 8’.’ With centerpiece of the exhibition is the homage to the 1997 – 2003. Colour c-print from Performance II.
the support of the Ministry of Culture and late Sophia Kokosalaki, the acclaimed Rethymno- Edition 3/300. Purchased in 2003. Inv. No. 496/03
Sports, MOMus-Museum of Contemporary born fashion designer whose groundbreaking work Collection of the National Museum of Contemporary
Art-Collections of the Macedonian Museum of bridged classical Greek forms with global innovation. Art, Athens (ΕΜΣΤ)/ Hussein Chalayan, Airmail Dress,
Contemporary Art and the State Museum of Her garments, jewelry, and sketches—drawn from her UK 1999. Tyvek ‘paper like material’, ATOPOS cvc
Contemporary Art and the Organization for collection, 2010.10.032.
Culture and Development NEON. family’s private collection—reflect a deep reverence
for heritage infused with avant-garde sensibility.
The exhibition challenges visitors to reconsider the
boundaries between clothing and art, tracing how
garments have long functioned not merely as coverings,
but as powerful signifiers of status, individuality,
and artistic intention. Even in the absence of fabric,
the idea of dress becomes a conceptual force—
framed, questioned, and reimagined. For discerning
travelers inspired by culture and aesthetics, this
exhibition resonates profoundly with the distinguished
destinations of The Royal Senses Resort & Spa Crete,
Curio Collection by Hilton, and The Royal Blue Resort &
Spa. Supported by the Ministry of Tourism and NEON,
What You Wear Is What You Are stands as a compelling
reflection on how we wear our identities—and how
artists continue to reshape that narrative. •

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