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An ancient Greek dress with one shoulder, with folds inspired by the statues of Fidia. In the Aegean blue, with built-in sea self-illuminating led inside the folds. The past met the future in the high sewing creations of Vasilios Kostetsos, which were presented at the futuristic fashion show, held yesterday in the framework of Nanotexnology 2024.

“This Fashion Event was the world’s first fashion show, where these new technologies were presented in fashion. I think the fashion world will change,” said Dr. Varbara Karagiozaki, cardiologist, head of nanomedicine at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

“It was a futuristic nano-tech event, where it showcased how nanotechnology and printed organic electronics can be applied in fashion, medicine, that is, in the diagnosis of diseases, but also in cosmetics. It was our honour that Mr. Kostetsos designed the clothes and we saw how the printed photovoltaics, which we produce here in Thessaloniki, can be embedded either in clothing or in bags. And I think that the event really led us to the future of fashion,” added Ms. Karagiozaki, while referring to the latest developments in the field of Nano-Medicine, Regenerative Medicine and the new therapeutic tools created by nanotechnology.

“Printable biosensors were presented to diagnose the heart attack. When a patient is in pain, with a simple examination and a drop of blood it is possible to detect the biomarker of the heart attack and send the signal to the nearest hospital, that the patient who was in pain is experiencing a myocardial infarction, then mobilize the entire mechanism. And also presented the Nanotouche, advanced cosmetics where we use cutting-edge technologies in combination with antioxidants of the Greek nature” noted.

“I describe it as a starting point, a start point that linked fashion with technology,” noted, for his part, the designer Vasilios Kostetsos, adding that “science has gone too far in the subject of fashion, as fashion has become a bit boring and tiring as we used to know it”.

“It was an invitation – a challenge for me to combine high sewing with photovoltaics and oles. At first it seemed to me something very out of my waters. I have learned to work with advanced technology fabrics, but not with something that is not fabric, but is something different, that touches the future. And it is very interesting to me because the primary goal in my career as a creator was always to be inspired by ancient Greece, but to take it into the future […] I managed to create two irrelevant materials between them. They were two completely different materials that can’t be imagined to bind to each other. That is to say, where to imagine that in a garment you can charge a battery,” explained Mr. Costethos.

“I always have the idea, whether the clothes are intended for a woman or for a man to lick the lines of the body, to highlight them, to have aesthetics in what I create and also that what I make is also commerciable, that is, can be worn,” he added, announcing that “we are now discussing how we will spread it widely in the market, can these creations to wear them and a lot of people and start from Thessaloniki again something very powerful”.

“Nanotechnology products no longer only go to practical applications that we knew about energy, for cars, for lighting, but they also go to more useful everyday things, and of course to improve the quality of our lives,” said the founder and scientifically responsible of the LTFN Nanotechnology Laboratory and the Nanotexnology Conference, Stergios Logothetidis.

“The futuristic nano-event, which took place for the first time globally, showed how all these results of nanotechnology are introduced into products, now into fashion and beauty,” he added.