Internationally famed SA fashion designer Peter Soldatos has been robbed of irreplaceable garments which were to be worn by the finalists in the upcoming Miss SA pageant on December 8.
Dubbed the ‘X-factor’ designer of the 1970s, Soldatos and his innovative designs are adored by the likes of former Miss South Africa 1975 and Miss World Anneline Kriel, Liza Minelli, the late Liberace and Nana Mouskouri.
On November 17 while asleep at his home in Parkwood, Johannesburg, unknown suspects entered Soldatos’s in-home studio and made off with a total of 28 garments from the 1960s onwards.
Two garments were later discovered in the driveway along with the coat hangers of the missing gowns.
No signs of forced entry were found, leaving Saldatos to describe the occurrence as “macabre.” No other items were missing besides the “glamorous, full-length beaded gowns.”
The Miss SA pageant approached Soldatos to become involved in this year’s pageant, which is celebrating its 50th year golden anniversary. To be showcased are the five decades of fashion. Other designers involved are Marianne Fassler, Gideon, Gerrit Pienaar and JJ Schoeman. The pageant would have seen the various works of Soldatos over a period spanning 50 years, a bitter loss Soldatos is now having to come to terms with.
“Some of the garments that were not going to be used in the pageant would have gone into the fashion museum to be archived and to help future fashion students in their studies,” Soldatos told The Citizen.
The items can be replicated, but according to the couturier extraordinaire, the sentimental and historical value is irreplaceable. An era of fashion history has been lost to crime.
Soldatos has been greeted with acclaim in North America, Europe, Africa, Hong Kong and the Czech Republic to name but a few.
“I have always been very outspoken about fashion and believe in what I do,” he commented in response to a question on his success as a couturier.
Source : http://www.citizen.co.za/index/article.aspx?pDesc=53277,1,22
Dubbed the ‘X-factor’ designer of the 1970s, Soldatos and his innovative designs are adored by the likes of former Miss South Africa 1975 and Miss World Anneline Kriel, Liza Minelli, the late Liberace and Nana Mouskouri.
On November 17 while asleep at his home in Parkwood, Johannesburg, unknown suspects entered Soldatos’s in-home studio and made off with a total of 28 garments from the 1960s onwards.
Two garments were later discovered in the driveway along with the coat hangers of the missing gowns.
No signs of forced entry were found, leaving Saldatos to describe the occurrence as “macabre.” No other items were missing besides the “glamorous, full-length beaded gowns.”
The Miss SA pageant approached Soldatos to become involved in this year’s pageant, which is celebrating its 50th year golden anniversary. To be showcased are the five decades of fashion. Other designers involved are Marianne Fassler, Gideon, Gerrit Pienaar and JJ Schoeman. The pageant would have seen the various works of Soldatos over a period spanning 50 years, a bitter loss Soldatos is now having to come to terms with.
“Some of the garments that were not going to be used in the pageant would have gone into the fashion museum to be archived and to help future fashion students in their studies,” Soldatos told The Citizen.
The items can be replicated, but according to the couturier extraordinaire, the sentimental and historical value is irreplaceable. An era of fashion history has been lost to crime.
Soldatos has been greeted with acclaim in North America, Europe, Africa, Hong Kong and the Czech Republic to name but a few.
“I have always been very outspoken about fashion and believe in what I do,” he commented in response to a question on his success as a couturier.
Source : http://www.citizen.co.za/index/article.aspx?pDesc=53277,1,22
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