Not a Toy. Fashioning Radical Characters

Vassilis Zidianakis

Not A Toy is the world's first comprehensive investigation into the growing influence of today's character culture on contemporary fashion and costume design.

International artists create playful dresses, avant-garde costumes and hairstyles, re-inventing the human body and sending their radical, new characters onto the catwalk and beyond. The vast, colorful compilation, edited by Greek cultural organisation for fashion
research Atopos, highlights an international scene of established designers,such as Issey Miyake, Walter Van Beirendonck or Bernhard Willhelm, and introduces surprising, upcoming talents.