Kiehl's goodies and news

These are the Kiehl's goodies that were sent to me as a thank-you for the Creating with Kiehl's for a Cause project.




Loved the packaging, and summer is a great time to give them a hard test on my sea-and-sun tortured self.

This is also a great chance to mention Kiehl's Gives, a new charity initiative that was launched by Kiehl's last month, giving out $160.000 to charities.

The concept is that you have the power to vote for a specific greater cause - and related charity - that means the most about you.

Check out the site for much more info plus the short videos where Julianne Moore, Pharrell Williams and the Scissor Sisters state which cause is closer to their hearts and why.

Kiehl's party at Attica

Reporting from the Kiehl's party last afternoon.


The drinks were mojitos and strawberry daiquiris made from fresh strawberries.

The food was yummy cupcakes each topped with a pink sugary "K" for Kiehl's.


Yorgos Kelefis of OZON presenting the DIGITARIA x hellopanos creation for the camera.

Katerina Ponti and Elena Pakou show how good green and orange look next to each other.


Themis Sarantaenas, the man responsible for Kiehl's marketing in Greece, holding the draw for the Orsalia Parthenis bags with the help of Eleni Stasinopoulou and Maria Papagrigoriou of Oh So Chic.


Demetrios Papadopoulos, project manager of Atelier Loukia, showed up in the perfect manly summery outfit of blue and white marinière, bermuda shorts, and espadrilles.


Themis and Elena holding the draw for the bags designed by Georgios Carabellas...

...and all together announcing the lucky winner.


Olivia Efstathiou of SOMF wearing one of their skirts.


Themis and artist Fotis Pechlivanidis.


The really polite and helpful (and happy) Kiehl's sales guy.


Jewellery designer Elena Syraka announcing the winner of her bag along with Costas Voyatzis of yatzer.com.

The SOMF girls Mariaflora Papapanagiotou and Olivia Efstathiou.


Along with Themis (no we did not plan to colour-coordinate) announcing the winner's name...


...and here is the happy winner, and me even happier that my bag went to someone who loves it so much!

Thank you Kiehl's for the opportunity to make something good, in every way possible.

Enjoy your new bags people!

Kiehl's in Attica winners' draw today

It's June 2nd and the bags I made for Kiehl's along with 9 other designers for a good cause have already been exhibited in Attica for a week now.

I shot this picture above on Saturday, so I imagine that the number of potential winners has risen significantly since then.

Have you entered the draw?

If you haven't, there's still a little time!

Just pop into Attica just off Syntagma square, head to the Kiehl's corner, let the very kind salespeople take a polaroid pic of you, enter your contact info on the back and drop it inside the bag you want to win.

Simple as that!
Hurry up though, the draw is this afternoon!

Here are the details:


See you there!

Kiehl's bags, the making of

I've already told you all about the Creating with Kiehl's for a Cause project. Well, the bags I created for Kiehl's will be part of the exhibition that has already started in Attica department store (details at the end of this post) so it's finally time to reveal my creations!

The concept was really simple and based on the purpose of this initiative.I chose to use plastic bags.

Plastic is a material that is light, durable, cheap and hygienic. Yet, over the years, it has collected a very bad reputation as a pollutant of the environment. My goal in this project was to highlight the fact that it's not plastic that's bad for the environment, it's the way we use it. Most objects made of plastic are wrongly considered as worthless, disposable and meant for a single use, when really they're not and shouldn't be, considering how much energy and non-renewable sources go into its production.

For the first tote, I used the plastic bags as brightly coloured panels sewn onto the bag in a way that they let the brand's logo show through in colour.

For the second bag, the method I chose was a lot more painstaking. I cut the bags into very narrow strips, rolled them into thread and used it to embroider the logo in black and fill in the rest with colour.

This technique was chosen to symbolize how much time and energy is consumed to process plastic that is thrown out to be buried or recycled, and at the same time, to remind people that it's up to us to use it responsibly. We can chose to treat it as garbage or we can look at it as something that's still useful, even potentially beautiful.

Ok, enough with the talk. Here come the pictures!

Here's how the sewn bag was made:

And the procedure for the embroidered bag:
Ready and signed in plastic thread.

Now you know what you have to do if you want to enter the draft in order to win one of them:

Head over to Kiehl's in Attica, just off Syntagma Square, get photographed with your favourite bag and leave your contact info to be eligible for the draft. Hurry up though, you only get one week, as next Thursday June 2nd there will be a huge finale party where all of the artists, bloggers and Kiehl's people will be present to hold the draft and announce the winner for each tote.


And don't forget to check out Kiehl's in Greece on Facebook and visit all the participating blogs for exclusive photos of each artist's work.

See you next Thursday!