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DESIGNER / MICHAIL GKINIS

HOMETOWN / THESSALONIKI GREECE

PRESENT ADDRESS / TOKYO JAPAN











1973 BORN IN THESSALONIKI GREECE
1996 STUDIED MARKETING AND GRADUATED IN 1996.
2004 LEARNED THE SKILLS OF TAILORING (MENSWEAR) AND GRADUATED IN FASHION DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY IN 2004 (LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION).
WORKED AS AN INTERN IN MENSWEAR DESIGN STUDIO OF ISSEY MIYAKE, TOKYO JAPAN.
2006.03 PRESENTATION IN PARIS (AT JEANE K SHOWROOM )AW/06-07
PRESENTATION IN ATHENS (AT LIFESTYLEDEATH SHOWROOM)AW/06-07
2006.09 MOVED TO TOKYO
2006.10 JOINTED EXHIBITION IN DAIKANYAMA/TOKYO SS/07
2008.03 LAUNCHED MENS BRAND "aptform"
JOINTED EXHIBITION AT JAPAN FASHION WEEK AW/08-09
2008.09 JOINTED EXHIBITION AT ROOMS17 SS/09 '08.09.09-09.11
2008.09 TOKYO BEAUTY CONGRESS -neo indexes-
2008.10 JAPAN CREATION Pig Skin Show
2009.02 JOINTED EXHIBITION AT ROOMS18 AW/09-10 '09.02.17-02.19
2010.02 JFW/DESIGNER PREVIEW IN NEW YORK
2010.02 JOINTED EXHIBITION AT RENDEZ-VOUS NYC AW/10-11 '10.02.20-02.22
2011.03 JOINTED EXHIBITION AT A/W11-12 Atmosphere ’11.3.4-7 PARIS
2011.03 JOINTED EXHIBITION AT A/W11-12 THE SORCE TOKYO EYE INDIA '11.3.11-13 MUMBAY
2011.04 A/W11-12 Exhibition at aptform showroom '11.3.31-4.2 TOKYO
2011.04 GREECE FASHION SHAKE III by Ozon Magazine SHOW '11.4.6 ATHEN
2011.05 JOINED RUNWAY FOR JAPAN '11.5.15. TOKYO
2011.09 Michail Gkinis got 2011 TOKYO New Designer Grand Prix professional category.
2011.09 JOINTED EXHIBITION AT ROOMS23 SS12 '11.09.13-02.15 TOKYO
2011.10 JOINTED EXHIBITION AT SS12 Atmosphere ’11.9.30-10.3 PARIS
2011.10 JOINTED EXHIBITION AT ROOMS LINK SS12 '11.10.18-10.21 TOKYO


aptform DESIGNER PHYLOSOPHY
MICHAIL GKINIS is making meaningful clothes always progressing the Raison d'etre into the wearers mind. The message he portrays is ` form follows function` by the Bauhaus art movement. His admiration is to implement it not only in clothing but as a purpose of life. Having this in mind he is applying the amalgamation of
INDUSTRIAL / NATURE / HUMAN VALUES / THE SPACE WITHIN
as the fundamental inspirational engine and in order to express his awareness about the modern social environment he is using clothing as a medium to communicate with the rest of the humanity.

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INDUSTIRAL NATURE HUMAN VALUES SPACE